Book Circle Chooses A Shocking True Story With Roots In History

The Book Circle has chosen to read an account of a shocking true story as its November selection. The group will meet on Wednesday, Nov. 19, at 3:30 p.m., on CTI’s Zoom to talk about Allegra Goodman’s story, Isola. In this thriller, Marguerite is destined for a life of prosperity and privilege. Suddenly orphaned, her guardian spends her inheritance, then takes her on a trip where she is accused of betrayal, punished and abandoned [...]

Book Circle Chooses A Shocking True Story With Roots In History2025-11-02T18:07:19-05:00

A Hanukkah Idea: Delightfully-Drawn Notecards By David Tamarkin

New Vender Joins Gift Shop Artisans Just In Time For The Holiday As the chief buyer for the Gift Shop (actually the single display case in the lobby), I’m always on the lookout for something special to offer our members. With Hanukkah coming, these notecards caught my eye. Hand-drawn and painted by David Tamarkin, an artist I recently discovered at Peconic Landing, I learned that his drawings, with their simple lines and sweet subject matter [...]

A Hanukkah Idea: Delightfully-Drawn Notecards By David Tamarkin2025-11-02T18:05:39-05:00

Art Talk and Brunch: Food For The Soul — Food For The Appetite

Be sure to reserve your place at the table for a delicious brunch and an answer to an age-old question about art: “What Makes A Work Of Art Work.” Join art historian and writer Joyce Beckenstein on Sunday, Nov. 9, at noon, in the shul’s community room for an eye-opening presentation on how to read “visual language.” Today, we are relentlessly bombarded with images from digital media, streaming videos, and phantasmagorical imaginings intended to [...]

Art Talk and Brunch: Food For The Soul — Food For The Appetite2025-11-02T18:09:34-05:00

High Holiday Donation

As we reflect on the past year and look to the coming year, we acknowledge this is a time for renewal and commitment to our community and to our traditions. As our New Year 5786 begins, let’s build a stronger tomorrow together. This is also a time to remember our shared responsibilities to our community. Your presence at services and programs and simchas helps to sustain our sacred community. Your gift now will ensure [...]

High Holiday Donation2025-11-02T18:07:59-05:00

“Leaving Traces”

Every morning for the last 15 years or so, I log-on to “Religion News Service,” an online publication with reliable, well-researched and documented coverage of global religion news. I learn about faith as practiced around the world by Islamists, Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, Jews and indigenous and folk tribalists living in the far corners of this earth. Through the years, I have passed on to readers of The Shofar many of these stories about Jewish traditions [...]

“Leaving Traces”2025-10-30T13:25:29-04:00

20 Living Hostages Returned After 738 Agonizing Days In Captivity

Families celebrated on Monday, Oct. 13, as Hamas released all 20 remaining living hostages under the Gaza ceasefire deal. Hamas is yet to release the remains of all the dead hostages despite being required to do so under the deal that would bring some closure to the national trauma that began when the terror group took 251 hostages back to Gaza after massacring some 1,200 people on Oct. 7, 2023. The first seven living [...]

20 Living Hostages Returned After 738 Agonizing Days In Captivity2025-11-02T17:53:24-05:00

Trifecta workout; new session with Laurie Short

A new session of Strength Trifecta Begins Thursday October 16th and ends Monday December 22nd Classes are at 5:30 p.m. every Monday and Thursday at the synagogue No class Monday November 24th and Thursday November 27th The fall session is 18 classes/$180 with cash or check due the first night of class Equipment required: three pairs of dumbbells  8lbs-5lbs-2lbs OR 7lbs-5lbs-3lbs A Mat and a water bottle Use a carry-on bag with wheels to transport to [...]

Trifecta workout; new session with Laurie Short2025-10-13T18:19:46-04:00

“Ten Days of Teshuvah – Return, Repentance and Renewal”

“For ten days, the gates are open, and the world is fluid. We are finally awake, if only in fits and starts, if only to toss and turn. For ten days, transformation is within our grasp.  For ten days, we can imagine ourselves not as fixed and immutable beings, but rather as a limitless field upon which qualities and impulses rise up with particular intensity...” — Rabbi Alan Lew This Is Real and You Are [...]

“Ten Days of Teshuvah – Return, Repentance and Renewal”2025-10-02T20:06:37-04:00

“What about the synagogue?”

A strange question was put to me a few days ago, and I’ve been dwelling on it, stewing about it ever since. The telephone rang. The caller was a reporter from Newsday, wanting to know about the situation in our shul swirling around the news that Rabbi Capela would be leaving his position as spiritual leader. An experienced reporter in my own right, I gave no details to this reporter, nor to the Suffolk Times [...]

“What about the synagogue?”2025-10-02T20:04:59-04:00

Look and See: What Makes a Work of Art Work

Presentation by Joyce Beckenstein, Art Historian and Writer Sunday, November 9, 2025, Noon to 2pm Congregation Tifereth Israel, 519 4th Street Greenport, New York Donation of $18 per person RSVP In today’s world, we are relentlessly bombarded with images—from digital media and streaming videos to big-screen, phantasmagorical blockbusters—each shaping and manipulating our opinions, decisions, and perceptions. Visual literacy—the ability to “read” visual language—is an essential skill for understanding how and why we respond as we do [...]

Look and See: What Makes a Work of Art Work2025-10-02T19:49:47-04:00

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