High Holy Days Resource List 2025 | 5786

Events

September 14

• Creating with the Moon: Rosh Chodesh Tishrei with K’Keshira haLev Fife, Jewish Studio Project

September 18

• Sweet New Year, Dulce Cultura (Denver), Jewtina y Co.

September 22

• Erev Rosh Hashanah with rabbi koach baruch frazier and K’Shoshana Akua Brown (Washington D.C.)
• Kaleidoscope Erev Rosh Hashanah Dinner and Kid’s Program, New Synagogue Project (Washington D.C.)

September 23

• Sweet Return, Dulce Cultura: A Rosh Hashanah & Latin Heritage Month Celebration (Los Angeles), Jewtina y Co.
• Rosh Hashanah Day 1 and Tashlich with rabbi koach baruch frazier and K’Shoshana Akua Brown (Washington D.C.)

September 27

• Kaleidoscope & Queer Space Families Picnic, New Synagogue Project (Washington D.C.)

September 28

• If Only I Trusted: Psalm 27, The Poem of Uncertain Belief with Rabbi Sass Brown, Ammud

September 30

• QJOC Kinship: A Virtual Gathering for LGBTQ+ Jews of Color, Keshet

October 1

• Yom Kippur Kol Nidre with rabbi koach baruch frazier and K’Shoshana Akua Brown (Washington D.C.)

October 2

• Yom Kippur Neila & Break Fast with rabbi koach baruch frazier and K’Shoshana Akua Brown (Washington D.C.)

October 7

• JOC Joy in the Sukkah with Rabbi Bobbie Rosenberg (Denver), Ammud

October 8

• Celebrate Sukkot for Jews of Color and their Families, Edlavich DCJCC and Ammud

October 12

• JOC Joy in the Sukkah with Rav Tiferet Berenbaum (Boston), Ammud

Additional events:

• High Holiday Parasha Study, Ammud: The Jews of Color Torah Academy
  • September 21 with Rabbi Heather
  • September 29 with Rabbi Heather
  • September 30 with Rabbi Sass
  • October 5 with Rabbi Heather
  • October 8 with Rabbi Sass
  • October 12 with Rabbi Heather
  • October 15 with Rabbi Sass

Seder and Ceremony Guides

Jewtina y Co.’s Rosh Hashanah Seder: Jewtina Edition / El Seder de Rosh Hashaná: Edición Jewtina 

In Generational Gratitude for Jewish Women of Color – Mikveh immersion ceremony

Jewtina y Co.’s Yom Kippur Guide / Guía de Yom Kipur

Jewtina y Co.’s Sukkot Guide / Guía de Sucot

Jewtina y Co.’s Simchat Torah/ Simjat Torá

Readings and More

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, 2024

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 

If you have other events or resources centering Jews of Color for the High Holy Days, please submit them using this form.