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Aug 2026

NewCommitmentsHouseholds

Track Commitments, payments, and statements for every household

You can now track Commitments, record payments, and generate statements for every household in one place. Commitments Settings can be tailored to how your congregation asks for support, whether that's suggested amounts, tiers, or open giving.

If you need to fix a mistake, you can edit or delete a payment, or remove a commitment, right from a household's Commitments tab. The edit screen also has a year picker, so a treasurer can update a past or upcoming year without leaving the flow.

A household's Commitments tab: the year's commitment with payments recorded against it, and buttons to record a payment or generate a statement

ImprovedHouseholdsMembersGeneral

A fresh new look, and a simpler Households page

KehillaHQ has a new look, with new colors and fonts, a redesigned Dashboard, and cleaner navigation throughout. Settings is now organized into a simpler menu, grouped by Organization, Modules, and Advanced.

On the Households and Members pages, inactive households and members are hidden by default so your active list stays focused, and a household's Family tab is now part of Overview. An all-deceased household simply shows as inactive, with a Memorial badge marking why.

The redesigned Dashboard: refreshed navigation, a welcome header, and a strip of key numbers for the congregation

NewYahrzeits

Note cemetery and plaque remembrance on Yahrzeit records

Some of the people your congregation remembers rest in a cemetery the community tends. Some are honored with a memorial plaque in the building. A Yahrzeit record can now note both, with a simple checkbox for each under "Remembered in the building and grounds".

You can also filter the Yahrzeits list by either marker, which makes preparing for a cemetery visit or checking the plaques ahead of a Yahrzeit much quicker.

You'll find the checkboxes when adding or editing a Yahrzeit.

Editing a Yahrzeit: the "Remembered in the building and grounds" checkboxes for cemetery and memorial plaque, with matching filters on the list

NewMembersHouseholds

Tags for Members and Households

Every community has groups that matter to it: board members, choir, volunteers, religious school families. You can now add tags to individual Members, and a tag on a Household flows down to everyone in it.

Filter any Member list by tag to build the group you need in a couple of clicks. Tags also work together with the other filters, so "board members in Households with an open Commitment" is one filtered view, not a spreadsheet project.

The Members list filtered by the Board tag, with tag chips on each row and a Household tag flowing down to its Members

Jul 2026

FixedYahrzeitsMembers

Small fixes for the week of July 27

  • A Yahrzeit's reminder history now shows exactly what was sent, including attempts that failed, so you never have to wonder whether a family heard from you.
  • You can now correct the email address on a Yahrzeit reminder contact without re-creating it.
  • Phone numbers pasted into a Member import are tidied into one consistent format on the way in.