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.