Family and Tot Services
Rosh Hashanah Day 1 Tot and Family Services - Tuesday September 23rd - Lake Temescal
Tickets required for non-members (All Access or Family/Tot only).
*There is a $5 parking fee on weekends at Lake Temescal (north).*
Tot Service: 10:00 am, In-person at Lake Temescal
Join Jen Miriam and Alon Altman at the Lake Temescal North picnic area! Enjoy a Rosh Hashanah experience with puppets, music and lots of fun for our youngest celebrants and the grown-ups who love them, followed by kiddush.
Family Service: 11:00 am, In-person at Lake Temescal
Join Natalie Boskin, Musical Prayer Leader Beth Dickinson, and Jenna Kemp on guitar at the Lake Temescal North picnic area for a fun, kid-centered experience that includes songs, Shofar sounding, Torah, and other Rosh Hashanah traditions. Designed for children in grades 1 to 6, and open to all ages.
Bring a blanket or camp chairs to sit on and, if you want, bring your own picnic for Rosh Hashanah lunch following the service. Right after our service ends, Rabbi Dev Noily will lead a family tashlich at the edge of the lake.
Kol Nidre Tot and Family Services - Wednesday, October 1 - Scottish Rite Center
Tickets required for non-members (All Access or Family/Tot only)
Tot Service: 5pm, In-person at Scottish Rite. Room Opens at 4:30pm
Jen Miriam and Alon Altman bring their warm, loving and puppet-filled world to a musical Kol Nidre/Yom Kippur experience for little ones up to age 5 and their grown-ups.
Family Service: 6:15pm, In-person at Scottish Rite. Room Opens at 5:45pm
Join Musical Prayer Leader Ore Ganin-Pinto, Red Karpman and Sonia Brin for a special family experience of Kol Nidre. Enter into the holiness of Yom Kippur with stories and songs on the theme of teshuvah (literally “turning,” but also means “relationship repair”). Are there things we want to say sorry for? Are there ways we want to try again in the new year? Together we’ll explore these questions and others.
Designed for children in grades 1 to 6; everyone is welcome!
Childcare
Childcare (non-licensed) is open to children ages 4-10 for three services only (Erev Rosh Hashanah, Kol Nidre and Yom Kippur Day). Supervised children are also welcome to be in services and there will be select youth focused services as well. Childcare will run from fifteen minutes before the service starts, through to the end of the service. Parents must remain on site while their child is in our care.
Childcare is free for those with all access tickets but please indicate in your registration which services you plan to utilize childcare for and for how many children so we can plan accordingly. You can purchase all-access tickets here.
- Erev Rosh Hashanah: Childcare offered 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
- Kol Nidre: Childcare offered 6:30pm – 9:30 pm
- Yom Kippur: Childcare offered 9:15am – 11:00 am
Yom Kippur Morning Youth Programming
Yom Kippur Morning Youth Programming
10:25 am to 1:30 pm at the Scottish Rite Center, 3rd Floor
Tickets required for nonmembers (All Access).
Childcare offered from 9:15 to 11 am.
Torah Service 10:25 am (plus or minus 5 minutes)
All kids and youth are enthusiastically invited to join in the Torah Service ark opening and Torah Procession on the lower level of the sanctuary (along with Kehilla School teachers and Youth programs staff)! Parents/guardians are welcome to accompany. (The procession is about 20 fun-filled minutes)
Youth Programming 11:00 am – 1:30 pm
After the Torah procession, kids in grades 1-6 are invited to the 3rd Floor for experiential learning about Jacob’s dream ladder, led by Kehilla School Director Kaiya Garcia.
Parents/guardians can drop youth off anytime after 11 on the 3rd floor, and must arrive by 1:30 to pick them up.