A mysterious woman captures the attention of three men. When she gives birth to Zayde, all three men consider him their son. It’s up to Zayde to piece together his mother’s story. The bookies will discuss The Loves of Judith by Meier Shalev , on Wendsday, Sept 23, at 2:30 p.m. The Book Circle meets monthly to discuss books by Jewish authors and Jewish content. For more information, email Susan Rosenstreich at ctigreenport@gmail.com/. [...]
Congregation Tifereth Israel invites you to observe Yom Kippur with Rabbi Robert L. Wolkoff and Cantor William Weinstein, as we gather for prayer, reflection, and renewal. All are welcome. No tickets are required. Sunday, September 20 — Erev Yom Kippur 6:00 p.m. — Kol Nidre Monday, September 21 — Yom Kippur 9:30 a.m. — Yom Kippur Services 1:00 p.m. — Yizkor 5:00 p.m. — Mincha/Ne’ilah Service All services are hybrid. Join us in person [...]
We’re delighted to share this wonderful North Fork Sun profile of Rabbi Robert Wolkoff. Learn more about his remarkable journey, his vision for Congregation Tifereth Israel, and his hopes for making our synagogue an even stronger center for worship, ideas, culture, and community. Read the full article here.
How Divine is Forgiving? by Marge Piercy It’s a nice concept but what’s under the sculptured draperies? We forgive when we don’t really care because what was done to us brought unexpected harvest, as I always try to explain to the peach trees as I prune them hard, to the cats when I shove pills against the Gothic vaults of their mouths We forgive those who betrayed us years later because memory has rotted [...]
Bees on the North Fork: A Conversation with Two Horse Honey Congregation Tifereth Israel invites you to a special Friday evening program with local beekeepers Scott and Heidi Vayer of Two Horse Honey. Friday, September 4, 2026 After services, at approximately 8:30 PM Congregation Tifereth Israel 519 Fourth Street, Greenport Scott and Heidi will discuss the worldwide decline of bee colonies and what they are seeing here on the North Fork. Bee populations are [...]
The Shofar joins the membership in mourning the death of Marilyn Schnitzer, mother of shul member Howard Schnitzer. The funeral took place at the Old Montefiore Cemetery on Tuesday, August 18, with Rabbi Robert L. Wolkoff presiding. Shiva was held at the Schnitzer home in Greenport.
David Hirsch, who was among the first to grow wine grapes on the windswept, fogbound Sonoma Coast of California, stimulating interest in the area that would become one of America’s great wine-producing regions, died on July 28 in Santa Rosa, CA. He was 81. Mr. Hirsch’s 77-acre vineyard of pinot noir and chardonnay grapes, stoked the imaginations of young, gifted producers. Initially, Mr. Hirsch sold his grapes to companies that used them in anonymous Sonoma [...]
Ida Schmertz, an influential behind-the-scenes feminist and corporate executive, who was a founding director of the first academic research center devoted to American women and politics, and who helped women advance in workplaces as varied as the dockyard and the corporate suite, died on July 28 in Manhattan. She was 91. Ida Frederika was born to upper-middle-class Jewish parents in Amsterdam. The family fled Europe at the beginning of WWII, moving to the Dutch East [...]
Bill Goichberg, the foremost chess impresario in the United States, whose ideas about organizing tournaments reshaped and expanded competitive chess over his six-decade career, died on Aug. 2. He was 83. According to the Continental Chess Association, which Mr. Goichberg founded in the 1960s the association has held more than 2,300 tournaments and awarded more than $24 million in prize money. In 1966, Mr. Goichberg organized the first scholastic tournament of high school competitors, followed [...]
Victor Niederhoffer, a polymath who pioneered the use of computers to predict short-term movements in stocks and commodities — a volatile, high-stakes trading techniq1ue that made him and his clients a fortune, which he subsequently lost, regained, then lost again, died on Aug. 4 at his home in Weston, CT, a 20,000-square-foot Tudor-style mansion. He was 82. Determined to find patterns in stock movements, he recorded prices in large ledgers and entered them into a [...]
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