About Us

Creating a Holy Community

B'nai Jeshurun is a Jewish community built on the belief that we must strive to be a kehillah kedoshah, a holy community. Our mission is to inspire and require. We seek to inspire the search for meaning in our lives and the quest for a measure of sanctity in the midst of so much secularity.

But inspiration alone is not enough. Without requirement, the individual cannot be enriched and the community cannot be strengthened. We ask that each member of BJ commit him or herself to engaging in study that is probing and relevant, prayer with true intention, observance that is meaningful and acts of loving kindness that bring us closer to the repair of the world.

Our teacher Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer wrote the following vision of a synagogue shortly after taking over the leadership of B'nai Jeshurun in 1985:

"Congregation B'nai Jeshurun believes that a community synagogue which responds to the authentic questions of life, death, love, anxiety, longing and the search for meaning can, once again, attract Jews – families and individuals – if it is willing to grapple with the great issues of life."

We are a community of questioners. Please join us as we continue to search for increasingly more meaningful ways to serve each other, our community, our world and God.

 

Rabbi J. Rolando Matalon

Rabbi Marcelo R. Bronstein

Rabbi Felicia L. Sol