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After nine months, we can say, modestly, that we have birthed a success. Folks tell us all the time how much they enjoy The Schmooze that arrives weekly in each reader’s inbox. The videos — from the ridiculous to the sublime — and the contributions by members and friends make our schmooze your schmooze, our success your success.
We invite all members and friends to keep up the good work. Let us hear from you — your thoughts, your poems, your photos and videos, whatever you would like to share with other Schmoozers. Send contributions to info@tifereth-israel.com with Schmooze in the subject line.
Jewish Burial Ground
As president of the East End Jewish Community Council (EEJCC), Rabbi Capela has negotiated the sale of discounted burial plots in the designated Adrian Felder section of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism Cemetery in Calverton. Plots are available for purchase at $1,650.
Pandemic Redux
Karen Bloom Gervitz, a professor of English at Seton Hall University, is the featured speaker at the North Fork Reform Synagogue’s Shabbat Schmooze and Learn program on Saturday, Feb. 13, at 4 p.m., followed by Havdallah, on Zoom. Professor Gervitz, the daughter of NFRS member Susan Bloom, will address the topic “Echoes of the Past in the Current Pandemic.”
For the Zoom link, RSVP to Susan Bloom at susanilenebloom@gmail.com.
EEJCC Announces Slide-Lecture On ‘Jewish Presence In China’
The East End Jewish Community Council (EEJCC), headed by our own Rabbi Gadi, is inviting shul members and friends to a program titled “Jews in China,” a slide-lecture by Rabbi Jack Shlachter, who will provide an overview of the Jewish presence in China. The program will be held on Thursday, Feb. 11, at 7 p.m., on Zoom.
Rabbi Shlacter served as a High Holidays visiting rabbi-in-residence for Kehillat Beijing, a lay-led congregation there, for five years, starting in 2014. He also led the community in lifecycle events over the course of his tenure.
Rabbi Shlacter, who holds a doctorate in physics, spent the bulk of his scientific career at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Currently, he is assigned to the Brookhaven National Laboratory and serves as spiritual leader of the Jewish Center of the Moriches. To attend the lecture, please register at http://bit.ly/RabbiJackChina/.
Shul Member Francis Dubois In National Arts Club Program
To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, National Arts Club member Elizabeth Bellak and her daughter, Alexandra, will talk about the journal written by Alexandra’s sister, Renia Spiegel. Renia was a Jewish teenager in southeastern Poland when she began writing her diary. By the time she was executed by Nazi soldiers, she had chronicled life under a totalitarian regime.
Her journal, hidden in a safe deposit box in New York City for decades, is a valuable historical document and a poignant coming-of-age story, akin to Anne Frank’s diary.
Shul member Francis Dubois will interview Elizabeth and Alexandra on Wednesday, Jan. 27, at 3 p.m. To register, free of charge, visit nationalartsclub.org and click on the event.
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