Upcoming Events

Fantasy Football Draft
Sep
3

Fantasy Football Draft

Fantasy Football Season is upon us! Our Commissioners, David Pochapin and Jeremy, Darren, and Micah Reiss are excited to welcome you to another season of fun! 

We will hold the draft on Wednesday, September 3, 6-8 PM Pizza will be served. If you want to play this year, please be sure to register by August 29.

Click here to register your team

The registration fee is $18, and the winner will receive a championship ring to be presented with a celebratory aliyah.

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Shabbat with Sunrise East 56
Sep
5

Shabbat with Sunrise East 56

Join SPS to bring in Shabbat with residents of Sunrise East 56th at 139 E 56th St. We will sing songs, pray, and share with one another in this abbreviated Friday Night Service. All are welcome!

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BoCo at NYHS: Blacklisted
Sep
7

BoCo at NYHS: Blacklisted

Join BoCo (SPS Boomers Community) at the New York Historical Society

for a docent-led tour of Blacklisted: An American Story

The Exhibit Examines the Red Scare, the Hollywood

Blacklist, and Its Impact on American Culture

Sunday, September 7 @ 11:15 am $24 per person includes admission to all of the exhibits in the museum after the tour, and a 10% discount in the gift shop. Cafe Clara in the museum is open early if you would like to meet for coffee before the tour.

170 Central Park West at 77th Street

Click here for tickets

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Senior Shmoozfess
Sep
8

Senior Shmoozfess

SHMOOZEFESS: LIFE

CHANGES: HOW DO WE MAKE NEW FRIENDS? : SOL SHIMSHI (& SONIA) did a masterful job in leading the Shmooozefess in July &; August and we even added a

new twist. Lunch 12- 30; Shmooze 12:30 – 1 :30 and

LET’S TALK! (an open discussion)

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Rooftop Schmooze for New & Prospective Members
Sep
8

Rooftop Schmooze for New & Prospective Members

Monday, September 8 from 6-8 PM

with the Rabbi's Welcome at 7 pm

Meet the SPS community, including our clergy, staff, educators, and congregants

  • Learn about our offerings for the High Holidays--including complimentary first-year tickets with your new membership!

  • Discover how our programming can inspire, educate, and engage, at every stage of life

  • Nosh and drinks will be served. Kids welcome!

  • RSVP encouraged to ajohnson@spsnyc.org

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613 Mitzvot with Rabbi Dave
Sep
10

613 Mitzvot with Rabbi Dave

We may have heard that there are 613 Mitzvot (Commandments) in the Jewish tradition, but have you ever stopped to count them? That's a lot of mitzvot. Join Rabbi Dave Wednesdays beginning September 10 at noon to explore Maimonides' listing of the 613 commandments. How many are we still keeping? Which ones are no longer available to us to perform? We will answer these questions and all of yours when we gather to study. 

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Writing the Stories Only You Can Tell
Sep
12

Writing the Stories Only You Can Tell

Whether your ideas lean toward memoir, essay-writing, humor, or fiction, you are welcome in the SPS writing class led by author and SPS member Roberta Hershenson. Cultivate your inner writer in a group where feedback focuses on encouragement and writers at all levels learn from roundtable responses to their work. Come write with Roberta, author of the acclaimed 2025 music mystery novel Angels’ Blood: Murder in the Chorus, published under the pen name Roberta Mantell

The class meets the first Friday of each month from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm with the exception of September which will meet on September 12th.

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Tot Shabbat
Sep
13

Tot Shabbat

At Tot Shabbat, our youngest congregants (6 and under) joyfully discover the wonders of the Shabbat service in a lively atmosphere with their grownups. We practice basic Shabbat rituals, prayers and symbols, hear stories on the weekly Torah portion, and learn about Jewish holidays and values through song and play.

RSVP to Hannah at hlevin@spsnyc.org

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Selichot Services
Sep
13

Selichot Services

Join us for Selichot services.

Dr. Mark Pochapin will deliver a lecture on the DNA of Change and then Rabbi Ain, Cantor Cattan, and the quartet will lead us in the Selichot liturgy.

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613 Mitzvot with Rabbi Dave
Sep
17

613 Mitzvot with Rabbi Dave

We may have heard that there are 613 Mitzvot (Commandments) in the Jewish tradition, but have you ever stopped to count them? That's a lot of mitzvot. Join Rabbi Dave Wednesdays beginning September 10 at noon to explore Maimonides' listing of the 613 commandments. How many are we still keeping? Which ones are no longer available to us to perform? We will answer these questions and all of yours when we gather to study. 

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Living Judaism with Rabbi Dave
Sep
18

Living Judaism with Rabbi Dave

Living Judaism is a wonderful opportunity for individuals and couples to learn more about Jewish tradition!

This course is for those studying for conversion, people in a relationship with a Jewish partner wanting to learn more about Judaism, Jews who never had the chance to study, or anyone who is curious and wants an introduction to all things Jewish!

Please email Rabbi Dave at rabbidave@spsnyc.org with any questions.

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Kabbaltot
Sep
19

Kabbaltot

Through our KabbalTot service, we welcome Shabbat together with our youngest community members (6 and under) and their families. We celebrate Shabbat with music, singing, dancing, stories, challah and grape juice. Then all are welcomed for dinner following.

