Festival Calendar 5786
2025/26
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FESTIVAL CALENDAR 2025/2026
Services at the Norwich Synagogue
Every Shabbat morning service at 10 am.
Rosh Hashanah (1-2 Tishrei)
Monday, 22 September 2025
Erev Rosh Hashanah
Maariv – 6.30 pm
(Festival begins – 6.34 pm)
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Rosh Hashanah, First Day
Morning Service – 9.30 am
Lunch following
Tashlich (at Wensum Park) – 4.30 pm
Yom Kippur (10 Tishrei)
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
Erev Yom Kippur
Fast begins – 6.13 pm
Kol Nidre – 6.30 pm
Thursday, 2 October 2025
Morning Service – 10 am
Yizkor
Minchah – 4.30 pm
Neilah – 6.00 pm
Fast ends – 7.11 pm
Sukkot (15-21 Tishrei)
Monday, 6 October 2025
Erev Sukkot
Festival begins – 6.01 pm
Maariv – 6.30 pm
Tuesday, 7 October 2025
Sukkot, First Day
Morning Service – 10 am
Friday, 10 October 2025
Sukkot, Shabbat Hol HaMoed
(Candles – 5.52 pm)
Maariv and communal Friday night dinner – tbc
Saturday, 11 October
Morning Service – 10 am
Shemini Atzeret / Simchat Torah (22-23 Tishrei)
** NB: services (including Hakafot) on the first day of the festival ONLY **
Monday, 13 October 2025
Festival begins – 5.45 pm
Maariv with Hakafot – 6.30 pm
Tuesday, 14 October 2025
Morning Service – 10 am
Honouring Alan Joseph (Hatan Torah), Alan Gluckman (Hatan Bereshit), Maureen Leveton (Eshet Chayil)
Yizkor
Hanukkah (25 Kislev – 2 Tevet)
Sunday, 14 December (evening) – Monday, 22 December 2025
Details of community events forthcoming.
Tu BiShvat (15 Shevat)
Sunday, 1 February (evening) – Monday, 2 February 2026
Kabbalat Shabbat and TuBiShvat Seder to take place on Friday, 6 February 2026.
Purim (14 Adar)
Monday, 2 March 2026
Fast ends and Purim begins – 6.17 pm
Megillah reading and Purim party – 6.30 pm
Passover (15-22 Nisan)
Wednesday, 1 April 2026
Erev Pesach
Festival begins and Maariv – 7.11 pm
Communal Seder
Thursday, 2 April 2026
Passover, First Day
Morning Service – 10 am
Evening: Sefirat HaOmer (Counting the Omer) begins
Yom HaShoah (27 Nisan)
Monday, 13 April 2026
Commemoration and evening with Emily Ollman-Hirt
Lag BaOmer (18 Iyar)
Monday, 4 May (evening) – Tuesday, 5 May 2026
This year we will be marking the holiday at the Kehillat Meir service on Saturday, 2 May 2026.
Shavuot (6-7 Sivan)
Thursday, 21 May 2026
Erev Shavuot / Tikkun Leyl Shavuot
Study session – 7.30 pm
Festival begins and Maariv – 8.36 pm
Friday, 22 May 2026
Shavuot, First Day
Morning Service – 10 am
Saturday, 23 May 2026
Shavuot, Second Day
Morning Service – 10 am
Yizkor
Tisha B’Av (9 Av)
Wednesday, 22 July (evening) – Thursday, 23 July 2026
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