Friday, May 9 - Friday, May 16, 2025

11 - 18 Iyar 5785

Parshat Achrei Mot - Kedoshim


Day 582

Friday night, May 9, 2025

Mincha, Kabbalat Shabbat and Arvit Services

6:00 PM

Rabbi Blank will lead Mincha, Kabbalat Shabbat,and Maariv Services. Candlelighting is at 7:42 PM

Saturday, May 10, 2025

9:00 AM

Shabbat Services


Rabbi Blank will be leading services, including reading Torah and giving the D'var Torah. Toby Silverstein will be chanting the haftarah.

Following services there will be a kiddush which is not sponsored.

If you are interested in sponsoring kiddush, please contact the synagogue office. Thank you.

SATURDAY, May 10, 2025

2:30 PM

WALKING FOR THE RELEASE OF THE HOSTAGES HELD BY HAMAS - 582 Days in captivity.

Michelle Sarna, who with her husband, Rabbi Yehuda, 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


Saturday, May 10, 2025

8:50 PM

CSFA Online Havdalah

Join your CSFA friends for a short online Zoom Havdalah service.

Shabbat ends at 8:48 PM

To join CLICK HERE or

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85899668980



Sunday, May 11, 2025

Mother's Day

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Parsha HaShavua Class with Rabbi Blank

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Class will meet this week.



Wednesday, May 14, 2025

6:30 PM

CSFA Board of Trustees Meeting

May and June 2025 - Starting May 14

CSFA Yiddish Class

Beginner’s Yiddish 


In response to popular requests, we are continuing our BEGINNERS’ YIDDISH CLASS AT CSFA! Eve Jochnowitz, a CSFA member and a Yiddish instructor at Yivo and the Workers’ Circle, has agreed to teach the course again. 

Course Goals: A basic course for students with some familiarity with the Alef-beys. The class will practice listening, reading, speaking, and writing Yiddish in easily accessible situations. 

Course Tools: Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vol. 1 

by Sheva Zucker with supplementary basic reading texts and songs provided by the instructor.

To order the book click here. 

This will be an in-person class and knowledge of the aleph – beys is required.

There will be a thorough review of the material covered last year. 


The plan is for seven sessions during the months of May and June – on the evenings of 

May 14, May 21, May 28, June 4, June 11, June 25 and July 2 at 6:30.

The cost for the series of 7 classes is $140 per person, and we need 10 people to register in order for us to proceed. If you register and we do not get 10 people, we will, of course, refund your money.

To register now, please CLICK HERE. 

If you have any questions please reach out to

Roselle Mironer at 

mironer166@gmail.com


Friday, May 16, 2025

CSFA Lag B'Omer Shabbat Dinner


The Conservative Synagogue of Fifth Avenue

invites you to join us for

Lag B'Omer Shabbat Dinner

Friday, May 16, 2025

immediately following Friday night services

(approximately 7:15 pm)


Join us for good food and great company!


Suggested contribution: $36 per person

To reserve, CLICK HERE

Sunday, May 18th

Salute to Israel Parade

CSFA will be participating as part of the

Downtown Jewish Life Group


Join us as we march up Fifth Avenue

from 62nd Street to 74th Street


You must be registered to actually march in the parade. We have T-shirts to identify you as one of our partipants.



If you would like to march, please email the synagogue at csfa11e11@aol.com


Space is limited.

Sunday, June 22nd

CSFA Journal and Gala Garden Party in honor of Gail Berman

To Make A Donation to CSFA

CLICK HERE

THIS WEEK'S YAHRZEITS

We also remember

Rita Winer, Modesto Llamas, Susan Mingelgrin,

Inge Gaffney, Peter Cooper, Norma Massen, and Sandra Indig


We also honor the memory of those

who were killed by terrorists on the streets of Israel, in Gaza,

and on the border with Lebanon.


עם ישראל חי

We pray for those who have been wounded and

for those who are still being held hostage in Gaza.