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.
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NY Jewish Week: Could A 3rd Election In Israel Hinge On Religious Pluralism?
Dec 4, 2019
Our Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch spoke about the possibility of religion-state issues moving to the forefront in the next elections and how that could help repair some of the damage done too the Israel-diaspora relationship over the past decade.
NY Jewish Week: Aid Debate Rattles Pro-Israel Democrats
Nov 6, 2019
After expressing alarm at “the encroachment of anti-Israel sentiments in the Democratic Party” our Rabbi Hirsch told New York Jewish Week in an interview: “Just how widespread and deep the anti-Israel animosity is in the Democratic Party is hard for me to gauge. What is important is that we have a roadmap of what that kind of thing does in the long run — and that roadmap is the United Kingdom’s Labour Party.”
Jewish Insider: Biden blasts rivals for wanting to condition aid to Israel…
Nov 1, 2019
Our Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch criticized some of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates for threatening to condition U.S. aid to Israel and for being “tolerant of voices that are opposed to Israel’s existence.” In a statement, Hirsch warned that the Democratic Party is going in the direction of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party.
Algemeiner: Prominent US Reform Jewish Rabbi Warns of Growing Anti-Israel Sentiments in Democratic Party
Oct 30, 2019
Responding to threats by several top-tier Democratic presidential candidates to condition U.S. aid to Israel, Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch reminded the candidates of the mainstream American Jewish and Democratic support for a strong U.S.-Israel relationship and expressed alarm at the encroachment of anti-Israel sentiments in the Democratic party.
The Riverdale Press: Riverdale Temple cantor rediscovers herself in music
Oct 27, 2019
Our Cantor Daniel Singer’s sister-in-law, Inbal Sharrett-Singer, was profiled in The Riverdale Press ahead of “Cantor and Friends,” a concert they’ll be performing together along with other cantors this November 10.
Haaretz: ‘The Free United States Has Made Us Complacent, but Anti-Semitism is a Dangerous Virus’ (Hebrew)
Oct 13, 2019
On Rosh Hashanah Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch devoted his remarks to the rise of anti-Semitism in the U.S. from both sides of the aisle. “Jews do something that no others do: we manage to unite the extreme right and the extreme left. They are on opposite sides of the political and religious spectrum on practically everything else, but fold into each other at the extremes – overlapping in agreement on their hatred of Jews.”
Mosaic: If Jews Don’t Speak Up for Themselves, No One Will Speak Up for Them
Oct 3, 2019
On Rosh Hashanah, our Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch urged us not to lose sight of “the central Jewish principle [that] all Jews are responsible one for the other.” He says: in the face of the anti-Semitic threats that come from so many different directions — and which he goes on to analyze — Jews must not lose their sense of pride, or begin to see Judaism as a burden rather than a privilege.
NY Jewish Week: Rabbis Face New Year In ‘Harrowing Times’ Post-Pittsburgh
Sep 25, 2019
Rising anti-Semitism ison many spiritual leaders’ minds this first Rosh Hashanah since the attack that killed 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue. Our Senior Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch said he will stress to his progressive congregation that the threat of anti-Semitism “comes from both the right wing and the left.”
Broadway World: Music Group Afro-Semitic Experience To Perform First Manhattan Selichot Service In Over A Decade
Sep 5, 2019
Acclaimed multicultural musical group The Afro-Semitic Experience will give its first Selichot performance in Manhattan in more than a decade on Saturday, Sept. 21, at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue.
The West Side Spirit: Alex Rosenberg, the 100-year-old man
Jun 6, 2019
Alex Rosenberg celebrated his 100th birthday at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, where he had become a bar mitzvah 27 years earlier.
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