Congregation Tifereth Israel

Louise Retz

I am part of the stitching Sisters quilt Club. They have their meeting once a week on Thursdays in the basement of the temple. I love working with the stitching Sisters quilt Club. They donate small lap quilts to cancer and other patients.

Ashley Nealleffler

Absolutely love Tifereth Israel. I have been attending shul here for well over a year and I feel so at home with the community and family at TI. Rabbi Skolnik and Rabbi Braver (as well as the congregants) are so warm and welcoming. I enjoy all of the different classes and events that they often have, as well. Definitely recommend!

Chris Gregory

I stopped in around noon on 12/4/19 and the elderly lady at the service desk was chatting it up on the phone, giggling and laughing with what sounded like her boyfriend.. I waited 5 minutes while she sat staring at me. So I asked her a quick question and she Barked at me like I had just killed her dog. Literally the most RUDE Woman. TOTALLY Unprofesional desk person!!

Bob Roehm

I have attended two interfaith events, so far, at Congregation Tifereth Israel. • 7-15-2016: Interfaith Association of Central Ohio [IACO] visit to Congregation Tifereth Israel. This event had been held on a Friday evening in a small chapel and had included liturgy and singing. • 10-27-2019: Voices of Life and Hope In Song, Peace and Friendship. This event had been sponsored by several central Ohio religious communities from the Abrahamic tradition [Jewish, Christian and Muslim] and had been in commemoration of the one-year anniversary of the shooting at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. When I had been arriving for the first of the two above events, I had been pleased to learn, from a sign on their entrance door, that Congregation Tifereth Israel fully welcomes LGBTQ people. Since I am not a Jewish man, I had never worn a yarmulke until my first visit to Congregation Tifereth Israel. The expectation at Congregation Tifereth Israel, as I understand it, is that all men, Jewish or not, will wear a yarmulke [or at least they will cover their heads] while they are present in the building. My yarmulke, that had been given to me by a person who had been sitting at a table in the lobby with a huge stack of yarmulkes, had been too small for me but, thankfully, never fell off. Congregation Tifereth Israel currently serves as a temporary location for the Columbus Karma Thegsum Chöling Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Center. That community's building [a former church] on the west side of Columbus had been destroyed by arson on January 27, 2016; Congregation Tifereth Israel has been offering to that temporarily-displaced community temporary meeting space in their building ever since.