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Oversized Trucks Revisit TI May 15

Posted on May 12, 2016

The 3rd annual Truck Touch will take place on Sunday, May 15, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., in Tikvat Israel’s parking lot. The event, sponsored by TI’s Early Childhood Center, will boast a variety of large mobile vehicles for young and old to climb on and interact with. Explore fire trucks, police cars, emergency Continue Reading »

Week Three: Choose

Posted on May 7, 2016

This week’s events: Keynote Event: Jewish Tradition and Healing Who: Rabbi Simkha Weintraub, LCSW, Rabbinic Director, Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services When: 7:30 pm, Monday, May 9, 2016 Moving Our Feet: Israeli Dance Who: Award-winning Yesodot teenage dance troupe When: 6:30 pm, Yom Ha’atzmaut, Thursday, May 12, 2016 For the complete listing of Continue Reading »

Omer Project Events

Posted on May 3, 2016

The Omer Project began Sunday, May 1.  Here is what is in store for the next ten days. Thursday, May 5 (Yom Hashoah), 7:30 p.m. THE JÜDISCHE KULTURBUND PROJECT: Art and the Resiliency of the Human Spirit Leader: Gail Prensky, creator and project director, Jüdische Kulturbund Project Saturday May 7, 9:30-10:15 a.m. CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER Developing tools Continue Reading »

The Jüdische Kulturbund Project: Art and the Resiliency of the Human Spirit

Posted on May 2, 2016

Join us on Thursday, May 5 (Yom Hashoah), 7:30 p.m. when Art and the Resiliency of the Human Spirit will be explored with Gail Prensky, creator and project director, Jüdische Kulturbund Project. The Jüdische Kulturbund Project explores the dilemma that Jewish artists faced in Germany in the 1930s and early 1940s and what artists around the world face today. A Continue Reading »

Week Two: Discern

Posted on May 1, 2016

This week’s events: Keynote Event: Jewish Tradition and Healing Who: Rabbi Simkha Weintraub, LCSW, Rabbinic Director, Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services When: 7:30 pm, Monday, May 9, 2016 Moving Our Feet: Israeli Dance Who: Award-winning Yesodot teenage dance troupe When: 6:30 pm, Yom Ha’atzmaut, Thursday, May 12, 2016 For the complete listing of Continue Reading »

Board to Consider FY ’17 Budget Monday

Posted on April 25, 2016

Tikvat Israel’s board of directors will meet at 8 p.m. Monday (April 25) in the Flax Library to review a proposed operating budget for 2016-17. The board’s budget committee, chaired by Treasurer Steve Raucher, will provide an overview of the proposed $1.6 spending plan for FY ’17 and the process that his committee used to Continue Reading »

Week One: Decide

Posted on April 24, 2016

This week’s events: Keynote Event: Jewish Tradition and Healing Who: Rabbi Simkha Weintraub, LCSW, Rabbinic Director, Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services When: 7:30 pm, Monday, May 9, 2016 Moving Our Feet: Israeli Dance Who: Award-winning Yesodot teenage dance troupe When: 6:30 pm, Yom Ha’atzmaut, Thursday, May 12, 2016 For the complete listing of Continue Reading »

Omer Project – Invitation

Posted on April 24, 2016

Please join us on this journey of exploration – click here for the full schedule of workshops and opportunities. View the poem for Week One: Decide Week Two: Discern Week Three: Choose

Yom Hashoa Community Observance

Posted on April 24, 2016

A community-wide remembrance, including memorial candle lighting, Kaddish, reflection, music, poetry and memorial to the destroyed communities of Europe will be held on Sunday, May 1, at B’nai Israel Congregation, 6301 Montrose Road, Rockville, from 2 – 3:30 p.m. A keynote address will focus on “Seeking Truth & Justice – 70 Years After Nuremberg.”

Congregants Deliver Passover Supplies to Needy Adults

Posted on April 18, 2016

  About a dozen members of Tikvat Israel delivered full bags of Passover food and drink supplies to those in need in Montgomery Community as part of the Jewish Social Service Agency’s annual Project Hope on Sunday (April 17). The volunteers, coordinated by Moira and Leon Green, were Muriel Asher, Bobbi Cohen, Karen Cohen, Ellen Continue Reading »