NYBG Shabbat Morning (10/13) postponed due to cold
Due to unseasonably cold weather forecasted for Saturday, our Shabbat Morning in the New York Botanical Gardens is postponed. Stay warm and safe.
Yom Kippur 5779/2018 – Visioning Life and Death Together
By Rabbi David Gmar chatimah tovah. It is so good to see each and every one of you on this holy vision-quest day of Yom Kippur. Vision is this year’s spiritual theme. On Rosh Hashanah we explored Judaism’s core truth that what’s invisible often is more real than what’s visible, …
Kol Nidre 5779/2018 – Ta Chazi! Come and See (The Future)
By Rabbi Shohama Good Yuntif, everyone. It’s so good to see you. And seeing – you, me, God, and how we live, is our spiritual theme this year, and what I’m going to talk about. But first, a little background. In December of 1986, shortly after I was ordained as …
Rosh Hashanah 5779/2018 – Holy Vision: Seeing and Being Seen
By Rabbi Shohama Shanah Tovah, everyone. How do we see our lives and how are we seen by others and by God? …
Erev Rosh Hashanah 5779/2018 – Holy Vision and Optical Delusion
By Rabbi David Shanah tovah. It’s so good to see each and every one of you. In 1952, Ben Gurion, Israel’s first …
Don’t Just Sit There: Feel Something
By Rabbi David Here’s a radical idea that I wish weren’t radical: if you consistently feel nothing in the Jewish community, it’s …
Resilience When We’d Rather Not Remember
By Rabbi David It’s just a few weeks until Rosh Hashanah. The Jewish season of teshuvah (repentance, repair, return) is upon us. …
The Eye is in the Hand of the Beholder
By Rabbi David If art and beauty are in the eye of the beholder, then what about spirituality and especially communal spirituality? …
Shabbat by the Sea 2018
Don’t miss our outdoor Kabbalat Shabbat on New York harbor at sunset, at the home of Ken Binder and Steve Roth (2 Bay Street). Bring friends, …
Tisha b’Av: Descent for the Sake of Ascent
Join us for Judaism’s most poignant day. Touch brokenness en route to healing. Drop deep to rise high. Honor solemnity and darkness …