Join us  Friday, April 20 at 6:30pm for a Community Shabbat Dinner, followed by a Youth Lead Traditional Service. 

 

This service 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 and Worship and Socialize with Us!

Temple Sinai Friends,

I would like to thank those of you who reached out to me directly and through my husband, Michael, while I was at NYU for surgery. Your phone calls, emails, text messages, cards, and gifts of candy and flowers made a painful and difficult recovery a bit easier to bear. I would also like to thank those of you who offered to provide meals, transportation to medical appointments, and in home assistance once I returned to Vermont. Although it wasn't necessary for me to accept your offers, they meant a great deal to me. Although I still have several months of recovery ahead of me, my surgeon assures me I'm healing and progressing well. The pain and physical limitations I still have should resolve themselves in time.  

-- Aliyah Levine

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 .

 

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.

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.

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.

CALLING ALL

APRIL & MAY BIRTHDAYS!

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.