L’Shanah Tovah u’Metukah! – To a Good and Sweet Year!
Rosh HaShanah
Wednesday, September  20th  – First Eve / 1st Tishrei 5778
6:30 pm     Conservative Service       Chapel
6:30 pm     Reform Service                 Social Hall
6:30 pm     Orthodox Service             Meeting Room
7:45 pm     Dinner                         

Thursday, September 21st – First Day / 1st Tishrei 5778
9:00 am     Conservative Service      Chapel
10:00 am   Reform Service              Social Hall
1:00 pm     Lunch                                
3:00 pm     Tashlikh (ritually “casting away” our sins)     Meet at Hillel - walk to the river
5:30 pm    ShalOM Yoga      
6:45 pm    Minha & Maariv - afternoon & evening prayer options   
7:30 pm    Candles, Kiddush, Reform Havdalah, Dinner                          
7:30 pm    Havdalah (ceremony marking the end of the holiday) - for those observing one day of Rosh Hashanah

Friday, September 22nd  – Second Day / 2nd Tishrei 5778
9:00 am     Conservative Service       Chapel
1:00 pm     Lunch                                 
5:45 pm     Minha (afternoon services)                   
6:20 pm    Shabbat Candlelighting + Services         

Yom Kippur
Friday, September 29th /  10th Tishrei 5778
4:45 pm     Pre-fast Dinner                         Buffet
6:15 pm     Conservative Kol Nidre Service                Chapel
6:15 pm     Reform Kol Nidre Service                     Social Hall
6:15 pm    Orthodox Kol Nidre Service                    Meeting Room
8:15 pm     Yom Kippur Conversation                     Beit Midrash

Saturday, September 30th / 10th Tishrei 5778
10:00 am     Conservative Service (incl. Yizkor memorial service)        Chapel
10:00 am     Reform Service                                                                         Social Hall

Please stay tuned for afternoon offerings (between 3 & 5pm) including, niggunim (song), learning & meditation.

3:30pm     Jewishly Inspired Meditation (JIM)                                     Beit Midrash
5:15 pm     Conservative Minha + Neilah (“Closing”) Service            Chapel
6:00 pm    Reform Yizkor (memorial) + Neilah (“Closing”) Service    Social Hall
7:15 pm     Shofar, Havdalah & Break-fast

All services at Hillel: 80 Brown Street (at corner of Angell Street)
All students, faculty, and staff are welcome for all programming and services. Please bring your student or staff ID. 

We are fortunate to welcome aboard this year our new Senior Jewish Educator, Rabbi Alex Weissman. Rabbi Alex will lead our Reform services in collaboration with wonderful returning song leader Daniel Merer and student leaders; he will also present opportunities for study and conversation over the course of the High Holy Days and throughout the year.

Our Conservative services will be led by Rabbi Michelle Dardashti and
student leaders and will feature a new shaliah tzibbur (prayer leader), Lior Melnick.
Lior is pursuing an MA at NYU; he is a great lover of Jewish music and liturgy.

Rabbi Dardashti, the Associate University Chaplain for
the Jewish Community and the Rabbi of Brown RISD Hillel, will deliver sermons in both the Conservative and Reform services on the first evening of Rosh HaShanah and the evening of Yom Kippur.

Orthodox services will be offered on the first night of Rosh HaShanah and the evening of Yom Kippur; this service will be led by Rabbi Moshe Moskowitz, Meor Educator at Hillel.

For more information or to contribute to any of the services, please contact:
Reform Service Holy Day Intern:
Shira: shira_buchsbaum@brown.edu
or
Rabbi Alex: alexander_weissman@brown.edu

Conservative Service Holy Day Intern:
Alex: alexandra_kohl@brown.edu
or
Rabbi Dardashti: rabbi@brown.edu

Orthodox Service:
Rabbi Moshe: moshe_moskowitz@brown.edu

Community Members

Members of the general community should contact info@brownrisdhillel.org or 401-863-2805 for ticket purchases. A limited number of tickets will be available. Note: There are synagogues in the greater Rhode Island area that are opening their doors for High Holiday services at no charge to newcomers and individuals who have been unaffiliated for four or more years. If you are interested in joining in the warmth of community and the collective experience of a synagogue, please contact Wendy Joering, Community Concierge and Synagogue Liaison at The Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island, at 401.421.4111, ext. 169 or wjoering@shalomri.org.