Welcome to The Liberal Jewish Synagogue for the High Holy Day Services 5786.
These services are the highlight of our liturgical year, providing time for us to reflect on the past year, on our relationships and what we hold to be significant and meaningful in our lives.
If you are coming to the LJS for the first time, we hope you will find our services uplifting, warm and the community welcoming.
Visitors, including family and friends, are very welcome. If you are visiting London over the High Holy Days, please consider making us your home from spiritual home.
Click here to purchase visitor tickets for our High Holy Days services.
Saturday 13 September
7.00–8.00pm: Panel discussion on repentance, judgement and forgiveness with Dr Stephen Blumenthal, Vivien Rose DBE, and Maria Cantacuzino MBE 8.15pm: Havdalah in the Sanctuary
8.30–9.30pm: Selichot Service in the Sanctuary
Monday 22 September
6.45pm: Evening Service in the Sanctuary
Tuesday 23 September
10.30am Morning Service
The service is signed (British Sign Language) for all those who are D/deaf The service is followed by lunch in the Montefiore Hall. Click here to book your place.
Tiny Tots’ service (0–4 years and parents)
10.30–11.00am Service
11.00-11.30am Activities
Family service (5–13 years and parents)
10.30-11.30am Service
11.30am-12.30pm Activities
LJY-Netzer Rosh Hashanah Discussion (12–18 years)
11.30am–12.30pm Activities
Wednesday 1 October
6.24pm Fast commences
7.15pm Evening Service with Gemma Rosefield (cello) accompanied by Martin Sanders-Hewett (organ) playing Bruch’s Kol Nidre.
Thursday 2 October
10.30am Morning Service
1.15pm Study session, ‘Open the Gates!’ in the Sanctuary with
Rabbi Dr Michael Hilton
2.15pm Musaf (Additional) Service in the Sanctuary, with music for oboe played by Rachel Messiter Study session in the Assembly Hall with
Rabbi Igor Zinkov
4.15pm Minchah (Afternoon) Service
5.15pm Yizkor (Memorial) Service
6.15pm Ne’ilah (Concluding) Service
7.23pm End of fast; tea and honey cake in the Montefiore Hall
Tiny Tots’ service (0–4 years and parents)
10.30–11.00am Service
11.00–11.30am Activities
Family service (5–13 years and parents)
10.30–11.30am Service
11.30am–12.30pm Activities
Yizkor and Ne’ilah Activities Activities (4+)
5.15–7.15pm Activities
Click here for our High Holy Days booklet for full details on this year's services.
Accessibility
We take accessibility very seriously and try to ensure that everyone can join us for the High Holy Days. We will do all we can to help if you have special needs.
This includes those who are unable to drive or use public transport, need a taxi, wheelchair or help when they arrive at the LJS, or have other needs. We will be pleased to provide a free ticket for carers.
We are able to make arrangements for a limited number of Blue Badge holders to park on the synagogue forecourt.
If you are unable to come to the synagogue, you can log on to your computer or tablet to
live-stream the services.
We welcome members of the Jewish Deaf Association and all who are D/deaf or who have some hearing difficulties. We hope you will benefit from the Induction Loops in both the Sanctuary and Montefiore Hall. The text for all services, including the sermons for the High Holy Days, is projected on the walls of the Sanctuary.
Please note that the entire Rosh Hashanah morning service will be signed in person by a British Sign Language interpreter from the new initiative DeafShul.
Please contact us in good time at communitycare@ljs.org or call 020 7286 5181 if you have special requirements and we will do all we can to help you.
The LJS Yom Kippur Appeal 5786/2025
‘Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness …and to break every yoke?’ (Isaiah 58: 5–6)
The words of Third Isaiah remind us that the observance of Yom Kippur is not enough, but that we should also look at what we can do for others.
Each year the LJS asks Members and Friends to support three charities, chosen from many applications: one is a UK Jewish charity, another is UK non-Jewish and the third is an Israeli charity.
Our Yom Kippur Appeal this year supports three charities.
Camden Music Trust (our UK non-Jewish charity) This charity is local to the LJS. It gives opportunities for disadvantaged children to enrich their lives by learning a musical instrument, which improves both their quality of life and their educational futures.
Meketa (the UK Jewish charity) Meketa is based in the UK but works to educate children claiming Jewish descent living in Ethiopia, moving people out of extreme poverty and also saving them from a violent society surrounding them.
The Road to Recovery (our Israeli charity) Our Israeli charity transports Palestinian patients from the West Bank to hospitals in Israel for life-saving treatment. Israeli volunteers use their private vehicles to carry out this mission, continuing to do so despite the ongoing war.
Each year we also give to UJIA (United Jewish Israel Appeal) which runs programmes for Jewish young people to enhance their knowledge and experience of being Jewish. UJIA supports the Youth Movement of Liberal Judaism known as LJY-Netzer.
A short video from each charity will be available on the LJS YouTube channel from Monday 6 October 2025.
To access more details on each charities click here
If you would like to donate online, please click here.
Please ensure that you indicate your donation as YK Appeal 2024 and how you would like it split between the charities.
that you inform the office and bring a valid photo ID.
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