RSVP to hlevin@spsnyc.org

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Family Friday Night
Sep
19

Family Friday Night

This is a chance for families with kids in elementary school to kick off Shabbat together. We'll bring in Shabbat with a kid-led service with Seth, sing songs as a community, and enjoy a delicious meal.

RSVP to Seth at sgolob@spsnyc.org

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Writing the Stories Only You Can Tell
Oct
3

Writing the Stories Only You Can Tell

Whether your ideas lean toward memoir, essay-writing, humor, or fiction, you are welcome in the SPS writing class led by author and SPS member Roberta Hershenson. Cultivate your inner writer in a group where feedback focuses on encouragement and writers at all levels learn from roundtable responses to their work. Come write with Roberta, author of the acclaimed 2025 music mystery novel Angels’ Blood: Murder in the Chorus, published under the pen name Roberta Mantell

The class meets the first Friday of each month from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm

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JRS Dinner in the Sukkah
Oct
6

JRS Dinner in the Sukkah

Registration Required

We hope you will join us for our annual JRS Dinner in  our rooftop Sukkah on Monday, October 6th following services at 5:45 PM. Please reserve your spot below! For questions contact Seth at sgolob@spsnyc.org

Registration link: https://spsnyc.shulcloud.com/form/jrs-sukkot-dinner-2025

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Congregational Sukkot Dinner
Oct
10

Congregational Sukkot Dinner

Registration Required

We hope you will join us for our annual Congregational Dinner in our rooftop Sukkah on Friday, October 10th following evening services which begin at 6:15 PM. Dinner is $54 per person, please reserve your spot below! For questions contact Harriet at hjanover@spsnyc.org

Registration link: https://spsnyc.shulcloud.com/form/sukkot-dinner-5786/2025

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Israeli Comedian Yohay Sponder
Oct
21

Israeli Comedian Yohay Sponder

Sutton Place Synagogue is proud to host Israeli Comedian, host of Funny Mondays, and Social Media Sensation - Yohay Sponder.

Tuesday, October 21 at Sutton Place Synagogue (225 East 51st Street)

Doors: 6:30 PM | Show: 7 PM 

Limited Premium Tickets (Front Section Seat and Reception Following) - $180 each

General Admission Tickets - $54 each

Thank you to sponsors JNF New York and New York Board of Rabbis. To inquire about sponsorship possibilities please contact rabbidave@spsnyc.org.

https://spsnyc.shulcloud.com/form/sponder

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Shabbat with Sunrise East 56
Nov
7

Shabbat with Sunrise East 56

Join SPS to bring in Shabbat with residents of Sunrise East 56th at 139 E 56th St. We will sing songs, pray, and share with one another in this abbreviated Friday Night Service. All are welcome!

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Ragtime the Musical
Nov
11

Ragtime the Musical

Ragtime is an American story about Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe, African Americans striving for their freedom and the old guard adjusting to a growing and changing nation at the turn of the 20th Century.  This musical which won Tony awards for best score and book of a musical tells a classic story incorporating historical figures such as Harry Houdini, Booker T. Washington, Evelyn Nesbit, J.P. Morgan, and Emma Goldman.  The show features the crime of the century—and there were 94 years to go!

https://spsnyc.shulcloud.com/form/ragtimemc

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Shabbat with Sunrise East 56
Dec
19

Shabbat with Sunrise East 56

Join SPS to bring in Shabbat with residents of Sunrise East 56th at 139 E 56th St. We will sing songs, pray, and share with one another in this abbreviated Friday Night Service. All are welcome!

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Shabbat with Sunrise East 56
Jan
16

Shabbat with Sunrise East 56

Join SPS to bring in Shabbat with residents of Sunrise East 56th at 139 E 56th St. We will sing songs, pray, and share with one another in this abbreviated Friday Night Service. All are welcome!

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Shabbat with Sunrise East 56
Feb
27

Shabbat with Sunrise East 56

Join SPS to bring in Shabbat with residents of Sunrise East 56th at 139 E 56th St. We will sing songs, pray, and share with one another in this abbreviated Friday Night Service. All are welcome!

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Senior Book Club
Aug
25

Senior Book Club

“THE TIME KEEPER: A NOVEL” by author ALYSON

RICHMAN. Join us - be a critic – meet other critics and Barbara would love to

hear about a great book you just read!

Location TBA

Light lunch will be served

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Shabbat Morning Services
Aug
16

Shabbat Morning Services

PLEASE NOTE - these services will take place at 221 E 52nd Street as SPS is closed for renovation through mid August 

Zoom

Join Zoom Meeting: https://spsnyc-org.zoom.us/j/99883394041

Meeting ID: 998 8339 4041
Call-in Number: 646-876-9923
Email ajohnson@spsnyc.org for the password

Livestream

Stream services on the services portal (no password required).

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Ma’ariv & Kabbalat Shabbat Service
Aug
15

Ma’ariv & Kabbalat Shabbat Service

PLEASE NOTE - these services will take place at 221 E 52nd Street as SPS is closed for renovation through mid August 

Zoom

Join Zoom Meeting: https://spsnyc-org.zoom.us/j/92485489997?
Meeting ID: 924 8548 9997
Call-in Number: 646 876 9923
Email ajohnson@spsnyc.org for the password

Livestream

Stream services on the services portal (no password required).

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