The High Holidays are right around the corner, and this year Metro Chicago Hillel and Base have amazing offerings! Click on the links below to view our offerings and register for services and meals. Advanced registration is required to attend our HHD programming. Holiday services will be led by our fabulous rabbis and are offered on campus, at Metro Chicago Hillel, at our Base locations, as well as around Chicago! The services will feature a mix of traditional prayers, singing, readings and learnings. Our programming is meant to help us connect, honor, reflect, and set our intentions for the year in a way that feels most authentic to ourselves. Email info@metrochicagohillel.org if you have any general questions about our HHD 2026 programming. Please note that, with the exception of our Rosh Hashanah service at DePaul, our HHD programs are restricted to our young adult and student communities. If you are looking for HHD offerings, please visit chitribe.org/holiday-guide for other programs around Chicagoland.
Programming is open to both students and young adults unless otherwise specified. Unless otherwise indicated, online registration for Rosh Hashanah will close at 4pm on Thursday, September 10 and online registration for Yom Kippur will close at 4pm on Thursday, September 17. If you missed the online registration deadline but would like to see if space is still available, please email info@metrochicagohillel.org.
Pre-High Holidays
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one of the major features of the prayers of Selichot and Yom Kippur is the vidui (confession). As we enter into the period of teshuva (repentance), this can bring up a variety of emotional responses and questions about how we relate to shame and regret as penitents before G-d. How do we confess our sins without becoming paralyzed by our own mistakes and wrongdoing? How can we be honest with ourselves and G-d while moving through this time of teshuva? This learning session, led by Lizzie Janssen, will explore different outlooks on the vidui and our place in it through the thought of Rav Shagar (Rabbi Shimon Gershon Rosenberg).
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Join us for an evening of soul-stirring song to prepare for Rosh HaShanah! We're proud to feature community members Ellie Spitz on drum and Josh Hare on Guitar. The set list is full of traditional melodies typical to the season, as well as Americana tunes with themes of repentance, forgiveness, change, and growth. We'll have ample fall-themed snacks and beverages as usual!
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During the month leading up to Rosh Hashanah, there is an ancient tradition to add an additional, nighttime or early-morning, prayer service to the rhythm of Jewish prayer, called Selichot. These prayers focus on reminding God of God's essentially merciful nature, and begging for Divine help in our work of improving ourselves and the world.
Join us for song-filled Selichot, using a special liturgy which combines elements of the traditional Ashkenazi (European) and Mizrahi (North African) slichot. We hope you'll join us to pour our hearts out for a better new year!
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Rosh Hashanah
Erev Rosh Hashanah: Friday, September 11, 2026
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Join Rav Jonathan and Hannah for a traditional, home-cooked Rosh Hashanah dinner and welcome in 5787!
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The High Holidays are right around the corner, and the Luba and Bernard Friedman Base Loop (in Fulton Market) is pleased to welcome Chicago area students for Erev Rosh Hashanah dinner on Friday, September 11 at 7:30 pm. Please complete the form below if you would like to attend.
Each attendee must submit their own unique registration. If you are registering for more than one person, please click the "submit another response" button after you complete the form.
You'll receive an email with the relevant addresses for specific locations prior to the holidays.
Please reach out to RavEzra@metrochicagohillel.org if you have any questions!
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Join Base Logan Square for Erev Rosh Hashanah dinner. Come hang out and celebrate the new year over a delicious meal! Address and details provided the day before the program. Base Logan Square is proudly a part of Silverstein Base Chicago.
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Rosh Hashanah I: Saturday, September 12, 2026
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Join Rav Jonathan and Hannah, alongside prayer and song leader Joey Becker for spirited and songful davening (prayer) at their home. We will use the traditional Rosh HaShanah liturgy to welcome in the New Year! Afterwards, join us for a casual lunch.
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Silverstein Base Chicago will never turn away participants due to inability to pay. If you are a young adult and payment would be a hardship, please reach out to Rav Jonathan to be added to the registration list.
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The High Holidays (HHD) are right around the corner, and for the fifth time, part of the Metro Chicago Hillel offerings will include a Reform service on the morning of Rosh Hashanah (day 1), hosted by DePaul University and DePaul Jewish Life!
