Yom Kippur Services on Roosevelt Island and the Internet

You Tube video of Shofar being blown in Kenyan Masai Village

The Roosevelt Island Jewish Congregation describes itself as:

an egalitarian non-affiliated synagogue founded in 1980. Our congregation is dedicated to providing Jewish spiritual support to all who seek it, regardless of their financial abilities.

We have a full schedule of High Holiday and Festival services, and we have Friday Night Shabbat services approximately every two weeks. Several times a year we have community Shabbat dinners after the service. We also offer two series of Adult Education classes during the winter and spring.

We encourage all in the community to join us for High Holiday, Sabbath and Festival Services and enjoy the company of your neighbors on Roosevelt Island.

Here is link to the Yom Kippur service schedule tonight and tomorrow at the Roosevelt Island Jewish Congregation and some reflections from David Hartman in the Jerusalem Post.

... Another theme of Yom Kippur, teshuva, is expressed in the call to return, to renew, to re-create one's self and in the appeal for divine forgiveness and atonement, in the recitation of "for the sin we have sinned..." and other confessional sections of the liturgy. The essence of teshuva - the crucial principle without which this concept would be empty of meaning - is the belief that the past need not define the future. A person can break the causal chain of habit and defy the seeming necessity of repetition that suffocates spontaneity and the joy of life.

And according to the Chicago Tribune, Yom Kippur services are available on the internet:

In services that will air Wednesday at 8 p.m., the JewishTVnetwork.com will broadcast a two-hour Kol Nidre service to mark the beginning of Yom Kippur. The service will be led by Rabbi Naomi Levy, in Brentwood, Calif. It is the second time the online Jewish network has aired a Yom Kippur service, but it's a first for Levy.

Shana Tova - Have a great and peaceful new year.