ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal Affiliated Communities, Days of Awe, General Interest, Renewal Communities, ReSources

High Holiday Offerings from ALEPH Network Communities

1. Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation (MD)

Offerings:

  • Rosh Hashanah 1st evening and day
  • Rosh Hashanah 2nd evening and day
  • Tashlich
  • Kol Nidre
  • Yom Kippur morning service and afternoon offerings
  • Ne’ilah
  • Everyday T’shuvah – daily gatherings, morning and evening during the 10 Days

Cost: voluntary contribution

For More Information and to Register:  Go to Adat Shalom’s site or contact rena.milchberg@adatshalom.net 

2. Asiyah Jewish Community (MA)

Offerings: 

  • Rosh Hashanah 1st evening and day
  • Tashlich
  • Kol Nidre
  • Yom Kippur Morning Service and Afternoon Offerings
  • Ne’ilah

Cost: Sliding scale; limited number of free tickets

For More Information and To Register: http://www.asiyah.org

Contact: info@asiyah.org

3. Congregation Or HaLev (NJ)

Offerings: 

  • Selichot (Sept. 12)
  • Rosh Hashanah, 1st evening and day
  • Kol Nidre
  • Yom Kippur Morning Service
  • Yizkor 
  • Ne’ilah

Cost: $150 per adult, $250 per family, Under 21- free. This cost covers admittance to all services. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds or financial hardships. 

How to Register: Contact Rabbi Deb Smith at hineni77@gmail.com for more information and for registration. You will need a zoom number and password to attend which will be provided to you at the time of registration. 


For More Information: https://orhalevnj.org/

4. Or Ahavah (FL)

Offerings: 

  • Preparing Spiritually for the High Holidays, August 23
  • Rosh Hashanah, 1st evening and day
  • Erev Yom Kippur mikveh meditation and dinner
  • Kol Nidre
  • Yom Kippur morning service and afternoon offerings
  • Ne’ilah, Havdallah, and Break-fast

Cost: $360 for everything or what you can afford

How to Register: Contact orahavahtampa@gmail.com for more info, questions or to register

More Information: Services follow underlying structure but are expressed creatively. Significant meditations are interspersed throughout services. Very moving Yizkor service. Essential silence is observed throughout Yom Kippur. There is no experience necessary for these gatherings, only an open heart and mind. 

5. B’nai Or , Renewal of Boston (MA)

Offerings: 

  • Rosh Hashanah 1st evening and day 
  • Kol Nidre
  • Yom Kippur morning service and afternoon offerings
  • Ne’ilah

Cost: $36 per Rosh Hashanah, $36 per Yom Kippur

More Information:  Our renewal services are musical, creative, thought provoking, and neshamah deepening

How to Register: www.bnaior.org

Contact: rabbisuri@gmail.com

6. Ohel HaChidusch (Berlin, Germany)

Offerings:

  • Rosh Hashanah 1st evening and day
  • Tashlich
  • Kol Nidre
  • Yom Kippur morning service, afternoon offerings, and Yizkor
  • Ne’ilah

Cost: Donations are welcome

For More Information and to Register: Contact info@ohel-hachidusch.org or visit www.ohel-hachidusch.org. Services will be in German/Hebrew. We will use the Makhzor Lev Shalem. 

7. Kehilla Community Synagogue (CA)

Offerings:

  • Selichot (September 12)
  • Rosh Hashanah 1st evening and day
  • Rosh Hashanah 2nd day services
  • Tashlich
  • Shabbat Shuva and Healing Service (September 26)
  • Yom Kippur morning service and afternoon offerings
  • Yizkor and Ne’ilah

Cost: We invite you to register for services and to consider making a contribution to help sustain Kehilla.

7. Darkaynu (PA)

Offerings:

  • Rosh Hashanah first day
  • Kol Nidre
  • Yom Kippur Morning Service
  • Yizkor

Cost: Donations are welcome

For More Information and to Register: Register at https://darkaynu.org. Contact darkaynu.org@gmail.com for more information. Services will be led by Rabbi Geela Rayzel Raphael.


For More Information and to Register: Visit our site and register here.

8. Chochmat HaLev (CA)

Offerings: 

  • Rosh Hashanah 1st evening and day
  • Taschlich
  • Programming throughout the 10 days
  • Kol Nidre
  • Yom Kippur morning service and afternoon offering
  • Yizkor and Ne’ilah

Cost: Suggested donation between Chai and Chai Five ($18 – $90) per person per holiday. Please give as generously as you can.

