Dear Rabbi,I want to thank you for the most enjoyable services I have attended since I was a child and young married in Minneapolis many many years ago. I especially LOVED your sermon on What Does a Jew Look Like. I have often thought that same question, especially when people look at my children and say they dont look Jewish! (both of whom are white American born. but were adopted by us as infants). Your sermon was very special and I just wanted to say thank you.

Amazing. Breathtaking. Welcoming. Beautiful Singing. Loved it!!

Absolutely stunning synagogue and beautiful services. Thank you for streaming services at this trying time. May G-D Bless each and every one who participated in the current High Holiday services. L’Shanah TovahHilda & David Wajnberg

The most Beautiful Holiday Services Every Year. Very meaningful and filled with lobe

Last year due to a knee operation I was stuck in my home.Was able to watch services and listen to the rabbi speech.This year covid has prevented going out.Thank you for your positive talks and wonderful service.Hope to be able to visit and see in person your Temple.

It felt so intimate to view your Yom Kippur services on line and at Central, rather than the cavernous Lincoln Center.I was more able to meditate and think deeply.I also found the dancing quite interesting.Congratulations, Rabbi Buchdahl and all, for trying new things. So many of them worked.To Your Best Future, Faith Popcorn

I just love the architecture of this building. It puts a smile on my face each time I pass it. It was built between 1870 and 1872 in the Moorish Revival style. It was supposed to be a copy of the Dohany Street Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary.

I am physically prevented from attending in person religious services due to disabilities and diseases beyond anyones control it seems. I was able to fulfill obligations of the holiday season on line with joy.

A great place to pray. Super warm and friendly with a Moroccan vibe. Very liberal and could live without the political agenda sometimes, but i love that they stream their services and when in person, it is such a wonderful experience with the music and variations of instruments. The rabbis are fantastic and i look forward to their shabbos services when in town.

Enjoyed the yiska service very much.

Love seeing their worship service

We had great experience at the Central Synagogue, attending and performing at a naming ceremony. The building is very beautiful inside, its very spacious and great for religious events. Thank you for having us!

It was very good experience.I enjoyed , the service very spiritual.Was Awesome . Recomend it

Highly Recommend.

A very beautiful structure, complemented by a welcoming/warm congregation

What a beautiful building! Even if you dont worship here, this is an amazing place to see.

Very cool to walk around and look at the grounds.

This place is amazing. The leaders of the service have amazingly beautiful voices and can play the guitar really well. You think you are in a Broadway show.

Incredible! Gorgeous building, friendly members amazing music and teaching! It was nice to visit while away from home. I had streamed services once when I was sick and couldn’t make it to shul on Shabbat, so when I found out my hotel was a few blocks away, I knew where I had to be.

Beautiful old synagogue with ornate details

Love this site, youre able to get live shabbat services!

We live in Los Angeles and ever since a few months ago have been watching this synagogues Friday night services on TV and have been amazed so far! We love the rabbis and the cantors and the way the conduct the services, mostly in song and uplifting speeches. This is true Judaism for me! I think if anyone would like to find out what Judaism is about or reasons to be a proud Jew they should attend or watch the services here!We also love their intern cantor, Shani Ben Or. She has an angelic voice and a couple of weeks ago we were delighted to hear sing the prayers with such energy and spirituality.We would love to attend the services when we are in NY next time!Thank you and many blessings.

Great to see it among those higher buildings in the middle of the city

Great service open to all! What music oy!

Classic moorish buildingTours availableFriday sabbath servicesAngela Budaki is amazing rabbi/ cantor

Ive never been here in person, but the broadcasted services are wonderful and a great resource that Central shares with the world every week.

One of the oldest buildings in n.y.c

Beautiful space for worship and the entire congregation welcomed us to sing with them. Marvelous community.

Wonderful progressive synagogue

Absolutely historical a must see!

One of the oldest buildings in n.y.c.

Many people are coming to the Lord - Halleluya!

Beautiful synagogue.

Do great community work

Beautiful synogogue

I am French and I love this synagogue. The people and the rabbis. Ive just lost my son. I came the Friday night after his death to say the kaddish. Just before the time of the prayer, I asked the rabbi to say my sons name and he did it. Thank you. Just one word: the architecture is very beautiful. Inside and outside. Ill be back

Beautiful historic buildings.

Beautiful, Gorgeous and the community is very welcoming! Great clergy and services!

What a joy to be able to attend services from home. The 2 rabbis are absolutely wonderful and the cantor is impeccable. Now I must get ready for the afternoon service! Thank you to all at Central Synagogue

Loving services with beautiful music and perceptive Torah commentary.

Its a beautiful interior!

