Thirteen sock puppets (several shown above) accompanied by the deft handling of sisters Rachel and Shaina Lipsy will sustain a Purim tradition on Feb. 25 at Tikvat Israel that had been managed for years by their late mother Karen Lipsy. The show commences at 6:30 p.m. and it will be available through the synagogue’s livestream. Continue Reading »
By Jay P. Goldman, Editor, Tikvat Israel Bulletin Richard Montgomery High School teacher Jerome Price will lead a multi-week course, “Seven Chapters in African American History,” for Tikvat Israel members and others in January and February. The seven-session course, which starts on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, will examine the history and culture of the Continue Reading »
Jerome Price, the high school teacher who will lead the African American history course at Tikvat Israel in January and February, granted an exclusive online interview to the editor of the Tikvat Israel Bulletin, Jay P. Goldman. The following Q&A has been edited for clarity and length. Q. How did you and Rabbi Israel manage Continue Reading »
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 »
