We are looking forward to being together for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur
Every year we anticipate the High Holidays as an opportunity to review our successes, confront our failures, build on our strengths, and attempt to rectify our weaknesses.
This year we truly need the holidays to face the tremendous instability, dangers, and vulnerabilities we feel in our country, our people and our world. How secure are the values and rights we take for granted? What kind of future does Israel face? Aitz Hayim is a community that has safe, open, and honest discussion with varied perspectives, even as we join together to inspire and find hope.
Rabbi Elan Babchuck will return to lead our High Holiday experience. He has become a national leader through his position as the Executive Vice President of CLAL and a founding partner of Starts with Us. He recently co-authored the book, Picking Up The Pieces: Leadership After Empire.
David Landau, who is recovering from multiple surgeries, and Judith Golden will, of course, continue to give us their familiar musical warmth and ruach that epitomize our Aitz Hayimness and exudes our innovative tradition.
That is why we have invited Sarah Rovin to lead the davening. As you can see from this link: https://vimeo.com/897259644 Sarah comes from a background of extraordinary depth and breadth of Jewish experience.
Howard Levy, Kalyan Pathak and Chris Siebold will again bring their musical genius to integrate traditional nigunim with contemporary interpretation. Last year, it was a bashert moment when horn player, Matt Shevitz, attended our services. He will return this year, eager to participate with the band.
Beginning on Wednesday evening, October 2, 2024, we will gather at the Highland Park Community House for our Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur experiences. We’ll, also, be on interactive Zoom where imagery and text are used to facilitate the rituals, concepts, teachings, discussions, and reflections that is the hallmark of a Judaism we’ve discovered and re-discovered year after year for the last thirty years.
Aitz Hayim is always welcoming. Share our invitation to those who have lived their Jewishness on their own to be part of community when the Shofar is sounded. Explore our High Holidays Menus above.
These are days to all be together.
