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Congregation Beth Israel

For tickets, reservations and more information, visit cbiaz.org/schedule-andregistration/.

Erev Rosh Hashanah Service: Sunday, Sept. 25 at 7:30 p.m. at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church

Rosh Hashanah Day I Morning Service: Monday, Sept. 26 at 10:15 a.m. at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church

Tashlich: Monday, Sept. 26 at 4:15 p.m. at Roadrunner Park.

Rosh Hashanah Day II Morning Service:

Tuesday, Sept. 27 at 10 a.m. at CBI

Kol Nidre: Tuesday, Oct. 4 at 7:30 p.m. at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church

Yom Kippur Morning Service: Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 10:15 at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church

Yizkor: Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 4:30 p.m. at CBI

Neilah and Havdalah: Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 5:15 p.m. at CBI

Congregation Or Tzion

Or Tzion will host a hybrid High Holiday service schedule. Participants must complete a registration form online and make a Gift of the Heart commitment. For more detailed information, visit congregationortzion.org and view the digital guidebook.

Erev Rosh Hashanah Service: Sunday, Sept. 25 at 6 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah Day I Early Morning Service: Monday, Sept. 26 at 8:30 a.m.

Rosh Hashanah Late Morning Service:

Monday, Sept. 26 at 11 a.m.

Rosh Hashanah Day II Morning Service:

Tuesday, Sept. 27 at 8:30 a.m.

Kol Nidre: Tuesday, Oct. 4 at 6 p.m.

Yom Kippur Morning Service: Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 9 a.m.

Neilah, Havdalah, Shofar blowing: Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 5:30 p.m.

Temple Beth Emeth of Scottsdale

All High Holiday services will be in person. For more information, visit tbescottsdale.org.

Rosh Hashanah Day I Morning Service:

Monday, Sept. 26 at 9:30 a.m.

Kol Nidre: Tuesday, Oct. 4 at 6 p.m.

Yom Kippur Morning Service: Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 9:30 a.m.

Yizkor: Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 11 a.m.

Neilah: Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 5:30 p.m.

Havdalah and Break the Fast: Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 6:30 p.m.

Temple Kol Ami

To reserve tickets and find more detailed information, visit templekolami.org or contact Nancy Drapin at nancyd@ templekolami.org.

Erev Rosh Hashanah Service: Sunday, Sept. 25 at 7:30 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah Day I Morning Service: Monday, Sept. 26 at 10 a.m.

Kol Nidre: Tuesday, Oct. 4 at 7:30

Yom Kippur Morning Service: Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 10 a.m.

Temple Solel Registration is required. For more information, visit templesolel.org.

Erev Rosh Hashanah Service: Sunday, Sept. 25 at 6:30 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah Day I Morning Service: Monday, Sept. 26 at 12 p.m.

Tashlich: Monday, Sept. 26 at 4 p.m. at Chart House

Kol Nidre: Tuesday, Oct. 4 at 6:30 p.m.

Yom Kippur Day Service: Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 12 p.m.

Yizkor, Neilah: Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 4:30 p.m.

The New Shul

All are welcome and no reservations necessary. In lieu of tickets, the synagogue asks for a small donation. For more detailed information, visit thenewshul.org/days-ofawe-2022/.

Erev Rosh Hashanah Service: Sunday, Sept. 25 at 6 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah Day I Morning Service: Monday, Sept. 26 at 8:15 a.m.

Tashlich: Monday, Sept. 26 at 1 p.m. Meet at shul entrance.

Erev Rosh Hashanah Day II Service: Tuesday, Sept. 27 at 8:15 a.m.

Kol Nidre: Tuesday, Oct. 4 at 5:30 p.m.

Yom Kippur Morning Service: Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 8:15 a.m.

Yom Kippur Afternoon Service: Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 3:45 p.m.

West Valley

Beth Emeth Congregation of the West Valley High Holiday services are free of charge. Tickets are required and available for pick up on Sept. 5.

Erev Rosh Hashanah Service: Sunday, Sept. 25 at 5:30 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah Day I Morning Service: Monday, Sept. 26 at 9:30 a.m.

Rosh Hashanah Day II Morning Service: Tuesday, Sept. 26 at 9:30 a.m.

Kol Nidre: Tuesday, Oct. 4 at 6 p.m.

Yom Kippur Morning Service: Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 10:30 a.m.

