October 1 - October 8 • Ha'azinu | |
Connect this Week
with Temple Sinai
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High Holy Days at Temple Sinai | |
Services Schedule
Kol Nidre Evening: Wednesday, October 1 at 7:00pm
Yom Kippur Day: Thursday, October 2
- Sanctuary Service: 9:30am-12:30pm with intermission
- Tot Service (ages 0-5 and family): 9:30am-10:30am
- Family Service (ages 6-12 and family): 11:00am-12:30pm
- Healing Service: 1:00pm
- Yom Kippur Forum Panel: 2:45pm
- Afternoon Service & Study of Torah Reading & Jonah: 4:00pm
- Yizkor (Memorial) Service: 5:15pm
- Ne’ilah Concluding Service: 6:15pm
- Sounding of the Shofar to conclude Yom Kippur: 7:00pm
Registration & Admission Cards
- If you did not receive admission cards in the mail, please collect them when you arrive for services at the main temple office on Sewall Ave. The ticketing will call window opens 1 hour prior to services.
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To request admission cards for yourself, friends, or family, click here to register for High Holy Days services.
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Due to space constraints, we require all members and non-members attending Tot and Family Services to fill out the registration form in advance.
Joining by Zoom
All Zoom links are available here on our website!
Food and Clothing Drive
For over 30 years, Temple Sinai has participated in the nationwide effort to collect food for those in need during the High Holy Days through our Annual Food Drive with Boston Medical Center’s Grow Clinic.
Donation can be dropped off when you come for High Holy Days services (greeters will direct you), or anytime by October 10.
Click here to make a donation to the Grow Clinic.
We are also collecting fall and winter clothing (for all ages) for IFSI (Immigrant Family Services Institute). Please drop off clothing donations at the temple office during normal office hours, or when you come for services. You can learn more about their mission here, or make a donation here.
Babysitting
We will be offering babysitting on Yom Kippur (8/2) from 10:15am-12:45pm in the 2nd floor classroom of the Religious School building.
Questions?
Visit our website for a list of frequently asked questions!
Or reach out to us at info@sinaibrookline.org
For questions about SinaiPromise, please email billing@sinaibrookline.org
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Erev Shabbat Services - Friday, October 3, 6:00pm
Please join us this week for Friday night Erev Shabbat services with Rabbi Andy Vogel.
Please join us! Click here to join us on Zoom.
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K'tonton
Sunday, October 5, 10:00am-12:00pm
at Temple Sinai in the Larkin Library
This fun, interactive Jewish drop-off program (free) for 3 & 4 year olds introduces young children to Jewish holidays and practices through arts & crafts, songs, stories and games. It’s a great way to introduce your child to the joy of Jewish learning!
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Dessert in the Sukkah!
Monday, October 6, 7:00-9:00pm
Rabbi Andy Vogel and Martha Hausman
invite the Temple Sinai community for
dessert in the sukkah in their backyard sukkah in Newton to celebrate the 1st night of Sukkot. For Temple Sinai members of all ages, please join us!
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Friends of Standing Together Boston
Thursday, October 9, 4:00-7:30pm
Park Street Station, Boston
All are welcome to join us in reading the names of children who have been killed in Gaza and Israel.
End the killing, grieve those lost, peace and justice for all!
Because starving and killing children is never justified.
Bring your heart--but no signs or flags please.
Co-sponsored by the Temple Sinai Israel Committee, and the Temple Sinai Israel Palestine Affinity Group.
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Simchat Torah Celebration!
Monday, October 13, 6:45pm
Join us for a joyous Simchat Torah celebration with services and live music, featuring a special ceremony to bless and welcome our Religious School students, followed by a Chocolate Oneg. All are welcome!
Parents, please SIGN UP HERE to bring chocolate baked goods for our Oneg.
Dance with the Torah Scrolls in the Street!
- Rejoice! as we read the END & BEGINNING of the Torah
- Dance! to great music, with a Klezmer band!
- Sing! as we circle around with the Sefer Torah!
- Celebrate! our new students' Jewish learning journeys!
Most of all, Be Happy! It's Simchat Torah!
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Shemini Atzeret Yizkor
Tuesday, October 14, 9:30am
For centuries Jews have observed the tradition of a Yizkor prayer service, a time to remember loved ones dear to our hearts, on the holidays of Yom Kippur, and during the three festival holidays, Sukkot (rather, at its conclusion, Shemini Atzeret), Passover and Shavu’ot.
If a loved one has passed away recently, or long ago, this is a meaningful time for prayer, song and meditation, as “an hour of memory.” The words and melodies of the Jewish tradition make the Yizkor service a time to offer gratitude for life’s blessings, and to spend time reflecting on the memory of those whom you love.
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Visit the Nova Music Festival Exhibition
Tuesday, October 14, 6:00pm
Former FW Webb Building
307 Dorchester Avenue, Boston
Click here to register
Join Temple Sinai Clergy and the Temple Sinai community at The Nova Exhibition in Boston. This immersive installation traces the timeline of the Nova Music Festival on October 7, 2023, presenting a mosaic of evidence, memory, and survivor testimony.
The exhibition serves as a deeply meaningful remembrance of the tragic events at The Nova Music Festival and offers us an opportunity to witness the tragic events of October 7th, reflect, and honor the incredible Tribe of Nova. Learn more about the exhibit here.
The Exhibition is recommended for ages 12+ due to the sensitive and graphic nature of some of the content.