I am morally obligated to write this review. I am a Muslim and today i prayed inside the Synagogue. Our Mosque across the street was closed due to fire. When we had no place to worship, Synagogue opened the door for us, and hundreds of Muslims completed their Friday prayer. Special thanks to Rabbi and every member of the Synagogue.

Amazing place!

I enjoy service via streaming JBS on Fridays & every Holiday. Can’t wait to visit! Shabbat Shalom!

Iconic and beautiful building.

I love it even though I have never stepped foot in the building, we see it through live streaming. We are thousands of miles away in PR and we look forward to seeing it on Fridays and I watch it on Saturday mornings also. Thank you so much. Shalom

Words can not express how up-lifting your service has been. May God Bless you all.

I spent Yom Kippur services online with C S since I could not attend a service in person. I always belonged to and attended a Conservative or Modern Orthodox Congregation. At times both at the same time. I was extremely impressed with the Central Synagogue website service and the clergy.

Watched on TV and was informed and very blessed

A magnificent Temple and a terrific Rabinical staff . The Friday night serviceis a joy to attend and if you love music do not miss it. Uplifting. Howie S.

Am devout Catholic who recorded Yom Kippur services for non-practicing Jew in my household. I was riveted. Watched the entire service. Feel so blessed. Blessings to all.

Beautiful.

A lot of history and a very interesting building. It is one of the oldest synagogues in the United States. The building is in Moorish style. There is no charge to visit the building.

The most beautiful synagogue in the United StatesI was honored to paint his own unique architecture .

Beautiful synagogue

Always a great visit. And thoughtful words.

Great moorish architecture

GREAT Rosh Hashaneh service. My first on line holiday.

I THINK THAT THE RABBI IS A GREAT PERSON

Magnificent building, beautiful service! I come from the oldest reform temple west of the Mississippi River . I was just wondering.....I thought our Temple was about as reformed as one could get, but yet, the Rabbi and Cantor wear a Yalmalka as do those reading from the Torah. (Along with a Tallis) More and more people now wear yalmakas too and some a Tallis. Yes we are still Reformed Jews, but tending to hold on to traditional too. Maybe it’s just a New York thing.Just respectfully wondering.

YOU PLACE IS GREAT PLACE IS THE WORLD?TOO SEE MY FAMILY?

Great Synagogue. Must visit.

Beautiful synagogue - worth a visit. Liberal clergy and congregation who are welcoming.

Beautiful building. Services are the caliber of a broadway musical.

Informative great place to visit

On tv fantastic like synagogue in Florence and Rome Berlin

I am looking forward to visiting soon. Until we meet I will streaming Rosh Hashanah with you. Shabbat Shalom!!!

Wonderful morning.

Historic Shul Designed by Henry Fernbach - Excellent Jewish Education, Music & Community Programs - Special guest lecturers over the years included Dr. Henry Kissinger, Tony Blair & Former President Bill Clinton

Great pre school my granddaughter loves her teachers and classmates

Beautiful Cathedral worth going on the tour

Beautiful and inspiring!!!

The Central Synagogue (Congregation Ahavath Chesed) is located at 652 Lexington Avenue on the corner of E 55th Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York. It was built in 1872 in the Moorish Revival style as a copy of Budapests Dohány Street Synagogue.[5] It has been in continuous use by a congregation longer than any other in the city.[6][7] The building was designed by Henry Fernbach.The dramatic style of the building was the subject of much debate during the construction. Some felt its excess would inspire envy and stand in the way of assimilation.[8]It is among the oldest synagogue buildings still standing in the United States.[9] It was designated a National Historic Landmark on May 15, 1975.[3][6] On Wednesdays at 12:45 p.m. a docent conducts a free tour, which begins at the front entrance.The building was restored by 2001 in the original style after an accidental fire in August 1998.[10] The roof and its supports were destroyed as a result of the fire. During this fire, the firefighters sensitivity for the building saved all but the central pane in the rose window that dominates the eastern (Lexington Avenue) wall. The marble plaques on the north wall of the foyer honor the firefighters of the 8th Battalion of the New York City Fire Department.

Best service I’ve been to.

So beautiful

Thank you for your gift of live streaming. Angela W. Buchdahl, Mo GlazmanJulia R. Cadrain, Ari S. Lorge are exceptional.

I went this midday, very nice people and assome place!

Beautiful structure and wonderful people and staff.

Very historic looking, has lots of old NY charm

Sit good at

Incredible place.

Rating the video; I have never been inside.

Great

Wishful and wonderful

Great

Worth visiting!

Beautiful services

Looking to visit soon .Shabbat shalom

GREAT!

Funny

Historic.

Very welcoming

652 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10022

People with class

Beautiful

Nice place

Welcoming, organized, great music

They have friday night service on TV

Loved it

Very nice synagogue