Or Zarua is a traditional, participatory, and egalitarian Conservative synagogue. Visit us for Shabbat services, on Yom Tov, or at our weekday morning minyan. Read our Core Ideas; learn more by surfing our site; call 212.452.2310 to ask questions or to set up a meeting. Click to email the following people: Rabbi
Harlan J. Wechsler Executive Director
Harvey Brenner Education Director
Ilana Burgess Membership Committee
Michael Schwartz

• Or Zarua Gala in Honor of Rabbi Wechsler

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  Monday, June 4, 2012 at Pier Sixty   |   6:00 - 10:00 pm
  Chancellor Arnold Eisen of the Jewish Theological Seminary will speak.
  Visit the Or Zarua 2012 Gala Website

• 2012 Annual Meeting

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  Monday, May 21, 2012 / Dinner begins at 7:00 pm
  The business meeting will include important Congregational voting. Please make every effort to attend!
  Sign up online by Monday, May 14  or Call 212-452-2310, Ext. 39.
  Complete list of events

• Parashat haShavua with Rabbinic Intern Joe Schwartz

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  Join us as we study the weekly Torah portion.
  Tuesdays from 8:00 - 9:30 pm (except May; next class is June 5, 2012)
  Complete list of events

• Or Zarua Gallery Exhibit:
  Rudi Wolff's "Our Colorful Bible"

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  22 digital serigraphs by artist Rudi Wolff constitute the artist's visual commentary on the Ten Commandments and the 12 parshiyot of Genesis.
  Complete list of events

On five Thursdays beginning on February 2, 2012, four professors from JTS, and Rabbi Wechsler, presented a ConText series on the subject of Pesah. Note that the title of each talk is a link to an audio recording of that evening's class. Robert Harris, Associate Professor of Bible at JTS, February 2: "The Cow That Laid an Egg: From Biblical Passover to Your Seder Plate" Eliezer Diamond, the Rabbi Judah Nadich Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at JTS, February 9: "From Sacrifice to Seder: Celebrating Passover in a Post-Temple World" Benjamin Gampel, the Dina and Eli Field Family Professor of Jewish History at JTS, February 16: "Vengeance as a Motif in the Passover Seder" Anne Lapidus Lerner, Director of the Jewish Feminist Research Group and Assistant Professor of Jewish Literature at JTS, February 23: "Writing Women into the Haggadah" Rabbi Harlan Wechsler, Founding Rabbi of Congregation Or Zarua, March 8: "Redemption Theology: Hope in the Haggadah" ConText (formerly known as Me'ah) has consistently produced superb programming for the study and understanding of Jewish history and thought. The speakers for this Pesah ConText series have been selected exclusively for Congregation Or Zarua. Each speaker is a preeminent expert in his or her field of study and is also renowned as a teacher, discussion leader and writer.