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THE ISRAELITES HAD LIGHT IN THEIR DWELLINGS—THE LIGHT OF COMPUTER SCREENS (Many thanks to Jo Lisa...

Beginning Sunday, March 29th, Rabbi Panitz will have a morning worship service, via Zoom, from...

THE MONTH OF REDEMPTION IN THE YEAR OF THE CORONAVIRUS Happy new year!... Happy new year?... Yes,...

NEW - Morning Worship Services Via Zoom Rabbi Panitz office hours March Mitzvah of the Month Found...

LET KINDNESS BE YOUR TRUE FACE, NOT ONLY YOUR MASK A newborn baby is perfectly self-centered, and...

MANY REASONS TO MASK UP We wear several masks, each mask for a different reason. Your surgical...

THE MEANING OF THE MASK Yesterday, I asked you to consider why Moses wore a veil over his face at...

In this time of health crisis, wearing masks has become part of daily life. The reason is medical… but the...

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Here are the two links for our first virtual Shabbat Service. Please click on the first link to...

Rabbi’s Column, March 20, 2020. Parashat VaYakhel [Rabbi’s note: sitting at home in...

It seems timely to send this out now. Please click the link below or copy and paste the link below into...

Service times for Shabbat and during the week - THERE ARE NO SERVICES IN THE BUILDING AT THIS TIME...

All services, meetings, and events are cancelled until further notice.

Rabbi Panitz and Cantor Proser (of Kempsville Conservative Synagogue) are teaming up to provide...

Message of the Day, March 19, 2020/ 23 Adar, 5780: I used to listen to the daily poem in the...

Message of the Day, March 18, 2020/ 22 Adar, 5780: That crooner par excellence, Elvis Presley, asked...

Dear Temple Israel family, I will be sending you a daily message (except on Shabbat and Jewish...

Temple Israel email address changed Our Temple Israel AOL email address has been hacked, so we are...

Service times for Shabbat and during the week Rabbi Panitz office hours Junior Congregation Temple...

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Math fans can give credit, and math-phobes can assign blame, to the physicist Larry Shaw, a staff...

Service times for Shabbat and during the week Rabbi Panitz office hours Junior Congregation March...

Dear Temple Israel Family We are all concerned to protect the health of our members and guests...

Illustration: Book cover, Vashti McCollum, One Woman’s Fight History is intrinsically interesting,...

Morning and Evening Service Times Monday - Thursday AM services 7:30 am at Temple Israel Friday AM services...

Service times for Shabbat and during the week Rabbi Panitz office hours Junior Congregation...

(1) Vashti as Rorschach Test: What’s your “read” on Vashti? Illustration: Queen Vashti, in Ancient...

Reporter's notebook/ 'People are coming from all over to see this water' At perennially parched...

Service times for Shabbat and during the week Rabbi Panitz office hours Junior Congregation Kirk...

This is the time of year when we sing “the almond tree is growing, a golden sun in glowing;” when...

Service times for Shabbat and during the week Rabbi Panitz office hours Junior Congregation Second...

Illustration: Osiris, Anubis and Horus—only a few of the many gods of Egypt We often hear that the...

Notes from the Shul (Temple News) 2020-02-01 00:00:00

Service times for Shabbat and during the week Rabbi Panitz office hours Junior Congregation Movie...

Morning and Evening Services Times Monday - Thursday AM services 7:30 am at Temple Israel Friday AM...

Parashat Va’Era In 1953, the great science fiction author, Arthur C. Clarke, published a short story...