Welcome to the East Midwood Jewish Center website. Our site contains information about our synagogue, from our rabbi's viewpoint to upcoming events, plus informative articles about Jewish holidays. Please feel free to browse, and come back often as our site is constantly updated. Peter Raubvogel, recent graduate of the Talmud Torah's Elementary Department, created an online version of Shelanu, their newsletter. You can access it from here.
Spring is definitely here.
This is evident, not only from looking at the calendar and observing Passover this month, but also from each day s gradually rising temperatures. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow described the advent of spring as the great annual miracle of the blossoming of Aaron s rod, repeated on myriads and myriads of branches. It makes no difference that you may have seen fifty or sixty springs. Each one is as new, every process as fresh, and the charm as fascinating as if this were the first spring you had ever witnessed. To be sure, the first day of spring is not necessarily synonymous with the first spring day.