September 16, 2013 | Worship and High Holidays

Our Yom Kippur services and Rabbi Rubinstein's final High Holy Day sermon are listed among the holiday season's Jewish highlights across New York City.

September 14, 2013

Sukkot marks the Exodus from Egypt just as Passover does, but Sukkot marks it in a slightly different way. With Passover we are concerned with every aspect of the Exodus story, but with Sukkot we are specifically marking the journey from Egypt to the land of Israel, when the Jews traveled through the desert.

September 11, 2013 | Worship and High Holidays

How can this be? You can do teshuvah, be forgiven, start fresh and do better in the future. Yes, teshuvah is a wonderful concept, but how can a sin be transformed into a merit? It is in the past. How do you change the past?

August 14, 2013

The first Community House building for Central Synagogue was purchased in 1926 at the urging of Rabbi Jonah Wise.

July 23, 2013 | General News | Repairing the World

The generous donations, raised by members of the Central community, to support the Oklahoma Relief Effort were recently acknowledged in a touching letter from The Regional Food Bank Foundation.