We have a group entry for October 14 at 6:00pm. Please arrive at the exhibit by 5:50pm, so we can gather and enter together.
Please register here. Deadline to Register is Wednesday October 8.
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Thursday Study Group
with Rabbi Andy Vogel
Thursday, October 16, 10:15am
Join us each Thursday for a lively and friendly class with Rabbi Vogel. We study a wide variety of topics, rotating to a new field of study about every six weeks or so. Thursday Study includes discussions, films, text study, and an occasional guest speaker. Join us each week or feel free to drop in just once! Contact the Temple office to be added to the email list for information about each week’s session and link. In person, or by Zoom. All are welcome!
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Tzedek Sunday: Partakers and the Emerson Prison Initiative (EPI)
Sunday, October 19, 1:00 PM
Weintraub Community Room
Click here to register!
Temple Sinai member and founding director of the Emerson Prison Initiative (EPI) Mneesha Gellman will facilitate a discussion on how people can volunteer as mentors for incarcerated college students through the Partakers program. EPI brings a bachelor's degree program to people in Massachusetts Correctional Institute-Norfolk, the largest men's medium security prison in the state. With Martha Hausman, current mentor to an EPI student, as well as EPI alumnus '22 Charles Rosario and Partakers volunteer coordinator Amy Benjamin, the event will discuss the impact of educational and mentorship opportunities for people in prison, and how to get involved.
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Two Jews, Three Opinions: A Facilitated Dialogue for the Temple Sinai Community about Our Diverse Opinions on Israel, Zionism, and the War
Sunday, October 26 1:00-3:00 pm, Ehrenfried Hall
(Arrive early if you want to schmooze. We will start on time.)
“Two Jews, three opinions,” is an old and familiar adage. But discussing our differing opinions can be fraught when it comes to Israel, Zionism, and the war in Gaza after the terrible attacks of October 7, 2023. Our goal is to strengthen the bonds within our community by engaging our members in respectful dialogue that supports understanding and connection, even when we may disagree.
In the spirit of Temple Sinai’s commitment to inclusivity, connection and mutual care, members of the Israel Education Committee and the Israel/Palestine Committee are organizing facilitated small-group dialogues in which congregants can discuss the Israel, Zionism, the war in Gaza and its impact on Judaism and the Jewish Community with open hearts and minds in order to better understand each other’s positions. This will not be a debate. Rather, it is carefully structured to help us hear each other out with respectful curiosity and knit us closer together as a community, with appreciation for our diversity of opinion. This program is for Temple Sinai community members only. Please register here for this in-person dialogue event (registration requested, not required).
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Join us for
the 50th Anniversary Celebration Concert
with Cantor Jeff Klepper and Rabbi Dan Freelander!
Kol B'Seder Concert at Temple Sinai
Sunday, November 9 at 5:00pm
To mark their 50th year singing and writing beautiful Jewish music together, and to celebrate the publication of the Kol B’Seder Anthology from Transcontinental Music Publications, Temple Sinai is pleased to host this evening for the Greater Boston Jewish community! Join us for song and celebration of Kol B’Seder’s unique role in the pantheon of American Jewish music! Following the concert, please join us for a celebratory reception. Proceeds to benefit the Camp Scholarship Funds for URJ Eisner Camp & URJ Crane Lake Camp.
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Weekly Sunday Afternoon Mahjong
Weekly on Sundays, 3:00-5:00pm in the Weintraub Community Room
Join us to play at our weekly Sunday Sinai Mah Jong games! All who play are welcome to this friendly game. Come enjoy an afternoon of strategy, community and enjoyment. Whether you are a seasoned expert or still learning the game, you are welcome to join! If you are a complete novice, please contact Robin Orwant ahead of time. Mah Jong sets will be provided, but feel free to bring your own set, and please bring your own card, if you have one. Please note: this is not a class for learning how to play the game.
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Love To Sing?
Come join our Sinai Singers on two Tuesday evenings each month, from 7-9pm. Generally we meet on the first and third Tuesdays, but this year the Sept.-Oct. schedule varies. Our next two rehearsals are on October 21st and October 28th. We are a wonderful community that shares the love of making music together. There’s no audition; all voices are welcome. We’re a friendly mix of beginners and experienced singers united by the joy of choral singing. We periodically perform at services and other events. For more info, or to join, contact Laurie Lasky.
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We wish our member Lizzi Weyant Mazel Tov as she was named as the Executive Director of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council. MAPC is the regional planning agency for Greater Boston, established in 1963, with a mission to promote smart growth and regional collaboration.
Lizzi is the first woman to hold this position in MAPC's 62 year history. Congratulations Lizzi! You can read the full press release here.
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Membership Renewal
Thank you to those who have renewed membership for 2025-2026. If you have not yet renewed your membership by making a pledge for 2025-2026, please click here to do so.
As a reminder, all members who have made a pledge or have otherwise been in touch with the temple will receive admission cards for the High Holy Days in the mail.
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Joining Temple Sinai as a New Member
Click here to fill out a new member application.
Rather than charging fixed amounts for member "dues," the SinaiPromise membership model provides information about the amount needed to sustain Temple Sinai each year and enables every household to voluntarily pledge and contribute an amount of their choice to financially support our synagogue. Your membership contributions are vital in helping us continue to offer enriching programs, maintain our facilities, and foster our vibrant community!
Want to learn more about Sinai Promise? Click here.
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