Tikvat Israel serves as a pickup site for a community supported agriculture program that provides fresh produce through much of the year. The CSA fall season, which runs for eight weeks, commenced in early October. It ends the week before Thanksgiving. A winter season, starting in January, has deliveries every other week (a total of Continue Reading »
In these days of cultural diversity, many Jews are eager to learn about other ethnic/religious groups and their cultural expressions—music, visual arts, dance, food origins, languages, etc. But what do we know about our own heritage and culture?(Outside of bagels, that is!) Do we really know the origins of the tallit stripes, or of hamantaschen? Continue Reading »
Tikvat Israel’s religious services on the High Holy Days carried a worldwide reach. The data collected from the synagogue’s livestreaming equipment showed 518 households logged on during Rosh Hashanah and 521 on Yom Kippur. The breakdown of participants looked like this: 295 in Montgomery County (362 overall in the D.C. area), 17 in the New Continue Reading »
Covid-19 prevented us from building and enjoying a congregational sukkah on our back patio this year, but one intrepid Tikvat Israel ECC faculty member, Menuhah Peters, went ahead and built a sukkah on her own in front of the education wing entrance. This was actually her second sukkah — the first one, near the parking lot, succumbed Continue Reading »
Sam Gilston lead the first of two workshops on how to blow a shofar. The first session held Sunday, August 23 included an explanation on the rituals and liturgy associated with blowing the shofar during Elul, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The second session is scheduled for Sunday, August 30, at 1:00 pm. Our goal, if possible, is to have someone Continue Reading »
By Jay P. Goldman, Tikvat Israel Bulletin Editor When Cantor Helzner stepped to the bima precisely at 10 a.m. on May 9 and offered a brief nigun, she ushered in the livestreaming era for religious services at Tikvat Israel. The morning service that day marked the first Shabbat morning service in the sanctuary since the Continue Reading »
By Larry Marc Levine We live in difficult times. Things will improve. In the meantime, people have come up with some creative ways to deal with the situation, and we are each finding new ways to feel good about ourselves. I would like to make a suggestion: Take the time to look around and see Continue Reading »
Cantor Rochelle Helzner performed a Marvin Hamlisch composition, “’Cause I Believe in Loving,” in a virtual concert May 31 titled “Blue Suede Jews” that involved the talents of a half dozen cantors in the Washington area. There were 360 households logged on to view this concert via Zoom video conferencing. The love theme performed by Continue Reading »
Tikvat Israel Congregation in Rockville will hold a document shredding event from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 7. A commercial recycling firm will set up in the synagogue’s parking lot at 2200 Baltimore Road to handle secure shredding on site. The shredder can accommodate hanging files with metal reinforcers, as well as Continue Reading »
On Sunday May 17, 2020 the Women’s Network hosted a Zoom Program presented by Tikvat Israel’s own renowned fiber artist Shirley Waxman. Seventeen women logged onto their computers to hear about how Shirley started a cottage industry in Israel for newly resettled Ethiopian Jews. In 1992 Shirley was asked to teach these women how to embroider atarot, Continue Reading »
