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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 […]
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.
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.
‘An Edited Life’ Screening and Q&A with Mathieu Faure
At 79-years old, former film editor Jocelyne Bourgeois is goaded, coaxed, challenged by Mathieu Faure, her persistent filmmaker grandson (and Stephen Wise member), to face her true identity — because it is his story, too. They embark together to the places she has avoided since WWII, putting back the scenes she edited out. Facing this deleted past is […]