High Holidays

Feed Your Body, Feed Your Soul!

Shana Tova! This High Holiday season, we’re wishing you a sweet new year with lots of delicious meals, engaging services, and fun and meaningful community gatherings. Let us help you tend to your body and spirit by bringing in the new year with us!

Registration

All students are welcome and encouraged to participate in whichever High Holiday activities will help you start off the new year on the right foot and fit with your schedule. Sign up with the link below for delicious meals with recipes from Jewish communities around the world and multiple styles of meaningful prayer services. Come between classes or spend the day with us.

Undergraduate Students – Sign up here for High Holiday events!

Graduate Students – Sign up here High Holiday events!

Parents, Alumni, Faculty/Staff, and other Community Members

We welcome non-student community members to join us for High Holiday services. In order for us to continue to offer High Holiday services and other programming free of charge to students, we ask that you make a donation to BU Hillel in the following suggested amounts in lieu of tickets.

Please make your donation at the links below and email Eli Richman at earichma@bu.edu to have your name added to the registration list at the reception desk for both Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

Schedule of Events

Rosh Hashanah

Friday, Sept. 11 – Erev Rosh Hashanah: 

6:00 pm-7:00 pm  – Conservative and Reform Service

7:00 pm-9:00 pm –Dinner

Saturday, Sept. 12 – Rosh Hashanah Day 1:

10:30 am-12:00 pm – Reform Service

9:45 am-12:00 pm – Conservative Service

12:00 pm-2:00 pm – Lunch

7:40 pm-8:15 pm – Evening Conservative Service

8:15 pm-9:30 pm – Dinner

Sunday, Sept. 13 – Rosh Hashanah Day 2:

 10:30am-12:00 pm – Music Service and Discussion

10:30 am-12:00 pm – River Walk Service

12:00pm-2:00pm – Lunch

2:00pm – Shofar Service (Marsh Plaza)

Yom Kippur

Sunday, Sept. 20 – Kol Nidre:

5:00pm – Pre-Fast Dinner

6:30pm – Conservative and Reform Service

Monday, Sept. 21 – Yom Kippur:

10:00am-12:00pm – Conservative Service

10:30am-12:00pm – Reform Service

6:00pm – Yizkor

6:30pm – Traditional Neilah Service

7:25pm – Havdalah

7:35pm – Break Fast Meal

Graduate Student Events

Graduate Students are welcome to attend any of the services above with the entire BU community. We will also have the following graduate student events:

Friday, Sept. 11 – Erev Rosh Hashanah:

7:15pm-9:00pm – GradHillel Dinner

Monday, Sept. 22 – Yom Kippur:

7:15pm-8:45pm – Break-Fast Meal

Navigating Classes During the Holidays

Under BU’s “Policy on Student Absence Due to Religious Observance,” any student may request excused absences from attending classes or participating in examinations, work, or study requirements in order to accommodate the observance of their religious faiths.  Rav Micha is available to serve as your advocate in communicating with professors if needed. Feel free to email him at mstettin@bu.edu!