5785/2024 Virtual and In-Person High Holy Days
with Rabbi Zoe B Zak & Hazzan Michael Kasper

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Virtual services can be accessed here: https://www.facebook.com/templeisraelofcatskill - refresh the page until the livestream appears

Founded in 1923, Temple Israel of Catskill is a Reform Congregation where everyone is welcome.

Temple Israel of Catskill is a reform community in the Hudson Valley, whose energy and commitment is to genuine welcoming!  We are a diverse community of people from different backgrounds, ages, abilities, sexual orientations and styles of practice. We welcome everyone, knowing that everyone is - B’tzelem Elohim - created in the image of the Divine. Our dedication to genuine welcoming is a reflection and manifestation of our shared belief that coming together inclusively to sing our prayers and connect to the ancient traditions of Judaism, brings people to a unified place of strength, goodness and peace. We look forward to welcoming you to our community!

Join us for our Spring Semester of L’HADLIK Hebrew School
Thursdays 4-5:30 pm
January 4th-June 6th

Everyone is welcome! Inter-faith families, members and non-members
A great way for your child to connect and learn with others about their Jewish heritage and traditions in an uplifting, engaging & creative environment.

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Yom Kippur: Returning to Your True Self A poem by our Poet-in-Residence Mitch Ditkoff

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Thank you

  • Little Free Library

    Thank you to Philip Myhre and his parents, Melanie Sussman-Myhre and Casey Myhre for assembling, designing, painting and installing our Little Free Library! Philip is becoming bar mitzvah this year and this is his mitzvah project! He also filled it with his books. The library is located in Peace Pod Park, An Interfaith Place of Peace at the top of our driveway and at the entrance to Hudson River Skywalk. Please feel free to visit, leave a book and or take a book. Mazel Tov to Philip and his parents! Thank you for beautifying our community with such a great mitzvah project. 

  • Interfaith Rally for Peace

    Thank you to everyone who came out for our Interfaith Rally for Peace where we prayed for Israelis and Palestinians, for the safety of all. We prayed for PEACE. I was moved to tears by everyone who spoke.

    Thank you Chief of Police Ron Frascello, Lieutenant Dan Ware, all the officers for Catskill Police Department, Greene County Sheriff Pete Kusminsky, Deputy Thomas Plank and all the deputies from the Greene County Sheriff’s Department who came out to support our gathering. Thank you to our amazing speakers; Sheriff Pete Kusminsky, Poet-In-Residence Mitch Ditkoff, Rav Peter Daniel Lundgren, Debra Lundgren, Rabbi Robert Kasman, Rev. Jo-Ann Mandekk Tipple, Peter Markou & Deacon Ron Dombroski. Thank you to Amy Drucker from The Jewish Federation of North Eastern NY for your presence and support of this event, to Alex Horton who came on behalf of Congressman Marc Molinaro, to our remarkable Cantorial Soloist Lori Sturges and bassist Robert Bard for your gift of music. 

  • The Cook and The Rabbi

    Thank you to everyone who came out to fill the temple for the book launch of “The Cook and The Rabbi”! Thank you Deena Lebow & Susan Simon for your generosity in making all the fabulous food created from Susan’s recipes in the book, Margot Leverett, Matt Schreiber & Robert Bard for the exceptional Klezmer music, Gert & Pim from CITIOT who sold books and sold out of them! They should be restocked in the store any day now and of course available from your favorite booksellers everywhere. Thank you to everyone who helped set up and clean up and welcome all of our guests. I’m grateful to the Divine and to you all for making this possible and so over the top joyous!

    Love,Rabbi Zoe

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  • Sukkot

    Thank you to everyone who helped build & decorate our amazing sukkah…and to everyone who came out to celebrate Sukkot!

The Samara Manger-Weil L’HADLIK Hebrew School Scholarship Fund

Thank you for supporting The Samara Manger-Weil L’HADLIK Hebrew School Scholarship Fund in honor of my daughter who physically graced this world with love, light & laughter until her untimely passing May 23, 2020. Jewish Life was integrally woven throughout her secular life as she celebrated holiday traditions and our tenets of Tzdukah and T’ruah, donating her bat mitzvah gifts to help fund an Ethiopian orphanage and fiercely protecting & helping those in need. Read more

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The Rabbi Pauline Tamari Memorial Library

Roberta Lipson & Ted Plafker, Rabbi Pauline’s sister and brother in-law visiting from their home in China to see The Rabbi Pauline Tamari Memorial Library at Temple Israel of Catskill.

“Temple Israel in Catskill has brought me back to my faith, not by dogma, but by creating a warm, inviting place to reflect on my life, my family and the world as it exists around me. When I walk in the door my shoulders relax and I instantly let go of the tensions created by daily life.”

—Claudia Zucker