New Year Greeting 5777

Two Important Events at NSJC

Tisha b’Av • Ninth of Av

Service Schedule

 August 13^th-14^th

• Saturday Minchah (Afternoon) Service at 7:35pm

• Tisha b’Av Service & Lamentations at 8:35pm, outside on plaza

• Sunday Shacharit (Morning) Service at 9am

• Minchah (Afternoon) Service at 1:30pm

• Maariv (Evening) Service at 8pm

• Fast Ends at 8:35pm

Shabbat Under the Stars

*Join Rabbi Benson & Cantor Kramer for a special Friday night service,  beginning at 7pm on Friday, August 19th, outside with music and song, weather permitting.

*We will also hold our special Lech Lecha “Going Forth” ceremony for recent high school graduates in our community.

*Special DAIRY oneg (reception) will take place following services. 

Shavuot at NSJC!

SHAVUOT SCHEDULE:

Saturday, June 11th 8:00pm – Minchah Service, Vav Tikkun Presentation – our Vav class is invited to a special ceremony at which our graduating students will receive their Torah reading books.

9:05pm - Havdalah/Maariv (Candle lighting no earlier than 9:06pm)

Tikkun Leyl Shavuot follows, “The 'Ten Commandments’ from Jews by Choice” – members of our congregation who have converted to Judaism share their insights and observations about Jewish belief and practices that should inspire on this holiday of embracing the Torah.

Sunday, June 12th, 9am – Shacharit Services, stay for ice cream

Sunday, June 12th, 8:05pm - Minchah/Ma’ariv (Candle lighting no earlier than 9:06pm)

Monday, June 13th, 9am – Shacharit Services & Breakfast with Ruth – once again we will share breakfast with the heroine of the Shavuot story during services. Yizkor will also take place.

Team Malachim Reminder (Do An Extra Good Deed the 18th of Every Month)

It's the 18th of May which means it's Team Malachim Day.  Time to do an extra good deed today.  Here is a short film to help inspire you:

Israel Independence Day - One Community!

In a show of communal unity for Israel Independence Day, we are sharing with you both our own program for the holiday as well as that being offered by Temple Isaiah (they are doing the same).  Please show your support of Israel at these great, local, programs:

North Shore Jewish Center

Yom Ha-Atzma'ut 

Israel Independence Day Celebration

Thursday, May 12^th beginning at 5pm

Guest Speaker,

His Excellency, the Chief Rabbi of Poland,

Rabbi Michael Schudrich

"The View of Israel from Poland"

Service & Israeli Refreshments will follow

Originally from Patchogue, Rabbi Schudrich was ordained at JTS.  He served a congregation in Japan before becoming rabbi in Poland in the 1990s.  A well-known world leader of Judaism, he has been responsible for the rebirth of Judaism in Poland.  From 1973-1975 he was also a Hebrew School teacher at NSJC.

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Yom Ha'atzmaut Film at Temple Isaiah:  Mekonen

  

 Wednesday, May 11th

We first met Mekonen Abeba in our highly acclaimed documentary Beneath The Helmet, as a raw recruit in the IDF Parachute regiment.

Now we meet him again and learn his incredible and emotional life journey as he immigrates to Israel from an Ethiopian village after his father's death.

Falafel and Salad: 7:00 PM

Movie: 7:15

$10 donation/person

RSVP to Morgan: office@TempleIsaiahSB.org

Temple Isaiah

1404 Stony Brook Road

Stony Brook, NY 11790

Yom Ha-Atzma'ut at NSJC, May 12

North Shore Jewish Center

Yom Ha-Atzma’ut / Israel Independence Day Celebration

Thursday, May 12^th beginning at 5pm

Guest Speaker,

His Excellency, the Chief Rabbi of Poland,

Rabbi Michael Schudrich

“The View of Israel from Poland”

Service & Israeli Refreshments will follow

Originally from Patchogue, Rabbi Schudrich was ordained at JTS.  He served a congregation in Japan before becoming rabbi in Poland in the 1990s.  A well-known world leader of Judaism, he has been responsible for the rebirth of Judaism in Poland.  From 1973-1975 he was also a Hebrew School teacher at NSJC.

Conversion Q&A this Shabbat & More