By special arrangement with Michelle Schwartz, a highly regarded gallerist and curator of Israeli art in the Bay Area of San Francisco, Congregation Tifereth Israel in Greenport is mounting a new art show in the community room of the synagogue. The first public viewing of the show will be Sunday, Dec. 3, beginning at noon with an art talk by Michelle Schwartz, who will provide insights into the art and the artists, and convey [...]
Here at Congregation Tifereth Israel, we’re familiar with the big red barrel that CAST provides for donations that correspond to the various drives and campaigns that help CAST clients — our neighbors needing a helping hand from time to time during the year. We step up when personal care items are needed, similarly back to school supplies and, most recently, cans of food and nonperishable items to help families having difficulty feeding their families. [...]
GEM (Greenport Ecumenical Ministries) invites our shul to attend an interfaith Thanksgiving Service on Wednesday, Nov. 15, at the Cutchogue Presbyterian Church, at 11 a.m. Rabbi Gadi will participate in the program that seeks peace in the Middle East and in Ukraine. A soup lunch will follow the service.
Please join Rabbi Gadi and the congregation this Friday, Nov. 10, at 7:30 p.m., for a Shabbat service and Kristallnacht observance. Shabbat is a day to celebrate peace, yet sadly this year, we must gather to connect today’s news with events that occurred in the 1930s.
Marvin Newman, a renowned photographer who brought an artistic eye to capturing shadows on a Chicago main street; people in front of shuttered storefronts on Coney Island; and athletes in competition, including Bill Mazeroski of the Pittsburgh Pirates smashing the 1960 World Series-winning home run, died on Sept. 13 at his home in Jersey City, NJ. He was 95. One of Mr. Newman’s most famous pictures is one he took for Sports Illustrated in the [...]
Dianne Feinstein, the long-serving Jewish senator from California who rose to national prominence when she appeared before cameras with her hands stained with the blood of a murdered colleague, died Sept. 28. She was 90 and in failing health. Feinstein served in the Senate for more than three decades as its longest-serving woman. Feinstein became a national figure in 1978 when she was the president of the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco and found [...]
Victor R. Fuchs, the so-called dean of American health care economists, died on Sept. 16 at his home on the campus of Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. He was 99. Dr. Fuchs was best known for a slim book published in 1975 with the attention-grabbing title, Who Shall Live? Health Economics and Social Choice. He was among the first to articulate why the United States was in the midst of rapidly rising health care [...]
Stephen Rubin, a publisher who helped make John Grisham and Dan Brown famous writers, and who published Michael Wolff’s 2018 chronicle of the Trump White House, Fire and Fury, died on Oct. 13 in Manhattan. He was 81. “Trying to publish big-ticket best sellers is the riskiest game you can play,” Mr. Rubin wrote in his memoir, Words and Music: Confessions of an Optimist. “But it has been my modus operandi.” Among his successes are [...]
Evelyn Fox Keller, a theoretical physicist, a mathematical biologist and, beginning in the late 1970s, a feminist theorist who explored the way gender pervades and distorts scientific inquiry, died on Sept. 22 at an assisted living home in Cambridge, MA. She was 87, Like many women in the sciences, she had faced years of disparagement and discrimination, and one of her first efforts was to quantify the effect such a hostile environment had on women [...]
Florence Fisher, an adoptee who spend decades searching for her birth parents and then spent another half century fighting to open adoption records for millions of others, died on Oct. 1 in Brooklyn. She was 95. Although she ultimately found her birth parents, the difficulties she dealt with — sealed records, silent families — made her think about what millions of other adoptees had faced. “The impact that Florence had on the adoptee-rights movement cannot [...]
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