As president of the East End Jewish Community Council (EEJCC), Rabbi Capela has negotiated the sale of discounted burial plots in the designated Adrian Felder section of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism Cemetery in Calverton. Plots are available for purchase at $1,650.

Karen Bloom Gervitz, a professor of English at Seton Hall University, is the featured speaker at the North Fork Reform Synagogue’s Shabbat Schmooze and Learn program on Saturday, Feb. 13, at 4 p.m., followed by Havdallah, on Zoom. Professor Gervitz, the daughter of NFRS member Susan Bloom, will address the topic “Echoes of the Past in the Current Pandemic.” For the Zoom link, RSVP to Susan Bloom at susanilenebloom@gmail.com.

The East End Jewish Community Council (EEJCC), headed by our own Rabbi Gadi, is inviting shul members and friends to a program titled “Jews in China,” a slide-lecture by Rabbi Jack Shlachter, who will provide an overview of the Jewish presence in China. The program will be held on Thursday, Feb. 11, at 7 p.m., on Zoom. Rabbi Shlacter served as a High Holidays visiting rabbi-in-residence for Kehillat Beijing, a lay-led congregation there, for [...]

To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, National Arts Club member Elizabeth Bellak and her daughter, Alexandra, will talk about the journal written by Alexandra’s sister, Renia Spiegel. Renia was a Jewish teenager in southeastern Poland when she began writing her diary. By the time she was executed by Nazi soldiers, she had chronicled life under a totalitarian regime. Her journal, hidden in a safe deposit box in New York City for decades, is a valuable [...]