September 16, 2022 - Weekly News From The Chatham Synagogue / Netivot Torah | |
9/16/22 TCS/NT Update Table of Contents | |
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1. In Person & Zoom Shabbat
2. High Holiday Services Schedule
3. Virtual Sit/Stand/Breathe/Balance Exercise
4. Virtual Yoga
5. Donations
6. Virtual Out & About
7. ETC: "Swersey Silos" - A tribute to the memory of Burt Swersey
8. Visit Our Website
9. Become a Member
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1. Shabbat - September 17, 2022
Shabbat Service are in-person as well as on Zoom - Masks are encouraged. Proof of vaccinations are no longer required.
NOTE: Proof of vaccinations are no longer required for attending services. Click here to read the statement by TCS/NT president, Ken Davies.
Zoom log-in alert: Please note, due to a rise in disruptive infiltrators on Zoom presentations we are instituting security protocols. When you log-on you will be in a Zoom "waiting room." If have a problem being admitted, please send an email to TCSZoomShabbat@gmail.com with your full name and your phone number.
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2. High Holiday Services 2022
This year, in an effort to continue to keep everyone safe, our services will be held at the Columbia County Fairgrounds. This will allow us to accommodate everyone comfortably while keeping the seating safely socially distanced. As always, our services will be led by Rabbi Or Rose, the Director of the Miller Center for Interreligious Learning and Leadership at Hebrew College in Boston.
Services will include traditional liturgy, modern music, English readings, and special guest presenters (via video), including author and CEO of the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center, Stephen Daniel Arnoff, who will be speaking about the spiritual wisdom of Bob Dylan, Rabbi Dr. Mimi Feigelson, the first ordained female Orthodox Rabbi in the post-Holocaust era, and Dr. Avi Rose, an artist-educator in Jerusalem who will speak about Jonah and the ever-present idea of journey in Israeli art and architecture.
Our Children's Holiday Program will be held on the first day of Rosh Hashanah and on Yom Kippur. Our services are free, no tickets required. Proof of vaccination is no longer required. Mask wearing is encouraged.
▶︎ Click here to see a detailed schedule of our services and programs as well as a map of the Fairgrounds showing where the services will be held.
▶︎ Click here to read about our Rosh Hashanah guest speakers
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3. Virtual Sit/Stand/Breathe/Balance Exercise
Every Monday - 10am - 11pm
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TCS/NT member, and dancer, choreographer, physician-assistant Jamie Stiller is teaching a sit/stand exercise group. For the duration, the group will meet every Monday, via Zoom, from 11am - 12pm. The focus of these classes will be on building strength in your core and extremities, learning to breathe mindfully to fuel your entire body, and having fun!
There is a $10 donation per class. Click here email Jamie and arrange payment (Venmo, checks, etc.).
ZOOM LOG-IN LINK & INFO:
Meeting ID: 898 6317 0484
Password: 953995
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4. Virtual Yoga
Every Friday at 9:30am
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Our weekly Yoga classes are resuming, virtually. TCS/NT member, and dancer, choreographer, physician-assistant, Jamie Stiller, will be leading the classes. There is a $10 donation per class. Click here email Jamie and arrange payment (Venmo, checks, etc.).
ZOOM LOG-IN LINK & INFO:
Meeting ID: 825 5860 0433
Password: 953995
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(Note: Donations can be made online on our website. Click here to donate.)
Benny & Marcia Seibald - IHO the birth of Carly & Dan Seibald's daughter, Eden France
Ellen & Alan Goldner - IHO the birth of Eden - Mazel tov to Carly, Dan & Ravi
IMO Barbara & Ken Kranz's brother-in-law
Jim Farrell & Jamie Stiller - IHO Diane and Steve Eidman's grandsons Sy and Shai
IHO Carly, Dan, and Ravi's Eden France
IMO Gerry Staffin's sister, Lita Talus
Gloria Kaufman - IMO Gerry Staffin's beloved sister / IHO all of the Synagogue tech volunteers these 2 ½ years of COVID
Tobby Cassuto - IHO the birth of Diane & Steve Eidman's two grandsons
IMO Alan Nahman / IHO Alice Swersey & Janet Carey for the beautiful tree in the cemetery
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6. Virtual Out & About
Entertainment / Education / Social Action
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[NEW] "Fiddler on the Roof" in Yiddish with English Supertitles
7 Weeks only: November 13, 2022 - January 13, 2023
New World Stages, 340 West 50th Street, NYC
The beloved Off-Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish is back for a seven-week return engagement at New World Stages. Once again the show is directed by Academy Award and Tony Award winner Joel Grey, and Steven Skybell reprises his role as Tevye.
