Where to Worship for the High Holidays: 2018
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The High Holidays are upon us with erev Rosh Hashanah on Sunday night September 9th and Yom Kippur, beginning at sundown with the Kol Nidre service on Tuesday September 18. If you are not a member of a synagogue and you're looking for a place to worship, here are some services at local temples that are open to the public. See below for instructions about attending these services:
Bet Am Shalom, 295 Soundview Avenue, White Plains, NY 10606. All are welcome. No tickets. No reserved seating. For details: www.betamshalom.org
We are a vibrant, egalitarian Reconstructionist congregation of people from diverse backgrounds, bound together by a shared belief in a thoughtful, liberal-traditional approach to Judaism. We warmly welcome all generations and religious backgrounds, including families with young kids, interfaith families, empty nesters, singles, LGBTQ, the scholarly, the observant, and those new to Judaism.
Rosh Hashanah September 9-11
Yom Kippur, September 18-19
Chabad of Scarsdale will hold their High Holiday Services at the Scarsdale Woman's Club at 37 Drake Road in Scarsdale. Services are free of charge and walk-ins are welcome. RSVP is appreciate at [email protected]. Or visit their website at Chabadofscarsdale.com. Here is their schedule of services:
Rosh Hashanah
Wednesday September 20:
Services 7:00 pm
Thursday September 21:
Services 9:30 am
Children's program 10:30 am
Shofar 11:15 am
Friday September 22:
Services 9:30 am
Children's program 10:30 am
Shofar 11:15 am
Yom Kippur
Friday September 29:
Kol Nidrei 6:15 pm
Saturday September 30:
Services 9:30 am
Children's program 10:30 am
Yizkor 11:45 am
Neilah 5:15 pm
Congregation Kol Ami is located at 252 Soundview Avenue, White Plains, NY 10606 -914.949.4717 ext. 115
A Jewish journey is about history. Where you are going, and where you have been. It is about times, and places, and people. It is about quiet moments with oneself and with God. It is about joyous moments spent with others.
Congregation Kol Ami’s Jewish journey began in 1923 when the Jewish Community Center of White Plains was formed and land was purchased on Sterling Avenue in White Plains to build a religious school and a temple. As the temple and the school expanded, in 1944 7 1/2 acres of land were purchased at Soundview Avenue.
In May 1995 the Jewish Community Center of White Plains changed its name to Congregation Kol Ami, meaning “The Voice of My People”. From the start, and continuing today, our purpose has been to nurture the divine spark within, and to connect each of us to a meaningful Jewish journey.
Whatever your “Jewish” is, you’ll find it at Kol Ami.
Be our guest as we welcome in a sweet New Year. The following services are open to the community:
Rosh Hashanah Family Service - Mon., Sept. 10th 3:15pm, Reception following
Second Day Rosh Hashanah Service - Tues., Sept. 11th 10:00am, Reception following
Yom Kippur Afternoon Service (Schulman Chapel) - Wed. Sept. 19th, 3:00pm
Yom Kippur Family Service- Wed., Sept., 19th, 3:15pm
Yom Kippur Memorial & Concluding Service- Wed., Sept. 19th 5:00pm
Contact Executive Director, Jessica Lorden, for membership or other questions
914-949-4717 ext. 101, [email protected], www.nykolami.org
Scarsdale Synagogue is a reform Jewish congregation located at 2 Ogden Road, Scarsdale, NY 10583. 914-725-5175. www.sstte.org
Scarsdale Synagogue Temples Tremont and Emanu-El welcomes the community to join at the following high holy day services and celebratory dinners. If you are interested in attending please contact Fawn Mendel, Temple Administrator at [email protected] or call 914-725-5175.
Erev Rosh Hashanah*
Sunday, September 9
8:00 p.m. - Evening Service
First Day Rosh Hashanah
Monday, September 10
2:30 p.m.
High Holy Day Family Experience*
Blessing for new babies
Second Day Rosh Hashanah*
Tuesday, September 11
10:00 a.m. - Morning Service, Main Sanctuary
10:00 a.m. - Family Apple Picking Experience. RSVP: [email protected]
Shabbat Shuvah*
Friday, September 14
6:15 p.m. Erev Shabbat Service
Yom Kippur
Wednesday, September 19
1:00 p.m. - Yom Kippur Reflections*
1:30 p.m. - High Holy Day Family Experience*
3:00 p.m. - Afternoon Service*
4:45 pm - Yizkor followed by Neilah and Break Fast*
Erev Sukkot Service*
Sunday, September 23
6:15 p.m. - Potluck Dinner in the Sukkah.
