North Country Reform Temple Ner Tamid strives to provide Long Island's North Shore with a center for Reform Jewish Values. Our temple supports and promotes a dynamic Jewish community from generation to generation through an inclusive and participatory approach to Worship, Study, Mitzvot, and Social Activities.
People of all backgrounds will find a home in our congregation. Some of our members come from traditionally observant homes, while others have lead a more secular lifestyle. Many of our most active members are Jews by choice and we welcome the participation of parents and partners who continue in their own faith as they raise a family in ours.
Those who have felt cut off from religious life for a variety of reasons have a found a spiritual home at NCRT. Our temple family reaches out to everyone - including you.
We invite you to browse our website to learn more About Us. Come discover the North Shore's Best Kept Secret. The Little Temple in the Woods.
Community Outreach
NCRT opens several of its services to the community. Come celebrate the holiday with us. Expose your children to our Jewish heritage - the High Holiday service, the songs, the stories, the shofar. Recconnect with your roots, or experience a new tradition.
Our temple family will welcome you at the following services which are open to the community.
HIGH HOLY DAYS The Ritual committee is busy preparing for the High Holidays. Tickets will be mailed to members in good standing in the next few weeks. Additional tickets may be purchased for $150 through the office. Family and Friends attending services at NCRT can have the ticket fee waived by providing proof of membership at any URJ affiliated Temple. Children's services do not require tickets and are open to the community. Our Yizkor Memorial Service concludes the High Holy Days obeservation and is followed by a Break Fast. Click here for a full High Holy Day Schedule.
·RELIGIOUS SCHOOL REGISTRATION Please register your children for Hebrew School. This will allow us to make the plans for the efficient running of the school. Send in your registration form as soon as possible or join us on August 26th for our Open House Registration event. Need the registration form? Click for page 1 and page 2.
NCRT Book Club
Monday September 27th at 10am
The NCRT Book Club will be discussing The Coffee Trader by David Liss, a story that takes place in Amsterdam, 1659. On the world’s first commodities exchange, fortunes are won and lost in an instant. Miguel Lienzo, a sharp-witted trader in the city’s close-knit community of Portuguese Jews, knows this only too well. Once among the city’s most envied merchants, Miguel has suddenly lost everything. Now, impoverished and humiliated, living in his younger brother’s canal-flooded basement, Miguel must find a way to restore his wealth and reputation.
Temple Family News is NCRT's bi-monthly newsletter.
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Calendar Highlight
Tashlich - Thursday Sept 9th, 3:30 PM
Dress casually for a lovely stroll with fellow congregants to the nearby beach. Bring bread to symbolically "cast away" your sins. Carriages welcome. No dogs please.
Tuesdays 12:00-1:30-Dessert, Coffee, and Tea Provided Lunch and Learn is on hiatus for the summer. Check back soon.
Judaism in the Home
Got Shabbat?
How do you celebrate Shabbat in your home? Share your Shabbat, email the office with your home traditions. Please put Share your Shabbat in the subject.
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Did You Know?
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