Shul News & Notes
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 that vanquished Jewish populations in major cities and in peaceful villages alike, all across Europe. Should you wish to acknowledge your gift candle with a charitable donation, we suggest an amount or multiple of $18, the number that represents life — chai. Donations can be made through the Tifereth Israel Website ( www.tiferethisraelgreenport.org/donate ).
This year, your donations to the project were used to support a field trip to the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust for Greenport High School 10th graders. Studying the events that led to the Holocaust are part of the Social Studies curriculum at that grade level. We welcome and appreciate your support of our efforts in this Shoah commemoration, and in our ongoing education programs.
This program was in cooperation with the North Fork Reform Synagogue, on Wednesday, April 23, at 7:30 p.m. on Zoom. The program was led by Rabbi Gadi Capela and Rabbi Barbara Sheryll.
Join the EEJCC Israel Day Parade, May 18
Please join the East End Jewish Community Council (EEJCC)
and march in the
Israel Day Parade in New York City
Sunday, May 18, 11:30 AM to 4:00 PM
Participation is free.
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Meyer Belkin grapples with a God he believes betrayed him, and an emotionally withdrawn wife in Brooklyn, who is about to learn that her husband is a counterfeit Jew.
The Book Circle meets monthly to explore books by Jewish authors writing on topics of Jewish interest. For more information about the Book Circle and its current selection, email ctigreenport@gmail.com with a message for Susan Rosenstreich, coordinator of the group.
CTI And Tikkun Olam Group Provide CAST Clients With Chickens
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 by far the most popular protein to the population we serve, and is not always available to them.”
Passover Seder At The Shul: A Beautiful Table And A Beautiful Event
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. Once again, Rabbi Gadi led the group of 50 through the story, pointing out the symbolism of the items on the traditional Seder plate, which offer a visual presentation of the Passover story. Parishioners said they always look forward to the annual Model Seder at our shul.
Rabbi Gadi Capela and SMBloom photos
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