Tzibur Harlem

Dimitry Ekshtut and Erica Frankel

Circles are forming...

Mar 10, 2026

Even if you’re mostly encountering our community on Friday nights, we wanted you to know: there is a quiet flowering happening all around you.

Dimitry Ekshtut and Erica Frankel

Circles are forming...

Mar 10, 2026

Even if you’re mostly encountering our community on Friday nights, we wanted you to know: there is a quiet flowering happening all around you.

Dimitry Ekshtut and Erica Frankel

Circles are forming...

Mar 10, 2026

Even if you’re mostly encountering our community on Friday nights, we wanted you to know: there is a quiet flowering happening all around you.

Erica Frankel

Parshat Vayakhel: The Name We Earn

Mar 8, 2026

The rabbis say: the greatest name of all is the one a person earns.

Erica Frankel

Parshat Vayakhel: The Name We Earn

Mar 8, 2026

The rabbis say: the greatest name of all is the one a person earns.

Erica Frankel

Parshat Vayakhel: The Name We Earn

Mar 8, 2026

The rabbis say: the greatest name of all is the one a person earns.

Dimitry Ekshtut and Erica Frankel

Purim was unreal

Mar 4, 2026

What a night. Purim Eve felt like the kind of evening that reminds us why we gather in the first place.

Dimitry Ekshtut and Erica Frankel

Purim was unreal

Mar 4, 2026

What a night. Purim Eve felt like the kind of evening that reminds us why we gather in the first place.

Dimitry Ekshtut and Erica Frankel

Purim was unreal

Mar 4, 2026

What a night. Purim Eve felt like the kind of evening that reminds us why we gather in the first place.

Erica Frankel

Parshat Ki Tisa: The Torah of the Day and Night

Mar 1, 2026

The rabbis pose a question about a moment many of us know well: Moses receiving the Torah atop Mount Sinai for "forty days and forty nights." If Moses was in such luminous closeness to God, the rabbis wonder, how could there have been night?

Erica Frankel

Parshat Ki Tisa: The Torah of the Day and Night

Mar 1, 2026

The rabbis pose a question about a moment many of us know well: Moses receiving the Torah atop Mount Sinai for "forty days and forty nights." If Moses was in such luminous closeness to God, the rabbis wonder, how could there have been night?

Erica Frankel

Parshat Ki Tisa: The Torah of the Day and Night

Mar 1, 2026

The rabbis pose a question about a moment many of us know well: Moses receiving the Torah atop Mount Sinai for "forty days and forty nights." If Moses was in such luminous closeness to God, the rabbis wonder, how could there have been night?

Dimitry Ekshtut and Erica Frankel

The Craziest Purim Story We've Ever Heard

Feb 24, 2026

If you've known us for longer than, oh say, a few months, you have absolutely heard us share this story — a tale of an underground Purim party in Leningrad (pictured above) that took place exactly 50 years ago this Monday night.

Dimitry Ekshtut and Erica Frankel

The Craziest Purim Story We've Ever Heard

Feb 24, 2026

If you've known us for longer than, oh say, a few months, you have absolutely heard us share this story — a tale of an underground Purim party in Leningrad (pictured above) that took place exactly 50 years ago this Monday night.

Dimitry Ekshtut and Erica Frankel

The Craziest Purim Story We've Ever Heard

Feb 24, 2026

If you've known us for longer than, oh say, a few months, you have absolutely heard us share this story — a tale of an underground Purim party in Leningrad (pictured above) that took place exactly 50 years ago this Monday night.

Erica Frankel and Dimitry Ekshtut

Tetzaveh: Finding the Vessels in Our Midst

Feb 22, 2026

This week’s parsha, Tetzaveh, lingers over fabric and form. We are given intricate descriptions of the vestments of the kohen (the high priest), with threads of blue, purple, and crimson.

Erica Frankel and Dimitry Ekshtut

Tetzaveh: Finding the Vessels in Our Midst

Feb 22, 2026

This week’s parsha, Tetzaveh, lingers over fabric and form. We are given intricate descriptions of the vestments of the kohen (the high priest), with threads of blue, purple, and crimson.

