Also to be noted - there is no air conditioning in the St. Thomas synagogue... Just sayin'
From: Michael Lustig <michael.lus...@gmail.com>
To: Fire Island Minyan <Fire-Island-Minyan@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 1:36:16 AM
Subject: [FIM] Fire Island Minyan Mid-Winter Update
In the bizarre world of weather, snow fell on FI while we (or at least some of us) were still there [late October], while the rest of the winter has been both bereft of snow & quite mild. Go figure!?!
Happy Friday-the-13th; for those with paraskevidekatriaphobia, Friday was *not* your day! This year is a bit of a rarity, with three instances of that faux-ominous date.
Fire on Fire Island! The past few months have seen two maelstroms on the island, the first a large one in the Pines in November that took-out a number of landmark buildings:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/nyregion/blaze-destroys-pavilion-ga...
http://www.fireislandnews.info/home-mainmenu-1/1087-fire-island-pines...
and in true FI spirit, the rebuilding has begun!:
http://www.fireislandnews.info/home-mainmenu-1/1088-from-the-ashes-pi...
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/diller-scofidio-renfro-t...
. . . in other incendiary news, a fire recently took-out two houses in Ocean Beach:
http://local.nixle.com/alert/4764943/
Unfortunately, #258 & #260 Wilmot are no more, just three from the beach,
But the skill of the many firemen limited the fire's destructive reach!
Mazal Tov to Barry & Suzanne Rozenberg upon the birth of a (second) grandson (Pinchas Eliyahu) to Josh & Alyse (nee Neumark).
Avi Ganz will be running the Jerusalem Marathon on March 16th for "Team Darkaynu". If you'd like to donate to this worthy cause & support Avi, please check-out his webpage:
http://www.rootfunding.com/campaign/team-darkaynu-2012
R. Shaul Magid had an article published in "Religion Dispatches" magazine:
http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/atheologies/5548/the_hypocr...
Spotted at the Ramaz School Annual Dinner: Alice Silverstein exercising her vocal skills in the Choir, and Ben Houben (Ba'al Koreh of Summer '08, now with Smicha & the Associate Rabbi at the Young Israel of Pelham Parkway) helping-out with logistics.
Spotted in St. Thomas: Michelle & Mona, taking a tour of the second-oldest synagogue structure in the western hemisphere & wondering why our shul doesn't have sand-on-the-floor (might our relationship with the town of Seaview be analogized to that of the conversos with Spain?): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Thomas_Synagogue
Unfortunately conditions are generally poor for skiing across the country and vacations might not go as planned, but Fire Island is only ~four months away . . .
Enjoy!
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