Whether this is your first HHD season away from home or you’ve come to this service before, there’s a place for you to join us. Led by Rabbi Nicole and Maren, this service incorporates traditional prayers and melodies, interpretive readings, interactive text study, and explanations of the service as we move along to create a holiday experience that is accessible for everyone, engaging, and meaningful.There is no charge for students, faculty or staff. Tickets for community members are $50. Click here to register.
DePaul Jewish Life is providing a community lunch after the service. The link to register for this free lunch will be shared when it becomes available.
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Calling all College Students! Join us for a short and sweet Rosh Hashanah service, which will mix traditional liturgy and singing with opportunities for reflection as we begin the new Jewish and academic years. Then we'll gather for a festive dinner to celebrate Rosh Hashanah with friends new and old from campuses across Chicago :)
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Join Base Logan Square and YLD for Second Night Rosh Hashanah dinner! Celebrate Rosh Hashanah with us over a festive and delicious meal. All are welcome. Address and details provided Friday before the program. Base Logan Square is proudly a part of Silverstein Base Chicago.
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Rosh Hashanah II: Sunday, September 13, 2026
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Come together for an afternoon of mindful song to help us cast off all that no longer serves us from 5786. Following communal singing we will walk together to Foster Beach for Tashlich.
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2:30pm-3:30pm communal singing at Base ANVL
3:45pm Tashlich at Foster Beach.
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Join us for Rosh Hashanah Lunch and shofar blowing at our home, and then later for a walk to Humboldt Park for Tashlich. Celebrate the last day of Rosh Hashanah with us over a meal, and learn a little bit about the shofar and experience the sound of the shofar. After that, we will talk together at Humboldt Park for Tashlich. All are welcome! Come for Lunch and Shofar and for Tashich, or just come for Lunch or Tashlich if you prefer. Address and details provided Friday before the program. Base Logan Square is proudly a part of Silverstein Base Chicago.
12:00PM for Lunch and Shofar
3:00PM for Walk to Humboldt Park for Tashlich
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Yemei Teshuvah
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Join Repair the World Chicago and Base Logan Square on Wednesday, September 26th from 7:30-9:00PM at Base Logan Square for a special Sack Suppers during the Yemei Teshuvah, the Days of Repentance between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Before packing vegetarian sack meals for The Night Ministry, we will reflect the teshuvah process by learning a few texts over dinner. Help us act on the value of kavod ha’bryiot, the preciousness of each human, as we support our local service partner in meeting the immediate needs of the unhoused community. Details and address provided the day before the program. Base Logan Square is proudly a part of Silverstein Base Chicago.
Date: 9/16
Time: 7:30PM
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Join us for dinner on Shabbat Shuvah, the Shabbat between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Celebrate this special Shabbat together over a delicious meal. All are welcome! Address and details provided the day before the program. Base Logan Square is proudly a part of Silverstein Base Chicago.
Time: 9/18
Date: 7:30PM
Yom Kippur
Erev Yom Kippur: Sunday, September 20, 2026
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Calling all College Students! Join us for a casual, nourishing meal to get you ready for the fast, followed by beautiful Kol Nidrei services. The service will be a mix of traditional liturgy, singing, and opportunities for reflection. We hope you'll join us!
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Join Rav Jonathan and Hannah for the soul-stirring beginning of Yom Kippur. This service will combine contemplative practices with a songful recitation of the traditional liturgy.
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Silverstein Base Chicago will never turn away participants due to inability to pay. If you are a young adult and payment would be a hardship, please reach out to Rav Jonathan to be added to the registration list.
Yom Kippur: Monday, September 21, 2026
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Elevate your neshama (soul) with Rav Jonathan and Hannah, prayer and song leaders Joey Becker and Emily Feder this Yom Kippur. This service will combine contemplative practices with a songful recitation of the traditional liturgy.
Silverstein Base Chicago will never turn anyone away based on financial ability. If payment would be a hardship, please reach out to Rav Jonathan to be added to the registration list.
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The High Holidays (HHD) are right around the corner, and for the last four years, part of the Metro Chicago Hillel offerings have included a Reform service on Yom Kippur morning.
