Shul News & Notes

Art Talk and Brunch: Food For The Soul — Food For The Appetite

Tifereth Israel Greenport2025-11-13T11:20:45-05:00November 2nd, 2025|

Be sure to reserve your place at the table for a delicious brunch and an answer to an age-old question about art: “What Makes A Work Of Art Work.” Join art historian and writer Joyce Beckenstein on Sunday, Nov. 9, at noon, in the shul’s community room for an eye-opening presentation on how to read “visual language.”

Today, we are relentlessly bombarded with images from digital media, streaming videos, and phantasmagorical imaginings intended to manipulate our opinions, decisions and perceptions.

This presentation will explore the language of art through familiar masterpieces — their beauty and how the skillful use of light, shape, color, and line conspire to influence your response.

Donation $18. Your invitation is on its way with sign-up information for this November event.

High Holiday Donation

Tifereth Israel Greenport2026-03-04T20:57:13-05:00November 2nd, 2025|

As we reflect on the past year and look to the coming year, we acknowledge this is a time for renewal and commitment to our community and to our traditions. As our New Year 5786 begins, let’s build a stronger tomorrow together.

This is also a time to remember our shared responsibilities to our community. Your presence at services and programs and simchas helps to sustain our sacred community.

Your gift now will ensure our traditions at Congregation Tifereth Israel thrive. Your gift will help us leap forward and build a stronger tomorrow.

Every dollar matters.

Judith K. Weiner

Please give as generously as you can.

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Meet The Fletchers; Book Circle Eyes Wealth, Identity And Fulfillment

Tifereth Israel Greenport2025-11-02T17:27:02-05:00October 18th, 2025|

Coming up on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 3:30, at the shul, the Book Circle will meet the Fletcher family and come to terms with a deep-seated generational trauma and how that morphed into the destructive nature of wealth, identity and personal fulfillment. The October selection is titled Long Island Compromise, by Taffy Brodesser-Akner.

The Book Circle meets monthly to explore books by Jewish writers exploring Jewish topics. For more information about the group, email ctigreenport@gmail.com with a message for Susan Rosenstreich, coordinator of the group.

20 Living Hostages Returned After 738 Agonizing Days In Captivity

Tifereth Israel Greenport2025-11-02T17:53:24-05:00October 15th, 2025|

Families celebrated on Monday, Oct. 13, as Hamas released all 20 remaining living hostages under the Gaza ceasefire deal. Hamas is yet to release the remains of all the dead hostages despite being required to do so under the deal that would bring some closure to the national trauma that began when the terror group took 251 hostages back to Gaza after massacring some 1,200 people on Oct. 7, 2023.

The first seven living hostages were handed over to the Red Cross in Gaza City, in the strip’s north, at about 8 a.m. and transferred to Israeli forces inside Gaza about an hour later. The next 13 were handed over to the Red Cross in Khan Younis, in the Strip’s south, shortly before 11 a.m. and transferred to Israeli forces about an hour later. All 20 returned pale and frail, but smiling and standing, after most of them were held in horrific conditions in tunnels deep under Gaza, where many faced abuse, starvation and limited medical treatment.

Each hostage was taken to the Re’im border facility, where they were reunited with their families in emotional scenes. They were then flown on a military chopper to hospitals in central Israel, where they underwent treatment and rehabilitation.

Tens of thousands of people gathered in Hostage Square to celebrate the release, waving Israeli flags, singing and dancing. Thousands more lined the streets, others gathered at the three hospitals where the freed hostages were brought.

In exchange for the 20 hostages, Israel released nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, including 250 terror convicts serving life sentences.