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Second-Night Community Seder 🙋
Adult B’nai Mitzvah Ceremony and Shabbat Morning Services 🙋🖥
UWS Yom HaShoah Observance: Reading of the Names 🙋🖥
SWFS Spring Benefit: Celebrating 20 Years of Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch
Re-CHARGING Reform Judaism
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Lunch and Learn: The Women of Purim 🙋
Lunch and Learn: The Women of Purim 🙋
The Purim story portrays two very strong — and very different — women. Join Rabbi Dalia Samansky as we explore the behaviors, motivations, and legacies of Queens Vashti and Esther. Soup will be served! And stick around: at 1:30 p.m. we need volunteers to help bag Hamentaschen for Purim celebration. RSVP
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Community Mahjong 🙋
Community Mahjong 🙋
Spend the afternoon playing maj with friends old and new! All levels welcome — whether you're a pro, need to sharpen your skills, or are just learning to play, there's a table waiting for you! Co-sponsored by Community Connections and the Women's Organization of Stephen Wise Free Synagogue. PLEASE REGISTER HERE
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Stephen Wise Book Group 🙋
Stephen Wise Book Group 🙋
Explore classic and contemporary Jewish literature at this monthly group meeting. This month, we're reading "How to Find Your Way in the Dark" by Derek B. Miller. RSVP
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Community Mahjong 🙋
Community Mahjong 🙋
Spend the afternoon playing maj with friends old and new! All levels welcome — whether you're a pro, need to sharpen your skills, or are just learning to play, there's a table waiting for you! Co-sponsored by Community Connections and the Women's Organization of Stephen Wise Free Synagogue. PLEASE REGISTER HERE
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Lunch and Learn: The Value of Community 🙋
Lunch and Learn: The Value of Community 🙋
Hineh mah tov umah na'im... How good and pleasant it is for people to dwell together! But what does it mean to be part of a community? Join Rabbi Dalia Samansky as we explore Jewish teaching about community, and then get involved! After our text-based learning, we'll discuss our synagogue's own Community Connections Committee and […]
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Community Mahjong 🙋
Community Mahjong 🙋
Spend the afternoon playing maj with friends old and new! All levels welcome — whether you're a pro, need to sharpen your skills, or are just learning to play, there's a table waiting for you! Co-sponsored by Community Connections and the Women's Organization of Stephen Wise Free Synagogue. PLEASE REGISTER HERE
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Virtual Short Story Group đź–Ą
Virtual Short Story Group đź–Ą
Join our monthly Short Story Group on Zoom, where we discuss Jewish-themed material. This month, we're reading “Lyubka the Cossack” by Isaac Babel, “The Last Grownup” by Allegra Goodman, “Half-Baked Stories About My Dead Mom” by Etgar Keret, and “Apudzhas Came to Say Goodbye” by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Sponsored by Community Connections. For more information […]
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Home Havdalah Commemorating Women’s History Month 🙋🖥
Home Havdalah Commemorating Women’s History Month 🙋🖥
Join the Women's Organization for a warm and inviting Havdalah service commemorating Women’s History Month at one of our fellow congregants’ homes on the West Side. Refreshments will be served. Space is limited! The address of this program will be shared with those who register to attend in person. RSVP This program will also be available by livestream […]
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Lunch and Learn: Jewish Views on Mental Health 🙋
Lunch and Learn: Jewish Views on Mental Health 🙋
Society has long-held taboos against discussing mental health. Join our Religious School's assistant director, Julia Bennet, as together we overcome stigma and examine the ways Jewish tradition relates to this important topic. Together, we'll explore the ways prayer can affect our emotional well-being, take a look at the relevant middot (Jewish values), and learn what […]
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See ‘Parade’ on Broadway with Stephen Wise! 🙋
See ‘Parade’ on Broadway with Stephen Wise! 🙋
Join Stephen Wise Free Synagogue for an evening on Broadway! In "Parade," Leo and Lucille Frank are a newlywed Jewish couple struggling to make a life in the old red hills of Georgia. When Leo is accused of an unspeakable crime, it propels them into an unimaginable test of faith, humanity, justice and devotion. Riveting […]
Community Mahjong 🙋
Community Mahjong 🙋
Spend the afternoon playing maj with friends old and new! All levels welcome — whether you're a pro, need to sharpen your skills, or are just learning to play, there's a table waiting for you! Co-sponsored by Community Connections and the Women's Organization of Stephen Wise Free Synagogue. PLEASE REGISTER HERE
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‘Parade’ Discussion 🙋
‘Parade’ Discussion 🙋
There's a lot to unpack from our trip to see "Parade," which dramatized the 1913 trial and imprisonment, and 1915 lynching, of Jewish American Leo Frank in Georgia... After Kabbalat Shabbat services, join Rabbis Sam Natov, Rena Rifkin and Dalia Samansky and Cantor Dan Singer for a discussion of the play over a light nosh […]
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Lunch and Learn: Judaism and Slavery 🙋
Lunch and Learn: Judaism and Slavery 🙋
“I am Adonai your God who brought you out from the land of the Egyptians to be their slaves no more.” But Judaism’s history with slavery is complicated: Abraham was a slave owner before we were enslaved in Egypt for generations. And some American rabbis supported slavery here while others vehemently opposed the practice. Ahead […]
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Ernest Bloch’s ‘Avodath HaKodesh’ 🙋🖥
Ernest Bloch’s ‘Avodath HaKodesh’ 🙋🖥
Performed by the Manhattan School of Music Choral Ensemble and conducted by Elliot Roman Swiss-American Jewish composer Ernest Bloch's "Avodath HaKodesh" (sacred service) sets the bar for composers aspiring to elevate the language and flow of a synagogue service to the realm of the concert stage. The hourlong Hebrew oratorio — the first and virtually […]
Community Mahjong 🙋
Community Mahjong 🙋
Spend the afternoon playing maj with friends old and new! All levels welcome — whether you're a pro, need to sharpen your skills, or are just learning to play, there's a table waiting for you! Co-sponsored by Community Connections and the Women's Organization of Stephen Wise Free Synagogue. PLEASE REGISTER HERE
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