Embark on virtual and in person day-trips and build community with other adults from within Temple Israel Center and the broader community. In person day trips day trips last about five or six hours and often include a kosher lunch, coach bus transportation, and a docent-led tour or conversation related to the day’s adventure.
Previous trips have included visits to The U.S. Military Academy at West Point, The Museum of Jewish Heritage (NYC), Temple Emmanuel (NYC), The Jacob Burns Film Center’s Jewish Film Festival (Pleasantville), The Hudson River Museum (Yonkers), and The Jewish Museum (NYC).
For more information, please contact the synagogue office at 914-948-2800.
Meet, socialize, and engage with other members who share your interests. Small affinity groups gather on a regular basis, according to the group’s mission. Meetings may be in-person (observing social distance) or virtual, depending on the group’s format, and leaders of each group keep the momentum going.
| Adult Education | Shiva Support | Racial Justice |
| Basketball | Welcome Wagon | Running Affinity Group |
| Book Club Affinity Group | Hiking Affinity Group | Shabbat Activities (Book Talks, Eat Pray Learn, Shabbat Afternoon Café, Backyard Shabbat) |
| Brotherhood | Hungry & Homeless | Shorashim Advisory Board |
| Budget | Inclusion | Sisterhood |
| Catering | Israel Action | Social Action |
| Culture Club | Learning Institute | Teen Engagement |
| Green Team | Library | Tikkun Olam/Social Action Affinity Group |
| Havurah Minyan | Membership Engagement | Shabbat Morning Gabbaim/Ushers |
| Hesed Circle | Minyan (daily, weekday) | Yiddish (Der Yiddish Schmooze) Affinity Group |
| Bikkur Holim | Parents of Adult Children with Mental Health Challenges | Young Couples |
| Senior Connect | Parents of Children with Special Needs 0-18 yrs |
For more information, please contact the synagogue office at 914-948-2800.
Enjoy Shabbat afternoon with friends throughout the year with food, fun, and schmoozing. Outstanding educators provide brief words of Torah. No RSVP necessary. Family friendly and all are welcome.
Spend those long summer afternoons at Backyard Shabbat! All are invited for a casual afternoon of mingling in a neighborhood backyard along with a light dairy supper, and a brief text study or song.
Join us in July and August — see weekly emails for details.
During the winter months, join us after kiddush for an intergenerational Shabbat Afternoon Café featuring indoor games in the TIC gym, board games for adults and kids, socializing, learning, and light refreshments.
The Temple Israel Center community would like to keep in touch with our students who are studying away from home. Holiday packages as well as mailings from the clergy will be sent to each student.
Please let us know if the student will be away from school for either semester or if there is a change in the student’s address, phone, or email. Please remember that a new form must be filled out each school year.
Our clergy looks forward to staying in touch!
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Join us for Friday night Shabbat dinner followed by a book talk by a local author who will share their recent publication. Authors speak for about 35 minutes followed by a Q&A session. Books are often available for pre-sale. Supervised activities are available for children during the book talk. This program is presented in collaboration with the JCC of Mid-Westchester’s Books on Tour.
Temple Israel Center is one of the few synagogues nation-wide to engage a Director of Inclusion. We believe that inclusion should be woven into the fabric of everything we do, and so aspire to make every individual and family in our community feel welcomed to participate fully in all aspects of synagogue life. In addition to supporting learners and youth and Shabbat programming, we work throughout our community to build an inclusive environment for all. We focus on:
The work of inclusion is never complete as everyone’s needs are different. To share with us your access needs and/or to join the inclusion committee, please contact Director of Inclusion Michelle Steinhart at 914-948-2800 x145.
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Connect with parents of children with special needs (up to age 17) to learn from each other and socialize. Focused topics of discussion are based on the interests of the group. Previous discussion topics included changes in routine, siblings, vacations, and advocating for your child. Meetings are once a month and alternate between morning and evening.
To join our mailing list or learn more, please contact Director of Inclusion Michelle Steinhart at 914-948-2800 x145.
This group is for parents or caregivers of adults with mental health challenges to connect and network with people on similar journeys.
To join our mailing list or learn more, please contact Director of Inclusion Michelle Steinhart at 914-948-2800 x145.
