No! Everyone is welcome to join our services and programming, regardless of membership status. If you are not yet a member, we hope that you will consider joining! Click here for more details on Taste of Olam Haba membership.

We strongly encourage registration one week in advance for any event! The registration deadlines are: Rosh Hashanah is September 4, Yom Kippur is September 13, Sukkot is September 18, and Simchat Torah is September 27. Register here.

Taste of Olam Haba High Holiday strives for our programs to be as financially accessible as possible.

When reserving your High Holidays ticket, we ask those who are able to support our programs by making a sliding scale donation. We are a volunteer-driven nonprofit, and your support allows us to continue serving our community and keeping our services open and affordable to all. Here is a suggested pay scale based on income. 

<$40,000 $18

$40,000 $36

$50,000 $54

$60,000 $90

$70,000 $144

$80,000 $180

$90,000 $252

$100,000 $324

$150,000 $594

$200,000+ $828

Your donation helps cover the real costs of welcoming, feeding, supporting, and caring for a community of 50–75 people throughout the High Holiday season. Sample costs include:

• $150 for apples, honey, juice, snacks, and holiday treats

• $200 for community health supplies, including rapid COVID tests, masks, hand sanitizer, and cleaning materials

• $250 for youth and family programming supplies

• $400 for ritual supplies, including candles, havdalah materials, Yizkor candles, Torah service materials, shofar support, and holiday items

• $600 for printing, including song sheets, source sheets, family service materials, Yizkor booklets, signage, schedules, and High Holiday handouts

• $900 for all meals across programs

Every contribution helps us create a High Holiday season rooted in spiritual depth, collective care, accessibility, and radical welcome. Your support allows our volunteer-driven, non-profit Jewish community to keep services open, meaningful, and affordable for all.

Emails with locations and other event details will be sent out to registrants at least one week before each event. If you have not received an email 24 hours before the event, reach out to tasteofolamhaba@gmail.com.

Yes! We will have bound, printed machzors, or High Holy Day prayer books, as well as printed supplements. When livestreaming services, the prayer books will be provided on screen.

Taste of Olam Haba is a volunteer-driven community, and our High Holiday season is made possible by the care, time, and generosity of many hands.

We are looking for volunteers to help with setup and cleanup, greeting and welcoming guests, food preparation and cooking, youth and children’s programming, sukkah building, hospitality, accessibility support, and general event logistics.

We are also inviting people to take on ritual honors throughout the season, including leyning or reading Torah, offering a d’var Torah, candle lighting, sounding shofar, helping lead prayer or song, and supporting ritual moments in other ways.

You can sign up to volunteer for specific services or programs in the registration link.

Please indicate any access needs when you register. For additional information, please email us at tasteofolamhaba@gmail.com so that we can work to meet them. Please reach out by September 1 to ensure we can do our best to meet your needs.

Taste of Olam Haba is committed to creating High Holiday spaces where people can participate meaningfully, safely, and with dignity. Our accomodation practices are rooted in pikuach nefesh, safeguarding life, and in our shared responsibility to care for one another.

We know our community includes people with different health needs, disabilities, risk levels, trauma histories, and access needs. We ask everyone who attends to participate with care, flexibility, and respect for one another’s boundaries and needs.

For High Holidays, we will be taking the following precautions:

• Everyone above b-mitzvah age will take a rapid COVID test before or upon arrival. Rapid tests will be provided by Taste of Olam Haba.

• Masking is highly recommended for adult services and indoor community spaces. Masks will be available on site.

• We ask that attendees stay home if they are experiencing symptoms of illness, including cough, fever, chills, sore throat, congestion, nausea, or other symptoms of COVID, flu, RSV, or another contagious illness.

• We ask that attendees not attend in person if they have recently tested positive for COVID or flu or have had a known COVID or flu exposure.

We will provide hand sanitizer, masks, and other community health supplies on site.

We will support accessibility and community care through clear signage, reserved seating as needed, quieter space when possible, and a culture of consent around touch, hugs, photos, and personal space.

These practices help us keep High Holidays open, accessible, and as safe as possible for the whole community, especially those who are immunocompromised, disabled, medically vulnerable, or caring for loved ones at higher risk.

For High Holidays, we will be using the following safeguarding precautions:

• All registrants are expected to follow our Code of Conduct and it will be posted at all events.

• We will have designated point people available during programs to respond to safety concerns or reports of harm.

• Youth and children’s programming will follow clear supervision practices, including appropriate adult presence, visibility, and boundaries between adults and minors.

• We ask all adults to avoid being alone one-on-one with a child or youth who is not in their care, unless there is a clear safety or emergency need.

• We have prepared risk assessments and emergency response plans for all High Holiday services, including de-escalation.

• As a precaution, we do not publically share any addresses of services to the public. We ask all registrants to not share the location of programs.

• No one should be pressured to participate in any ritual, activity, conversation, photo, or form of physical contact.

• We will take concerns seriously and respond as promptly and carefully as possible. This may include checking in with impacted people, interrupting harmful behavior, asking someone to change their behavior, limiting someone’s participation, or removing someone from a space if needed.