From the north-facing windows of my apartment here at Peconic Landing, I look out at the daffodils that have pushed up through brown earth — earth still frozen hard from a cold winter inserting itself into spring with arduous reluctance to let go. Has it been ever thus, or am I just feeling the chill so much more this year? And yet, there they are — persistent, determined little bunches that add a burst of [...]
To the Editors: Yom HaShoah is almost upon us. On this day, we stop and we remember. Yom HaShoah follows Passover, which ironically celebrated the freedom and redemption of the Jewish people. But the enslavement of Jews is not in the past; it is also in the brutal and barbaric reality of the terror tunnels today in Gaza. I was there in Israel last June, in the city of Ashkelon, just 5 kilometers from Gaza, [...]
Please join us for a special hybrid service to usher in the Passover holiday. Sunday morning, April 13, at 9:30. Those registered for the Passover Seder at our shul will gather Sunday evening at 6 p.m. in the community room. Zissen Pesach to all.
Your Yellow Candle is on its way to you. Please check your mailbox or your front porch for the delivery, and plan to attend this meaningful North Fork memorial event. The Yellow Candle Project A Holocaust Remembrance Please join us on Wednesday, April 23, at 7:30 p.m., on Zoom, when we will light our candles together in memory of the six million. Meeting ID: 230 626 645 Password: 955110 The Yellow Candle Project is a moving [...]
Rabbi Gadi and the Board of Directors of our shul invite you to join us this Saturday, April 5, at 9:30 a.m., to welcome Rabbi Batshir Torchio to our bimah. She will participate with Rabbi Gadi in portions of the Shabbat service. Rabbi Batshir Torchio Rabbi Torchio is the sister and sister-in-law of shul members Dan and Nancy Torchio, and she will be visiting her family this weekend. She is a senior jewish educator [...]
It was Friday, March 14. Purim fun was in the air, and all the elements in place: A good story, heroes and villains, noisemakers, all the hamantaschen you could eat, all the wine you could drink, all the fun you could have. SMBloom photo
The Book Circle will meet on Wednesday, April 30, at 3 p.m., in the community room at the shul, where the group will talk about The Safekeep, by Yael Van Der Wouden, in whose debut novel it is learned that a house and its people are not what they seem. It is a dark tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the [...]
When Luigi Maria Calio, a classical archaeology professor, first brought students from the University of Catania to excavate an area of Ostia Antica, the ancient commercial port of call outside Rome, he wasn’t sure what he might find, the New York Times said. The dig site had not been explored in modern times, in spite of its central location next to a square that was once the city’s headquarters for shippers and traders and is [...]
At the Academy Awards telecast, the Israeli-Palestinian documentary, “No Other Land,” won an Oscar for Best Documentary, but has no U.S. distribution. Mikey Madison, who is Jewish, won best actress for “Anora,” which is set in Brighton Beach. Linda McMahon, the billionaire wrestling executive was confirmed as Education Secretary. She supports Trump’s effort to dismantle parts of the agency she now runs, even as it serves as the main federal body investigating allegations [...]
A light-filled atrium is featured in the new Tree of Life museum, education center and synagogue building, to be erected in Pittsburgh at the site of the Oct. 27, 2018 shooting that killed 11 worshippers, one of the “deadliest antisemitic attacks in American history,” said Michael Bernstein, the synagogue’s chairman of the board of directors. An exhibit at the University of Pittsburgh introduces information about the shooting, items gifted to Pittsburgh’s Jewish community in its [...]
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