This year Selichot services will be hosted by Westchester Jewish Center. The pre-service Keynote speaker will be Mijal Bitton. 

Enter the season with prayer, music, and community! Members of Temple Israel Center, Shaarei Tikvah, Westchester Jewish Center, and Greenburgh Hebrew Center will join together to enter the High Holiday season as a broader community. To start the evening off, we will have a dessert reception followed by our keynote speaker, Mijal Bitton. Dr. Bitton has become a leading voice for the Jewish People at this challenging moment in our history. She is a spiritual leader, scholar, and inspiring speaker. She will address the topic, “The Meaning of the High Holidays at this Moment in Jewish History.” 

Join us for a soulful Selichot service where stirring instrumental music, communal prayer, and heartfelt reflections open the gates of the High Holiday season. Let ancient words and contemporary spirit guide us inward and upward, together. In music, meaning, and community—we begin the journey of return.

Join us for what has become a highlight of the year!

Be sure to register for this wonderful evening by September 10!

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER!

Dr. Mijal Bitton is a spiritual leader, public intellectual, and sociologist.  She serves as the Rosh Kehilla of the Downtown Minyan in NYC and is a Scholar in Residence at the Maimonides Fund. Mijal is a Visiting Researcher at NYU Wagner, where she directs pioneering research on Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews in the United States. She is an alumna of the Wexner graduate fellowship, a New Pluralist Field Builder, and a Sacks Scholar.  Mijal is committed to building a welcoming and vibrant Jewish life, leveraging renewed Jewish solidarity and commitment post-October 7. She lectures widely, co-hosts the podcast Wondering Jews, and was a featured speaker at the historic march for Israel in DC. She lives in New York with her husband, Rabbi Sion Setton, and their children.