Shul News & Notes
Trifecta workout; winter session with Laurie Short
Toys for Tots
Toys For Tots
A Tikkun Olam Initiative Project
The Tikkun Olam Initiative invites CTI members
To join us as Holiday Helpers for CAST clients.
At the shul’s office door
You’ll find a big red barrel.
(You can’t miss it.)
Please help us fill it with unwrapped toys
So that together we can provide CAST families
With a happy holiday for their children.
It’s a mitzvah.
Hanukkah Begins On Dec. 18: Get Gelt And Goodies At The Gift Shop
Menorah Lighting In Mitchell Park, Then Munchies At The Shul
With hardly a moment to spare between tasting the turkey on Nov. 26 and lapping up latkes on Dec. 18, you’d better check now to be sure you’re prepared with Hanukkah essentials. If not, happily the shul’s Gift Shop is well supplied with candles (plain and fancy), menorahs (large and small, including those adorable children’s menorahs in choo-choo train, ballet slippers, and soccer motifs), chocolate gelt (parve, of course), plus dreidels (fun for children and adults), and gifts galore — jewelry, menorahs, yarmulkes, mezuzahs, Kiddish cups, picture frames, stationery, and other items for Jewish homes.
Now for the celebration… Join shul members and their families and community friends at the official menorah lighting ceremony in Mitchell Park, at 5 p.m., on Sunday, Dec. 18. Rabbi Gadi will lead us in prayers and songs for the Holiday as the first candle glows, ushering in the eight-day holiday. He will be joined on the platform by shul president Judith K. Weiner and Greenport government officials. Then, everyone is invited back to the shul for refreshments and socializing. Our security guard, Joshua Rakhman, will join us in the park and also at the shul festivities following the menorah lighting.
For Gift Shop sales, call the shul at 631-477-0232 or email ctigreenport@gmail.com with a message for Sara Bloom.
This just in: Hanukkah greeting cards with views of our shul are available in packages of 6 cards for $18. Order at www.tiferethisraelgreenport.org/.
Tikkun Olam Initiative Members Are Holiday Helpers For CAST Clients
Members of the Tikkun Olam Initiative pitched in to help CAST pack 75 Thanksgiving baskets containing whole chickens, which were purchased by the TOI, plus veggies and potatoes that will provide a feast for the charity’s clients.
Also on the agenda for the TOI is the Toys for Kids project, kicking off this month. The group has positioned a barrel at the shul’s office door to collect toys so that CAST families in need can provide a happy holiday for their children. Can you help the TOI help?
Veronica Kaliski, organizer of the group, told The Shofar that Karina Hayes, food relief program manager at CAST, expressed gratitude for the shul’s help, by way of the TOI, to support CAST’s programs throughout the year. “Your donation of chickens for our Thanksgiving baskets goes a long way to help ensure we can serve all of our neighbors in need this holiday season,” she wrote. She also posted the photo on Instagram, and the group got 57 likes. Go TOI!
Pictured, from left, TOI members Susan Rosenstreich, Carol Seigel, Roberta Garris, Veronica Kaliski, and Cookie Slade. Not pictured Madelyn Rothman and Adrianne Greenberg. Karina Hayes photo
Book Circle Selection Chronicles Trio On An Unlikely Journey to Croatia
More Than I Love My Life by David Grossman, an International Booker Prize nominee, chronicles three generations of women as they travel to a barren Croatian island to reveal a secret. Here they unravel fear, love, mercy and the complex overlapping demands of romantic and parental desires. The selection will be explored at the next meeting of the Book Circle, to be held on Thursday, Dec. 15, at 4:15 p.m., on Zoom.
The novel was inspired by the true story of one of the author’s longtime confidants who, in the early 1950s, was imprisoned there.
The Book Circle meets monthly to discuss works by Jewish authors and/or Jewish themes. For more information about the group, email ctigreenport@gmail.com with a message for Susan Rosenstreich, coordinator of the group.
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