Once again this year, our shul is joining our local North Fork venues that are collecting toys for children of CAST clients. Help make the season brighter for these children by placing unwrapped toys in the big red barrel at the top of the ramp by the kitchen door. The Holiday Toy Drive opened on Nov. 18 and will run through Dec. 16. The shul’s Tikkun Olam group is spearheading the drive for our [...]
The Book Circle will meet on Wednesday, Dec. 18, at 3 p.m., in the shul’s community room to discuss Joshua Cohen’s novel, The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family. In this story, Ruben Blum is co-opted onto a college’s hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar. Benzion Netanyahu shows up. The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive [...]
Anti-Israel protesters started a fire inside a tram car in Amsterdam on Nov. 11, and riot police were called to disperse them, days after Israeli soccer fans were attacked in the Dutch capital. Video circulating on social media showed rioters throwing sticks and debris and hurling stones at a stopped tram car. The protesters appeared to be yelling “Free Palestine” and “Cancer Jews,” according to videos from the scene. At one point, smoke in [...]
President-elect Donald Trump has announced the appointment of two prominent Jewish allies to major positions in his incoming administration. Lee Zeldin, a former Republican congressman elected to serve New York’s 1st Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2015 to 2023, has been named to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. He has vowed to remove barriers to fossil fuel production, advocate for U.S. energy dominance, and explore the development of artificial intelligence within [...]
By Rabbi Gadi Capela On a sunny day in Pompano Beach, Florida, Monday, November 11, we gathered at the graveside to honor the memory of Paul Birman, A”H, a beloved member and benefactor of Congregation Tifereth Israel, who passed away at the age of 89. His mahogany casket, adorned with the United States Military emblem, was a testament to his service and dedication as a veteran. Fittingly, on Veterans Day, we celebrated Paul’s life, marked [...]
Yehuda Bauer, whose family narrowly escaped the Nazis in their flight to Mandatory Palestine from Czechoslovakia in 1939, and who later drew on that experience in becoming a leading scholar of the Holocaust and antisemitism, died on Oct. 18 at his home in Jerusalem. He was 98. Fluent in German, English, Yiddish and other languages, Dr. Bauer pored over archives and conducted numerous interviews with survivors, material he used in writing some 40 books and [...]
Lynda Obst a New York journalist turned Hollywood producer, who promoted women in films like “Sleepless in Seattle” and “Contact” while writing dispatches from Hollywood for The Atlantic and The New York Times, died on Oct. 22 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 74. As a producer, she excelled at frothy romantic comedies and serious science fiction dramas. She was at times an outspoken critic of the movie industry, especially its treatment of [...]
Alan Rachins who became widely recognizable for his roles on “L.A. Law” and “Dharma & Greg,” died on Nov. 2 in Los Angeles. He was 82. The characters — one an officious lawyer, the other an aging hippie — were eccentric, but extremely popular. “L.A. Law” was so popular that some real-life lawyers worried at the time that the show could affect juries’ behavior. In 1990, one lawyer told The New York Times, “Any lawyer [...]
Bernie Marcus, who envisioned a big-box store aimed at do-it-yourselfers and turned it into Home Depot, the world’s largest home-improvement retailer, died on Nov. 4 in Boca Raton FL. He was 95. Today, Home Depot has more than 2,300 stores across North America, and records more than $150 billion in annual revenue. Home Depot employees were called “associates,” and not only were paid more than minimum wage, but also received stock options. More than 3,000 [...]
Richard A. Fineberg, a political science teacher whose years of scrutinizing the proposal and operation of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System resulted in environmental safety measures, and his reporting of an under-sea detonation of a nuclear bomb spawned the Greenpeace organization, died Sept. 27 in Fairbanks, Alaska. He was 83. Throughout his life, he was driven to hold oil companies accountable to their promises for environmental protections, according to The New York Times.
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