"...for those of us who grew up around Yiddish, it's use here will likely strike a deep emotional chord. For me, it's not just the fusillade of familiar words and phrases.... It is the sound of my own grandparents and all they lost in leaving their Anatevkes. "Fiddler on the Roof" always makes you cry for that loss - and more recently the losses endure by many other migrants. But by reuniting the Jews of the Pale with their language, "Fidlr afn Dakh" does something more: It brings both alive again, not just in sadness."
Jesse Green, NY Times Review
▶︎ Click here for more information and to order tickets
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The Book of Genesis in Early Hasidic Thought with Rabbi Or Rose
7 Sessions: Tuesdays 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Class dates: Oct. 25, Nov. 1, Nov. 8, Nov. 15, Nov. 22, Nov. 29, Dec. 6
Hybrid: Onsite at Temple Israel of Boston, 477 Longwood Ave., Boston, and online via Zoom
Join Rabbi Rose to explore the mystical commentary of Rabbi Moses Haim Efraim of Sudlikov (1748-1800) on the Torah portions of the Book of Genesis (Sefer Bereishit). His work, The Degel Mahaneh Efraim (The Banner of the Encampment of Efraim) is considered a classic by Hasidim and scholars like and gives eloquent voice to key themes in early Hasidism, such as prayer and meditation; Torah study; spiritual and ethical growth; and the relationship of Hasidim to one another and to their Rebbe.
Each session will examine 2-3 homilies from his work, focusing on how he engages the biblical texts and related materieals as an eighteenth-century Jewish spiritual leader, and what we might learn today from these creative exegetical reflections.
▶︎ Click here to see more information about the program and to register.
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Jewish Women's Archive Book Talks
On Zoom
JWA Book Talks provide opportunities to come together virtually to explore literature by and/or about Jewish women. Join us for a new series of virtual conversations with leading authors to explore timely issues of justice, responsibility, family, shame, and repentance. Presented in partnership with JewishLIVE and moderated by JWA's CEO Judith Rosenbaum
Thursday, September 22, 8 PM: Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
In On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World, Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg draws on Maimonides and other Jewish texts to offer a crucial new lens on repentance, atonement, forgiveness, and repair from harm—from personal transgressions to our culture’s most painful and unresolved issues. Co-sponsored by the National Council of Jewish Women, Sacred Spaces, and SRE Network.
▶︎ Click here to register for these Book Talks events
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Beginner-Level Tai Chi Classes in Chatham Priority Enrollment for TCS members
Classes begin Thursday, Sept. 22nd and will run every Thursday for 12 weeks. 4:30pm - 5:30pm
13 Main Street, 2nd floor, Chatham
$240 for the series of classes, payable by check
TCS/NT member Fran Snyder will continue offering Tai Chi classes, sponsored by the New York School of Tai Chi Chuan. Tai Chi is a martial art that teaches strength through softness, relaxation through movement, and using the feet to assure and improve balance. All ages welcomed. Classes are capped at 12 students and each class includes two teachers to assure personal attention and careful guidance. Only seven spots remain open. The studio is large and airy and masks are required.
▶︎ For more information please contact Fran at fran.snyder.taichi@gmail.com.
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7. ETC: "Swersey Silos" - A Tribute to Burt Swersey
Burt Swersey, the late husband of TCS/NT member Alice Swersey, was recently honored at a ceremony of a new vertical farm that will grow mycelium (part of the fungi kingdom, they are the fast growing rooting network of mushrooms) in silos. The company, MyForest Foods, is growing mycelium to be used for meat-alternative products. In memory of Burt, the farm has been named, "Swersey Silos."
MyForest Foods is an offshoot of Ecovative, a company that pioneered the use of mycelium to replace plastics, leather, meat, and other unsustainable products. Ecovative was co-founded by Eban Bayer, a former student of Burt's at Rensselaer who credit's Burt's course, "Inventor's Studio," and encouragement, with leading him to his work with mycelium and forming Ecovative.
▶︎ Click here to read more about MyForest Foods and the Swersey Silos.
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8. Visit Our Website
Have you checked out our website at: thechathamsynagogue.org? On it you can find a current listing of events, links to services, information about who we are, and a growing library of photos.
For members there is also a member portal. You should have received an email with a link inviting you to access the portal, instructions on how to log-in, and an explanation of some of the information that you will find there. Check it out and let us know what you think. If you have any questions or need help accessing the member portal, please email: tcsntmembers@gmail.com.
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9. Become a Member
We welcome members from diverse Jewish backgrounds and perspectives. Our members are people who were born into Judaism as well as those who chose Judaism. We recognize patrilineal as well as matrilineal descent, and we welcome interfaith families and LGBTQ Members.
You can download a membership application here.
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TCS/NT Mailing & Email Addresses: The Chatham Synagogue / P.O. Box 51 / Chatham, NY 12037
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