Tikvat Israel members Rebecca Salon, Jay P. Goldman, Sam Gilston and Jim and Maxine Perlmutter made the holidays a little sweeter for about two dozen residents at Potomac Valley Nursing and Wellness Center in Rockville. The five congregants led an annual High Holidays service on Sunday, Sept. 17, giving the residents and their family members a chance to hear the shofar and some of the traditional Rosh Hashanah and Yom Continue Reading »
Fourteen women joined Rabbah Arlene Berger at Tikvat Israel for a Rosh Chodesh program Sunday, Sept. 10, which she called “Opening Up the High Holiday Piyyutim.” The program was sponsored by the TI Women’s Network chapter. In discussing the medieval liturgical poems known in Hebrew as piyyutim, Berger called upon participants to ask themselves Continue Reading »
Nearly 150 congregants turned out for a kickoff barbeque in the Tikvat Israel social hall on Sept. 10 that included grilled hot dogs and hamburgers (including two varieties of vegetarian burgers) and slices of watermelon and brownies plus a kitchen “yard sale,” which was part of the TI kitchen cleanout. The major attraction was a Continue Reading »
Volunteers from Tikvat Israel have taken a bi-monthly turn at Manna Food Center in Gaithersburg, most recently on Aug. 31. They organized nonperishable food in four large bins, which is the first step in the sorting process at the regional food bank. About 200 households pick up from Manna each weekday. Volunteers also fill backpacks Continue Reading »
Members of TI’s Outdoors Havurah explored the Underground Railroad Experience Trail and Woodlawn Museum, both located in the Woodlawn Manor Cultural Park in Sandy Spring, Md., on July 23. A self-guided tour of the trail showed the group how a slave would have engaged with natural and man-made features in an attempt to escape to Continue Reading »
by Harvey T. Kaplan Naomi and I spent most of July in Israel. We told everyone we were going there to see our grandson Aaron Kaplan participate in the 20th Maccabiah Games. Aaron is on the Maccabi USA Youth Soccer Team (a boys’ team ages 16-18). We had several other objectives to accomplish during the Continue Reading »
by Harvey T. Kaplan In the May-June issue of the Tikvat Israel Bulletin, I introduced this series of columns on Hasbara with some background, explaining that we will be focusing on various aspects of Israeli innovations as we prepare to celebrate the State of Israel’s 70th anniversary next spring. In that issue, I shared some Continue Reading »
by Harvey T. Kaplan Some years ago, I served as one of our congregation’s representatives at the Israel Educators’ Institute (IEI) sponsored by our Federation through its Board of Jewish Education (BJE, no longer existent). I wrote a series of articles about interesting events in Israel’s history—and a few current themes, too. This is the Continue Reading »
About 18 members of the Tikvat Israel board of directors completed on July 23 a year-long leadership development program, known as a Sulam, conducted by the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. The final three-hour session included committee chairs and covered the application of congregation mission and vision and core values to the roles and responsibilities Continue Reading »
The other day, I woke up way before my alarm was set to go off and opened my blinds to look outside. While much of my view is focused on the building adjacent to my apartment, I looked up to the sky and I saw the most beautiful pink streaks in contrast to the early Continue Reading »
