Our shul hosted a Second Seder on Sunday, April 13. The beautiful table setting invited participants into the community room, where Rabbi Gadi led the gathering through the dramatic Passover story of slavery in Egypt and the flight to freedom through the parted sea and 40 years in the desert to the land of Israel. Later that week, the shul hosted the annual Model Seder luncheon for GEM (Greenport Ecumenical Ministries) clergy and their [...]

Members of our shul and the North Fork Reform Synagogue in Cutchogue will meet on Zoom on Wednesday, April 23, at 7:30  p.m., to join with Jewish communities around the world observing Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day — honoring the Six Million Jews murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust. As the number of Holocaust survivors dwindles, and antisemitism rises throughout the world,  remembering those who were lost from 1939-1945 becomes critical to a mission [...]

Shul member Judith K. Weiner, working with the staff at Peconic Landing, has arranged a Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) program at the senior living community in Greenport. Judith Weiner will introduce the program and featured speaker Rena Wiseman will share her story with the residents as candles bearing the names of children lost in the Holocaust are lighted. Afterward, participants will view the film, “Zone of Interest.” Loosely based on the 2014 novel by Martin Amis, the [...]

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 believes [...]

Veronica Kaliski, chair of the shul’s Tikkun Olam Group, told The Shofar that the annual donation of funds to provide chickens to CAST clients took place this year in time for Easter. In acknowledging the $300 contribution, Sarina Harley, CAST’s interim food relief program manager, thanked the group and the shul for generosity in time for Easter. “We are elated to have so much chicken to distribute to the CAST clients,” she wrote. “Chicken is [...]

Our shul hosted a Second Seder on Sunday, April 13. The beautiful table setting invited participants into the community room, where Rabbi Gadi led the gathering through the dramatic Passover story of slavery in Egypt and the flight to freedom through the parted sea and 40 years in the desert to the land of Israel. Later that week, the shul hosted the annual Model Seder luncheon for GEM (Greenport Ecumenical Ministries) clergy and their parishioners. [...]