Eidot Chemdata’s 5787 High Holiday Season Lunch & Learn
Join Eidot Chemdata for a virtual Lunch & Learn exploring the Jewish High Holidays Season—from Rosh Hashanah through Simchat Torah. Learn about their meaning, traditions, and themes of reflection, renewal, and community, with plenty of opportunity for questions and conversation.
Kesher Pittsburgh High Holiday Services
Kesher Pittsburgh will be hosting a combined first day Rosh Hashanah / Tashlich service, as well as their usual candlelit Kol Nidre. Everything will be soulful and song-filled, reflective and connective. If you are in Pittsburgh, you are invited to join!
Ammud Denver’s Tashlich at Lollipop Lake
Denver Ambassador, Rabbi Baruch Rosenberg, will lead a Tashlich ceremony centered on the experiences and perspectives of Jews of Color, with meaningful melodies and reflections.
Eidot Chemdata’s New Year, New Vision! 5787 Rosh Hashanah Vision Board Party for Teens
Join jOEN & jOANA to celebrate Rosh Hashanah with creativity, community, and a little soul-searching! Join us for a fun, hands-on vision board party where we’ll dream about the year ahead, explore what matters to us, and create a visual reminder of what we want to accomplish in 5787!
Jewitna y Co. and the LUNAR Collective’s Unrolled NYC: Layered Identities, Global Flavors
Join this panel discussion on cultural innovation with New York’s finest Latin-Jewish and Asian-Jewish chefs, followed by a hands-on baking workshop where participants make two High Holiday rugelach recipes with a Latin-Jewish-Asian twist.
Jews of Color Initiative’s Lessons from the Lulav: Harvesting Adaptive Leadership Skills
What can a lulav teach us about leadership? Join the LA JoC ProNet on September 23 for an evening of practical learning, Jewish wisdom, and connection. Together with JoCI’s Arya Marvazy and Jordan Daniels, we’ll explore what the lulav’s combination of strength and flexibility can teach us about leading through change, staying curious, and navigating uncertainty.
Keshet’s Queering The Ushpizin – Sacred Guests, Sacred Space
Virtual Sukkot creative workshop centering JOCs, queerness, ancestry, and community.
Temple Emanuel and Ammud’s JOC Joy in the Sukkah
Sukkot is Zeman Simchateinu – the Time for Our Joy! For our second year in a row, join Ammud Ambassador Rabbi Baruch Rosenberg for a ritual focusing on the joy of connecting with our JOC spiritual ancestors. Using traditional words of invitation, we’ll share the spiritual, ancestral, and inspirational guests we’d love to have a meal with, and feel their presence in the Sukkah. This event is open to JoC and their loved ones.
Sign up for Ammud’s asynchronous study from Selichot texts to help you prepare for the High Holidays. Open to JoC and Ally Circle Members.
Jewtina y Co.’s Rosh HaShanah Guide and Yom Kippur Trilingual Guide
In Generational Gratitude for Jewish Women of Color – Mikveh immersion ceremony
Jewtina y Co.’s Sukkot Guide / Guía de Sucot
Jewtina y Co.’s Simchat Torah/ Simjat Torá
High Holiday Safety for LGBTQ+ Jews of Color with Joshua Maxey, Keshet
Elul is Calling, by Rabbi Kelly Whitehead, 2025
Elul Preparations for a New Year, Jews of Color Sanctuary, 2024
Ammud’s Rosh Hashanah Learning Meditation Guide, 2026
Mixed Multitudes post on Synagogue Security: We All Want to Feel Safe During the High Holidays
Prayer for People, Peace and Planet, 5784, by Keshira ha Lev Fife
Keshet’s JOC Program Manager Sage Cassel-Rosenberg’s video, You belong in the Jewish community. Intolerance Doesn’t.
Rabbi Sandra Lawson’s Ten Days of Awe(Some), 5784 / 2023 : A High Holiday Playlist
For Black Jews, Policing Synagogues will Never be the Solution, 2022
Keshet Conversations: High Holiday Safety for LGBTQ+ Jews of Color with Joshua Maxey
Keshet’s Cultivating a Culture of Belonging: Guidance for Synagogue Greeters
Why I’m no longer avoiding synagogues as a Black Jew for the High Holidays, 2022
Sukkot, Justice and the AHUY Model, 2022
How to Make our Racial Equity Commitments Endure, by Dora Chen, T’ruah (2021)
Black, Jewish and Avoiding the Synagogue on the High Holy Days, September 2017
Being Black and Jewish during the High Holidays, September 2017
My High Holiday Prayer: Stop Exploiting Jews of Color, September 2018
During the Jewish High Holidays, there’s a growing awareness that not all U.S. Jews are white, September 2019
Jews of Color: Our Blind Spot, Rosh Hashanah September 2017
It’s Time for the Jewish Community to do Teshuva for its Treatment of Jews of Color, October 2019
Compilation of resources and articles about Rosh Hashanah and diverse Jews from Be’Chol Lashon
Ethiopian, Yemeni or Ashkenazi: Traditions Behind Rosh Hashanah Breads, September 2019
Ethiopian Rosh Hashanah Blends Unique Customs, September 2017
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