Held Outdoors at JRC and Facebook Live, no tickets required

In JRC’s kitchen, no tickets required, please register to let us know you’ll be joining us

Join JRC members Julia Tauber and Luke Adams for a challah baking workshop!

No experience necessary and just in time for the High Holidays. Learn dough, braiding, and baking tips from accomplished home bakers. Learn long or round challah, your choice! Start the day with raw ingredients, go home with a fresh-baked loaf, delicious for enjoying on Rosh Hashanah! Space is limited, so please sign up soon.

Sign up to Participate Here.

Indoors at JRC, no tickets required

Join us for this fun and engaging 1-session creative arts workshop. The Jewish New Year, with its opportunities to reflect back and envision forward, is a great time to make a resolution for 5784! JRC member and expressive arts teacher, Arlyn Miller will lead us in crafting resolutions into a simple, beautiful “resolution stick.” No prior writing or art experience is required. Materials will be provided. Participants aged 16+ are welcome.

On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World

Indoors at JRC & via Zoom, no tickets required. Please register through separate sign up so we know you are coming.

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg will read from and discuss her newest book. On Repentance and Repair: aking Amends in an Unapologetic World is a crucial new lens on repentance, atonement, forgiveness, and repair from harm—from personal transgressions to our culture’s most painful and unresolved issues. Rooted in traditional Jewish concepts while doggedly accessible and available to people from any, or no, religious background, On Repentance and Repair is a book for anyone who cares about creating a country and culture that is more whole than the one in which we live, and for anyone who has been hurt or who is struggling to take responsibility for their mistakes. An Oneg will follow. Mark your calendar for a follow up book discussion the evening of Tuesday, October 17. You may purchase Rabbi Danya’s book through JRC. Details TBA.

Outdoors at Dawes Park & via Facebook Live, no tickets required

From Shofar to Shofar: We celebrate our gathering and the joy of the New Year! Greet friends and community of all ages as we walk a loop along the lakefront with 7 shofar stations. Sing with our clergy and the JRC Choir and sound the shofar across the community – bring a shofar and bring friends! – Note: this will be JRC’s only Erev Rosh Hashanah observance.

Want to be a Shofar Sounder? Please email info@jrctogether.org.

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Indoors at First United Methodist Church of Evanston and live streamed, Tickets Required

We gather at “our church” for our JRC High Holiday Traditions. Connect with your community for Teshuvah (personal reflection and accountability), Tefillah (prayer and spiritual connection) and Tzedakah (commitment to repairing brokenness through justice). If you require babysitting, please contact Director of Education, Lauren Reeves for suggested babysitter names.

Tickets will be mailed to members in good standing.

Indoors at First United Methodist Church of Evanston, Tickets and Separate Signup Required (for all participants, including members)

Kindergarten–6th grade: Children will participate in our Hofshi festival, a semi-structured space supervised by adults and teens where children will participate in an age-appropriate service as well as themed activities, games, and crafts. 7th–12th grade: During one hour, teens will explore the Jewish New Year’s effects on their lives through a service, discussion, art, and reflection. During the rest of the program, teens can support the Hofshi festival, join services, or relax with friends.

In order to help us provide the best program, please fill out this two-minute form to let us know your children will be participating. Thank you!

Held outdoors at Dawes Park by the lakefront and Facebook Live, no ticket required. Immediately followed by Tashlich

Bring the family and join Rabbi Rachel Weiss and Cantor Howard Friedland for our camp-style service featuring singing, stories, and a multi-age celebration of the New Year. The entire community is welcome at this child-centered service. Children must be accompanied by their grown up.

Held outdoors at Dawes Park by the lakefront, no tickets required.

Gather at Dawes Park with Rabbi Rachel and Cantor Howard on the pier. This ritual of casting out sins, and the things we’re ready to let go of in the new year, is a ritual of release and renewal. In keeping with our Jewish value of caring for our climate and earth, rather than throwing bread we invite you to cast off birdseed, small stones, frozen corn and peas, or other bird-and-fish and environmentally friendly items.

Services will be livestreamed on JRC’s website homepage (the one exception is Rosh Hashanah Day 2, which will be accessible via Zoom), no tickets required. Look to JRC’s calendar for additional details.

Yes! If you are not yet a member of JRC, we are so happy to welcome you to our community. Guest tickets may be ordered online.

• Infants through high school aged children and full-time college students are free
• “Chai Holidays” tickets for Young Adults 18-35: $18
• Guests who are 36 and older: $396
• Any guest of a JRC member: $270

If you would like to explore the possibility of becoming a member, Micky Baer, our Executive Director, would be happy to connect and answer any questions. Guests who purchase tickets and join JRC before December 1, 2023, will receive full credit for the cost of their individual tickets toward membership fees. Click here to learn more about joining JRC.

• Tickets ordered by August 21 may be picked up beginning August 30 from JRC’s office at 303 Dodge Ave. in Evanston MWR from 9-2.
• Tickets ordered after August 21 will be held under the ticket-holder’s name in the lobby of the FUMC at High Holiday services

If you would like to explore the possibility of becoming a member, Micky Baer, our Executive Director, would be happy to connect and answer any questions. Guests who purchase tickets and join JRC before December 1, 2023, will receive full credit for the cost of their individual tickets toward membership fees. Click here to learn more about joining JRC.

Your 5784 JRC nametag will serve as your High Holiday ticket. Nametags are provided to adult members only.

• Step One: Renew your 2023-2024 JRC membership. Here’s a link: 2023-2024 Membership Commitment Form
• Once you’ve renewed, you may pick up your tickets during JRC office hours beginning Wednesday, August 2
• If you have not picked up your tickets by the end of August, we will mail them to you on August 24 (mail delivery times will vary)

JRC Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday 9 am – 2 pm.

If you have not yet renewed, click this link to access our 2023-2024 Membership Commitment Form.

Participants will enter the First United Methodist Church of Evanston on Hinman. Parking is available at the Church Street Self Park at 525 Church Street in Evanston and there may also be street parking. The Evanston Police Department has waived the 2 hour parking limit surrounding the church during our services and programs.