Category: Temple News
Chaverim is back!
After too long a hiatus the Chaverim Committee (AKA-Caring Committee) is back in action with Deb Leopold and Amy Collins as co-chairs. They are excited to be heading up this very necessary committee for our Temple community. If you enjoy helping friends in times of need, please consider joining our “non-committee” committee–no regular meetings, just the warm, fuzzy feeling you get from helping others. Email us if you are interested.
We are working on a number of initiatives…
Rabbi’s Book Club – Letters To My Palestinian Neighbor
Two events introduce Rabbi’s new Book Club – Sefer v’Sefel*
*Sefer Ve Sefel – Book and a Mug (of coffee) is a beloved Old Jerusalem used book store and café.
Saturday, May 4 at 5:00pm, POSTPONED! Watch for more info. Meet at Temple Sinai for a discussion of Yossi Klein Halevi’s New York Times Best Seller, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor.
Then, on Sunday, May 12, we will gather at 7:30 pm to chat before joining a Facebook Live discussion with Yossi Klein HaLevi. I want to have an occasional book club with any who are interested and so I thought we could jump in on this first Zioness book club event. Zioness is an organization that works to make sure progressive activist circles, particularly those focused on women’s issues, remain open and welcoming to those who also identify as Zionists.
Yossi Klein HaLevi’s Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor has garnered praise and criticism for its attempt to find common ground between Israeli Jews and Palestinians. It is a great opportunity for our ongoing conversations about balancing Israeli and Palestinian needs and rights, and we will deepen our discussions by considering a range of reviews about the book. We will have 10 FREE copies of the book by Friday for the first ten people interested in joining our series of discussions of the book. If you are interested, please let Michael Levine know!
Weekly Email – April 24, 2019
Hello Temple Sinai!
Our community Seder was a blast! The room was beautiful and well over a hundred of us had a big time singing, reading and connecting. I hope it is a tradition that grows as we create new Sinai traditions, readings and songs.
A big shout-out to all those that helped make such a successful Community Seder…
Weekly email – April 17, 2019
Happy PASSOVER!
I hope the season brings you joy, connection, comfort foods, and a celebration of being free, and a sense of connection with all those who struggle for greater personal and communal freedom. To that end, please check out the Tikkun Olam Shabbat on April 23 (more below).
We had a great community weekend celebrating Emma Marden’s becoming bat mitzvah.
Weekly Email – March 20, 2019
Hello Temple Sinai!
We have a busy rich roster of events coming up in the next few months, including our Purim extravaganza, SHUSHAN RHAPSODY- THE MEGILLAH ACCORDING TO QUEEN, our COMMUNITY PASSOVER POTLUCK SEDER, Bat Mitzvahs, Rock Shabbat, and more! We will also be finishing our play-space for kids, putting in raised beds for our school/community gardens, creating our Broadway Singalong Kabbalat Shabbat, Holocaust Memorial Service, Yom Ha-atzma’ut Festivities, and that just next two months.
Three important announcements before I share the information for this coming weekend:
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Wednesday Book Group – New Book in June
June 10, 2019 by templesinai • Blog, Continuing Education, Temple News •
Wednesday Mornings, 11 am – 12 pm*
Topic: Israel History
Current Book: Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel – Matti Friedman
Award-winning writer Matti Friedman’s tale of Israel’s first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff—but it’s all true.
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