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Washington, DC 20012
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Announcements
A Tot Shabbat
We're Holding a Tot Shabbat For Your Tot – Join Us
Tot Shabbat brings together families with children 5 years and under with their parents many times per year in the Chapel on Shabbat mornings. A parent led activity, Tot Shabbat includes tefillah (prayer), songs, Shabbat stories, Torah parade and mini-kiddush.
TI also holds weekly events for children of many ages, see Shabbat Children's Activities.
To contact a participating parent,
email TITotShabbat@Tifereth-Israel.org.
Upcoming Dates for Tot Shabbat Services at 11:10 a.m.
Shabbats – Jan. 19, Feb 16, March 16, April 20, May 18, June 15
SOME Casserole, Luther Place Dinner, Martha's Table Van Run, Tutoring
SOME Shelter Casseroles
Great activity for you and the kids, even the youngest in your family.
We bake casseroles for the shelter operated by So Others Might Eat (SOME).
Baking a casserole can be pretty easy for many TI members, but we make it even easier: we give you the recipe! If you think you can fire up your oven, even if only once during the year, then please volunteer.
Opened as a small soup kitchen in 1970, with the help of volunteers SOME now provides a nourishing, hot breakfast and lunch every day of the year.
If you think you can fire up your oven, even if only once during the year, then please volunteer.
Casseroles can be dropped off at TI (use the freezer in the Reamer Chapel kitchen) between the following Sundays and Tuesdays (by 3:00 pm on Tuesdays):
Sunday–Tuesday • Jan 13-15, Feb 17-19, Mar 17-19, Apr 14-16, May 12-14, Jun 16-18, Jul 14-16, Aug 11-13
Or you can bring frozen casseroles to the Rubin house on the Tuesdays listed above.
Contact: Stephanie or David Rubin for details, david.h.rubin at usps dot gov
Recipe: Any casserole is acceptable, Macaroni and Cheese, Tuna Noodle, etc.
Tuna Noodle Casserole
Cook 1 lb egg noodles
Place in a disposable 'lasagna' sized pan along with 3 cans of cream of mushroom soup (without water), 4 cans of tuna, and 1 pkg of frozen peas
Sprinkle bread crumbs on top
Bake 350° for 1/2 hour
Cover securely; preferably freeze before delivery
Place in a disposable 'lasagna' sized pan along with 3 cans of cream of mushroom soup (without water), 4 cans of tuna, and 1 pkg of frozen peas
Sprinkle bread crumbs on top
Bake 350° for 1/2 hour
Cover securely; preferably freeze before delivery
Martha's Table Van Run
Help support those who are hungry by joining us as we drive a soup-and-sandwich van one Sunday a month, serving dinner to homeless men and women on the streets of downtown Washington, in partnership with Martha’s Table.
Sundays 4:30 p.m. •Jan 13, Feb 10, Mar 10, Apr 14, May 12, Jun 9
Contact: Gene Herman for details, gene511 at aol dot com
Luther Place Dinners
Cooking for a crowd is seldom as appreciated as when two TI families cook and help serve dinner to 25 women living in a shelter at the Luther Place church’s “N Street Village”. With your help just one Sunday a year this dinner becomes a way to get to know others from TI and do a Mitzvah at the same time.
Sundays • Jan 13, Feb 10, Mar 10, Apr 14, May 12, Jun 9
Arrive at 6 p.m., serve at 7 p.m. and finish by 8:30 p.m.
Contact: Marjorie Siegel for details, marjorie.siegel at verizon dot net
Shepherd Elementary School Tutoring
For at least twelve years, adults and teenagers from TI and Shepherd Park have tutored students from our local public elementary school. Each tutor is paired with a young (grade 2-6) student for the school year. The pair meet for one hour each week at the synagogue to read, practice math skills, or review homework. The weekly hour can make a tremendous difference in the academic performance of participating students by boosting their self-confidence and strengthening skills learned in school - a very high rate of return on volunteer service.
Sundays 5 - 6 p.m. • Starting date on January 6, after that refer to the TI Website calendar
Contact: Dan Nathan for details, shepherdtutoringprogram at gmail dot com
Sponsored by Social Action
Send yourself an email reminder - click on this calendar event and then on "Set Reminder."
Hebrew Classes
Reading the Siddur in Hebrew
Always consult the calendar for last minute changes
Book of Kings with Rabbinic Commentaries – Rabbi Ethan Seidel – Advanced Hebrew – More »
Intermediate Hebrew – Rabbi Ethan Seidel
A continuation from last year’s beginning class on Biblical and Siddur Hebrew. We’ll pick up around chapter 24 in the First Hebrew Primer. Participants should be prepared to commit to an hour or two of homework each week. Anyone is welcome - including people who were not in last year’s class. And feel free to just come to the first class (or talk to me) to see if the level is right for you.
Sundays • 11:15 - 12:15 a.m. • Classes begin January 13 and meet weekly through June 23 in the Rabbi’s office • Classes will NOT meet on March 24, March 31, May 12, May 26
Intermediate Hebrew Beginning Tanach – Stephanie Rubin
This class is designed for people who have completed Rabbi Seidel’s Beginning Hebrew class or the equivalent. Focusing on Bereshit, the class will read the verses in Hebrew, then translate, review grammar, and discuss.
Thursdays • 10 - 11 a.m. • Weekly classes begin January 10
TI Adult Education
To RSVP, or to find out more information, please contact
Eitan Gutin, Director of Lifelong Learning, Eitan@Tifereth- Israel.org
TI Receives an Environmental Grant
TI Awarded a District (DDOE) Grant!