This advisory group brings Shorashim parents together with the goal of enhancing the experience of children and families within the school and the synagogue community. Serving as a sounding board and as liaisons, the Shorashim Advisory Board volunteers for specific projects and initiatives throughout the year, such as the popular book fair. In addition to working towards broader community goals, we also strive to deepen connections within our micro-community with whom we share the journey of Jewish learning and living.
For more information, please contact Direction of Shorashim and Inclusion Michelle Steinhart at 914-948-2800 x145.
Sisterhood builds community through social, intellectual, and spiritual activities. Women of all ages and stages in life are welcome. Our book club meets monthly and mah jongg games happen weekly. We also have special programs including Torah Fund Dinner, Sisterhood Shabbat, and social and educational programs such as movie night, self defense for women, and first aid education. Supporting important areas of synagogue life is a core value of Sisterhood, including offering meals to the synagogue’s bereaved families and gifts for B’nei Mitzvah. Supporting JTS’ Torah Fund, ensuring Conservative/Masorti Jewish education, is also a key initiative.
Brotherhood inspires men of all ages to be more involved in synagogue life. Brotherhood sponsors important community programs, such as the blood drives, the World Wide Wrap, distributing memorial candles for Yom HaShoah, and a Veteran’s Day commemoration. An active softball team draws congregants of all ages. As proud participants of the Hudson Valley Region of the Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs, Brotherhood recognizes the hard work of TIC’s volunteers by honoring a “Man of the Year” and a “Youth of the Year.”
For more information about Sisterhood or Brotherhood, please contact the synagogue office at 914-948-2800.
Meet and mingle with other Temple Israel Center young couples and leave the kids at home! Strengthen existing friendships and meet new people. Past events have included Sushi in the Sukkah and Latke Ball. Young Couples @ TIC often partners with other groups such as the Nursery School and Chavurah Minyan, expanding the pool of people you’ll meet.
New and prospective members are welcome!
For more information, please contact the synagogue office at 914-948-2800.
Building relationships and joyful, Jewish memories that last a lifetime:
For information about K-5th grade programs, please contact Assistant Director of Learning and Engagement Arielle Richman at 914-948-2800 x154.
For more information about 6th-12th grade programs, please contact Director of Learning and Inclusion Michelle Steinhart at 914-948-2800 x145.
If you have any Covid-related symptoms or are not feeling well, we ask that you not come to the building, but we hope you can partake in our programs and services via Livestream and Zoom.
In the Spring of 2021 TIC began requiring all individuals aged 12 and older (other than those with a documented medical exemption) to be fully vaccinated in order to participate in activities, indoors or outdoors. This decision was made based on CDC guidance at the time, which stated that vaccination prevented the transmission of COVID. Today, the environment has changed. While vaccination remains highly effective in preventing those with COVID from becoming severely ill, we now know that it has not shown to be as effective in reducing transmission of the dominant circulating variants of the virus. In addition, while our community continues to experience cases of COVID, today’s health impacts are usually milder with more effective treatments now available. Therefore, the TIC Board of Trustees, acting upon a recommendation from our Reopening Task Force, has adopted a change to our COVID protocols. Effective immediately, TIC will no longer require COVID vaccination to participate in activities at TIC. However, we continue to strongly recommend staying up-to-date with vaccination and boosters for all those who are eligible. This is particularly relevant, as both influenza and COVID rates are rising in our region.
Our mask-optional policy will remain unchanged, and seating in the reception hall will continue to be reserved during Shabbat and weekday evening services for those who wish to wear a mask and sit exclusively amongst others wearing masks in a socially distanced environment. Of course, those who wish to continue to wear masks should feel free to do so in any location throughout the sanctuary and the rest of the building. Many of our programs and services will continue to remain accessible via Zoom or Livestream for those who remain uncomfortable gathering in person.
While making these changes, we continue to ask our community to be sensitive and understanding towards those who take personal precautions to minimize their exposure to COVID. For all TIC services and activities, congregants are reminded to stay home if they do not feel well or are symptomatic.
Please see the following NYSDOH guidelines to help answer questions you may have about when you may return to TIC if you are in isolation or quarantine for COVID19: https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/new-york-state-contact-tracing TIC will continue to abide by all protocols required by NYS and any other governmental entity, and our Reopening Task Force will continue to review TIC’s protocols to ensure the safety and health of our community.
Protocols updated as of 12/22/22.
