Since 2013, Fringes has partnered with our sister organization Tikkun Olam Chavurah to create High Holiday services that are beautiful, personal, and also highly political. We meet in a historic Mennonite church in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia – a church that has also taken brave political stances, including welcoming LGBT members, and which has become a partner to TOC, including joint trips to Occupied Palestine.
For our liturgy we use the Reconstructionist machzor Prayerbook for the Days of Awe plus supplements with the mix poems and contemporary liturgy that Fringes brings to the partnership.
Below you’ll find the supplements we’ve built over the years, plus some of the talks and other readings we’ve used.
5781 / 2020
Rosh Hashanah
Rosh Hashanah Service Supplement 2020
Rabbi Linda Holtzman’s Rosh Hashanah Talk
Tashlich
Our Tashlich ritual for confronting racism in education
Kol Nidre
Kol Nidre Service Supplement 2020
Rabbi Linda Holtzman’s Kol Nidre Talk 2020
Yom Kippur
Yom Kippur Morning Service Supplement 2020
Elliott batTzedek’s talk: On the Necessity of Falling Apart
Rabbi Linda Holtzman’s Yom Kippur talk 2020
Rabbi Rebecca Alpert’s Talk 2020
Yom Kippur Yizkor, Martyrology, and Ne’ilah Supplement 2020
5778 / 2017
5777 / 2016
5776 / 2015
An Ashamnu for a Mindset of Privilege
5775 / 2014
Yom Kippur Morning Service 5775/2014
Yom Kippur Afternoon/Evening Service 5775/2014
Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah 