Beverly Hills Temple Of The Arts Offers Free Admission To High Holy Day Services For Striking WGA & SAG-AFTRA Members

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The Beverly Hills Temple of the Arts at the Saban Theatre, the largest arts and entertainment synagogue in the U.S., is offering complimentary seating to striking members of the Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA and their immediate families for its High Holy Day Services on Rosh Hashanah (September 15 and 16) and Yom Kippur (September 24 and 25).

Tickets for non-Temple members for both services normally cost $500 each. “As an arts and entertainment industry synagogue, we feel it is our moral duty to support writers and actors in our community and pray for a quick resolution to their current strikes,” said Rabbi David Baron.

Guests for Yom Kippur, Judaism’s holiest day of the year, will include Christiano J. Zeledón, a former U.S. Marine who will recount how he was wounded during a Russian missile strike in Ukraine while providing volunteer humanitarian aid there; Aron Bell, 96, who will share his story of how he and his late brothers, Tuvia, Zus and Asael – known as the Bielski Partisans – saved the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust, as depicted in the film Defiance; and Jonny Daniels, head of From the Depths Foundation, who will discuss the discovery of a 70-plus-year-old Torah Scroll in Filipów, Poland, which is now being rewritten by Holocaust survivors.

The Yom Kippur services will also feature Broadway performer Ilysia J. Pierce and renowned cantor and voice teacher Hazzan Nathan Lam.