The High Holidays Continue with Yom Kippur This Weekend

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Yom Kippur is this weekend. We being with Kol Nidre on Friday, September 17. Yom Kippur is Saturday, September 18. We will have both sanctuary services and family services. We hope you'll join us for our warm and inviting services. Download our high holiday ticket form and times of services

Sanctuary/Balcony Services
Services begin at 9:30AM
Rabbi Michael Strassfeld and Cantor Lisa Arbisser lead our very musical and inspiring Sanctuary services. For the Martyrology, we will focus on the Jews of Turkey, through music and readings. The SAJ Choir also enhances the service.

During the afternoon break, we have three interesting talks:

3:00 PM, Nili Gold, Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Yehuda Amichai: The Making of Israel's National Poet will read and discuss Israeli poetry.

4:00 PM Christina Schiavoni- Director of the Global Movements Program at WhyHunger. Ms. Schiavoni works through diverse networks to grow and unify movements for food, land, and water in the US and around the world. Before joining WhyHunger, Christina worked with the NYC-based nonprofit Just Food, where she coordinated community supported agriculture (CSA) and community garden projects to increase access to fresh food and bolster local food production in low-income areas. Christina holds degrees in International Agriculture and Natural Resources from Cornell University. She has researched and reported on food sovereignty movements occurring in different parts of the world in response to the injustices of the global food system and she has worked to connect US food and farm movements to the global movement for food sovereignty.

5:00 PM D’var Torah by Nancy Ludmerer: From the Belly of the Beast: Why We Read Jonah on Yom Kippur

Finally, another highlight is the Ne'ilah service at 6:15PM, which ends Yom Kippur with a very moving ceremony involving the children.

Family Services
There are two Family Services led by Rabbi Joy Levitt and Education Director Gidon Isaacs:

September 17 (Kol Nidre)
6:30 PM- 7:45PM There will be one service for all families

September 18 (Yom Kippur)
9:30AM - 10:15AM Tot Family Service (for families with children ages 7 and under)
10:30AM - noon Children's Family Service (for families with children ages 7 -12)

All family services are interactive and age appropriate. Children must be accompanied by a ticket holding adult. Download High Holiday ticket form.

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