[View as pictures] Tikvat Israel’s Purim festivities begin on Wednesday evening, March 4, with a family celebration including a Purim Puppet Production and costume parade from 6:30 to 7:15 p.m. in the social hall. Then enjoy alcoholic and non-alcoholic cocktails at our new “Pour ’em for Purim” happy hour from 7:20 to 7:40 p.m. Maariv and a Continue Reading »
Tikvat Israel’s Rabbi Search Committee is well underway in the interview stage of considering candidates for the synagogue’s full-time rabbi position. The committee has been fortunate to receive applications from across the United States. The application period remains open until early March. The 10-member Search Committee, which is chaired by Shelly Goldin, a past president of Continue Reading »
Hopeful Communicators Toastmasters Club at Tikvat Israel will run a workshop on presentation skills and meeting management over four evenings this spring. The workshop runs from 8 to 9:30 p.m. on April 2, 16 and 30 and May 14 in the Flax Library at TI. Instruction and practice will cover the following topic areas: speaking Continue Reading »
It may have been icy outside on Tuesday (Feb. 10), but inside an Olney synagogue an audience of Hazak members was warmed thoroughly by the beautiful voices at a Cantors Assembly Concert. Tikvat Israel Cantor Rochelle Helzner (back row, third from right) was joined by seven area cantors at this special concert at B’nai Shalom Continue Reading »
Winter sometimes means inclement weather, resulting in postponements and cancellations. Whenever possible we will notify B’kesher subscribers of any weather-related scheduling changes. You may also call the Tikvat Israel Weatherline at 301-762-7338, ext. 360, for recorded weather-related announcements. The Tikvat Israel Early Childhood Center is using a text-by-phone notification system for the first time this winter, and if Continue Reading »
Molly Amster, daughter of Tikvat Israel congregants Michael and Debbie Amster, is now executive director of Baltimore’s branch of Jews United for Justice (JUFJ), according to an article in Baltimore Jewish Times. The article also mentions TI: “She also grew up in what she described as an “egalitarian, conservative, socially progressive” synagogue, Tikvat Israel Congregation Continue Reading »
The honors keep rolling in for Tikvat Israel’s own Micah Cowan, who was elected on Dec. 24 by hundreds of his peers attending the annual international convention of USY in Atlanta as the 2015 International USY religion/education vice president. One month earlier, he was selected as “Mister Seaboard” at the regional USY conference in Pennsylvania. For more Continue Reading »
Congregants selected Melanie Grishman, a synagogue member of 24 years, to the presidency of Tikvat Israel Congregation for the next two years. Grishman and other officers and board members who were voted into office at a congregational meeting on Dec. 14 were installed at Shabbat services on Jan. 10. All will serve until the end of Continue Reading »
Parents of children who expect to have a bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah in 2015 or 2016 may want to sign up their youngsters for a six-session public speaking workshop offered by Tikvat Israel’s Toastmasters club, also known as Hopeful Talkers. The workshop is designed to help these children feel more comfortable and less afraid Continue Reading »
TI members, such as Harley Liebenson, will be consuming fresh produce all fall as participants in the Community Supported Agricultural program running each Monday afternoon through Nov. 24 in the lobby at the synagogue. The fall shares will feature apples, butternut squash, acorn squash, delicata squash, onions, sweet potatoes, carrots, broccoli, radishes, daikon radishes and Continue Reading »
