Jewish Holidays

Hillel Milwaukee offers programs and meals for the High Holidays, Passover, and other festivals and holidays. During Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Hillel hosts special holiday meals,and programs. During Sukkot, we build a Sukkah in front of our beautiful building, and offer a full range of holiday progamming. We also partner with local synagogues for Simchat Torah. Hanukkah is a celebratory time for all of our students. We offer evening menorah lighting and Hanukkah celebrations. We also host a variety of holiday programs for Tu B'shevat and Purim. During Passover, we host a Seder, holiday programming, and kosher for Passover meals. We finish the school year out with our community Yamim holidays (Yom HaShoah, Yom HaZikaron, and Yom HaAtzmaut. If you have questions about Holidays at Hillel, please contact Eric at eric@hillelmke.org.

For a complete list of our Holiday programming, please view our event calendar. For your reference, holiday observations dates are below.

Rosh Hashanah - Sunday, September 29 at sundown - Tuesday, October 1, 2019

- Hillel will offer an Erev Rosh Hashanah service and dinner on Sun. Sep 29

Yom Kippur - Tuesday, October 8 at sundown - Wednesday, October 9 2019

- Hillel will offer a pre-Fast dinner and Kol Nidre service on Tues. Oct 8
- Hillel will offer a Neilah Discussion and Break Fast on Wed Oct 9

Sukkot - Sunday, October 13 at sundown - Sunday, October 20, 2019

- Hillel will offer a variety of programming that week

Shemini Atzeret / Simchat Torah - Sunday, October 20 at sundown - Tuesday, October 22, 2019