Coming up at the Thursday, Feb. 22 meeting of the Book Circle, at 3 p.m. on Zoom, is a discussion about what happened on Chicken Hill, as related by James McBride in his bestselling National Book Award-winning novel The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, PA, were digging the foundations for a new development, they found a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was [...]
Shul members spearheading Tikkun Olam at our shul have designated February as the time they will initiate a drive to provide gently-used warm winter outerwear plus T-shirts, socks and underwear to the 30-40 homeless men who seek out John’s Place every Tuesday night. John’s Place, located in the Parish Hall of St. Agnes Church in Greenport, provides the men with a warm place to sleep, hot showers, and clothing from November through April. John’s [...]
The shul’s Pastoral Committee is inviting those interested in providing companionship to people who are confined to their homes to become a part of this mitzvah. The need is particularly great during the winter months, when inclement weather prevents even the briefest outings for those living alone. Those interested can email ctigreenport@gmail.com with a message for Elaine Goldman, chair of the committee.
Shul member Rosa Lee Emerson is calling for all actors, playwrights and playreaders to join a new group she is forming at the shul called DramaWorks. In the planning stages are readings, theater games, mime and improv that focus on Jewish identity, and perhaps a performance later in the spring for shul members, family and friends. Sources may include a book of one-act plays titled “Are You Jewish?,” written by Bruce Bloom, and also a [...]
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir, Raja Shehadeh Father and son lawyers share goals, but are unable to appreciate each other’s politics. A Day In The Life of Abed Salama, Nathan Thrall. An account of daily life in the occupied West Bank. Enter Ghost, Isabella Hammad. A West Bank production of Hamlet explores the challenge of theater-making under occupation. Land of Hope and Fear, Isabel Kershner. A mosaic portrait [...]
A federal judge in Iowa has blocked much of a state law forbidding school libraries from stocking books depicting “sex acts,” in part because he said it was keeping a classic Holocaust memoir off shelves. U.S. District Court Judge Stephen Locher granted a preliminary injunction against the law, Iowa Senate File 496, on Dec. 29, just before a Jan. 1 deadline for schools to begin enforcing it. The “staggeringly broad” law, he wrote in his [...]
Amid Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza, two boys — one Israeli and one Palestinian — act as symbols of a peaceful future in a new mural painted on the side of the building at 49 Wyckoff Avenue in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. The mural was intended to channel a sense of hope, said Michelle Mayerson, who helped organize and commission the work, executed by a Chilean street artist who goes by the name [...]
Jewish outfielder Harrison Bader is headed back to New York, this time as a member of the New York Mets. The 29-year-old Bronxville native agreed to a one-year $10.5 million contract. Bader spent the first five and a half seasons of his baseball career with the St. Louis Cardinals, where he won a Gold Glove in 2021. He was traded to the New York Yankees in 2022, but despite his stellar defense, he struggled at [...]
Now hear this: For fans of “The Daily Show” — before Trevor Noah’s departure and the rotation of guest hosts — when Jon Stewart ruled late night political comedy, your hero is returning. Yes, you read that right: Jon Stewart will host his old program on Mondays, at 11 p.m., in a 45-minute format of monologues, interviews, and plenty of gags, beginning on Feb. 12. Fun ahead.
Mike Nussbaum, one of the oldest working actors in the U.S., who appeared in films, on TV, and on the stage, died Dec. 23, at his home in Chicago. He was 99. On film, he appeared in “Fatal Attraction,” “Field of Dreams,” “Men in Black,” “House of Games,” “Things Change,” “Harry and Tonto,” “Losing Josiah” and “Steal Big Steal Little.” On television, he performed in “The Equalizer,” “The X-Files,” “Brooklyn Bridge,” “Separate But Equal,” “Frasier,” [...]
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