Wed Sep 1st – Wed Sep 15th

High Holidays Pre-Marathon Training

Wednesday Sep 1st and Thursday September 2nd
8pm

The High Holidays often leave people feeling physically and mentally overwhelmed. Why aren’t we getting the satisfaction we deserve from our efforts? After all, we sat through the whole thing…

No one in their right mind would run the NYC Marathon without training, stretching and warming up. This year, take the time to get in shape BEFORE the time comes, and we promise you will emerge feeling strong, confident and most of all, more connected.
Join us for our pre Rosh HaShana marathon warm up sessions led by our rabbinic intern Avi Rosenfeld. 8-9:15PM. No charge, bring a friend!

Monday September 6th (for Rosh haShana) and Monday September 13th (for Yom Kippur)
8pm

“The melody lingers on”…

One of the best ways to immerse ourselves in the spiritual process of Rosh Hashana is by raising our voices in song.. But, what is the tune? Join Rabbi Wall, rabbinic intern Avi Rosenfeld, and our cantorial team as we explore the melodies used to sing the most important verses and songs of the high holidays. Monday, Sep 6 at 8PM (for Rosh Hashana) and Monday, Sep 15 (for Yom Kippur) Bring your heart, your voice (and your musical instrument?…optional…)

Wednesday, September 15th
8pm

Pre Yom Kippur marathon training!

Yom Kippur, the sabbath of sabbaths, is often called the holiest day of the year. Let’s get it right this year, and replace the empty feeling in our stomachs with a fullness of heart and spirit.

Join us for our pre Yom Kippur marathon warm up session Wednesday, Sep 15, led by our rabbinic intern Avi Rosenfeld.

Saturday Night, Sep 4th, 9.30 PM

Special Slichot Concert

Mark your calendars for the Slichot concert on September 4th, featuring a solo set from Jon Madof, and the full-on performance by the great Ayn Sof Arkestra! Followed by the Slichot services at midnight.  FREE!! (no cover-charge)

Jon Madof
Solo Guitar

“[L]ike you’ve invited Dick Dale to do the music at your bar mitzvah.”
- NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday with Liane Hansen

Guitarist and composer Jon Madof’s musical collaborations cover the
spectrum of the vibrant New York City music scene, from recordings and
sold-out shows with John Zorn and Marc Ribot to genre-busting work
alongside Frank London, Matisyahu and others. Jon performs throughout
the US and Europe with his ‘Jewish power trio,’ Rashanim. Their latest
release is the all-acoustic ‘The Gathering (2009),’ on John Zorn’s
Tzadik Records. In addition to performing and recording, Jon writes
music for film and television. He lives in New York with his wife and
three children.

Ayn Sof Arkestra

NYC’s newest addition to the canon of new Jewish influenced music and culture, the Ayn Sof Arkestra and Bigger Band, under the direction of saxophonist Jazz Rabbi Greg Wall and grammy winning trumpeter Frank London.The Arkestra consists of some of the most innovative artists on the scene today, such as Pam Fleming, Paul Shapiro, Aaron Alexander, Fima Ephron, Eyal Maoz and many others. The repertoire will consist of original compositions and arrangements of the members and guest composers, in the great NuJu/Rad Jew/SunRaJoo tradition.

Rosh Ha Shana, Wed Sep 8th and Thu Sep 9th

Downstairs Minyan: the VERY High Holidays

Spiritual Essentials: The VERY High Holidays, downstairs @ the Sixth Street Community Synagogue

A gentle but energizing guide through the Days Of Awe for the perplexed,curious and rebellious. Join us for this interactive exploration/celebration of soul and song, led by Avi Rosenfeld and Oneg Shemesh, with insights from Rabbi Greg Wall.

Advanced reservations are required! You can reserve through http://chagim.eventbrite.com/.

Rosh Hashana Schedule:
Evening Services: Wednesday, September 8, and Thursday, September 9, at 7PM
Morning Services:Thursday, September 9 and Friday, September 10 at 10AM

Yom Kippur Schedule:
Kol Nidre
Friday, September 17, at 6:30PM
Morning Services: Saturday, September 18 at 10AM

If synagogues make you hungry, please consider joining us for our delectable gourmet Rosh Hashana banquets-following evening and morning services both days (advanced registration and prepayment required, and can also be accessed through http://chagim.eventbrite.com/).

Past Events

Tuesday Aug 24th @ 7.00pm

The Forward and Sixth Street Synagogue Present:

Jewish Art for the New Millennium: 3 Alicias 3

Evening of Music and Poetry with Alicia Svigals, Alicia Ostriker, and Alicia Jo Rabins
Curated by Jake Marmer and Dan Friedman

$8 cover (includes a drink)

The evening will feature these acclaimed artists who represent eclectic genres, mediums and generations. Each will perform a set, then all three will come together in a collaborative work, and finally, a panel discussion will follow.

Alicia Svigals, violinist/composer, a founder of the Klezmatics and of the all-women band Mikveh, is considered by many to be the world’s foremost klezmer fiddler. During the past decade, she almost singlehandedly revived klezmer fiddle playing, which came close to extinction in this century; traditional klezmer violin style is now being played again by hundreds of her students, including most of today’s best professional players. She taught and toured with violinist Itzhak Perlman, who recorded her compositions as duets with Ms. Svigals accompanied by the Klezmatics. She is a past winner of the first prize at the Safed Klezmer Festival. “She is without question the greatest living exponent of the klezmer fiddle…” – Seth Rogovoy, author of The Essential Klezmer. See http://www.aliciasvigals.com/.

Alicia Ostriker is a major American poet and critic. Twice nominated for a National Book Award, she is author of twelve volumes of poetry, most recently “The Book of Seventy” (2009), which won the Jewish Book Award for Poetry. As a critic Ostriker is the author of two path-breaking volumes on women’s poetry, “Writing Like a Woman and Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America.” Ostriker has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Society of America, the San Francisco State Poetry Center, the Judah Magnes Museum, the New Jersey Arts Council, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She is Professor Emerita of Rutgers University and is a faculty member of the New England College Low-Residency Poetry MFA Program. Ostriker has taught in the Princeton University Creative Writing Program and in Toni Morrison’s Atelier Program. She has taught midrash writing workshops in the USA, Israel, England and Australia. See http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~ostriker/home.htm

Alicia Jo Rabins is a Alicia Jo Rabins is a violinist, singer, songwriter, and poet living in Brooklyn, NY. She is the fiddler in Golem and has toured Central America as a cultural ambassador of American folk music for the US State Department. Her own band, Girls in Trouble, (“An entrancing one-woman string quartet” — The Forward) plays original art-pop songs about women in the Torah and will embark on their first European tour to England, Sweden and Italy the night after this performance. Alicia’s poems have been published in Ploughshares, the Boston Review, and 6×6, and anthologized by NYU Press and Knopf and she has received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She is also a Jewish educator, specializing in creative online tutoring for bar and bat mitzvah students around the country. Check out Alicia’s Girls in Trouble Project here: http://www2.myspace.com/girlsintroublemusic.