RSVP HERE by September 17
7:00 p.m. - Erev Sukkot Service
Sukkot Celebrations*
Friday, September 28
Shake it Up!: Sukkot Extravaganza
5:00 p.m. - Family Shabbat/Sukkot Experience
6:00 p.m. - Congregational Sukkot Dinner
RSVP HERE by September 24
7:00 p.m. - Musical Shabbat/Sukkot Service featuring our Chai Notes
Erev Simchat Torah*
Sunday, September 30
4:00 p.m. - Simchat Torah Activities for Families Nursery through Grade 6
5:00 p.m. - Congregational Dinner
RSVP BY SEPTEMBER 25
5:45 p.m. - Simchat Torah Celebration & Dancing with the Torah
* No passes required
Westchester Reform Temple, located at 255 Mamaroneck Road in Scarsdale, warmly welcomes you to join us for High Holiday services this Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur.
Due to space limitations, some High Holiday services are only available to WRT Members. If you are interested in exploring Membership at WRT, please visit us at www.wrtemple.org or call us at 914-723-7727. Our new Connections Membership is a great way to join WRT if your eldest child is not yet in 3rd grade this fall. There is still time to sign up before the High Holidays, and it has never been easier for young families to join WRT.
WRT also offers a number of High Holiday services which are open to non-Members as well, and they are listed here.
Please Note: Non-Member Entrance Cards must be prepared in advance, by visiting our website or by calling (914) 723-7727. For security purposes, both photo IDs and the appropriate Entrance Cards will be required for entrance to the temple.
Erev Rosh Hashanah
Sunday, September 9
5:00 pm *Family Service - Beit Midrash
Rosh Hashanah
Monday, September 11
3:00 pm *Tot Service - Beit Midrash
5:45 pm *Tashlich with Young Israel of Scarsdale (Carpenter Pond)
Rosh Hashanah (second day)
Tuesday, September 11
10:00 am *Morning Service - Sanctuary
Kol Nidre / Yom Kippur
Tuesday, September 18
5:00 pm *Family Service - Beit Midrash
Yom Kippur
Wednesday, September 19
2:15 pm *Musical Meditation and Alternate Yizkor - Sanctuary
2:30 pm *Tot Service - Beit Midrash
3:30 pm *Afternoon Service, Yizkor, Ne'ilah - Sanctuary
WRT wishes you a happy, healthy and sweet new year!
Procedure Committee Calls for Comments on Proposed Changes to the Non-Partisan Resolution
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This letter was sent to Scarsdale10583 by Madelaine Eppenstein and Eric Cheng from the Procedure Committee:
To the Editor:
The Procedure Committee, the ad hoc group that administers the non-partisan election system in Scarsdale, is issuing one last, final invitation to all Scarsdale residents to help improve our unique system by commenting on proposed changes to its governing document, the Non-Partisan Resolution. Please visit the PC’s website for an explanation of the proposed amendments and to review a copy of the current Non-Partisan Resolution marked to show proposed changes. August 31 is the deadline to send your comments to Procedure Committee chair Madelaine Eppenstein and/or vice chair Eric Cheng ([email protected]; [email protected]). Proposed amendments will appear on the ballot on Tuesday, November 13, 2018, when Scarsdale voters will simultaneously elect a new class of Citizens Nominating Committee members.
We are also inviting voters to join the Citizens Nominating Committee, whose purpose is to recruit, evaluate and select a non-partisan slate of candidates for the village offices of mayor, trustees and village justice – that election will be held on March 19, 2019. The CNC’s simple application materials, a brief biographical form and nominating petition, are also posted on the same page of the Procedure Committee’s website. This is your opportunity to have your voice heard on who will represent you at Village Hall and to participate in Village civic affairs.
This is a public service announcement from the members of the 2018 Procedure Committee, residents from each of Scarsdale’s five elementary school neighborhoods: Charles Baltman; Sarah Bell; Eric Cheng; David Dembitzer; Madelaine Eppenstein; Timothy Foley; Jeff Goodwin; Mayra Kirkendall-Rodríguez; Eli Mattioli; David Peck; Richard Pinto; Pam Rubin; Gregory Soldatenko; Jill Spielberg; Nancy Steinberg; Michelle Sterling; and Bruce Wells.
Madelaine Eppenstein, Procedure Committee Chair
Eric Cheng, Procedure Committee Vice Chair
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
The Dancing is “DeLovely” At WBT’s Anything Goes
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The feet are flying, the shoes are tapping, and the energy is off the charts aboard a lavish ocean liner bound for London, in the new production of Anything Goes now playing at Westchester Broadway Theatre in Elsmford.
