This year, try something brand new at The Vilna, Boston's Center for Jewish Culture. We have a whole series of services and festive meals designed so you can celebrate in the city and on your schedule.

Join us at Boston’s oldest synagogue building, where our contemporary services will lift your spirits with music, poetry, prayer, and of course, the blowing of the shofar…all in just an hour or two.

Best of all, you’ll meet a warm and welcoming community of people of all ages and backgrounds who want to ring in a sweet new year together. Make The Vilna your home for the High Holidays.

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We Hope You'll Join Us for the High Holidays

Rabbi Elyse Winick is our Director of Arts and Culture and has served as the Director of Learning and Education at Combined Jewish Philanthropies as well as the Jewish Chaplain at Brandeis University and the Director of KOACH/College Outreach. Ordained by The Jewish Theological Seminary, Elyse is looking forward to hearing how the sounds of the High Holidays reverberate off The Vilna’s storied walls.

Rabbi Jen Gubitz is the founder of Modern JewISH Couples, and runs the BMitzvah Program at Temple Shalom of Newton. Her welcoming vibe weaves learning, ritual and lifecycle experiences full of music, poetry, honesty and humor. Jen was ordained by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and is the former director of the Riverway Project in Boston. You can hear her as the co-host of the OMfG Podcast: Jewish Wisdom for Unprecedented Times. Jen hopes we'll have less herring than when she led a Passover Seder in Crimea.

Evan Haller is Music at The Blissful, an award-winning children's musician who tours nationally. He makes engaging music for people to move, learn, and grow. Since the early 2000's, he has been making music in schools, community centers, libraries, yoga studios and wherever he could for children and their families. For Music At The Blissful and Evan, the most important part of this work is giving to people and creating community where people can come together, grow together, and enjoy music together. 

Rupert Hunz (cellist) is a member of the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra. He grew up in Switzerland where he studied with renowned cellists Christian Poltéra and Thomas Demenga and earned his Master’s Degree in Performance from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Rupert prefers playing at The Vilna to playing in a BMW Showroom.

Erin Hansen Janke is a classically trained harpist who performs regularly as a soloist and an orchestral harpist across New England. She also teaches, composes, and arranges music. Erin holds degrees in harp performance and composition from Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina.