High Holy Days 5783 – Full Schedule
Rosh Hashanah
Sunday, September 25
- Erev Rosh Hashanah Formal Worship Service✡
Rosh Hashanah Sermon by Rabbi Amy Ehrlich
5:30 – 7:00 PM
Fifth Avenue Sanctuary - Rosh Hashanah Shir Chadash Service✡
Rosh Hashanah Sermon by Rabbi Andrue Kahn
8:00 – 9:30 PM
Fifth Avenue Sanctuary
Monday, September 26
- Young Families Worship Service
9:00 – 9:30 AM
Rooftop
Highlights will be posted to Facebook - Rosh Hashanah Morning Formal Worship Service✡
Rosh Hashanah Sermon by Rabbi Joshua Davidson
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Fifth Avenue Sanctuary & Lowenstein Sanctuary
Only the Fifth Avenue Sanctuary service will be livestreamed. - Speaker✡
Ambassador Asaf Zamir,
Consul General of Israel in New York
Israel @ 75
12:30 – 1:30 PM
Click here to learn more about the speaker.
Beth-El Chapel
Present a copy of any worship service ticket for entry - Teen Worship Service✡
12:30 – 1:30 PM
Lowenstein Sanctuary - Young Families Worship Service
12:30 – 1:30 PM
Rooftop - Family Worship Service✡
2:00 – 3:15 PM
Fifth Avenue Sanctuary - Tashlich
3:30 – 4:00 PM
Central Park Pond
Meet at Fifth Avenue Sanctuary entrance. We will walk to Central Park together.
Not a Member Yet?
Temple Emanu-El invites you to experience the warmth and majesty of the High Holy Days with our Introductory Family Ticket Pack and Young Professionals Tickets for non-members.
Yom Kippur
Tuesday, October 4
- Yom Kippur Shir Chadash Service✡
5:30 – 7:00 PM
Fifth Avenue Sanctuary - Kol Nidrei Formal Worship Service✡
8:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Fifth Avenue Sanctuary & Lowenstein Sanctuary
Wednesday, October 5
- Young Families Worship Service
9:00 – 9:30 AM
Wise Hall - Yom Kippur Morning Formal Worship Service
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
With Abbreviated Yizkor
Lowenstein Sanctuary
This worship service will livestream on Experience Emanu-El only. - Yom Kippur Morning Formal Worship Service✡
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Fifth Avenue Sanctuary - Study Session: Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman
“Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die”: Really?
12:30 – 1:30 PM
Greenwald Hall
This Study Session will not be livestreamed, but will be recorded and available later On Demand.
Click here to download the accompanying PDF. - Study Session: Dr. Joel Hoffman
Do Only the Wicked Suffer? Reward, Punishment and the Hidden Message of the High Holidays
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Beth-El Chapel
This Study Session will not be livestreamed, but will be recorded and available later On Demand. - Study Session: Warren Klein, Bernard Museum Curator
Through the Archives: Our Crowd
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Wise Hall
This Study Session will not be livestreamed, but will be recorded and available later On Demand.
Click here to download the accompanying PDF.
Click here to learn more about the speakers. - Teen Worship Service✡
12:30 – 1:30 PM
Lowenstein Sanctuary - Avodah✡
2:00 – 3:00 PM
Fifth Avenue Sanctuary - Family Worship Service✡
2:00 – 3:15 PM
Lowenstein Sanctuary - Yom Kippur Afternoon, Memorial & Concluding Services✡
3:30 – 6:00 PM
Fifth Avenue Sanctuary
Schedule subject to change.
✡ This service will be livestreamed for everyone at Experience Emanu-El, Facebook and YouTube. Click here for the livestream schedule.
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In celebration of the New Year, Cantor Mo Glazman and members of the Temple Emanu-El Teen Choir sing “A Million Dreams” from the film The Greatest Showman. Shanah Tovah!
Watch Rosh Hashanah 5783 sermons from Rabbi Joshua Davidson, Rabbi Andrue Kahn and Rabbi Amy Ehrlich by clicking the link below.
Roll of Remembrance
At Temple Emanu-El, it is our tradition during Yom Kippur to read a list of names of the recently deceased from our temple family. Click the link below to fill the submission form online.
Covid Seating Accommodations
To support all our members who want to join in person for services, but may still require additional COVID precautions, we are happy to announce two special enhancements. For all formal services, members can attend a livestream in Greenwald Hall, where masks and social distancing will be required. For Shir Chadash, Teen Worship and Family Worship Services, a mask-required section will be available in the Sanctuary.
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