Shul News & Notes
Virtual/Online Journal
June 2026
Dear Friend of Congregation Tifereth Israel,
We are publishing our Virtual/Online Journal celebrating our 125th anniversary this year and hope that you will choose to advertise in it. Whether this may be your first time advertising with us or if you have participated in the past, it is an excellent marketing opportunity along with a way to support the work we do supporting our local community. Our Virtual Journal is live online 24/7/365, which is seen locally and on widely-viewed social media sites, bringing your message to residents and visitors near and far, who support our local economy.
Our historic Greenport Synagogue has been serving North Fork and Shelter Island residents and guests since 1901. We believe in supporting our community and in the concept of Tikkun Olam – actions that repair and improve the world. With your help, we can continue to support educational programs and scholarships for Greenport High School students, including a field trip for tenth graders to visit the Holocaust Museum and Tolerance Center. We also work with our neighbors at Common Ground, growing, harvesting, and delivering fresh vegetables throughout the growing season to North Fork food banks. We provide CAST with books for preschoolers, and food for holiday meals. In addition, we host educational, interfaith, and cultural events at our historic Synagogue on 4th Street, which all are invited to, throughout the year.
This year we are pleased to honor Ann Hurwitz as our Synagogue Honoree and Linda Kessler as our Community Honoree. Both women have served our communities with distinction for many years and we are proud to recognize their many contributions.
We hope you will renew your ad once again this year or join us for the first time supporting the work we do while promoting your goods and services. For your convenience, please see the ad form below and return it to us at your earliest convenience or visit our website and click on Journal at www.tiferethisraelgreenport.org/journal If you would like last year’s ad repeated, just email us at adsforctijournal@gmail.com.
Thank you,
Madelyn Rothman
Journal Committee Chair
Tax Exempt # 132099
Congregation Tifereth Israel – 519 Fourth Street- PO Box 659
Greenport, New York 11944
(631) 477-0232 – www.tiferethisraelgreenport.org
Rabbi Wolkoff to lead Shabbat Services and teach this weekend
Please join us
Friday May 29, and Saturday May 30,
when Rabbi Robert L. Wolkoff
will be in our pulpit to lead Shabbat services.
Following the Saturday Shabbat service, you are invited to join us
for a “Lunch and Learn” session with Rabbi Wolkoff.
For 19 years, Rabbi Wolkoff has served as spiritual leader of Congregation B’Nai Tikvah in North Brunswick, NJ., where he helped to grow the membership, design compelling programs, advocate for Israel, address congregants’ personal struggles with cancer, bullying, and the need for emotional support, among other innovations.
During his distinguished career, Rabbi Wolkoff has been spiritual leader at Congregation Agudath Achim in Savannah, GA; Jewish Community of Gothenburg, Sweden; Congregation Ohev Shalom in Marlboro, NJ, and Temple B’Nai Shalom in Benton Harbor, MI.
He is a magna cum laude graduate of Wesleyan University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where he was ordained in 1979. Additional studies include the New School for Social Research, Hebrew University, and the Yedidyah Spiritual Direction Training Program.
As Rabbi, my goals are to “stimulate passionate learning mindful prayer, joy and humor, and bold Jewish programming with an engaged Conservative community.”
Rabbi Wolkoff is under serious consideration for the position of Rabbi in our shul. We invite you to meet the Rabbi at our Shabbat services and at the “Lunch and Learn” session on May 30.
Trifecta workout summer session
The Trifecta Workout:
Dropset Strength, Mobility and Stretch with Laurie Short
Summer session 2026
June- July- August
Begins Monday June 1st
Ends Monday August 31st
23 classes
Session fee: $230 cash or check
No class: Thurs. June 25th, Thurs. July 2nd, Mon. July 6th, Thurs. July 9th
Please call Laurie to reserve a space 631-566-0526
Equipment required: three pairs of dumbbells
8lbs-5lbs-2lbs OR 7lbs-5lbs-3lbs
A Mat and a water bottle
Use a carry-on bag with wheels to transport to and from class.
Please call Laurie 631-566-0526 to reserve a place in the class.
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What Is Our Tikkun Olam Group All About? The Shofar Asked…
The Tikkun Olam Initiative is celebrating its 5th anniversary. We are dedicated to the concept to heal the world by creating and nurturing relationships with not-for-profits that improve the lives of individuals and families in Southold Town and its environs.
Over the years, we have supported CAST by collecting school supplies each August, Cans For CAST during the High Holidays, toys in December, and donating bilingual books to preschool graduates of the Parent-Child+ program. We have collected and donated personal care items to John’s Place, a homeless shelter in Greenport.
Three seasons of the year, we work at the Common Ground gardens in Southold to grow, harvest and deliver fresh vegetables to the food banks at CAST and the North Fork Parish Outreach.
New this year is our support of The Butterfly Effect Program, a nonprofit that empowers young people through safe spaces, and leadership and educational opportunities.
What is our group all about? We help the vulnerable, and we increase the visibility of our shul as an important charity in our community. Those interested in helping us accomplish our goals with these and other projects, please contact Veronica at 516-313-0605.
If I am only for myself, what am I; if we are only for ourselves, what are we?
—Veronica Kaliski and Madelyn Rothman
Another Tikkun Olam Project By The Tikkun Olam Initiative Group
Question: What do you do with all those freebies you find in motels, hotels, airports, restrooms, doctors’ offices, and package deliveries that include a little something extra? You know, little sample bottles and tubes of toothpaste, soap, hand lotion, shampoo, deodorants, sanitizers and other products too nice to toss, so they end up unopened and stuffed in a dresser drawer.
The TOI has an idea to help you declutter and help out folks who could use those items. In the vestibule of the shul, the TOI will place a box marked “Little Stuff With Big Benefits,” and whenever you travel or find yourself with a swag bag of little bottles of stuff, you can stuff them in the box.
The TOI will take care of the rest — delivering them to shelters, food pantries and the like. It’s a new idea with year-round value. Let’s make it work.
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