High Holiday Programs
A list of all service and events is below. Click here for general information and tickets.
Women’s Community Mikveh
11 am
Judy Danzig’s home
This ritual immersion is customarily done before the high holidays to celebrate rebirth and renewal.
S’lichot Program and Service (including havdalah) with Temple Sinai
7:30 pm
OZ
Through singing, prayer and personal sharing, we will create sacred space together. We will enter the Days of Awe in melody and sharing. Come sing and pray and share the spirit of renewal.
Cemetery Prayers
9:30 am
Hebrew Holy Society Cemetery
We will gather at the Hebrew Holy Society Cemetery on Patchen Road for a brief Memorial Service and graveside prayers for loved ones.
Shofar Blowing Workshop
10:00 am
OZ’s Social Hall
Please bring your own Shofar or Shofar-like instrument!
Erev Rosh Hashanah Service
6 pm
OZ
Rosh Hashanah Day 1 Service
9 am
OZ
On Rosh Hashanah (after Kiddush) it is customary to dip an apple in honey and pray for renewal and celebrate a sweet New Year!
Rosh Hashanah Day 1 Tot Service
10 am
OZ’s Front Lawn
This service is for children ages 0-5 and their grown-ups. Please bring a blanket or chair. Service will be held outside, weather-dependent and in the Small Sanctuary in the event of rain.
Rosh Hashanah Day 1 Youth Service
10 am
Quaker Religious Society of Friends (across the street from OZ)
This service is for children ages 6-11 and their grown-ups. Please bring a blanket or chair. Service will be held outside, weather-dependent.
Rosh Hashanah by the Lake Experience with Temple Sinai
3 pm
The Echo Center
We will meet at The Echo Center from 3:00 to 4:30 pm for our annual Rosh Hashanah by the Lake program for children and adults of all ages, featuring Jewish storytelling and songs, apples and honey. Hear the Shofar sound! Everyone is welcome to attend.
Followed by Tashlich.
Rosh Hashanah Day 2 Service
9 am
OZ
A more relaxed continuation of our Rosh Hashanah prayers and celebration of renewal and celebrate a sweet New Year!
Rosh Hashanah Day 2 Tot Service
10 am
OZ’s Front Lawn
This service is for children ages 0-5 and their grown-ups. Please bring a blanket or chair. Service will be held outside, weather-dependent and in the Small Sanctuary in the event of rain.
Erev Shabbat Shuvah Service
6 pm
OZ
This is the Shabbat of “Return,” a time for reflection, celebration and Shabbat joy.
Shabbat Shuvah Service
9:15 am
OZ
The Sabbath between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is Shabbat Shuvah, the Sabbath of Return, or Repentance.
Inaugural Burlington Reverse Tashlich Waterway Clean Up
2:00- 4:00 pm
Pine Street Barge Canal (Park in the lot of Dealer.com)
Help clean the Pine Street Barge Canal and participate in a short ritual about caring for the Earth.
Kol Nidre Children’s Procession Line-Up
5:40 pm
OZ
Erev Yom Kippur – Kol Nidre
6 pm
OZ
Please join us again this year at the start of Kol Nidre services to hear the beautiful melody of the Kol Nidre prayer as it is chanted as services begin and we commence our prayers of teshuvah/return.
Yom Kippur
October 5
OZ
Afternoon Martyrology and Discussion- 3 pm
In the Jewish tradition, fasting signifies our humble entreaty to Gd for forgiveness and change. The discomfort that is produced by fasting helps us to reflect on our human frailty (We are forbidden from fasting if our physical wellbeing is endangered by it).
Yom Kippur Tot Service
10 am
OZ’s Yurt
This service is for children ages 0-5 and their grown-ups. Please bring a blanket or chair.
Yom Kippur Youth Service
10 am
Quaker Religious Society of Friends (across the street from OZ)
This service is for children ages 6-11 and their grown-ups. Please bring a blanket or chair. Service will be held outside, weather-dependent.
Erev Sukkot
6 pm
OZ
Sukkot Day 1
9:15 am
OZ
Sukkot Day 2
9:15 am
OZ
Hoshana Rabbah
9:15 am
OZ
Erev Shemini Atzeret
6 pm
OZ
Shemini Atzeret
OZ
Service- 9:15 am
Yizkor after Torah reading
Simchat Torah Intergenerational Celebration- 6:15 pm
Simchat Torah
OZ
9:15 am
