Shul News & Notes
Rabbi Gadi Hosts Lag B’Omer Observance/Celebration At The Parsonage
As a group of shul members and friends gathered on the patio at the parsonage, Julian Graf, son of shul members Nathan Graf and Marisa Ryan lit up the sky with a grand blaze to celebrate the light of the Torah and the holiday of Lag B’Omer, observed on the 33rd day after the second day of Passover. Israeli music and foods and good fellowship and conversation contributed to a splendid evening…even Chaya enjoyed all the festivities.
Rabbi Gadi photo
Program for Tikkun Leil Shavuot, June 11 at 7:30 PM
CTI SHAVUOT PROGRAM 2024
7:30 – 7:45 – Rabbi Gadi Capela – Antisemitism was Born at Sinai.
7:45 – 8:30 – Professor Rebecca Kobrin – Protests on the Columbia campus.
8:30 – 8:50 – Rabbi Barbara Sheryll – Self Knowledge, a Journey or Destination?
8:50 – 9:15 – Fr. Roy Tvrdik – The Real Location of Mount Sinai. 9:30
9:15 – 9:30 – Conclusion and Q&A*
*For those who want to stay for more conversation and questions and answers, Rabbi Gadi I will stay until the last question is asked!
Be sure to join us on Tuesday, June 11, at 7:30 p.m., on Zoom, for Tikkun Leil Shavuot and our special guest, Professor Rebecca A. Kobrin, the Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History at Columbia University. Professor Kobrin will talk with us about Palestinian protests on the Columbia campus and the Jewish response to the rise of antisemitism.
Joining Professor Kobrin on the Shavuot program are several other speakers offering present-day insights that relate to the holiday.
Shavuot often is observed by staying up through the night for discussion and learning. Our Tikkun is two hours, and I feel certain you will find it is two hours well spent — informative, thought-provoking, amusing at times, and an opportunity for a welcome and meaningful back-and-forth with our guests.
See you on June 11, on Zoom, at 7:30 p.m.
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Best video ever, all-star cast!
Just released – a terrific new video all about our shul, starring many of our shul members.
The video is fun, informative and we hope it will make you proud to be among the shul’s members and friends.
Sit back, relax and get ready to be entertained and amazed.
We invite you to share the video with family and friends and encourage them to join us on our Jewish journey.
The video was produces by our shul and directed by Alley Leinwebber of Brightwood Productions.
Shul Thanks Tikkun Olam For Mailing/Hand Delivering Yellow Candles
Greenport High School Students Benefit
Following its successful campaign to provide warm clothing to the homeless men who depend on John’s Place at St. Agnes Church in Greenport, the Tikkun Olam group pitched in with an ambitious group of volunteers to ready the yellow candles in time for the shul’s May 5 program.
In March, the group gathered at the shul to package the candles, carefully attaching to each one the name of a child who had died in the Holocaust. A letter accompanying the candle explained that as each candle is lighted, the recipient could think of that child and memorialize his or her untimely death.
On May 5, our shul will join with members of the North Fork Reform Synagogue and two South Fork synagogues in a joint program to honor the Six Million lost in the Holocaust.
The program is divided into three parts: First, we will meet in Andrew Levin Park to dig a grave in which to bury the names of children lost in the Holocaust. Then, we will head into our shul building for commentary and prayers by Rabbi Gadi of our shul, and Rabbi Barbara Sheryll of the North Fork Reform Synagogue to honor those who were lost amid the horrific acts of aggression that vanquished Jewish populations in major cities and peaceful villages across Europe. And finally, shul member Leah Friedmann will read one of her plays on the Yom Ha Shoah theme.
The Greenport High School Connection
The shul is grateful to our long-time member Chuck Simon for introducing the Yellow Candle Project to our shul. In the three years CTI has participated, the program has expanded beyond our shul to Greenport High School. At the conclusion of the 10th-grade unit on the Holocaust, this year’s students were bused to the Holocaust Museum in Glen Cove, where they toured the museum and spoke with a Holocaust survivor. Money collected from our members donating funds as a thank-you for the candles are turned over to the high school to help pay for the bus to the museum.
On April 19, our shul welcomed three of those students — Stefany Chapeton, Glenn Heidtman, and Gabrielle Luna — and their history teacher, Brian Toussaint, at our Shabbat service, and talked with the young people about their thoughts surrounding Jewish experiences during WWII and the antisemitism that continues to prevail today. The students talked freely about their shock at what had transpired.
Plans are underway to further expand the Yellow Candle Project to other synagogues on Long Island and to other North Fork high schools
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