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7-8 Cheshvan 5779
October 16, 2018
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This Weekend

KABBALAT SHABBAT
~ 6:30pm
Join us for this start to Shabbat, and enjoy a time of socializing at our Oneg after the service.
 
SHABBAT
MORNING SERVICE
~ 9:30am
Join us for our Shabbat morning services every week from 9:30am - 10:30am. Our one-hour service is rooted in the traditional chanting of prayers, but includes English readings and song as well so that all can be included. (This service does not include a Torah service.) The service is a lovely, meditative, and peaceful way to start the day. Whether we have five or fifty, we'll be mixing traditional chanting with songs both old and new tunes to create a prayerful space for connection.
 
TORAH STUDY
~10:30am
Torah study with bagels/donuts and coffee will begin at 10:30am and go until 11:45ish. We'll look at both modern scholarship, traditional commentary, and considering how these ancient texts can help us explore our own spiritual lives, our values, and what it means to be human.
In This Issue
 
 




Clothing Drive

Winter is Coming and many school students in Winooski need warm winter clothing. We will be participating in a winter-clothing drive for their students in need, including many children from refugee and immigrant families. We are asking those in the Temple Sinai community to considering donating the following items: 
  • Warm coats / jackets, (new or gently used), seeking youth sizes 6-16
  • Packages of new cotton underwear and athletic-style socks for boys and girls, sizes 3T-5T (toddler) as well as youth sizes 6-16 or SM, MED, LG and XLG
Collection boxes are set up in the Social Hall. The deadline of Nov. 3. Please do your best to give! This is Tikkun Olam, making the world more fair and just, so let's put our donations where our Reform Jewish values are!We will soon have a big box set up in the social hall for these donations. Please do your best to give! This is Tikkun Olam, making the world more fair and just, so let's put our donations where our Reform Jewish values are!
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 New Year,
      New Rabbi,
           Looking for New Ideas

We are reforming our Continuing [formerly Adult] Education Committee and I'd love to hear from many voices across our Temple spectrum. We will be calling together a meeting in the next couple of weeks and would love to include you.



Please let Judy Alexander know if you are interested in being on the committee,
or if you have any ideas for courses you'd like to see.

Does This Interest You?

We have heard from several members that they would like to study for an Adult Bar/Bar Mitzvah. This is an excellent way to become more connected, confident, capable in your Jewish life, and who doesn't need a celebration in this difficult times. Rabbi Edleson and Judy would like to start a class for this after the High Holy Days, so if you are interested, please let Michael know! They are very excited to start working with you!

 
Jewish History Study Group
Wednesdays | 11:00am

Our Jewish History Study Group is currently reading the book, The Jewish Contribution to the Modern World. It  is details the the stories of extraordinary post-emancipation, Jewish participation in the shaping of 20th and 21st Century civilization. The book explores an impressive array of Jewish talent and creativity. Award-winning journalist, Joe King of Montreal, profiles some 250 brilliant Jews, spelling out the immense and disproportionate influence they have had on shaping the world in which we live.

Due to the expense of the book, copies have been purchased to share during the class sessions.  Please join in this time of study, discussion, and socializing.
Anniversaries & Birthdays
Join us in wishing them a wonderful day and many more!

 


 

October 18 ~ Kate & Eric Wolinsky 

October 20 ~ Nancy & Mark Levine
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 17 ~ Stacie Gabert

October 17 ~ Gary Keller


 
Birthdays Celebration
Oneg |  Friday, October 26

CALLING ALL
OCTOBER BIRTHDAYS!

Mark your calendars, and join us Friday, October 26, after the 6:30pm worship, for a special Oneg in honor of your birthday. 

No need to RSVP,
just come for some cake  and to CELEBRATE!
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Mission Statement
We are a diverse, egalitarian, and inclusive community of Jews and interfaith families.  We joyfully embrace Judaism as a way of life through prayer, music, social action, celebrating Jewish holidays, lifelong learning, and life cycle events.  Through these activities, we seek to promote spiritual growth, moral values, and the social welfare of our community.
 
Vision Statement
Temple Sinai strives to be a joyful, energetic, accepting, innovative, caring, and accessible faith community.  We choose to practice and teach Jewish traditions in our community, so that Jews and Judaism will continue to flourish, both in Vermont and in an ever-changing world.  We believe that support for a safe and prosperous State of Israel is an important part of our Jewish identity.