High Holidays at the Peretz Centre

Join us for the Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture's High Holidays Observance as we mark the new Jewish year of 5785

With family activities and a condensed, Jewish Secular Humanist service that reflects our progressive values, the Peretz Centre's High Holiday event offers a space to connect with family, friends, and the Peretz community, welcome the new year together, and remember those we have lost in the last year.

After candle lighting, songs, and accessible readings focused on the meanings of the holiday, we blow the shofar. The observance ends with Kol Nidre and Yizkor.

Sunday, October 6 2024 from 1pm to 4pm

1pm Holidays crafting for children and adults

2pm Jewish Secular Humanist service

3pm Kiddush (refreshments)

Admission: $10/adult (14 and older)

Children under 13 and Pnei Mitzvah graduates: free

Please bring non-perishable food idems for tsedaka (goes to JFS' annual food drive).

As I. L. Peretz wrote in "Remembrance," "Remebrance is not merely an excursion into the past. The central theme of Rosh Hashana is the power of memory itself." We invite our community to share names of loved ones who have passed since last Rosh Hashana to read out during the Yizkor observance by filling out the registration form or by emailing info@peretz-centre.org

The Peretz tradition is to engage with and adapt traditional rituals, songs, and practices from Jewish cultures that are still meaningful to us and create new ones for our present and future generations. Our doors are open to people of diverse cultures, beliefs, genders and sexual orientation.

A gut yontif!

A gut yor!

L'Shana Tova!