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<\/p>\nRosh Hashanah begins at sundown on Friday, September 11, 2026, and Yom Kippur ends after dark on Monday, September 21. New York City public schools are closed on Yom Kippur. The first day of Rosh Hashanah falls on Shabbat, which means the shofar is not sounded that day. On Sunday, September 13 \u2014 the second day \u2014 every congregation in the borough will blow it, several of them outdoors in a park.<\/p>\n
Below are Brooklyn congregations and public gatherings that have published their 5787 schedules and have something specific for children: separate services by age, staffed kids rooms, tashlich walks to the water.<\/p>\n
Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Cobble Hill & Carroll Gardens<\/p>\n
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Kane Street Synagogue | Cobble Hill<\/p>\n
Kane Street runs four parallel tracks all morning on each holiday: Mini Minyan for ages 0\u20135, Kinder Minyan for kindergarten through second grade, Minyan Noar for grades 3\u20137, and a Teen Experience for grades 8\u201312, each running twice so parents can trade off. Children 8 and under need an adult with them; 9- to 12-year-olds can be dropped at Minyan Noar as long as a caregiver stays in the building.<\/p>\n
Rosh Hashanah | Saturday, September 12 & Sunday, September 13<\/p>\n
Saturday 9:00am | Kinder Minyan and Mini Minyan (repeating at 10:00am and 11:15am)
\nSaturday 10:00am | Minyan Noar, grades 3\u20137
\nSaturday 11:15am | Teen Experience, grades 8\u201312
\nSunday 10:00am | Mini Minyan sensory activities for ages 0\u20134, and Minyan Noar
\nSunday 11:15am | Kinder Minyan and Teen Experience
\nSunday 4:30pm | Shofar Across Brooklyn, Cobble Hill Park
\nSunday 6:00pm | Tashlikh at Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 6, or meet at the synagogue at 5:30pm to walk together<\/p>\n
Yom Kippur | Monday, September 21<\/p>\n
9:00am\u201312:15pm | the same four children\u2019s tracks
\n10:45am | Yizkor
\n3:30pm | Stories with Dr. Ray Scheindlin
\n5:00pm | Mincha and Ne\u2019ilah
\n7:35pm | shofar, then break-fast with juice and cake at 7:45pm<\/p>\n
Members attend free. A family-services-only pass for non-members runs $200 for all services or $125 for a single day, and admits two adults and four children. Full non-member tickets are $500 for an adult, $100 for a teen and $72 for a child aged 8\u201312.<\/p>\n
236 Kane Street. Full schedule and tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Brooklyn Heights Synagogue | Brooklyn Heights<\/p>\n The only congregation on this list offering free drop-off childcare at every service. It is run by the synagogue\u2019s own preschool staff, covers ages 2\u00bd through pre-K, includes a snack and outdoor play in the mornings, and opens fifteen minutes before each service. Registration and a vaccination attestation are required. Older children have their own services split at fourth grade \u2014 parents must attend with K\u20133, and may attend with grades 4\u20137 \u2014 plus a Religious School track with lunch that runs 9:00am to 1:30pm.<\/p>\n Ticketed services are held at Plymouth Church, 57 Orange Street; the children\u2019s and family programming is at the synagogue itself.<\/p>\n Rosh Hashanah | Friday, September 11 & Saturday, September 12<\/p>\n Friday 6:30pm | evening service, childcare from 6:15pm Yom Kippur | Sunday, September 20 & Monday, September 21<\/p>\n Sunday 6:15pm | Kol Nidre, childcare from 6:00pm Non-member tickets are $450 for both holidays or $260 for one, with a reduced rate of $175 for adults aged 22\u201330 and complimentary tickets for students, military and first responders. Childcare is free to anyone attending, with donations encouraged.<\/p>\n 131 Remsen Street. Full schedule and tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Congregation B\u2019nai Avraham | Brooklyn Heights<\/p>\n Chabad of Brooklyn Heights runs free children\u2019s services from 11:00am to 12:30pm on all three holiday mornings, split into age bands \u2014 under 2, 2 to 5, and 5 to 12 \u2014 with RSVP required. There is also a beginners\u2019 workshop each morning at 10:00am for anyone who wants the service explained as it happens, and a community dinner open to all on the first night.<\/p>\n On the second day of Rosh Hashanah the congregation walks from the shul down to the water: a tashlich procession leaving 117 Remsen Street at 6:30pm for Pier 5, with the shofar sounded at the harbor.<\/p>\n Services are free to members. Non-members are $350 for an adult and $100 for a student, and children under 12 are free. The congregation states plainly that no one is turned away \u2014 email if the cost is a barrier.