Sunday, 5/3/26 @ 7:00 pm – Intergroup Collaboration: Making a Difference in Childrens Lives & Beyond
Friday, 5/1/26 @ 7:00 pm – Shabbat Service
Friday, 5/1/26 @ 6:00 pm – Shabbat Dinner honoring Aviva Okrent
Our last Shabbat dinner for the school year! 😞 We honored Aviva for her hard work, dedication, and joy that she has brought to our Religious School.
Friday, 5/1/26 @ 5:00 pm – Tot Shabbat
Thursday, 4/30/26 @ 8:30 pm – A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: Jewish Name Changing in the 20th Century, Kirsten Fermaglich
Our images of name changing are frequently clichés: movie stars who adopted new names or Ellis Island officials who changed immigrants’ names. Kirsten Fermaglich upends these clichés by examining previously unexplored name change petitions. In twentieth-century New York City, thousands of ordinary Jews legally changed their names to respond to institutionalized antisemitism. While name changing allowed Jewish families to achieve middle-class status, the practice also became a source of family pain and community stigma.
Kirsten Fermaglich is Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Michigan State University. Her most recent book, A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America (NYU, 2018), was awarded the Saul Viener prize for the best book in American Jewish history in 2019. She is also the author of American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares (Brandeis University Press, 2006) and the co-editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (2013), with Lisa Fine. She was a National Archives Distinguished Fellow in 2022-2023. From 2016 through 2021, she was co-editor of the journal, American Jewish History, along with Daniel Soyer and Adam Mendelsohn.
Wednesday, 4/29/26 @ 11:00 am – Spruce Up Your Home For Spring
Join us as TBT’s own Jamie Egan, interior decorator, discusses fun ways to take on your spring design projects! She will be joined by artist Janice Barbieri of Tuned Up Treasures.
About our experts:
Janice is the owner and artist behind Tuned Up Treasures, a custom furniture refinishing studio based in Wayne, New Jersey. She specializes in transforming existing furniture into beautiful custom pieces using professional finishes, creative techniques, and designer-inspired color palettes. By collaborating with homeowners and designers, she helps give well-loved furniture a second life while creating unique pieces that perfectly complement their homes.
Jamie Egan, of Jamie Egan Decor, is a freelance design consultant in Wayne, New Jersey. With more than 25 years of professional experience in the business including stints at some of the most legendary trade fabric and furniture houses in the world, she assists her clients to create spaces that are both beautiful and meaningful reflections of their personalities. With a background in Textile Design from Syracuse University, she guides homeowners in selecting the right fabrics, colors, and finishes to bring their vision to life.
Thursday, 4/23/26 @ 8:30 pm – Jewish Kurdistan with Levi Meir Clancy
This session – part of the “Travel Series” – will explore the history of Jews in the Kurdistan Region through the lens of lived experience, personal stories, and cultural preservation. From ancient communities to modern erasure, we will trace how Jewish life in Kurdistan both shaped and was shaped by its surrounding cultures. The program blends historical context with firsthand insight, offering a grounded and human-centered view of a little-known chapter of global Jewish life.
Levi Meir Clancy is a writer, photographer, and educator based in the Bay Area, where he works in social services for a Jewish organization. He spent over seven years in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, working in demographic research, photojournalism, and interfaith engagement. His educational content and unique storytelling have been featured by TEDx, Aish.com, Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Qesher, Yad Mizrah, The Forward, and The J. Register here for the link!
Saturday, 4/18/26 @ 6:30 pm – MeshugaNotes
Founded in 1999, the MeshugaNotes were Ohio State’s first a cappella group and are the only Jewish a cappella group on campus. Affectionately known as the ‘Shugs,’ this energetic group has won over audiences around the region with its spirited performances. Their repertoire includes Israeli folk and popular songs, Yiddish tunes, OSU spirit songs, and English contemporary pop songs. During the school year, the Shugs make numerous appearances on OSU’s campus, throughout the greater Columbus area, and perform in cities across Ohio. Their famous “MeshugaNote Shabbat” concerts have made them a favorite on the Ohio State campus. The group has performed at the Jewish Collegiate Festival of the Performing Arts at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City and have released multiple albums.
Tuesday, 4/14/26 @ 2:00 pm – Book Club
Angela Buchdahl, the first Asian American to be ordained as a rabbi, has gone from outsider to officiant, from feeling estranged to feeling embraced – and she’s emerged with a deep convication that w are all bound to a larger whole and mission. Rabbi Buchdahl has written a book that is both memoir and spiritual guide for every day living, which is exactly what so many of us crave right now.
4/13/26 – Second Seder
3/1/26 thru 3/31/26 – Mega Food Drive
3/30/26 – Passover Make & Take
Make a matzah apple kugel that you can take home and bake in your oven.
3/26/26 – A Torah Scroll Through the Eyes of a Sofer
Rabbi Hale used our other scrolls to show participants what a sofer looks for when determining whether a scroll is kosher and identifying needed repairs. He will share details about the scroll he is using, such as its history. He made a few repairs during the session and provided participants an opportunity to fulfill the mitzvah of writing a scroll! See more pictures from this event.
