DeKALB – Services for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur at Congregation Beth Shalom in DeKalb, serving DeKalb and Kane counties, are open to everyone.

The services will be led by Rabbi Michael M. Remson and cantorial soloist Zachary Weiss.  Services are cosponsored by the synagogue and Hillel, the Jewish student organization at Northern Illinois University, and are open to all. No tickets are required.

Services for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, will begin at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16 and will include music by the congregation’s choir, directed by Harvey Blau. Services are followed by refreshments. Rosh Hashanah services will continue at 9:30 a.m. Monday, Sept. 17. Services both days will be in the Clara Sperling Skyroom at the Holmes Student Center, on Lucinda Avenue between Normal Road and Carroll Avenue in DeKalb. A less formal service, with a discussion rather than the Torah reading, will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18, at Congregation Beth Shalom, 820 Russell Road in DeKalb. The shofar will be blown on both Sept. 17 and 18.