Rabbi Cosgrove: The Vashti-Esther Dilemma (March 8, 2025)
What model of leadership serves our people best? Absolute adherence to principle or willingness to compromise? The book of Esther prompts Rabbi Cosgrove to examine both approaches, share his own answer, and advise that we must be tolerant of those who choose differently than we do.
Hinenu – We Are Here
Honoring Rebecca Raphael
and Eric Feuerstein
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
7:00 pm at Ziegfeld Ballroom
141 West 54th Street
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L’kha Dodi – Welcoming the Shabbat Bride
The L’kha Dodi prayer is central to Kabbalat Shabbat. For this reason, we have commissioned several settings of the prayer to new melodies. Featuring Cantor Kidron in duet with Cantor Schwartz, this dancing melody by Oran Eldor is filled with youthful joy in welcoming the Sabbath.
Rabbi Cosgrove: The Vashti-Esther Dilemma (March 8, 2025)
What model of leadership serves our people best? Absolute adherence to principle or willingness to compromise? The book of Esther prompts Rabbi Cosgrove to examine both approaches, share his own answer, and advise that we must be tolerant of those who choose differently than we do.
Hinenu – We Are Here
Honoring Rebecca Raphael
and Eric Feuerstein
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
7:00 pm at Ziegfeld Ballroom
141 West 54th Street
LEARN MORE
TICKETS AND SPONSORSHIPS
L’kha Dodi – Welcoming the Shabbat Bride
The L’kha Dodi prayer is central to Kabbalat Shabbat. For this reason, we have commissioned several settings of the prayer to new melodies. Featuring Cantor Kidron in duet with Cantor Schwartz, this dancing melody by Oran Eldor is filled with youthful joy in welcoming the Sabbath.
Spring is here, and with it comes Purim, Passover, and the celebration of Israel's Independence. This issue includes new classes, events, and holiday festivities.
Each week, until they are all returned home, we dedicate the mitzvah of hadlakat nerot Shabbat, lighting Shabbat candles, to an individual held in captivity in Gaza. Visit our Israel at War Resource page for more material.
Mar 11 6:30 PM
50 East 87th Street
Enjoy a pre-Passover gathering with your friends in the PAS Men’s Club and Women’s Network.
Mar 13 7:00 PM
50 East 87th Street
Join us for a hilarious and heartwarming Purim spiel as we revisit the story of Esther, Mordecai, and the gang 30 years after that first Purim.
Mar 13 7:30 PM
50 East 87th Street
20s and 30s are invited to come in costume for this Purim celebration, presented in partnership with Reshet Ramah and United Synagogue Youth.
Mar 21 12:15 PM Mar 22 12:00 AM
50 East 87th Street
Rabbi Joshua Kulp
Explore the deeper meaning behind some of the most well-known seder table traditions and learn new stories about the development of Passover and the Haggadah through Jewish history with our Shabbat scholar, Rabbi Joshua Kulp.
Mar 31 7:00 PM
87th Street and Online
Adam Kirsch and Bret Stephens with Rabbi Cosgrove
Should there be limits around what constitutes acceptable discourse within Jewish communities? How are those boundaries set? Rabbi Cosgrove will join SAPIR Editor-in-Chief Bret Stephens and contributing writer Adam Kirsch to discuss.
Apr 01 6:30 PM
50 East 87th Street
Assemble Passover care packages for Holocaust survivors in partnership with The Blue Card, which provides financial aid to Holocaust survivors.
Apr 03 7:00 PM
50 East 87th Street
Join your NextDor community as Daniel Mesznik, PAS member and owner of McCabes Wine & Spirits, walks us through new brands and vintages to try this Passover.
Apr 08 7:00 PM
87th Street and Online
Ruth Franklin and Rabbi Zuckerman
Explore the transformation of Anne Frank from ordinary teenager to icon. The Many Lives of Anne Frank sheds new light on the young woman whose diary of her years in hiding, now translated into more than 70 languages, is the most widely read work of literature to arise from the Holocaust.
Apr 09 11:00 AM
Hebrew Union College
Conceived a year before October 7th and the Israel-Hamas war, Seeking Joy presents 50 artists’ works that express human resilience, celebrate life, and inspire hope for our broken world.
Apr 17 6:30 PM
50 East 87th Street
Get to know other single PAS members in their 40s, 50s, and 60s and enjoy lively conversation and learning with Rabbi Koffman over light bites and drinks. Open to PAS members only.
Apr 23 7:00 PM
50 East 87th Street
Avinoam Patt
To mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, join us for memorial prayers, music, participation by PAS teens, and remarks from our clergy.
Apr 30 7:00 PM
Transition from commemoration to celebration in honor of – and in solidarity with – the State of Israel.
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