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Rabbi Returns to Nigeria for 3-Week Mission

Accompanied by four tons of Jewish prayer books and texts on Jewish history and culture, Rabbi Howard Gorin is making a return visit to Nigeria to meet with Jews living in various parts of the west African nation.

...(Posted Feb 13, 2006) [Click to read story]

Rabbi Reports on 1st-Week Progress on Nigerian Mission

On Sunday, my "entourage" -- various elders, future leaders and Jeff Lieberman, from Los Angeles, who is filming the visit -- paid a courtesy call on the Governor of Kaduna State.

...(Posted Feb 15, 2006) [Click to read story]

Saturday night at the movies at TI!

The Tikvat Israel Adult Education Committee is pleased to announce that the discussion moderator for the upcoming Israeli Film Festival will be Aviva Kempner.

...(Posted Feb 18, 2006) [Click to read story]

With Spring Ahead, TI Softball Team Revives

Tikvat Israel is looking for a few good men - softball players, that is.

...(Posted Feb 22, 2006) [Click to read story]

Words Will Fly at TI Talk Fest

Two former TI presidents -- Harold Diamond and Clifford Fishman -- will square off against each other and at least five others in a public speaking contest on March 5 in the synagogue's sanctuary.

...(Posted Feb 20, 2006) [Click to read story]

Rabbi Reports on Return From Nigerian Mission

The British colony of Nigerian was divided into three administrative regions. The administrative center of the North was in Kaduna, about which I wrote last week. That of the West was in Ibadan....

...(Posted Feb 23, 2006) [Click to read story]

Scholar's Weekend Centers on Jewish Fighting Forces

Edward N. Luttwak, senior fellow for preventive diplomacy withthe Center for Strategic and International Studies, will be the featuredpresenter during the 2006 Jack Rosen Memorial Scholar's Weekend on March 10-11 at Tikvat Israel.

...(Posted Feb 13, 2006) [Click to read story]

TI Hoopsters Hit Tall Timbers, Drop 5th

Tikvat Israel's men's basketball team ran into a team with a pair of players 6-foot-6 or taller and fell to the unbeaten B'nai Shalom Purple 104-60.

...(Posted Feb 13, 2006) [Click to read story]

Mitzvah Heroes -- Thanks To All!

Danny Siegel, who has done more than anyone could possibly have conceived in teaching the value of tzedakah, talks about mitzvah heroes, people who go "me-al u'me-ever" - above and beyond - what could be expected of any one individual. (ADDED FEATURE - there are two WTOP interviews with Rabbi Gorin that you can listen to on this page!)

...(Posted Feb 10, 2006) [Click to read story]

TI Trio Off to Israel for Educators Institute

Three Tikvat Israel congregants will spend 10 days in Israel participating in a professional educators' institute.

...(Posted Feb 7, 2006) [Click to read story]

TI Falls to Shaare Torah in Basketball

TI's men's basketball team dropped its fourth game in as many starts this winter, falling to undefeated ShaareTorah 79- 51 in the Montgomery County synagogue basketball league.

...(Posted Feb 3, 2006) [Click to read story]

TI Hoopsters Stay in Cellar Despite Best Effort

After getting a week off because of a snow cancellation, the Tikvat Israel men's basketball squad returned to action on Feb. 19 and put together its best effort of the season.

...(Posted Feb 2, 2006) [Click to read story]