Tag Archives: High Holidays

JBI Library has expanded accessible High Holy Day resources, including new braille materials, aiming to support individuals with print disabilities.

The Jewish New Year is a time of reflection and renewal. Begin your personal process with a High Holiday Tashlich experience followed by an optional Shabbat hike. Our alternative Tashlich is an opportunity for contemplation in a beautiful setting. Greet the Jewish New Year 5785 in a culturally relevant way, …

(DENVER) — JEWISHcolorado, in collaboration with its partner organization, Secure Community Network (SCN), will host two High Holiday safety & security trainings in September. The trainings will take place on Thursday, September 12, and Thursday, September 19, 2024, from 5-7 pm at JEWISHcolorado. Secure Community Network is the largest Jewish security …

For some 1,000 years, many Ashkenazi Jews have observed the same ritual every Yom Kippur Eve — waving a chicken over their head. From the start, the practice was controversial among rabbinical scholars, and even today, it continues to ruffle feathers. (Sorry, couldn't resist).

The sound of the shofar at Rosh Hashanah, the great 12th-century Jewish thinker Moses Maimonides wrote, is a wake-up call for the soul. Its message: "Arise from your slumber! Search your ways and return in teshuvah and remember your Creator!"

The Boulder JCC has begun offering in-person meditation on Thursday mornings from 9 to 9:30 a.m. In these 30 minute sessions there is a short Jewish mindfulness teaching, 18 minutes of silence, several minutes for voluntary sharing, and the reciting of a healing prayer, and Kaddish.

Join Chany Scheiner this Sunday, for a Challah baking class, make and take, where you will get to make your own Challah and learn how to braid it and the spiritual significance behind it.

Judaism Your Way is pleased to announce that following a successful High Holidays celebration in the Denver Botanic Gardens in 2021, the organization is bringing its inclusive programming to the gardens once again.

JEWISHcolorado’s Safety and Security Initiative has joined with Starting Hearts for special safety sessions in advance of the Jewish High Holy Days.

The Boulder JCC and Inland Ocean Coalition are working together on a Reverse Tashlich creek clean up in Boulder on Sunday, October 2nd, 2022.

Formal prayer is an acquired taste, and its acquisition is best achieved with frequency and familiarity. Hence the Jewish Catch 22: many Jews only show up to pray on the two days a year when the prayers are by far the most long-winded and daunting.

Learn to make this year’s celebration uniquely delicious in Break-Fast 2.0 Cooking Class on Thursday, September 2 with celebrated cookbook author Leah Koenig.

Boulder Center for Judaism published a full color magazine filled with Jewish content and information for the High Holidays. Get your free copy today!

The month of Elul, before the High Holidays, is the beginning of the season of t’shuva (return). Introspection is challenging and it’s easier to ignore issues.

Judaism Your Way returns to Denver Botanic Gardens for its magical all inclusive High Holiday services. This year, participants can experience the celebration with loved ones near and far with a new mixture of in-person and live-streaming events.

Nevei Kodesh, a warm and welcoming Jewish Renewal Community invites you to join us virtually for prayer, study and connection!

Nevei Kodesh, a warm and welcoming Jewish Renewal Community invites you to join us virtually for prayer, study and connection!

Boulder JFS will not be able to host traditional High Holy Day celebrations in older adult communities like we have in the past. However, you can help us bring the holidays to underserved and isolated community members!

By popular request, Rabbi Marc has recorded his high holiday sermons as Episodes 96, 97 and 98 of Dash of Drash.

CU Boulder Hillel will be hosting a variety of services and events for the High Holidays this year. During Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Ross Z. Levy will be leading us in engaging, spiritually awakening, and musical services.

Synagogue Connect founders Rabbi Ronald Brown and Rabbi Charles Klein have already gotten over 1,100 congregations from all denominations (Reform, Reconstructionist, Conservative and Orthodox, as well as Humanist) and throughout the world to offer free seats to college students.

“My daughter keeps badgering me to do something different, so I did a Google search on alternative High Holidays and found Adventure Judaism.” explained the exasperated mother on the phone. “What can you tell me?”