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Rabbi’s Weekly Email – July 9, 2020
July 9, 2020 by templesinai • Rabbi's Blog, Temple News •
Shalom Temple Sinai!
In the next weeks, I will be sending you more information about how we will be celebrating and honoring the High Holy Days this year. I will be sharing a range of resources – recordings, live Zoom services, videos, guided meditations, podcasts, discussions, nature walks and other modalities…
Also in this email:
– More on High Holiday events
– West Bank annexation learning session
– Tisha b’Av event
– Events calendar
Sermon – Time’s They Are a Changing – June 12, 2020
July 6, 2020 by David Punia • Rabbi's Blog, Sermons •
SHAKE OFF YOUR DUST – WAKE UP! When we talk about Lecha Dodi, the center of the Friday Night Kabbalat Shabbat, we usually talk about love, about greeting the bride, and about the peace of Shabbat when our divided selves come together. That is all true, but there is another aspect to the poetry of […]
Shabbat with Ellie Flier
July 2, 2020 by templesinai • Video of the Week •
On June 26, 2020 we were blessed to be joined by a rising star in the Reform Jewish Music scene, Ellie Flier. Here is a recording of that Shabbat. Learn and hear more at Ellie’s website!
Rabbi’s Weekly Email – July 1, 2020
July 2, 2020 by templesinai • Rabbi's Blog •
Shalom Temple Sinai!
My sincere thanks to ELLIE FLIER for leading a beautiful service for us last week. If you want to hear songs again, or didn’t get a chance to join us, you can view it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6b7nHvV6Ug
This Shabbat we will honor the 4th of July with a festive Kabbalat Shabbat. Rabbi Jan Salman and I are teaming up with Mark to sing freedom songs, a new original Lecha Dodi, and pray for the health of our nation. Please join us.
Judaism is a religion of community. We celebrate, sing, and eat together to honor our holidays. When we think of important Jewish moments in our lives, we almost always picture ourselves in a group. Many of us don’t put very much effort or energy into our private spiritual lives, or if we do we see that as somehow ‘other than’ Jewishness…
– more on exploring our spirituality –
Also in this week’s email:
– Upcoming events
– Personal growth through Mussar
– Upcoming courses
Rabbi’s Weekly Email – June 24, 2020
June 25, 2020 by templesinai • Rabbi's Blog •
Shalom Temple Sinai!
Mazel Tov to Alissa Kenwood for doing so beautifully at her bat mitzvah service. It is such an honor and gift to witness young people stepping up, finding their voice, and teaching us. Yashar Koach, Alissa.
This Friday night we are in for a treat. Ellie Flier, a singersongwriter from Nashville, and who grew up in the Reform camp movement, will be leading the Kabbalat Shabbat Service with me (she’s doing most of it!).
Also in this email:
– Netanyahu’s plan to annex West Bank lands and URJ response
– Upcoming events
Rabbi’s Weekly Email – June 17, 2020
June 18, 2020 by templesinai • Rabbi's Blog •
I am excited to celebrate ALISSA KENWOOD’s becoming Bat Mitzvah on Saturday morning at 10:00 am. Please join us to show your support! Thank you to the Haverim Committee on approaching 1,000 masks for front-line workers, and for arranging that the leftover produce of two local farm-shares go to the South Burlington Food Shelf. Those are Jewish values in action!
I also want to let you know that the Board and I have decided that we will not be opening for face-to-face services for at least another month.
Also in this email:
– More on reopening
– Supreme Court decision on LBGT protections
– Saturday racial freedom presentation – Rabbi Judith Schinder
– Social Action related links
– Upcoming events
Close to Home – In Honor of George Floyd
June 14, 2020 by templesinai • Temple News •
Last week, George Floyd, an African American man, was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer. An independent autopsy confirmed that Mr. Floyd died of “asphyxiation from sustained pressure.” According to reports, Mr. Floyd’s neck and back were compressed by a Minneapolis police officer for 8 minutes and 46 seconds while he was handcuffed and pleaded that he could not breathe stating this at least 16 times in less than 5 minutes until becoming unresponsive for the final 2:53. Three other officers, all of whom likely heard Mr. Floyd’s pleas, either actively participated or acted as lookout while Mr. Floyd was being killed.
I am outraged and fearful.
Rabbi’s Weekly Email – June 11, 2020
June 12, 2020 by templesinai • Rabbi's Blog •
Shalom Temple Sinai!
First, a few shout-outs!
– Mazel Tov to Anna Dauerman and the Dauerman family on her bat mitzvah! Like Nachshon, the first Israelite to walk into the sea before it parted, Anna was our Zoom pioneer. (Thanks also to David Punia, James Velastro and David Wright who spent hours setting up the cameras and technology.) Anna did job, and when it was over, her classmates had arranged a car parade to celebrate and throw candy at her!
Also in this email:
– Mazel Tov to Alexa Davis on becoming Bat Mitzvah
– Save the Date June 19: Juneteenth and Allissa Kenwood’s Bat Mitzvah
– PASSWORDS NOW REQUIRED FOR MOST ZOOM EVENTS
– Shabbat with Ellie Flier
– Pride Watch party
Jewish Book Group – New Book for June 2020!
June 10, 2020 by templesinai • Continuing Education •
We made it through China so now we’re going to head to the American West. We will be reading We Lived There Too: In Their Own Words and Pictures Pioneer Jews and the Westward Movement of America 1630-1930 by Kenneth Libo Back cover description: We lived There Too is a vivid portrayal of the Jewish […]
Sermon – Pinchas – What We Inherit – July 10, 2020
July 11, 2020 by templesinai • Rabbi's Blog, Sermons •
My parents were the type of parents who when they would get really made at us as adults, they would cut us out of the will. It was usually about who we were marrying, or some perceived insult that we weren’t even aware of. At different times, all three of us were out of the […]