VOLUNTEER Opportunities
Being a member of B'nai Jeshurun means continuously striving to create a kehillah kedoshah, a sacred community, within our congregation as well as within our global community. Volunteerism at BJ provides members with a great variety of opportunities to help make this vision a reality.
Volunteer Committees & Programs
In communal service, we serve God by our commitment to gemilut hasidim, acts of loving kindness. To that end, BJ's volunteer committees and programs are clustered in the following categories:- Social Action/Social Justice (Tikkun Olam - Repair of the World) Our tradition demands that each of us work to eliminate the occurrence and effects of poverty, to speak out against injustice, and to shape a more caring society and a more peaceful world. Programs include working with the homeless, the hungry, and the disadvantaged in New York City and around the world, as well as establishing bonds with Israel.
- Creating Kehillah (Community). BJ provides sacred opportunities for all members to solidify the bonds of friendship, love and community, to support one another through times of hardship, and to celebrate the manifold Jewish practice, and our Interfaith connections.
- Tefillah (Prayer and Synagogue Services). Join us for the daily minyan, or participate in Torah or Haftarah reading
- Torah (Study and Education). We encourage parents, teens and others to take part in these programs that support the BJ Hebrew School and other Family Life activities.
We invite each of you to carve out your own path at B'nai Jeshurun, to live the mitzvot of our tradition. If you would like to participate in any of these programs, please call Yael Hammerman at (212) 787-7600 x255.
Tefillah
Great is the power of prayer. For to worship is to expand the presence of God in the world.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Daily Minyan
Contact: Cantor Ari Priven, x232
Join with fellow members by making sure there is quorum of ten adults so that those who need to say Kaddish daily can do so. Daily minyan meets Monday - Friday at the 88th St. Sanctuary at 7:30AM. and on Sunday at 9:30AM.
Needed: People who can participate once a month, once a week, or even more often. >> Sign Up!
Torah/Haftarah Reading
Contact: Cantor Ari Priven, x232
While B'nai Jeshurun is blessed with many who know how to chant Torah and Haftarah, we always welcome new readers, especially on Mondays and Thursdays during morning minyan. This is a wonderful way to commemorate a bar/bat mitzvah or any other simhah.
Needed: Torah and Haftarah readers especially for the Monday and Thursday daily minyan and during the summer.