+ Sukkot Field Trip Pix
View pictures and share in the joy of our school’s Sukkot and Apple Picking Field Trip and Fun Day
Read More+ Download our Fall Program Guide
We’re excited to present our first program guide which shows our unique approach to synagogue life. At Tamid, we see prayer and learning as the inspiration for goodness in the world. You’ll see that organizational friendships are core to who we are and we’re thrilled to announce partnerships with the JCC in Manhattan, The Educational
Read More+ Our Hebrew School Vision
NEW VISION FOR A DOWNTOWN HEBREW SCHOOL, by Rabbi Darren Levine As a rabbi working with students in New York for the past ten years, there are a number of important lessons I’ve learned – and they’ve all influenced my vision for the Tamid Hebrew School. First, we should be dealing with Jewish identity formation,
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Tamid Shabbat in Video – May 18, 2012
Thank you to everyone who joined us in Celebration of our First Shabbat Gathering as a community. A hearty thanks to St. Paul’s Chapel and Trinity Church for welcoming us so warmly – enjoy a short movie from our shabbat and we look forward to sharing more special moments with you in the future!
Read More+ A child’s blessing
“A Child’s Blessing on Shabbat” by Rabbi Darcie Crystal, Young Family Rabbi Perhaps my favorite moments of the week are the ones each Friday night when my husband and I place our hands on our children’s heads one by one and bless them. Our seven and five year-old son and daughter look forward to that moment,
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+Tamid In Newsday – 4/17/12
Fused By Their Faiths Published: April 16, 2012 9:17 PM By MARIA ALVAREZ. Special to Newsday Photo credit: Nancy Borowick | Rabbi Darren Levine of Tamid stands inside St. Paul’s Church on Broadway. (April 11, 2012) Two dads developed a relationship watching their sons play basketball at a neighborhood playground, never knowing they had a common link —
Read More+ Do You Remember Names?
Across the world tonight people will be reading names. Six million names. Incredible that we choose to recall names as our mode of memory, when so many of us struggle with recalling names of people whom we’ve just met. Still, it makes sense. Often, in fantasy, sharing your name shows a deep level of trust,
Read More+Tamid @ St. Paul’s? The story
Tamid @ St. Paul’s Chapel?How it happend. By Rabbi Darren Levine In early February I was taking a run along the Battery Park City promenade at dawn and I saw the sun reflecting off the buildings across the Hudson – at Exchange Place in Jersey City. I started ruminating on the meaning of light and
Read MoreTamid Launches: Read the Press Release
New York, NY – Tamid: The Downtown Synagogue (www.tamidnyc.org) will open in the Fall 2012 with the mission to create Jewish opportunities for prayer, learning, and service for families, individuals and youth living in Lower Manhattan. Tamid will be led by three Reform rabbis, Darren Levine, Darcie Crystal, and Michael Mellen, all New York City
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