Our holiday services are designed with the same values in mind as our Shabbat services. Since our community is made up of people who grew up with every imaginable kind of Jewish background—as well as plenty with no Jewish background at all—our services are designed to reflect that fact, hewing close to Jewish tradition, but offering instrumental music that is singable and a prayerbook that includes both transliteration and translation.
We use a Conservative prayerbook, Mahzor Hadash, and we stick to the structure of a traditional service (notably, a traditional Torah reading, and Musaf inclusion). From there, we add certain English readings and abridge pieces of the service that we feel do not add sufficient value to our prayer experience.
