Max Frankel who fled Nazi Germany as a boy and rose to pinnacles of American journalism as a Pulitzer Prize-wining correspondent for The New York Times and later as its executive editor, died on March 23 at his home in Manhattan. He was 94. He found his calling in journalism, and it led to global news assignments and the major events of his era — the Cuban missile crisis, the Cold War, the collapse of [...]
Jeffrey Bruce Klein, one of four journalists who in 1976 founded the magazine Mother Jones, rooted it in the crusading left-wing politics of the 1960s. He returned in 1992 as editor in chief to rebrand it for younger more digital readers. He died on March 13 at his home in Menlo Park, CA at age 77. The founders called it Mother Jones in honor of the fiery labor leader Mary Harris Jones. Mr. Klein left [...]
Reserve Your Places By Wednesday, April 2 Rabbi Gadi will lead us in a celebration of freedom at our family seder, to be held at the shul on the second night of Passover, Sunday, April 13, at 6 p.m. Reservations will be accepted until noon on April 2. The Passover Seder is a joyous time on the Jewish calendar of holidays and events. It features a ritual meal of symbolic foods that commemorate the dramatic [...]
Please Join Us On Zoom, Wednesday, April 23, at 7:30 p.m. Members and friends of our shul will remember the moving ceremonies planned by our shul to observe Holocaust Memorial Day. In recent years, our participation in the worldwide Yellow Candle Project has touched each of us as members of the global Jewish community. At the same time, we gather locally on Zoom with members of the shul family and our Jewish neighbors and friends [...]
The shul’s Tikkun Olam group, whose charitable work for CAST is well known by our members and friends, has learned about a program for parents and grandparents sponsored by PJ Library, a literacy program for Jewish families with young children, reported Veronica Kaliski, chair of the group. This program sends free, age-appropriate Jewish-themed books to children ages 6 months to 8 years. Included in the expansive PJ Library list of available books is a title [...]
Tikkun Olam is looking for volunteers to help maintain the herb and veggie beds at Common Ground. All produce is donated to CAST for local families. Contact Veronica at ctigreenport@gmail.org/.
The Book Circle will meet on Wednesday, April 30, at 4 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 summer [...]
I am writing this message on March 20, the 20th day of Adar. Exactly 30 years ago on this very day on the Jewish calendar, I was on my way to Jerusalem to register for architecture school. Little did I know that God had a different plan for me. It was a moment of transition — my final week after four years of army service. I had chosen not to extend my service again. I had given my [...]
For my column this month, I’m borrowing from the correspondent who had inspired my March column with his statement: “I try to do a good deed every day.” An insightful concept, I reasoned, one with a path forward for the good of self and the world. I wrote about it, and some readers wrote back to me that they had thought about it. I hope they are continuing to do so. Now, with a little [...]
Join Rabbi Gadi, shul members and friends at our 2025 Seder this Passover, to be celebrated on Sunday, April 13, at 6 pm at the shul $75 members, $95 nonmembers, half price for children 12 and under includes ceremony, readings and songs, traditional catered Seder dinner, a memorable event Celebrate the freedom of togetherness on this holiday. Click here to reserve and pay by Wednesday, April 2 You can Pay online with a credit card or a mail-in check by the [...]
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