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Hanukkah Around the World 🙋
Stephen Wise Free SynagogueSet out on a musical world tour right here at Stephen Wise! Enjoy diverse Hanukkah songs from around the globe, expertly performed by Cantor Dan Singer, while enjoying a nosh.
Lighting The Hanukkah Candles 🖥
OnlineJoin Rabbi Ammi Hirsch for a short teaching about the miracle of Hanukkah as he lights the festival's final candles! WATCH HERE
‘Heroes of Light’: Stories of Survival 🙋
Stephen Wise Free SynagogueStephen Wise Free Synagogue invites you to meet three regular Israelis — mother and daughter Batia and Rotem Holin, of Kibbutz Kfar Aza, and Asaf Artel, of Kibbutz Kissufim. In conversation with our Rabbi Ammi Hirsch, they'll tell us their incredible stories of survival and their hopes for rebuilding their lives and communities. This event […]
Adult Hebrew Class (Level A) 🙋
Stephen Wise Free SynagogueThe language of the ancient Israelites, Hebrew ceased to be spoken between 200–400 CE, in the aftermath of the Third Jewish Revolt against the Roman Empire — but its use continued in Jewish literature and liturgy for centuries. Much like the miracle of the modern state of Israel, Hebrew is one of the only true […]
Lunch and Learn: Liberal Zionist Thinkers 🙋
Stephen Wise Free SynagogueLearn about history's greatest liberal Zionist thinkers, in an introductory class with Rabbi Tracy Kaplowitz! Then join Rabbi Paul Golumb's three-part class to explore the legendary philosopher Baruch Spinoza, coined "the first Zionist of the last 300 years," by Israel's first prime minister David Ben-Gurion. Ex-communicated by his Jewish community for his liberal views, Spinoza […]
See Broadway production of ‘Harmony’ with SWFS! 🙋
Barrymore Theatre 243 West 47th Street, New York, NY, United StatesJoin Stephen Wise Free Synagogue for an evening on Broadway! "Harmony: A New Musical," by Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman, tells the true story of the Comedian Harmonists, six talented young men, Jewish and gentile, who came together in 1920s Germany and took the world by storm with their signature blend of sophisticated close harmonies […]