The Bucks County Free Synagogue is primarily a spiritual synagogue. Formal religious worship is not emphasized as much as creating an open, living, spiritual experience, where the One Living God of Universal Truth can be explored and experienced in a vibrant, sharing-caring community.

Culturing the right environment to help develop a deep, personal, spiritual experience of God, and to see Jewish culture in light of this, is our primary task. In this light, tools of prayer, ritual, meditation all find their purpose; from our perspective, they have no purpose in themselves, and therefore, are totally optional, as is formal “conversion”.

Currently, because we are fledgling congregation, there are no standard formal worship cycles at The Bucks County Free Synagogue. Generally-speaking, the honoring of the Sabbath on Friday evenings, the High Holidays, Chanukah and Passover shall be the basic foundation of our calendar of formal worship, adding or inventing others as the need or interest arises. For the upcoming High Holiday, click "Upcoming Events".

Our worship services, while drawing upon the best of tradition, are designed to be especially open and creative. They are more celebrations than services. There is wonderful music composed by Jews, like Gershwin or Bernstein, which we feel belongs in a contemporary synagogue. There are classical compositions by Mahler and Bruch. Oratorios by Handel such as Mordecai and Esther. There is ancient and contemporary Jewish poetry and art. Our formal worship aims at being an exciting, alive spiritual experience, rather than a “religious thing” performed in the same “minor key”. Depending upon the needs of our congregants, we are, of course, open to traditional scroll-reading, chanting, and worship forms; however, in all frankness, there are synagogues far more skilled at this than ours and we are happy to refer you.

The Bucks County Free Synagogue aims to be a spiritual home for all those who have had trouble finding a spiritual home, because they are either too intellectual to accept the “party line”, or because they are too free and creative to be controlled by rules and old-time religious guilt or indoctrination in the name of “God”.