Rabbi Josh Franklin

Begin the High Holy Day season with this preparatory service that explores the themes of repentance and forgiveness (the word selichot means forgiveness). The short service introduces the High Holy liturgy and musical motifs that help us delve into the process of introspection over Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur.

Awaken to the promise of new possibilities and spiritual renewal brought by the new year. Immerse yourself in the sacred melodies, introspective teachings, and the call of the shofar.

Join us for a service for the whole family. Bring your kids of all ages to join for singing, stories, and great holiday fun.

Come take part in one of our community’s favorite rituals, Tashlich. To reflect on how we have missed the mark of our moral potential, we cast symbolic substitutes for our sins into the water. Traditionally, bread is used. However, we encourage those joining to consider the environmental harm bread causes, and instead opt to cast […]

The Second Day of Rosh HaShanah offers us the opportunity to delve further into the liturgy and traditions of Rosh HaShanah. This year, experience a sermon in song.

Once a year, we invite our entire community to join together at our cemetery for a custom known as kever avot (the graves of our fathers and mothers). We visit the graves of our parents and close relatives and pray together for the strength to live life in their absence.

On the eve of Yom Kippur, we gather for a solemn and sacred service that calls us to reflect and repent. We hear the ancient melody of Kol Nidre chanted, stirring us to begin the day long process of atonement and forgiveness.

Immerse yourself in the experience of repentance on this solemn morning. The liturgy, the music, the Torah reading, and the Haftara reading, all call us to consider how we might find our way back to the moral and ethical paths from which we have strayed.

Fill the time between services with an immersion into study of Jewish texts that we read on Yom Kippur.