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A Prayer for Those Who Cannot Fast on Yom Kippur
PLEASE NOTE: Meditation with Rabbi Lavey Derby scheduled for Sunday at 7:00 pm will begin immediately after the sermon.
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Everything you need to know to get ready.
Register for Elul: A Month of High Holiday Learning – classes start August 23rd
Join the Shofar Project – a free program open to people of all backgrounds who want to make this a year of continued awakening, responsiveness, renewal, and transformation
Newsletter – Holiday Foods Edition
Newsletter – Shofar Edition
Newsletter – Yom Kippur Edition
Apple & Honey Days: A Virtual Week of Family Fun to Welcome a New Year
With PJ Library Bay Area, the Jewish Community Federation & Endowment Fund, PTBE Tots, URJ Camp Newman, Camp Tawonga, and Tal’s Patisserie
Monday, September 14 through Friday, September 18 • 4:30 pm each day
Learn A PJ Story through Puppets with Jeni Markowitz Clancy on Thursday, September 17!
We’d like to extend a thank you to our friends at Park Avenue Synagogue for sharing their machzorim with us.
Youth machzor for RH and YK
*Accompanying recordings
In addition to welcoming teens to our adult services, we have great learning opportunities just for our Teens during the High Holy Days:
7-8 pm Sunday, September 27th:
Teen Beit Midrash: Kol Nidre: Empathy or Empty Promises? – led by Alex Weisz
Kol Nidre, the opening prayer of Erev Yom Kippur, is a sweeping annulment of all of our vows to God – not from the previous year, but for the year to come. Certainly the High Holy Days emphasize the compassionate nature of Divine Justice, nevertheless this seems one step too far. Our new Director of Youth Education and Programming Alex Weisz and the teens will walk through one of the most controversial passages in Jewish liturgy together to determine whether Kol Nidre is radically empathetic or sets us up for a year without accountability for our actions.