TSTI Torah-Fest Program With Clients From JESPY House Featured In NJJN

(This is an excerpt from an NJJN article)

Letter by Letter, a Torah unfurls in South Orange

by Robert Wiener of the New Jersey Jewish News-- Nov. 18, 2009

Cautiously, Lily Moretz placed her right hand on top of Rabbi Zerach Greenfield’s. Then, their hands moving together carefully, they inscribed a single Hebrew letter on a piece of parchment.

Moritz, a client of JESPY House, was one of some 20 people from there and other programs of the Jewish Service for the Developmentally Disabled came to Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel in South Orange on Nov. 11 to help write a Torah scroll.

Their combined effort will be repeated hundreds of times in the coming year, as the Reform congregation allows members and guests to join in the hands-on effort they call their Torah Project.

Read the full article on NJJN.

Zerach Meets With TSTI's Teens

As part of our on-going L'Dor VaDor Torah Project our scribe Zerach met with TSTI's Hebrew High teens.

He explained how a Torah is written and how Torah's are examined in order to identify how old they are and where they were written.

Women's Connection Cooking Class 2009

The Women's Connection recently gathered to learn about food during the time of the Bible and then taste some Biblically-inspired food.

A Song In Celebration Of Rabbi Miller's 10th

A Decade of Service, and Services: The New York Times "The Local"

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New Jersey Jewish News On Rabbi Miller's 10th

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South Orange Patch On Rabbi Miller's 10th

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Shabbat, Scholar, and Supper
Friday, December 11, 2009

Join the congregation at the 6:00pm Worship Service.
Continue learning at the Shabbat Dinner following the service.
All are welcome to attend services. Registration and fee required for dinner.

Scholar

ARTHUR KURZWEIL - Jewish Genealogy: A Spiritual Pilgrimage

America's foremost Jewish genealogist, Arthur Kurzweil's name is synonymous with Jewish genealogical research. His book, From Generation to Generation: How to Trace Your Jewish Genealogy and Family History, is known as the definitive guidebook to the field. Mr. Kurzweil’s work has appeared in New York Magazine, the L.A. Times, the Miami Herald, Newsday, and the Jewish Week of New York.


RESERVATIONS MUST BE MADE BY DECEMBER 4, 2009
$25 per member if registered by November 27.
$36 per member if registered after November 27.
$36 per non-member.


To register for the December 11 Shabbat dinner,
Make check payable to TSTI, list name(s), number, email. and mail to:
TSTI Adult Education 432 Scotland Road, South Orange 07079

Temple President Hope Pomerantz - INSTALLATION SPEECH

Each time we enter another relationship, join an organization, take a new job, begin a new challenge – each time we reach for something else, we analyze the risk and anticipate the reward –hoping it will turn out as planned.

We leave the homes and congregations in which we grew up, go off to college and graduate school, marry and start our own families- and join our own congregations. And so it was for Steven and me more than 16 years ago – when we deselected the synagogues closer to home in favor of Sharey Tefilo-Israel- it’s wonderful Cantor, charming new student Rabbi, eclectic and welcoming membership. We were looking for a compromise between what we were each used to – what we each wanted in a spiritual home for ourselves and our children – what felt right.

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TSTI COLLEGE CORNER PROGRAM

Welcome to the TSTI College Corner Program. We are already thinking about the new year and want you to know that you are on our minds while you are away from home. If you are interested in receiving care packages (3 times a year), a Chanukah package, holiday notes and email blasts with job opportunities and trips, send your school information to Tracy Horwitz at Temple. Include your name, school, mailing address (indicating if you are living on or off campus and whether your school name should be included in the address), email address, anticipated year of graduation and the names of your parents. We'll keep you connected to TSTI!

Entertainment Coupon Books Available

The Temple is selling 2010 Entertainment Coupon Books for $30 per book.  All proceeds will help support our TSTI Youth Groups.  If you would like to reserve a copy or two, call Joel Scharf at the Temple office at 973-763-4116.

TSTI Featured In Reform Judaism Magazine Article On Synagogue Technology

The latest edition of Reform Judaism Magazine features a cover article entitled CyberSanctuary: How The Latest Technology Is Changing Jewish Life.

The article quotes Rabbi Cohen, along with four other rabbis and focuses, in part, on some of the changes we have already been making here at TSTI.

You can read it HERE.