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 highlight the synagogue.
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New York Jewish Week: Rabbis to Tiptoe Around Trump
Sep 13, 2017
Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch comments on his decision to address the Trump presidency in his Rosh Hashanah sermon.
New York Jewish Week: New ‘Portal’ on Jewish Learning
Aug 23, 2017
Our Religious School’s Portals program, which brings our experienced teachers to families’ homes for one-on-one learning, is featured.
ReformJudaism.org Blog: 5 Guidelines for Talking to Young Children About the Refugee Crisis
Jun 28, 2017
Lori Schneider, director of our Early Childhood Center, shares takeaways.
Maariv: Netanyahu Proves He Does Not Care About American Jews
Jun 28, 2017
Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch is quoted in an article in a popular Israeli newspaper about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to halt a project that would have allowed men and women to pray together at the Western Wall. (In Hebrew)
New York Daily News: Why We Cannot Close Our Doors to Refugees
Jun 28, 2017
Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch draws on the synagogue’s recent refugee relief mission to Greece and Germany and responds to President Trump’s travel ban.
The Forward: Inside the Lives of Middle Eastern Refugees
Jun 21, 2017
Stephen Wise member Roberta Schuhalter Karp reflects on the synagogue’s refugee relief mission to Greece and Germany.
The New York Jewish Week: A Passion for Teaching, from Shul to Prison School
May 25, 2017
Kayla Kirshenbaum, assistant director of education at our Religious School, is named among the Jewish Week’s “36 Under 36.”
New York Times: Bernie Sanders’s Criticism of Israel
Apr 19, 2017
“Don’t attack Israel, and Israel will not attack you,” Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch wrote in a letter published in the New York Times.
The Times of Israel: This Passover, Let Us Step Into the Shoes of the Refugee
Apr 6, 2017
“This year in particular, in the aftermath of a deadly chemical attack in Syria, Passover offers a call to action to all Americans to defend human dignity and uphold our common humanity,” Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch wrote in the Times of Israel.