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 »
More than 20 eager participants gathered for the first session of the Florence Melton School of Jewish Learning in the Flax Library at Tikvat Israel on Tuesday night, Nov. 15. All expressed a desire to continue their Jewish learning as adults. Several had participated in Melton programs before, with good results. The majority were members Continue Reading »
The fourth annual “True Stories” delivered an afternoon of entertaining tales to a packed crowd of more than 125 in the Tikvat Israel social hall on Nov. 13. About 75 congregants and 50 visitors were treated to 10 of the best professional and amateur Washington, D.C.-area storytellers. More than half of the audience had been to a previous Continue Reading »
