Shul News & Notes
Lunch and Learn – Livin’ The Dream For 3,600 Nautical Miles
Hello, Lunch and Learners. Here’s a preview of what’s on tap for our Zoom at noon program next week. We hope you were able to Zoom at noon on Monday for shul member Saul Rosenstreich’s insightful look at making art and the creative process. Rabbi Gadi followed up on the art theme on Thursday with a discussion about God, the constant artist.
Coming up this Monday, June 29, shul members Nancy and Dan Torchio will talk about “Livin’ the Dream,” their 6-month sailing adventure aboard the Rhapsody, a 47-foot cutter-rigged Passport sailing vessel. In all, they voyaged more than 3,600 nautical miles from Greenport harbor, on Nov. 20, 2019, to Bermuda, San Juan, Culebra, St. John, and St. Croix, returning on May 28, 2020. Learn what it takes to provision, maintain and operate a cruising sailboat, including sharing excerpts from the ship’s log and Nancy’s perspective as first mate.
On Thursday, July 2, Rabbi Gadi will follow up on the sailing theme with a view of actual Jewish laws on how to maintain Jewish life in unusual circumstances, even on a boat.
Sign into Zoom at 12 o’clock every Monday and Thursday. Have lunch with shul friends, and learn a little, followed by a Q&A and some lively discussion. Visit www.tiferethisraelgreenport.
Why lunch alone? Come eat, come listen, come talk. Don’t forget: Zoom at noon for Lunch and Learn. See you Monday.
It’s Live Online! The Virtual Journal Campaign Kicks Off
Your Ad Says ‘Hats Off’ To Our Shul, And Thanks To Suzi
Since the super success of our first-ever Virtual Silent Auction, excitement has been building for the first-ever Virtual Journal that got under way on June 10. Have you submitted your ad?
Ads in the Virtual Journal will be on our website 24/7 for an entire year, and also on Facebook and Instagram. This broad exposure raises the shul’s visibility, raises respect for this initiative in our community, and raises the dollars from members and vendors that we need to bridge a $60,000 gap in our annual budget.
From what we’re seeing here at Shofar Central, folks seem to relish the idea that messages of congratulations on our shul’s 119th birthday — not bad, huh, for our little shul, tucked away more than 100 miles from the big metropolis to the east — and our thanks to Susan Rosenstreich (our Suzi) for leading us through the good times and the come-what-may, will reach a greater audience than ever before, one virtually unlimited. With messages of good wishes and good will in the Virtual Journal, members and friends are proclaiming loudly that they are here for our synagogue, here for our shul family, and here for our future together.
How will you respond? Please support our shul with your ad, and be a part of this breakthrough happening. Sales will close on July 15; we go live online in early August. Find an ad form below.
Pay by check or online at www.tiferethisraelgreenport.org
Nominating Committee Announces Slate Of Officers And Directors
At the Congregation meeting on May 17, the Nominating Committee announced the slate of officers and directors for the 2020-21 term. As the congregation offered no additional nominations at the May 17 meeting, the recording secretary cast one vote at the June 21 Congregation meeting to elect the slate, as follows:
President: Judith Weiner
Vice President: Sara Bloom
Treasurer: Alan Garmise
Financial Secretary: Susan Rosenstreich
Corresponding Secretary: Elaine Goldman
Recording Secretary: Joanna Paulsen
Members at Large: Hedvah Campeas Cohen; Miriam Gabriel; Madelyn Rothman
Also serving on the board
Sisterhood Representative: Adrianne Greenberg
Men’s Club Representative: Z. Micah Kaplan, MD
The members of the Nominating Committee are Phil Goldman, chair; Sara Bloom, Tom Byrne, Roberta Garris, and Susan Rosenstreich.
Lunch and Learn – On Art: Is It Ever Too Late To Learn To Draw?
Hello, Lunch and Learners. Here’s a preview of what’s on tap for our Zoom at noon program next week. We hope you were able to Zoom at noon on Monday for a fun session with Adrianne Greenberg, who got us out of our chairs and moving. On Thursday, Rabbi Gadi picked up on the theme with a Biblical view of good health.
Coming up this Monday, June 22, is a session about art: Can you draw? Do you want to draw? Is it too late to learn to draw? Join Saul Rosenstreich as he addresses the topic “Can Anybody Learn to Draw — and Should They?” Dr. Rosenstreich pursued these questions after a 30-year career in medicine. He looks forward to a spirited Lunch and Learn discussion about an interest that has been an important part of his life, he said.
On Thursday, June 25, Rabbi Gadi will follow up on the art theme with a session titled “God, the Constant Artist.” As the Rabbi explained, “When we say ‘Amen,’ God is inviting us to be His co-creators, co-artists.”
Sign into Zoom at 12 o’clock every Monday and Thursday. Have lunch with shul friends, and learn a little, followed by a Q&A and some lively discussion. Visit www.tiferethisraelgreenport.org, click on “go to meeting,” follow the prompts, and type in the code (that you use for the synagogue events and services). That’s all there is to it.
Why lunch alone? Come eat, come listen, come talk. Don’t forget: Zoom at noon for Lunch and Learn. See you Monday.
Lunch And Learn – Stretching Without Kvetching
OK, Lunch and Learners, Time To Get Moving…
Hello, Lunch and Learners. Here’s a preview of what’s on tap for our Zoom at noon program next week. We hope you were able to Zoom at noon on Monday for a dynamic session with Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman talking about today’s political scene. On Thursday, Rabbi Gadi picked up on the theme with the politics of spirituality. The duo got us thinking, that’s for sure.
Coming up this Monday, June 15, it’s shape-up time, folks. No more lollygagging in front of the computer screen or lazing on the deck with a good book. Nope, it’s up-and-at-‘em time with Adrianne Greenberg, who will lead us in gentle stretching and strengthening. Join us as we move our rusty body parts. And there’s more. Not only will you get your tuchas out of the chair, you will stretch and strengthen in Yiddish. Oy vey, leave it to Adrianne to come up with that… She calls it “Stretching Without Kvetching.”
On Thursday, June 18, Rabbi Gadi will follow up on Biblical references to keeping the body healthy. “The body is our temple,” he said.
Sign into Zoom at 12 o’clock every Monday and Thursday. Have lunch with shul friends, and learn a little, followed by a Q&A and some lively discussion. Visit www.tiferethisraelgreenport.
Why lunch alone? Come eat, come listen, come talk. Don’t forget: Zoom at noon for Lunch and Learn. See you Monday.
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