High Holy Days 2025/5786

Rosh HaShanah
    Monday evening - September 22, 2025 (Erev)
    Rosh HaShanah - Day 1 - Tuesday - September 23, 2025
    Rosh HaShanah - Day 2 - Wednesday - September 24, 2025
Yom Kippur
    Kol Nidre - Wednesday evening - October 1, 2025
    Yom Kippur Day - Thursday - October 2, 2025

• Beth Sholom community services - The community will be together for one service for Minhah, Ma'ariv, P'sukei d'zimra, Shaharit and Neilah. For the Torah service, Musaf, and Kol Nidre, there will be services in both the Shulman Auditorium and the Lewis Family Sanctuary, to allow space for all members of our community to join us. The services will be officiated by Rabbi Pitkowsky, Rabbi Polisson, and members of our congregation, who have worked together to plan parallel services with the same meaningful prayers, similiar melodies, and spirit in both locations as follows:
   

Rosh HaShanah - Day 1 
Shulman Auditorium:  Darshan (speaker) - Rabbi Joel Pitkowsky, Shaliach Tzibur (leader) - Jonah Pitkowsky
Lewis Family Sanctuary: Darshan (speaker) - Rabbi Lori Forman-Jacobi, Shaliach Tzibur (leader) - Benjamin Mann

Rosh HaShanah - Day 2 
Shulman Auditorium:  Darshan (speaker) - Rabbi Louis Polisson, Shaliach Tzibur (leader) - Rabbi Daniel Liben
Lewis Family Sanctuary: Darshan (speaker)  - Rabbi Joel Pitkowsky, Shaliach Tzibur (leader) - Adam Wall

Kol Nidre 
Shulman Auditorium:  Darshan (speaker) - Rabbi Pitkowsky, Shlichat Tzibur (leader) - Debbi Bohnen
Lewis Family Sanctuary: Darshan (speaker) - Rabbi Polisson, Shlichat Tzibur (leader) - Cantor Ronit Wolff Hanan

Yom Kippur
Shulman Auditorium:  Darshan (speaker) - Rabbi Noam Marans, Shaliach Tzibur (leader) - Rabbi Louis Polisson
Lewis Family Sanctuary: Darshan (speaker) - Rabbi Joel Pitkowsky, Shaliach Tzibur (leader) - Adam Wall

• Children's Services and Programming will take place in the lower level classrooms and will be divided into age cohort, and require registration.  This year, we are fortunate to also have a family service called Minyan B'Yachad on the 1st day of Rosh HaShanah and on Yom Kippur day. 
  
  Minyan B'Yachad is a friendly, learner-oriented, family service that welcomes people of all ages and levels of experience to join together in celebration of Shabbat and Chaggim.  Minyan B'Yachad creates an atmosphere of acceptance, crafting opportunities for both seasoned and emerging leaders to experiment with and grow their skills.  A key element of B'Yachad is pursuing a multi-generational approach in which tefillot are both designed to have appropriate inroads for children while also maintaining halakhic standards for adults.  B'Yachad celebrates adults serving as tefillah role models for youth.   Children are required to have an adult with them during the B'Yachad service.

Please note that the registration form will ask you which days you plan to be at Beth Sholom. There will not be specific reserved room or seat assignments for HHD 2025. We will have open seating in all services. However, for security purposes, every person entering the building will need a ticket.

We ask all of our members to please make sure they are current with their 2025 account balance when registering for tickets. If you need to discuss issues of outstanding payments, please send an email to our Executive Director, Whitney Blom (whitney@cbsteaneck.org) or our Director of Synagogue Administration, Abby Finkel (abby@cbsteaneck.org).

Please be sure that you are logged in to your account before completing each of the following forms.

Ticket Registration

• Tickets are free of charge for adult members and for their children under the age of 26, but you must register for each ticket;
• $180 - Tickets for Associate members, adult family members and guests (children, grandchildren, parents, etc.) of members;
• $360 - Non-members (public);
• $18 - Non-member children attending Children's Services and Programming (including guests of members.)

Click here to open the ticket registration form in a new window

Children's Services and Programming Registration

Children's services and programming will begin at 10:00 AM each morning and continue to the end of adult davening.   On Rosh HaShanah Day 1 and Yom Kippur Day, during Minayn B'Yachad, children are required to have a parent or adult in attendance. For children in pre-K and younger, Minyan Katan is also available during the B'Yachad service.  After Minyan B'Yachad, all children are invited to the lower level for kiddush and programming.
On Rosh HaShanah Day 2 and Kol Nidrei, children in kindergarten and older can be dropped off anytime after 10:00 AM and 6:15 PM respectively. Children younger than kindergarten age are required to have an adult with them. 
Click here to open the registration form in a new window (All children must be registered.)

Yizkor Book

Include the names of your loved ones in the 2025/5786 Yizkor Book.
Click here to open the Yizkor Book form in a new window 

Lulav and Etrog Order
As in previous years, Lulav and Etrog will be available to purchase through the shul. Click here to order yours before Sunday, September 28 at 10:00 AM.

Our Ask 2025
Our annual campaign, Our Ask, helps us to support the services, programming and resources that make Beth Sholom a special kehillah, a special community. Click here to make your 2025 Our Ask donation.

Handicap Parking
There is limited parking available in the synagogue parking lot and on the surrounding streets. The synagogue lot will be reserved for those with state-issued handicap parking permits displayed and will be available on a first-come first- served basis.

We look forward to celebrating the upcoming High Holy Days together. If you have any questions, please contact the CBS office at 201-833-2620 or email Whitney Blom, Executive Director, at whitney@cbsteaneck.org or Abby Finkel, Director of Synagogue Administration, at abby@cbsteaneck.org.