The month of Elul is a time of introspection for us as we prepare for the High Holidays. The Selichot service includes prayers to inspire self-examination, confession, pardon and renewal. Program begins at 8:00 pm on Saturday evening, September 5 with Havdallah and showing of the film Living. Rabbi Berkenwald will lead a discussion following the film. Free. Selichot services will follow.

Living is a 2022 British historical drama film directed by Oliver Hermanus from a screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro. It is an English-language remake of the 1952 Akira Kurosawa film Ikiru. Set in 1953 London, it stars Bill Nighy as a bureaucrat in the public works department who learns he has a fatal illness. The film co-stars Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp, and Tom Burke. Living received Academy Awards nominations for Best Actor for Nighy and Best Adapted Screenplay for Ishiguro.