For More Information and to Register: Please visit Chochmat HaLev’s High Holiday and Days of Awe sites. 

9. Pardes Hannah (MI)

Offerings:

  •  Rosh Hashanah 1st evening and day
  • Rosh Hashanah 2nd day services
  • Tashlich
  • Kol Nidre
  • Yom Kippur morning service
  • Yom Kippur Unetaneh Tokef, Meditative Avodah, and Mincha service
  • Yizkor and Ne’ilah

Cost: N/A

For More Information and to Register: Please visit Pardes Hannah’s website. Contact 

janeblum@wrenaissance.com with any questions. 

10. Torah of Awakening & Urban Adamah (CA)

Offerings:

  • Rosh Hashanah 1st evening and day
  • Kol Nidre
  • Yom Kippur morning service and afternoon workshops
  • Yom Kippur truth mandala
  • Yizkor and Ne’ilah
  • Break the Fast

Cost: Sliding scale $36-$1,000 – One inclusive ticket covers all.

For More information and to Register:

This year Torah of Awakening and urban Adamah are joining forces for the fourth year, offering a unique approach to celebrating the High Holy Days for this time when gathering in large groups to pray, dance, and sing is not possible. Shorter zoom gatherings will serve as community touch points and portals to longer podcasts, which will allow individuals, families, and small “pods” to be outdoors, socially distanced, and to worship in the ways and at the pace that works for them. The makhzor and additional written guidance (“Treasure Maps”) will be available as downloadable PDF’s. Torah of Awakening is known for its ecstatic musical offerings, deep, contemplative offerings, integral Torah, and poetic interludes. This year, all these will be available to absorb in the ways that work best for you and your family. Please see our High Holiday website.  Register here! Contact lisaschooks@gmail.com with any questions. 

11. Metivta (CA)

Offerings:

  •  Rosh Hashanah 1st evening and day
  • Rosh Hashanah 2nd day services
  • Kol Nidre
  • Yom Kippur morning service
  • Poetry study and afternoon yoga
  • Yizkor, meditation, prayers and final shofar blast

Cost: Suggested donation to cover expenses. $36-$72 single day. $150—$300 all services

For More Information and to Register: http://metivta.org/. Register here! Services led by Rabbi Tirzah Firestone.

12. Kesher Pittsburgh (PA)

Offerings:

  • Rosh Hashanah 1st evening and day
  • Kol Nidre
  • Yom Kippur morning service
  • Yom Kippur afternoon service
  • Yizkor, meditation, prayers and final shofar blast

Cost (sliding scale):

  • Children – $54-340 ea
  • Adults – $72-450 ea
  • Families – $180-1080 ea

Kesher Pittsburgh is excited to welcome kindreds from across time and space as we come together to welcome the new year and enter into deep teshuvah. In addition to opportunities to come together for musical and prayerful celebration, we are also highlighting our Yom Kippur Programming which will include embodied practice, musical shacharit and a day filled with conversation and reflection at the intersection of teshuvah and anti-racism. Together we can go deep and emerge ready to do better this year. Our collective liberation depends upon it!

More info and registration here!

13. Havurah Shir Hadash (OR)

Offerings: Zoom services open to everyone

Cost: Donations are welcome

For More Information and to Register: See Havurah Shir Hadash’s High Holiday site

14. Nahalat Shalom (NM)

Offerings: Zoom services open to everyone

Cost: Donations are welcome

For More Information: https://www.nahalatshalom.org/highholidays 

15. P’nai Or Philadelphia (PA)

Offerings:  Many talented P’nai Or members join Rabbi Marcia Prager to co-lead these festive Zoom gatherings. We blend traditional liturgy with reflection, movement, meditation, small-group conversations, Torah readings in Hebrew and English, and more… all flowing together. There will be time for passionate prayer, quiet meditation, opportunities to reflect and do some deep inner work, time to share, to be creative and even make some new friends.

To Register: P’nai Or High Holidays welcome P’nai Or members and our extended P’nai Or family and friends. Registration information will go to our email list. If you did not receive an email and wish to attend, contact us at pnaiorjewishrenewal@gmail.com and introduce yourself, so we can get back to you.

16. Ruach haMaqom (VT)

Offerings: Please see our website at https://www.ruachhamaqom.org/high-holidays-2020

To Register: https://www.ruachhamaqom.org/high-holidays-2020-registration