Friends -
Children of all ages are welcome at East Midwood Jewish Center for the High Holy Days.
Infants and young children up to age 5 will be in the Children's Room on the third floor. The program will be led by Joanne Riel, a music educator and early childhood specialist. It will feature storytelling and songs about the holiday.
Kids between the ages of 6 to 12 will meet in the Dr. Fersko Room on the third floor. Audrey Korelstein, EMJC's director of youth and family education, will guide kids through a learning program that explores the themes of Rosh Hashanah. The program will be in English. By popular demand, kids will again perform a reading of a holiday play.
These programs will each start at 10:30 on each of the three holy days, and end about noon with challah, apples, and honey.
Teens and young adults age 13-21 will meet in the Beit Hamidrash on the main floor at 10:00 a.m. on each Holy Day. EMJC congregant, Jacob Honigman will oversee a collaborative service in Hebrew and English supported by the young people's participation.
No tickets are required for the young person's services.
Tickets are required for the congregational service in the main sanctuary.
In addition to our exceptional clergy, this year we boast a young, assistant cantor, who will be leading part of the early service on all three holy days in the main sanctuary.
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, at 15 years old, has already sung with some of the world’s great orchestras and performers.
Ari, as his friends call him, is a born and bred Brooklynite, an avid fan of the Yankees, and a junior at LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan, where in concerts he sings everything from popular music to Mozart.
With the Brooklyn Youth Chorus’ concert division, he has sung classical music and opera with the New York and Boston Philharmonics, jazz with Barbara Cook at Carnegie Hall, and pop, backing up Elton John in front of tens of thousands of fans at Madison Square Garden for the superstar’s 60th birthday concert.
Ari loves singing Jewish music, is an active member of HaZamir: The International Jewish High School Choir, has sung on the High Holy Days at the Park Slope Jewish Center, and in concert at the invitation of Maestro Mati Lazar, singing the major solo in Leonard Bernstein’s “Chichester Psalms,” among other pieces.
We trust that you and your family will come early enough to hear Ari, and will thoroughly enjoy these very spiritual sounds. Services on this Saturday, Rosh Hashanah morning start at 8 am.