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High Holy Days 5785/2024 learn more. 

High Holiday Events and Programs — Forms and Information

What to know what/when services/programs are available? Want to sign up? Here you are.

Please call the office (708.366.900) if you have questions or concerns or need a hand. Deadlines? If the form is not closed, you can still use it.

Celebrating the Month of Elul 5784 / 2024

Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur Admittance and Tickets

Har Zion members in good standing are automatically eligible for High Holy Day tickets; pick them up from the usher station when you arrive for your first High Holy Day service.

If you are not a member, please use the appropriate link below to purchase/request your Har Zion High Holy Day tickets. You also can pick up the tickets you’ve requested/bought tickets from the usher station when you arrive for your first High Holy Day service.

Yizkor

Yizkor is a time we remember and honor our departed loved ones. Each year Temple Har Zion produces a Book of Remembrance listing the names of our departed, including a list of all people who remembered with memorial plaques in the temple. This book is used during the High Holy season at the Yizkor service on Yom Kippur and Shemini Atzeret. (And also in the spring on the eighth day of Pesach and the second day of Shavuot).

Including the names of our deceased loved ones in the Book of Remembrance is a meaningful tribute to them, “Ehtain Tzedakah bah-ah-dah…I will donate charity in her or his sake.”

Form to add names to the Har Zion Book of Remembrance.

Participating in the Services–Ushering, Honors, and Machzor for Virtual Services

  • Our volunteer ushers are an important part of our High Holy Day service. Please volunteer here.
  • Participating in the service with a Hebrew/English reading, Torah blessing/Aliyot, and Ark openings/closings. Please volunteer here.
  • Obtaining a machzor if you are attending virtually:
    • If you are local, you can borrow a machzor for the holiday season from us; please fill out this form to make your request. Be sure to return it after the holidays.
    • We are arranging to have an online PDF of the machzor for the people attending virtually; fill out this form to request access. Note that you must be connected to the internet to use this machzor.

Har Zion High Holy Days Services Schedule

(Includes information on the services/supervision/care offered for children, during the main services.)

High Holy Days Special Programming for Children

For Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Har Zion offers services for preschool children, childcare for children ages 18 months through 5 years,  and services and supervision for K-6 school-aged children. In all cases, there must be a parent or other responsible adult at the temple for each child under Har Zion’s care.

  • Camp Shana Tovah – Age-appropriate services for preschool children (with a responsible adult) and services and supervision for K-6 school-aged children. (requires registration)
  • Childcare for preschool children ages 18 months through 5 years.  Available for all  Rosh Hashanah services, for Kol Nidre, and all services on Yom Kippur.  (requires registration)

Outside the Days of Awe

There is more to the holiday season than Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and Har Zion offers programs/services especially for children then, also. And there are more that everyone, from children to adults, can enjoy. These include the Back to Shul BBQ and the Shofar Walk (in Elul, above), and meals in the Lieb Family Sukkah and dancing with the Torah on Simchat Torah (in Sukkot and Beyond, below).

Sukkot and Beyond

If you have a problem submitting a form, please note that if there is a red asterisk with the question you must provide a response. If you are still having a problem, call or email the temple office (708.366.9000 or office@wsthz.org).