Shul News & Notes
Tikkun Olam Initiative
In the spirit of the Festival of Lights, let us bring light where it is needed.
CAST has indicated that they are seeking personal care items of all types, as well as household products such as detergent and hand soap.
Please bring an item to donate when you attend the Hannukah Party at the synagogue, or put your donations in the
plastic bin outside of the kitchen door of the synagogue.With thanks,
Tikkun Olam Initiative
Hanukkah
The Power Of One Candle
A Gesture of Welcome
Our shul is planning a Hanukkah Party, and you are invited to join with us as we prove the power of one candle.
The party will welcome Hanukkah on the night of the first candle.
Together, all of us will light one candle in scores of menorahs to usher in The Festival of Lights.
With the warmth of those collective candles and the warm spirit of our shul, we will welcome the many families that recently have joined us.
Date, time and place:
Sunday, November 28, at 4 p.m. in the shul and on Zoom
The plan
Join together to light our menorahs and sing the songs of Hanukkah
Meet, greet and welcome our new members
Journey east on Front Street to Mitchell Park by 5 p.m.
to light the official Town menorah
Take home a bag of Hanukkah treats from the Membership Committee
The Rewards
A celebration of Hanukkah with old friends and new acquaintances
Revel in the warmth of each Hanukkah candle for eight days and nights
‘Nosh On Squash’ Says Shul’s Tikkun Olam Group; CAST To Benefit
Cookie Slade, one of four women leading the shul’s Tikkun Olam group, has been delivering squash from her garden to CAST (Community Action Southold Town) for the organization’s pantry. Depending on how it’s prepared, squash can feed a whole family. Also donated from Cookie’s garden are tomatoes, squash, peppers, and herbs (sage, rosemary, oregano, chives, basil and thyme).
The women have planted cool-weather veggies at Common Ground, ready for harvest and delivery in November, including turnips, lettuce, spinach, cilantro and collards. Also planned is delivery of chickens and turkeys for Thanksgiving.
Members of the shul’s Tikkun Olam group are Veronica Kaliski, Susan Rosenstreich, Madelyn Rothman and Cookie Slade. Their contributions are donated to CAST in the name of our shul.
By the way, the TOI group needs a wheelbarrow. Can you donate one? Cookie Slade photo
Oculus: Eye On The Arts
This month’s Oculus column features a photograph by Ellen Jaffe, a member of the shul’s Judaism and Art group. The timing is early, she said, just before the sun breaks the horizon, and the opportunity is fleeting.
In fact, is it truly possible to capture these October dawns within the strict box of a camera frame? They are too big, she said, “a surrounding dome of gradation and saturated color. Glorious.” She captured the image with her iPhone 10, but it might have been taken with the 12 or 13 because, according to Jaffe, the resolution on all later iPhone cameras is identical. “But it is never about the camera anyway,” she pointed out. “The quality of an image has much more to do with thoughtful ‘seeing’ of the subject. After all, anyone can spend a lot of money and press a button.”
Book Circle Selection Reveals Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Neighborhood
The Book Circle will meet on Wednesday, Nov. 17, at 2 p.m., on Zoom, to discuss the selection of the month, A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg by Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper.
The Hasidic community in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn is famously one of the most separatist and intensely religious groups of people in our country. By showing how Williamsburg’s Hasidim rejected assimilation while still undergoing distinctive forms of Americanization, Deutsch and Casper present a provocative history of a sect of American Jewry and a look at how race, real estate and religion intersected in the creation of a quintessential and deeply misunderstood New York neighborhood.
The book circle meets monthly to explore works about Jews and by Jewish writers. For information, call the shul at 631-477-0232 and leave a message for Susan Rosenstreich, coordinator.
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