<\/p>\n 117 Remsen Street. Full schedule and RSVP here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Chabad of DUMBO | DUMBO<\/p>\n A kids\u2019 program runs alongside the service on both days of Rosh Hashanah, each followed by a kiddush lunch, with the shofar sounded on the second day. There are no fees and no membership of any kind \u2014 the congregation\u2019s line is simply \u201cjust come and connect,\u201d with a suggested donation for those who can. Detailed dates and times forthcoming.<\/p>\n 205 Plymouth Street. Schedule and RSVP here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Dirah | Carroll Gardens<\/p>\n Free, with no membership and no charge for seats, and a children\u2019s service at 10:30am on all three holiday mornings \u2014 songs, games, crafts and, new this year, a games session run by the Brooklyn Strategist. An open games room stays available throughout the services, though it is not staffed. Services are held at the Senesh School on Smith Street.<\/p>\n The Rosh Hashanah highlight for families is outdoors: tashlich and shofar at the Gowanus Canal, Sunday, September 13 at 5:30pm.<\/p>\n Rosh Hashanah | Friday, September 11 \u2013 Sunday, September 13<\/p>\n Friday 7:30pm | evening service Yom Kippur | Sunday, September 20 & Monday, September 21<\/p>\n Sunday 6:30pm | Kol Nidrei Services at 342 Smith Street. Full schedule and reservations here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Park Slope, Prospect Heights & Windsor Terrace CBE puts its children\u2019s services outdoors, on the Old Stone House patio at JJ Byrne Park, in three 45-minute waves timed so siblings of different ages can go one after another: tots at 9:00am, grades K\u20132 at 10:00am, grades 3\u20136 at 11:00am. Camp and Yachad staff run activities on site and families are encouraged to stay and play between services. If it rains everything moves indoors and shifts to the afternoon.<\/p>\n Rosh Hashanah | Friday, September 11 \u2013 Sunday, September 13<\/p>\n Friday 5:00pm | tots service, newborn to 5, in the sanctuary Yom Kippur | Sunday, September 20 & Monday, September 21<\/p>\n Sunday 5:00pm | tots service in the sanctuary The youth and family services are open to the public with no ticket required, members and non-members alike, though registration is requested and a $180 donation per service is suggested. The adult sanctuary services are for members. There is no drop-off childcare.<\/p>\n 274 Garfield Place. Full youth schedule and registration here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Park Slope Jewish Center | Park Slope<\/p>\n Most of PSJC\u2019s family programming happens in a tent, which makes it an easy one for restless children. Songs and Stories for the New Year is aimed at up to age 7, the Kulanu family service is genuinely all-ages, and there is a Tot Tefillah for ages 0\u20134 on the second morning of Rosh Hashanah. Teens in eighth grade and up have their own discussion in the yard.<\/p>\n Rosh Hashanah | Saturday, September 12 & Sunday, September 13<\/p>\n Saturday 9:30am | Songs and Stories, up to age 7 Yom Kippur | Monday, September 21<\/p>\n 9:30am | Songs and Stories, up to age 7 Youth and family services are $36 suggested per household, open to members and non-members. Children under 13 are free with a main-sanctuary registration, and there is a free community Kol Nidre. Note that PSJC is not offering drop-off childcare this year; a playroom is open for parent-supervised children, closed during Kol Nidre. Register by September 7 for Rosh Hashanah, September 17 for Yom Kippur.<\/p>\n 1320 8th Avenue. Full schedule and registration here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Romemu Brooklyn | Park Slope<\/p>\n Music-led, and this year in a new home: Romemu\u2019s High Holy Days move to Old First Reformed Church at 729 Carroll Street, on the corner of 7th Avenue. Services are led by Hazzan Basya Schechter and Rabbi Ben Perlstein with a full band, and the machzor is completely transliterated, which makes it workable for families who do not read Hebrew.<\/p>\n Children get two tracks \u2014 ages 3\u20136 and ages 7\u201312 \u2014 on Rosh Hashanah day one and Yom Kippur day, and Romemu is one of the few congregations here offering childcare at every service for children who are potty trained. A parent or caregiver must stay with children aged 0\u20132. The congregation notes that the children\u2019s rooms are not fully accessible.<\/p>\n Services<\/p>\n Friday, September 11, 8:00\u20139:30pm | Erev Rosh HaShanah song session Tickets are per service: $145 for a non-member adult, $50 for a non-member child aged 3\u201312, or $435 and $150 respectively for the full bundle. Members pay $99 and $35. Neilah is $18, and free for children. Confidential financial assistance is available.