Micah Cowan was selected by United Synagogue Youth’s International Executive Board to serve a one-year term on the international board as a member of the Religion/Education Committee. In this capacity, Micah will provide oversight to religious education programming and initiate projects in various USY chapters. He is the first Tikvat Israel teen to serve on Continue Reading »
Washington Jewish Week editors selected longtime Tikvat Israel congregant Arlene Berger to contribute the Dvar Torah commentary for the newspaper’s Jan. 9 edition. Rabbah Berger is the education director of the Chavurah at Sixth and I Historic Synagogue in the District. (Her website is theitinerantrabbit.blogspot.com.) She titled her commentary “The Murmuring Motif.” It is based Continue Reading »
Members of Tikvat Israel will be able to fill seven seats on the synagogue’s board of directors at a congregational meeting on Sunday, Jan. 19 in the sanctuary. The following seven members were nominated by the congregation in mid-December to serve terms beginning in January 2014: Michele Eisenberg, Jay P. Goldman, Melanie Grishman, Kelcey Klass, Continue Reading »
Five members of Congregation Tikvat Israel recently paid a visit to the corridors of power when they were part of a performance Dec. 5 by the singing troupe Zemer Chai at the White House Hanukkah Festival. The TI choir members were Manny Helzner, Leesa Shem-Tov, Sarah Fishman, Jimmy Perlmutter and Janaki Kuruppu (left to right, Continue Reading »
By Carol Chelemer and Steve Raucher As our band of 22 prepared to travel to Israel this fall, we were constantly advised to use all of our senses to experience the country. These are some of our impressions as we reflect upon our two weeks of touring. Israel is a modern, high-tech society. We Continue Reading »
Editor’s Note: Shayna Solomon, daughter of Nancy and Jonathan Solomon and a first-year student at Dickinson College, was an invited participant in the Faith and Politics Institute’s Civil Rights Pilgrimage in February. What follows are excerpts of her Shabbat morning presentation to the congregation about her experience. by Shayna Solomon “Exactly a week ago at Continue Reading »
The Tikvat Israel men’s basketball team had its best season in years by finishing the 2013 regular season with four wins and five losses, good enough for seventh place among the 10 teams in the Montgomery County Synagogue Basketball League. Player-Coach Warren Berger, who received an extension on his coaching contract because of the court Continue Reading »
“All who are hungry, let them come and eat” is not just something we read in the Haggadah once a year. It is said Abraham and Sarah placed such great importance on welcoming others that they kept the walls of their tents open so that they could see potential guests from a long way off and ran Continue Reading »
The Tikvat Israel men’s basketball team has opened the 2013 season with victories in two of its first three games in the Montgomery County Synagogue Basketball League. TI is playing a nine-game Sunday morning schedule against other shuls this winter. The team lost its opening game to B’nai Shalom, but then evened its record against Continue Reading »
Arlene Berger, long-time friend and fellow congregant, has, for the last three years, been studying at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia. You can find her new blog, “The Intinerant Rabbi(t)”, here: http://theitinerantrabbit.blogspot.com/ We have links to blogs written by several TI members, and friends – you’ll find the links on the main blog page, Continue Reading »
