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.
Cleveland Jewish News: Temple Israel series to focus on antisemitism, anti-Zionism
Apr 15, 2022
Our Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch will lead a virtual discussion May 25 for the Akron, Ohio, Jewish community on antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiments.
Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle: From Superior to Manhattan – Wisconsin native’s journey to cantor at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
Apr 14, 2022
Daniel Singer, a Wisconsin native, has been a cantor at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York City, a historic place of worship, for 16 years. His journey has taken him from growing up without Jewish community to serving a synagogue in Manhattan.
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.”
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