This Cole Porter musical made it Broadway debut in 1934, when theatergoers were still in the throes of the Great Depression and hungry for fantasy and escapism. With its opulent setting, expensively garbed characters, madcap subplots, and grand-scale production numbers, Anything Goes was just what the audience ordered. The show revolves around the love-struck Billy Crocker, who sneaks aboard the ship in pursuit of the object of his affection, Hope Harcourt. Alas, Hope is engaged to another passenger – but Billy is not deterred. In his effort to win her over, he crosses paths with a nightclub star, a quartet of backup singers, a gangster, some sailors, and even a Pomeranian. Not surprisingly, in the end boy gets girl.
Of course, no discussion of Anything Goes is complete without paying homage to that fabulous Cole Porter score. While the action in the show is light, what endures are Porter’s brilliant and sophisticated songs – such as “I Get a Kick Out of You,” “Blow, Gabriel, Blow,” “Anything Goes,” and “You’re the Top” (which features that iconic list of all the things that make life great, from the sublime to the mundane: You’re a melody from a symphony by Strauss! You're a Bendel bonnet, a Shakespeare sonnet, you're Mickey Mouse!).
The WBT production is charming and fun, thanks largely to an exuberant ensemble with lots of dancing chops. Leeds Hill, Kelly Gleason, Katie Scarlett Brunson and Joseph Cullinane are among the cast members who are delightful to watch, both in the major numbers and as a diversion during scene changes. Stacia Fernandez, as nightclub singer Reno – a role originated by Ethel Merman and later revived on Broadway by Patty LuPone (1987) and Sutton Foster (2011) – gives a solid and endearing performance as this larger-than-life character. As the in-over-his-head Billy, Zach Trimmer is appropriately manic, and has a pleasing singing voice to boot. Particular kudos goes to Mychal Phillips, who is a joy as Erma, the gangster’s girlfriend.
Anything Goes runs through September 9th. For exact dates and times, visit www.BroadwayTheatre.com.
Democrats Gather to Support Local Candidates
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Congressman Eliot Engel Addresses the GrouDemocrats gathered on Thursday evening August 2 at the Scarsdale home of Marianne and Roger Pellegrini to support local candidates running for re-election. State Assemblywoman Andrea Stewart Cousin faces a primary challenge from County Legislator Virginia Perez and State Assemblywoman Amy Paulin will be challenged in November by Republican/Conservative Party Candidate Tom Roach.
Here are photos from the fundraiser:
State Assemblywoman Amy Paulin Makes Remarks
Mark Lewis, Judge Susan Capeci, Bill Alexander, Tim Idoni, Tony Scarpino, David Buchwald
Elaine Weir, Mark Lewis, George Latimer
Police Use Phone Alert System In An Effort To Locate Missing Man
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On July 11, police Scarsdale Police used “A Child is Missing Alert Program,” in an effort to locate a missing elderly man. The program generates telephone calls to local residents within 15 minutes after initiation.
Residents who live near Rugby Lane received a call that said, “This is an urgent message from the Scarsdale Police Department. We are searching for a missing elderly person in need of medical attention in your area. The person is an 81 year old black male with grey hair and brown eyes, approximately 6 feet 5 inches tall. He was last seen near 25 Rugby Lane in Scarsdale Tuesday, July 10th at 10pm. He may be traveling in a 2007 grey Honda fit with a New York State tag plate number DYA 4365. We need your help. Please check your yard complex and vehicle. If you have any information please call the Scarsdale Police Department at (914) 722 1200. That’s 914 722 1200. To view this message, please visit achildismissing.org. Thank you for your help.”
On Tuesday after a friend of the missing man called police saying that she had arranged to take the man to a doctor’s appointment at 3 pm but did not find him or his car at the house. She had last spoken to him on Monday morning and he said that he planned to go to the dump and Pet Goods on Central Avenue on Tuesday and he would be home in time to go for the appointment.
When she didn’t find him at home she was concerned as he suffers from dementia and other medical conditions.
Police checked the house and found at least six cats, several litter boxes and food stations set up throughout the house, but there was no sign of the missing man. As they were discussing the situation, the man turned up in a cab.
It turns out that the man left his home at 11 am Tuesday but got lost on the way to the dump. He went to Scarsdale Pastry Center for breakfast and again tried to locate the dump but ended up on the Hutchinson River Parkway where his car broke down. He walked around for a while and later found a cab to take him back to where he had left the car but found that it had already been towed. By the time he got back to the house he learned the car was at Vincent’s Garage and had a broken clutch.
Police confirmed the car was at Vincent’s Garage and recommended that the missing man obtain a cell phone.
