2020 High Holidays

Want to attend an online Yom Kippur service? Here are some options, based on your interests.

The options can be overwhelming. But we’ve collected a non-exhaustive list of High Holidays offerings, arranged by the kind of experience you want.

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6 months into pandemic, Jews prepare for a High Holiday season of rupture and resilience

Out: long sermons, packed sanctuaries, choirs. In: masked shofars, special deliveries, anxiety about the future.

etrog

Trump White House brokers the (etrog) deal of the century

A top administration envoy undertook some delicate diplomacy to ensure thousands of American Jews could perform a cherished holiday ritual.

Culture

A pandemic judgment day: Yom Kippur arrives with COVID-19 cases on the rise

Global

A year after the Halle terror attack, Jews who were there are still looking for answers

Culture

Argentine city holds a car show-inspired drive-in Rosh Hashanah service

United States

Shortened shofar blasts and last-minute sermon tweaks: How Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death changed Rosh Hashanah services

Culture

A tale of two High Holidays: Why Orthodox Jews are going to synagogue while everyone else is on Zoom

United States

How 1 Zoom employee saved High Holidays streaming for 300 synagogues, including his own

Culture

The pandemic interrupted Alex Edelman’s solo show. Now the comedian is helping rabbis nail the timing on their High Holidays services.

Israeli police officer speaking to a haredi student in Bnei Brak, Israel on April 2, 2020. (Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)

Israel

Israel goes into 2nd lockdown to stop record spread of coronavirus

Hungarian Jews baking challah breads in front of the Obuda Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary on Oct. 7, 2019. (Courtesy of EMIH)

Global

Hungarian Jews to celebrate Rosh Hashanah on a boat on the Danube amid rising COVID infections

Health

Eyeing Rosh Hashanah as a virus tipping point, 26 Jewish schools unite to exhort families to play it safe

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