UJA-Federation of New York’s J-1-1 Information and Referral Center connects people to High Holiday services by referring them to local synagogues that are open to nonmembers during the holiday season. Those in need of a synagogue to observe the High Holidays, including Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur, are urged to contact J-1-1.
UJA-Federation’s J-1-1 Information and Referral Center is a free and confidential telephone referral service available Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at 1.877.852.6951 or J11@ujafedny.org. Telephone messages and e-mails received after 3:30 p.m. will be responded to the next business day.
UJA-Federation and J-1-1 will close at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, September 8th, and are closed all day Thursday, September 9th, and Friday, September 10th, in observance of Rosh HaShanah. We will close at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, September 17th, in observance of Yom Kippur.
Come Home For The Holidays, a program of Project Reconnect (USCJ’s alumni association for Conservative Movement Programs) is offering high holiday tickets to young alumni with some shuls offering home hospitality as well.
Over 300 synagogues are participating in this effort. For a list visit http://projectreconnect.org/comehome
It’s a win-win program. At Adas Israel in Washington, D.C. Come Home for the Holidays sparked the formation of the lay-lead Ruach Minyan. For the full story see http://www.uscj.org/Coming_Home_For_The_7026.html
As Managing Director of Philadelphia’s InterFaithways:Interfaith Family Support Network, I am pleased to say that we have a similar resource on our website. Intermarried and underaffiliated couples and families can visit http://www.interfaithways.org and see a listing of Philadelphia area synagogues with available seats for them. The list is across denominations — Reconstructionist, Reform and Conservative with some synagogues requiring reservations, some asking for payment while others do not. We have included contact information for each. Lists and efforts such as these seriously increase — and deepen — our communal experience of the holidays. These actions also reflect a paradigm shift regarding who is invited to the table or in this case, the pew. For more information visit our website: http://www.interfaithways.org