Press Room
Temple Shaaray Tefila in the news - articles, blog posts, television appearances, and more featuring our community and our leaders.
THESE JEWISH NEW YORKERS ARE RECONSIDERING ATTENDING COLLEGE IN THE NORTHEAST
July 8, 2025 - As part of the New York Jewish Week’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around New York City to report on issues that affect their lives, Pathways student Olivia Goldsmith wrote a wonderful article on the difficult decisions Jewish high school students in New York have had to make regarding where to apply for college.
HOW TEENAGE TEACHING ASSISTANTS PLAY A CRUCIAL ROLE AT ONE NEW YORK CITY RELIGIOUS SCHOOL
June 12, 2025 – As part of the New York Jewish Week’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around New York City to report on issues that affect their lives, Religious School Teaching Assistant Bethany Karlinsky wrote a wonderful article about the vital work of our TAs in the Religious School.
GUNS, THE NYPD, AND NYC’S NEXT MAYOR
April 24, 2025 – Rabbi Mosbacher co-wrote this important opinion piece about the danger of police weapons getting into the hands of criminals.
February 18, 2025 - Rabbi Mosbacher participated in a press conference on immigration and the Adams administration's responsibility. Read about it in HAARETZ, THE FORWARD, and THE TIMES OF ISRAEL.
AT THIS NYC CONGREGATION, FOOD IS CONNECTING PEOPLE TO THEIR JUDAISM
June 25, 2024 – A profile in The Forward of our MANNA initiative, featuring Rabbi Benjamin Ross
HOW A JEWISH EDUCATOR TOOK THE HANUKKAH LLAMA FROM TJ MAXX MEME TO TEACHABLE MOMENT
December 8, 2023 – Religious School Director Sara Beth Berman is featured in this JTA article about her book, The Hanukkah Llama
NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL MEETING INVOCATION
December 6, 2023 – Rabbi Mosbacher was invited by Councilwoman Julie Menin to give the invocation at the NYC City Council meeting
AN OPEN LETTER TO MY INTERFAITH COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS
November 7, 2023 – Rabbi Mosbacher for the Times of Israel Blog
NOURISHING THE SOUL AND BODY WITH BREAD
November 2, 2023 – Rabbi Deborah Prinz writes about Rabbi Mosbacher’s All Rise Community baking workshops in the URJ Blog
A HEART OF MANY ROOMS
October 29, 2023 – Rabbi Mosbacher for the Times of Israel Blog
RABBI MOSBACHER INTERVIEW ON CNN
July 9, 2022
HOW TO MAKE CONCRETE PROGRESS ON GUNS
May 28, 2022 – Rabbi Joel Mosbacher with David K. Brawley and Mike Gecan in the New York Daily News
WORKING IN SOLIDARITY AGAINST ANTI-ASIAN HATE
March 16, 2022 – Vice President Sumie Okazaki on the URJ Blog
AFTER PITTSBURGH SYNAGOGUE SHOOTING, NEW YORK RABBIS PLAN MESSAGE OF HEALING, RESOLVE
November 1, 2018 – Rabbi Mosbacher & Temple Shaaray Tefila in AM New York
HOW WE GOT THE GUN INDUSTRY TO RECKON WITH ITS DEADLY TOLL
May 15, 2018 – Rabbi Mosbacher w/Sister Judy Byron in the New York Daily News
TO COMBAT GUN VIOLENCE, THIS UES SYNAGOGUE LET A TEEN LEADER TAKE THE BIMAH
March 27, 2018 – Past TaSTY President Julia Feller in The Jewish Daily Forward
WHEN THE DOLLAR IS MIGHTIER THAN THE GUN
March 4, 2018 – Profile of Rabbi Mosbacher in The New York Times
