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 [...]
Tikkun Olam is looking for volunteers to help maintain the herb and veggie beds at Common Ground. All produce is donated to CAST for local families. Contact Veronica at ctigreenport@gmail.org/.
The Book Circle will meet on Wednesday, April 30, at 4 p.m., in the community room at the shul, where the group will talk about The Safekeep, by Yael Van Der Wouden, in whose debut novel it is learned that a house and its people are not what they seem. It is a dark tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer [...]
I am writing this message on March 20, the 20th day of Adar. Exactly 30 years ago on this very day on the Jewish calendar, I was on my way to Jerusalem to register for architecture school. Little did I know that God had a different plan for me. It was a moment of transition — my final week after four years of army service. I had chosen not to extend my service again. I had given my [...]
For my column this month, I’m borrowing from the correspondent who had inspired my March column with his statement: “I try to do a good deed every day.” An insightful concept, I reasoned, one with a path forward for the good of self and the world. I wrote about it, and some readers wrote back to me that they had thought about it. I hope they are continuing to do so. Now, with a little [...]
The spring session of Strength Trifecta started Monday, March 3 through Monday, April 28 — no class April 21. The cost of the sessions is $150. Equipment needed: three pairs of weights: e.g. 8 lb, 5 lb and 2 lb, or 7 lb, 5 lb and 3 lb, also a mat. Use a suitcase with wheels to transport your weights. Please call Laurie 631-566-0526 to reserve a place in the class.
Veronica Kaliski, chair of the shul’s Tikkun Olam group, reported the results of a planning meeting to meet the needs of the upcoming season at Common Ground. Among the initiatives this spring, Tikkun Olam will chose crops to align with the needs of CAST clients. Also, only one crop will be planted in each of the three beds the group maintains. This approach will better facilitate care and harvesting. The group focuses on planting during [...]
Life is a constant movement between order and disorder, a delicate balance between structure and chaos, between the expected and unexpected, between moments of clarity and the unknown. This tension is the very essence of our existence — the breath that sustains us and the drama that shapes our journey. In the midst of the profound pain in Israel and for Jews around the world, Hamas released the lifeless bodies of two young souls, [...]
In one of the many messages that fill my email inbox daily — messages offering ideas, suggestions, advice, opinions, objections and complaints — one of our members told me in one of the more helpful daily messages that he tries to perform one act of kindness every day. Now that’s a welcome idea. Just imagine what a world this would be if the more than eight billion people who inhabit our planet would, in each [...]
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