Shalom! Congregation Tifereth Israel announces A new summer program Joyfully Jewish For children ages 5-10 Shabbat mornings, from 9:30-noon July 8, July 22, August 5, August 19 In our program, children can... Participate in the Torah service Learn the meaning of Shabbat and the holidays Hear the Bible stories that define our history Understand how Jewish values enrich our lives Discover the joys of being Jewish All accomplished in a spirit of active fun [...]
The June meeting of the Book Circle will be held in-person — to the delight of all participants — at the shul on Wednesday, the 28th, at 3 p.m. The selection is title The Marriage Box, a novel by Corie Adjmi, that considers the situation facing a Middle Eastern Jewish teenager, who accompanies her parents from a liberated life in New Orleans to an Orthodox Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn, where the search for [...]
With the shul opening to many more activities and events now, the Art Show mounted by the Judaism and Art group is becoming a major attraction. Members and friends who attended the official opening on Sunday afternoon, April 23, have returned for close-up views that may have been obstructed by the crowd at their initial visit. Now that activities surrounding Shavuot are inviting members and friends into the shul for events spanning three days [...]
To observe Lag Ba’Omer, Rabbi Gadi invited shul members to the parsonage on Monday, May 8, at nightfall, to enjoy refreshments, camaraderie, and a warm and welcoming bonfire he tended with Francis DuBois at a firepit on the rear property. And what a blaze it was! Lag Ba’Omer is a holiday celebrated on the 33rd day of the Omer, a Hebrew word for a specific measurement unit. Counting the Omer spans a 49-day period, beginning [...]
The Shofar heard this week from shul member Veronica Kaliski on behalf of the TOI, the Tikkun Olam Initiative. This shul-sponsored group maintains several beds at Common Ground, a shared site where community groups can garden, and where the TOI raises crops to be donated to CAST. According to Veronica, the TOI has been hard at work in the garden: mulching, composting and planting. Planting what? From arugula to zucchini and all manner of veggies [...]
Four students from Greenport High School — Allie, Bray, Daniel and Sam — their teacher, Brian Toussaint, and the principal of the high school, Gary Kalish, were guests at the shul’s Shabbat service on Friday, May 5. The students, having visited the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City as the culmination of their social studies unit on the Holocaust, offered to share their learning in connection with that dark period in history and [...]
Congregation Tifereth Israel announces A new summer program “Joyfully Jewish” For children ages 5-10 Shabbat mornings, from 9:30-noon July 8, July 22, August 5, August 19 In our program, children will Participate in the Torah service Learn the meaning of Shabbat and the holidays Hear the Bible stories that define our history Understand how Jewish values enrich our lives Discover the joys of being Jewish All accomplished in a spirit of active fun and [...]
“We Call It Whiskey,” a one-act comedy by Chuck Simon, will be presented as a reading on Sunday, June 11, at 1 p.m. — in-person at the shul and also on Zoom. (Note: the play follows shortly after the Congregation meeting and election of officers, which will take place at 10 that morning.) So, after a quickie lunch, hurry to the shul or click on Zoom for a fun theatrical afternoon. Cast: top row, [...]
“Criticism from historians and Jewish organizations did little to dim the sale at Christie’s of jewels made of precious diamonds and colored gemstones bought with a fortune built in part with profits from the Aryanization of Jewish businesses during the Holocaust,” The New York Times said. “In bidding online and in person in Geneva, the sale of jewelry from the estate of Heidi Horten, an Austrian philanthropist, has brought in $202 million, making it the [...]
A 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible sold for $38.1 million at a Sotheby’s auction on May 17 in Geneva, becoming the most expensive book ever sold. Known as the Codex Sassoon, it was bought by the Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv through a donation from Alfred Moses, a former U.S. ambassador to Romania. Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Getty Images
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