A new website for the new year
We’re proud and excited, after many months of research, planning, designing, and adapting, to share our all-new website and graphic identity. Toget...
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Est. 1825
Welcome to
our Sacred Community
B'nai Jeshurun is a nearly 200-year-old non-affiliated synagogue located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. We welcome all, no matter the path traveled.
"Joining and participating in the BJ community has transformed the trajectory of my life."
Suzanne Schecter, First Vice President
Weekend with Assistant Rabbi Candidate Rebecca Weintraub
We invite you to meet Assistant Rabbi candidate Rebecca Weintraub, Friday, January 24-Sunday, January 26. Becca is looking forward to praying with us, sharing her Torah with us, and getting to know our community. Please join us for one of the opportunities to meet Becca.
Social Justice & Social Action
We all long for a just and peaceful world. BJ maintains an awareness of and a concern for the challenges and injustices we encounter in our society. We can contribute to social change and deepen our Jewish practice through social action. We concern ourselves with the needs of the BJ community, the Jewish community, and the city at large.
Welcome to Our New Website
2020 is more than just a year and the beginning of a new decade. It is also the designation of correct vision. We’re proud and excited to share our all-new website and graphic identity. We hope these new tools make clear and accessible BJ’s vision of an inclusive and expansive Judaism, and of a welcoming, diverse, and dynamic community.
Spiritual Leadership
Our Rabbis & Hazzan
Stories & Articles
Voices from
Our Community
Toward Shabbat: Vayehi
As you read this, I am probably somewhere on I-95, sitting on a bus with our 7th graders. We are headed to Washington, D.C., for an immersive exper...
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Taste of Torah: Vayehi
In this week’s parashah, the narrative arc of Yosef and his brothers comes to a close, as does the entire book of Bereshit. With much of the story’...
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Assistant Rabbi Search
We are seeking an Assistant Rabbi who will share in the full range of rabbinic responsibilities for the entire BJ community, with a particular focu...
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Toward Shabbat: Vayigash
At a moment of intense polarization within the Jewish people, the practice of Daf Yomi pushes us to see Jewish learning and tradition as a beautifu...
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Stella Skolnik-Weil, BJ Member
Paula Kramer Weiss, Board Member
Ilene Rosenthal, Board Member
Lighting the Path Ahead
With your help, B'nai Jeshurun is better equipped to pursue its vision of a transformative spiritual community and more just and peaceful world.