About Tifereth Israel Greenport

Congregation Tifereth Israel is a Historic Synagogue on the North Fork in Greenport. It is an egalitarian, inclusive, Conservative synagogue committed to strengthening Jewish values, learning and spiritual well-being as well as building a close, warm and supportive community for all who wish to join.

Authorities Seize Egon Schiele Works From Three United States Museums

New York investigators seized three pieces of art from three out-of-state museums that they said had been stolen from a Jewish art collector killed during the Holocaust and rightly belonged to the Nazi victim’s heirs. The Manhattan district attorney’s office issued warrants to the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, and the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College in Ohio for works by the 1900s Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele. According to [...]

Authorities Seize Egon Schiele Works From Three United States Museums2023-09-28T13:59:32-04:00

The Book Circle Selection Offers View Of History Through Fiction

The shul’s Book Circle group has chosen My Mother’s Secret: A Novel of the Jewish Autonomous Region by Alina Adams as its October selection, to be discussed on Thursday, Oct. 12, 3:30 p.m., in the shul’s community room. For this novel, the author has drawn on her own experience as a Jewish refugee from Odessa, USSR, as she provides readers a glimpse into the world’s first Jewish Autonomous Region. The novel is rooted in [...]

The Book Circle Selection Offers View Of History Through Fiction2023-10-25T11:23:50-04:00

Shul Offers Membership Windfall For New Families And Individuals

Many people choose to join our shul midway through the year, or even after the High Holidays, which leaves only a few months until dues are due again. Not fair, we said. So here’s the deal: Any individual or family joining between now and the end of the year will pay the new rate — $1,000 for families; $650 for individuals — for the remainder of this year, but will be paid-up members through [...]

Shul Offers Membership Windfall For New Families And Individuals2023-10-12T10:51:51-04:00

The Big Red Barrel Is Back; We Filled It With Cans For CAST

Once again, our shul has responded with enthusiasm to a call for charity, this time a campaign called “Cans For CAST.” We asked all those joining us for Yom Kippur services to bring a can or other nonperishable item, and to deposit the food in the big red barrel stationed at the ramp entry door. And people did, filling the barrel and making it a back-breaker for CAST volunteers to drag it away. The [...]

The Big Red Barrel Is Back; We Filled It With Cans For CAST2023-10-23T11:42:12-04:00

“50 at 50”

As a traveler, I have crisscrossed America many times — back and forth, up and down. I’ve climbed mountains and descended into valleys and canyons. This year, at 50 years old, my goal was to visit Alaska and Hawaii, the last two of the 50 states. I planned this trip for many months, interviewed friends who lived in the states or had visited there. I read guidebooks, and watched many YouTube videos. The itinerary had to be [...]

“50 at 50”2023-09-28T11:42:55-04:00

“Inward And Outward”

Except for some technical issues that piqued some of those attending High Holiday services online this year — and we did take steps to correct those problems in the interim between Rosh Hashanah Day 2 and Kol Nidre a week later, thanks to some wizardry by our own Andrea Blaga — services were as well run and enjoyable as ever I’ve witnessed. As president, standing in the place where the buck stops, I must admit [...]

“Inward And Outward”2023-09-28T11:41:53-04:00

Amaya Liuba Rakhman

The Shofar announces with great joy the birth day of Amaya Liuba Rakhman on July 24, 2023, to Joshua and Antonia Rakhman. Amaya joins her sister Ava, who received her Hebrew name, Chava, in our shul on Oct. 16, 2022. Josh is our shul’s High Holidays guard, who greets all of us on our way to services. Mazel tov to the Rakhman family.

Amaya Liuba Rakhman2023-09-11T09:33:53-04:00

Friendships And Fun Abound In ‘Joyfully Jewish’ Summer Program

The “Joyfully Jewish” summer program for children ages 5 to 10 wrapped up on Saturday, August 19, the conclusion of a four-session Shabbat morning initiative by Ann Hurwitz, chair of the shul’s Education Committee. In addition to learning about Jewishness, the youngsters made new friends and looked forward to being together on the four Saturday mornings. Dawn Teyuca, an early childhood educational professional, led the program, which focused on  experiences that prepared the children to [...]

Friendships And Fun Abound In ‘Joyfully Jewish’ Summer Program2023-09-11T09:26:11-04:00

Shul’s Tikkun Olam Group’s ‘School Supply Drive’ An Enormous Success

This year’s “School Supply Drive” for the children of CAST clients was a success beyond anyone’s wildest expectation. According to Veronica Kaliski, speaking for the shul’s Tikkun Olam group, she had to ask CAST to empty the big red barrel by the kitchen door twice during the campaign, and still school supplies kept coming — pencils, glue sticks, paperclips, notebooks, dividers, rulers, scissors, index cards, markets, pens and backpacks to hold all that stuff.  [...]

Shul’s Tikkun Olam Group’s ‘School Supply Drive’ An Enormous Success2024-12-22T23:25:39-05:00

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