VirtualGathering

*A Zoom How-To Guide can be found at the bottom of this page
*click here to see our School and Youth Offerings

Please click here to read more about the values guiding our Multi-Access Shabbat Services, the details and logistics, and to register to attend this Friday evening. We continue to livestream services via our website and Facebook Live.

Need help connecting to our livestream or Zoom calls? Please contact Alyssa Latala at alatala@amshalom.com or 847.606.5168.

*Would you like a hard copy of Mishkan T'filah Prayer Book or Torah Commentary? Please fill out this form.

You can find a digital Mishkan T'filah prayer book here. It is also on our livestream page, along with a link to this week's yahrzeit list. Click here for the weekly Torah portion. Our complete Zoom and livestream schedule, along with instructions for joining the gatherings, can be found here.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING ZOOM

Zoom is a free technology for calling and videoconferencing. You do not need a personal Zoom account to use it.

• Zoom has step-by-step instructions on how to use it here.
• This is also a good guide to using Zoom.
• This is the simplest video on how to “join a meeting”

How you can use Zoom

• You can use Zoom on your computer, iPhone, Android phone, or Mac.  
• You can use it on your desktop or download an app on your computer or phone.
• You can listen in by landline phone as well. 

Video and Microphone

• If you have a camera on your computer you can participate by video (or turn it off).  
• If you want to talk you must have a microphone or call in on the phone.  

Here are some good basic requirements and directions

• Directions If you want to use desktop on Windows (PC) or Mac
• You can download the app here for your computer

On your phone:

• On your iPhone or Android - download the app from the App Store/Google Play - search for Zoom Cloud Meeting and download the app.

Once you are on the Zoom class/conference/meeting - with our without video, on your phone, tablet or computer:

• Make sure you are in a relatively quiet place. If you talk to someone else when you are unmuted we can hear you.  
• Consider earphones, or headphones.
• In a large group we will mute you.  

Advanced instructions:  

• Here are directions for how to “raise your hand” on different platforms 
• Here are directions on how to use the spacebar to unmute in large groups