Tikvat Israel ended its 2018 season in the Montgomery County Synagogue Basketball League by losing a close playoff game to Congregation Beth El, 65-61, in mid-March. During the regular season, TI had beaten Beth El, 66-52, with five players hitting multiple three-point baskets. The TI hoopsters finished with a 1-6 record. Coach Warren Berger said Continue Reading »
Shalom Families, Happy Shavuot. On Saturday night, we begin the celebration of the holiday. Learn more about Shavout here. Ask your child if they remember how many days are between the first Seder and Shavuot? (50- we have been counting on our Omer counter in the lobby since then!) No School this Sunday, May 20th. Unfortunately there Continue Reading »
Good Deeds Day attracted 40 participants from Tikvat Israel, including these young members (pictured on the left), to a cleanup project at nearby Rock Creek Park on April 29. They filled 14 bags of trash, 13 bags of recyclable waste, two rubber tires, a traffic cone and wire fencing. A few volunteers stumbled upon an Continue Reading »
National touring artists Reggie Harris and Greg Greenway have been pleasing audiences and speaking out for justice for decades, with others and with each other, and have developed a deep friendship over this time. Both have been very active with Phil Ochs Song Nights around the country and with working for racial justice, including singing Continue Reading »
Members of the Tikvat Israel Women’s Network paid an artsy visit to the Jewish Community Center’s Goldman Art Gallery in Rockville on Sunday, March 24. Eleven women gathered for a docent-led tour of the “Freedom, Justice and Equality: An Interfaith Perspective” exhibit. TI’s own Shirley Waxman, along with Sabir Rahman of the exhibit staff, discussed the origin Continue Reading »
Eight members of Tikvat Israel farmed out across the area on March 25 to deliver Passover supplies to 30 elderly Jews in need, enabling them to observe the holiday. TI and other shuls participated in Project HOPE 2018, which is cosponsored each year by B’nai Brith and the Jewish Social Services Agency. The two organizations raise money and buy the Continue Reading »
Shortly after the area’s first major snowfall of 2018, Tikvat Israel’s Hazak group received a warming experience. On March 21 in the shul’s Flax Library, Steve Raucher addressed 25 attendees of a brown-bag lunch on a journey he took with his wife Helen recently to Cuba. Raucher shared his experience and photos, offered a brief overview of the history Continue Reading »
Dear Families, This Sunday is the final Sunday class before spring break, Wednesday will be our last class of the month. Classes will resume Wednesday, April 4th for 3-6th graders or Sunday, April 8 for K-2. Here is a link to practice Mah Nishtanah at home. Torah Talk: Click here! (includes a video about the parsha!) We all live with rituals. Whether it’s the time and place we brush our Continue Reading »
Tikvat Israel’s Year of Science Committee brought us a full, thought-provoking weekend focused on science and religion to the congregation March 9-11. Scholar’s Weekend 2018 began with a Shabbat evening service, Shabbat dinner and an interactive talk with our keynote speaker Rabbi Geoffrey Mitelman, founding director of Sinai and Synapses in New York. He discussed “How Do We Talk About Science and Religion?” with about 90 participants. On Continue Reading »
With experts expounding on subjects ranging the intracacies of physical science to a behind-the-scenes understanding of professional theater,Tikvat University 2.0 delivered new knowledge to 75 participants on Sunday, Feb. 25. Sally Kram, chair of the TI Adult Education Committee, was the prime mover behind the second annual event. The program tapped into the talents and energy of our own congregation with all but one of the sessions handled by members Continue Reading »
