2025-2026 New Member Commitment

Welcome to the 2025-2026 new member commitment process. We are thrilled that you are joining Machar and look forward to a great year together. Our history is rich and our future incredibly bright. We are excited about getting to know you and engaging with you as a part of our community.

At this time, we ask please that you:

1. Provide your personal and household information
2. Pledge your membership to Machar
3. Indicate your interest in volunteering in Machar programs and activities

Note: Credit card payments add a 2.85% processing fee.

You can pay by electronic check (called ACH/eCheck), which is free. In order to pay by ACH/E-Check, you must enable PLAID, a security measure connecting your banking information securely to ShulCloud. If you have setup PLAID before, then the setup for Machar is instantaneous. Otherwise, this setup process takes 1 - 3 days.

If you want to enroll your child/children in the Jewish Cultural School please click on this link.

1. First, if you want to pay by eCheck or by paper check, email our Congregational Administrator, Jackie Kropman, to get setup with a ShulCloud account.
2. Then, after Jackie gets you setup, click here to enable PLAID before completing this form.
3. If this is your first time using PLAID, you will have to wait 1 - 3 business days
4. After a few days access your bank account that you used in creating the payment method. There will be two micro deposits (<$1.00) of which you should make note. Then you can come back to this form, provide the requested information. and on the payment screen you will select the account to validate by clicking on “Verify Micro Deposits.” You will then be able to complete the registration process.

Household Information

Pledge Your Membership

WE ARE PLEASE TO OFFER RATES FOR NEW MEMBERS THAT ARE HALF THE PRICE FOR RETURNING MEMBERS.

Please choose the appropriate membership category, either “Standard” dues or “Above Standard” dues, proportional to household income.

Young Adult is under 35 years of age. Full-time students or unemployed recent graduates up to age 22 are free. Upon graduation and/or being full-time employed, please join at the Young Adult rate.
 
Associate member is anyone who is affiliated with another synagogue or lives outside the DC metropolitan area.

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE (REDUCED DUES)

Volunteer Opportunities

Teen Group

Our Teen Group this year will include teens from Machar, Kehila Chadasha, and Beth Chai, and so we expect to have many participating teens with lots of great activities with opportunities to make new friends!  The Teen Group Coordinator this year will be Emily Griswold.

The annual fee for the Teen Group is $150/year per teen, to help offset the cost of the Teen Group Coordinator.  Any surplus in Teen Group fees will be used to pay for Teen Group activity costs.