Shul News & Notes
Tikkun Olam Group Harvests Zucchini At Common Ground For CAST
Wow! The Tikkun Olam Initiative sure knows how to grow veggies. Tom Byrne cradles these zucchini beauties, just harvested from the group’s two Common Ground plots. All produce is donated to CAST.
Veronica Kaliski photo
Journal 2022 Ads Honor Roberta Garris And Keep Our Shul Humming
Journal 2022 is well underway with ads arriving in the mail, via cyberspace, through the door, and over the transom. Andrea, our office assistant and super creative design maven (Remember last year’s gorgeous journal?), is working ‘round the clock to top last year’s beauty. Has your ad arrived?
Keep in mind that Journal 2022 honors one of our most giving volunteers — Roberta Garris — who, for three decades has pitched in to keep our shul humming. From the kitchen to the social hall, from the Sisterhood to our roster of committees, Roberta lends a hand — and her handiwork. From her quilting remnants, Roberta crafted colorful patterned masks during the height of the Covid pandemic, and sold them throughout the North Fork to benefit our shul. And in support of the faith, Roberta makes a minyan at Shabbat services nearly every Friday night.
Shul president Judith Weiner often observes that raising money to keep the lights on is the hardest money to raise, yet the money most needed. The journal accounts for more than a third of our operating expenses for the entire year. Your ad in Journal 2022 honors the countless contributions made by Roberta, and pays the bills so that we can offer meaningful Shabbat services in our beautiful sanctuary, Rabbi Gadi’s classes, this year’s JTS “Beyond Dispute” course, Lunch and Learn, the weekly Shul Schmooze, our award-winning monthly newsletter, the Yellow Candle Project, and other activities consistent with a safe, Covid-free environment.
Please forward your words of congratulations and good will to adsforctijournal@gmail.com/. You can pay by check to Congregation Tifereth Israel, P.O. Box 659, Greenport 11944, or pay online by credit card by clicking here: www.tiferethisraelgreenport.org/journal
Tikkun Olam Group Seeks Donations Of School Supplies For CAST Kids
Back-to-school for the young set means pencils, glue sticks, paperclips, notebooks, dividers, rulers, scissors, index cards, markers, pens, and the like, plus backpacks to hold all that stuff and — oh yes — school books and homework assignments from the teachers.
All those fresh supplies get kids off to a good start in the school year, and the Tikkun Olam Initiative is supporting that effort with a call to our members for donations of school supplies that will be distributed to the children of CAST clients.
To that end, the TOI has placed a collection bin on the ramp by the kitchen door of our shul building, and is hoping to fill it to overflowing by mid-August. TOI members will keep a watchful eye on the bin, so no worries about pilfering. All will be safe and much appreciated. For more information, contact the TOI at ctigreenport@gmail.com with a message for Veronica Kaliski.
Trip to Israel with Rabbi Gadi: Nov 6-18
- Please book yourself or ask the office to book you on the following flight:
- El Al – #008 Depart JFK on November 6th at 11:50 PM.
- Landing at Ben Gurion the next day at 5:10 PM
- The return flight will be El Al #001 departing Tel Aviv at 12:45 AM on November 18th landing back in New York at 5:45 AM.
- If you book yourself on a different flight that day, please try to arrive before the flight above so you can still have the option of waiting for the group pick-up from the airport. Otherwise, please arrange to meet us at the hotel in Tel Aviv.
- Arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport.
- Bus drive through Tel Aviv on the way to the hotel.
- Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Tel Aviv.
- Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence was signed.
- Bus tour introducing the Hebrew architecture in Tel Aviv.
- Lunch on your own at Shuk HaCarmel (Carmel Market), one of the most famous markets in Israel.
- Spend time on Dizengoff Street: One of the city’s most iconic streets. Rabin’s Square.
- Museum of the Jewish People – ANU Exhibition at Tel Aviv University
- Drive up along the Mediterranean coast to ancient Caesarea.
- Atlit Detainee Camp Museum where many legal and illegal Jewish immigration took place under British Mandate.
- A tour of Haifa
- Drive to Tiberias – Visit the Tomb of Maimonides and exploring his philosophy.
- Boat ride on the Sea of Galilee (Kinneret), the lowest freshwater lake on Earth.
- Prayer at Magdala at the remains of one of the most ancient synagogues excavated.
- Visit the ancient synagogue in Capernaum – the most mentioned town in the New Testament.
- Drive to the Golan Heights. Kibbutz Merom Golan Observation over Qunaitra, Syria.
- Visit Tzfat – the center of Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism.
- Visit and pray at the Ari Hakadosh and Yosef Caro Synagogues.
- Explore the artists’ colony and meet a Kabbalist artist.
- Visit Bet She’an the magnificent Roman city remains.
- Drive South to Jerusalem through the Jordan Valley to Mt. Scopus and recite Psalms.
- Western Wall (Kotel) before sundown to participate in a joyful Kabbalat Shabbat.
- Festive Shabbat Dinner at the hotel in Jerusalem.
- Services at the Conservative synagogue and the Orthodox Great Synagogue near the hotel.
- Walking tour of Jerusalem: Rehavia neighborhood, where the Prime Minister and President of Israel reside.
- Walk through the Old City.
- Dinner on your own in Jerusalem.
- Visit the Temple Mount, the site of both ancient Jewish temples. A holy site to both Jews and Muslims.
- Visit the City of David where over 3000 years ago, King David established the capital of Israel.
- Hezekiah’s Tunnel, and Underground Tunnel to Kotel.
- Walk through the Arab Market and Via Dolorosa, ending at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
- Visit the Israel Museum, Holyland Model, and the Shrine of the Book.
- View of the Israeli Parliament and explaining recent election.
- Lunch on your own in Ein Karem.
- Visit Mount Herzl and Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum.
- Drive to Qasr Al-Yahud, where the Israelites crossed the Jordan River, The Prophet Elijah was ascended to heaven, and the Baptismal site of Jesus.
- Tour at Kumran and continue south to Masada, where many Israeli soldiers are sworn.
- Floating in the Dead Sea, the lowest and saltiest spot in the world.
- Drive to Eilat, on the south tip of Israel and the Red Sea.
- Enjoy a free relaxing day at the hotel or explore Eilat at your own leisure.
- On your own, choose an excursion trip or go snorkeling in exceptional underwater world of Eilat.
- Drive through Ramon Crater, the unique and magical world’s largest erosion crater in the Negev Desert.
- Last stop is Rehoboth, Rabbi Gadi’s hometown.
- Visit the Weizmann Institute/high tech company
- Underground Weapon factory.
- Visit the Jewish Yemenite Heritage Center
- Farewell dinner
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Oculus: Eye On The Arts
This month’s Oculus feature, titled “Windows From the Pandemic,” is an 18” x 18” collage, created with acrylics, oil sticks and markers on canvas by Judith K. Weiner, a founding member of the shul’s Judaism and Art group. “I recently came across a quote from Miles David which, for me, defines the artistic process,” the artist told The Shofar. “Davis wrote, ‘Don’t play what’s there. Play what’s not there.’ In this piece, what’s not there is reflected in the multiple views or windows into the pandemic.” Placed in a grid of nine canvas-on-canvas windows, the collage presents “reflections in time and space as well as visions of time and space,” she said. The piece will become part of the Shehechyanu Curtain, a visual collection of pandemic experiences by shul members.
Photo by the artist
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