Gulo Swan Offers Observations and Impressions; Rabbi Gadi To Moderate On Monday, June 6, Lunch and Learn will connect live to Tbilisi, Georgia, in the Caucasus region of Eurasia, for a discussion about Ukraine and the people there displaced by war.  Rabbi Gadi will moderate a discussion with Gulo Swan, known to many of our congregants through her participation in Rabbi Gadi’s Monday afternoon parsha study group when she and her late husband, Arthur [...]

The holiday of Passover represents the release of the Jewish people from bondage in Egypt and their escape across the desert. Passover is followed by the holiday of Shavuot — 49 days or seven weeks later, counted from the night of the second Seder — which commemorates the day the Jews received the Torah. Curiously, Shavuot is celebrated as the giving of the Torah, not the receiving of the Torah. It has been explained as [...]

  With Elaine and Phil Goldman’s donation of a new flag, and help from Burke Liburt to connect it    to the flagpole, our synagogue has a new symbol of freedom gracing Andrew Levin Park.   Trampling on a few flowers in the bed while unfurling the new flag so near to Memorial Day inspired   Rabbi Gadi’s Yom Ha’atzmaut message to the congregation in which he extended a mazel tov to    the State [...]

On Wednesday, April 27, at 7:30 p.m., our shul joined people around the world in a moment of global mourning to honor those murdered during the Holocaust. The Sisterhood and the Men’s Club delivered yellow candles to households and individuals participating, many of whom made donations to the Blue Card Foundation, which helps Holocaust survivors.  SMBloom photo

Cookie Slade, left, and Veronica Kaliski of the shul’s Tikkun Olam group potted and brought 20 tomato plants to the food pantry at CAST’s Southold headquarters. The plants, grown by Cookie from seeds, are distributed to CAST’s clients, who grow and nurture them at their homes for fresh veggies throughout the summer and early fall. Shul members wanting to participate in nurturing plants for CAST or the Common Ground garden can email the shul with [...]