About The Temple

     Temple Tifereth Israel of Winthrop is an unaffiliated Jewish congregation, whose services and practices nominally follow the Conservative tradition. We provide a welcoming and relaxed atmosphere for our congregants and visitors. The Congregation is committed to preserving Jewish values and traditions.
     The Temple is located just north of Boston and is adjacent to East Boston, Logan Airport, Revere, and Chelsea. Winthrop has a population of approximately 20,000, is largely residential and is a peninsula with the Atlantic Ocean to the East and Boston Harbor to the West.
     Public transportation provides convenient low cost access to Boston, while road access to Boston, points west and south is provided by 3 tunnels below Boston Harbor. Points north of Boston, including New Hampshire and Maine, are easily reached by highways adjacent to Winthrop.

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     Temple members, friends, family, town clergy and town officials came together on Sunday, 4 November 2007 at Temple Tifereth Israel to complete the restoration of three of the Temple’s Torah scrolls and to join in celebrating the rededication of the Torahs. The ceremony was led by Meyer Blumenthal, Rabbi Judi Ehrlich, Temple President Sandy Pellegrino and Torah scribe Jay Greenspan. The three Torahs were carried from the ark by Rabbis Katy Allen, Judi Ehrlich and Paul Levinson under a wedding chuppah borne aloft by Erma Levy, David Levy, Dana Stone, and Barry Yaffee. While being carried to tables in front of the stage in the main hall, just about everyone took part in singing and dancing with the Torahs, to the accompaniment of the Aviv Klezmer band. The Torah scrolls were then placed on three tables, with one Torah opened to Bereshit (the beginning of the 1st of 5 books of the Torah), one to Devorim (the end of the 5th of 5 books of the Torah), and the third to the Song of the Sea, in Exodus (the 2nd of 5 books of the Torah) which was sung by the Israelites beside the Red Sea after their miraculous salvation form Pharaoh’s pursuing army. Sofer Jay Greenspan then explained the Torah scribing process to the audience and followed this with the final scribing in the Torahs by the Hebrew School students and their teachers under his guidance. The formal portion of the ceremony was completed with the unrolling of one complete Torah scroll and then the procession to return the Torahs to Holy Ark. The day’s festivities concluded with generous helpings of refreshments and Klezmer music.