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We Pray for Peace in Jerusalem
Posted May 13, 2021
My heart is in the East and I am at the end of the West.” These words of the 12th Century poet Rabbi Yehuda Halevi capture the feeling of distance and despair I feel in this moment of devastating violence in Israel this week.
Read moreReflections from Shani Ben Or Regarding The Outbreak of Violence in Israel
Posted May 13, 2021
Every week, I lead a women’s circle of Palestinian and Jewish students at Hebrew University, where we come together to explore the unique dimensions of our identities as women.
Read moreAn Important Message from Central Synagogue
Posted April 27, 2021
We are writing to you today as your Senior Rabbi, Executive Director, and congregational President from a place of communal sadness, anger, shame, and Teshuvah.
Read moreMemorial Scroll
Posted October 11, 2018
In 1967 Central Synagogue welcomed a surviving Sefer Torah rescued from the Holocaust. A dedication ceremony was held for the scroll whose origins reside in Lipnik, Czechoslovakia.
Read more100 Years As “Central Synagogue”
Posted March 1, 2018
This spring of 2018 marks 100 years of our Congregation's use of the name Central Synagogue!
Read moreA Look at Our History: What’s in a Name? 100 Years as “Central Synagogue”
Posted January 4, 2018
This spring of 2018 marks 100 years of our Congregation's use of the name Central Synagogue.
Read moreA Look at Our History: High Holy Days
Posted September 10, 2015
As fall approaches we think about preparing to celebrate Judaism’s highest holy days and taking note that the services and holidays are for all ages and levels of engagement all year long.
Read moreA Look at Our History: Visitor’s Book
Posted May 26, 2015
We host visitors from all over the world, some are Jewish, many not; some are simply sightseeing; all are moved by their visit and by Central’s congregational history.
Read moreA Look at Our History: First Female President
Posted April 8, 2015
Mildred Ross, Temple President, 1985-89
Thirty years ago, Mildred Ross made Central Synagogue history by being elected its first female president, from 1985 to 1989.
Read moreA Look at Our History: A Letter from the White House, 1946
Posted January 14, 2015
A letter from President Harry S. Truman in 1946 appears in the Central Synagogue bulletin.
In 1946 President Harry S. Truman sent a letter to our Rabbi Jonah B. Wise at the time of Central's 100th anniversary praising our efforts to assist Europe's World War II displaced persons. A world situation where "tyranny extinguishes the freedom of one it extinguishes the freedom of all" (quoting from the letter) is very much on the current national agenda. It is good to know that Central's past concern for the peoples of the world is still one of our great concerns, and that we remain in the awareness of the White House.
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