Yes, to provide an inclusive and welcoming High Holy Day experience, we will be holding services in-person as well as offering live streaming through our website.

Please contact our office at 204-589-6305 to make arrangements for your “virtual ticket”. Once you have made your arrangements you will be provided with an access code and be able to participate in our livestream services. In the coming weeks, there will be more specific details about how to tune in.

Yes. The Shofar will be blown for the entire month of Elul. This means that prior to the start of our weekday services (M-Th) at 6pm via Zoom, someone will blow the Shofar. There is Halachic justification where one can fulfill one’s obligation for hearing the shofar through amplified electronic means in cases of extreme duress. The Shofar will also be heard on the second day of Rosh Hashanah. Since the first day of Rosh Hashanah falls on Shabbat this year the Shofar will not be blown. You will also be able to hear the Shofar live and in-person at our outdoor Tashlich service.

We will provide copies of the Mahzor Lev Shalem for you to use with the purchase of your “virtual ticket”. We will then make arrangements to collect them after the High Holy Days.

We are excited to offer a family friendly service for families with children up to Grade 4 for both days of Rosh Hashanah as well as Yom Kippur Day. ● Rosh Hashanah - Day 1 - Saturday, September 16 - Morning Service from 10:30 - 11:15am ● Rosh Hashanah - Day 2 - Sunday, September 17 - Morning Service from 0:30 - 11:15am ● Yom Kippur Day - Monday, September 25 - Morning Service from 10:30 - 11:15am *Family fee for ALL three services is $72 (or $30 for each service). There is no charge for Main Service ticket holders. Please contact Congregation Etz Chayim at info@etzchayim.ca or by phone at (204) 589-6305 to reserve a space.

Yes! With the start of High Holy Days, Programs for Junior Kindergarten up to Grade 6. During Rosh Hashanah day 2 and Yom Kippur there is a family-friendly service for adults with children up to Grade 5. Fee for Junior Congregation Programs is $85. Please contact Congregation Etz Chayim at info@etzchayim.ca or by phone at (204) 589-6305 to reserve a space.

Yes! Our choir will be performing live this year and can be heard in-person with the purchase of a ticket or via our Live Stream with the purchase of a virtual ticket. Please, help us welcome our new Choir Director: Kelly Robinson, the adult members of the choir: George Bajer-Koulack, Josh Bellan, Phil Corrin, Cheryle Freedman, Grant Goldberg, Holly Harris, Arthur Liffmann, Cyra Moore-Freedman, Haviva Polevoi, and youth choir members: Juliet Eskin, Alex Schaeffer, Hannah Schaeffer and Janna Soronow.

Yes! This year we are participating in a community wide Tashlich Program. Join us on Wednesday, Oct. 9 at 4:30 pm at the Assiniboine Park Duck Pond - Picnic Shelter. 4:30 - Reverse Tashlich 5:00 - Family Picnic 6:00 - Tashlich Ceremony & Shofar Blowing This is a free event.

Yes. Bins from JCFS will be available on Rosh Hashanah and Kol Nidrei. Kindly bring your donation to the synagogue and place it in the available bins by the entrance.

We suggest that some level of dressing up could add a sense of holiness to the day, however, dressing more comfortably is perfectly acceptable. Feel free to wear a Tallit and/or head covering. There is also a tradition to wear white on Yom Kippur, and to abstain from wearing leather shoes.

No, we are not offering a catering menu this year.