High Holiday Services Schedule

Shalom! We look forward to welcoming you at High Holiday services this year, and being together with you in community.

Please find our High Holiday services schedule below.

‡ ASL interpretation will be provided at only these services.
* These Community Services are open to both Members and non-Members 
High Holiday ticket requests can be completed online at:
CLICK HERE for Members (all services)
CLICK HERE for non-Members (Community Services only)

S’lichot
Saturday, September 13
7:15 pm  *S’lichot Dessert Reception and Musical Program

Erev Rosh HaShanah
Monday, September 22
5:45 pm  ‡ADULT Service (Sanctuary)
With concurrent K-5 program

Rosh HaShanah Day 1
Tuesday, September 23
9:00 am  ADULT Early Service (Sanctuary)
9:15 am  *TOT Service (Beit Midrash)
10:45 am  FAMILY Service (Beit Midrash)
11:45 am  ‡ADULT Late Service (Sanctuary)
1:00 pm  Intergenerational Service
(Beit Midrash)
5:30 pm  *Tashlich with Young Israel of Scarsdale at Carpenter Pond (off-site)

Rosh HaShanah Day 2
Wednesday, September 24
10:00 am  *Morning Service (Sanctuary)
10:30 am  *FAMILY Apple Picking at Wilkens Fruit and Fir Farm (off-site)

Erev Yom Kippur – Kol Nidre
Wednesday, October 1
5:00 pm  FAMILY Service (Beit Midrash)
5:00 pm  ADULT Early Service (Sanctuary)
7:45 pm  ‡ADULT Late Service (Sanctuary)

Yom Kippur Day
Thursday, October 2
9:00 am  ADULT Early Service (Sanctuary)
9:15 am  *TOT Service (Beit Midrash)
10:45 am  FAMILY Service (Beit Midrash)
11:45 am  ‡ADULT Late Service (Sanctuary)
1:00 pm  Intergenerational Service
(Beit Midrash)
2:30 pm  *Musical Meditation (Sanctuary)
3:45 pm  *Yom Kippur Afternoon Service includes Yizkor and Ne’ilah (Sanctuary)

‡ ASL interpretation will be provided at only these services.
* These Community Services are open to both Members and non-Members 

High Holiday ticket requests can be completed online at:
CLICK HERE for Members (all services)
CLICK HERE for non-Members (Community Services only)

If you have any questions, or would like help with your tickets, please contact the temple office at 914-723-7727, or Receptionist@wrtemple.org.

ABOUT OUR SERVICES:

Adult Services: This service is recommended for adults and teens ages 14 and older. Enhanced by our professional choir and instrumentalists, our worship experience utilizes the Reform Movement’s High Holiday machzor (prayer book), Mishkan HaNefesh. The prayers of Yizkor will be recited at the morning service of Yom Kippur. However, names will only be read at the Yom Kippur Afternoon concluding service.

Intergenerational Services: This early afternoon, approximately 90-minute service, is recommended for adults and students ages 10+, and features the prayers of the Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur daytime services. Held in WRT’s beautiful Beit Midrash, our Intergenerational Service will feature uplifting music and utilizes the Reform Movement’s High Holiday machzor (prayer book), Mishkan HaNefesh. Rabbi Blake will offer the same sermon in this service as he is delivering at morning Adult Services in the sanctuary.

Family Services: Led by our clergy, this prayer service is designed for elementary school-aged children and their families and uses Visual Worship that is projected on large screens.

Tot Services: Preschool-aged children and their families will love celebrating the High Holidays at this bite-sized service, led by our clergy, and featuring sing-along songs, stories, and shofar!

Yom Kippur Afternoon: Conclude the Days of Awe at WRT with a stirring service celebrating our theme, “And you shall love.” Cantor Kleinman will present a tapestry of music, poetry, and the voices of leaders within our WRT community. This service will feature Yizkor memorial prayers and end with a beautiful Ne’ilah and Havdalah.