High Holyday Services

Home

Home

Home > Jewish Life > High Holydays Information > High Holyday Services

High Holyday Services 5785/2024

Below is a list of all services and you can download a printable version here.

Click here for a detailed set of Questions & Answers that we hope will address most queries and concerns.

Venues and Tickets

Traditional and Egalitarian services will take place within our own building, in Akiva and at the Avenue at Henlys Corner. Tickets for these will be issued by email to all community members. You will not be asked to sign up for the main services, but have been allocated tickets according to your Traditional or Egalitarian minyan preferences shared with us.

We are asking those who wish to attend Quiet (Highlights) Services and various Family Services (taking place on Rosh Hashanah and on Yom Kippur) to please sign up: here for Quiet Services and here for Family Services.

In order to provide enough space for everyone, your ticket is colour-coded specifying which venue we’re asking you to go to for each service. We ask that you kindly honour your venue allocations whenever you attend any of the main adult services.

You may attend Quiet (Highlights) Services, Children’s Services, Family, Explanatory or Sunflower Services, or the Teens Programme at the Sternberg Centre site, even if you have an Avenue based ticket. However, we ask that you still honour your original allocation for main adult services. The Avenue is just a 10-15 minute stroll down the road on Regents Park Road.

ROSH HASHANAH AND YOM Kippur Services

Due to limited numbers in Toddler Services, we ask that one adult attends per child.

Erev Rosh Hashanah: Wednesday 2 October
6.30pm Traditional Minchah/Ma'ariv (Sternberg Centre, Beit Tefilah)

Rosh Hashanah Day 1: Thursday 3 October
8.30am Egalitarian Services (Sternberg Centre, Beit Knesset & The Avenue)
8.30am Traditional Service (Sternberg Centre, Akiva Hall)
10.30am (also at 11:30am) Toddlers’ Service (Sternberg Centre, Akiva Classrooms - First Floor)
10.30am Sunflower Service (Sternberg Centre, Art Stables)
10.30am Teens’ Programme, Years 7-8 (Sternberg Centre, Youth Room)
11.00am Children’s Services, Reception-Year 6 (Sternberg Centre, Akiva Classrooms - First Floor)
11.00am Family Service*, Reception-Year 4 (Sternberg Centre, Beit Tefilah)
11.00am Explanatory Service*, Year 5+ (Sternberg Centre, Beit Midrash)
11.30am (also at 10:30am) Toddlers’ Service (Sternberg Centre, Akiva Classrooms - First Floor)
11.30am Teens’ Programme, Years 9+ (Sternberg Centre, Youth Room)

5.30pm Tashlich with Rabbi Chaim (Windsor Open Space)
6.30pm Traditional Minchah/Ma'ariv (Sternberg Centre, Beit Midrash)

Rosh Hashanah Day 2: Friday 4 October
8.30am Traditional Service (Sternberg Centre, Beit Knesset)
8.30am Egalitarian Service (Sternberg Centre, Akiva Hall)
10.30am Teens’ Programme, Years 7–8 (Sternberg Centre, Youth Room)
11.00am Toddlers’ Service (Sternberg Centre, Beit Midrash)
11.00am Infants’ Family Service*, Reception-Year 2 (Sternberg Centre, Akiva Moadon)
11.00am Juniors’ Family Service*, Years 3-6 (Sternberg Centre, Beit Tefilah)
11.00am Quiet (Highlights) Service* (Sternberg Centre, Drawing Room)
11.30am Teens’ Programme, Years 9+ (Sternberg Centre, Youth Room)
6.30pm Traditional Minchah/Ma'ariv/ Kabbalat Shabbat (Sternberg Centre, Beit Tefilah)

Erev Yom Kippur, Kol Nidrei: Friday 11 October
6.15pm Traditional Services (Sternberg Centre, Akiva Hall & Sternberg Centre, Beit Tefilah)
6.15pm Egalitarian Services (Sternberg Centre, Beit Knesset & The Avenue)
7.15pm Quiet (Highlights) Service* (Sternberg Centre, Beit Midrash)

Yom Kippur: Shabbat 12 October
9.00am Traditional Shacharit, Torah, Yizkor and Mussaf Service (Sternberg Centre, Akiva Hall)
9.00am Egalitarian Shacharit, Torah, Yizkor and Mussaf Service (Sternberg Centre, Beit Knesset & The Avenue)
10.30am (also at 11:30am) Toddlers’ Service (Sternberg Centre, Akiva Classrooms - First Floor)
10.30am Sunflower Service* (Sternberg Centre, Art Stables)
11.00am Children’s Services, Reception-Year 6 (Sternberg Centre, Akiva Classrooms - First Floor)
11.00am Family Service*, Reception-Year 4 (Sternberg Centre, Beit Tefilah)
11.00am Explanatory Service*, Year 5+ (Sternberg Centre, Beit Midrash)
11.00am Teens’ Programme, Year 7 (Sternberg Centre, Akiva Moadon)
11.30am (also at 10:30am) Toddlers’ Service (Sternberg Centre, Akiva Classrooms - First Floor)
12.00pm Teens’ Programme, Year 8 (Sternberg Centre, Akiva Moadon)
12.00pm Teens’ Programme, Years 9+ (Sternberg Centre, Youth Room)
2.00pm Being Jewish This Year: A Reflective Space led by Rabbi Jonathan (Sternberg Centre, Beit Midrash)
3.30pm Additional Yizkor Service (Sternberg Centre, Beit Midrash)
3.40pm** Traditional Minchah Service (Sternberg Centre, Akiva Hall)
3.40pm** Egalitarian Teen-led Minchah Service (Sternberg Centre, Beit Tefilah)
5.20pm Traditional Neilah Service (Sternberg Centre, Akiva Hall)
5.20pm Egalitarian Neilah Services (Sternberg Centre, Beit Knesset and Sternberg Centre, Beit Tefilah)

A quiet breastfeeding space is available during the High Holydays in the Brides Room (opposite the Beit Midrash) at the Sternberg Centre, but you are welcome to breastfeed wherever it is comfortable to do so.

There will also be a quiet space for neurodiverse children and their families (Sternberg Centre, Studio 2, Art Stables).

*This year we are asking members to please sign up for Quiet (Highlights) Services, Family/Explanatory/Sunflower Services in advance. For full details and to sign up, please click here for Quiet (Highlights) Services, here for Family and Explanatory Services.

**Minchah Service start times are approximate

Streamed Services

Streamed services can be accessed via our NNLS YouTube channel.

You can click here for instructions for you to be able to switch on and leave your computer running in a halachic-friendly way over the chag without having to engage with it to receive our streaming.

This year a number of services that will be taking place in the Beit Knesset will be live streamed - namely, our full Egalitarian services on first day Rosh Hashanah, Kol Nidrei and, apart from Minchah, services throughout Yom Kippur day. The style of these streamed services will be more fly on the wall, than the bespoke streamed services we have offered in previous years.

For members who are not keen to be on screen there are large clearly signed sections of the Beit Knesset that will be off camera. And, for members who do not want to attend a streamed service, there are alternative Egalitarian services taking place at each of these times.

Rosh Hashanah I: Thursday 3 October
8.30am Full Egalitarian Service

Erev Yom Kippur: Friday 11 October
6.15pm Egalitarian Kol Nidrei Service

Yom Kippur: Shabbat 12 October
9.00am Egalitarian Shacharit and Torah Service
12.00pm (approx) Egalitarian Yizkor and Mussaf Service
5.20pm Egalitarian Neilah Service

Page number guides

You download and print page number guides via these links:

Kol Nidrei

Yom Kippur