<\/p>\n Services at 729 Carroll Street. Full schedule and tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Congregation B\u2019nai Jacob and Chabad of Park Slope | Park Slope<\/p>\n The two run the holidays jointly, with a children\u2019s program at 11:00am on both days of Rosh Hashanah and on Yom Kippur, and a community dinner after the first evening service. No affiliation is needed and walk-ins are welcome.<\/p>\n Rosh Hashanah | Friday, September 11 \u2013 Sunday, September 13<\/p>\n Friday 7:00pm | evening service, community dinner at 8:00pm Yom Kippur | Sunday, September 20 & Monday, September 21<\/p>\n Sunday 6:45pm | evening service Seats are $180 for a non-member adult, $130 for a member, $75 for a full-time student and $36 for a child under bar or bat mitzvah age, and only if a seat is actually needed. No one is turned away for lack of funds.<\/p>\n 401 9th Street. Full schedule and seat reservations here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Chabad of Windsor Terrace | Windsor Terrace<\/p>\n A children\u2019s program starts at 11:30am on both mornings of Rosh Hashanah, designed to run while parents are in services \u2014 games, stories, songs and prayers with the congregation\u2019s own group leaders. The community tashlich is the draw here: a procession to Prospect Park Lake at 6:00pm on Sunday, September 13, which the congregation describes as young and old marching and singing together.<\/p>\n Rosh Hashanah | Friday, September 11 \u2013 Sunday, September 13<\/p>\n Friday 7:05pm | evening service Yom Kippur | Sunday, September 20 & Monday, September 21<\/p>\n Sunday 6:45pm | Kol Nidrei No membership or affiliation is needed. A $120 donation is requested to reserve a seat, and no one is turned away for lack of funds. Machzorim in Hebrew and English are provided. Note the children\u2019s program is listed for the Rosh Hashanah mornings only, not for Yom Kippur.<\/p>\n 1266 Prospect Avenue. Full schedule and seat reservations here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Kensington, Ditmas Park, Midwood & Sunset Park The strongest family offering in southern Brooklyn, and the clearest about ages. Children\u2019s services are run with Tkiya and sit alongside the main service on all three days: Tkiya Tot Services for ages 0\u20135 at 10:15am and Tkiya Big Kid Services for ages 6\u20139 at 11:45am, with a Teen Torah Chat with Rabbi Heather Miller at 10:30am \u2014 new this year \u2014 for older children.<\/p>\n Rosh Hashanah | Friday, September 11 \u2013 Sunday, September 13<\/p>\n Friday 6:15pm | evening service, community dinner at 7:00pm, pre-registration required Yom Kippur | Sunday, September 20 & Monday, September 21<\/p>\n Sunday 6:20pm | Kol Nidrei Children are ticketed separately and cheaply: $18 per child aged 3\u201311 for members, $36 per child aged 2 and up for non-members, or $54 and $108 for all three days. Adults are $100 for members and $200 for non-members, and $50 for teens aged 13\u201319. The Rosh Hashanah dinner is $25 for members, $35 for non-members and $15 for children under 13.<\/p>\n 327 East 5th Street. Full schedule and registration here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Beth Shalom v\u2019Emeth Reform Temple | Ditmas Park<\/p>\n B\u2019ShERT holds family services that are free to attend \u2014 one on Rosh Hashanah day one at 1:30pm and one on Yom Kippur at 2:00pm, both in person. Tickets or photo ID are still required at the door, including for the free services, so register in advance rather than turning up cold. Tashlich follows the morning services on both days of Rosh Hashanah, at 2:30pm and 2:00pm.<\/p>\n For the main services, non-member tickets are $200 in person for all four, or $118 to attend on Zoom. Local college students attend free.<\/p>\n 83 Marlborough Road. Full schedule and tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n East Midwood Jewish Center | Midwood<\/p>\n EMJC invites families with children to its children\u2019s services, and also runs a Yom Kippur service in Hebrew and Russian \u2014 unusual in Brooklyn and useful for Russian-speaking families. Two things to check when you register: the congregation describes the children\u2019s services as free while its order form lists a suggested $54 per family, and service times are published only as scanned images rather than on the page itself. Email roomj@emjc.org<\/a> to confirm both before you plan around them.<\/p>\n Additional tickets beyond the membership allocation are $150 for members and $200 for non-members.<\/p>\n 1625 Ocean Avenue. Details and registration here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Chabad of Sunset Park | Sunset Park<\/p>\n The reason to note this one is outdoors and free: Shofar in the Park, Sunday, September 13 at 5:00pm, a drop-in shofar sounding and tashlich in Sunset Park near 44th Street and 6th Avenue \u2014 one of the few High Holiday gatherings in the borough that costs nothing and requires nothing. The Rosh Hashanah evening service is Friday, September 11 at 6:30pm. Seats are by suggested donation, starting at $100.