High Holy Day

When I closed my eyes, it was hard to know if I was at a High Holy Day service or an Ani DiFranco concert.

Tickets for High Holy Day services — encompassing Judaism’s fall festival season — in the District of Columbia hovered at around $200, according to listings on the Eventbrite online ticketing service.

“She survived her first High Holy Day season with me,” said Ms. Schafer, who wowed Ms. Woods with her rendition of Kol Nidre on Yom Kippur.

Several rabbis criticized the letter in High Holy Day sermons, opinion essays, Facebook posts.

The antisemitic attacks of recent years have changed the way the Kesser Israel synagogue — which has a High Holy Day attendance “in the low hundreds” — views security, Mr. Fleshler added.