Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller will share his understanding of how we've arrived at this moment of an outpouring of anti-Jewish/Israel venom on campus and what can be done to reintroduce civility and mutual respect.
Join fellow BJ members who are in the LGBTQ+ community for a Shabbat afternoon Pride celebration picnic. Bring chairs, blankets, and a dairy/vegetarian snack to share. This is open to queer BJ members and their families. All ages are welcome.
Enjoy good food, connect with friends and meet new people, and celebrate Shabbat in community, at this monthly Shabbat dinner.
Come together after Kabbalat Shabbat to catch up with friends and meet new people over a little nibble and a beverage.
Call fellow BJ members to mobilize support for a city bill to end harmful shelter evictions. We’ll explain how to make calls, give you a script and contact information, and support you in making calls in real time.
Award-winning artist Tobi Kahn will give us a guided tour of his current exhibition, which features 48 crafted works on Jewish ritual and tradition.
The three weeks between 17th of Tammuz and Tisha Be’Av, called bein hametzarim, is a mourning period. This year, we've faced many challenges. Join Rabbis Sammy Kanter and Shuli Passow in a three-part series for respectful community discussion about these topics.
Experience the magic of Shabbat in the city that never sleeps! Every month, Aviv hosts a special Shabbat dinner event designed especially for those in their 20s and 30s.
The three weeks between 17th of Tammuz and Tisha Be’Av, called bein hametzarim, is a mourning period. This year, we've faced many challenges. Join Rabbis Sammy Kanter and Shuli Passow in a three-part series for respectful community discussion about these topics.
The three weeks between 17th of Tammuz and Tisha Be’Av, called bein hametzarim, is a mourning period. This year, we've faced many challenges. Join Rabbis Sammy Kanter and Shuli Passow in a three-part series for respectful community discussion about these topics.
In partnership with Aviv, Minyan Marom will host this month’s Kabbalat Shabbat minyan at BJ! Minyan Marom is a young, vibrant, and joyous community of egalitarian Jews on the Upper West Side, who meet monthly to daven Kabbalat Shabbat and Ma’ariv.
Come together after Kabbalat Shabbat to catch up with friends and meet new people over a little nibble and a beverage.
Join us for a screening and discussion of "Legend of Destruction," depicting the Second Temple's fall in 70 CE amid Roman rule. Created with 1,500 paintings by David Polonsky and Michael Faust, the film highlights themes of greed, corruption, and fanaticism.
Experience the magic of Shabbat in the city that never sleeps! Every month, Aviv hosts a special Shabbat dinner event designed especially for those in their 20s and 30s.
The Community Shabbat Dinner returns from its summer hiatus! Enjoy good food and great company as you celebrate Shabbat with other BJ members and friends.
Join us for an evening featuring Galeet Dardashti (vocalist/composer) as she, along with her live band, presents “Monajat.” Through a mix of traditional and contemporary sounds, and accompanying stunning video art Galeet aims to honor and preserve her grandfather’s legacy.
On the eve of October 7, we unite together to remember the losses of this terrible day and all the terrible days that followed, to hold each other’s pain and share visions for a future of repair, justice, and peace–for all.
Bring your own dinner and join the BJ Environmental Advocates for a showing of the provocative, informative documentary Food, Inc. 2 on the rooftop terrace of our Community House.
Join Aviv and Minyan Marom under the beautiful BJ rooftop sukkah for an evening of wine, snacks, and schmoozing as we embrace fall and get into the Sukkot spirit!
Take action to strengthen our democracy at this one-time intergenerational text banking event.
Join Shalom Hartman Institute scholars Yehuda Kurtzer, Elana Stein Hain, and Tamara Mann Tweel for a three-part series exploring the implications of October 7 on American Jewish civic identity.
The Israeli Authors Discussion Group takes us on a journey of rich and thought-provoking Israeli literature. This month, we’ll read Track Changes by author Sayed Kashua. The first session will be Thursday, October 31.
Bid farewell to Shabbat and prepare for the week ahead at this special family-friendly pre-election Havdalah service for all ages in the JCC lobby. The program will include a song circle and the opportunity to create a beautiful craft.
Explore how parenting can be a vehicle to our own Jewish spiritual practice and how together we can raise connected, thoughtful, and empowered mensches. This havurah (group learning/cohort) is open to parents with children ages birth through 18.