<\/p>\n Details and registration here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Open to everyone: three public gatherings A morning built specifically for families with young children \u2014 music, prayer, storytelling, meditation and hands-on creativity \u2014 held in a hotel rather than a synagogue, which lowers the barrier for anyone who does not belong anywhere. Run by The Neighborhood, Fig Tree and B\u2019nai Brooklyn, with meditation teacher Alison Laichter and song leader Martine Duffy. A communal lunch afterwards is included.<\/p>\n Saturday, September 12 | 10:00am\u20131:00pm | Moxy Brooklyn Williamsburg, 353 Bedford Avenue | $36, free for children 2 and under | Tickets here<\/a><\/p>\n Into the Deep: Tashlich and Meditation | Brooklyn Bridge Park<\/p>\n Free, outdoors and by the water: meditation, song and the casting-off ritual of tashlich, led by The Neighborhood together with Romemu Brooklyn. It is not billed as a children\u2019s event and there is no kids\u2019 programming, but it is short, outside and costs nothing, which makes it one of the easier ways to mark the new year with children who will not sit through a service.<\/p>\n Sunday, September 13 | 2:00\u20134:00pm | Brooklyn Bridge Park | Free, RSVP requested | RSVP here<\/a><\/p>\n A Musical Celebration of Rosh Hashanah | Williamsburg<\/p>\n Fifteen years running, and still the most unusual room in Brooklyn to hear the new year in: a full morning of live music and a traditional service on the stage at Brooklyn Bowl, led by Rabbi Daniel Brenner with musical director Jeremiah Lockwood and Jordan McLean of Antibalas. Torah reading and procession, the religious parts explained in plain language as they happen, shofar and meditation, then a festive Blue Ribbon lunch at 12:30pm. The show is all ages, though there is no separate children\u2019s track. Proceeds support Shalom Y\u2019all Jams.<\/p>\n
\nSaturday 9:30am | morning service, childcare from 9:15am, tashlich immediately after
\nSaturday 9:30\u201310:15am | K\u20133 service (10:30\u201311:30am for grades 4\u20137)
\nSaturday 2:00pm | community service for families with children 5 and under<\/p>\n
\nMonday 9:15\u201310:15am | K\u20133 service (10:30\u201311:30am for grades 4\u20137)
\nMonday 1:00pm | community service for families with children 5 and under
\nMonday at sundown | catered break-fast, registration required<\/p>\n
\nSaturday and Sunday 9:30am | morning service, children\u2019s service 10:30am
\nSunday 11:30am | shofar, then kiddush lunch at 1:00pm<\/p>\n
\nMonday 9:30am | morning service, children\u2019s service 10:30am
\nMonday 7:35pm | shofar and break-fast<\/p>\n
\nCongregation Beth Elohim | Park Slope<\/p>\n
\nSaturday 9:00am \/ 10:00am \/ 11:00am | tots, grades K\u20132, grades 3\u20136, Old Stone House patio
\nSaturday, after services | parade from JJ Byrne
\nSaturday 5:00pm | tashlich at Prospect Park Lake, meeting at the 9th Street entrance
\nSunday 10:30am | youth and family service, ages 0\u201312, joining the sanctuary for the shofar<\/p>\n
\nMonday 9:00am \/ 10:00am \/ 11:00am | tots, grades K\u20132, grades 3\u20136, Old Stone House patio<\/p>\n
\nSaturday 10:30am | Kulanu family service, all ages
\nSunday 9:30am | Tot Tefillah, ages 0\u20134
\nSunday 11:15am | youth and family shofar service
\nSunday 4:00pm | Shofar on the Stoop
\nSunday 5:30pm | tashlich at Prospect Park Lake<\/p>\n
\n10:30am | Kulanu family service, all ages<\/p>\n
\nSaturday, September 12, 9:00am\u20131:30pm | Rosh HaShanah
\nSunday, September 20, 6:30\u20139:30pm | Kol Nidrei
\nMonday, September 21, 9:00am\u20131:30pm | Yom Kippur
\nMonday, September 21, 5:30\u20137:30pm | Mincha and Neilah<\/p>\n
\nSaturday and Sunday 9:00am | morning services, children\u2019s program 11:00am<\/p>\n
\nMonday 9:00am | morning service, children\u2019s program 11:00am, Yizkor at noon
\nMonday 5:15pm | Mincha and Neila, fast ends 7:35pm<\/p>\n
\nSaturday and Sunday 10:00am | morning service, children\u2019s program 11:30am
\nSunday noon | shofar, kiddush at 1:45pm<\/p>\n
\nMonday 10:00am | morning service, Yizkor at noon
\nMonday 5:45pm | Neilah, fast ends 7:35pm, break-fast follows<\/p>\n
\nFlatbush Jewish Center | Kensington<\/p>\n
\nSaturday and Sunday 8:30am | morning services, children\u2019s programming from 10:15am
\nSunday 11:00am | shofar service, all families invited<\/p>\n
\nMonday 8:30am | morning service, children\u2019s programming from 10:15am
\nMonday 11:00am | Yizkor
\nMonday 6:30pm | Neilah, fast ends 7:35pm<\/p>\n
\nNew Year in The Neighborhood: Rosh Hashanah Family Services | Williamsburg<\/p>\n