COVID-19 Updates

This page contains updates and information about the Coronavirus (COVID-19) and outline Temple Sinai’s latest responses, along with pertinent Internet resources. Communications from Temple Sinai leadership will appear below, most recent posts first.

Here are some of the resources we suggest that may be of interest to our members:

Centers for Disease Control Coronavirus “home page” – links to numerous CDC resources, including information for communities, businesses, and schools; populations at higher risk, situation updates, e.g. case statistics; frequently asked questions (FAQ); information for healthcare professionals, the latest CDC press materials, email/text updates subscription, and more.

Vermont Department of Health COVID-19 website

Central Conference of American Rabbis Responds to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Updates from Temple Sinai leadership

Delta Variant and Masking Update

August 5, 2021

Dear Temple Sinai Community I hope this message finds you well and enjoying this beautiful Vermont summer. As you know, the Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus is a growing concern, particularly in its ability to break through to people who are vaccinated, and for those who are vaccinated and asymptomatic to actually carry and […]

Onegs and our return to Temple

July 7, 2021

For our in person services on Fridays, so that everyone can feel safe and comfortable, we would like to continue to have individually bagged food for the Hamotzi and the Oneg, like the delicious “challah knots” and cookies that were served at our first in person service. Ideas for how this can work: Buy 2 […]

Temple Sinai Phased Reopening Plan

June 3, 2021

We appreciate your patience over the last few weeks as guidelines have been changing. Please note that the Reopening Plan is dependent upon information about vaccination rates, COVID-19 variants, and changes in infection rates as Vermont reopens, as well as guidance from the CDC and state and local government, and is subject to change. We […]

President’s Message – July 23, 2020

July 25, 2020

TO REOPEN OR NOT TO REOPEN — THAT IS THE QUESTION This is an agonizing issue—whether Temple should reopen our sanctuary and conduct in-person services and gatherings or whether we should continue to worship together virtually? I know that after almost 5-months, there is a strong sense of disappointment and, yes, suffering as the result […]

President’s Message regarding reopening

May 15, 2020

WE NEED A WORKING GROUP TO CONSIDER REOPENING

Good news! Springtime is in the air: the forsythia have come and gone, the tulips have bloomed in our gardens, and the leaves have begun to appear. Just as springtime seeps into our lives, the State is slowly readying to reopen businesses and events. It is more important now than ever that we collectively begin to look toward our future, and continue to figure out the best way for us to continue to be “Temple Sinai.” We have already taken one important step to return to being “open” as Rabbi has been conducting services from the Bimah even while he and several other technologysavvy members work to better bring services and other programming to you at your homes. Other typical activities for this time of year are taking place as well. We have two Bat Mitzvahs scheduled for June which we believe we can hold in a limited fashion so as to comply with State guidelines about social distancing and congregating in groups of ten or fewer persons.

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