Congregation Or Zarua

Congregation Or Zarua OZ is a Traditional, Egalitarian, and Participatory Conservative Synagogue on the Upper East Side

Celebrate Pesah with Or Zarua!Pesah begins Wednesday night, April 1Shaharit with Siyyum for Ta’anit BehorotWednesday, Ap...
03/31/2026

Celebrate Pesah with Or Zarua!
Pesah begins Wednesday night, April 1

Shaharit with Siyyum for Ta’anit Behorot
Wednesday, April 1, 7:15 am
Festival Services with Hallel, Kiddush to follow
Thursday, April 2, 9:00 am
Community Second Night Seder
Thursday, April 2, 7:00 pm
Registration has closed for this event.
Festival Services with Hallel, Kiddush to follow
Friday, April 3, 9:00 am
Shabbat Evening Services, Oneg to follow
Friday, April 3, 6:15 pm
Shabbat Hol HaMoed Service, with Hallel & Shir HaShirim
Kiddush and Chaburah with Rabbi Bolton to follow
Saturday, April 4, 8:45 am
Shabbat ends 8:06 pm
Hol HaMoed Services with Hallel, Breakfast to follow
Sunday, April 5, 8:45 am
Hol HaMoed Services with Hallel, Breakfast to follow
Monday, April 6, 7:15 am
Hol HaMoed Services with Hallel,- Erev Yom Tov
Tuesday, April 7, 7:10 am – Zoom only
Candle lighting for 7th night of Passover, 7:08 pm
Festival Services with Hallel, Kiddush to follow
Wednesday, April 8, 9:00 am
Candle lighting for last night of Passover, after 8:10 pm
Festival Services with YIZKOR & Hallel, Kiddush to follow
Thursday, April 9, 9:00 am. Yizkor is around 10:45 am.
Passover ends, 8:11 pm
Hametz reverts to seller, 8:12 pm

Please join us tonight for a book talk for “Inheritance: Love, Loss and the Legacy of the Holocaust,” by OZ member Charl...
03/25/2026

Please join us tonight for a book talk for “Inheritance: Love, Loss and the Legacy of the Holocaust,” by OZ member Charlie Scheidt. The talk will be followed by a book signing and reception. Fellow member Owen Pell will interview and dialogue with Charlie.

Books will be available for sale at the event.

Antisemitic hate crimes made up 57% of all reported hate crimes in NYC last year, but Jewish people make up only about 1...
03/24/2026

Antisemitic hate crimes made up 57% of all reported hate crimes in NYC last year, but Jewish people make up only about 10% of NYC’s population.

The legislative package from is urgently needed and would help ensure safe access to synagogues, schools, and other houses of worship while protecting the right to peaceful protest.

In-person event.Lecture by Benjamin MarcusOn Purim we read Megillat Esther. And on Passover – always 30 days later – we ...
03/17/2026

In-person event.

Lecture by Benjamin Marcus

On Purim we read Megillat Esther. And on Passover – always 30 days later – we read Song of Songs. Both holidays mark crucial events of our redemption by G-d from imminent genocidal annihilation by the rulers of our exilic host nations. But the stories we read could not be more different in tenor from the events we make it a duty to remember, and they could not be more different from each other in their narrative structures.

Come on March 18 to see the how these differences were addressed in the two illustrated megillot that fellow congregant Benjamin Marcus has produced as he presents his own visual interpretations in a short talk about the work.

Registration for this event has closed.Get ready to bring a little summer camp magic into the winter! Join us on Friday,...
03/12/2026

Registration for this event has closed.

Get ready to bring a little summer camp magic into the winter! Join us on Friday, March 13 for a joyful Family Shabbat Dinner that will feel just like Shabbat at camp—songs, community, and plenty of food!

Families are invited to wear their favorite camp swag, sing loudly, and settle in for a relaxed, ruach-filled evening together.

Evening Schedule
5:00 pm – Families arrive for a shabbat celebration, summer camp style
• Song sheets with favorite camp songs
• Egg shakers, guitar, and lots of singing with a song leader!

5:45 pm – Shalom Aleichem, Blessings & Dinner
• Deli-style Shabbat dinner inspired by camp

6:45 pm – Kabbalat Shabbat & Maariv in the Sanctuary

7:45–8:30 pm – Dessert & Community Oneg in the Social Hall
• Sweet time together

Artist Barbara Wolff will speak about her latest manuscript at this Gallery Event.“A Tent For The Sun: Hebrew Poetry of ...
03/05/2026

Artist Barbara Wolff will speak about her latest manuscript at this Gallery Event.

“A Tent For The Sun: Hebrew Poetry of Muslim Spain (950—1140)”

This manuscript of a shared cultural richness and innovation reflecting the legacy of Convivencia, the cultural interaction between Muslims, Jews and Christians in 10th and 11th century Iberia.

“Restoring Faith in Democracy Through Civic Spirit”Judaism and other faiths elevate the transmission of tradition from o...
03/04/2026

“Restoring Faith in Democracy Through Civic Spirit”
Judaism and other faiths elevate the transmission of tradition from one generation to another. With political polarization challenging American society, we will learn how civic education prepares the next generation to participate in democracy and its vital role in rebuilding trust in the system and in each other.

Shushan Sushi to break your fast, evening services, Megillah reading and the annual OZ Purim Spiel!Join us at Or Zarua, ...
02/27/2026

Shushan Sushi to break your fast, evening services, Megillah reading and the annual OZ Purim Spiel!

Join us at Or Zarua, or watch the livestream! Link in bio

A fun-filled Purim celebration for kids of all ages!No charge for members, $5 for non-members.
02/27/2026

A fun-filled Purim celebration for kids of all ages!
No charge for members, $5 for non-members.

Pre-Purim lecture by Marc AshleyFebruary 25 at 7:00 pm (Zoom only).The frivolity of Purim masks its menacing context. Me...
02/23/2026

Pre-Purim lecture by Marc Ashley

February 25 at 7:00 pm (Zoom only).

The frivolity of Purim masks its menacing context. Megillat Esther, which we may read lightheartedly, describes an embattled Jewish community at risk of extermination. Yet the Megillah also insightfully and provocatively encapsulates a fierce ancient debate – with obvious contemporary resonance – about the status, identity and future of Jews in the Diaspora, far from their ancestral homeland. It is a thoroughly Diaspora-centric story, set within the milieu of the mighty Persian empire, with little regard for conventional Jewish themes, practices and beliefs –including, stunningly, not a single reference to God. It centrally frames a pivotal question with increasing relevance and urgency for disquieted Jews in today’s unsettling world: Are we better off living in the Diaspora or Israel? Depending on one’s perspective, Megillat Esther’s answer may be comforting, confounding or chilling. The issues it raises are certainly timely and consequential.

Please join congregant Marc Ashley for an intriguing discussion of an often misunderstood and underappreciated classic Jewish text.

TOMORROW:Zayin Adar ProgramDinner is cancelled, but you can join the program on Zoom. When Moses ascended Har Nebo, he ...
02/23/2026

TOMORROW:
Zayin Adar Program
Dinner is cancelled, but you can join the program on Zoom.
When Moses ascended Har Nebo, he was probably not thinking of the possibility of snow on his yahrzeit, but alas, we need to contend with the realities of a Nor’easter.

To be safe, we have cancelled the dinner for tomorrow night, but so far, the (nationwide) program we were joining, with Kavod v’Nichum, is on. If you want to join the program, which will include the screening of the short film The Secret Society, please click the link in our story.

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