Congregation Birkat Shmuel
at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Congregation Birkat Shmuel
at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine

The Albert Einstein Synagogue is an independent, not-for-profit organization serving the orthodox Jewish community at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Sue Golding Graduate Division of Biological Sciences. Membership consists primarily of medical and graduate students and their families, as well as post graduate trainees and students of the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. Several residents of the neighborhood not affiliated with the school also belong to the community.
The synagogue supports an on-campus rabbi and provides a complete schedule of weekday, Sabbath and holiday services and celebrations, together with educational and outreach activities. The Beit Medrash, located at 1935 Eastchester Road, Apartment 28B, contains English and Hebrew Judaic libraries as well as a weekday synagogue. Sabbath and holiday services are usually held in Lubin Cafeteria. The community is happy to provide Shabbat hospitality to families with relatives in Weiler, Calvary, or Jacobi Hospitals.
... In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort, which is indeed quite different from the religiosity of someone more naive.
~ Albert Einstein