Journal Committee Names Greenberg/Gabriel Honorees Of The Year

The 2025 Journal Committee is proud to name Adrianne Greenberg and Miriam Gabriel as this year’s Journal honorees. Both women have served our shul with distinction for more than 20 years, contributing in many capacities — from leadership roles to committee members. Before her election as president of the shul for three consecutive terms, Adrianne held many offices on the Board of Directors over a period of 20 years, including Recording Secretary and Vice [...]

Journal Committee Names Greenberg/Gabriel Honorees Of The Year2025-06-05T13:15:01-04:00

Suffolk County Legislator Taps Rabbi Gadi For Distinctive Person Award

Rabbi Gadi was one of 18 Jews honored in a ceremony held on May 7 at the H. Lee Dennison Building in Hauppauge. The event capped the Suffolk County Legislature’s annual observance of Jewish American Heritage Month. Each County District leader was invited to select one honoree of distinction. Legislator Catherine Stark of District 1 selected Rabbi Gadi for his leadership at our shul and his interfaith work with Project Genesis and the GEM (Greenport [...]

Suffolk County Legislator Taps Rabbi Gadi For Distinctive Person Award2025-06-05T13:11:25-04:00

Fifty Participants Joined CTI And NFRS In Yom HaShoah Observance

In a Yom HaShoah program held on the evening of April 23, a sizeable crowd of 50 people from our shul and the North Fork Reform Synagogue paid tribute and honor to the Six Million lost in the Holocaust. Rabbi Gadi Capela of our shul, and Rabbi Barbara Sheryll of the North Fork Reform Synagogue led the gathering in a moving program of prayers and remembrances. Rena Wiseman, one of our shul members and the [...]

Fifty Participants Joined CTI And NFRS In Yom HaShoah Observance2025-06-05T13:09:10-04:00

Tikkun Olam Purchases Bilingual Books For CAST Literacy Program

To help the children of CAST families gain the skills necessary for success when starting kindergarten, the shul’s Tikkun Olam Initiative (TOI) group purchased 20 bilingual copies of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” for the 3-year old group, and 20 copies of “Rainbow Fish” for the 4-year-olds. Each book is labeled inside, announcing (in Spanish and English) that the book was donated by Congregation Tifereth Israel. “Helping these children gain the literacy skills that their English-speaking [...]

Tikkun Olam Purchases Bilingual Books For CAST Literacy Program2025-06-05T13:07:24-04:00

Book Circle Considers ‘Generation Gap’ In Stories About Three Women

This month, the Book Circle will read and discuss The Hebrew Teacher by Maya Arad, winner of a National Jewish Book Award for Hebrew Fiction in Translation. The group will meet on Thursday, June 19, at 3 p.m., in the community room of the shul. Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States seek to overcome crises in their lives. In three novellas, the celebrated Israeli writer Maya Arad probes the [...]

Book Circle Considers ‘Generation Gap’ In Stories About Three Women2025-06-05T13:05:07-04:00

Shavuot Services: Sunday, June 1 and Monday, June 2

Please join us for Shavuot services this weekend: Sunday, June 1, TIKKUN LEIL SHAVUOT LEARNING 7:30 p.m., on Zoom Only Please join our learning sessions with Rabbi Gadi and other presenters, including Rabbi Barbara Sheryll, Rabbi Suzan Lipson, and Sara Bloom. Monday, June 2, SHAVUOT SERVICE + YIZKOR 9:30 a.m., on Zoom and in-person in the sanctuary

Shavuot Services: Sunday, June 1 and Monday, June 22025-06-02T17:00:47-04:00

2025 Virtual Journal Ad Campaign Kicks Off

Dear Friend of Congregation Tifereth Israel, We are publishing our Virtual/Online Journal, once again, this year and hope that you will choose to advertise in it.  Whether this may be your first time advertising with us or if you have participated in the past, it is an excellent marketing opportunity along with a way to support the work we do supporting our local community. Our Virtual Journal is live online 24/7/365, which is seen locally [...]

2025 Virtual Journal Ad Campaign Kicks Off2025-05-21T14:55:19-04:00

Yellow Candle Program recording

The Yellow Candle Project is a moving tribute to the six million. Each participating family will receive a yellow candle to be lighted at home, when all will join together on Zoom to share this solemn experience. Attached to each candle is the name of a child who died in the Holocaust. Please remember this child in your prayers. Your yellow candle’s flame can serve as a moving reminder of the evil effects of hatered [...]

Yellow Candle Program recording2025-05-10T22:21:42-04:00

Book Circle’s Selection Introduces A Shocking Revelation In Identity

The Book Circle will meet on Thursday, May 15, at 3 p.m., in the community room at the shul, where the group will talk about Goyhood, a debut novel by Reuven Fenton. Here, a devoutly Orthodox man discovers in middle age that he is not, in fact, Jewish. He is, however, a Talmud scholar, married into one of the greatest rabbinical families in the world. Now what? Meyer Belkin grapples with a God he [...]

Book Circle’s Selection Introduces A Shocking Revelation In Identity2025-05-15T21:34:52-04:00

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