A Message From The Fundraising Chairperson “Have you given?” Your donation to our 2023 High Holiday Gift Campaign suddenly takes on an urgency amid global implications that we could not have imagined in past years. Strengthening the infrastructure of Jewish institutions and the hallmarks of Jewish life, means securing our own Jewish community on the east end of Long Island. We need you to make that happen. If you have not yet given, remember that [...]

Many people choose to join our shul midway through the year, or even after the High Holidays, which leaves only a few months until dues are due again. Not fair, we said. So here’s the deal: Any individual or family joining between now and the end of the year will pay the new rate — $1,000 for families; $650 for individuals — for the remainder of this year, but will be paid-up members through [...]

“The 2023 High Holiday Matching Gift Campaign” As the High Holidays approach and we come together as a vibrant community in our spiritual home of 125 years, we set aside worldly distractions in repentance and in prayer. We  come together to celebrate with our community. YOU are that community. YOU make our community thrive. YOU are responsible for our success and our vitality. We need YOU to join our 2023 High Holiday Leadership Donors, who [...]

Shul member Nancy Torchio started it all when she offered to sponsor an Oneg Shabbat to honor her father, Charles Bogen, on his first yahrzeit. The promise of socializing in the community room over coffee and cake and other goodies drew an eyepopping turnout to the sanctuary on Friday, May 26. Rabbi Gadi’s singing was particularly lyrical that evening, backed up with a chorus of singers in the sanctuary sounding more like a glee club [...]