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SWFS Delegation to Washington, DC: March for Israel! 🙋🇮🇱
National Mall 1420 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC, United StatesWe invite you to join Stephen Wise Free Synagogue's delegation to Washington, D.C., led by Cantor Dan Singer, Rabbi Dalia Samansky, Miriam Kalmar and Sandra Divack Moss (Rabbis Ammi Hirsch and Tracy Kaplowitz will be representing us in Israel), to gather with our Jewish brothers and sisters from across the country. Together we'll demonstrate our […]
International Law in War + Israel’s Conduct 🙋
Stephen Wise Free SynagogueCriticism of Israel's military strategies in Gaza predates the current war with Hamas. However, the backlash from the media, the United Nations, and the public has intensified amid Israel's current mission to dismantle Hamas. Join Columbia University Liviu Librescu Professor of Law Matthew Waxman, to learn what constitutes a legal target in wartime, what "proportionality" […]
Lunch and Learn: Hanukkah Story – Miracles or Zionism? 🙋
Stephen Wise Free SynagogueThe songs of Hanukkah are more than celebratory tunes...they also reveal the changing role the holiday has played in Israel's national identity. Join Upper West Side Shlicha Gali Rabin Choresh, […]
An Evening With Israel’s Special Combat Search and Rescue Unit 669 🙋🇮🇱
Stephen Wise Free SynagogueWhen Israel's soldiers are injured, it's up to the elite helicopter-borne combat search and rescue Unit 669 to extract the wounded and provide medical treatment — often under fire and […]
‘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 […]
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 […]