High Holidays Tickets for Yom Kippur

Tickets are emailed to you from SIMPLETIX, please check your spam folder. If you don't see the tickets in your spam/junk folder, go to https://find.simpletix.com/ to locate your order by the email you registered with. (Note: ONLY the email option will work for your order) You will be able to resend the order to yourself. 

If you still don't have any luck finding your ticket via email or SimpleTix website, please email office@wrtemple.org to request help, or call the office at 914-723-7727. 

Click here to find a schedule of High Holiday services, or to request your tickets online. Please note the Adult Service at 11:15 am and the Family Service at 11:45 am on Yom Kippur Day are at capacity. We cannot process new tickets or make exchanges for those services. However, we are more than happy to offer the earlier or later services that are still available. 

Shabbat and Holiday Services

Shabbat Shuva Evening Service

Friday, September 30 at 6:15 pm (*in-person outdoors or live streamed)

Shabbat Shuva (meaning the “Shabbat of Return”) is the Shabbat which falls between the holidays of Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur; it is a time of heightened spiritual awareness and introspection. 

*If weather conditions move our services indoors, masks are now optional and everyone is expected to be vaccinated and boosted (if eligible).

A new opportunity to celebrate a special moment.

Celebrate an upcoming simcha or honor someone you love by sponsoring a Shabbat or Holiday Oneg at WRT.

Torah Study

Saturday, October 1 at 9:00 am (in-person in the CJL or Zoom) 

Each Shabbat morning we gather informally to read and discuss the week’s Torah portion. The morning begins with a brief Shabbat service at which mourners who wish to say Kaddish are warmly welcomed. The group is led by volunteers, with clergy participation. No prior experience with Torah is necessary.  

Yom Kippur Service

Wednesday, October 5 at 4:15 pm

We will be joined for this service by Rabbi Rick Jacobs, URJ President and Rabbi Emeritus of WRT, who will deliver remarks on the Book of Jonah. Renowned sports anchor Bruce Beck and District Attorney for Westchester County Mimi Rocah, who are both WRT Members, will be reading the Book of Jonah (in English) at this service as well.  We welcome you to experience the talents of the full WRT Clergy team, and our special guests, at this culminating service of the High Holidays.

WRT Yom Kippur Food Drive

Now through Wednesday, October 5

Give now to our annual Yom Kippur Food Drive. The following are the most-needed items, however all non-glass, non-perishable food items are accepted:

Brown or White Rice

Canned Vegetables

Canned or Dried Fruit

Whole Grain Pasta

Peanut Butter

Canned Meats

Shelf-Stable Milk

Whole Grain Cereal

When choosing items for donation, please look for labels that read: low sodium, no salt added, no sugar added, unsweetened, reduced sodium, 100% fruit juice, lite. You may either pick up a brown bag from WRT to fill or fill a bag of your own. Your donations may be dropped off in the containers in the rear parking lot (behind the ECC wing) during the week leading up to Yom Kippur and on Yom Kippur Day. If you would prefer to make a monetary donation you may do so either by donating to Feeding Westchester or the WRT Hungry and Homeless Fund. Questions? Email Sharon Stiefel.  

Programs and Special Events

Next Sunday- Sukkot Block Party!

Sunday, October 9

4:30-5:00 – ECC Pizza and Music in the Hut

5:00-7:00 – *Sukkot Block Party* (FKA Sukkah Slam) Join us outdoors for a celebration of the season with live music, activities, food trucks, and fun for the whole family!

7:00-7:40 – Erev Sukkot service in the Wes Sukkah. Welcome the holiday with prayer, song, lulav & etrog

7:45-8:30 – Spirits in the Sukkah (21+) Tasting of Artisanal and Local Spirits with the Clergy.

Sukkot Festival Service

Monday, October 10 at 10:00 am

Join us for our Festival service where we will celebrate Sukkot, participate in its rituals, and study its signature traditions and texts. (Outdoor sukkah, weather permitting)

Men of Reform Judaism Meeting

Tuesday, October 11 at 7:30 pm

Come join the MRJ for the monthly meeting, where we kibbitz and plan the many events and activities held throughout the year.

