High Holy Days
About High Holy Days with Kolot
At Kolot, the High Holy Days are joyful, spiritual, and full of connection, with empowering and healing drashes and beautiful musical offerings from clergy and community members alike. During the Days of Awe, we empower members and friends to illuminate a path forward for the coming year — a path marked by returning to the connections that feed our souls, and by listening and tending to the impacts we have on each other.
We thank everyone who ushered in the new year with us in 5786! Please visit Kolot's YouTube channel for recordings of our Erev Rosh HaShanah, Rosh HaShanah, Kol Nidre, and Yom Kippur services.
May we all keep answering the call of Beyn Adam LaChavereh — to show up with solidarity and accountability to one another — as we face the year ahead.
All Hands Open Doors
We remain committed to keeping the Days of Awe open to all. Ensuring our spaces are inclusive and that our virtual streaming is of the highest possible quality, requires us all to pitch in. A donation of any amount throughout the year will ensure that the High Holy Days remain as joyful, spiritual, and full of connection as ever. It takes all hands to open Kolot’s doors, so please give more if you can, less if you must.
Honor a Loved One with a Machzor Nameplate
We also offer a special way to honor those who have touched your life: a nameplate affixed in our beautiful High Holy Day prayer books (machzors), which were so generously gifted to us all by Bob and Glenn Usdin in honor of their parents and long-time Kolot members Martha and Marvin Usdin z’’l. By purchasing a nameplate, you can memorialize the names of loved ones and express gratitude for the gifts their lives have brought, both past and present, and keep them connected to our sacred community.
Kolot’s Digital Yizkor Book
We are honored to remember your loved ones through our digital Yizkor book. Our Yizkor book names each person being remembered by a Kolotnik, and is presented as a PDF for everyone to look at during and after Yom Kippur services. This is a beautiful opportunity for us to collectively name those we have lost, and to hold their memories close at one of the holiest moments of the year.
Kolot's next chapter starts now—with you!
Make this the year you become a member and find your place in this vibrant, diverse, and sacred community, our Kehila Kedosha, where all hands are needed. Our dues structure was created with inclusivity at the forefront of our minds: Anyone can be a member of Kolot, regardless of financial circumstances.