Weekly Shabbat Musings from Rabbi Tzvi Alperowitz: Until the 18th century, one could argue that all Jews were Orthodox. One might have been more or less observant, but there was a consensus on what Judaism meant as a religion. Any individual might have been less practicing, or

Storm stopped just in time for our Shabbat Dinner with Peter Savodnik of The Free Press. Video taken before shabbos

Weekly Shabbat Musings from Rabbi Tzvi Alperowitz: It was a spring morning in 2021, on one of my first visits to Martha’s Vineyard, when I met for coffee with someone from our community. Sitting outside of Nat's Nook in Vineyard Haven, I shared with him that Hadassah and I were

Glimpse of our Shabbat Dinner with Henry Louis (Skip) Gates and Sallyann Sack who spoke about their work on tracing Ashkenazi Genealogy. Thanks to our sponsors Beth & Jay Nadel. Jewish life on MV is thriving! Thanks to Summer Pramer for the wonderful pictures (taken before

At the barbershop last year, Professor Gates ("Skip") graciously agreed to join our community and speak at a Shabbat dinner this summer. We closed the circle on Friday! Thank you Henry Louis Gates Jr! x.com/VineyardChabad…

Busy day with our new MV Mezuzah Project as thirty Island homes that did not yet have a Mezuzah get one for their front door. We still have a few more openings available. If your house doesn't have one, please send us a DM and we'll schedule a time to help you put one up!

Great review by Peter Savodnik on last night's conversation with Ambassador Ambassador Yechiel (Michael) Leiter, which brought out hundreds despite torrential rain. A huge honor for our community to hear the Ambassador, and a powerful evening that will forever be remembered on Martha's Vineyard.

Weekly Shabbat Musings from Rabbi Tzvi Alperowitz: On Wednesday night this week, hundreds of Islanders braved the pouring rain to hear from Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, at our third and final Critical Conversations event of the season. At a time

Weekly Shabbat Musings from Rabbi Tzvi Alperowitz: My little quaint English hometown was in the news for all the wrong reasons this week. Bournemouth, a beautiful town on the UK’s South Coast, where my parents and family still live, was home to a series of horrible antisemitic

Sukkot and Oct 7 Musings from Rabbi Tzvi Alperowitz: Tonight, we begin the holiday of Sukkot, the seven-day celebration when we remember the tumultuous journey the Jews took to the promised land, the land of Israel. Then, as today, the journey to the holy land was fraught with

Weekly Shabbat Musings from Rabbi Tzvi Alperowitz: You Are on Indigenous Land – Aquinnah Wopanaak Territory. I was picking up a coffee with a friend in West Tisbury’s 7a recently when I saw these words on a large poster, reminding me that we were standing on, and enjoying,

Weekly Shabbat Musings from Rabbi Tzvi Alperowitz: I am in NY this weekend for the annual Chabad conference, together with some 5000 Chabad rabbis from across the globe, who serve thousands of communities in over one hundred countries. We are here to learn from one another,

Weekly Shabbat Musings from Rabbi Tzvi Alperowitz: In attempting to navigate his perilous relationship with his brother Esau, this week's parsha gives us a remarkable window into how Jacob approached some of life’s greatest challenges and offers a critical guide for how we might

Martha’s Vineyard Chanukah Celebrations on Main St Edgartown 📷 Credit: Visit Martha's Vineyard

inkwell beach on martha's vineyard and bondi beach in sydney are thousands of miles away. but the earth's waters are all one and today's lighting at this ocean felt like a window into the extinguished flames at the other.

Weekly Shabbat Musings from Rabbi Tzvi Alperowitz: We were awoken Sunday morning by our son Mendel, who ran into our room proudly exclaiming, "it's winter!" as he excitedly pulled our attention to the beautiful layer of snow that blanketed the street outside. But the glowing

Beautiful photo from Summer Pramer of last night's Menorah Lighting at Owen Park Beach, where we gathered to light the final candle of the Menorah in loving memory of those ruthlessly taken from this world at a Chanukah Celebration last week in Sydney.

Weekly Shabbat Musings from Rabbi Tzvi Alperowitz: "My language is German. My culture, my attainments are German. I considered myself a German intellectually, until I noticed the growth of anti-Semitic prejudice in Germany and Austria. Since that time, I prefer to call myself a

Weekly Shabbat Musings from Rabbi Tzvi Alperowitz: I entered the Edgartown Courthouse this week with a pool of 30 prospective jurors, from whom a group of seven would be chosen to render a verdict on whether the defendant was guilty of crashing a boat into Chappaquiddick while

Shabbat and Purim Musings from Rabbi Tzvi Alperowitz: Nobody is advocating for Jew-hatred, and better would be a world without it. In the last year alone, it has brought death in Manchester, DC, Boulder, and Bondi. It has brought isolation in schools and on college campuses, and