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B'nai Jeshurun NYC BJ is a Jewish synagogue community and we welcome you to study, pray and serve with us.

B’nai Jeshurun is a nonaffiliated synagogue and Jewish community that strives to experience God’s presence by praying, studying, teaching, volunteering, celebrating, and caring for each other and our world. Our services are joyful, musical, socially progressive, and accessible, weaving together tradition with contemporary life.

Join BJ’s spiritual leaders, community members, and guest teachers in the practice of lifelong Jewish learning. More det...
10/15/2026

Join BJ’s spiritual leaders, community members, and guest teachers in the practice of lifelong Jewish learning. More details and register at link in comments.

10/15/2026

Saturday, October 10

Shabbat Morning Services

Rabbi Felicia Sol, Hazzan Ari Priven, Rabbinic Fellow Iliana Brodsky
Dan Nadel (Music Director, guitar), Ismail Lumanovski (clarinet), Satoshi Takeishi (percussion)

Visit This Shabbat @ BJ for Shabbat Handouts and other info: https://www.bj.org/this-shabbat-at-bj/

10/13/2026

What do we lose when knowledge becomes instant?

Reflecting on Parashat Beresh*t, Rabbinic Fellow Iliana Brodsky draws a connection between the tree of knowledge and the promise of artificial intelligence. AI can give us more information, more quickly, but Torah offers a different vision of how human beings are meant to learn.

We acquire knowledge through experience, effort, uncertainty, and trying again. The goal is not simply to know more or arrive at the right answer faster, but to remain engaged in the process of being human.

Watch or listen to Iliana’s full D’var Torah at the link in comments →

During Kabbalat Shabbat services on Friday, Governor Kathy Hochul spoke and reflected on BJ’s 200-year history, our comm...
10/13/2026

During Kabbalat Shabbat services on Friday, Governor Kathy Hochul spoke and reflected on BJ’s 200-year history, our commitment to social justice and inclusiveness, and the responsibility to act on our values in difficult times.

In a wide-ranging address, she spoke about rising antisemitism, the safety of Jewish communities, and the responsibility of government, while also returning to a message of solidarity and hope.

Watch Governor Hochul’s remarks at BJ at the link in bio.

10/09/2026

Friday, October 9

Kabbalat Shabbat

Rabbi Felicia Sol, Rabbi Alex Braver, Hazzan Ari Priven

Dan Nadel (Music Director, guitar), Ismail Lumanovski (clarinet), Satoshi Takeishi (percussion)

Visit This Shabbat @ BJ for Shabbat Handouts and other info: https://www.bj.org/this-shabbat-at-bj/

Toward Shabbat is back!After the intensity of the holidays, we return to the small, steady practices that bind us: Shabb...
10/09/2026

Toward Shabbat is back!

After the intensity of the holidays, we return to the small, steady practices that bind us: Shabbat, prayer, learning, mitzvot, and community.

In this week’s Toward Shabbat, Rabbi Felicia Sol reflects on tefillin, covenant, grief, and the sacred work of making holiness visible in the ordinary.

Read her Toward Shabbat at the link in comments.

10/07/2026

Three years after October 7, we remember.

During services this past Shabbat and Shemini Atzeret, Rabbis Felicia Sol, Becca Weintraub, and Hazzan Ari Priven sang Kinat Be’eri, Yagel Haroush’s lament for Kibbutz Be’eri and the unfathomable devastation of that day.

A kinah gives grief a place to live. In its words and melody, we hold the lives lost and the pain that still endures. We also hear the song’s longing for mercy, healing, and the return of light.

As Felicia reflected before the lament, we make space for memory so that what has been lost can be held, in all its pain and horror, and so that even amid searing brokenness, we do not lose our hearts.

May the memories of the 1,200 people murdered on October 7, and the 87 hostages who were returned home in coffins, be for a blessing. The trauma and destruction were not confined to that one day. In these three years, nearly 475 Israeli soldiers have died in the Gaza war, along with tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians.

Kinat Be’eri gives voice to that continuing brokenness, while still reaching toward mercy and healing.

אֵיכָה יִשְׂרָאֵל
בְּיוֹם קְרוֹא אֵל
וְחַיִּים שׁוֹאֵל
וּמְהוּמָה קִבֵּל
זָקֵן וְעוֹלֵל
בְּדַם מִתְגּוֹלֵל
וְחַגּוֹ חִלֵּל
אוֹיֵב אַכְזָרִי
עֵינִי נוֹבְעָה מַיִם
מֵעֹמֶק שִׁבְרִי.
Eikhah — Israel
on a day of calling to God
Life was requested
but chaos received
Elder and infant
wallow in blood
His festival desecrated
by a merciless enemy
My eyes pour forth water
from the depth of my brokenness

וּבְעֵין רַחֲמֶיךָ
תְּרַפֵּא שִׁבְרִי
וְעֵינִי הַנּוֹבַעַת
תַּשְׁקֶה בְּאֵרִי
And from the wellsprings of your mercy
heal my brokenness
And my eye
that pours forth
will water Be’eri

10/04/2026

Saturday, October 3

Shabbat and Shemini Atzeret Morning Services

Rabbi Felicia Sol, Rabbi Becca Weintraub, Rabbi Alex Braver, Hazzan Ari Priven

Dan Nadel (Music Director, guitar), Ismail Lumanovski (clarinet), Satoshi Takeishi (percussion)

Visit This Shabbat @ BJ for Shabbat Handouts and other info: https://www.bj.org/this-shabbat-at-bj/

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257 W 88th Street
New York, NY
10024

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