We are just a few days from New Year 5777, and I sense excitement in the air. For Jews, the High Holidays are the spiritual Olympics; it’s time to stretch and give it all we can. It’s time to win ourselves back like an Olympic medal. In a few days, the moon will disappear and will reemerge in the new year. Numerous theories explain why the Jewish people follow the cycle of the moon, even though adjusting [...]
The Maritime Festival begins Saturday Sept 24th. Rabbi Gadi Capela will be doing the Blessing of the Fleets at 10:30am. Sharing the honors will be Father Richard Hoerning. The Blessing of the Fleet is a tradition that began centuries ago in Mediterranean fishing communities. During this simple but relevant service, they will offer our prayers to the entire assembled oyster, clamming and fishing fleet, and their captains and crew for a safe and bountiful season. [...]
In a couple of weeks, at our annual Journal Dinner-Dance, we will celebrate Tifereth Israel’s 115th anniversary. The event will be held this year on Sept. 11, at the Sound View Restaurant. We will see many familiar faces, and we will remember those who are no longer with us. One of the strengths of our Jewish community in general, and one of the main reasons for its survival, is our memory. The People of the Book have [...]
Sunday, Sept 11, 2016 5:00pm Sound View Restaurant To attend please contact us at info@tifereth-israel.com
JEWISH EXPERIENCE AROUND THE WORLD TODAY Guest Speaker: Suri Grussgott, Assistant Director of the WJC, North America Suri Grussgott joined the World Jewish Congress as the Assistant Director of the WJC, North America after more than a decade in public service. Prior to joining the WJC, Suri served as an Assistant Director at the New York City Comptroller’s Office and headed the Intergovernmental Relations Bureau at the NYC Mayor’s Office of Management and Budget. While [...]
Dear Members and Friends, It was a great honor to share the stage with Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor at the Orient Annual Heritage Day on July 3. Her words, said on the little porch in front of the Old Point Schoolhouse on Village Lane, are still reverberating truth. The event took place shortly after last month’s vigils for the Orlando victims and before other terrible acts of hate occurred here in America and around [...]
Dear members and friends, “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.” (Ps. 116:15) It’s been a week on an emotional rollercoaster. While we were celebrating the holiday of Shavuot — the time when we reaffirm the Ten Commandments in the synagogue, commemorating the highest point in humanity’s spiritual mountain of Sinai; while we were receiving the most fundamental law of the land for conducting a civil society, someone was [...]
Reverend Ann Van Cleef, of the Orient Congregational Church, organized and presided at a community prayer vigil following the massacre at The Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Rabbi Gadi Capela of Congregation Tifereth Israel, spoke at the service and chanted the 23 Psalm in Hebrew. Over 50 members of the local community joined together to show solidarity with the loss suffered by the LGBT community through a service of prayer and remembrance.
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