The Holy Days at West End Syngagogue

On these pages, we hope to provide you with information about the Jewish Holy Day cycle. We will be adding content throughout the year. You may want to see some samples of Holy Days' d'vrei Torah at WES, and some of our material posted in our WES Library.

For more information about any of the Holy Days, these books, to which the author is indebted, are a good place to start: The Jewish Holy Days by Michael Strassfeld, Seasons of Our Joy by Arthur Waskow, The Jewish Way by Rabbi Irving Greenberg, and Festivals of the Jewish Year by Theodore Gaster.

The following are sample writings about the holidays by West End Synagogue members. Click on a title to read the full text.

Rosh Hashanah
Hanukah
Tu B'Shvat
Tish'a b'Av

  If you'd like more information about the Holy Days at West End Synagogue, or about anything else in our community, we encourage you to fill out a form right here on our web site so that we can get back to you personally with information.