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High Holy Days 2025/5786

The High Holy Days at Temple Emeth are an uplifting time for our whole community. See below for information about participating in the High Holy Day Food Drive and our High Holy Day Appeal for 2025.

High Holy Days Service Schedule

Rosh Hashanah begins Wednesday evening, September 22.

Selichot Service and Concert: You Walk With Me

Saturday, September 13, 7:30 p.m.

Josh Kohane is honored to return for his fifth annual Selichot concert, You Walk With Me, to help usher in the High Holiday season through music. This year’s program explores themes of love, friendship, hope, and community with a thoughtful mix of songs from Broadway, contemporary artists, and spiritual traditions. He’ll be accompanied by Tom Mustachio, with guest appearances by Wendy Kosakoff, Nate Lewellyn, and Cantor Maria Dubinsky. The concert will be followed by a service to re-introduce the High Holy Day melodies and dress our Torah scrolls in their white covers. This is a special evening of reflection and connection.

High Holy Day Food Drive

Temple Emeth's Social Action Committee is coordination our 2025 High Holy Day Food Drive to help our hungry neighbors. Items will be donated to the Center for Food Action. Click here to learn about the items most needed, and join us on Sunday, October 5 at 9:00 am to sort the donated items. In connection with our High Holy Day Food Drive, please consider a donation to Mazon, A Jewish Response to Hunger.

The High Holy Day Appeal
This year's High Holy Day Appeal will benefit HIAS, an organization that is well known to our congregation. Mark Hetfield, president of HIAS, spoke here as part of the “One Book, One Community” program we hosted for A Backpack, A Bear and Eight Crates of Vodka. Over the past several years, Temple Emeth has held an annual HIAS Refugee Shabbat, and we had a High Holy Day appeal for HIAS several years ago. In addition, RAC-NJ’s focus issue this year will be immigration, specifically passage of the Immigrant Trust Act, which Rabbi Sirbu will also speak about on Yom Kippur morning. HIAS does important work in any political climate, but it is important for us to take a stand against the cruel targeting of immigrants by the current administration. During these extraordinary times, HIAS remains committed to its mission of providing vital services to refugees and asylum seekers around the world. To donate to HIAS online, click here.

Book of Remembrance
Each year, Temple Emeth publishes a Book of Remembrance to provide congregants the opportunity to see in print the names of persons dear to them who now dwell with the Eternal. If you would like to participate in this tradition by including names in the Book, please complete the form linked below or copy the information into an email. Names may be emailed to Marc Chelemer at mchelemer@gmail.com with “Book of Remembrance” on the subject line. Please submit your names by Friday, September 19. Click here for more details and to download the form.