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We provide a loving fellowship for Jews of all backgrounds and cultures.

No matter what level of observance, Shabbat and Holiday services are spiritually enriching and inspiring.

Services Saturday morning are at 9:00 A.M.
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This year we will celebrate the festival of Shavuot on May 15th and 16th (Yizkor on the 16th & Tikun Leyl Shavuot on May 14th in the evening) which culminates our counting of the Omer (seven full weeks), from Pesach to Shavuot. The Hebrew date for Shavuot is Sivan 6, the date on which the Torah was revealed on Mount Sinai.

Even though the biblical holiday of Shavuot is agricultural, the rabbinic name for Shavuot is Z’man Matan Toratenu - the season of the giving of our Torah. Every year we have an opportunity to renew our covenant and imagine ourselves standing once again at the foot of Mount Sinai - just as on Pesach, each individual must feel as if he/she had just been set free from Egypt

The moment of revelation is seen as a marriage between G-d and the Jewish people, with G-d as the groom, Israel the bride, heaven and earth the witnesses, and the K’tubah, the wedding contract, is the Torah itself. A K’tubah is a legal document that defines the parameters of a sacred relationship, establishing the commitments that are made in order for it to work. The Torah also is a sacred document that offers us the possibility of connection through commitment and Ma’asim Tovim. (good deeds).


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Annual Journal Dinner Dance
The Annual Journal Campaign is our major fund-raiser and a successful campaign is imperative to preserve the continued vitality of our synagogue. We hope all members will participate in the Journal Campaign.

I am pleased to announce that this year’s Guests of Honor at our Annual Journal Dinner Dance will be Ray & Ed Starer.
Ray and Ed Starer

Ray and Ed Starer come from very similar backgrounds. Their parents fled Germany just prior to World War II. Ed’s emigrated to what was then Palestine, and Ray’s to England. In 1948, both families emigrated to the United States. Ed’s family settled in Washington Heights and Ray’s in Forest Hills.
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Daily Minyan Urgent Request
The morning and afternoon minyans are fragile and exist without a strong safety net of men to make a minyan if some of our regulars do not come.

If you are observing the yahrzeit of a loved one and it falls on a day when we do not have a minyan you would be upset and rightly so. We need you not only when you are observing yahrzeit, but a few days each month to insure that someone else will be able to say kaddish. A few days each month is not too much to ask.

By doing a mitzvah, you will be rewarded with a bigger mitzvah. Please contact the Rabbi or the Center office with your name and phone number; & when and how often & what time (morning/afternoon?) you can commit.