Kick off the shackles of winter, book the babysitter, throw on a costume and your dancing shoes and join us on Saturday, March 10 for our Adults Only Purim party. Do Purim like they do it in Israel--any kind of costume will do! Come ready to dance, sing and act a little crazy. Our house rock band, Dahg, will help us rock out. Meg Cossaboom will teach us a couple of "grown up" dances and David Wright will have the karaoke machine warmed up and ready to go! So, let your hair down and come party with us!! Beer, wine, apps and snacks provided. If you wish, bring your own spirits.

TIME: 7-10:30 PM
WHERE: Temple Sinai Social Hall
SUGGESTED DONATION: $18/person to cover the food and to benefit Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf

So, come shake off those winter blues and have some fun and do a mitzvah at the same time. Please RSVP to Deb Leopold by March 7.  Also, if you're interested in helping out with this event, contact Deb.

DEADLINE TO SHARE INTEREST IS BY NEXT MONDAY, MARCH 12

For this installment of our blog, "Getting to Know You," we learn about two long standing members of our congregation, Linda Retchin and Jeff Solomon. 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 .

Temple Sinai's Wednesday Morning Jewish History Group is happy to announce its new book selection, Bad Rabbi, by Eddy Portnoy.

With true stories plucked from the pages of the Yiddish papers, Eddy Portnoy introduces us to the drunks, thieves, murderers, wrestlers, poets, and beauty queens whose misadventures were immortalized in print. There's the Polish rabbi blackmailed by an American widow, mass brawls at weddings and funerals, a psychic who specialized in locating missing husbands, and violent gangs of Jewish mothers on the prowl-in short, not quite the Jews you'd expect. One part Isaac Bashevis Singer, one part Jerry Springer, this irreverent, unvarnished, and frequently hilarious compendium of stories provides a window into an unknown Yiddish world that was.

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.

This innovative course explores the pivotal events of 1947 and 1967 - following the 1917 Balfour Declaration - as key moments when Zionism unleashed new thinking about the meaning of Jewishness for generations to come. The course engages Jews in an open and pluralistic discussion about issues of Jewish identity, peoplehood, ethics and theology as they relate to nationhood, land, sovereignty, Jerusalem, occupation, and moral red lines.

Course dates are: Feb. 4, 11, & 18, Mar. 11, 18 & 25, Apr.  8, and May 6 at 10:00 a.m. Additionally, there are three webinars led by Scholars from the URJ and Israel on March 1, April 12, and May 17, all Thursdays, all at noon.

 

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.  These readings are also available in a printed book, which you may order yourself from the Hartman Institute for $20.00.

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 MARCH BIRTHDAYS!