Category: Temple News

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.

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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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Reform Movement Statement on Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Initiative to Bring the Racist Otzma Yehudit Party into the Government

URJ Press Release

February 26, 2019 – The Reform Movement strongly condemns the recent initiative of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to bring loyalists of racist Rabbi Meir Kahane into the Knesset. Those who espouse an ideology of hate, intolerance, and incite violence have no place in the Jewish State let alone in her government.

The encouragement and courting of the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party by the Prime Minister raises the most profound concerns, and stands in stark contrast to the promise of Israel’s Declaration of Independence that states:

“The state of Israel will promote the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; will be based on precepts of liberty, justice and peace taught by the Hebrew prophets; will uphold the full social and political equality of all its citizens without distinction of race, creed or sex…”

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Hello Temple Sinai!

Tim and I had an excellent vacation in southern Spain, but it is great to be back and I’m excited that Noam Wolf, a “shelicha”, or emissary from Israel to the UJA of New Hampshire is coming to Sinai this weekend. I had the pleasure of working with Noam at my previous congregation, and I have been wanting her to come do this “Israel 2048” poster exhibit and conversation since I heard outstanding feedback about it at my installation. Noam is also a jazz musician and singer, and it will be great to have her voice at our Shabbat services. There are links to some songs we are singing Friday night below.

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Hello Temple Sinai!

Congratulations to the Fourth and Fifth grade class for leading such a thoughtful, engaging service for us, and a special thanks to Shelli Goldsweig for being such a skilled and encouraging teacher. Her class was able to connect Jewish history to Jewish values in smart and relevant ways. Thank you!

I’ll be leading services this Friday Night, but then Tim and I are off for a vacation to Madrid to visit my niece and then southern Spain to visit Jewish Andalusia and the Alhambra. We are very excited but we will miss you while we are gone.

At the end of this email is a REPORT ABOUT A BILL IN THE VERMONT LEGISLATURE that we’ve been working on, so please read that.

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Hello Temple Sinai!

This past Friday night, it was exciting seeing so many new faces and returning faces joining our regulars for folk Shabbat. If you tell your friends about our warm, inclusive, fun community and invite them to services, we will grow and flourish. Word of mouth is one of the best things we can all do to make our temple what we hope it will be. This email has four parts:

1. This weekend’s Shabbat services,
2. Special upcoming services,
3. Adult B’nai Mitzvah
4. Report back about the Women’s March

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