Please join us as we greet the year 5786 with heartfelt prayer, transcendent music and inspirational insights from our beloved Rabbi Naomi Levy and the Nashuva Band.
If you’ve been moved by Nashuva Shabbat, Nashuva’s soulful High Holy Days will take you even deeper and boost you even higher! Get ready to be transformed!
In this very challenging year, we turn to community to help us reach for light, hope, inspiration and a healing place. Join us and be lifted, comforted and inspired by Nashuva’s beautiful music and comforting embrace. Invite your friends, family and neighbors to celebrate the Jewish New Year with Nashuva. But we need you to reserve and donate now.
This year, we are proud to announce that Nashuva is offering a free children’s program full of fun, creative arts and crafts, storytelling, song and music! There is no charge but registration is required.
ROSH HASHANAH SERVICES:
- Erev Rosh Hashanah, Monday Evening, September 22nd
at Colorado Center Park in Santa Monica. Service begins at 6:00 pm, followed by a Festive Rosh Hashanah Seder and Meal (vegetarian buffet dinner). - Rosh Hashanah Day 1, Tuesday Morning, September 23rd
The Skirball Center, Herscher Hall. Service begins at 9:30 am. - Rosh Hashanah Day 2, Wednesday Afternoon, September 24nd at Venice Beach. Drum Circle & Torah reading begins at 5:00 pm, Tashlich follows.
YOM KIPPUR SERVICES:
- Kol Nidre, Wednesday Evening, October 1st at The Skirball Center, Herscher Hall. Service begins at 6:00 pm.
- Yom Kippur, Thursday Morning, October 2nd
The Skirball Center, Herscher Hall. Service begins at 9:30 am. - Healing Sound Bath at 4:30 pm at Colorado Center Park in Santa Monica
- Ne’ilah and Havdalah, Thursday Evening, October 2nd
Colorado Center Park in Santa Monica Services begin at 5:45 pm, followed by Break Fast.
At Nashuva, we have always prided ourselves on our unique foundation and the fact that we never charge admission for any of our services. All are welcome – always! To maintain our open, embracing circle, we rely on your help and ask you to open your heart and donate to the best of your ability.
The suggested minimum donation for attendance at the High Holy Day services is $350 – $750 per person. Please give so that we can maintain our unique and welcoming paradigm. Nashuva relies on High Holy Day donations to support year round programs. Please give from your heart as your are able. No one will be turned away.
If you’ve been moved by Nashuva on Shabbat, the High Holy Days with Nashuva will take you deeper and higher. Please join us as we welcome the Jewish New Year!
And, take a moment . . . think of as many people as you know who have never had such a joyful and inspiring High Holy Days and invite them to experience the High Holy Days with Nashuva!
Please register even if you are unable to attend in person and plan to join us online via LiveStream. Your registration allows us to provide you with important links for online attendance and for special content.
LIVESTREAM LINKS (See schedule of services above)
All services will be LiveStreamed
Even if you are joining us via LiveStream, please register and donate. Your registration allows us to provide you with important links for online attendance and for special content.
Click Here for links to LiveStreams & Prayer Books
Click Here for all the Drum Circle and Tashlich details.
LOOKING FOR SPONSORS:
As you know, all of Nashuva’s services are open to all and we never charge membership fees or for tickets to attend our High Holy Days services. We also offer LiveStreaming of all of our services which connect people who are home-bound, people in nursing homes, hospital beds, people in hospice, and Jews who are looking for a way to reconnect to our traditions and faith. We are so proud of this!
WE ARE SEEKING SPONSORS TO FUND FOUR INSPIRING AND IMPORTANT HIGH HOLY DAYS EVENTS:
- Free and open Erev Rosh Hashanah Festive Seder and Meal
- LiveStream of all Services seen around the globe
- Free and open Children’s Program
- Free and open Break Fast
PLEASE CLICK HERE or EMAIL US AT [email protected] TO LET US KNOW WE CAN COUNT ON YOUR SUPPORT.
This is a great mitzvah with a huge impact for lifting spirits and for reviving souls.
Please email us and support this amazing outreach service.
Nashuva is once again offering a Children’s Program at no charge. It will include creative arts and crafts, storytelling, music and song! Rabbi Levy has created a program ensuring that your children will get a Jewish education all the while having lots of fun! The program is available during services (Rosh Hashanah Day 1, Kol Nidre and Yom Kippur morning) held in our indoor location (Herscher Hall at Skirball Center). When you register your child for any of the indoor services, we will automatically reserve a space for your child at our soulful children’s program. There is no charge but registration is required and we ask that you provide your child’s full name and age where requested.
Our outdoor park locations are very welcoming and ideal for children and families. Children love coming to Nashuva outdoors! They love dancing to the music and meeting their friends!
Families often lay out their blankets and enjoy the service together, making for a joyous and deeply meaningful experience.
We hope you’ll come and invite your friends!
Dress is casual for all Nashuva services, but we encourage you to come in white in honor of the Holy Days. Please note that the evening services of Erev Rosh Hashana and Ne’ilah, Havdalah and Break Fast, will be held outside at Colorado Center Park and Rosh Hashanah Day 2 will be held on the beach, but please bring a sweater because it might get chilly.
If you own a Tallit (prayer shawl), please bring it to morning services and to all Yom Kippur services. If you do not own a tallit, buy yourself a gift this year and see how wonderful it feels to be sheltered beneath its wings.
We know Yom Kippur is a fast day, but we don’t want anyone to feel sick, so if you think you might need it, please bring water and whatever supplies you might need to stay healthy.