"Organizing Communities of Faith to Reduce Stormwater Runoff, Upper 16th Street Project
The Environmental Committee spearheaded getting this funding to install a permeable paving parking area, infiltration planter, bioswale and rain garden. Innovative Low Impact Development (LID) and Green Infrastructure (GI) techniques will be employed. What is a bioswale, you ask? Check this site out.
TI will be a demonstration area for these technologies.
More about the TI Environmental Committee
Get involved, Contact Carla Ellern, TIEnviro@Tifereth-Israel.org
Under the project, over 3,000 gallons of water from TI’s roof, in a typical 30-minute rain, will be diverted away from DC’s storm sewer system to TI’s new rain garden and to permeable pavers to be laid in TI’s parking area adjacent to the alley. The grant was prepared by the Environmental, Building Preservation and House Committees.
Artist's Rendition of the Completed Project
Cook Together at TI
Join us for Cooking – Learn to Cook Jewish
Monthly Birthday & Anniversary Kiddushim & Special Events
Join Roz Kram and a crew of volunteers as we help prepare delicious menus for our Birthday and anniversary kiddushim, for the Yom Kippur Break Fast, and for other special events. Lots of hands make the work go faster, as we stir, chop, talk, laugh, and taste.
7 – 9 p.m. • Monthly, and for Special Events
Jan.17, Feb.14, March 7, April 5, May 23, June 13
Special event dates may be at different times, so check the TI calendar.
To Sign-up go to http://tinyurl.com/TICook
To find out more information, please contact
The TI office, TIAdmin@Tifereth-Israel.org
Learn to Bake Challah
Join us for a delicious class!
A Demonstration, Tasting, & Hands On –
Challah Three Recipes!
By Jessica Weissman
Jessica Weissman will lead a demonstration on making Sephardic and special challahs.
And we’ll get to practice techniques with some hands-on challah baking.
Sunday, June 2 • 11 a.m. • Sponsored by Kol Nashim
TI Adult Education
To RSVP, or to find out more information, please contact
the TI Office and Sheri Blonder TiAdmin@Tifereth-Israel.org
Network at the TI Women's Wine and Cheese Salon
Network & Make New Friends
At a Kol Nashim Salon
All TI Women are Invited
Sunday Afternoon, June 9, 4:00 – 6 p.m.
Home of Paula Flicker
Please RSVP to KNSalon@Tifereth-Israel.org
– we need to know how much to buy!
In appreciation of KN Women
Sponsored by Kol Nashim
Images of Lasting Value | A Slide Talk | Forty-five Years in Photojournalism
By Earl Dotter
Earl Dotter will show image highlights from his forty-five year career as a photojournalist, ranging from his images of social turmoil in the late 1960s up to more recent work documenting commercial fishermen in the North Atlantic, emergency responders at Ground Zero after the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, and the work of Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, which has transitioned from servicing a largely Jewish community to a multi-cultural immigrant population. Many of Dotter’s photographs of workers engaged in heavy industry, including auto, steel, and textile, now comprise a visual record of a world that has diminished if not disappeared. Some of his favorite photographs taken in our Washington Jewish community will also be presented.
TI member and photojournalist Earl Dotter began his photographic career in 1968 when he was a student at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and lived in the Lower East Side. In that year, Earl documented the streets of Manhattan as the city reacted to the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy. In 1969 Earl became a VISTA Volunteer in the Appalachian coalfields after the Farmington Mine had exploded in West Virginia, killing 78. At that point, Earl committed his career path to photographing the most hazardous jobs in America and to personalizing the lives of individuals performing those tasks.
Sunday, May 19 • 7:30 p.m.
TI Adult Education
To RSVP, or to find out more information, please contact
the TI Office and Sheri Blonder TiAdmin@Tifereth-Israel.org
The Book of Kings with Rabbinic Commentaries
Taught by Rabbi Seidel
Kings is the ninth book of the Hebrew Bible and the fourth book in the Prophets (Nevi'im), the second section of the Hebrew Bible. Kings tells the story of the Kingdoms of Israel and of Judah from the beginning of King Solomon's reign (roughly 960 B.C.E.) until the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BCE. The first eleven chapters of Kings deal with Solomon. After Solomon's death, the united monarchy of Israel split in two: ten of the tribes of Israel left the rule of Solomon, and established a rival kingdom in the North [the southern kingdom’s capital remained in Jerusalem].
– Former from an article at My Jewish Learning
Note: Class requires a solid grasp of Biblical Hebrew, and a willingness to wrestle with Rabbinic Hebrew.
Fridays • 11:00 a.m. • Classes begin Jan 18 and meet weekly through Jun 21 – Classes will NOT meet on Mar 22, Mar 29, Apr 5, May 10, May 17, May 31
TI Adult Education
To RSVP, or to find out more information, please contact
the Office, TIAdmin@Tifereth-Israel.org
Image courtesy of My Jewish Learning, King Solomon, 1872 or 1874,
by Simeon Solomon.
TI Book Club
Join Our Book Club!
We'll be reading fiction, non-fiction as well as memoirs over the coming year. Come. discuss, kibbitz and give us your ideas for the next book.
Next book - Pick one: Sacred Treasure by Mark Glickman, or Sacred Trash by Adina Hoffman.
Tuesday, May 21, 7:30 - 9 p.m.
Next meeting at the new home of Cyndi Weitz (light refreshments served).
Upcoming dates: Third Tuesdays of the month.
Please let us know you will be coming.
Contact the Book Club facilitator,
Jessica Weissman at KNBook@Tifereth-Israel.org