Join us for the High Holidays at Tufts!
Services Schedule | Community Meals Schedule and Tickets | Menus
- Services are free and open to the Tufts community only*. Tickets are not required to attend Services.
- Tickets for High Holiday meals are required and are available to members of the Tufts community*. Meal tickets purchased here.
* Includes current students, visiting family and friends, faculty, staff and alumni.For a list of local synagogues offering services, please vist JewishBoston.com.
Services Schedule
Erev Rosh HaShanah:
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Reform : 6:45 pm, Hillel
Center
Conservative Egalitarian : 6:45 pm,Winthrop Street Function Hall (51 Winthrop)
First Day Rosh HaShanah:
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Reform : 10 am, Hillel
Center
Conservative Egalitarian :
9 am, Winthrop Street Function Hall (51 Winthrop)
6:45 pm, Hillel Center
Alternative Service: A Rosh Hashanah Experience - How Will You Be Different This Year? 10:30 am, Interfaith Center. A discussion and contemplative spirituality (including Jewish meditation) that will explore the possibilities for real change as the new year begins.
Second Day Rosh HaShanah: Friday, September 10, 2010
Conservative Egalitarian: 9 am, Hillel
Center
Tashlich: The Ritual of Letting Go: Monday, September 13, 2010
9 am, meet at Hillel Center: We will walk to the Mystic River together for the traditional ritual of tashlich, casting bread in the water to symbolically get rid of our
misdeeds.
Kol Nidre (Erev Yom Kippur)/Shabbat Services:
Friday, September 17, 2010
Reform: 6:30 pm, Hillel
Center
Conservative Egalitarian: 6:30 pm, Winthrop Street Function Hall (51 Winthrop)
Yom Kippur/Shabbat Services:
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Reform: 10 am, Hillel
Center
Conservative Egalitarian: 9 am, Winthrop Street Function Hall (51 Winthrop)
Alternative Service: A Yom Kippur Experience - Taking Responsibility and Forgiving Yourself. 10:30 am, Hillel
Center. A discussion and contemplative spirituality (including Jewish
meditation) to engage in the potentially life-changing work of Yom
Kippur.
Discussion with Rabbi Summit: Is it Really Possible for People to Change?
Saturday, September 18, 2010
3 pm, Hillel
Center:
Many questions float in our minds both as the High Holidays are upon us, and as we get older. Join Rabbi Summit for a discussion on one of the most fundamental questions of humanity: Can people change?
Yom Kippur Concluding Services: Saturday, September 18, 2010
Reform: Yizkor/Neilah, 6:15 pm, Interfaith Center (at 58 Winthrop St) *please note location change
Conservative Egalitarian : Yizkor, 5:45 pm; Neilah, 6:15 pm; Winthrop Street Function Hall (51 Winthrop)
Community Meals Schedule
(All meals to be held at the Hillel Center )
Tickets for High Holidays meals are available to members of the Tufts community (students, visiting family and friends, faculty, staff and alumni) and must be purchased online. Please order your tickets early, as they will go fast!
Dinner tickets cost: $15 or $12 with use of meal plan.
Lunch tickets cost: $7
| Erev Rosh HaShanah Dinner |
Wednesday, September 8 |
7:45 pm |
| First Day Rosh HaShanah Lunch |
Thursday, September 9 |
after services |
| First Day Rosh HaShanah Dinner |
Thursday, September 9 |
7:45 pm |
| Second Day Rosh HaShanah Lunch |
Friday, September 10 |
After services |
| Yom Kippur Pre-Fast Dinner ** |
Friday, September 17 |
5 pm |
| Yom Kippur Break-Fast Dinner |
Saturday, September 18 |
7:35 pm |
** Please note that students who are on the Shabbat-A-Lot list, still need to purchase a seperate ticket for this holiday meal.
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