Shul News & Notes
Shul Offers Membership Windfall For New Families And Individuals
Many people choose to join our shul midway through the year, or even after the High Holidays, which leaves only a few months until dues are due again. Not fair, we said. So here’s the deal: Any individual or family joining between now and the end of the year will pay the full rate — $1,000 for families, $650 for individuals — for the remainder of this year, but will be paid-up members through all of 2025. In other words, pay membership dues for the rest of this year, and get next year free.
Members, please spread the word to friends and family interested in joining. Best time is now.
Book Circle Delves Into Memoir About A Family Secret Finally Revealed
The Book Circle will meet for a second time in September to delve into Dani Shapiro’s memoir, Inheritance. In this work, the writer uncovers a family secret through an innocent curiosity about her own genealogy. The meeting will be held on Thursday, Sept. 26, at 3 p.m., in the shul’s community room.
In 2016, the writer submitted her DNA for analysis, and received the stunning news that her father was not her biological father, upending her entire history and the life she had lived. Inheritance is an audio book about secrets kept because of shame, self-protection, or from one another in the name of love. It is one woman’s quest to unlock the story of her own identity.
The Book Circle meets monthly to explore books with Jewish themes and/or those penned by Jewish writers. For more information about the group, email ctigreenport@gmail.com with a message for Susan Rosenstreich, coordinator of the group.
Selichot this Saturday
Cantor William Weinstein Joins Rabbi Gadi For Inspiring Selichot Service
NEW DATE: This Saturday, Sept. 14, 7:30 p.m., hybrid
Cantor William Weinstein will join Rabbi Gadi
for our Selichot service, offered traditionally during the month of Elul
as a transition between the current year and the upcoming
High Holiday of Rosh Hashanah
Included in the service will be spiritual prayers and music
appropriate to the holiday and the events unfolding in Israel —
communal mourning for the murdered hostages
prayers for those who we hope remain alive in Gaza
and the soldiers seeking to rescue them.
Let us join together and make our prayers heard.
Cans for CAST
Greenport Synagogue Joins Worldwide Movement To Observe ‘Fast of Isaiah’ on Yom Kippur
Cans For CAST Will Feed The Hungry
Congregation Tifereth Israel Synagogue in Greenport will participate in the worldwide movement to feed the hungry as part of the annual observance of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, to be celebrated this year on Saturday, Oct. 12.
Yom Kippur, a day of atonement, is often referred to as the “Fast of Isaiah” for the holiday’s prohibition of eating or drinking from sundown on the previous day to sundown on Yom Kippur, when a traditional break-the-fast meal is served.
Identifying with those who are hungry on a Jewish fast day drives home the teaching of the Biblical prophet Isaiah, who said in 58:10: “And if you spend yourself in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.”
Those observing Yom Kippur at the synagogue will be asked to bring cans of food or other nonperishable items and deposit them in a barrel at the entrance to the building. Feeling the effects of hunger on a fast day, worshippers will be reminded of those who
struggle to nourish their families.
The contents of the “Cans For CAST” barrel will be donated to the CAST organization, which maintains a food pantry for those in need.
The goal is to fill the barrel and fill stomachs.
The synagogue is located at 519 Fourth Street, Greenport. All are welcome to worship throughout the High Holidays.
For information, email ctigreenport@gmail.com.
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