A Hanukkah Idea: Delightfully-Drawn Notecards By David Tamarkin

New Vender Joins Gift Shop Artisans Just In Time For The Holiday As the chief buyer for the Gift Shop (actually the single display case in the lobby), I’m always on the lookout for something special to offer our members. With Hanukkah coming, these notecards caught my eye. Hand-drawn and painted by David Tamarkin, an artist I recently discovered at Peconic Landing, I learned that his drawings, with their simple lines and sweet subject matter [...]

 A Hanukkah Idea: Delightfully-Drawn Notecards By David Tamarkin2025-12-09T15:40:43-05:00

A Time To Give Now: Campaign Ends Dec. 31.

As we reflect on the past year and look to the coming year, we acknowledge this is a time for renewal and commitment to our community and to our traditions. As our New Year 5786 develops, let’s build a stronger tomorrow together. This is also a time to remember our shared responsibilities to our shul community. Your presence at services and programs and simchas helps to sustain our sacred community. Your gift now will ensure [...]

A Time To Give Now: Campaign Ends Dec. 31.2025-12-09T15:39:24-05:00

What’s All This About Special Events Planned At Shabbat Services?

Careful readers of the Page 1 Calendar in this issue will have noticed two unusual entries under the listings for “Guest Rabbis and Shabbat Events.” Shabbat services will adhere to the expected order of prayer with appropriate spiritual teaching. But in addition... On Dec. 6, Rabbi Jaymee Alpert will lead the regular service, then invite participants to the community room to introduce NBS, Neshama Body and Soul, “a workout that combines exercise, Jewish prayer and [...]

What’s All This About Special Events Planned At Shabbat Services?2025-12-09T15:37:46-05:00

Book Circle Chooses Inspirational Story Inspired By History And Love

Inspired by history and a trove of love letters, The Rabbi’s Suitcase, by Robert Kehlmann, recounts how, in the early 1880s, a battered steamship, overcrowded with Orthodox Jewish travelers makes a treacherous journey from Lithuania to Jerusalem. On board, a 12-year-old mystic named Yosef  is entranced with wild-haired Chana. Their story is told against a backdrop of Ottoman rule, the privations of WWI, and British Mandate uprisings. The Book Circle meets monthly to discuss [...]

Book Circle Chooses Inspirational Story Inspired By History And Love2025-12-18T14:28:43-05:00

Artists, Collectors, Patrons Join Overflow Crowd For Brunch/Art Talk

Art historian and writer Joyce Beckenstein headed the program at the shul on Sunday, Nov. 9, when an overflow crowd of about 75 artists, collectors and patrons gathered in the community room for brunch and an Art Talk with the intriguing title — “What Makes A Work Of Art Work?” With a curated slide show, moving from the classics forward, the speaker showed how we can look at a work of art, but not truly [...]

Artists, Collectors, Patrons Join Overflow Crowd For Brunch/Art Talk2025-12-09T15:34:28-05:00

Menorah Lighting, Sunday, December 14, at 5 p.m., in Mitchell Park

Let’s enjoy the power of one candle Together Join us on the first night of Hanukkah  Sunday, December 14, at 5 p.m., in Mitchell Park to light the public menorah with friends and neighbors Then, join us in the community room at the shul and feast on vodka and latkes  and jelly doughnuts, too. Plus music, music, music It all starts at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 14, in Mitchell Park [...]

Menorah Lighting, Sunday, December 14, at 5 p.m., in Mitchell Park2025-12-16T21:10:33-05:00

Rabbi Jaymee Alpert Brings NBS To Our Shul

Be sure to join us for Shabbat services this weekend, Dec. 5 and 6, when Rabbi Jaymee Alpert will lead services from our pulpit and introduce our members and friends to NBS, Neshama Body and Soul, a practice that combines exercise with Jewish prayer and Torah reflections. For the NBS activity and demonstration, Rabbi Alpert will move the Saturday morning Musaf service to the community room. Participants should wear comfortable clothing for NBS, which [...]

Rabbi Jaymee Alpert Brings NBS To Our Shul2025-12-16T21:48:18-05:00

Rabbi Debra Cantor will lead the services this Shabbat

Rabbi Debra Cantor will lead the services this Shabbat. Please join us this Friday at 7:30 p.m., and again on Saturday at 9:30 a.m. to welcome Rabbi Debra Cantor to our pulpit for Shabbat services. We are planning a kiddish lunch on Saturday. All welcome. Rabbi Debra Cantor, a member of the first JTS Rabbinical School class to include women, is the spiritual leader of a shul in Bloomfield, CT. She has an extensive [...]

Rabbi Debra Cantor will lead the services this Shabbat2025-12-03T16:40:19-05:00

Book Circle Chooses A Shocking True Story With Roots In History

The Book Circle has chosen to read an account of a shocking true story as its November selection. The group will meet on Wednesday, Nov. 19, at 3:30 p.m., on CTI’s Zoom to talk about Allegra Goodman’s story, Isola. In this thriller, Marguerite is destined for a life of prosperity and privilege. Suddenly orphaned, her guardian spends her inheritance, then takes her on a trip where she is accused of betrayal, punished and abandoned [...]

Book Circle Chooses A Shocking True Story With Roots In History2025-11-20T12:29:48-05:00

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