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Women Firsts (Zoom)
Celebrate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Rabbi Sally Priesand, and recently elected Vice President Kamala Harris. Join us as we mark Women’s History Month by holding a panel discussion moderated by Rabbi Sam Natov of four esteemed guests: Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, cultural historian and author Linda Hirshman, and Rabbis Shira Gluck and Mary Zamore. Together, they […]
Emergency Food Program
Stephen Wise Free SynagogueIn the spirit of tikkun olam, volunteer to prepare and distribute food packages to individuals in need. Sign up to volunteer by yourself, with a friend, or with your family; every person makes a […]
78th Commemoration of the Liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto
From March 13 to 16, 1943, the Nazi German SS and local police "liquidated" the Kraków ghetto, killing some 2,000 Jews on the spot. Another 2,000 deemed able to work were sent to the Płaszów labor camp and 3,000 were transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where 549 were selected for forced labor; the rest were murdered in the camp's […]
Emergency Food Program
Stephen Wise Free SynagogueIn the spirit of tikkun olam, volunteer to prepare and distribute food packages to individuals in need. Sign up to volunteer by yourself, with a friend, or with your family; every person makes a difference. To volunteer, contact efp@swfs.org.
Commemorating One Year of COVID
Join the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan, Stephen Wise and other local Jewish communal institutions virtually to commemorate the one-year anniversary of COVID-19 in New York City and the devastating loss of life we have experienced. Through music, memorials, prayer, and wise words, we will gather to mourn, grieve, and process. To add a name to […]
Read and Discuss ‘Blood Libel’
Since the Middle Ages, vicious defamatory rumors have swirled that Jews murder non-Jewish children to use their blood in Passover rituals. Join us in reading the 2020 National Jewish Book Award winner, "Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth," an in-depth history of the anti-Semitic blood libel myth and how it took root in Europe and spread with the […]