We are providing chairs (except at the beach), but feel free to bring a blanket if you’d like to sit on the grass at _______ Park (although those services are at night).
SOCIAL ACTION – Volunteer:
We are looking for volunteers to help with the Holy Days!
The best way to make new connections and friends is to roll up your sleeves and get involved. It is also the best way to improve your mood and add meaning to your life. So please CLICK HERE to sign up to help.
PARKING INFORMATION FOR HIGH HOLY DAY SERVICES
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Colorado Center Park
There is plenty of metered street parking within walking distance of the park. Parking meters may be free after 6:00 pm on Broadway and Park Drive. Please be sure to check street signs before parking and feed your meter as necessary. DMV, CVS and Helen’s Cycle also provide parking.
**Hourly parking is available in the underground lot at Colorado Center Park (the venue) with a weekday $37 maximum per car.**
SKIRBALL CENTER PARKING:
Parking is available at no charge in the Skirball’s North Parking garage, located underground at the north end of the Skirball’s main driveway, approximately 150 yards north of our Main Entrance. Parking is also available in the East Parking garage, located across Sepulveda Blvd.
There are also a limited number of designated accessible parking spaces in each lot. The North Parking garage is closer to some of our event spaces. There is also a drop-off location in front of the North Parking entrance.
Electric vehicle charging stations are located on L1 in the North Parking garage and P3 in the East Parking garage. There is a four-hour time limit for use of these stations, which are reserved for vehicles in the process of charging only. Charging fees apply. For the safety of you and other visitors, please wrap the cord around the base.
The height clearance for all parking garages is 8′ 2″ at each entrance. In the North Parking garage, lower parking levels (L1 and L2) can be as low as 7′.
Please note: The Skirball garages are for Skirball visitors only. Street parking on surrounding streets, including Mulholland Drive, is strictly prohibited.
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TASHLICH PARKING AT VENICE BEACH:
There is a County parking lot immediately adjacent to our Tashlich service. There are also several private lots nearby. Parking fees will apply.
Although the beach lot is available for parking, Uber/Lyft, bike or walking is also recommended.
Nashuva @ the Skirball (Herscher Hall)
Once again, we will be holding three of our services in Herscher Hall at the Skirball Cultural Center.
Rosh Hashanah Day 1 (morning), Kol Nidre and Yom Kippur (day service) will all be held in the beautiful, inspirational, glass hall, nestled in nature.
Erev Rosh Hashanah Festive Seder Meal at Colorado Center Park
We invite you to join us again for Nashuva’s Rosh Hashanah Seder! On Rosh Hashanah Eve (Monday night, September 22nd), we will have a service (begins at 6:00 pm) combined with the ancient ceremony of a Rosh Hashanah Festive Seder Meal, a Sephardic tradition going back for two thousand years. The theme of the Rosh Hashanah Seder is the welcoming of a new year of blessings. We will all partake in the eating of a meal full of symbolic foods for health, protection and blessings. It will certainly be a holy night to remember.
Please note that there is no separate charge for the meal. If you would like to support our first Rosh Hashanah Festive Seder, we welcome your donation. We hope that you will join us!
Join us at Nashuva for High Holy Days like no other! We all need spiritual uplift and Nashuva will be here for you to raise you higher.
But we need you to reserve and donate now!
Rosh Hashanah Day 1 – Herscher Hall at Skirball Cultural Center
- Morning Service – 9:30 am
Meditative Painted Stones created just for you will be offered to all who attend the Rosh Hashanah Day 1 morning service. Choose from a wide array of hand-painted, one-of-a-kind Touch Stones with spiritual messages that support growth, love and healing.
Rosh Hashanah Day 2 at Venice Beach.
Drum Circle and Torah reading begins at 5:00 pm followed by Tashlich.
For more information, click here.
Kol Nidre – Herscher Hall at Skirball Cultural Center
Join us for Kol Nidre prayers in Herscher Hall at Skirball Cultural Center. We start at 6:00 pm to light candles and chant the Kol Nidre prayer. This is a Kol Nidre service like you have never experienced – soulful, uplifting and inspiring.
Yom Kippur – Herscher Hall at Skirball Cultural Center
- Yom Kippur morning service begins at 9:30 am.
Ne’ilah, Havdalah & Break Fast at Colorado Center Park
On Yom Kippur afternoon, we are once again having our Healing Sound Bath. So many in our community found it to be transformative; we invite you to join us this year, at 4:30 pm, prior to Ne’ilah, which begins at 5:45, followed by Havdalah. No prior experience needed for this soulful experience in nature. Please bring a blanket.
Please join with and stay for our Break Fast following Havdalah.
Nashuva invites you to be our guest, open to all!
Inspiring prayer, delicious food, joyful music, inviting community!
Donations
We welcome everyone but we invite you to support Nashuva at the High Holy Days by making a donation to the best of your ability when you reserve.
We suggest a voluntary minimum donation of $350 – $750 per person. If possible, we hope you will consider a higher amount to show your support and commitment to Nashuva and to help us welcome everyone who wants to attend.
Please understand that we are trying to ensure that Nashuva remains a special community and that we continue to offer a unique setting for spiritual awakening. We will never turn anyone away who cannot afford the suggested $350 donation (tax deductible as allowed by law) – all are welcome, always! We encourage you to donate to the best of your ability. We do not ever require membership fees or charge for tickets but we do require everyone to register!
CLICK HERE TO RESERVE AND DONATE NOW.