TCS Selected by URJ to Engage Baby Boomers
07/07/2016 02:33:49 PM
The Community Synagogue is Chosen for Select Group of North American Congregations
Engaging Baby Boomers
July 5, 2016, Port Washington, New York " The Community Synagogue is one of 17 Reform congregations in North America selected to participate in the newly formed Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) Community of Practice dedicated to Engaging Baby Boomers. This URJ Community of Practice (CoP) is a congregational networking...Read more...
Dues, Just a Piece of the Financial Sustainability Puzzle
06/29/2016 06:24:18 PM
Dues, just a piece of the financial sustainability puzzle
Changing dues model outweighs the risk.
A recent article, by Barry S. Mael, Director, Kehilla Operations & Finance at USCJ, summarizes the results of a study involving hundreds of USCJ congregations regarding their current dues models....Read more...
Clergy statement | Terror in Orlando
06/13/2016 08:38:51 PM
Our hearts break over the loss of life and pain caused to so many in the horrible attack in Orlando on Saturday evening. The Torah teaches us that we are all made in God's image and every life is sacred. With one common ancestor, our rabbis teach "to destroy one life is to destroy the entire world."
And yet in every generation...Read more...
The voice of my brother's blood cries out to me
06/13/2016 07:55:59 PM
Rabbi Danny Burkeman
On Sunday night my son Benjamin couldn't sleep. It goes without saying that I couldn't sleep either. As I tried to comfort him I watched the minutes and the hours tick by. Finding myself awake during the night my mind always races, and as I held my son I kept...Read more...
Make Each New Song More Joyful Than the Last
06/07/2016 03:01:40 PM
By Cantor Claire Franco
Link to URJ post>
Recently, as I was leaving the sanctuary on Shabbat morning, a man who was a guest of the bar mitzvah family approached me. Warmly shaking my hand and thanking me for a “lovely service,” he asked several questions about the music I...Read more...
Rabbi Z Speaks about how to protest Trump at the AIPAC Conference
03/21/2016 01:35:39 PM
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/national/sit-silence-turn-away-or-walk-out-jewish-groups-mull-aipac-trump-protest
Rabbi Zeplowitz and others weigh in. Will there be anyone be in the room when Donald Trump speaks at the AIPAC Policy Conference on Monday?Several Jewish groups are weighing the best way to show their disapproval of Trump when he speaks at the massive pro-Israel gathering. Last year roughly 16,000 people...Read more...
Why I Love The Early Childhood Center
03/16/2016 02:21:40 PM
http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/rabbi-daddy-why-i-love-the-synagogues-early-childhood-center/
by Rabbi "Daddy" Danny
When you become a Rabbi at a synagogue, one of the first questions you get asked is “What should we call you?” For me it was an easy question. Rabbi Burkeman sounded like one of the old Jewish studies teachers I...Read more...
How do I stand up for the Jewish people?
03/14/2016 05:20:09 PM
How do I stand up for the Jewish people?
Fri, October 17 2025
25 Tishrei 5786
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Worship Schedule
Shabbat "Bereshit" ~ "שבת "בראשית
Friday, October 17
6:30 pm – Erev Shabbat, worship in person or watch on our Website
Saturday, October 18
9:00 am – Shabbat Havurah Morning & Torah Study, worship and study in person or register here to join via Zoom. Torah Study will take place during Shabbat Havurah.
10:30 am – Shabbat Morning
Bar Mitzvah of Charlie Marrus, worship in person or watch on our Website.
