Vilna Shul welcomes over 100 guests to honor Congregation's founders.
July 3, 2013 Barnet Kessel has been named executive director of the The Vilna Shul. Kessel, who will begin his post on July 22nd, brings over 24 years of business experience and exceptional leadership in the Jewish community. He is currently the vice president of commercial products at Mantua Manufacturing Company. Emily Leventhal, incoming…
Before our current exhibition, Recreating the Tapestry, went on display in 2006, another exhibition shined at the Vilna Shul. Continuity: Traditions of Jewish Art and Architecture explored the world of design within synagogue walls, weaving a thread of history from the painted synagogues that once stood gracefully throughout Europe and Russia…
BOSTON– “We are here because the meek shall inherit the earth,” stated Steven Greenberg, the executive director of the Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center for Jewish Culture, as we sat on the Vilna’s front patio.
'Although it’s a bit off the beaten downtown Boston path, if you don’t know where it is, you may walk by or near it all the time and not see it or realize what it is. But now that the exhibit on the Jewish history of Boston has been open since December, the Vilna Shul Boston Center for Jewish Heritage is a site worth…
"Steve Greenberg, executive director of the Vilna Shul Center for Jewish Heritage, speaks about the former Orthodox synagogue turned Jewish museum on Phillips Street in the West End. See story on Page 3."... Jewish_Advocate_Article_Feb_29_2008v3.pdf
The Boston Center for Jewish Heritage has succeeded in purchasing and is now restoring the once-abandoned Vilna Shul for use as Boston's historic Jewish museum and as a gathering place for community and cultural events. The city's only surviving immigrant-era synagogue, the Vilna Shul is just steps from Boston's famed Freedom Trail.
“Private Lives Founding a Spiritual Start-Up”
Steven Greenberg Appointed Vilna Shul Director
“Jewish Living - What’s Nu?” by Carol Marlin jewish_living.pdf
“Partly Religeous & Partly Social”