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A Small Shul With A Big Impact In The Heart Of The Upper West Side

No Matter Your Background, You Belong Here

A Spiritual Home Where You Can Embrace Or Reconnect With Judaism

Pursuing Justice And Working To Repair The World

Flexible Membership So Everyone Can Join

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At West End, we are Jews and loved ones of Jews and non-Jewish seekers, young and old and in between, highly educated and just beginning to learn, happy to pray in a traditional manner and constantly seeking innovation, theists and atheists and agnostics, seekers of spiritual centeredness and of community, lifelong New Yorkers and immigrants international and domestic... Read More

Upcoming Events

Torah on Tuesdays with Susan Schorr (ZOOM ONLY) Tue, Oct 13 2026, 7:30 - 9pm This longstanding Adult Education group meets on Zoom two Tuesdays a month at 7:30pm to study the Torah in English translation, in depth, considering it from the perspectives of literature, sacred…

Down with the Sabbath: Reconfiguring Judaism in the Soviet Union (On Zoom) Thu, Oct 15 2026, 7 - 8:30pm Prof. Elissa Bemporad of Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center will discuss how Judaism survived in the Soviet Union. She will describe the Jewish experience at a time when the teaching of all…

WES Book Club - "The Future is Peace" by Aziz Abu Sarah & Maoz Inon (Member Event) Sun, Oct 18 2026, 4 - 6pm The Future is Peace describes how an Israeli and a Palestinian, who both lost family in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, overcame their bitterness and forged a bond of brotherhood. They joined…