The Religious Action Center - New York (RAC-NY) is advocating for the passage of the NY Equal Rights Amendment. Read more about the ERA with information from RAC-NY, and attend Pride Shabbat at CRS on Friday, June 21 to learn more. What is the NY ERA? The New York State Equal Rights...
Prayer for the Captives We pray on this night to God, who we call Podeh u’Matzil, the One who rescues and saves, who redeems and protects. Guide our loved ones home. Teach us the tools to Rescue and Save, to Redeem and Protect.Strengthen, God, the hearts of those kidnapped, to help...
In recent years, as synagogues have been adapting Judaism’s male-dominated, heteronormative traditions to include women and queer people, many have been also working to include people with disabilities. This work-in-progress begins—but doesn’t end—with ensuring that everyone who wants to go to synagogue can actually get into the building. Accessibility is a...
Dear Rodeph Sholom Family, Profanity. When massacre is celebrated as liberation and rape as an act of redemptive resistance, we see a horrific mutation of our most precious values. When such vulgarities echo across the campuses of our most prestigious halls of higher learning, we witness a desecration beyond measure. Our...
We are delighted to announce that Arielle Stein will be joining Congregation Rodeph Sholom as Assistant Rabbi this July. Arielle served as a rabbinic intern here at Rodeph Sholom last summer through the Tisch Fellowship. She will be ordained in May by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in...
Dear CRS Community, Ten years ago, Larry and Elisabeth Lerner made a gift to our community that would shape generations of teens to come. By establishing the Susan Goodstein Lerner Youth Engagement Initiative in loving memory of their wife and mother, they paved the way for hundreds of CRS Confirmands to...
When the echoes of Michael Jackson's beats ignited a young Stefano Iacono's love for music, little did he know it would pave his way to becoming a cantor. Join Nicole Kelly as she chats with Stefano on Shebrew in the City and shares a symphony of anecdotes that illustrates how...
By Rabbi Joshua Stanton, Rabbi Benjamin Spratt A year and a half ago, we published a book on the awakenings transforming Jewish life for the better. While we found that mainstay organizations forged by community needs a century ago remained in decline, a burgeoning nonprofit sector of Jewish startups was rising to meet...
We are so proud of our CRS teens who completed the L'Taken Social Justice Advocacy weekend in January with the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism! They lobbied on Climate Change, Reproductive Rights, Support for Israel, and Raising the Minimum Wage. They also visited the staff of Senator Gillibrand and...
New York City kitchens are notoriously small. Nonetheless, on Friday Congregation Rodeph Sholom on the Upper West Side unveiled a 35-foot-long challah that they and their partners hope will break a world record. The gargantuan loaf was made in collaboration with the Jewish Federations of North America and the Orthodox Union...
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