Spousal Bereavement Group

Wednesday, October 12 at 11:30 am (Zoom)

This Support Group meets to create community for those in mourning over the loss of a loved one, and to help find comfort and process feelings of loss through caring discussion and in sacred Jewish context.

Led by Jane Slevin, LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist from Westchester Jewish Community Services), and Cantor Laura Stein, LMSW, a social worker who specializes in spiritual care. 

RAC-NY Climate Covenant Bond Act Webinar (Zoom)

Wednesday, October 12, 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm

REGISTER NOW: Join leaders from Westchester Reform Temple and Reform congregations around the state for a virtual meeting on October 12th, at 7:30-8:30 p.m., to learn about the Clean Water, Clean Air, and Green Jobs Bond Act, New York’s first public referendum on an environmental bond proposal in more than 25 years, which will appear on the ballot in November. We need your help to build support! Register here and join us during Sukkot to reaffirm our mutual commitment to protect our world for future generations. 

A Deep Reading of Pirkei Avot,

“The Wisdom of the Ancestors” 

Led by Rabbi Jonathan Blake

Thursday, October 13 at 10:15 am (Zoom)

Rabbi Blake will guide us in interpreting one of the most important texts in Jewish life, Pirkei Avot, which is part of the Mishna and which continues to provide invaluable wisdom for leading a life of righteousness, purpose, and Jewish joy. All are welcome. No Hebrew or Jewish text experience is required.

Women of Reform Judaism [WRJ] Sukkot Harvest Celebration

Thursday, Oct 13th at 10:15 am

Let's Gather to Greet, Meet, Study, Sing, Pray, Eat & Schmooze. How good it will be to be together!

10:15 Bring your homemade dish (no nuts and no garlic)

10:45 WRJ Welcome and Meeting

11:00 Cantor Amanda Kleinman and Rabbi Sasha Baken lead song and study inspired by the Psalmist, "Sow in tears, reap in joy." 

11:45 Service in the Sukkah with lulav and etrog

Together let us say, Shehecheyanu! 

12:00 Harvest Feast: WRT Clergy and Staff will join us for lunch

Sukkot and Simchat Torah Celebration

Friday, October 14 - Sunday, October 16

Join us for a weekend of community, celebration, and song, as we mark Sukkot and Simchat Torah with award winning singer- songwriter, Billy Jonas. Known for making each musical experience a “soul-spelunking, heart healing, joy-filled journey,” Billy features industrial re-percussion (instruments created from recycled materials), in keeping with Sukkot’s focus on the gifts of our natural world. 

The weekend will include our Friday night Shabbat service, Saturday morning Sharing Shabbat, and Sunday night’s Simchat Torah celebration. (Full details in next week's eblast)

Rabbi Citrin's Installation, Consecration of Our Newest Learners and Simchat Torah

Sunday, October 16 at 4:00 pm

Please join us for a wonderful afternoon where we will celebrate Rabbi Leah Citrin with her Installation, our newest learners with their Consecration and Simchat Torah! Delicious dinner to follow. We can't wait to see you all there. 

WRT is excited to announce a music series for the 2022-2023 calendar year.

We know that music has immense power to connect us, lift us up, and inspire us, and what better way to be in community than to experience the beauty of music with fellow congregants and leading Jewish artists, cantors, and composers!

To discover the rest of our wonderful artists in this series, please visit the website, https://bit.ly/3MSTYfV

Tikkun Olam (Repair of the World)

To learn more about the ways that the WRT community impacts the broader world through acts of Tikkun Olam, read Repairing Our World - WRT Social Impact Update. In this blog, Sharon Stiefel, WRT's Director of Social Impact and Community Engagement, reflects on WRT's social action programming. and discusses further opportunities to engage in tzedakah, chesed and tzedek. Click here to read.

WRT is committed to pursuing tikkun olam (repairing the world) and tzedek (social justice) for impact locally, statewide, nationally, and globally through direct service, tzedakah, advocacy, and community organizing.  

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