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Weekly email – June 26, 2019
June 26, 2019 by templesinai • Rabbi's Blog, Temple News •
Hello Temple Sinai!
It was another great week at Temple Sinai, with our campfire singalong, Salsa dancing lessons, the Sisterhood End of Year Dinner, and a really fun Friday night service. Thanks to everyone who helped make those events so much fun. This Friday night is the 50th Anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Riots, the event that got the modern LGBT rights movement started. Click the title to see more…
Parashat Beha’alotcha 2019 – Body and Soul
June 21, 2019 by templesinai • Rabbi's Blog, Sermons •
In our Torah Portion this week, there is lots of drama. Moses melts down and becomes a drama queen. Aaron and Miriam turn against Moses and God becomes a drama queen. But perhaps the greatest drama is the people’s obsession on getting some meat to eat.
Weekly email: June 19, 2019
June 19, 2019 by templesinai • Rabbi's Blog •
Hello Temple Sinai!
THANK YOU to the team that signed up to volunteer today at the Ronald McDonald
House, and to the Social Action Committee for all their work to get Sinai more actively in
the local community of service.
TWO SPECIAL EVENTS THIS WEEKEND:
Weekly Email – June 13, 2019
June 13, 2019 by templesinai • Rabbi's Blog •
Hello Temple Sinai!
Thank you to everyone who came out to our open house and Rock Shabbat, our the Shavu’ot evening of study (Tikun Leil Shavu’ot) with OZ, and to Shavu’ot Morning services. Your support and engagement is deeply appreciated. And thanks to OZ for organizing, hosting and for the delicious cheesecake oneg.
Sign up by tomorrow for our afternoon of service
Weekly Email – Shavu’ot 2019
June 5, 2019 by templesinai • Rabbi's Blog, Temple News •
I am so very grateful to Rabbi Jan Salzman for stepping in for Friday night at the last minute, and to Bruce Hicken, for covering Saturday morning’s prayers and Torah Study. It is so nice to have such support. We have a busy weekend coming up, with a barbeque/Rock Shabbat on Friday night, a joint-event with Ohavi Zedek on Saturday night, and Shavu’ot holiday services on Sunday morning.
Weekly Email – May 29, 2019
May 30, 2019 by templesinai • Rabbi's Blog, Temple News •
Hello Temple Sinai!
Congratulations to Diana Larrow on becoming bat mitzvah! She did a beautiful job on chanting her Torah and Haftarah, and she smartly connected the Torah portion to events in her school. Mazal Tov! This week, we return to our “regular” services, though we seem to have them quite irregularly lately. Next weekend, we have a big Rock Shabbat, Barbeque and Open house, and Shavuot events on Saturday night and Sunday morning. Please try tocome to one of our Shavuot events and bring a friend.
Weekly Email – May 22, 2019
May 23, 2019 by templesinai • Rabbi's Blog •
Hello Temple Sinai!I am excited to celebrate Diana Larrow becoming bat mitzvah this Shabbat. Diana has the same Torah Porti n I did, Behar, so it has been particularly a pleasure for me to work with her. Please join us on Saturday morning at 10:00am, or on Friday evening at 6:30pm to be part of this important community milestone.Thanks to everyone who helped out with and showed up for Shabbat Goes to Broadway. I hope it is the first of an annual event, one we can change and build on from year to year, so start thinking now. (and please someone learn how to make “follow the bouncing ball” or karaoke style lyrics. We need you.) On a more serious note…
Weekly Email – May 15, 2019
May 15, 2019 by templesinai • Rabbi's Blog, Temple News •
Hello Temple Sinai!
A big MAZAL TOV to Grace Stein on doing such a great job at her bat mitzvah!
We have our SHABBAT GOES TO BROADWAY SHABBAT this Friday night! It’s a fun night to come and bring your friends! We’ll be singing the prayers to Broadway show tunes that we can sing along with. Don’t miss it.
Yom HaAtzma’ut 5779
May 10, 2019 by templesinai • Rabbi's Blog, Sermons •
May 10 2019: One of my earliest memories of Israel is really much more a memory of my father than of Israel. My father was definitely not a Zionist in his younger days. He was an assimilationist, who believed that Judaism was a religion, not a nationality, and felt our priority should be to blend into American society. My mother was a Zionist who would never forgive my father for proposing to her shortly before she planned to go to Israel as a nurse in 1948…
Parashat Sh’lach L’cha 2019 – Stonewall Shabbat
June 29, 2019 by templesinai • Rabbi's Blog, Sermons •
A MIGHTY REAL DIFFERENT SPIRIT – So I was driving home from work a couple of weeks ago, and I had listened to all my Torah study podcasts, and I had listened to the Daily and Hidden Brain, and so I pulled over to look for something and noticed there was a new season of Making Gay History, and excellent podcast series featuring interviews with a wide variety of people who were pivotal in some aspect of the LGBT rights movement.
This season is all about the Stonewall Riots, so I thought, “perfect,” clicked, started listening and kept driving. By the time I got to Starksboro…