The Community Free Synagogue

Fort Myers, Florida

11120 Ranchette road  (The Unity Campus)

synfree@comcast.net (239) 247-4556    mailing address: 7210 Falcon Crest, Fort Myers FL 33908

email:  synfree@comcast.net

 

           Meeting Room ID  527 117 7864  passcode 435419  

 

 

DAYS OF AWE WORSHIP

ROSH HASHANAH  EVE  7:00 PM  SEPTEMBER 11

ROSH HASHANAH MORNING  10:00 AM SEPTEMBER 12

ROSH HASHANAH  2ND DAY  11:00 AM SEPTEMBER 13

SHOFAR  SOUNDING, TASHLIKH AND OPEN HOUSE AT THE RABBI’S HOME
(THE FOREST COUNTRY CLUB)

YOM KIPPUR EVE  7:00 PM SEPTEMBER 20

YOM KIPPUR MORNING 10:00 AM

5:00 PM MINHAH, YIZKOR AND NE’ILAH FOLLOWED BY BREAK-THE-FAST

also on Zoom
ALL ARE WELCOME
 

Weekly Sabbath morning Torah Study with the Rabbi continues on Zoom 9:30-11:00 AM

 

Weekly Sabbath Eve Dinners at the synagogue resume September 4. Worship follows at 7:00 PM

 

About our Synagogue

The Community Free Synagogue was founded in 2005 as an "intentional community."  That intention was to create a stable new form of synagogue free of the usual forces that often stress our congregations.

C.F.S. is a community not-for-profit "open resource" available to all that is comfortably supported by donations and volunteers (including the Rabbi) based on the axiom that, as a rule, people will act the way they are treated. Many respond to our generosity with theirs.

While we have the officers and by-laws required for not-for-profit incorporation and maintain the strictest financial accountability, we move forward with the Rabbi's leadership and consensus-building among the more engaged participants. Our informality works for us because of our shared values and mutual respect. This enables us to consistently achieve remarkable outcomes efficiently and with minimum "friction".

We are a deeply religious community committed to the traditional Jewish values of "prayer, study and benevolence" as found in Pirqe Avot While our worship and observance trend towards the traditional, our values are progressive and inclusive. All are welcome!

 

Our Rabbi

 

Rabbi Bruce Diamond was among the founders of the Community Free Synagogue in 2005 and has led it ever since. A graduate of the Yeshivah of Flatbush, he holds his 1974 Master's Degree, 1978 ordination and subsequent Doctor of Divinities honoris causa from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati. He has served our local Jewish community since 1997 and was a visiting scholar for 12 years at Florida Gulf Coast University, where he taught social ethics, critical thinking skills and methods of civic engagement.