YIOC--High Holy Days ("The Yomim Tovim")

Join with Us for

Rosh Hashanah and

Yom Kippur 2010

for a Jewish Holiday

Spiritual Experience --

So New and So Different,

So Fresh and Inspiring --

Yet Steeped in Tradition

Schedule of High Holy Day Services

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Cover Letter for New Membership Year

Our services for Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur will be at the exquisitely elegant Back Bay Conference Center 3415 Michelson Drive, Irvine 92612 a fantastic site in the heart of our community: University Park, Irvine 92612.

Young Israel of Orange County in Irvine invites you to inspiring spiritual Rosh Hashanah services, Yom Kippur services, High Holidays shofar sounding, and a Jewish High Holy Days experience in Irvine in Orange County.Young Israel of Orange County in Irvine invites you to inspiring spiritual Rosh Hashanah services, Yom Kippur services, High Holidays shofar sounding, and a Jewish High Holy Days experience in Irvine in Orange County.Young Israel of Orange County in Irvine invites you to inspiring spiritual Rosh Hashanah services, Yom Kippur services, High Holidays shofar sounding, and a Jewish High Holy Days experience in Irvine in Orange County.Young Israel of Orange County in Irvine invites you to inspiring spiritual Rosh Hashanah services, Yom Kippur services, High Holidays shofar sounding, and a Jewish High Holy Days experience in Irvine in Orange County.Young Israel of Orange County in Irvine invites you to inspiring spiritual Rosh Hashanah services, Yom Kippur services, High Holidays shofar sounding, and a Jewish High Holy Days experience in Irvine in Orange County.Young Israel of Orange County in Irvine invites you to inspiring spiritual Rosh Hashanah services, Yom Kippur services, High Holidays shofar sounding, and a Jewish High Holy Days experience in Irvine in Orange County.

Our extremely spacious and roomy facility offers very comfortable plush seating, great air conditioning, and a lovely environment. At the same time, while you may not be sitting in the front-row, center seat, there is not a bad seat anywhere in the sanctuary. We also offer our wonderfully gifted Chazan -- Cantor Baruch Erblich, one of the most celebrated Orthodox Cantors of our generation -- and our trained professional Youth Program team, and our nationally prominent world-class Rabbi -- whose dynamic, deeply moving and inspiring (and, yes, at times very clever and humorous) sermons will send you home with plenty to discuss and ponder, some to laugh about, and memories that will linger when you return next year.

You want more? What a coincidence! We offer more. We offer a great choice of seats at very reasonable prices -- the best High Holiday (Yomim Tovim) pricing in all of Orange County. And you won't feel like you are relegated to the rear balcony or the bleachers. Every seat is great.

Join with us to be inspired. Join with us to feel the Jewish experience, to hear the melodies you have known since childhood, led by one of the most celebrated cantors of our time. Join with us to be revived again -- just to have your sense of Jewishness revived among a group of great, warm, and friendly people. People who not only "seem" nice -- but who actually are good people, people who come to services for the same reasons that you do, to be inspired, to participate in the singing and the melodies, to connect with G-d the Creator, and to make new friends, even while reacquainting with lifelong colleagues.

But wait -- maybe you feel a bit outside the experience. Can't follow the prayers? Toooooo many hours in the temple? Are you just-plain driven crazy by the race to keep up with all that Hebrew?

Great news! You are not alone. Many feel awkward attending the traditional Orthodox service – even though passionately seeking something more traditional, more substantial, than some of the tepid alternatives tried before.

Well, we said we are different – didn’t we? And you are not alone. Here is the Young Israel of Orange County Alternative:

We also are offering you a completely separate -- utterly unique -- virtually unprecedented special One-Hour High Holiday Learners' Service for (Adult) Beginners -- in conjunction with The Jewish Flame, the national collegiate Torah organization.

The Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur Beginners services -- which will be conducted personally and completely by our award-winning Rabbi -- includes the classic prayers you would expect – but in a new context, a new format. And, if you have left temple after High Holiday services in the past, feeling that "it did not click" – well, this year it will click. We absolutely guarantee it. Just give us a call after the Holidays if you attend and are not inspired by our One-Hour High Holiday Learners' Service for (Adult) Beginners – and we will refund every penny of your ticket price.

The choice is yours. You may worship with us in our main service, led by our fantastic Chazan and our nationally prominent world-class spiritual leader, Rabbi Dov Fischer. Alternatively, you may worship at the One-Hour High Holiday Service for (Adult) Beginners. Rabbi Fischer will conduct that service, too -- along with Rebbetzin Ellen! You can try each one, even attend both.

And you know what else? We warmly welcome everyone! And “everyone” means everyone! Maybe that’s why we are called “Orange County’s Orthodox Synagogue with the refreshingly Un-orthodox Approach.” We don’t ask who your mother is, who your significant-other is, who you vote for. If you choose us, our Rabbi and our Cantor, as the people with whom you would love to worship these Holidays, then we reciprocate. So we’re all chosen people!

Isn't it great having a new Jewish Congregation in town, expanding the possibilities of what stood before, offering new spiritual paths to substantive Jewish meaning that never before existed in Irvine and Orange County? Be part of something new, something, great, something inspiring. Worship this Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur with Young Israel of Orange County.

For more about Cantor Erblich, click here!

For more information, contact us by e-mail or phone us at 949-300-8899