Last year was amazing, this year promises to be even better. The entertainment in the Lucky Chai Lounge is top notch and the Casino Room is ready for fun and games. Even if gambling is not your "thing", it is an evening you won't want to miss. Join us this Saturday (April 20) we're saving you a seat!
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The Temple Chaverim Website is under construction! We apologize if you can't find the information you are looking for while we are busy creating a dynamic, new website. Please feel free to call us at 516-367-6100 for any and all information. Check back on this page in April for information on 2013-2014 Religious School Registration.
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Welcome to Temple Chaverim
1050 Washington Avenue Plainview, New York 11803
Tel (516) 367-6100 Fax (516) 692-0208
"A Temple of Friends"
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Our 30,000 square foot facility includes a magnificent sanctuary, 10 classrooms on our school wing, a library, meeting space and a beautiful refurbished bridal suite and social hall and multi-purpose room with the most up-to-date high-tech audio visual capabilities.
Stop by anytime to tour our building and grounds. We'll show you around with great pride!
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FIND YOUR EMOTIONAL CONNECTION TO TEMPLE CHAVERIM
Fellow Members,
The greatest challenge for our clergy and our lay leaders here at Temple Chaverim is to find ways of touching the hearts and minds of our congregants and their children. We attempt this through interactive and meaningful worship services, by educating our children in interesting and though-provoking ways, by offering a myriad of educational and social programs for adult of all ages and interests, and by "being there" genuinely and reliably for our members and their families during happy times -- simchat -- as well as sorrowful times.
Whether is through religious traditions, adult education, youth engagement or social events such as Family BINGO, our Sukkot Social, Pizza in the Hut or a fundraiser such as our Casino Night, we are always thinking of ways to engage our members to spend time here in our lovely building so they may feel the warm embrace of our Chaverim family.
I became a board member while my daughter, Jordyn, ran through the halls with a sense of freedom and safety, knowing her parents were here, people were friendly and the clergy and staff as familiar as family, all of them giving her that special ingredient called "love." Here is how she expressed her emotional connection to Temple Chaverim:
Because my mom and dad were involved with Temple Chaverim, they have given me the opportunity to explore my own connection to Judaism, and to further my Jewish education. I watched my mom practice chanting Torah for her adult Bat Mitzvah, and I became motivated myself to excel on the bema for own own Bat Mitzvah. I learned about the mitzvah of tzedakah through the actions of my parents' dedication to helping people with various charity events, and I now am a leader of Shabbat services at Somerset Gardens Assisted Living.
I have observed my parents' involvement in the Jewish community through my years of growing up and I, myself, have become a leader in the Jewish community. I, who had never been to Israel, took the initiative to embark on a four-month journey there during high school, to explore my Jewish identity and my roots. Now, I am so fortunate to have this congregation to return to and to share my experiences with. My parents have instilled in my a true appreciation for our synagogue and the love of Judaism, and for that I am very grateful.
This is priceless! THIS is the connection I want YOU to give to YOUR children. I want you to feel at home in this busy "beehive" of a hamish community. I want you to feel so connected to this temple as if it were your own home. The more you take advantage of all that we offer, the more time you spend here with us, the more you get involved in shaping the future of your temple, the more you, too, will feel ownership of this wonderful community and the more your entire family will fell that special connection in your heart.
If I can accomplish just one thing during my tenure as President, it would be to help you form that emotional connection between your heart and the soul of Temple Chaverim. I'm here for you and am eager to help your family find strength, peace, connection and great happiness here at Temple Chaverim. Contact me at bruce@steifman.com anytime.
Shalom,
Bruce Steifman
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 UJA-Federation of New York recently concluded a study of the Jewish population throughout New York. Last done about 10 years ago, the new study highlights demographic changes throughout the Jewish community, with some surprising results. Take a look!
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Welcome to Temple Chaverim! We are a warm, inclusive and engaging, URJ-affiliated Reform congregation serving Eastern Nassau and Western Suffolk counties including the Long Island, NY communities of Plainview, Old Bethpage, Woodbury, Syosset, Jericho, Dix Hills, Melville and Farmingdale. Please browse through our pages to learn more about the Temple Chaverim familyand the many ways in which we are known as "a Temple of Friends."
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by Sharon Mann Editor’s Note: This post is the first of two about Congregation Emet VeShalom. The complementary post will appear tomorrow. Reform Judaism and religious pluralism, which are taken for granted in the United States, are not axiomatic in Israel. As a member of Emet VeShalom—a Reform congregation in Nahariya, a peripheral area of Israel eight miles from Lebanon’s border—I know maintaining a non-Orthodox congregation is fraught with challenges. At present, one major challenge facing ours is that we do not have a rabbi serving as spiritual leader of our community. Our members are facing this challenge by stepping [...]
Here are just a few of the recent stories from across the webosphere that speak directly to (and about) Reform Jews. What Jewish stories have you been reading recently? Leave a comment and let us know! “Modern-Day Rabbi Must Be CEO, Teacher, and Spiritual Leader at Once,” Forward Are rabbis the new CEOs? Anne Cohen reports that “expectations have changed.” Rabbis are now required to read a spreadsheet as well as the Gemara. They need to be accessible, media-savvy public speakers; business-oriented entrepreneurs; fundraisers; program generators, and in touch with popular trends. To prepare rabbinical students for the challenges ahead, [...]
By Rabbi Richard Sarason In the traditional liturgy, the special character of each holiday is particularly conveyed by the piyyutim (hymns, liturgical poems) that are recited or chanted on that day. Most of these piyyutim have been omitted in Reform liturgies since the nineteenth century, out of a sense that their Hebrew diction is too arcane and their theology too medieval. Yet, some of these poems have routinely been retained in Reform High Holy Day prayer books, particularly for Yom Kippur.1 Probably the best known of the piyyutim for Rosh Hashanah, which over time has come to be recited on Yom Kippur as well, is Un’taneh tokef (“Let [...]
Here are just a few of the recent stories from across the webosphere that speak directly to (and about) Reform Jews. What Jewish stories have you been reading recently? Leave a comment and let us know! “His Father’s Murder Drives a Rabbi’s Pursuit of Gun Control,” New York Times This piece is actually a couple of weeks old, but it deserves ongoing attention. Rabbi Joel Mosbacher’s father was shot to death in a petty robbery in 1999. “I’ve carried this story with me, this anger, every day for the last 14 years,” says the rabbi, who serves Beth Haverim Shir [...]
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