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Friday, April 20 | 6:30pm

Join us  Friday, April 20 at 6:30pm for a Community Shabbat Dinner, followed by a Youth Lead Traditional Service. 
 
This service begin at 7:30pm and will be co-led by our  7th Grade Religious School Class.


Follow the service, please join us for a special Oneg hosted by the Rabbinic Search Steering Committee in honor of all the wonderful and hard work done by the four Rabbinic Search Subcommittees (Survey & Assessment, Search, Contract, and Hospitality) during our successful Rabbinic Search process.

All are Welcome to
Dine, Worship, and Socialize
with Us!
In This Issue
Rabbinic Election Results

We are pleased to announce that during the Special Congregational Meeting held on Friday, April 6, the Congregational Members in attendance voted unanimously to elect Rabbi David Edleson to be the next Rabbi of Temple Sinai.

Rabbi Edleson will succeed Rabbi James S. Glazier, who is retiring, and become the third Rabbi in Temple Sinai's fifty-two year history.

Rabbi James S. Glazier will conclude 37 years of service to Temple Sinai on June 30, 2018.  Rabbi David  Edleson will begin his employment with Temple Sinai on July 1, 2018.
Friendly friends, fair play, and great food


Sisterhood Mah Jongg Marathon 2018

This past Sunday, April 15, Sisterhood held their annual Mah Jongg Marathon.

Sisterhood would like to extend a special thanks to Suzanne Grocki, Ginny Greenblott, and also to all the brave souls that came out.

Thanks to all who paricipated!
Judy Alexander  &
Bruce Chalmer

For this installment of our blog, "Getting to Know You," we learn about our Director of Congregational Education and her husband. Click their photo to read about them.

In an effort to learn more about one another, we started this blog several years ago.  This and all of our past interviews are available to read on our website at www.templesinaivt.org--Just go to the Community Tab at the top of the page and click on "Getting to Know You."

If you are interested in being interviewed for this blog, please contact  Jan Orlansky .
Saturday Mornings | 9:00am

Torah Study will meet
this Shabbat

Please join us for this
time of study and discussion
Adult Education Offering
Next Class will be on April 22 | 10:00am

These video sessions originate from the Hartman Institute and are facilitated on site by Bruce Hicken.
 
This course is made possible by a generous grant from the URJ and ARZA and is being offered for free to Temple Sinai members and non-members.  Source readings will be provided for free in PDF format.

Donations are gladly accepted. All participants do need to sign up in advance, even if you cannot attend all classes.  

??? Questions ??? Please email  iEngage@templesinaivt.org
Jewish History Group
Wednesdays at 11:00am

Temple Sinai's Wednesday Morning Jewish History Group is currently reading, Bad Rabbi, by Eddy Portnoy.

Book is available at Amazon (click the image above to order), on Kindle or Nook, or Barnes & Noble will order it for you. Class meets every week on Wednesday from 11:00am-12:00pm at Temple Sinai. 

For a fun read into stories of our past, please join us when you can. If you don't have a book, not to worry, you can listen too.
Running Short on Mitzvot?

Providing an Oneg is performing a Mitzvah for our community.   It can also be a way to remember a loved one, celebrate a family event,  or share good news with the congregation.

Consider hosting to commemorate yahrzeits, birthdays, anniversaries,  engagements, awards, graduations, B'nai Mitzvah, and other happy occasions.  Slots are available through the end of this year and all of next.  Sign up today by clicking the image above.
Anniversaries & Birthdays
Join us in wishing them a wonderful day and many more!

 


 

April 21 ~ Lynne & Ed Leib

April 21 ~ Betty & Paul Mayer

April 24 ~ Patty & Steve Greenfield

 

 

 


 

April 18 ~ Audrey Chafetz

April 18 ~ Reid Kamhi

April 18 ~ Deborah Leopold

April 18 ~ Andy Orringer

April 18~ Evan Stein

April 19 ~ Nancy Rondeau

April 20 ~ Dianne Israel

April 21 ~ Ann Mindell

April 23 ~ Felix Weissberger

April 24 ~ Judith Auderieth

April 24 ~ Jeffrey Benay

April 24 ~ Jay Pasackow

 

April & May Birthdays Celebration
Friday, May 18

CALLING ALL
APRIL & MAY BIRTHDAYS!

Please join us on Friday, May 18, for worship at 7:30pm, after which we will have a special Oneg in honor of your Birthday. 

No need to RSVP,
just come for some cake  and to CELEBRATE!
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Interested in Forming a
Dragon Boat Team?

Are you interested in having fun and supporting cancer survivors at the same time?  

Linda Retchin is forming a Dragon Boat Team, the Gefilte Fish, and needs your help.  She needs 22 paddles to form the team.  There is a fee of $75 per paddler, which goes to the cancer survivor fundraiser.

If you are interesting in joining the team, please contact Linda.

Click
Here to Email

Call 
802-373-5189

New Offering at Ohavi Zedek
Second Saturday of the Month | 10:30-11:30am


Movement and flow with Adam Bluestein.

Sliding scale, suggested donations, drop-ins welcome

Contact 802-864-0218 with questions.


Across the Abyss | April 22

Ohavi Zedek Synagogue is pleased to invite the Burlington community to join them on Sunday, April 22nd, at 2:00pm for a presentation by two esteemed scholars actively engaged in working for peace in the Middle East.

"Across the Abyss: How a Former Anti-Semite and a Former Jewish Extremist Are Changing the Muslim-Jewish Relationship"

Growing up in Turkey, Imam Abdullah Antepli saw Jews as evil and read the classic anti-Semitic work, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Growing up in Brooklyn, Yossi Klein Halevi was attracted to the militant politics of the Jewish far-right. Today, Abdullah heads Muslim Affairs at Duke University, while Yossi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute. Together they run a revolutionary program, the Muslim Leadership Initiative, that is changing the way Muslims and Jews understand and relate to each other.  
 
This event is free and open to the public.  Click HERE to open larger image.
Click the image for a calendar  of upcoming events.

UVM  Miller
Center for 
Holocaust Studies
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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.