Yizkor: Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 11:30 a.m.

Neilah: Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 5:15 p.m.

Chabad of the West Valley High Holiday services are open to all, but reservations are required. For more information and to RSVP, visit ichabad.org.

Erev Rosh Hashanah Service: Sunday, Sept. 25 at 6:45 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah Day I Morning Service:

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High Holidays

Monday, Sept. 26 at 9:30 a.m.

Tashlich: Monday, Sept. 26 at 1:30 p.m. at Waterside at Sierra Verde Park

Rosh Hashanah Day II Morning Service:

Tuesday, Sept. 27 at 9:30 a.m.

Kol Nidrei: Tuesday, Oct. 4 at 6:15 p.m.

Yom Kippur Morning Service and Yizkor:

Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 9:30 a.m.

Temple Beth Shalom

For more detailed information, visit tbsaz. org.

Erev Rosh Hashanah Service: Sunday, Sept. 25 at 7 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah Day I Morning Service:

Monday, Sept. 26 at 10 a.m.

Kol Nidre: Tuesday, Oct 4 at 7 p.m.

Yom Kippur Morning Service: Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 10 a.m.

Yizkor: Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 1 p.m.

Yom Kippur Afternoon Service:

Wednesday Oct. 5 at 4:30 p.m.

Flagstaff

Chabad of Flagstaff

High Holiday services will be held at the Molly Blank Jewish Community Center, 930 W. University Ave., Flagstaff. For more detailed information, visit jewishflagstaff.com.

Erev Rosh Hashanah Service: Sunday, Sept.

Rosh Hashanah Day I Morning Service:

Monday, Sept. 26 at 10 a.m.

Tashlich: Monday, Sept 26 at 5 p.m. at Francis Short Pond

Rosh Hashanah Day II Morning Service:

Tuesday, Sept. 27 at 10 a.m.

Kol Nidre: Tuesday, Oct. 4 at 6 p.m.

Yom Kippur Morning Service: Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 10 a.m.

Yizkor: Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 12 p.m. Mincha and Neilah: Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 5 p.m.

Congregation Lev Shalom Reservations are required. For more detailed information, visit levshalomaz.org.

Sunday, Sept. 25 at 6 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah Day I Morning Service:

Monday, Sept. 26 at 10 a.m.

Tashlich: Monday, Sept. 26 at 4 p.m. at Frances Short Pond

Kol Nidre Service: Tuesday, Oct. 4 at 6:30 p.m.

Yom Kippur Morning Service and Yizkor:

Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 10 a.m.

Neilah: Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 5:30 p.m.

Prescott

Temple B’rith Shalom

High Holiday services will be held at The Event Spot. For more detailed information, visit brithshalom-az.org.

Erev Rosh Hashanah Service: Sunday, Sept. 25 at 6 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah Day I Morning Service: Monday, Sept. 26 at 10 a.m.

Tashlich: Monday, Sept. 26, immediately following services at Fain Park

Kol Nidre: Tuesday, Oct. 4 at 6 p.m.

Yom Kippur Morning Service: Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 10 a.m.

Mincha, Yizkor and Neilah: Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 4 p.m.

Sedona

Jewish Community of Sedona and the Verde Valley

All High Holiday services will be available online and in person. For non-members, email office@jcsvv.org for tickets. For more detailed information, visit jcsvv.org.

Erev Rosh Hashanah Evening Service: Sunday, Sept. 25 at 6:30 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah Day I Morning Service: Monday, Sept. 26, 10 a.m.

Tashlich: Monday, Sept. 26 at 4 p.m. at Los Abrigados at the Creek

Rosh Hashanah Day II Morning Service: Tuesday, Sept. 27 at 10 a.m. on Zoom

Kol Nidre: Tuesday, Oct. 4 at 6:30 p.m.

Yom Kippur Morning Service: Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 10 a.m.

Yizkor and Neilah: Wednesday, Oct. 5 at

Rachel Lipman cares deeply about preserving her Jewish family’s fifthgeneration winemaking business, Loew Vineyards, but the 28-year-old is keeping an eye on the future, too.

As one of the youngest winemakers in Maryland — if not the youngest — she’s pushing through boundaries in a traditionally male-dominated industry.

But that’s not all: Lipman is also educating customers about her family’s extraordinary legacy of producing unique wines — a 150-year-old family tradition that was nearly eradicated by the Holocaust.

