You’re invited to make our Sukkah a beautiful celebration of art and nature! Create nature-themed art pieces—fruits, vegetables, flowers, trees, and more—up to 18x18 inches. ...
Mishloah manot is one of the four mitzvot of the Purim holiday. It literally means “sending of portions” and refers to a gift of food ...
Calling all BJ performers! BJ Theater Company's annual smash-hit Purim Spiel is back and better than ever. This year's show One Short Day In The ...
Like many Jewish holidays, Shavuot is, in part, an agricultural celebration. Shavuot marks the first harvest. Shavuot also represents a milestone in the annual reenactment ...
Join the BJ Theater Company as we celebrate Pesah! Kindergarten-sixth graders are invited to explore the Haggadah through song and dance as we weave together ...
Support our local community this winter with your contributions.
Hunger doesn't stop for the holidays. Will you help us ensure WSCAH can provide New Yorkers in need with a holiday meal this season?
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the culmination of a 40-day-long process of teshuvah—shedding the dysfunctional patterns in our lives, making amends for our ...
Yom Kippur is the pinnacle of our introspective season. Throughout Yom Kippur, you will encounter prayer services that have some familiar elements and others that ...
Kol Nidre, the prayer that begins our Yom Kippur experience, is most well known for its iconic and haunting melody. The Book of Life is ...
Rosh Hashanah not only marks the start of the Jewish year but also begins the Yamim Nora’im, the Days of Awe, a 10-day period that ...
On Rosh Hashanah, we use special greetings, we eat sweet foods, and we perform the ritual of tashlikh—symbolically casting away our sins.
Throughout the month of Elul, in the lead-up to the Yamim Nora’im, we engage in heshbon nefesh, reflecting on who we are and who we ...
Share in the joy of Purim with our mishloah manot exchange! Sign up and we’ll match you with another BJ member; each of you will ...
The week of Hanukkah mirrors the reality in our lives that, most often, human achievement comes slowly, bit by bit, with commitment, patience, and discipline. ...
I was born to play Elizabeth Bennett. I’d been reading Pride and Prejudice, over and over since I was 9 years old, and I knew ...
I recently returned from a trip to Israel and Palestine sponsored by Combatants for Peace, and I am happy to share some stories of how ...
It has been many years now since I was on a silent retreat sponsored by the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. The morning schedule included a ...
We celebrate Hanukkah during the Northern Hemisphere’s darkest time of the year. Amidst this darkness, I am fortunate to be surrounded by an abundance of ...
How do we understand transformation? How can light enter a world bathed in so much darkness? Last year, on the 8th day of Hanukkah, my ...
Even when it doesn’t appear that sustaining light is possible. Even when the odds are not in our favor. Even when there is uncertainty about ...
Help us put together 200 welcome backpacks with necessary toiletries and meaningful supplies for newly arrived asylum seekers in NYC.
Help us put together 200 welcome backpacks with necessary toiletries and meaningful supplies for newly arrived asylum seekers in NYC.
The Kabbalists (Jewish mystics) instituted a practice of inviting ushpizin (celestial guests) to join us in the sukkah. They imagined that we could welcome a ...
As Pesah begins, we feel all our senses come to life. Our seder plate—filled with the shank bone (zeroa), egg (beitzah), bitter herbs (maror), vegetable ...
Purim 2020 was an uncertain, fearful time as the world started to become nervous about COVID-19. Two years later, Jews around the world were thrilled ...
We are proud to partner with Mitzvah Matzoh, a non-profit that harnesses the power of Pesah to expand freedom for those who need it most. ...
Megillat Esther is the literal scroll of parchment that the Hebrew text of the book of Esther is written on, but is most often used ...
One of the most important mitzvot of Purim is to host a seudah (a festive meal) on Purim day. Since Purim is known as a ...
The mitzvah of mishloah manot (literally: sending gift packages) consists of sending gifts of food to friends and neighbors. These gifts strengthen the ties that ...
Giving matanot le-evyonim (literally, gifts to the poor) is a core mitzvah of Purim. In modern times, this can take the form of direct presents, ...
Help BJ spread Adar joy with homemade hamentaschen! Your freshly baked hamentaschen will be donated to BJ’s lunch program guests and to the Goddard Riverside ...
Letter to the Editor Published in the New York Jewish Week on March 29 2020
Join us for Kol Nidre, held in person in multiple locations on the Upper West Side.
Join us for an uplifting Kol Nidre service, geared toward children 13 and under and their families—led by Rabbi Becca Weintraub and Rabbi Deena Cowans.
Join us for Yom Kippur morning services, held in person in multiple locations on the Upper West Side.
Join us for Yom Kippur Early Childhood services—for children ages 6 and under and their families—led by Rabbi Becca Weintraub and Shira Averbuch.