Erica Frankel and Dimitry Ekshtut

Tetzaveh: Finding the Vessels in Our Midst

Feb 22, 2026

This week’s parsha, Tetzaveh, lingers over fabric and form. We are given intricate descriptions of the vestments of the kohen (the high priest), with threads of blue, purple, and crimson.

Erica Frankel

Increasing Our Joy

Feb 17, 2026

We've made it to the Hebrew month of Adar! 🌒

Erica Frankel

Increasing Our Joy

Feb 17, 2026

We've made it to the Hebrew month of Adar! 🌒

Erica Frankel

Increasing Our Joy

Feb 17, 2026

We've made it to the Hebrew month of Adar! 🌒

Erica Frankel and Dimitry Ekshtut

Parshat Terumah: What We Place in the Ark

Feb 15, 2026

The Torah lingers in exquisite detail over how the Mishkan (the portable Sanctuary in the wildnerness) is to be built, as if to say: holiness lives in the particulars

Erica Frankel and Dimitry Ekshtut

Parshat Terumah: What We Place in the Ark

Feb 15, 2026

The Torah lingers in exquisite detail over how the Mishkan (the portable Sanctuary in the wildnerness) is to be built, as if to say: holiness lives in the particulars

Erica Frankel and Dimitry Ekshtut

Parshat Terumah: What We Place in the Ark

Feb 15, 2026

The Torah lingers in exquisite detail over how the Mishkan (the portable Sanctuary in the wildnerness) is to be built, as if to say: holiness lives in the particulars

Dimitry Ekshtut and Erica Frankel

Still under construction

Feb 11, 2026

What if the dust and scaffolding in your life aren’t signs that something is broken, but rather signs that something is being built?

Dimitry Ekshtut and Erica Frankel

Still under construction

Feb 11, 2026

What if the dust and scaffolding in your life aren’t signs that something is broken, but rather signs that something is being built?

Dimitry Ekshtut and Erica Frankel

Still under construction

Feb 11, 2026

What if the dust and scaffolding in your life aren’t signs that something is broken, but rather signs that something is being built?

Erica Frankel

Parshat Mishpatim: Learning By Trying-On

Feb 8, 2026

Parshat Mishpatim opens not with thunder or spectacle, but with details.

Erica Frankel

Parshat Mishpatim: Learning By Trying-On

Feb 8, 2026

Parshat Mishpatim opens not with thunder or spectacle, but with details.

Erica Frankel

Parshat Mishpatim: Learning By Trying-On

Feb 8, 2026

Parshat Mishpatim opens not with thunder or spectacle, but with details.

Ideas rootedin community

Here are musings, reflections, articles, and love letters from us—or about us—all related to Jewish life in Harlem.

Here are musings, reflections, articles, and love letters from us—or about us—all related to Jewish life in Harlem.

Circles are forming...

Circles are forming...

Circles are forming...

Parshat Vayakhel: The Name We Earn

Parshat Vayakhel: The Name We Earn

Parshat Vayakhel: The Name We Earn

Purim was unreal

Purim was unreal

Purim was unreal

Parshat Ki Tisa: The Torah of the Day and Night

Parshat Ki Tisa: The Torah of the Day and Night

Parshat Ki Tisa: The Torah of the Day and Night

The Craziest Purim Story We've Ever Heard

The Craziest Purim Story We've Ever Heard

The Craziest Purim Story We've Ever Heard

Tetzaveh: Finding the Vessels in Our Midst

Tetzaveh: Finding the Vessels in Our Midst

Tetzaveh: Finding the Vessels in Our Midst

Increasing Our Joy

Increasing Our Joy

Increasing Our Joy

Parshat Terumah: What We Place in the Ark

Parshat Terumah: What We Place in the Ark

Parshat Terumah: What We Place in the Ark

Still under construction

Still under construction

Still under construction

Parshat Mishpatim: Learning By Trying-On

Parshat Mishpatim: Learning By Trying-On

Parshat Mishpatim: Learning By Trying-On

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