Adath Jeshurun

Rosh Hashanah

Rosh Hashanah lit­er­ally refers to the begin­ning of a new Jew­ish year. This hol­i­day pro­vides an oppor­tu­nity for each of us to reflect and exam­ine our actions from the pre­ced­ing year.

At AJ we’ll kick off Rosh Hashanah cel­e­bra­tions with a New Year’s Eve party on Ley’l Rosh Hashanah. Obser­vance of the hol­i­day will con­tinue on both Thurs­day Sep­tem­ber 29 (includ­ing Tash­lich) and Fri­day Sep­tem­ber 30.

Read more about Rosh Hashanah includ­ing Rosh Hashanah 101, Rosh Hashanah cus­toms and tra­di­tions and the Rosh Hashanah prayer ser­vice.

New Year’s Eve Party
Say Good­bye to 5771 & Hello to 5772 at AJ’s New Year’s Eve party on Wednes­day Sep­tem­ber 28, 2011 at 5:00PM. Join us for 45 Min­utes of Wine, Apples, Honey, Social­iz­ing & Cel­e­brat­ing before Ley’l Rosh Hashanah services.

LEY’L ROSH HASHANAH Wednes­day, Sep­tem­ber 28th 5:45 p.m. — Evening Ser­vice (open seat­ing)
Since Jew­ish days begin in the evening, Ley’l Rosh Hashanah is the evening service.

ROSH HASHANAH — FIRST DAY Thurs­day, Sep­tem­ber 29th 9:00 a.m. — Tra­di­tional and Lay-Led Tra­di­tional Ser­vices 9:30 a.m. — Inter­gen­er­a­tional Ser­vice
Rosh Hashanah is both a time of rejoic­ing and of seri­ous intro­spec­tion, a time to cel­e­brate the com­ple­tion of another year while also tak­ing stock of one’s life. God’s rule over human­ity and our need to serve God are stressed time and again over the course of the holiday.

ROSH HASHANAH — SECOND DAY Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 30th 9:00 a.m. — Tra­di­tional Ser­vice 10:30 a.m. — Fam­ily Ser­vice
There will be two ser­vices on the Sec­ond Day of Rosh Hashanah. The Tra­di­tional Ser­vice will be held in the Shapira Sanctuary/Charles and Jean K. Ersk­ine Audi­to­rium and the Fam­ily Ser­vice will be held in the Switow Chapel. The Fam­ily Ser­vice will be led by Rabbi and Deb­o­rah Slos­berg and is designed for chil­dren in grades 3 and higher to attend with their par­ents. Open seat­ing will be avail­able for all services

TASHLICH AT THE PARK Thurs­day, Sep­tem­ber 29th 12:00 p.m. & 1:00 p.m.
Two Tash­lich Ser­vices at Big Rock After the con­clu­sion of both ser­vices on the First Day of Rosh Hashanah, AJ mem­bers are invited to meet at Big Rock in Chero­kee Park and par­tic­i­pate in Tash­lich (to cast or throw).

It is a tra­di­tion on Rosh Hashanah to go to a river or a stream to sym­bol­i­cally cast our sins into the water. Metaphor­i­cally, as the eyes of fish never close, so God always watches for our sins to be cast away. The Tash­lich ser­vice is appro­pri­ate for mem­bers of all ages and is par­tic­u­larly mean­ing­ful to children.

Tash­lich will take place twice at Big Rock in Chero­kee Park. Meet in the Blue Fam­ily Gar­den entrance imme­di­ately fol­low­ing the First Day of Rosh Hashanah ser­vices. Rabbi Met­zger will lead those who attend the Inter­gen­er­a­tional Ser­vice to Big Rock at approx­i­mately 12:00 p.m. Rabbi Slos­berg will lead those who attend the Tra­di­tional Ser­vices at approx­i­mately 1:00 p.m.