| Rosh Hashanah First Day | Rosh Hashanah Second Day | Yom Kippur Kol Nidre | Yom Kippur Day | Notable Deaths |
2024 | Israel: An Indigenous Nation | Israel, Anti-Zionism, and Antisemitism | Emunah and Bitahon | Judaism and Competition | Notable Deaths/5784 |
2023 | No Heart Attack Day- Unetaneh Tokef and Fate | Reflections on Psalms and Prayer | Gathering Community Together | Time Management for Mortals | Notable Deaths/5783 |
2022 | Hebrew as a Sustaining Force | The Sweetness of a Name | The Imprint of Your Soul | Yizkor Means Goodbye | Notable Deaths/5782 |
2021 | Center for Community Transformation | Examining our Jewish Questions | Emerging from the Cave | Showing Up to Remember | Notable Deaths/5781 |
2020 | You Can’t Go Home | God is Fluid | Break Free | Atonement | Notable Deaths/5780 |
2019 | Learning from the College Admissions Scandal | Hineini: Being Fully Present | Death Penalty | Embodied Humans or Disembodied Angels? | Notable Deaths/5779 |
2018 | Bury the Bird Properly! | Separation or Reconciliation? | Judaism: Race or Tribe? | Falling Kor’im | Notable Deaths/5778 |
2017 | Aging | Parasites | Adding to the Fast | Israel | Notable Deaths/5777 |
2016 | Power of Making Connections | Sacrifices | The Vidui Confession Ritual, Beating Your Chest | Kaddish | Notable Deaths/5776 |
2015 | Refugee Crisis | Clarifying Thoughts | Sacred Self-Delusion | Mapping Our Lives | Notable Deaths/5775 |
2014 | Nourishing the Five Souls | Israel – National Spirituality | Fear | Erasing Memories | Notable Deaths/5774 |
2013 | Teshuvah | Religious Experience | Achieving Peacefulness | Torah Study | Notable Deaths/5773 |
2012 | Healthy Forgiveness | Ethics – Absolute or Relatively Relative | What Social Media Cannot Do | Winning and Losing | Notable Deaths/5772 |
2011 | Blessing, Shalom, and Birkat Kohanim | Learning from Honeybees | Stewardship | Interfaith Understanding | Notable Deaths/5771 |
2010 | Lower Manhattan Islamic Center | Conversion of N. American Jewry | Miners in the Belly of the Fish | A Theology of Mi Sheberakh | Notable Deaths/5770 |
2009 | Our Time or God’s Time? | Health Care | Rudeness | Hopelessness | Notable Deaths/5769 |
2008 | Happiness | Living With Integrity | Membership and Belonging | Dying: Gateway to Living | Notable Deaths/5768 |
2007 | Community | Israel | Mitzvah | Miss the Roses | Notable Deaths/5767 |
2006 | Sacred Boredom | Religion and Politics | Carrying Baggage | Ensoulment | Notable Deaths/5766 |
2005 | Cultivating Humility | Sibling Relationships | Reproach | Torture | Notable Deaths/5765 |
2004 | Competition | Anger | Homosexuality | Discovering Your Potential | Notable Deaths/5764 |
2003 | Prayer | Mr. Rogers and Harry Potter | Marketing Ourselves | From Age-ing to Sage-ing | |
2002 | Freedom and Happiness | Centrality of Israel | Religious Pluralism | Yizkor and Traumatic Memory | |
2001 | Terrorism | Israel | Stem Cells | Yizkor | |
2000 | Leiberman | Judaic Comfort | Genome | Modesty | |