About Tifereth Israel Greenport

Congregation Tifereth Israel is a Historic Synagogue on the North Fork in Greenport. It is an egalitarian, inclusive, Conservative synagogue committed to strengthening Jewish values, learning and spiritual well-being as well as building a close, warm and supportive community for all who wish to join.

Handy Granddaughter Lends A Hand At Shul’s Common Ground Beds

When Alana Weiss visited her gramma, Susan Rosenstreich, she was all-in when the fun activity for the two of them was weeding, planting and harvesting veggies and herbs at Common Ground. There, in exchange for gardening space at Treiber Farm, organizations can raise crops and donate to local food pantries. Susan Rosenstreich is a founding member of the Tikkun Olam Initiative group at our shul, which donates to CAST the carrots and squash, lettuce and [...]

Handy Granddaughter Lends A Hand At Shul’s Common Ground Beds2025-11-02T18:01:00-05:00

Art Talk and Brunch: Food For The Soul — Food For The Appetite

Be sure to reserve your place at the table for a delicious brunch and an answer to an age-old question about art: “What Makes A Work Of Art Work.” Join art historian and writer Joyce Beckenstein on Sunday, Nov. 9, at noon, in the shul’s community room for an eye-opening presentation on how to read “visual language.” Today, we are relentlessly bombarded with images from digital media, streaming videos, and phantasmagorical imaginings intended to [...]

Art Talk and Brunch: Food For The Soul — Food For The Appetite2025-11-13T11:20:45-05:00

High Holiday Donation

As we reflect on the past year and look to the coming year, we acknowledge this is a time for renewal and commitment to our community and to our traditions. As our New Year 5786 begins, let’s build a stronger tomorrow together. This is also a time to remember our shared responsibilities to our community. Your presence at services and programs and simchas helps to sustain our sacred community. Your gift now will ensure [...]

High Holiday Donation2026-03-04T20:57:13-05:00

“Leaving Traces”

Every morning for the last 15 years or so, I log-on to “Religion News Service,” an online publication with reliable, well-researched and documented coverage of global religion news. I learn about faith as practiced around the world by Islamists, Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, Jews and indigenous and folk tribalists living in the far corners of this earth. Through the years, I have passed on to readers of The Shofar many of these stories about Jewish traditions [...]

“Leaving Traces”2025-10-30T13:25:29-04:00

Meet The Fletchers; Book Circle Eyes Wealth, Identity And Fulfillment

Coming up on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 3:30, at the shul, the Book Circle will meet the Fletcher family and come to terms with a deep-seated generational trauma and how that morphed into the destructive nature of wealth, identity and personal fulfillment. The October selection is titled Long Island Compromise, by Taffy Brodesser-Akner. The Book Circle meets monthly to explore books by Jewish writers exploring Jewish topics. For more information about the group, email [...]

Meet The Fletchers; Book Circle Eyes Wealth, Identity And Fulfillment2025-11-02T17:27:02-05:00

20 Living Hostages Returned After 738 Agonizing Days In Captivity

Families celebrated on Monday, Oct. 13, as Hamas released all 20 remaining living hostages under the Gaza ceasefire deal. Hamas is yet to release the remains of all the dead hostages despite being required to do so under the deal that would bring some closure to the national trauma that began when the terror group took 251 hostages back to Gaza after massacring some 1,200 people on Oct. 7, 2023. The first seven living [...]

20 Living Hostages Returned After 738 Agonizing Days In Captivity2025-11-02T17:53:24-05:00

Trifecta workout; new session with Laurie Short

A new session of Strength Trifecta Begins Thursday October 16th and ends Monday December 22nd Classes are at 5:30 p.m. every Monday and Thursday at the synagogue No class Monday November 24th and Thursday November 27th The fall session is 18 classes/$180 with cash or check due the first night of class Equipment required: three pairs of dumbbells  8lbs-5lbs-2lbs OR 7lbs-5lbs-3lbs A Mat and a water bottle Use a carry-on bag with wheels to transport [...]

Trifecta workout; new session with Laurie Short2026-03-04T20:57:32-05:00

Annual High Holiday Giving: Jewish Tradition Brightens Our Future

This has been an extraordinary year! At home and around the world. Now, the 2025 High Holidays sharpen our perspective, highlight our fears, stir old memories and, at the same time, bring hope for the future. This year in 5785, we recognize with a renewed commitment that we are linked by tradition, by community and, at the very core of our beings, by a shared identity as Jews. In the excruciating years since October [...]

Annual High Holiday Giving: Jewish Tradition Brightens Our Future2025-10-19T14:10:27-04:00

The Big Red Barrel Is Back; Let’s Fill It With Cans For CAST Families

The Goal Is To Fill The Barrel To Fill Tummies Once again, our shul will participate in a worldwide movement to feed the hungry as part of the annual observance of Yom Kippur. This mitzvah often is referred to as the “Fast of Isaiah,” the Biblical prophet who said, “And if you spend yourself in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, [...]

The Big Red Barrel Is Back; Let’s Fill It With Cans For CAST Families2025-10-15T20:11:35-04:00

Philadelphia Jewish Museum Has Rehung Its Vandalized Israeli Flag

The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia has returned an Israeli flag to its façade after two incidents of vandalism. The flag, which hangs on an exterior wall of the museum with the words “The Weitzman stands with Israel,” was vandalized with red spray paint. The museum had planned to swap the damaged flag with a hostage-focused sign, but drew criticism on the premise that by removing the Israeli flag, the vandals [...]

Philadelphia Jewish Museum Has Rehung Its Vandalized Israeli Flag2025-10-13T17:22:04-04:00

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