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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

Passover/Yizkor Service (ZOOM ONLY) Wed, Apr 8 2026, 10pm - Thu, Apr 9 2026 Members, please see the weekly newsletter or Members side of the website for Zoom link. Others, please contact the office for Zoom link at admin [at] westendsynagogue.org ().

Yom Hashoah (In Person and ZOOM) Mon, Apr 13 2026, 7 - 9pm Please join us for our commemoration of Yom HaShoah. We will hear from our member Grace Rapkin about the story of her mother— the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust, and we will mourn…

"The Jerusalem of America" NYC in Jewish History - Dr. David Kaufman (ZOOM ONLY) Wed, Apr 22 2026, 7 - 9pm with WES Scholar-in-Residence 2026 - Dr. David Kaufman In 1972, author Harry Golden called New York “the greatest Jewish city in the world.” While the city may have competition in that regard from…