Rosh Hashanah is on 1st Tishri.  On the Shabbat nearest this date, we hold an Selichot Service, which traditionally should start late.  We, as with other communities, tend to start […]

Ten days after Rosh Hashanah is the Holiest day of the year, Yom Kippur.  Kol Nidrei, the evening service, is one of the most spiritual of the year and sets […]

Sukkot is the final of the 3 harvest festivals and is celebrated by the building of a sukkah.  Our sukkah is a permanent wooden structure, open to the skies, so […]

At Simchat Torah we offer the special mitzvah of finishing reading the Torah, which ends with the death of Moses, to either a Chatan (bridegroom) or Kallah (bride) of the […]

The kabbalists, a group of Jewish mystics living in Israel in the 16th century, created a Seder for Tu Bishvat (New Year for trees).  They gathered in the evening around […]

Purim is a joyous festival, commemorating the survival of the Jews who, as narrated in the biblical Book of Esther, had been doomed to annihilation in Persia in the 5th […]