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Brotherhood Upcoming Events

2025-26 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Brotherhood has amazing events planned for the 2025-26 calendar year.  Make sure to mark your calendars and attend as many as you can!  And...if you have any ideas, please reach out to Peter Szendro or Matt Copel, Brotherhood Co-Presidents. You can also download and print the calendar.

Brotherhood Lectures

Sunday Breakfast Speaker Series
Len Simon oversees our Breakfast Lecture Series.  If you haven't been to one yet, you just don't know how good bagels, lox and eggs can be. (Hint: They're the best!). Not only is the food great but our guest speakers bring a unique social perspective on a variety of topics...and cooking with the guys in the kitchen is a blast.
  • SUNDAY, MARCH 22 @ 10:00 AM, Our Westchester County Legislator Emiljana Ulaj will be Brotherhood's featured speaker.  Emiljana will present her own unique immigration story and describe how she has successfully navigated public service and American politics to developing into a very successful local legislator.  Please register here for what will surely be an uplifting, morning.
Weekday Evening Lecture Series
  • THURSDAY, MARCH 12 @ 7:30 PM, Rabbi Polish.  Being A Jew In Challenging Times.  

    Thinking about the shooting in Australia and the many acts of evil against our people, what can we, as Jews, do to combat antisemitism?  Although we may be a "light to the nations", the world doesn't seem to appreciate our "light".We were promised to be "as numerous as the stars" but were we destined to also be the target of hate?  Come and hear the thoughts of Rabbi Polish and perhaps you'll come away with how you can act against the current wave of hate.

  • THURSDAY, MAY 28 @ 7:30 PM, Temple Israel member and Board Member of the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center of White Plains, Ziporah Janowski.  A Personal Holocaust Story--She will speak on her experiences as a daughter of two holocaust survivors.

OUR WEEKDAY EVENING LECTURES ARE free and open to everyone; so bring a colleague, friend, or partner.

OTHER EVENTS BROUgHT TO YOU BY BROTHERHOOD

Classic Movie Nights Co-sponsored with Sisterhood
Len Simon serves as our resident cinephile.  He researches appropriate movies with a major or minor association to Jewish themes and/or Jewish actors and movie makers.  And, Len provides extensive notes on the background and making of that particular movie.  For those who love going to the movies, this is always a wonderful evening.
  • SATURDAY, MARCH 14 @ 7:00 PM.  Come join Brotherhood & Sisterhood for the classic film Mr. Smith Goes To Washington.  “Mr. Smith” is the story of what happens when a well-meaning scout leader is appointed to the U.S. Senate to fill a vacancy, is expected to fall in line with the political machine pushing a big project, but decides instead to take on the machine, the project and much of Washington all at the same time.  Even if you've seen it before, please join us and enjoy the expert commentary from our movie expert Len Simon and enjoy some snacks and an adult beverage.  Please register here in advance.
Unique Annual Brotherhood Events
  • Offsite Retreat: SUNDAY, JUNE 7 @ 9:00 AM.  Location TBD
  • Summer BBQ @ Senasqua Park: Summer, 2026.  Stay tuned for the date!
  • Steak, Scotch & Cigars Night: Fall, 2026, Stay tuned for the date!
Brotherhood Book Club
Three or four times per year, Jim Rice guides us through a new book.  He moderates stimulating discussions of the most recent read helping to guide us to insights one can only arrive at through group discussions.  For more information and to join the Brotherhood Book Club please email Jim, our Chairperson.
  • TUESDAY, MARCH 17 @ 7:30 PM
  • TUESDAY, JUNE 9 @ 7:30 PM
Brotherhood Midnight Runs
Temple Israel Brotherhood, led by Andrew Bieber, typically organizes two Midnight Runs per year, each on a Saturday night, from the late Fall through the early Spring. Our Midnight Runs bring clothing and provisions to the homeless in Manhattan at night. Students from the Temple Israel Center for Jewish Learning often participate in Midnight Runs as part of their Bar/Bat Mitzvah Service Projects, or for their academic school service hours. For more information, to sign up and/or to coordinate clothing donations, please email Andrew, our Chairperson.
  • SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28 (Set-up @ 1:00 PM & Caravan Departs @ 8:30 PM). Stay tuned for registration information.
Jewish Ritual Holiday Events with Brotherhood Participation
  • Brotherhood Passover Wine Sale: Launches MARCH 10 thru the end of Passover
  • Yom Hashoah Candle Lighting: MONDAY, APRIL 13 @ 6:30 PM
  • Brotherhood Worship Service: FRIDAY, MAY 15 @ 7:00 PM

