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.
Sign up here for to register for High Holiday events if you are an undergrad.
For graduate student sign up please click here.
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 Rav Micha to have your name added to the registration list at the reception desk for both Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
Suggested Donation for Individuals: $200
Suggested Donation for Families: $518
Schedule of Events
Rosh Hashanah
Wednesday, Oct. 2 – Erev Rosh Hashanah:
- 1:00 pm-2:00 pm – Nullification of Vows
- 6:00 pm-7:00 pm – Reform Service
- 6:00 pm-7:00 pm – Conservative Service
- 7:00 pm-9:00 pm –Dinner
Thursday, Oct. 3 – Rosh Hashanah Day 1:
- 10:30 am-12:00 pm – Reform Service
- 9:00 am-12:00 pm – Conservative Service
- 7:15 pm-8:00 pm – Conservative Service
- 8:00 pm-9:30 pm – Dinner
Friday, Oct. 4 – Rosh Hashanah Day 2:
- 9:00 am-12:00 pm – Conservative Service
- 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Lunch
Tashlich
Thursday, Oct. 10 – Tashlich
- 3:30 pm – Meet at the Hillel building for Chuck it in the Charles: Tashlich at BU Hillel
Yom Kippur
Friday, Oct. 11 – Kol Nidre:
- 4:15 pm-5:45 pm – Pre-Fast Dinner
- 6:00 pm-7:00 pm – Reform Service
- 6:00 pm-7:00 pm – Conservative Service
Saturday, Oct. 12 – Yom Kippur:
- 9:00 am-12:00 pm – Conservative Service
- 10:30 am-12:00 pm – Reform Service
- 5:00 pm-5:30 pm – Yizkor
- 6:00 pm-7:00 pm – Traditional Neilah Service
- 7:00 pm-8:30 pm – Break Fast Meal
Other Fun Activities
Thursday, Oct. 3 – “New Year, New Thoughts” Pop-Up and Giveaway at Marsh Plaza
Join us at Marsh Plaza on Thursday, October 3 from 1 pm to 5 pm for a pop-up event unlike anything you’ve seen before (fun, short, and joyous)! You can register for this event in the High Holiday Registration link above!
Graduate Student Events
The Holidays are almost here, and we hope you will join the BU GradHillel community to celebrate! Graduate Students are welcome to attend any of the services with the entire BU community. We are also hosting the following events just for Graduate Students:
Wednesday, Oct. 2 – Erev Rosh Hashanah:
- 7:00pm – New Year’s Toast and Dinner
Friday, Oct. 4 – Rosh Hashanah Day 1:
- 7:00pm – Rosh Hashanah Shabbat
Saturday, Oct. 12 – Yom Kippur:
- 7:00 pm – Break Fast Meal
Graduate Students – Signup here for Meals and Service!
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.
This year, Rosh Hashanah and Kol Nidre fall on academic class days. You may email your professors at least one week before class to notify them of your upcoming absence and request a reasonable accommodation for any work you may miss. Rav Micha is available to serve as your advocate in communicating with professors if needed. Feel free to email him at mstettin@bu.edu!