Do You Know Where Your Yellow Candle Is? You had it. You put it somewhere? Where did you put it? This Sunday, May 5, at 7 p.m., we will meet in the Andrew Levin Park to bury the names of children lost in the Holocaust. May they rest peacefully. At 7:30 p.m., we will join congregants, guests, and members of three other synagogues to light our yellow candles together in a communal remembrance of The Six Million. Rabbi Gadi and [...]
We had a wonderful Seder at the synagogue with about 30 people — young and old, men and women, members and guests, children, all colors. Our B’nei Mitzvah, Julian Graf and Ayla Eisenberg, were chasing the afikomen under the watchful eye of Julian’s older sister, Savana. A festive Seder. Yet a bittersweet Seder this year with the posters of kidnapped Israelis on Elijah’s and Miriam’s chairs. I wore a white cotton shirt, embroidered in blue at the [...]
By now, thanks to the Tikkun Olam group’s whiz-bang volunteer delivery corps — Tom Byrne, Veronica Kaliski, Bill Packard, Suzi Rosenstreich, Madelyn Rothman, Cookie Slade, Rena Wiseman, and myself — and yes, with assistance from the USPS, which has made its rounds unhindered by snow, rain, heat, cold or gloom of night — you have received your yellow candles. Keep them at hand, for with them we will observe Yom Ha Shoah, and memorialize [...]
Rabbi Gadi will lead a Passover service with Yiskor tomorrow morning, Tuesday, April 23, at 9:30, in person and online. We hope you will make every effort to attend in observance of the holiday and to pay tribute to those we miss. Note: The First Passover Seder is taking place today, April 22, at the synagogue, at 6 p.m. and it will be accessible on Zoom as well.
We invite everyone to make a special effort to attend this Friday evening’s Shabbat service. Tenth-grade students from Greenport High School will join us on Zoom to talk about their history class unit on the Holocaust, and also the field trip they are taking this Wednesday to the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center in Glen Cove. Surely the museum trip will provide a revealing conclusion to the lessons learned. Many of you will recall [...]
The Postcard by Anne Berest Book Circle Choice of the Month! Thursday, April 25 at 3 PM On CTI Zoom Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, an enthralling investigation into family secrets, and poignant tale of a Jewish family devastated by the Holocaust and partly restored through the power of storytelling. For more information about The Book Circle email ctigreenport@gmail.com with a [...]
Join Rabbi Gadi, shul members and friends at our 2024 Seder this Passover, to be celebrated on Monday, April 22, at 6 pm at the shul $65 per person, no charge for children 12 and under includes traditional, catered Seder dinner Celebrate the freedom of togetherness on this holiday. (This is a Hybrid event, free for Zoom participants) RSVP here by Monday, April 15
Jacob Rothschild, a wealthy financier, patron of the arts, philanthropist with close ties to Israel and, who broke with his family’s fabled banking dynasty at a time of change in the world of high finance, has died. He was 87. At the time of his death, he was chairman of the Rothschild Foundation, a British charity. In addition to his career as a high-powered financier, Mr. Rothschild played a role in Israel. He oversaw his [...]
Richard Lewis, the stand-up comedian who parlayed a dark sense of humor into an acting career that included movies and TV, died on Feb. 27 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 76. Neurotic and self-deprecating, typically dressed all in black, Mr. Lewis paced the stages of comedy clubs, hanging his head, pulling at his shock of black hair, riffing on his struggles in life and love. He called himself “The Prince of Pain.” [...]
Bruce Newman, a New York antiques dealer and proprietor of his family’s business, Newel Galleries, originally founded as a prop house for theater and film productions, died on Feb. 9 at his home in Beverly Hills, CA. He was 94. During his reign over the business, the building teemed with two centuries’ worth of treasures, most costing upward of five figures — carousel horses, Ruhlmann desks; benches from the Paris Metro; French Victorian dining chairs [...]
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