Featured Events
Book Swap and Rooftop Shabbat 🙋
Stephen Wise Book Group 🙋
Stephen Wise Free SynagogueExplore classic and contemporary Jewish literature at this monthly group meeting. This month, we're reading "The Glass Room" by Simon Mawer. RSVP
Havdalah and Melaveh Malkah 🖥
Join Cantor Dan Singer to bid farewell to Shabbat with a musical Havdalah service and Melaveh Malkah. Watch live here on our website or on Facebook or YouTube.
Amplify Israel Teen Giving Circle 🙋
Stephen Wise Free SynagogueAs Hannukah approaches, we often think about the ways we will benefit from the holiday gifts we will receive... Through the Teen Israel Giving Circle, you'll have the opportunity to use your material and mental gifts to make a difference in the world! Join other eighth and ninth graders to learn about some of Israel’s […]
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 […]