Festival Services
Selichot
Saturday 13 September
(Sha’arei Tsedek – In person and online)
20:00 – Study session (In person only)
The evening will begin with a study session, followed by Havdalah to mark the end of Shabbat.
We will read, discuss and listen to some of the prayers written, mainly in Israel, in the past 11 months following October 7.
Come and join us to discover how new versions of traditional prayers, poems and meditations are being composed for today. Led by Rabbi Shulamit Ambalu.
21:00 – Selichot (In person and online)
Selichot is a night time service that follows the final Shabbat of the Jewish Year.
Introducing the music and themes of the Days of Awe, and featuring Sha’arei Tsedek’s rich and evolving musical tradition, our choir and soloists.
Rosh Hashanah
Erev Rosh Hashanah
Monday 22 September
(Sha’arei Tsedek – In person only)
19:30 – Evening service
A short and powerful Evening service, welcoming the New Year.
Rosh Hashanah I
Tuesday 23 September
(JCoSS – In person and online)
We look forward to bringing the whole community together into one space at JCoSS on Rosh Hashanah morning.
10:00 – 12:45 Festival Morning service
10:00 – 12:15 Teenage service
10:30 – 11:00 Rosh Hashanah themed activities for younger children, up to year 6. We ask parents to accompany their children if they are young enough to need supervision.
11:00 – 12:15 Children and Family service
12:15 – Children and teenagers rejoin main service and the whole community to hear the shofar.
12:45 – Kiddush
17:00 -Taschlich
This simple ritual involves symbolically casting away the actions we regret in the form of breadcrumbs into flowing water.
Join us for tea afterwards nearby in the home of one of our member families. For more details of location please contact the synagogue office on 020 8445 3400.
Rosh Hashanah II
Wednesday 24 September
(Sha’arei Tsedek – In person only)
10:30 – Festival Morning service
We continue Sha’arei Tsedek’s tradition of celebrating second day Rosh Hashanah, with Emeritus Rabbi Colin Eimer.
Yom Kippur
Kol Nidre
Wednesday 1 October
(JCoSS – In person and online)
Fast begins at 18:24
19:30 – Evening service
Kol Nidre prayers are an integral part of Yom Kippur; this is the first of the six services that make up this extraordinary day.
Yom Kippur
Thursday 2 October
(JCoSS – In person and online)
Fast ends at 19:23
Services take place throughout the day and conclude with the end of the fast.
10:30 – Festival Morning service
10:30 – A Time to Reflect: Meditation with Claudia Chapman
10:30 – Teenage service
11:00 – Activities for younger children with snacks. We ask parents to accompany their children if they are young enough to need supervision.
11:30 – Children and Family service
12:45 – Mussaf – Additional service
15:15 – Study session
“Here I am with the scroll of myself” – Study session led by Gill Lazarus and Rabbi Shulamit Ambalu.
We ask anyone planning to join us to bring one verse from the Torah that describes your values or your life story at this moment. This is a participatory workshop.
16:00 – Mincha – Afternoon service
Led by Marc Werblow
17:15 – Yizkor – Memorial service
18:10 – Neilah – Closing service
Sukkot
Sukkah Decorating
Sunday 5 October
(Sha’arei Tsedek – In person only)
10:30 – 12:30 – Join us to decorate the sukkah. All welcome.
Erev Sukkot
Monday 6 October
(Sha’arei Tsedek – In person only)
17:45 – Children and family tea in the sukkah
Children and families are invited to join us for tea in our sukkah and to stay on afterwards for the service.
18:45 – Evening service
Sukkot
Tuesday 7 October
(Sha’arei Tsedek – In person only)
10:30 – Festival Morning service
Join us for a festival morning service followed by kiddush in the sukkah. Our service will include a special Yizkor marking the anniversary of October 7.
Simchat Torah
We bring the festival season to a joyous and musical conclusion at both services with music from Koleinu, celebrating both the end and the beginning of another year of Torah.
Kallat Torah: Andy Kelmanson
Chattan Bereishit: Anthony Cohen
Junior Chattan Torah: Evan Perchoff
Junior Kallat Bereishit: Florence Humphrey
Erev Simchat Torah with Koleinu
Monday 13 October
(Sha’arei Tsedek – In person only)
18:45 – Evening service
Simchat Torah
Tuesday 14 October
(Sha’arei Tsedek – In person and online)
10:30 – Festival Morning service