Kef!

08/24/2017

There are many reasons why BDS is wrong, but one is that it's promoters only see one side of the conflict. They don't understand the nuance of "it's complicated". I saw this production as live theater and was so impressed that I contributed to the movie. WRESTLING JERUSALEM is having it's NY premier... don't miss it.

Aaron Davidman is the writer and performer of WRESTLING JERUSALEM a critically acclaimed solo play and feature film about the Israeli-Palestinian story.

11/17/2015

Please join us at Kavanah this Shabbat morning at 9:30am
(in the classroom down the hall at TCS).

We'll be finished by 10:15 after which you can join services in the main sanctuary or otherwise enjoy your Shabbat morning.

Geoffrey Stern will be leading the group and the subject matter will be “The Chosen People as Entitlement Reform”

10/25/2015

get your tickets now....

On the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Ira Glass speaks with longtime This American Life producer Nancy Updike and her husband Dan Ephron, former Jerusalem bureau chief for Newsweek. Both have covered Israel for years; Ephron was at the rally where Rabi…

10/14/2015

Please join us at Kavanah this Shabbat morning at 9:30am
(in the classroom down the hall at TCS).

We'll be finished by 10:15 after which you can join services in the main sanctuary or otherwise enjoy your Shabbat morning.

Sol Slotnik will be leading the group and the subject matter will be “Selected aspects of the Shabbat Torah Service” aka Incites into the longest running BOOK club in human history!

Shabbat Shalom and hope to see you there,

Geoffrey

08/28/2015

Kavanah tomorrow (Shabbat) morning at 9:30
at The Conservative Synagogue in Westport.
We'll be finished by 10:15 after which you can join services in the main sanctuary or otherwise enjoy your Shabbat morning.
Tomorrow: God as King

We'll focus on God as King in our daily prayers and High Holiday prayers

05/08/2015

Kavanah tomorrow (Shabbat) morning at 9:30
at The Conservative Synagogue in Westport.

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We'll be finished by 10:15 after which you can join services in the main sanctuary or otherwise enjoy your Shabbat morning.
Tomorrow: "Prayer as a Practice".

We'll focus on prayers that we repeat daily, weekly and mostly mindlessly but which come in handy for those special moments, occasions and times...

03/05/2015

Happy Purim! Little known fact... The hebrew word for 'religion" דת first appears in the Book of Esther. Join me in listening to four lectures by Daniel Boyarin Professor of Talmudic Culture at the University of California at Berkeley at Columbia University in which the good professor will argue that pre-Rabbinic Judaism was not a religion....

The 2015 Bampton Lectures in America will be given by Talmudic scholar Daniel Boyarin, speaking on: A Genealogy for Judaism. In this …

05/10/2014

Anyone interested in making thisva kef! Event?

03/28/2014

Join us tomorrow... Saturday March 28th 9:30 am at the Conservative Synagogue of Westport....

My favorite prayer is the first prayer of the day. No reference to God, personal, in the moment, just gratitude and and its reference to belief (emunah) is not to our faith in.... , but rather i...

10/17/2013

This is a great opportunity to meet the new Rabbi in town and daven to some great music. I hope to be there and hope you will too. share this post with your friends... let's take advantage of all the Jewish activities in our community!

07/09/2013

Here'a an exhibition which crosses the line... maybe we should all go....

New York, 2012, Eruv rope beside Lincoln Square Synagogue in Manhattan, Private Collection From “The Daily Show” to Rabbinic and City Hall Debates, Eruvs Still Generate Controversy It divides private...