3/26/26 – Stories from the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience
Join us as we explore the stories held in the galleries of the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience (MSJE). Spanning thirteen states and three hundred years, the MSJE’s core exhibition explores the diverse relationships, experiences, and environments encountered by Jewish communities in the American South. We’ll discuss artifacts and stories from early Jewish immigrants as they navigated southern spaces to find and build communities. Learn how southern Jews maintained their identity and became part of the fabric of southern society. The MSJE team will walk us through the galleries and have a conversation about this unique yet universal story.
Lizzi Meister, the Public Programs Manager at the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, will be our tour guide. She’s originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin where she went to Jewish summer camp in the north woods and developed a love for engaging programming. Her love for the South came during her time as a Community Engagement Fellow in Jackson, Mississippi. Before moving to New Orleans to work at the Museum, Lizzi lived in Seattle, getting her Masters in Museology and working with a Jewish co-op! She enjoys continuing to weave her love of museums, programming, and Jewish stories at the MSJE. Email us to get a recording of this event.
3/25/26 – Our Brno Scroll Through the Eyes of a Sofer
Rabbi Hale shared details about the scroll, e.g., approximate age, calligraphy style, damage caused during the Shoah, and the work he needed to do to make it kosher. He also made additional enhancements and provide participants an opportunity to fulfill the mitzvah of writing a scroll!
3/23/26 – March Book Club
This month’s book is The Trade Off by Samantha Green Woodruff. RSVP is required. Purchase your book at Amazon or Barnes & Noble, or reserve it at the Wayne Public Library.
3/19/26 – Jewish Justification of Diaspora Life
The majority of Jews have lived in exile from the time of the Babylonian Exile in the early sixth century BCE until the present day, and though exile has often been accompanied by difficulties, it has also provided Jews with peace in homes where they had the opportunity to flourish. By virtue of this reality, Jews have often defended and even lauded their diaspora experiences, in teachings and expressions that in recent generations have been too little recognized. In this session, Prof. Kraemer will introduce you to some of these teachings, asking what they may mean for the future of Jewish identity.
David Kraemer is Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian (Director of The Library) at The Jewish Theological Seminary, where he has also served as Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics for many years. As Librarian, Prof. Kraemer is at the helm of the most extensive collection of Judaica—rare and contemporary—in the Western hemisphere. On account of the size and importance of the collection, Prof. Kraemer is instrumental in setting policy and establishing vision for projects of international importance.
Prof. Kraemer is a prolific author and commentator. His books include The Mind of the Talmud (1990), Responses to Suffering in Classical Rabbinic Literature (1995), The Meanings of Death in Rabbinic Judaism (2000), and Jewish Eating and Identity Through the Ages (Routledge, 2007, 2009), among others. His most recent book is A History of the Talmud (Cambridge U. Press, 2019). His most recent book is Embracing Exile: The Case for Jewish Diaspora, (Oxford U. Press, 2025). Email us to get a recording of this event.
3/8/26 – Ed Randall Talks Baseball
Check out more pictures from this fun event. We got an early look at the 2026 season with Ed Randall, longtime New York radio and TV personality and published author. He is a regular contributor to the anthology shows on MLB Network. He also hosts the Sunday morning radio program Ed Randall’s Talking Baseball, which airs on New York’s WFAN-Radio and “Remember When” nationally on Sirius/XM Radio’s MLB Network Radio channel on Saturday mornings. He served as the post-game analyst on the commercial telecasts of the New York Yankees on WWOR-TV and is a host in MLB.com’s multimedia department.
Ed is also the Founder and Chief Advocacy Officer of Fans for the Cure, a 501(c)(3) organization he started in 2003 to promote prostate cancer awareness and focus on the importance of testing in achieving early detection and best outcomes.
Since the start of the charity’s annual Baseball Road Trip in 2007, Fans for the Cure has taken part in over 1,200 prostate cancer awareness days/nights at MLB and Minor League ballparks (and football stadiums and hockey arenas) throughout the country. In cooperation with the teams’ healthcare partners and the charity’s network of physicians and health professionals, Fans for the Cure has screened thousands of men as part of this initiative.
In addition to his work with Fans for the Cure, Ed is completing his forty-eighth season in baseball broadcasting. He currently hosts Remember When with former Red Sox manager, Kevin Kennedy, on SiriusXM Channel 89. The author of three books about baseball, Ed’s most recent release is Baseball for the Utterly Confused, published by McGraw-Hill.
A graduate of Fordham University in the Bronx, Ed is an inductee in the All Hallows High School Hall of Fame.
3/1/26 – Purim Shpiel
A costume parade with prizes, the Big Megillah (the scroll of Esther), the meal after the shpiel, and our annual Hamantaschen Bake Off . . . we had a blast celebrating the story from the Book of Esther – how Queen Esther and Mordecai saved the Jewish people from Haman’s plot to destroy them in Persia. See pictures from our Purim Sh1/16/26piel.
2/5/26 – American Jewish Soldiers & the Liberation of the Concentration Camps
1/16/26 – MLK Shabbat
This year, we were joined by The Dawn Treader Christian School Ensemble who shared their gift of song with us. Check out pictures from that our MLK Shabbat.
12/19/25 – Consecration & New Member Shabbat
Check out pictures of the Shabbat service where we welcomed the newest members of our congregation.