Join us at the edge of the Willamette River for the symbolic ritual of casting out our sins.

During the Rosh Hashanah holiday, many individuals and synagogues observe a fun outdoor tradition whose origins go back to the Middle Ages. It’s called tashlich (pronounced tash-leekh), which is the Hebrew word for “casting off / throwing off.”

Willamette Park: 6500 S Macadam Ave, Portland, OR 97219
Members will have received a packet of saltines in the mail (*wink wink*). Bring those or other items along to cast off into the river

People gather together at a body of flowing water—often a nearby river, but it can be a lake or even the ocean—and they bring something to throw in the water to represent misdeeds over the course of the past year, symbolically “casting our sins upon the waters.”. Please use the saltines provided or bring your own items (doesn’t have to be bread – pebbles, leaves and sticks work too!).