Connections Cocktail Hour
Remote Access Only NY, United StatesJoin us for a relaxed hour with good conversation and your favorite drink. All are welcome.
Join us for a relaxed hour with good conversation and your favorite drink. All are welcome.
BJ’s second-night community seder is back. Hear new voices, connect with community, and sing your way through this seder led by Rabbi Felicia Sol and enhanced by BJ’s team of musicians.
As the Shabbat of Pesah comes to a close, join us for this musical evening filled with anticipation of love and springtime.
Join us for a relaxed hour with good conversation and your favorite drink. All are welcome.
Join your fellow 20s, 30s, and 40s for Kabbalat Shabbat and dinner. After Shabbat services, we will enjoy a delicious meal, schmooze, and celebrate Shabbat together!
Learn about the development of a new hagadah for Yom Hashoah that weaves together texts, testimonies, discussions, prayer, and silence in bringing new awareness to this act of remembering.
AFJ is preparing to send 50 posters to the offices of each and every state legislator and city councilor, and we'd love your help! Join us for a massive box-opening and envelope-stuffing party. Bring your friends and family, but be sure to register to let us know you're coming.
Connections invites the entire BJ community to join long-time member and folk-guitarist Craig Rosenberg in singing the songs of Pete Seeger, Woody & Arlo Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul & Mary and a few others.
Join us for a relaxed hour with good conversation and your favorite drink. All are welcome.
In honor of Israel’s 75th anniversary and on the fifth yahrzeit of one of the major figures in the constellation of world-class Israeli writers, we’ll be discussing Aharon Appelfeld’s novel, Suddenly, Love.
Join Scholar in Residence, Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg for a catered Shabbat dinner with learning, exploration, and deeper community connections.
Every other week, join Rabbi Roly Matalon to prepare the soul and open the heart for Shabbat morning prayers through the singing of piyutim and brief reflections.
Join RAC-NY and Dayenu for the New York Jewish Climate Organizing Summit. This is a chance for all Jewish New Yorkers and allies to gather, learn, organize, and take action together.
Join us for a conversation with Daniel Sokatch and Rabbi Felicia Sol about Sokatch’s new book, Can We Talk About Israel: A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted.
The theme of the ceremony is “WE ACKNOWLEDGE”: bringing to light what has already been known but was suppressed, denied, or muted.
Join us for a relaxed hour with good conversation and your favorite drink. All are welcome.
Israel was founded as a homeland for the Jewish people, while promising to promote democratic values. But in recent years there has been growing tension between the country’s democratic and Jewish values. Join us for a deep dive into these issues.
Join Rabbi Jessica Lenza, BJ’s Associate Director of Creative Development, for a catered Shabbat dinner with learning, song, and deeper community connections.
The State of Israel is facing a reckoning right now, and its citizens and supporters are confronting numerous difficult questions. What are the possible futures for the State of Israel?
BJ’s Israel Educator, Kobi Cohen, will lead us in a discussion of the book Can We Talk About Israel: A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted by Daniel Sokatch. This event is for the Aviv 20s, 30s, and 40s community.
Join us for a relaxed hour with good conversation and your favorite drink. All are welcome.
Join your fellow 20s, 30s, and 40s for Kabbalat Shabbat and dinner. After Shabbat services, we will enjoy a delicious meal, schmooze, and celebrate Shabbat together!
Every other week, join Rabbi Roly Matalon to prepare the soul and open the heart for Shabbat morning prayers through the singing of piyutim and brief reflections.
BJ’s core values are reflected every Shabbat by bringing families and our whole community together. Our services—full of music and spirituality—show the essence of our community as we strive to share approachable and accessible Judaism, to ensure that everyone feels included and welcome.
Join the BJ teens on a day out at Coney Island’s Luna Park! We’ll travel there together, and spend the day riding roller coasters, eating yummy snacks and enjoying our time together.
Join us for a relaxed hour with good conversation and your favorite drink. All are welcome.
BJ members are invited to hear the rabbis share the latest on BJ’s strategic refresh. Rabbis Roly Matalon and Felicia Sol will talk about new opportunities evolving out of the strategic refresh planning process, followed by a chance to ask questions.
Families will enjoy a kid-friendly Kabbalat Shabbat service filled with singing and dancing. Services will be followed by a dinner complete with Shabbat blessings and songs. While adults are finishing their meal, children engage in play and exploration.
BJ’s core values are reflected every Shabbat by bringing families and our whole community together. Our services—full of music and spirituality—show the essence of our community as we strive to share approachable and accessible Judaism, to ensure that everyone feels included and welcome.
Join BJ and Knock Knock Give a Sock (KKGS) in building stronger communities by bringing neighbors together for Mother’s Day.
Join author and BJ member Lisa Honig Buksbaum for a reading from her debut memoir, SOARING into Strength: Love Transcends Pain. This conversation will explore ways to manage emotional and mental health in the midst of overwhelming obstacles.
Parents with children are invited to join us in welcoming Calle Schueler, our new Assistant Director of Family Life and Learning.
Join Rabbi Roly Matalon for a Community Shabbat Dinner with special guests from a leadership trip with the Israeli American Council—filled with learning and dialogue; song, and enriched connections.
Every other week, join Rabbi Roly Matalon to prepare the soul and open the heart for Shabbat morning prayers through the singing of piyutim and brief reflections.
BJ is participating in the 13th annual New York Landmarks Conservancy Sacred Sites Open House. We will open our beautiful Sanctuary doors to all who are interested, with a short talk by Executive Director Colin Weil.