A Once-in-a-Generation Event
Park Avenue Synagogue
Sunday, December 8
Just in time for Hanukkah, Park Avenue Synagogue officially opened its new and expanded campus on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The celebratory rededication event was the culmination of a six-year project, first to raise the funds and then to create the campus.
See coverage about the Rededication Celebration:
NY1 (Video)
The Jewish Week
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Archinect
eJewish Philanthropy
In the lead-up to the rededication celebration, the community rededicated itself to eight Jewish values:
Tikkun Olam
Memory
Peoplehood
Tefillah
Music and Art
Lifelong Learning
Israel
Community
Congregants participated in ongoing PAS programming and in flagship events throughout the fall, and engaged in activities on their own, to deepen their connection to each value and symbolically earn a candle, as Hanukkah is a time for rededication. Congregants collected their candles, along with a Shamash, at the Rededication Celebration. They will light these commemorative candles in their home on the last night of Hanukkah, reflecting on the warmth of our community’s embrace and the bonds that have built our wonderful new campus, lighting the way to our future.
With PAS |
On Your Own |
• Volunteer with or support the Teen Food Pantry Wednesdays & Fridays / Teens |
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• Distribute clothing and toiletries on Midnight Run Oct 26 / Teens |
• Serve a meal at a food pantry |
• Pack groceries at the New York Common Pantry Nov 13 / Adults |
• Visit patients at Mount Sinai Hospital on Shabbat afternoons |
| Flagship Event Vicki K. Wimpfheimer Mitzvah Day, November 24 |
• Support a new cause |
| • Pre-register to donate blood |
• Adopt a new environmentally-sound practice |
| • Call or email an elected official on an issue that matters to you | |
With PAS |
On Your Own |
• Join Coffee Talk Wednesdays / Congregational School |
• Create a family tree |
• Attend Yizkor on Shemini Atzeret Oct 21 / Community |
• Discover the history of a Jewish object in your home |
• Visit the exhibit Auschwitz: Not Long Ago, Not Far Away at the Museum of Jewish Heritage Nov 10 / 7th Grade Dec 12 / Adults |
• Explore the Lower East Side |
| Flagship Event Kristallnacht Commemoration, November 9 |
• Visit a Jewish cemetery |
| • Conduct an oral history interview with a relative or friend |
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| • Document your own story |
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| • Research the place your family is from |
With PAS |
On Your Own |
• Attend the Reading Jewish Lives Author Event on Martin Buber with Dr. Paul Mendes-Flohr Oct 24 / Community |
• Enjoy kosher wine from another country |
• Have Shabbat Dinner and hear Jonathan Greenblatt, 360°View of Anti-Semitism Nov 15 / Community |
• Learn about someone else’s family history |
• Participate in Insights from Israel taught by Rabbi Michael Graetz via video conference second Thursday of the month / Adults |
• Participate in Jewish communal programming |
| • Experience Jewish cuisine from another country |
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| • Donate to a charity concerned about world Jewry |
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| • Read a book by a Jewish author from another country |
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| • Visit a synagogue when you travel |
With PAS |
On Your Own |
• Attend Daily Minyan Morning & Evening / Community |
• Perform Havdalah at home View blessing text |
• Livestream PAS services from... anywhere! Every Shabbat / Anyone |
• Bless your children on Friday night |
• Learn to read Torah in a Trope Class Mondays, Oct 28 to Dec 2 / Adults |
• Learn Modeh Ani and recite it when you wake up |
| Flagship Event Shabbat Services, December 6-7 |
• Say the Sh’ma with your children at bedtime |
| • Explore the translations of prayers in Siddur Lev Shalem |
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| • Hang a mezuzah in your home |
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| • Read The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel |
With PAS |
On Your Own |
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• Join the Parkapellas or PAS Rock Band Wednesdays or Thursdays / Teens |
• Download music by Cantor Schwartz | ||
• Participate in Cantor Brook’s Women’s Singing Circle Oct 28 & Nov 25 / Adults |
• Listen to a Park Avenue Podcast | ||
• Hear Rabbi Cosgrove at the Jewish Musuem, Dialogue & Discourse: Abraham and Isaac Interpreted Oct 28 / Adults |
• Visit a Jewish museum | ||
| Flagship Event Concert: Lift Every Voice, November 19 |
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With PAS |
Our Your Own |
• Join or create a Study Circle with Rabbi Witkovsky Ongoing / Adults |
• Perform a mitzvah that’s new to you |
• Enroll in Pathways: An Introduction to Judaism Ongoing / Adults |
• Read a biography in the Jewish Lives series |
• Take a Boker Tov (Good Morning) Babies or Toddlers class Mondays & Wednesdays / Young Families |
• Watch a documentary with a Jewish theme |
| Flagship Event Book Fair, December 3-4 |
• Read the week’s Torah portion/parashah |
| • Read a Jewish book to your children or grandchildren |
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| • Sign up for a class on a Jewish topic |
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| • Read an article on myjewishlearning.com |
With PAS |
On Your Own |
| Attend Rabbi Zuckerman’s Window on Israel conversations Oct 26 & Nov 23 / Community |
• Connect with our Upper East Side Shlichah |
• Hear Yossi Klein Halevi and Yousef Bashir: A Response to my Palestinian Neighbor Nov 7 / Adults |
• Listen to an Israeli podcast/radio station |
• Learn with Rachel Korazim: Using Literature to Understand Israel Today Nov 16 / Adults |
• Write letters to Lone Soldiers in Israel |
With PAS |
On Your Own |
• Participate in a sukkah dinner Oct 13-19 / Various |
• Invite someone to your home for Shabbat dinner |
• Attend Rachel Feinstein: Maiden, Mother, Crone at the Jewish Museum Nov 18 / Women’s Network |
• Sit next to someone new at a service or event |
• Come to Youth Movie Night Dec 7 / 3rd to 5th Graders |
• Make a shiva call |
| Flagship Event The Role of Journalism in a Fast-Changing World, December 6 |
• Take a walk with a friend after Shabbat services |
| • Join a new committee or group |
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| • Invite a fellow congregant you’d like to know better to join you at a service or program |
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| • Celebrate something Jewish with a friend |