Friday, April 26

6:30 pm Green Shabbat Service & Oneg

Join the Green Team at Shabbat services in celebration of Earth Day with guest speaker Elana Goldstein, Region Three Director of the Sustainable Food Project of the Environmental Protection Agency. Join us to learn about Temple Sinai’s Climate Action Plan, the importance of the introduction of composting at Temple Sinai to the global climate crisis, and ways you can help.

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Virtual Details

Confirmation Shabbat Service

Friday, May 3 at 6:30 pm

Join us next week for a special Shabbat service as we celebrate our 10th grade confirmands’ learning at Temple Sinai. The service will be followed by an oneg.

Seventh Day Festival Service with Yizkor Memorial Prayers

Monday, April 29 at 10:00 am

Join us as we gather with Temple Emanuel and Temple Shalom to celebrate the seventh day of Passover at Temple Emanuel (10101 Connecticut Ave, Kensington MD).

Join via Zoom (hosted by Temple Emanuel)

NOTE: Temple Sinai will be closed for the day.

From the Archives

Why Temple Sinai Nursery School is Still So Important to Me

This week's Sinai Story was originally published in November 2014. In it Nancy Golding reflects on the profound attachments that she and her children, and many other parents and children, have experienced and maintained for many years beyond the original connections that they made through enrollment in TSNS. The Nursery School provides far more than education for children -- often lifelong attachments for the entire family--to other families, to the Nursery School and to Temple Sinai.

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Share Your Story

If you might like to share a statement of personal meaning please contact Marcie Solomon to discuss. For reference, most of the archived stories dating back to 2013 can be found here.

TSWRJ Hike

Sunday, May 5 at 9:00 am

Meet the WRJ for a hike at the Rock Creek Park Nature Center parking lot, next to the water fountain. No RSVPs necessary. Questions? Contact Liz Brenner.

Erev Yom HaShoah Trip to US Holocaust Museum

Sunday, May 5 at 1:45 pm

Join Cantor Rhodes and Rabbi Roos for group visit to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum with a short memorial ceremony afterward in the Hall of Remembrance. Space is limited.

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Daytimers

Monday, May 6 at 1:00 pm

Join us for Inseparable: The Hess Twins' Holocaust Journey through Bergen-Belsen to America with Holocaust survivor Marion Ein Lewin. This month's program is hybrid. Join us in person at Temple Sinai or via Zoom.

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Rabbi's Class

Tuesday, May 7 at 10:00 am

Join us in person or virtually as we study Chasidic teachings, especially as applied today outside Orthodox circles in what is commonly called “Neo-Chasidism.” This class is taught by Rabbi Jonathan Roos and meets on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month through Spring 2024.

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From the TS Library: Stop Food Waste Day

The Green Shalom Guide: A How-To Manual for Greening Local Jewish Synagogues, Schools, and Offices edited by Naomi Friedman and De Fischler Herman (1995)

This book is a nuts-and-bolts guide to implementing conservation measures in Jewish buildings, highly appropriate as Temple Sinai begins composting in May.

Finding God in the Garden: Backyard Reflections on Life, Love, and Compost by Rabbi Balfour Brickner (2002)

Rabbi Brickner considers the lessons to be learned from the tasks of caring for the land, the wonder of a garden in full bloom, and the connections between Biblical teachings and botanical life.

Sam and Charlie (and Sam too) Help Save the Earth by Leslie Kimmelman, illus. by Jo Anne Davies (2021)

These best friends are ready to do some really important work: planting trees and doing other things to help save the earth. Ages 4-8

To borrow these or other books email the librarian. To access the catalogue and see library news, visit our homepage.

This Week at TSRS

Upcoming Dates

• Sun. 4/28 at 2:30 pm: Get ready for the Sinai House 5K at our festive flower costume making party! RSVP
• Mon. 5/6 at 10:00 am: Member Registration for the 2024-2025 school year opens! Check out our program offerings here.

Sinaites Volunteer Opportunity

Saturday, April 27, 1:00-2:30 pm

Teens in grades 8-12 are invited to join Sinaites for an afternoon of volunteering with Comfort Cases, an organization that packs backpacks with comfort and personal care items for kids going into the foster care system. We will be volunteering at 9300 Gaither Road in Gaithersburg, MD. We hope to see you there! Email Maya Tarnoff with any questions.

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Tot Shabbat Playdate

Saturday, May 4 at 9:30 am

We’ll gather together to celebrate Shabbat, play, and enjoy some challah and juice too.

No RSVP necessary; we’ll be on the playground or inside if the weather doesn’t cooperate. Best for children ages 0-5 and their families.

Virtual WIN Budget Teach-In on Housing/Homelessness

Thursday, April 25 at 12:00 pm

It's budget season in DC and the Mayor is proposing significant cuts in programs that serve people who are either on the edge of or currently experiencing homelessness. Join the Washington Interfaith Network to learn about what's at stake and how you can act to change budget priorities.

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Become a Composting Champion at Sinai!

Sunday, April 28 at 7:00 pm

As part of our commitment to climate action, Temple Sinai is launching a composting program. Learn how composting reduces food waste and carbon emissions and ask an expert from Compost Crew all your composting questions at a virtual training session organized by the Green Team. Please register for the Zoom here. If you can’t attend live, email us to request a recording link.

Help ensure the ongoing success of composting at Sinai! Please consider making a contribution to the Green Team Fund to support this effort by giving online here.

Advocating for Abortion: Language & Myth Busting

Wednesday, May 8 at 7:30 pm

Language is important. Dr. Sara Imershein, doctor, educator and advocate, will lead this discussion. We will learn the tested language to best frame abortion conversations for effective advocacy, how to respond to abortion misinformation with education and evidence-based facts. We will also explore why there are no such things as functional abortion “exceptions” and understand the dangers of setting arbitrary gestational limits. Refreshments will be served starting at 7:00 pm. We hope you will be able to join us in person though a virtual option is also available.

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CIESJ Recommends

The Committee for Israel Engagement and Social Justice continues to compile materials meant to provide a range of thoughtful opinion and analysis pieces that supplement the basic factual reporting that people follow in their regular media intake.

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Tricia Davis 5K

Sunday, May 12

Sign up before the registration price increases on May 1!

Not a runner or a walker? Sign up to Volunteer!

This year's race will feature:

• Warm-ups led by James Parker-Ashley of HiddenGyms begin at 7:45 am
• Flower Power One-Mile Fun Run starting at 9 am (No hills)
• Virtual Race to participate at a time and place of your choosing
• T-shirt for all in-person and virtual participants.

Questions? Email SinaiHouseTriciaDavis5K@gmail.com

In the Community

Friendship Place Walk to End Homelessness

Saturday, April 27 at 9:30 am

Temple Sinai is one of Friendship Place's partners, and this is a great way to help our unhoused neighbors and show our support for Friendship Place. There will be fun activities for the whole family!

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Cleveland Park Library: The Story of Reno City and Fort Reno

Thursday, April 25 at 6:30 pm

Jackson-Reed H.S. Students share their research into the history of Fort Reno from the Civil War era forward, including the story of Reno City, a Black community dismantled to make way for Alice Deal Middle School, in an effort to better understand how our community has evolved. Register here. This event is one of many connected to Undesign The Redline DC. Temple Sinai and the Davis Center are co-sponsors of this project.

31st Federal Interagency Holocaust Remembrance Program (Livestream)

Wednesday, May 8 at 11:30 am

Stories of Courage featuring Holocaust survivors Ruth Cohen and Allan Hall. Moderated by Ellen Germain, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, US Department of State.

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