Come spend the High Holidays with the New Synagogue Project! Sign up here to join us for a journey of reflection and radical imagination.

Zoom links for online events, and locations for in-person events, will be emailed to you based on the events you register for. This information, including additional details, will be sent to you closer to the event dates.

After completing the form, you will receive an email with a copy of your responses, which will include the specific events for which you are registered. If you have any questions about registration, please contact highholidays@newsynagogueproject.org.

For more details about our High Holiday offerings, visit the High Holidays page on our website.

We want programming to be available to as many congregants as possible, while maintaining our commitment to pikuach nefesh, safeguarding life, as a central value: “We hold that to save one member of our community is to save and preserve the entire community of NSP and beyond.” In pursuit of keeping each other as safe as possible, attendees to NSP in-person programming must adhere to the following safety guidelines.

1. All attendees of NSP in-person events must be fully vaccinated. Fully vaccinated means two shots plus a booster for the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines and one shot plus booster for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Children under 6 months old are exempted from the vaccine requirement, and children under 5 years old are exempted from the booster requirement. If you have any questions regarding this policy, vaccine eligibility, or should you require a medical exemption, please contact Rabbi Yosef: rabbi@newsynagogueproject.org.

2. Masking is required for all indoor meetings and the use of indoor spaces (e.g. bathrooms) at outdoor events. Attendees over 2 years old must wear a mask. High-quality masks are strongly recommended, such as N95 or KN95 masks without a vent. Extra high-quality masks will be provided at NSP events. Unacceptable face coverings include gaiters, bandanas, or similar. Masks must cover the nose and mouth entirely and be on for the duration of the event (with exceptions for food and drink, if outdoors). Service leaders and speakers may unmask while leading if they receive a negative Covid test and maintain more than 6ft of distance.

3. Rapid testing is required for all indoor meetings for attendees over 2 years old. Attendees are asked to take a rapid test shortly before attending indoor meetings and to only attend if their test result is negative. Free rapid tests are available at the DC public libraries, and extra tests will be provided at NSP events.

 4. As of February 2022, masking at outdoor NSP events is no longer required and is optional for all participants.

5. Members may not attend if they currently have any common symptoms of Covid-19, including cough, sneezing, fever, chills, or nausea. Members may not attend if they are waiting on the result of a Covid-19 test due to possible or confirmed exposure to Covid-19 or have been exposed to someone with Covid-19 in the last 14 days.

 6. Registration will be capped at 75% of the venue's capacity. Seating will be set up to allow for distancing. In regards to distancing, please be mindful that not everyone has the same risk tolerance, and some attendees will likely want to remain socially distanced. Please ask before hugging or standing in close proximity to other attendees and when possible, maintain distance from others who are not in your pod.

CART captioning will be provided for all online High Holiday events.

ASL interpretation will be provided for all adult services on Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur, including Kol Nidre, Ne'ilah, and the Tashlich ritual.

ASL is available upon request for children's services. 
You will be able to request ASL for those events below. Please submit ASL requests for Children's Services by 9/16, if possible.

For in-person services, we will use bound, printed machzors or prayer books, as well as a printed supplement. All non-English text will be fully transliterated and translated. Page magnifiers will be available, as well as digital versions of the texts for e-readers.

For Zoom services, a complete machzor/prayer book will be linked in the chat, along with a pdf supplement.

If you need an alternative way of accessing text or prayers, let us know in the space provided below, or email access@newsynagogueproject.org.

All indoor services will be held in a building that is fully wheelchair accessible. Outdoor events will be hosted at sites that have wheelchair-accessible restrooms, and are a short distance from paved parking areas.