A view of a 1,200-year-old rural estate, discovered during excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority during an expansion of the town of Rahat, Israel. The building dates to the early Islamic period in the 8th or 9th centuries. AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov
The German Government has reached an agreement with the families of 11 Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian militants at the Munich Olympics in 1972, the New York Times said. The families had said they would boycott a memorial service commemorating the 50th anniversary of the attack. The last-minute deal came together after months of negotiations; the absence of the athletes’ families from the memorial would have been a bitter reminder of a major crisis in [...]
In honor of her late Father, Tony Curtis, Jamie Lee Curtis is restoring her grandparents’ hometown synagogue in Mateszalka, Hungary. She announced that she will partner with the mayor of Mateszalka to turn the synagogue into “ a community center for celebrations and art and music.” She wrote on her Instagram account that the synagogue “is empty now, as the entire Jewish population was exterminated, but the building stands as a living tribute to those [...]
American investigators returned a rare silver coin to Israel that they say was minted as a marker of independence during the Great Revolt against Roman oppression of 66-73 A.D., and centuries later was looted from an archaeological site in the Valley of Elah. According to the New York Times, the coin was seized in 2017 when collectors tried to sell it at an auction in Denver, where it was listed as having an estimated value [...]
The opening of a group show at the ilon Art Gallery in New York featured recent paintings by shul president Judith K. Weiner, whose innovative work is representative of New York City’s current art scene. Flanking her painting, “Pandemic Windows,” are, from left, shul members Nancy Torchio, the artist, Carol Ingall and Stephen Brumberg, who attended the opening of “Abstracted,” with a gathering of invited artists and collectors. @ilonartgallery Gallery photo
Shul members, friends, toddlers, newborns, and two rambunctious dogs joined together on the grounds of the parsonage on August 28 for an old-fashioned pot luck supper to celebrate Rabbi Gadi’s 50th birth-day. Revelers also saluted the rabbi’s colleagues, Father Roy on his 65th birthday, and Don Russo on his upcoming 80th. Pictured, from left, shul members Phyllis Bocien, Sara Bloom, Ann Hurwitz, Lou and Helaine Tepperman, Rabbi Gadi, and Mark Solomon. Rob Canberg photo
It’s a TOI Trunk Show, starring school supplies. Wow! Check out the trunk. Talk about a successful drive — here’s the results of the Tikkun Olam Initiative’s recent school supplies drive for the children of CAST clients. Just the sight of all those notebooks and markers puts all of us in the back-to-school mood. Hey kids, come and get ‘em, and do your best in school this year, compliments of the contributions made by the [...]
Shul family and friends, and journal honoree Roberta Garris and her family ushered in the month of September with a Zoom launch party for Journal 2022. Folks popped in to join the fun, many offering mazel tov and best wishes to Roberta, and all of us raising our glasses to toast our honoree. We then viewed the pages of the journal with its many messages of tribute, and we oohed and aahed over the elegant [...]
The Book Circle will meet on Friday, Oct. 21, at 4 p.m., at the shul, to explore a prize-winning family drama by Yaniv Iczkovits titled The Slaughterman’s Daughter, winner of the 2021 Wingate Prize and a finalist for a 2021 National Jewish Book Club Award. Two sisters take separate paths from their shtetl lives in Czarist Russia. One once considered following in her father’s footsteps as a ritual slaughterer. She may have abandoned the [...]
This painting, titled “First Day of School,” is the work of a contemporary Israeli artist named Boaz Noy, who lives and works in Haifa. I had been introduced to Noy’s work in an oil-painting class that focused on his compositions’ use of color to indicate atmosphere, emotions, weather and mood. Curiously, I found nothing particularly Jewish about his paintings, except that they reflect Israeli locations. So, on a whim, I inquired in an email whether [...]
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