Among the 14 wines currently available on the Loew Vineyards website, four are not wines in a traditional sense. They are meads, or honey wines, made from fermented honey — and therefore are well-suited for the upcoming High Holidays. Among the available varieties include cyser (mead with apple juice) and pyment (mead with grape juice).

A fifth-generation winemaker, Lipman’s method of making mead is not unlike the way her ancestors did it in Europe.

“My grandfather always says you can’t argue with success,” she said, referring to the family’s proprietary mead recipe.

These days, Lipman uses modern machinery and loves scouring local farmers markets to discover new honey producers with whom she can collaborate.

Mead is having something of a moment. Lipman is naturally thrilled by the development, though she believes there is a misconception that all meads are sweet. Her family’s mead comes in varieties that are dry, semi-dry and semi-sweet. “There is a lot of experimentation going on with mead right now, similar to craft beers,” she said. “I even heard of a peanut butter banana mead.”

Central to the story of Loew Vineyards is Lipman’s grandfather, who grew up in Lvov, Poland (now the Ukrainian city of Lviv) prior to World War II. Before the Holocaust, Lvov was home to Poland’s third-largest Jewish population, behind Warsaw and Lodz. The city had a Jewish population of some 200,000 — about one-third of the total — but only some 800 survived the genocide. The region also boasted many wineries, meaderies and distilleries, with the majority owned by Jews.

Lipman has spent much time uncovering her family’s mead-making past. During the long months of COVID, she has sifted through Polish documents, periodicals and newspapers to learn more. She discovered that the family meadery was in a district that housed warehouses, vodka distilleries, several meaderies and, yes, even a beer garden. In fact, the family business took up the length of an entire city block.

The patriarch of the Loew family in the mid-1800s was Meilech Loew, who made mead and distributed it internationally. Meilech and his wife, Malka, had 10 sons, two of whom created their own meaderies, while the others ventured into wine distribution and marketing. One son, Eisig, established the first national meadery facility in Poland. He and his wife, Clara, had three sons, one of whom was Wolfgang — Lipman’s grandfather, who Americanized his name to William (Bill) upon immigrating to the United States.

During the Holocaust, the family’s winemaking business was decimated — as were nearly all the members of the Loew family. Bill survived serving as part of the Underground, where his multilingual skills were highly prized. He was imprisoned in a Budapest political prison and two concentration camps, and eventually was liberated during a Dachau death march on April 23, 1945, by the U.S. Army’s 99th Infantry Division. Each year, the family commemorates this special day with Bill, 95, who remains involved with the business.

“It’s kind of like a birthday celebration for us,” Lipman said.

Once he arrived in America, Bill attended night school, married Lois Hendrickson and eventually became an electrical engineer. Yet the sweet smell of the barrels from his family’s meadery always remained a part of him. Upon retiring in 1982, he purchased a 37-acre plot in Frederick County, Maryland, with the aim of planting grapes and continuing his family’s wine and mead-making legacy.

“The way our family oriented ourselves, everything was about preserving the past,” Lipman said. “There was little discussion of the future.” have been pushing for a future.”

COVID-19, however, served as a pivotal moment for the family business.

Not only did Lipman have to safeguard her grandparents, who enjoyed interacting with customers in their tasting room, she knew she had to implement some operational changes if she wanted a sustainable future.

Locating historical documents about her family required perseverance. Lipman joined a global Facebook group of meadmakers and posted about her family’s long tradition. Doing so helped her locate

AMONG THE 14 WINES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE ON THE LOEW VINEYARDS WEBSITE, FOUR ARE NOT WINES IN A TRADITIONAL SENSE. THEY ARE MEADS, OR HONEY WINES, MADE FROM FERMENTED HONEY — AND THEREFORE ARE WELL-SUITED FOR THE UPCOMING HIGH HOLIDAYS.

Citing Hillel the Elder’s iconic quote — “if not now, when?” — Lipman and her family made a significant investment in new fermentation tanks, which has allowed them to increase production to meet growing demand. They also remodeled the tasting room, created an online reservation system and updated their website to showcase the family’s long history in the business.

Lipman credits her grandmother with helping to facilitate a lot of the recent changes.

“She knows we have something that cannot die,” Lipman said of her grandmother. “Without her, we wouldn’t