Monthly meetings IN-PERSON

All men of Temple Israel are encouraged and welcome to come. A light supper (or breakfast) will be provided gratis, while we coordinate logistics for our busy year of scheduled activities. All ideas for new activities are welcome along with volunteers for existing scheduled events.
  • SUNDAY, MARCH 15 @ 9:15 AM
  • WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15 @ 7:30 PM
  • WEDNESDAY, MAY 13 @ 7:30 PM
  • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10 @ 7:30 PM
See the Annual Brotherhood Events Calendar here

Past 2025-26 events

While you wait for our 2026-27 calendar, you can browse through the amazing array of events from 2025-26 below
  • High Holy Day Support: Parking and Ushering.  Every year Brotherhood fulfills a vital function for Temple Israel overseeing parking and greeting our attendees, making our congregation feel welcomed and safe.
  • Sukkah Build: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5 @ 9:00 AM.  This is a wonderful camaraderie building project which culminates with Brotherhood staging a Center for Jewish Learning BBQ for the students and their parents.
  • Brotherhood Sukkah Take Down: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 @ 10:00 AM.  Please join the Brotherhood for a bagel and a shmear as we take down and store the Sukkah for next year.  It won't take long especially with many hands contributing.
  • Defensive Driving Course: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28 @ 6:30 PM and TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4 @ 6:30 PM. Those who have not taken the class since 2022 should register again to maintain their discounts/reductions. For many years Warren Landesberg has coordinated this in-demand class.  Learn how to be a safer driver and get 10% off the collision portion of your insurance bill.  For questions about this valuable program, please email Warren, our Chairperson.
  • Brotherhood Breakfast featuring Tom Rogers: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2025 @ 10:00 AM. Brotherhood kicks off the new season of Breakfast Lectures with trailblazer Tom Rogers, former Television Executive who during his 40-year career was President of NBC Cable, an Emmy Award Winner and a member of the Broadcast Hall of Fame.  As President of NBC Cable he created MSNBC and CNBC. 
  • Brotherhood/Sisterhood Movie Night: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15 @ 7:00 PM.  A Face in the Crowd.
  • Holiday Dinner Party:  Wednesday, December 3 @ 7:30 PM.  Open to all the men of Temple Israel.  Join us at Taormina Restaurant in Peekskill for a celebratory holiday dinner.  You don't have to be a Brotherhood member to attend.
  • Brotherhood Lecture: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11 @ 7:30 PM, Cantor Hayley & Oren Neiman.  Song Explorer--the story of the development of one song...how the song was written...and the historical context that inspired it's creation.
  • Brotherhood Midnight Run: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13 (Set-up @ 1:00 PM & Caravan Departs @ 8:30 PM).  Bring your donations to templ
  • Hanukkah Latke Prep with CJL Students: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17 @ 3:45 PM and SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21 @ 9:30 AM
  • Brotherhood Breakfast featuring James Kaplan: SUNDAY, JANUARY 11, @ 10:00 AM, James Kaplan acclaimed biographer will share his writing life story with us.  Mr. Kaplan co-wrote John McEnroe's autobiography.  He has also written biographies of Jerry Lewis, Frank Sinatra, Irving Berlin, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans.  He even wrote a magazine piece on Larry David. 
  • Brotherhood/Sisterhood Movie Night: SATURDAY, JANUARY 17 @ 7:00 PM.  Seven Days In May.  A political thriller about a secret planned takeover of the US government in reaction to the president's negotiation of a disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union.
  • Comedy Night: SATURDAY, JANUARY 31 @ 7:00 PM.  Brotherhood Comedy Night is our Annual Fundraiser.  This hysterical, not-to-be-missed charitable event enables Brotherhood to support Temple Israel along with multiple local not-for-profit organizations.
  • Annual Super Bowl Party: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8 @ 5:30 PM
See the Annual Brotherhood Events Calendar here
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