Whether this is your first HHD season away from home or you've been coming to this service for the past two years, there's a place for you to join us. Led by Rabbi Nicole and Maren, this service incorporates traditional prayers and melodies, interpretive readings, Torah, and explanations of the service to create a holiday experience that is accessible for everyone, engaging, and meaningful.
Fill out this form to register to join us this year. If you are registering for additional attendees, please include their names and contact information at the end of the form.
Services will be held at 10am on Monday, September 21, 2026, at 858 W. Wrightwood Ave. We'll be in the backyard weather permitting, otherwise we'll move inside!
Please reach out to rabbinicole@metrochicagohillel.org if you have any questions! Registration will close September 18, 2026.
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Join Rav Jonathan, Hannah and song and prayer leader Joey Becker for the dramatic and exuberant end of Yom Kippur! This service will combine contemplative practices with a songful recitation of the traditional liturgy.
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Silverstein Base Chicago will never turn away participants due to inability to pay. If you are a young adult and payment would be a hardship, please reach out to Rav Jonathan to be added to the registration list.
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The High Holidays are right around the corner, and the Luba and Bernard Friedman Base Loop is pleased to welcome you to our Yom Kippur Neilah Learning Experience and Break Fast on Monday, September 21st at 6:30 PM. Please complete the form below if you would like to attend.
Each attendee must submit their own unique registration. If you are registering for more than one person, please click the "submit another response" button after you complete the form.
You'll receive an email with the relevant addresses for specific locations to the holidays.
Please reach out to RavEzra@metrochicagohillel.org if you have any questions! Click here to register.
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Join Base Logan Square for an alternative Neilah service and Break Fast! For Neilah, we will do some learning together exploring some of the main themes of this powerful closing moment of Yom Kippur and recite together a small selection of the Neilah liturgy. We will create a space for reflection during the waning moments of Yom Kippur, and then we will break the fast together. Come for Neilah and Break Fast, or just come for Break Fast if you prefer. Address and details provided Friday before the program. Base Logan Square is proudly a part of Silverstein Base Chicago.
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6:00PM for Alternative Neilah
7:31PM for Break Fast
Sukkot through Simhat Torah
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Help us build our Sukkah and decorate it! Once we've set up our Sukkah, we'll have pizza and drinks while we hang decorations to beautify our Sukkah. All are welcome! Address and details provided the day before the program. Base Logan Square is proudly a part of Silverstein Base Chicago.
Date: 9/23
Time: 6:30PM
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Welcome Sukkot with us over a home-cooked meal in our Sukkah. Oh, and I'm sure there will be plenty of delicious Fall-forward dishes :) All are welcome. Address and details provided the day before the program. Base Logan Square is proudly a part of Silverstein Base Chicago.
Date: 9/25
Time: 7:30PM
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Join us in the Sukkah for a delicious and festive meal featuring the bounty of the fall harvest! Sukkot is zman simchateinu -- the Time of our Happiness -- and nothing would make us happier than to start Sukkot (and Shabbat) with you!
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Join JNFuture for a Shabbat Dinner in the Sukkah at Base Loop!
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Come to our Sukkah for Shabbat! Bask in the delightful fall sweater weather in our Sukkah for a delicious, home-made Shabbat lunch. All are welcome! Address and details provided the day before the program. Base Logan Square is proudly a part of Silverstein Base Chicago.
Date: 9/26
Time: 12:30PM
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Join us for song-filled, traditional liturgy, gender egalitarian prayer and a delicious community meal with a friendly vibe.
We'll gather on Sunday, Sepember 27th, at 9:30am. We'll be davening until around 12:30 pm, including a dvar Torah from Rav Sarah and a beautiful Hallel. This will be followed, as always, by a delicious open community lunch, this time in the Sukkah, weather permitting. After lunch, please hang out! There will be spaces for you to chat, sing or play board games and Sukkot-themed Jewish learning led by Rav Sarah at around 1:30 pm.
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Join us for a night full of wings, football, and camaraderie in the Sukkah. We will be watching the Bears game on September 28th from 7:00-10 pm in the sukkah at Base Loop!
