CSI is a Big Tent synagogue, and we welcome all families into our community--including, and especially, Interfaith families.

Rabbi Russo performs a special aufruf--or pre-wedding blessing at the Torah--for interfaith couples.

We also value Interfaith relationships and outreach beyond our synagogue’s walls and into the greater local community.

Rabbi Russo is a member of the Interfaith Clergy Council of Nyack, where she has cultivated close relationships with clergy members representing other communities of faith throughout Rockland County. More recently, there has been a grassroots effort among congregants across many of the area’s synagogues, churches and mosques to build stronger person-to-person relationships for solidarity and community building.

CSI has been at the forefront of this effort and sponsored the region’s first Interfaith Dinner in the Spring of 2017, which became an annual tradition thereafter.