Join us for this engaging service for children 9 and under and their families—led by Rabbi Deena Cowans. Registration is required.
Join us for an uplifting service geared toward children 13 and under and their families—led by Rabbi Becca Weintraub.
Join us for Seder Ha-Avodah, a short and powerful service, as we move through the afternoon of Yom Kippur.
Join us for Minha and Ne’ilah services, the conclusion of Yom Kippur, held in person in multiple locations on the Upper West Side.
Help make the BJ Sukkah sparkle! Join us for creative crafts and sukkah decorating, with activities for ages 10 and under from 4:30–6:00 PM and more advanced art projects for ages 11+ from 6:00–7:30 PM. Pizza (and wine for adults) will be served!
Families enjoy a kid-friendly Kabbalat Shabbat service filled with singing and dancing. Services are followed by a dinner complete with Shabbat blessings and songs. While adults are finishing their meal, children engage in play and exploration.
Join us in the BJ Sukkah! The evening will consist of a community gathering in the sukkah, followed by a Shabbat dinner together. This event is for BJ member families with children in Kindergarten–6th grade.
Passionately traditional, boldly innovative, and deeply spiritual, services at BJ are like no other. Join us as we celebrate Erev Shabbat and the Sukkot Evening Service.
Celebrate Shabbat and the first night of Sukkot at a community dinner where joy, connection, and song all come together for a beautiful evening.
Passionately traditional, boldly innovative, and deeply spiritual, services at BJ are like no other. Join us as we celebrate Shabbat and Sukkot Morning Services.
Families will enjoy this spiritual and fun Sukkot service full of singing, movement, and learning.
Bring a dairy or vegetarian meal and enjoy open hours in the BJ Sukkah.
Step into the sukkah with Aviv for a rooftop happy hour with snacks! Celebrate Sukkot with fellow 20s + 30s, and feel free to stay after for our community-wide Sukkah Open Hours.
Passionately traditional, boldly innovative, and deeply spiritual, services at BJ are like no other. Join us as we celebrate the Sukkot Evening Service.
Passionately traditional, boldly innovative, and deeply spiritual, services at BJ are like no other. Join us as we celebrate Sukkot Morning Services.
Join BJ’s Environmental Activists for a screening of Just Eat It, with remarks from Sharing Excess’s Miranda Potmesil. Explore the impact of food waste—and how our choices can help build a more sustainable and just food system.
Join BJ members and immigrant friends in the sukkah to celebrate three years of the Immigrant Respite Dinner Program—a community that began with a shared Sukkot meal and has grown through food, conversation, resources, and friendship.
Join us for Hoshanah Rabbah services followed by a community brunch in the sukkah.
Passionately traditional, boldly innovative, and deeply spiritual, services at BJ are like no other. Join us as we celebrate Erev Shemini Atzeret and Shabbat.
Come together after Kabbalat Shabbat to catch up with friends and meet new people over delicious nosh and some drinks in the Rooftop Sukkah.
Passionately traditional, boldly innovative, and deeply spiritual, services at BJ are like no other. Join us as we celebrate Shemini Atzeret and Shabbat Morning Services (with Yizkor).
Families will enjoy this spiritual holiday service full of singing, movement, and learning.
Join us Saturday mornings for a lively and engaging Shemini Atzeret and Shabbat service designed for kids in grades 1–6. Drop-off is optional—parents are welcome to stay for the family-friendly service or join the larger community in the Sanctuary.
Families will enjoy this spiritual and fun holiday service full of singing, movement, learning, and dancing with the Torah!
Before we celebrate Simhat Torah like only BJ can, come together for happy hour and apps with other 20s + 30s, including those from Central Synagogue! The food will be kosher dairy. Connect over drinks and meet a great crew to dance with all night long!
Celebrate Simhat Torah with a sweet family ice cream party, followed by dancing with the Torah during the first few hakafot with the BJ community in the Sanctuary.
Simhat Torah at BJ is a celebration like no other! We will begin with Arvit, followed by all the singing and dancing you could ever ask for!
Passionately traditional, boldly innovative, and deeply spiritual, services at BJ are like no other. Join us as we celebrate Simhat Torah.
Families will enjoy this spiritual and fun holiday service full of singing, movement, learning, and dancing with the Torah!
Early Childhood Families will enjoy a festive erev Purim together! There will be arts and crafts, games, tattoos and face paint, delicious pizza and hamantaschen, and a kid-friendly reading of the Megillah!
Families will enjoy this spiritual and fun Pesah service full of singing, movement, learning, and a telling of the Passover story.
Families will enjoy this spiritual and fun Shavuot service full of singing, movement, learning, and some flower decorating!
