Our fellowship is welcoming of all life stages and ages, and we enjoy unity in our diversity. We are young and senior, men and women, single and married, teens and tots, Jewish-by-Birth and Jewish-by-Choice, lovers of Israel and Visitors for a day or season – and you are welcome to visit or join us!

Rabbi Bruce Louis Cohen serves in our synagogue as both senior clergy and as music director. A multi-lingual scholar and poly-instrumental professional musician, Rabbi Cohen’s combined skill sets and achievements in theology and the creative arts seem to make Manhattan inevitable as where he would serve. Rabbi Bruce’s vision for “The City,” and for our synagogue community within it, embarks from his conviction that excellent education and acumen lead more naturally toward God than away from Him.

Shabbat Services are held every Friday Evening from ONLINE from 7pm-8:30pm on FacebookLIVE and YouTube until further notice.

Our synagogue welcomes people of all backgrounds and all stages of life, including those ethnically Jewish, Jews by choice, inter-faith couples, and those drawn to a Hebraic expression of faith. 

Our service is a rich blend of traditional Jewish prayer, Spirit-filled musical worship, reading of the Torah, and an edifying sermon by Rabbi Bruce or guest speakers. 

Together we explore the Scriptures, seek the counsel of the wise, and walk the path of Biblically sound spiritual growth. 

Our core Midot beyond “Ahavat HaShem” (Love of God) are: “Ahavat Tzion” (Love for Israel) and “Ahavat Adahm” (Love For Humankind). We seek to be pro-active serving in all these values. 

Standing at the intersection of Judaism and Christianity, Beth El offers unique opportunities for connection and fellowship with the greater Body of Messiah, the Jewish people, and citizens of Israel. 

Rabbi Bruce L. Cohen's explanatory readings from the Torah and sermons, given at Congregation Beth El of Manhattan - a Conservative "Two-Testament" (“Messianic”) Jewish synagogue in the Upper East Side of New York City, where Jewish people and "People of Calling" (not born Jewish), and Interfaith  couples come together in Manhattan since 1993 to observe "Two-Testament" Judaism.  if you're in New York come to one of our Friday Evening services.

All funds donated to Beth El are used to establish and fuel a vibrant "Two-Testament" synagogal community in Manhattan, and to lift up the standard of “Two-Testament Jewish life” for our circle of influence in Israel and around the world – from Jerusalem to Los Angeles and from Moscow to Cape Town. 

We are an unaffiliated Conservative Synagogue of “Two-Testament".We have a primary geographical focus: New York City – Manhattan – the capital of the Jewish world outside Israel. 

Did you know mainstream Judaism’s foundational sacred writings speak clearly and directly of a Messiah who would be die a redemptive death on behalf of all humankind? 

Firstly, “Jews for Jesus” is the trademark name of an organization based in San Francisco, California, founded in the 1970’s by a Jewish-born Baptist minister named Moishe Rosen, z”l. 

In respect to Jewish theology, the word “conservative” has a particular meaning beautifully expressive of how Beth El of Manhattan adheres to Judaism..