Time for hugs, stories, and reconnecting with family. Want to make basic Shabbat rituals a regular part of your family’s life? Celebrate with us at Temple Sinai and on your own. With these resources, it’s easy.

Our transition from the special time of Shabbat back to our workday/school day routines. A short, beautiful ceremony. Celebrate with us at Temple Sinai and on your own! With these resources, Temple Sinai makes it easy.

Rosh Hashanah—the Jewish new year. A time to reflect on the past year and on what we’d like to do better this year.

Yom Kippur—the Day of Atonement, the day for reflecting on the past year, seeing what you’d like to do better, and for making atonement, saying I’m sorry. Celebrate with us at Temple Sinai and on your own.

Sukkot, the Festival of Booths, is a seven-day harvest festival that begins five days after Yom Kippur, on the 15th of the Hebrew month of Tishrei.

Who doesn’t love Chanukkah!?! The Festival of Lights! Spinning dreidels! Delicious latkes! Fun songs! Parties!

Celebrate with us at Temple Sinai and on your own.

Tu B’Shevat, the “New Year of the Trees,” is the birthday of the trees. Jewish Arbor day. Let’s sing happy birthday to the trees and have a Tu B’Shevat seder!

Who doesn’t love Purim!?! Costumes! Hamantaschen! Come see a Purimspiel (Purim play) performed with our own 10’ tall parade puppets.

Passover—Pesach in Hebrew—Let’s eat some matzah! Sing Dayenu! Find the afikomen! Gather with friends and family to have a seder and fulfill the mitzvah of telling, once again, of our exodus from Egpyt and slavery. Never led a seder before? Feel free to celebrate with us at Temple Sinai, at the adult or Young Families community seders, or celebrate at home. There are loads of resources online.

Yom Ha’Atzmaut, Israel Independence Day—Israeli 4th of July! The birthday of Israel! Sing Happy Birthday! Have a parade! Make Israeli flags! Dance outside!

Celebrate with us at Temple Sinai and on your own.

Lag B’Omer, a fun, festive holiday, falls on the 33rd day of counting the Omer, the 49-day period from the second night of Passover to the day before Shavuot. The Hebrew word lag is a combination of the Hebrew letters lamed, which has a numerical value of 30, and gimel, whose numerical value is three – giving the holiday its name.

Among La B’Omer’s many facets are agricultural aspirations, a release from mourning, a celebration of Torah learning, and mindfulness of religious suppression. There are lots of fun ways for young families to celebrate…

1. Have a picnic, have a cookout, make s’mores!

2. Go camping. If it’s too cold to camp outside, camp in the living room!

3. Come celebrate with us at Temple Sinai!

On Shavuot, we celebrate the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai and the beginning of the wheat harvest in Israel. There are lots of fun ways to celebrate—telling stories, tasting first fruits, singing, dancing, and celebrating our love of the Torah!