The Yellow Candle Project is a moving tribute to the six million. Each participating family will receive a yellow candle to be lighted at home, when all will join together on Zoom to share this solemn experience. Attached to each candle is the name of a child who died in the Holocaust. Please remember this child in your prayers. Your yellow candle’s flame can serve as a moving reminder of the evil effects of hatered [...]
Please join the East End Jewish Community Council (EEJCC) and march in the Israel Day Parade in New York City Sunday, May 18, 11:30 AM to 4:00 PM Participation is free.
The Book Circle will meet on Thursday, May 15, at 3 p.m., in the community room at the shul, where the group will talk about Goyhood, a debut novel by Reuven Fenton. Here, a devoutly Orthodox man discovers in middle age that he is not, in fact, Jewish. He is, however, a Talmud scholar, married into one of the greatest rabbinical families in the world. Now what? Meyer Belkin grapples with a God he [...]
Veronica Kaliski, chair of the shul’s Tikkun Olam Group, told The Shofar that the annual donation of funds to provide chickens to CAST clients took place this year in time for Easter. In acknowledging the $300 contribution, Sarina Harley, CAST’s interim food relief program manager, thanked the group and the shul for generosity in time for Easter. “We are elated to have so much chicken to distribute to the CAST clients,” she wrote. “Chicken [...]
The following letter to the editors was sent to the members of GEM (Greenport Ecumenical Ministries), and is reprinted here, with permission: Dear GEMs, On behalf of Congregation Tifereth Israel and myself, I extend our heartfelt condolences to our Catholic brothers and sisters on the passing of His Holiness, Pope Francis. His papacy has accompanied me through most of my rabbinic journey, and when I think of the role of the pope through a [...]
The period between Purim and Passover, two festivals that are deeply intertwined, is a journey of connection to our innermost identity. Both tell stories of danger, courage, and redemption. On Purim, we wear masks; on Passover, we remove them. We deflate not only our bread but our egos. We strip away the disguises we wear in exile. Between the two holidays, I’ve been immersed in reading Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove’s recent and compelling book, For Such a Time as [...]
From the north-facing windows of my apartment here at Peconic Landing, I look out at the daffodils that have pushed up through brown earth — earth still frozen hard from a cold winter inserting itself into spring with arduous reluctance to let go. Has it been ever thus, or am I just feeling the chill so much more this year? And yet, there they are — persistent, determined little bunches that add a burst of [...]
Please join us for a special hybrid service to usher in the Passover holiday. Sunday morning, April 13, at 9:30. Those registered for the Passover Seder at our shul will gather Sunday evening at 6 p.m. in the community room. Zissen Pesach to all.
Your Yellow Candle is on its way to you. Please check your mailbox or your front porch for the delivery, and plan to attend this meaningful North Fork memorial event. The Yellow Candle Project A Holocaust Remembrance Please join us on Wednesday, April 23, at 7:30 p.m., on Zoom, when we will light our candles together in memory of the six million. Meeting ID: 230 626 645 Password: 955110 The Yellow Candle Project is a moving [...]
Please Join Us On Zoom, Wednesday, April 23, at 7:30 p.m. Members and friends of our shul will remember the moving ceremonies planned by our shul to observe Holocaust Memorial Day. In recent years, our participation in the worldwide Yellow Candle Project has touched each of us as members of the global Jewish community. At the same time, we gather locally on Zoom with members of the shul family and our Jewish neighbors and friends [...]
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