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Join us for some casual hanging out in the beautiful Base Sukkah! We'll have board games, snacks, drinks, and good company to share :)
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Last year, we gathered in the Sukkah to consider the complex relationship and tensions many of us feel between our desire to be rooted in the United States, while maintaining a strong connection to Israel (Land or State), its People(s), and Jews around the world. Join us as we pick up the conversation again, this time focusing more on what it means to build a home in the Diaspora while maintaining a distinct identity that connects us to places and people far beyond our borders. Whether you feel anchored in one place or stretched across many, please join us over dinner in the Sukkah as we explore the relationship between idealism and pragmatism as they relate to the United States, Israel, and world Jewry.
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Come join Base Logan Square and YLD for an evening of delicious craft drinks and snacks in the Sukkah at Base Logan Square! It should be a blast. Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks served. All are welcome! Address and details provided Friday before the program. Base Logan Square is proudly a part of Silverstein Base Chicago.
Date: 9/29
Time:7:30PM-9:30PM
Link: http://www.juf.org/booth
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Living Between Worlds: Hol haMo'ed ("Non-Sacred Holy Day") as a Model of Liminality
The middle days of Sukkot and Pesah are a strange time, mixing the routine of going to work with sitting in a sukkah and eating matzah. Even their very name -- "non-sacred holy days" -- evokes a deep tension between holiness and its absence. In this shiur with Rav Will, we will explore how these middle days came to be, how they developed and were observed, and what they can teach us about bringing sanctity into our everyday lives.
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Sukkot, with its imperative to dwell outside and make ourselves vulnerable to the elements, pushes us to consider our community members who face homelessness. Join us as we do some learning about housing insecurity in Chicago led by Repair the World and on Jewish perspectives on this challenge led by Rav Sarah, and to pack kits of needed supplies to be distributed to neighbors who sleep outdoors by our partners at the Night Ministry.
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Join Laura for a ladies' night of wine and cheese in the Sukkah on October 1st, 2026 from 5:30-7:30 pm at Base Loop!
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Enjoy a fall bonfire and hang out in the Sukkah with Base Logan Square and Mishkan. Come grab a drink and nosh on some delicious snacks while meeting folks from the Mishkan and Base communities. Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks served. All are welcome! Address and details provided Friday before the program. Base Logan Square is proudly a part of Silverstein Base Chicago.
Date: 10/1
Time: 7:30PM-9:30PM
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Join us in the Sukkah for a special gathering of our women's Rosh Chodesh group! Instead of gathering at the New Moon, we'll gather near the Full Moon to connect, learn about the season, and share in the joy of Sukkot!
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Join Rav Sarah for joyful and meditative singing in the Sukkah! Our sukkot tisch (yiddish for table, a spiritual and fun singing-focused gathering over drinks and snacks) is a yearly highlight. Don't miss it!
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Farbrengen roughly translates from Yiddish as "coming together joyously," and in the Hasidic tradition, it's a sacred occasion filled with song, words of Torah, delicious snacks, and "L'Chaims"—traditionally alcoholic toasts. Since Rav Jonathan stopped drinking a couple of years ago, we've reimagined this beautiful tradition by swapping the booze for restorative tonics, balancing teas, ceremonial cacao, and other libations with health benefits rooted in various folk traditions.
Think of it as an evening that infuses two things we love: deep spirituality through togetherness and copious amounts of healthy drinks.
After a delicious dinner to welcome Shabbat and Sh'mini Atzeret - the last day of the Festival season, we will gather 'round the table for our first Farbrengen of 5787! Settle in for an evening of spirited song, Torah learning, treats, and L'Chaims. It's a chance to connect deeply with community, nourish your body and soul, and hold the joy of the season closer to your heart.
Come as you are, leave transformed. Let's farbreng together! (Yes, "farbreng" is a verb.)
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Join us on Saturday, Oct 3rd at 7pm, for raucous, joyful, crazy dancing and singing to celebrate Sichat Torah! A light, casual dinner, drinks, and desserts will be served. Bring your ruach and love for Torah!
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Please join us at the Luba and Bernard Friedman Base Loop (in Fulton Market) to celebrate the completion and restarting of our annual Torah reading cycle. We will dance, share some l'hayyims and be together in our Jewish joy!
21+ Young Adults/Grad Students/Young ProfessionalsClick here to register.