Gesher - The Bridge Shul

04/12/2024

Rabbi Jan Uhrbach, Director of the Block / Kolker Center for Spiritual Arts, provides practical advice on how to approach the Seder this year when many will face difficult conversations about Israel: https://www.jtsa.edu/news/tips-hard-conversations-seder-table/

09/19/2023

Now on our website: Rabbi Uhrbach's Rosh Hashanah teachings. Deep Torah on the theme of our new name, "the bridge" and it's resonance in times of personal transition and societal disruption.
https://www.bridgeshul.org/rabbis-torah

[NOTE: Any sound issues at the beginning of the first teaching are corrected about 8 1/2 minutes in, and the rest of the playlist is fine]

Rabbi Uhrbach’s Torah “As someone who doesn't speak or read Hebrew, I find Rabbi Uhrbach's sermons and teachings to be the bridge for my spiritual connection to this particular community. I appreciate the religious, intellectual and moral rigor of her words -- I feel like they disrupt and challe...

08/13/2023

07/28/2023

https://www.27east.com/southampton-press/conservative-synagogue-celebrates-25th-anniversary-renamed-gesher-the-bridge-shul-2181077/

Hot off the press!

By Michelle Trauring On a spring evening in 1998, a small group of year-round Jewish residents met in a vacant East Hampton storefront for their first Shabbat service as the Conservative Synagogue of the Hamptons. Some wanted the intimacy and depth o

07/28/2023

Thank you 27 East for this great article on Rabbi Jan Uhrbach and Gesher | The Bridge Shul celebrating its 25th Anniversary

By Michelle Trauring On a spring evening in 1998, a small group of year-round Jewish residents met in a vacant East Hampton storefront for their first Shabbat service as the Conservative Synagogue of the Hamptons. Some wanted the intimacy and depth o

07/16/2023

Tisha B’Av

Tisha B’Av commemorates the destruction of both Temples, and other times of exile and destruction throughout Jewish history. Gesher | The Bridge Shul and our friends from Temple Adas Israel have traditionally observed this day together, to model the way in which focusing on what we share, rathe

07/16/2023

Prof. Julian Zelizer - Saturday July 29

What role can/should religion and religious leaders play in the public square? Dr. Julian Zelizer, Princeton historian, CNN politic analyst and best-selling author of Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement , joins us for a post-services discussion.