Media coverage of Stephen Wise Free Synagogue has included feature articles and highlights in the many local, national and international news outlets. Below is some select coverage that highlights the synagogue.
Press inquiries may be directed to Communications Director Ryan Greiss at rgreiss@swfs.org or (212) 877-4050, ext. 267.
eJewishPhilanthropy: A large NYC synagogue will be visiting the Ukrainian border
Apr 8, 2022
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue is doing what perhaps no other synagogue in the United States has yet done: organizing a congregational mission to Poland and the Ukrainian border to speak with refugees and observe the work of Jewish aid groups. “I felt it was important not only to write a check but to do something that would bring us into contact with suffering people,” our Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch told eJewishPhilanthropy.
TwinCities.com: A Minnesota connection to Ukraine: Bob Dylan’s paternal grandparents fled persecution in Russian Empire
Apr 3, 2022
Our Cantor Dan Singer spoke with TwinCities.com about his historical and genealogical research into Bob Dylan’s ancestry.
Times of Israel: Ancestry Unites a Symphony of Singers for Ukraine Crisis Relief
Mar 30, 2022
In his Times of Israel blog, our Cantor Dan Singer writes about how he discovered he is related to Manhattan Symphonie founder Gregory Singer, whom we’ve partnering with for a concert supporting Ukraine relief efforts.
Duluth News Tribune: Old library, Bob Dylan at crossroads of Superior history
Feb 3, 2022
In the Duluth News Tribune, our Cantor Dan Singer explores the ancestral crossroads of Bob Dylan, John Hammond and Highway 61 converging in his hometown of Superior, Wisconsin.
New York Daily News: How many more wakeup calls do we need to understand anti-Jewish hatred?
Jan 26, 2022
“There is an instinct to misunderstand the nature of antisemitism,” our Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch writes in the New York Daily News in response to the attack on a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas. “To fight effectively against antisemitism, we must take on the toxic ideology…we must do the much harder work of eradicating ideologies of hate in our communities.”
Tablet: The Believer
Jan 25, 2022
“Ammiel Hirsch is the most prominent Reform rabbi who is willing to publicly challenge his colleagues’ alleged complacency toward the movement’s commitment to Israel,” writes Tablet’s Armin Rosen in a profile of our senior rabbi.
JTA: Desmond Tutu, anti-apartheid leader who identified with Jews and criticized Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, dies at 90
Dec 26, 2021
Desmond Tutu, the archbishop who identified closely with the historical suffering of the Jewish people in his forceful advocacy against apartheid in South Africa, has died at age 90. In 1989, Stephen Wise Free Synagogue honored him for his work fighting racial discrimination.
Jewish Journal: Does Radical Ignorance Deserve a Seat at the Table?
Dec 22, 2021
Writing in the Jewish Journal about American Jews’ “radical ignorance” of their own history, Josh Feldman quotes our Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, who lambasted the idea that Israel is committing genocide as “a colossal, catastrophic failure of the American Jewish establishment: Rabbis, teachers, schools—all of us.”
Jewish Insider: Diaspora affairs minister ‘doesn’t accept’ delays to Kotel plan
Dec 15, 2021
Following a report that the Israeli government has frozen the implementation of a deal for a state-recognized egalitarian prayer section at the Western Wall, our Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch told Jewish Insider he was “disappointed” but not surprised just days after positive discussions he and others had with Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai on the subject.
MacaroniKID: Early Childhood Education Is More Important Now Than Ever
Dec 6, 2021
Children who missed out on a year of schooling are at a disadvantage, writes Miriam Kalmar, our ECC’s director. “Your children’s futures – and our future as a society – depend on their developing healthy social emotional skills that will ensure their lifelong success.”
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