Postcards for Hostages
Please see below for prepared postcards featuring individual hostages, which you can print and place on each seat in your synagogue for Rosh Hashana.
There are multiple ways to use these resources.
You can send these files to your printer and ask them to print them in either 4×6 or 5×7. There are 85 unique postcard files so ask your printer to print the amount of sets that you need to distribute to all of your congregants.
- 4×6 Files: 4×6 Front of Postcards here.
4×6 Back of Postcards here - 5×7 Files: 5×7 Front of Postcards here.
5×7 Back of postcards here
You can have these postcards available for members to pick up as they walk into shul and use them as a reminder as they daven.
Additional Idea for Personal Connection
As each congregant takes their seat, they will find a postcard and pin waiting for them. This small but powerful gesture will give each person a unique opportunity to pray for one specific hostage, creating a profound personal connection.
Yellow Ribbon Pins
You can order them here from Amazon. Your volunteers will attach each yellow ribbon pin to the postcard with a sticky dot here. This pin symbolizes hope and unity, reminding us all to keep the hostages in our thoughts and prayers. We hope that your members decide to put the pin on as a way to keep the hostages front and center during this time.
What you need to do:
- Print postcard file in sets – to be determined based on the amount of seats you want to cover. Use a local printer to print and you choose if you want 4×6 or 5×7.
- Order ribbon pins and sticky dots
- Gather volunteers to assemble the cards with the pins and sticky dots
- Arrange for volunteers or the crew that is setting up your shul for Rosh Hashana to put a card on each chair before shul starts on the first day of Rosh Hashana.
- You can also use the postcards alone and not include the yellow ribbon pins.
We believe that this initiative can be a powerful way to bring our community together in tefillah and achdut. It’s a simple yet profound way to elevate our prayers during Rosh Hashana.