Members of Tikvat Israel re-elected Melanie Grishman to serve another two-year term as synagogue president and voted into office a full slate of officers and board members at a congregational meeting on Jan. 8. All will be formally installed by the clergy at Shabbat morning services on Jan. 21. They will serve until January 2019. Continue Reading »
A generous donation from the Lavine family has enabled Tikvat Israel to create a family-friendly children’s corner in the rear of the sanctuary. The gift was made in memory of long-time member Irvin (“Bud”) Lavine, one of the primary architects of the synagogue merger leading to Tikvat Israel’s creation two decades ago. The donation came Continue Reading »
Ye-yasher kocheich to Luisa Moss, Tikvat Israel’s Director of Education and Youth Programming, who wrote the Commentary on this week’s Torah portion, Vayeshev, for the Washington Jewish Week. You can read Luisa’s dvar Torah, “Joseph’s Brothers Weren’t Big on Gratitude,” here.
Congregant Mary Wagner teaches a comparative religion course at Blake High School in Silver Spring. She has been teaching the class for more than 15 years, and each semester, when she reaches the Judaism unit, she brings her students on a field trip to Tikvat Israel. When they arrive, the students meet with Continue Reading »
On Sunday, Dec. 4 Chai Dynamics performed at the Sandy Spring Museum Family Holiday Party. Chai Dynamics added some Hanukkah cheer to this multicultural community event and in doing so had a great time. The diverse audience enjoyed hearing about Hanukkah traditions and grooving along with their unique style of Jewish a cappella music. Chai Continue Reading »
Each year the Tzedakah Havurah collects donations at morning and evening minyanim and Purim and distributes these funds at the end of the fiscal year. The synagogue’s Tzedakah Havurah recently put together a list of human service and social service organizations locally and globally. In lieu of giving gifts this Chanukah consider making a donation to one of the following Continue Reading »
Thirty congregants stuck around after the Dec. 4 congregational meeting for a nosh and an illuminating presentation from Tikvat Israel congregant Anne Kaiser, who serves as the majority leader of the Maryland House of Delegates. Kaiser represents District 14 in Montgomery County. Kaiser, who was the subject of a lengthy profile in the March/April 2016 Continue Reading »
Focus Music, a folk music organizer, will continue to provide delightful evenings of song at Tikvat Israel. The show on Sunday, Dec. 4, at 7:30 pm will feature Cosy Sheridan and Cletus Kennelly. Cosy Sheridan, an award-winning singer-songwriter. Her concerts are wide-ranging explorations — love songs for adults and practical philosophy for a complicated world. Continue Reading »
A group of 30, including Rabbi Ben Shull, gathered in Tikvat Israel’s Flax Library to thank Elizabeth Levine Steel for her donation to the synagogue of a first edition of A Vanished World The Photographs of Roman Vishniac. The event on Sunday morning (11/20) was held to observe Jewish Book Month. The guest speaker, Judith Cohen, chief acquisitions curator Continue Reading »
On Sunday, Nov. 13 parents and congregants met with Luisa Moss, Education and Youth Programming Director, and Rabbi Ben Shull to assist each other in strengthening the education and programs for our youth. Goals and dreams for our youth were shared. Topic discussed included youth shabbat offerings and our award winning youth groups, Bonim, Machar, Continue Reading »
