Book Circle To Discuss “Maus 1,” A Graphic Novel About The Holocaust

The Book Circle has chosen a graphic novel as its selection for the Thursday, May 16 meeting. The bookies will gather at 3 p.m. on Zoom for a look at Art Spiegleman’s Maus 1: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History, a “brutally moving work of art,” Amazon says. This is the bestselling first installment of the graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust,” said The [...]

Book Circle To Discuss “Maus 1,” A Graphic Novel About The Holocaust2024-05-16T10:48:12-04:00

Yellow Candle Project on Sunday

Do You Know Where Your Yellow Candle Is? You had it. You put it somewhere? Where did you put it? This Sunday, May 5, at 7 p.m., we will meet in the Andrew Levin Park to bury the names of children lost in the Holocaust. May they rest peacefully. At 7:30 p.m., we will join congregants, guests, and members of three other synagogues to light our yellow candles together in a communal remembrance of The Six Million. Rabbi Gadi and [...]

Yellow Candle Project on Sunday2024-05-06T13:24:57-04:00

“Passing Over to Nicaragua”

We had a wonderful Seder at the synagogue with about 30 people — young and old, men and women, members and guests, children, all colors. Our B’nei Mitzvah, Julian Graf and Ayla Eisenberg, were chasing the afikomen under the watchful eye of Julian’s older sister, Savana. A festive Seder. Yet a bittersweet Seder this year with the posters of kidnapped Israelis on Elijah’s and Miriam’s chairs. I wore a white cotton shirt, embroidered in blue at the [...]

“Passing Over to Nicaragua”2024-04-29T13:44:46-04:00

“A Candle, A Child, A Soldier, And Six Million”

  By now, thanks to the Tikkun Olam group’s whiz-bang volunteer delivery corps — Tom Byrne, Veronica Kaliski, Bill Packard, Suzi Rosenstreich, Madelyn Rothman, Cookie Slade, Rena Wiseman, and myself — and yes, with assistance from the USPS, which has made its rounds unhindered by snow, rain, heat, cold or gloom of night — you have received your yellow candles. Keep them at hand, for with them we will observe Yom Ha Shoah, and memorialize [...]

“A Candle, A Child, A Soldier, And Six Million”2024-04-29T13:43:35-04:00

Journal Committee Names Judith K. Weiner The 2024 Honoree

   In a unanimous decision by the 2024 Journal Committee, past president and shul innovator Judith K. Weiner was named this year’s journal honoree. “At this moment in our shul’s history, no one is more deserving than our own Judy, who led this shul with strength and commitment to the vitality of our Jewish community here at Congregation Tifereth Israel,” said Madelyn Rothman, chair of the journal committee. The annual journal recognizes the growth and [...]

Journal Committee Names Judith K. Weiner The 2024 Honoree2024-04-01T12:52:03-04:00

Our Shul And NFRS To Observe Yom HaShoah With Yellow Candles

Tikkun Olam Group Heads Candle Packaging and Distribution Our shul will join with members of the North Fork Reform Synagogue in a joint program to honor the six million lost in the Holocaust. We will participate together in the Yellow Candle Project on Sunday, May 5, at 7:30 p.m., on Zoom. Rabbi Gadi Capela and one of the NFRS rabbis will lead participants in commentary and prayers to honor those who were lost amid the [...]

Our Shul And NFRS To Observe Yom HaShoah With Yellow Candles2024-04-01T12:48:20-04:00

To Make A Yellow Candle Charitable Contribution…

Should you wish to acknowledge receipt of your candle with a charitable contribution, we suggest that you consider a gift in a multiple of $18, the number that represents life — chai — to Congregation Tifereth Israel, and designate it for the Yellow Candle Project. The shul will, in turn, donate the full amount of all the contributions to Greenport High School to help finance a visit to the Museum of Jewish Heritage, a fitting [...]

To Make A Yellow Candle Charitable Contribution…2024-04-01T12:45:30-04:00

“The Sin of War”

Every time I read the name Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, I behold the embodiment of the sin of war. Sin and war are also the two words that make up his name. Like Haman in ancient Persia, who plotted to annihilate a nation, Hamas today holds the same agenda, only by a different name. Gaza has submitted to the sin of war in the underground of Hamas’ state of death. When death [...]

“The Sin of War”2024-03-28T16:42:15-04:00

“The Festive Meal”

Memory is flawed. Images and details surface in the mind and, from those bits, a composite of a past experience emerges. Sometimes the memory is blurred, lost in a haze of maybe’s that the passage of time has largely swallowed. Siblings central to a family happening may have different recollections of how an event unfolded — unique perspectives and points of view on the same experience, even though all were present and participating. For sure, [...]

“The Festive Meal”2024-03-28T16:39:20-04:00

Yellow Candle Project

Tikkun Olam has volunteered to coordinate the packaging and distribution of candles for the Yellow Candle Project that the shul undertakes in observance of Yom Hashoah each May. Veronica Kaliski, who heads the Tikkun Olam group, is looking for additional volunteers to help with packaging, delivery and mailing. Please email ctigreenport@gmail.com with a message for Veronica to help with this program to honor those lost in the Holocaust.

Yellow Candle Project2024-02-29T21:19:36-05:00

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