Here is your link to the 2020 Virtual Journal. Wait until you see the vivid colors. Wait until you see the artistic layout. Wait until you read what everyone has to say. One click, and the wait is over. Visit: www.tiferethisraelgreenport.org/journal The 2020 Virtual Journal will remain posted online for an entire year, its messages of congratulations on our synagogue’s 119th birthday and its notes of love and good will to Suzi Rosenstreich circling [...]

A rhyming invitation brought shul members to the launch of the 2020 Virtual Journal, a stunningly colorful and elegantly designed publication by shul member Joanna Paulsen and office assistant Andrea Blaga. It was a labor of love for the designers as well as the many other hands that contributed to the first virtual journal in the 30-year history of the Journal Dinner-Dance event. The annual Journal Dinner-Dance, popularly known as the JDD, was not to [...]

Once Again, the Horton-Mathie Funeral Home in Greenport has underwritten the annual Jewish calendar, and has delivered a stack of them to our shul, ready for distribution. Ay, there’s the rub… The shul building is closed and will remain so throughout the public health emergency posed by the spread of Covid-19, the coronavirus pandemic. Ever prepared to meet whatever challenge arises, the Men’s Club has stepped forward and will deliver or mail a Horton-Mathie Jewish [...]

All Services on Zoom, Unless Indicated ‘In-person’   Schedule of Services/Rosh Hashanah   Friday, Sept. 18/1 Tishrei                    Erev Rosh Hashanah               7:30-8:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19/1Tishrei                 Rosh Hashanah/1st day          9:30 a.m.-noon Sunday, Sept. 20/2 Tishrei                  Rosh Hashanah/2nd day         9:30 a.m.-noon *In-person Tashlich                 1 p.m. *Tashlich: meet behind the Seaport Museum, next to the Shelter Island Ferry in Greenport. Masks are required; social distancing will be observed. Schedule of Services/Yom Kippur   Sunday, Sept. 27/10Tishrei                 Kol [...]

Members who want to have their own prayer book for High Holy Days services can take advantage of curbside pickup on the following dates and times: Sept 10 (1-3 p.m.); Sept. 14 (2-4 p.m.); Sept. 15 (10 a.m.-noon); Sept. 17 ( 11 a.m.-1p.m.).  Please do not come into the shul or get out of your car. Volunteers will hand you a prayer book through your open car window. Books have been donated; no need to [...]

Planners OK Mostly Zoom Services; Tashlich And Yizkor In-Person   Congregation Tifereth Israel is moving forward with a mostly virtual model for High Holidays worship this year. Consideration of congregant safety imposed by the spread of Covid-19 has forced our shul to adopt virtual means for Sabbath and holiday worship. Yet, the upcoming High Holidays when, under ordinary circumstances, communal prayer encourages worshippers to connect with each other as Jews in their devotion to the [...]

Tashlich and Yizkor Services Will Be In-Person  Congregation Tifereth Israel, the synagogue in Greenport, will offer services for the Jewish High Holy Days this year mostly on Zoom, a videoconferencing application the synagogue has used successfully for weekly Shabbat services, Passover Seders, and other events. The 10-day High Holy Days period begins on Friday, Sept. 18, with services at 7:30 p.m., the evening before the two-day celebration of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. [...]