High Holiday Resource Guide

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The Jewish High Holidays are meant to be a radical time. Set against the backdrop of our mortality, these Days of Awe are designed to crack open our hearts, allowing us to address the pressing needs of our lives, communities and the world.As you begin to plan for this thoughtful time of year, Reboot has curated offerings from our work that we feel capture the themes of this moment. From grief and loss to democracy and human rights, from Sarah and Hagar to Kol Nidre and Ashamnu, the interactive material is grounded in our collective Jewish stories and traditions while encompassing our shared universal themes. Like everything Reboot does, the materials are designed to complement or supplement your traditional holiday experiences, helping you to personalize your High Holiday and spark meaningful conversations and actions.

The materials you can download include:

  • Video Playlist: Contains a selection of video highlights from our 2020 Higher Holiday collaboration with Hillel International.
  • Forgiveness: Spoken word poetry interrogating the Jewish community’s collective grappling with the pandemics of COVID-19 and racism from filmmaker, poet and Blavity co-founder Aaron Samuels. 
  • 10Q: Our digital platform for self-reflection comes to life with resources for partners and communities to engage in collective conversation.
  • The Survivor: Dig into the themes of PTSD and impossible ethical choices in HBO’s Emmy-nominated film, The Survivor.
  • Tashlique: Cast your sins away with our guide for this experiential ritual and reflect on the year you envision ahead.
  • Reboot Ideas: A playlist of our curated conversations relevant for the holiday season, each aiming to evolve the Jewish experience and transforming society.
  • Death Over Dinner: Jewish Edition: Transforming this potentially difficult conversation into one of deep engagement, insight and empowerment that everyone can be a part of.
  • Six Word Memoirs: For the High Holidays, Reboot has created several Six-Word Memoir prompts to help you reflect on the New Year.

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Legacy Projects

10Q: Reflect. React. Renew.

Life’s Biggest Questions. Answered By You. 10Q emails you a question a day for 10 days during the High Holidays. Afterwards, you send your answers to the secure online vault. One year later, your answers are unlocked and returned and the process begins anew. Learn more and sign up here.

Since 2007, 10Q has provided a platform for thousands of people to reflect deeply in a digital space, and has branched out into live 10Q Pop Up experiences, as well as writing-journals for families and adults. Utilizing themes surrounding Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the project offers a deeply connected experience in a way that’s natural to digital natives. After being featured in the early years on the Times Square Jumbotron and embraced by celebrities such as Jane Lynch (Glee) and Joey Soloway (Transparent), the project has gone on to privately chart the journeys and narratives of our participants’ lives.

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Reboot Studios

Marking the High Holidays: Forgiveness

From poet and Blavity co-founder, Aaron Samuels, Forgiveness interrogates the Jewish community’s collective atonement journey, grappling with the pandemic of COVID-19 and the pandemic of racism, which were intertwined and hyper-present in the years 5780 and 5781. Samuels’ Forgiveness explores the transitional spiritual space that we enter on Kol Nidre, during which we reckon with our shortcomings and enter a period of repair and reconciliation.

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Digital Series

Higher Holidays Recap

A New Year celebration like you’ve never experienced before! Created and produced by Hillel International and Reboot, more than 200 artists, thinkers, rabbis and students joined in contributing to this one-of-a-kind ritual experience. From welcoming a supercharged Rosh Hashanah to a reimagined Kol Nidre and closing with a moving memorial service, you can watch all of your favorite moments on-demand now!