The Celebration will be held at the landmark Eldridge Street Synagogue on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Enjoy a concert of World Jewish music which spans cultures and continents with Avram Pengas.

The night will honor leaders of our congregations, the Reconstructionist movement, and the global community with the Moreh Derech Award for "The Ones Who Show Us the Path." Those honored include BK's own Ellen Kolba and Linda C Jum. Linda will be honored with the Yehudit Award for Creativity and Service.

For details or to make your reservation, call 212.870.2483 or email events@jrf.org

 

Prayers and camaraderie to prepare for Shabbat every Friday at 7:30 AM.

Tot Shabbat (0-4 yrs)
10:00 - 10:30 am

Simchat Shabbat (K-2nd)
10:30 - 11:00 am

Jr. Congregation (3rd-6th)
11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Nicholas Wade, the science editor of the New York Times from 1990-96, and a science reporter for the Times since 1997,  will be visiting to discuss, among other things, his most recent book, The Faith Instinct (Penguin Press, 2009), which traces the evolution and cultural development of religion.   

Mr. Wade was born in 1942 in Aylesbury, England and educated at Eton and at King’s College, Cambridge. He received a B.A. degree in Natural Sciences in 1964.

Reszo Kasztner saved 1700 Hungarian Jews from the death camps
by arranging for a train to transport them to Switzerland.  He did this by negotiating with the Nazis including face to face meetings with Adolph Eichmann.

In the 1950’s he fought a vicious libel battle in a trial in which he was portrayed as a Nazi collaborator and found guilty. After the trial he was assassinated.

Over time it was acknowledged that the Jewish Agency worked with Kasztner and he was exonerated by Israel’s Supreme Court.

His granddaughter made this film to shed a contemporary light on the subject that has condemned the family for generations.

RSVP and payment to the BK Office

In 1982, a handful of dedicated men and women met in Barbara Ribakove Gordon’s New York apartment to organize the North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry (NACOEJ). Today, under her leadership, NACOEJ has some 50,000 supporters and a record of having rescued thousands of Ethiopian Jews from famine, civil war and persecution.

3rd Friday of each month at 7:45 PM, September through June. Come and experience a relaxing, quiet way to let go of the week and deeply enter the peace of Shabbat. This Kabbalat Keshet service will incorporate contemplative niggunim, traditional prayers, short meditations, and silence.