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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…
Machar – Naomi Shemer
May 8, 2019 by templesinai • Video of the Week •
Ha’Carmelim – live, France, 1967
Yerushalayim shel zahav – Jerusalem of Gold (Naomi Shemer)
May 8, 2019 by templesinai • Video of the Week •
Shuly Nathan live (France, 1968) Shuly Nathan, born March 16, 1947 in London) is an Israeli singer best known for singing “Jerusalem of Gold” (Yerushalayim Shel Zahav), written by Naomi Shemer. It was immensely popular shortly before the Six-Day War, and made her world-famous. It is still very popular in Israel and in Jewish communities […]
Weekly Email – May 8, 2019
May 8, 2019 by templesinai • Rabbi's Blog •
Hello Temple Sinai!
Congratulations and thank you to Judy Alexander for 20 years of leadership and teaching at Temple Sinai. We had a great evening honoring Judy and our teachers, and it was great seeing so many of you there!
I also want to thank all of you who came out for our Holocaust Remembrance Service with Ohavi Zedek and the wider community last Wednesday evening. It was meaningful and reassuring…
Weekly Email – May 1, 2019
May 1, 2019 by templesinai • Rabbi's Blog •
Hello Temple Sinai!
How are we supposed to feel after another synagogue shooting, this time at the Chabad Center in Poway, CA? Heartbroken or numb? Angry or afraid? All of the above? Last Saturday, we had a particularly lovely Passover morning service, and then a moving service for Adam Weinstein’s becoming bar mitzvah, so it was particularly wrenching to learn at the end of that day about the shooting…
Rabbi’s Book Club – Letters To My Palestinian Neighbor
April 26, 2019 by templesinai • Rabbi's Blog, Temple News •
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, […]
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.