All information was provided by the synagogues listed below. Other area synagogues are still in the process of planning their services to ensure the safety of their congregants – as those plans may change, those interested in attending services are asked to contact synagogues for their most up-to-date service schedule. See the Congregational Notes on page 10 for contact information for all of the area synagogues.
Congregation Tikkun v’Or
Congregation Tikkun v’Or (Ithaca Reform Temple) welcomes all for the High Holidays. Registration is required for all services; e-mail highholidays@tikkunvor.org at least 24 hours prior to the services.
*Note that locations and leaders vary; the full information is available upon registration and at this link
Sunday, September 21
- Rosh Hashanah youth service – 9:30-11:30 am
Monday, September 22, erev Rosh Hashanah
- Evening service – 6:30 pm
Tuesday, September 23, Rosh Hashanah
- Morning service – 9 am-noon
- Community (bring-your-own) Picnic – 12:30 pm
- Tashlich – 1:15 pm
Wednesday, October 1, erev Yom Kippur
- Kol Nidre – 6:30 pm
Thursday, October 2, Yom Kippur
- Morning service – 9 am-noon
- Family service – 10:30 am
- Youth service – 10:30 am
- Break – noon-1:30 pm
- Meditation – 1:30-2:15 pm
- Isaiah Challenge – 2:30-3:45 pm: Dr Peyi Soyinka-Airewele, chair of the Tompkins County Human Rights Commission, professor of African and Comparative/International Politics at Ithaca College
- Avodah service – 4 pm
- Yizkor – 5:30 pm
- Closing service (Neilah) and Havdalah – 6:15 pm
- Break the fast (dish to pass) – 7:30 pm
Temple Beth-El of Ithaca
All services will be available via Zoom, follow the link on Temple Beth-El's website.
Saturdays, August 23 and September 6
- High Holidays Learning and Singing at lunch – after Shabbat services (approx. noon)
Saturday, September 13
- Leil Selichot service – 8:30 pm
- In Anabel Taylor Hall Founders Room, Cornell University, co-led by Rav Caleb Brommer and Rav Talia Laster
Monday, September 22, erev Rosh Hashanah
- Services – 7:30 pm
- Rosh Hashanah oneg – after services (approx. 8:30pm)
Tuesday, September 23, Rosh Hashanah I
- Morning services – 9 am
- Youth services and programming – 9:30 am
- Tashlich at the bottom of Cascadilla Gorge Trail on Linn St. – 4 pm
- Erev Rosh Hashanah II services – 7:30 pm
Wednesday, September 24, Rosh Hashanah II
- Morning services – 9 am
Friday, September 26
- Shabbat Shuva services – 7:30 pm
- Saturday, September 27
- Shabbat Shuva services – 9:30 am
Wednesday, October 1, erev Yom Kippur
- Mincha – 6 pm
- Candle lighting/fast begins – 6:28 pm
- Erev Yom Kippur/Kol Nidre services – 7 pm
Thursday, October 2, Yom Kippur
- Morning services – 9 am
- Youth services and programming – 9:30 am
- Yizkor – approx.11:30 am
- Yom Kippur Mincha – 5:15 pm
- Neilah (concluding service) – 6:15 pm
- Final shofar and fast ends – 7:27 pm
- Break fast after services – approx. 7:30 pm
Temple Brith Sholom
Monday, September 22, erev Rosh Hashanah
- Evening service – 7 pm
Tuesday, September 23, Rosh Hashanah I
- Morning service – 10 am
- Tashlich at the creek – noon
Wednesday, September 24, Rosh Hashanah II
- Morning service – 10 am
Wednesday, October 1, erev Yom Kippur
- Kol Nidre – 6:45 pm
Thursday, October 2, Yom Kippur
- Service with Yizkor – 10 am
- Neilah and Havdalah service – 6 pm
- Break the fast – 6:45 pm
- Temple Concord
Monday, September 22, erev Rosh Hashanah
- Service – 7:30 pm
Tuesday, September 23, Rosh Hashanah
- Service – 9:30 am
- Rosh Hashanah School Program (in person only) – 10:30 am-12:30 pm
- Super Kiddush to follow in the Kilmer Mansion (in person only)
- Tashlich at Confluence Park (in person only) – 2 pm
- A handout with appropriate reading will be available at the temple.
Sunday, September 28
- Holocaust Memorial Event at Temple Israel Cemetery (in person only) – 10 am
- Wednesday, October 1, erev Yom Kippur
- Service – 7:30 pm
Thursday, October 2, Yom Kippur
- Morning service – 9:30 am
- Yom Kippur School Program (in person only) – 10:30 am-12:30 pm
- Discussion with Rabbi Leiah Moser – 1:15 pm
- Meditative Music at the Kilmer Mansion – 3 pm
- Yizkor memorial service – 4:30 pm
- Healing service – 5:15 pm
- Neilah – 6 pm
- Havdalah – 6:45 pm
- Break fast to follow in the Kilmer Mansion (in person only)
Saturday, October 4
- Religious School students to decorate the sukkah (in person only)
Tuesday, October 7, Sukkot
- No Religious School
- Sukkot service – 10 am
- Potluck dairy/vegetarian lunch to follow service (in person only)
Friday, October 10
- Wine and cheese in the sukkah (in person only) – 6:30 pm
- Shabbat service – 7:30 pm
Tuesday, October 14, Atzeret-Simchat Torah
- Simchat Torah service with Yizkor – 7:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 15, Simchat Torah
- Simchat Torah service with Yizkor – 10 am
- BYO lunch to follow (in person only)
Temple Israel
Saturday, September 13
- TI/TC Selichot at Temple Concord – 8:30 pm
- Monday, September 22, erev Rosh Hashanah
- Service – 6 pm
Tuesday, September 23, Rosh Hashanah I
- Shacharit/morning services – 8:45 am
- Torah and shofar service – 10 am
- Children’s tefillah/prayer service – 10:30 am
- Sermon – 11:15 am
- Musaf service – 11:30 am
- Tashlich (behind Newman House) – 4:30 pm
- Mincha – 5:30 pm
Wednesday, September 24, Rosh Hashanah II
- Shacharit/morning services – 8:45 am
- Torah and shofar service – 10 am
- Sermon – 11:20 am
- Musaf service – 11:30 am
Sunday, September 28
- Communitywide Holocaust Memorial Ceremony at TI Cemetery – 10 am
- Visit TI Cemetery with rabbi support – 10:30 am
Wednesday, October 1, erev Yom Kippur
- Kol Nidre services – 6:15 pm
Thursday, October 2, Yom Kippur
- Shacharit/ morning services – 8:45 am
- Torah service – 10 am
- Children’s tefillah/prayer service – 10:30 am
- Yizkor – 10:30 am
- Sermon – 11:15 am
- Musaf service – 11:30 am
- Break
- Study session (sanctuary only) – 4 pm
- Mincha – 5:15 pm
- Neilah (ark open) – 6:30 pm
- Ma’ariv – 7:45 pm
- Havdalah, break the fast – 7:55 pm