Adult Education: The Haidt Series
Exploring Our Jewish Moral Palate

Thursday, December 12| 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Join our TBE rabbis for the adult education Haidt series on Thursdays at 11:30 a.m.

Panim: A Musical Family Shabbat

Saturday, December 14 | 10 to 11:30 a.m.

All are welcome to join us for Panim—our wonderful, song-filled family-friendly Shabbat morning experience for families with children up to third grade.

We will meet for an age-appropriate family Shabbat service, followed by a delicious Kiddush, a learning activity for children and a chance for parents to schmooze or engage in discussion.

Register at https://tbegn.wufoo.com/forms/panim. 

For more information, contact Religious School Director David Woolfe at 516-487-0900 or dwoolfe@tbegreatneck.org.

Special Shabbat Series

Saturday, December 14 | 10 a.m. 

Come for Shabbat services, and stay for a communal kiddush luncheon and discussion with our speaker Jared Genser, Esq., a professor and founder of Freedom Now, an NGO that works to free prisoners of conscience worldwide.

Professor Jared Genser, Esq., an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, has served as international counsel to prominent human rights activists and defenders, including Václav Havel, Aung San Suu Kyi, Desmond Tutu and Elie Wiesel. He has taught semester-long seminars about the UN Security Council at Georgetown University Law Center and at the University of Michigan and University of Pennsylvania law schools. He earned a BA from Cornell University, was a Raoul Wallenberg Scholar at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a management consultant with McKinsey & Company.

Volunteer for The Tzedakah Project

Sunday, December 15 | 9 a.m.

Please help ease the hunger of local families in need by either packing and delivering holiday dinners on Sunday, December 15, at 9 a.m. or making a donation to sponsor a meal.

A complete dinner with an oven-stuffer roaster, four sides and dessert costs $25 per family. Donate through the temple office or at bitly.com/TzedakahProject.

For more information, call Jordana Levine at 516-850-4472.

CPR and AED Course

Tuesday, December 17, and Thursday, December 19 |
12 to 1:30 p.m. (must attend both sessions)

Learn how to perform CPR and use an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) to help adults, children, and infants during breathing and cardiac emergencies. Also learn the basics of emergency first aid, including how to respond in cases of conscious and unconscious choking.

FREE to attend; $30 if you wish to receive Red Cross Certification.

Register at https://tbegn.wufoo.com/forms/z1wty3321j7r847/.

Toy Drive

Through Friday, December 20

TBE’s Gay Lesbian Inclusion Committee Annual Toy Drive is collecting unwrapped, new toys for infants to 8 year olds through December 20.

The toys will be wrapped and distributed to hospitalized children who have HIV/AIDS.

Samuel Baker Memorial Christmas Day Volunteer Program

Wednesday, December 25 | 9 a.m.

Brotherhood of Temple Beth-El is looking for volunteers to help at North Shore University Hospital and Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation to perform ecumenical acts of kindness and caring.

Visit NSUH patients, sing seasonal songs and old favorites (ages 14+), or help PJIHCR staff transport patients and serve lunch—to make the holiday brighter and easier (all ages).

Register here.

For information about volunteering at NSUH, contact Jon Yedvab at 516-782-5250 or jonyedvab@yahoo.com.

For more about volunteering at PJIHCR, contact Gloria and Jerry Landsberg at 516-466-2431 or gzlandsberg@att.net.

Chanukah Shabbat Services

Friday, December 27 | 6 p.m.

Families should bring their own hanukkiah, so we can all light candles together.

Join us immediately following services for a Chanukah Potluck Dinner. Sign up to bring a kosher-style meat or vegetarian main or side dish to share, or donate $18 per adult so we are prepared with enough food for all to enjoy. Aluminum trays are available in the main office.

Sign up at https://bit.ly/33IBuZT or with the main office.

Shabbat @ Home

Friday, January 10

Join Your TBE Friends for Shabbat @ Home on Friday, January 10.

Enjoy good company at an inspiring Friday Shabbat evening meal. TBE will connect hosts and guests and provide some prayers and activities to make it special.

There is no cost to participate in Shabbat @ Home! Just bring a side dish, dessert or wine.

Hosts must register by December 24 and guests must register by January 2 at https://tbegn.wufoo.com/forms/z1qd2n9k1aqf3sl.

Special Shabbat Series

Saturday, January 25 | 10 a.m. 

Come for Shabbat services, and stay for a communal kiddush luncheon and discussion with our speaker Ellen Gottlieb, founder of Enlightened Parenting.

Longtime Great Neck resident Ellen Gottlieb is an attorney, wife and mother to two grown daughters, who developed Enlightened Parenting, a coaching practice intended to teach parents and caregivers how to raise their children more effectively. She shares specific, counterintuitive strategies about interacting with children in each moment in order to foster deeper connections and help them realize their authentic potential.

Comedy Night

Saturday, February 1 | Doors Open: 7:30 p.m.; Showtime: 8:30 p.m.

Temple Beth-El and Temple Israel will present Comedy Night with three hysterical comedians and Temple Beth-El’s own Stan Levine as Master of Ceremonies with an open bar and delicious hors d’oeuvres catered by W. Kosher Caterers at Temple Beth-El.

Order tickets at www.GreatNeckComedy.com.

Jewish Yoga School—Celebrating Tu B’Shevat Roots to Heaven

Sunday, February 9 | 10:30 a.m to 12 p.m.

On Tu B’Shevat, our awareness expands to integrate the physical and spiritual. Join us for a yoga experience to celebrate the sanctity of trees—and of Tree Pose.

The cost is $25, TBE members; $35, nonmembers. Register here.

Special Shabbat Series

Saturday, March 28 | 10 a.m. 

Come for Shabbat services, and stay for a communal kiddush luncheon and discussion with our speaker Daniel Zarin, who will address climate change and the impact of current policies.

Daniel Zarin has been director of programs of the Climate and Land Use Alliances since its inception. Previously, he served as senior advisor to the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and was a professor at the University of New Hampshire and at the University of Florida. He has published widely on forest ecology, management and policy, as well as the interface between deforestation and climate change.

Jewish Yoga School—Pre-Passover Spring Cleaning for Body and Spirit

Sunday, March 29 | 10:30 a.m. 12 p.m.

As we rid our kitchens and closets of hametz (leavening), we are reminded to also prepare for the holiday by taking care of our bodies and spirits. Be inspired by the ancient wisdom on health of the body and mind with teachings from Maimonides. Be prepared to move and feel great! Register here.

Jewish Yoga Across Long Island

Tuesday, June 9 | 7 to 8:15 p.m.

Throughout the month of June, Jewish communities from across Long Island will practice yoga to care for our bodies, minds and spirits with inspiration from Jewish rituals, metaphor and symbolism.

Additional locations and dates to be announced. Register here.

Special Shabbat Series

Saturday, June 20 | 10 a.m. 

Come for Shabbat services, and stay for a communal kiddush luncheon and watch Shine Kids, students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, perform a tribute.

As these students struggled to make sense of the February 14, 2018, mass shooting on their campus in Parkland, FL, their agony morphed into action. They faced down politicians and brought viewers to tears with their song of hope. They excited 800,000 people to march on Washington for an end to gun violence, launched a youth voter registration campaign and raised their voices through music they wrote themselves, which they will perform as a tribute to the friends they lost, and speak about their experiences and how activism, music and the arts are helping them heal.