High Holidays 2024
The High Holidays bring the Jewish community together to reflect on the past year and chart our personal and collective course for the year ahead. This season is a time for focus on the timeless themes of gratitude, reflection, forgiveness, and personal growth. Whether you have memorized the High Holiday liturgy or this year will be your first time celebrating, UF Hillel is excited to welcome you.
As we prepare for the High Holidays, we hope you will join the Jewish community at UF to celebrate the New Year. We will be offering a range of ways to mark this season, including Reform services led by Rabbi Jonah Zinn and student song leader Jordan "Schmidty" Schmidt, and Conservatives services led again this year by Rabbi Ben Varon and a team of students.
UF Hillel is pleased to welcome parents, alumni, faculty, staff, community members, and other guests to celebrate the High Holidays with our student community.
HIGH HOLIDAYS 2024
SCHEDULE
ROSH HASHANAH
Wednesday, October 2: Erev Rosh Hashanah
Conservative Service: 6 pm
Reform Service: 6 pm
Dinner: 7 pm
Thursday, October 3: Rosh Hashanah
Conservative Service: 10 am
Reform Service: 11 am
Lunch: 12:30 pm
Brief Afternoon Service + Tashlich: 4 pm
Friday, October 4: Rosh Hashanah 2nd Day
Conservative Morning Service at Congregation Bnai Israel*
*Contact Rachel (rwaldorf@ufhillel.org) to join the group of UF students going together.
YOM KIPPUR
Friday, Oct 11: Erev Yom Kippur
Conservative Kol Nidre Service: 6:30 pm
Reform Kol Nidre Service: 6:30 pm
Saturday, October 12: Yom Kippur
Conservative Morning Service: 10 am
Reform Morning Service: 10:30 am
Communal Neilah Concluding Service: 7 pm
Break the Fast: 7:45 pm
Religious Observance Policy
University of Florida's policy requires faculty to accommodate students who wish to miss class for religious observances. This includes providing a reasonable amount of time to make up the material or activities covered in their absence, including exams. All students need to do is inform their professor they will miss class, no other letter is required. Students who have notified their professors cannot be penalized for that absence. According to the policy, students should notify their professors at the beginning of the term or well in advance of the proposed date for accommodation. Most faculty members are accommodating, however, we occasionally have issues. If any student has an issue, please have them reach out to Rabbi Jonah Zinn at jzinn@ufhillel.org and we will connect them with the appropriate administrators to resolve the issue.
Support the High Holidays at UF Hillel
UF Hillel is pleased to provide all of our High Holiday meals, services, and creative programs, including our High Holiday Sweet New Year boxes FREE OF CHARGE to all students. We seek to ensure every Jewish student can enjoy a festive and meaningful holiday, regardless of their prior observance or ability to pay.
If you are in a position to do so, we invite you to make a donation today to support UF Hillel's High Holiday experience.
Your gift matters!
$36 provides Erev Rosh Hashanah dinner to ONE student.
$360 provides traditional break the fast bagels and lox to TWENTY students.
$1,800 funds HALF of our Rosh Hashanah lunch.
$6,000 is needed to cover the cost of an additional rabbi joining us in Gainesville to enhance our worship experience.
We also welcome monthly donors who support our work year round.
For questions about giving or to give by mail, please contact Jamie Zinn.