From the Rabbi

Dear Friends, I just returned from the Maine Conference for Jewish Life, a project of the Center for Small-Town Jewish Life at Colby University. The idea of the [...]

As I’m writing this message, President Trump is wrapping up his trip to Saudi Arabia before flying (directly!) from Riyadh to Tel Aviv. The timing is [...]

More than 100 people celebrated the holiday of freedom with us this year — two Seders at our shul and two additional model Seders, one [...]

Dear members and friends, It was nice to come back to Greenport, to budding trees and bushes. With Purim behind us and Passover ahead, it’s [...]

Dear members and friends, Shalom from Israel! The day after I finished a 10-day interfaith pilgrimage to the Holy Land, I was sitting with friends, [...]

Dear members and friends, Let me begin my message this month by wishing our new president success in keeping America great. The atmosphere in which President [...]

All I was hoping for was an enjoyable post-High Holidays trip, driving through seven mostly Eastern European countries in three weeks. (Yes, I do find [...]

Dear Members and Friends, As I'm traveling through Europe, I witness how strongly the events in America still reverberate throughout the world. Most newspapers are [...]

Dear Members and Friends, It was wonderful to see so many of you on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur; it always feels like an extended [...]

We are just a few days from New Year 5777, and I sense excitement in the air. For Jews, the High Holidays are the spiritual [...]

In a couple of weeks, at our annual Journal Dinner-Dance, we will celebrate Tifereth Israel’s 115th anniversary. The event will be held this year on [...]

Dear Members and Friends, It was a great honor to share the stage with Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor at the Orient Annual Heritage Day [...]