Due to popular demand, Elyssa Joy Auster, a guest rabbi, again will lead a peaceful and joyful morning of Shabbat meditation and chanting at Tikvat Israel at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 5, in the Flax Library.Rabbi Auster will use song, meditation and Torah study to renew and uplift. This service will run concurrently with the regular sanctuary Continue Reading »
The annual Israeli Dance Festival DC opens at B’nai Israel Congregation in Rockville on Saturday, March 5, at 8:00 p.m. with an all-ages dance party. The festival continues on Sunday, March 6, at 3:00 p.m. at the Bullis School in Potomac. Fabulous Israeli Dance performances will be followed by dancing for all ages. This event features D.C. area dance troupes, Continue Reading »
One of our ongoing mitzvah projects is to collect and donate toiletries. During your summer travels, please collect any unopened, unused toiletries from your hotel visits. You can drop them off in the Tikvat Israel main office. There’s a box designated for this collection. All toiletries benefit the Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless. Questions? Continue Reading »
Tikvat Israel ended its regular season in the Montgomery County synagogue basketball league on Feb. 28 with a 1-6 won-loss record, an improvement over 2015. The team will enter the league playoffs as the 7th or 8th seed. Warren Berger serves as player-coach. The team’s roster consists of (back row from left) Michael Newman, Mike Micek, Continue Reading »
Three dozen members of Tikvat Israel’s chapter of Hazak heard Sharon Doner-Feldman discuss types of humor with an emphasis on Jewish humor during a Feb. 25 lunch-hour presentation. She shared examples of various types, then delivered her favorite jokes. Doner-Feldman formerly served as director of the Greater Washington’s first community-wide Jewish Information and Referral Service and Continue Reading »
The third annual “True Stories” delivered an afternoon of entertaining tales to a packed crowd of more than 200. Ten of the best professional and amateur Washington, D.C., storytellers shared award-winning true stories that transported the listeners to a different time and place. Their anecdotes had audience members laughing, tearing up and gasping in Continue Reading »
Blake High School students performed “The Odyssey of Jeremy Jack” at Tikvat Israel for a crowd of 50 preschool and elementary school children and their parents and grandparents. “The Odyssey of Jeremy Jack,” is Blake Children’s Theater’s third show and the second to be brought to Tikvat Israel. Congregant Mary Wagner, director of Blake’s 12 Continue Reading »
A three-part speaker series titled “Struggles of the Modern State of Israel: A Values Perspective” is being led by Rabbi Benjamin Shull and Rabbi Uri Topolosky of Beth Joshua Congregation. The scheduled themes are “Use of Power and Pursuit of Peace,” Feb. 29 (at TI), “A State for Israelis and A State for Jews,” March Continue Reading »
About two dozen Tikvat Israel members learned the rudiments of delivering an engaging d’var Torah during a four-session workshop led by Rabbi Benjamin Shull that ran in January and February. The rabbi’s participatory lessons, conducted in the synagogue library, covered how to inspire a Shabbat morning audience, how to draw meaning from the ambiguity of Continue Reading »
The Tikvat Israel Board of Directors will hold its monthly meeting at 8 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 22 in the Flax Library. Congregants are welcome to attend as observers. Advance copies of the meeting agenda are available from synagogue President Melanie Grishman at .
