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Wednesday, October 1, 2025 - Friday, October 10, 2025
9 - 18 Tishrei, 5786
Ha'azinu
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Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Kol Nidre Service - 6:15 PM
Candle Lighting 6:19 PM
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
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Thurstday, October 2, 2025
Yom Kippur
YIZKOR
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
(see schedule below)
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SCHEDULE OF SERVICES
KOL NIDRE - כל נדרי
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1,2025
6:15 PM
(Candlelighting 6:19 pm)
(CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY 15 WEST 16 STREET)
YOM KIPPUR – יום כפור
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2025
(CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY 15 WEST 16 STREET)
8:30 AM
SHACHARIT
10:30 AM
SERMON/YIZKOR
5:00 PM
MINCHA – NEILAH
7:16 PM
BREAK THE FAST
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Friday, October 3, 2025
9:00 AM
We need your help on Friday morning, October 3, 2025 as we move out of the Center for Jewish History. If you are available to help with the move, please join us at the Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street at 9:00 AM Thank you.
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Friday night, October 3, 2025
Kabbalat Shabbat and Arvit Services
6:00 PM
Rabbi Blank will lead Kabbalat Shabbat and Maariv Services. Candlelighting is at 6:16 PM
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Saturday, October 4, 2025
9:00 AM
Shabbat Services
Rabbi Blank will be leading services as well as reading Torah and giving the D'var Torah. David Oppenheim will chant the haftarah. Following services there will be a kiddush. Kiddush this Shabbat is sponsored by Charlotte Fainblatt, her daughter Lorii Fodale and her family in memory of Inge Gaffney.
If you are interested in sponsoring kiddush, please contact the synagogue office. Thank you.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2025
FOLLOWING KIDDUSH
A PRESENTATION BY OREN KESSLER
author of "Palestine 1936"
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In 1936, the Holy Land erupted in a rebellion that targeted both the local Jewish community and the British Mandate that for two decades had midwifed the Zionist project. The Great Arab Revolt would last three years, cost thousands of lives—Jewish, British, and Arab—and cast the trajectory for the Middle East conflict ever since. Yet incredibly, no history of this seminal, formative first “Intifada” has ever been published for a general audience.
This is the story of two national movements and the first sustained confrontation between them. The rebellion was Arab, but the Zionist counter-rebellion—the Jews’ military, economic, and psychological transformation—is a vital, overlooked element in the chronicle of how most of Mandate Palestine became the State of Israel.
Today, eight decades on, the revolt’s legacy endures. Based on extensive archival research on three continents and in three languages, Palestine 1936 is the origin story of the world’s most intractable conflict, revealing world-changing events through extraordinary individuals on all sides: their loves and their hatreds, their deepest fears and their profoundest hopes.
Oren Kessler is a journalist and analyst based in Tel Aviv and New York. Previously, he was deputy director for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, Middle East research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society in London, Arab affairs correspondent for The Jerusalem Post and an editor and translator at Haaretz. Palestine 1936 is his first book
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SATURDAY, October 4, 2025
2:30 PM
WALKING FOR THE RELEASE OF THE HOSTAGES HELD BY HAMAS -
Michelle Sarna, who with her husband, Rabbi Yehuda Sarna, leads the NYU-Bronfman Center has organized the students and local community in a walk around Washington Square Park and Union Square Park to help bring awareness to the plight of the hostages being held in Gaza and to show support for the people of Israel. We coordinate with the local police who usually accompany us so as to avoid any hostile confrontations.
This Shabbat we meet at 2:30 PM in front of the Bronfman Center (7 East 10th Street) and carry posters as we walk around Washington Square Park, then Union Square Park, and finish with words and prayers.
The plan is for this to continue to be a weekly activity until all the hostages are freed. Please join us. עם ישראל חי
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Saturday, October 4, 2025
7:15 PM
CSFA Online Havdalah
Join your CSFA friends for a short online Zoom Havdalah service.
Shabbat ends at 7:13 PM
To join CLICK HERE or
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85899668980
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Sunday, October 5, 2025
9:00 AM
We need your help. Join us at 9:00 am at the CSFA Garden to help us put up the CSFA Sukkah.
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Monday, October 6, 2025
Erev Sukkot
7:00 PM
Dinner in the Sukkah
MAKE YOUR RESERVATION NOW - SEATING IS LIMTIED
RESERVATIONS MUST BE MADE BY 8:00 AM - WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 1
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2025
9:00 AM
SUKKOT SERVICES
Kiddush in the Sukkah following the morning service is sponsored by Rozanne Seelen in memory of her beloved husband, Arthur Seelen
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Tuesday, October 7, 2025
6:30 PM
Parsha HaShavua Class in the Sukkah
with Rabbi Mitchell Blank
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2025
9:00 AM
SUKKOT SERVICES
Kiddush in the Sukkah following the morning service is sponsored by Rozanne Seelen in memory of her beloved husband, Arthur Seelen
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2025
6:30 PM
MOVIE IN THE SUKKAH
| | THE TIME TO PAY YOUR CSFA MEMBERSHIP DUES IS NOW! | | |
July 15, 2025
19 Tammuz 5785
Dear CSFA Members and Friends:
5785 has been a great year for CSFA. At a time when Conservative synagogues are having difficulties, our membership continues to grow. More congregants than ever before are participating as service leaders and haftorah readers. I always seem to be writing to you about money, but I cannot stress enough how important members’ participation is to the health and welfare of our synagogue community.
As we approach Rosh Hashanah, I am reaching out to remind you of the importance of renewing your annual membership with CSFA. Your commitment and support are the bedrock of our vibrant community. Membership dues play a crucial role in sustaining our synagogue, enabling us to continue being a center for Jewish life and culture in our beloved neighborhood.
CSFA is more than just a place of worship; it is a haven for education, spiritual growth, and community bonding. Our synagogue offers a wide array of programs that cater to all ages and interests—from religious services, Torah study, Bar and Bat Mitzvah classes, conversion classes and Yiddish classes -- to social events, holiday celebrations, and, through our Chesed Committee, community service opportunities. These programs are essential in nurturing our Jewish identity, fostering a sense of belonging, and passing down our rich traditions to future generations.
Your membership dues directly support these activities, as well as the maintenance of our beautiful, but very old, synagogue building. We have begun the process of repairing and restoring our landmarked building façade. The Department of Buildings is reviewing our application, and we expect the work to begin before Rosh Hashanah. Your dues are critical to our being able to complete the work needed to maintain our physical sanctuary. Your dues also allow us to employ dedicated clergy and staff and provide critical support to those in need within our community. Without your generosity, many of these vital services and programs would not be possible.
In these challenging times, the strength and unity of our community are more important than ever. By renewing your membership, you are investing in the future of CSFA and ensuring that our synagogue remains a beacon of Jewish life and culture in Greenwich Village.
We deeply appreciate your continued support and look forward to sharing another year of growth, learning, and togetherness with you.
Sincerely,
Bob Reicher
President
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We also remember
Inge Gaffney, Peter Cooper, Norma Massen,
Sandra Indig, Pam Wolf, Cynthia Berman, Roe Jasen, Stanley Jay Brockstein.
Stanley A. Nabi, and Arlene Green.
We also honor the memory of those
who were killed by terrorists on the streets of Israel, in Gaza, in Iran
and on the border with Lebanon.
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עם ישראל חי
We pray for those who have been wounded and
for those who are still being held hostage in Gaza.
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