From the desk of Rabbi Darren Levine Dear Members and Friends, Tomorrow night marks another new chapter for our congregation and I feel blessed and overjoyed for what it means for our community. We built Tamid as a hub and spoke model which in my opinion is the way of community building in the 21st
Read MoreFrom last Sunday’s, NY Times. Front Page J. Emilio Flores for The New York Times LOS ANGELES — The American bar mitzvah, facing derision for Las Vegas style excess, is about to get a full makeover, but for an entirely different reason. Jordan focused on combating hunger before his bar mitzvah last year. Families have
Read MoreTamid is the first (that we know of) Hebrew School with an Achievement Plan. It’s a “badge of accomplishment” structure which we call Jacob’s Ladder. Students work towards earning pins by accomplish great things in the following areas: prayer, Hebrew, community service, and Jewish ethics. Learn more about Jacob’s Ladder and how it works.
Read MoreWe’re proud of our teens for helping the homeless this year. Starting Sept 28, teens from Tamid and the New Shul will be serving dinner to the homeless one Saturday night per month. We’re grateful to UJA Federation of NY for supporting this program, thanks! Please share this with a teen so they can give
Read MoreHistoric Ark Moves Further Downtown The Jewish Week, May 1, 2013 Julie Wiener, Associate Editor Call it “Raiders of the Found Ark.” Two months ago, Tamid, a new liberal congregation that holds services and classes in a variety of downtown locations, began raising money to build an ark to hold its Torah scrolA week and
Read MoreThis is a real life story in b’shert (destiny) that is happening right now. It began two months ago when we started our Ark campaign to create an Ark for our Torah scroll. Last week, I received an email from an architect named Jason Friedman who lives downtown and joined us for the High Holidays. His firm
Read MoreDear Families, we hope you will join us! New Student Enrollment begins May 1. In order to maintain the quality education and personal faculty/student relationship that is essential to our model, we are limiting our growth next year to only 20 new students at our four downtown locations in Tribeca, West Village, Battery Park City, and
Read More(Newsletter Cover, Spring 2013) Friends, When we started Tamid, our goal was to create a Jewish home in Lower Manhattan for people looking to celebrate Shabbat and holidays, to educate their children, and to find the support and care of a loving community. Now, as we approach our first-year anniversary, we’re taking stock of our
Read MoreDear Friends, As wedding season approaches, I wanted to offer a new perspective on the Wedding Ritual. Many rituals in Judaism are designed to re-enact Jewish history and to bring people into a direct and living experience of the past. It’s through the process of re-enactment that gives people a living experience of an historical
Read MoreHelp us create Tamid’s Ark, an ornamental structure that will display and protect our Torah scroll! Tamid’s Ark will be housed at St. Paul’s 9/11 Chapel (left) where we celebrate Shabbat and holidays. We are honored to have the Ark complement this historic landmark where over three million people visit each year. Donate Online –
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