We look forward to seeing you at our meaningful Shabbat service in the Sanctuary.
If you would prefer to join us virtually, click here to livestream the service.
REMINDER: to enhance security, a password is now required to view our livestream. The password and instructions to log in to the livestream will be sent to you in a separate email. If you have any questions, call the temple office at 516.621.6800.
Sinai Shabbat Saturdays
New Ways to Experience Shabbat at Temple Sinai*
Saturday, March 1, 2025 at 9:00am
Saturday Morning Minyan*K with Rabbi Ilana Schachter only via ZOOM
Shabbat is a time for reflection, gratitude, and enrichment.
All are welcome to Saturday Morning Minyan, where we blend ancient traditions and modern interpretations.
*Temple Sinai will always hold space for you to remember your loved one and say Kaddish for them. Please note that Kaddish will be recited during any program marked with *K.
Co-Chaired by
Carol & James Rotenberg and Lauren & David Borkon
The notion of Jewish Peoplehood encompasses Judaism as a civilization with a collective story, religion, culture, language, ethical tradition, and dedication to community. Our goal in presenting this series is to strengthen the connection between Jews around the world.
our
next program
in the series:
Friday, March 7 • 6:30pm during our Shabbat Service
Guest Speaker: Rabbi Alexander Kovtun
Born in 1991 in Krivoy Rog, USSR (now Ukraine), Alexander Kovtun studied law at both the National University Odesa Law Academy and the Kyiv Institute of Intellectual Property. He worked as a lawyer and was politically active both in Ukraine and across Europe. For many years he was the madrich for a number of Jewish organizations including Hillel, Jewish Agency, and Netzer. His Jewish involvement in post-Soviet Union territories spurred his decision to become a rabbi, studying at the Machon program, where he completed his rabbinical study at the Institute for Modern Jewish Study. Alex continued his rabbinical studies at both Conservative Yeshivah, in Jerusalem and Abraham Geiger College, and he studied Jewish Theology at the University of Potsdam. In December, 2022, Alex was ordained as a rabbi in Berlin, at the Rikelstrasse Synagogue. He began his rabbinical career at the Liberal Jewish Congregation of Hanover Etz Chaim. He also serves as rabbi of the Netzer Germany youth movement and works with the Tamar Germany and Keshet movements.
A VERY SPECIAL SHABBAT SERVICE
with Rabbi Ofek Meir leader of the Leo Baeck Education Center in Haifa
Friday, March 28 • 6:30pm
Rabbi Ofek Meir has been a teacher and educator at the Leo Baeck Education Center for the past 35 years, as well as a youth coordinator at the community center, and Ohel Avraham's assistant Rabbi. He was the founder and headmaster of the Leo Baeck Elementary School and also served as the Middle School headmaster.
Ofek established the Lorri Lokey International Center for Jewish Studies on the Leo Baeck campus and served as the Head of the Israeli Rabbinic program at the Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem. Since 2018, Ofek has served as the Headmaster and Managing Director of the Leo Baeck Education Center – home to 2,400 students from pre-school to year 12.
Ofek has a B.A and a Teaching Certificate in Jewish Thought and History from the Oranim College, as well as a Rabbinical Ordination from the Hebrew Union College. He also has a Classical Guitar Performance Degree (A.R.C.M) from the Royal College of Music (London).
Welcome to our Purim Karaoke...
Cocktails • Karaoke • Dinner
Hear the Purim Story...Karaoke-Style, followed by Open Mic Karaoke! Come dressed in your favorite 1970s California look! All net proceeds benefit victims of the California wildfires Space is limited! Register at mysinai.org/purimkaraoke2025
$54/person - or reserve a full table of eight or a half table of four at $64/person
SATURDAY, MARCH 15 • 7:00PM in the SIMCHA ROOM You won’t want to leave....
2. Come to our PURIM CARNIVAL!
Our award-winning theme this year is all things Hollywood!
LIGHTS.
CAMERA. SINAI.
from 10:30am-12:30pm in the Ballroom
Whether you’re a child or a child at heart, dress to the nines as your favorite celebrity, movie or tv character, or simply come red carpet fabulous!
Enjoy a delicious brunch by V&Z Caterers! There will be games and prizes, bounce houses, face painting, and so much more! Our clergy will entertain us with a very special megillah reading in the Sanctuary.
RSVP at mysinai.org/purimcarnival2025. Suggested donation is $54 per family; $18 per person.
3. Be part of our COMMUNITY SERVICE
PROJECT!
for such a time as this
from 10:30am-12:30pm in the Cocktail Room
We are coming together to pack comfort bags for families who lost everything when the L.A. wildfires ravaged their homes.
You can sign up for a one-hour shift, or pack for the full two hours.
This temple-wide project will be the first of our new, large-scale responses to immediate needs - both near and far.
All are welcome! To sign-up for a shift, visit mysinai.org/wecareaboutla.
Jewish Family History
with genealogist Jessica Goldstein
Thursday, February 27 7:00-9:00pm in the Simcha Room
Don’t miss the exciting opporunity to explore Jewish genealogy with Jessica Goldstein!
Jessica, daughter of Temple Sinai congregant Ruth Klein, will share ways to create a research plan, and use organizational tools, archival research, and so much more, to find out who we are and where we came to be!
Please bring a laptop or tablet for the hands-on portion of the program!
Register at: mysinai.org/jewishgenealogy
ISRAELI ART
with jackie covey
Sunday, March 2 • 10:00am via ZOOM
The visual arts in Israel encompass an incredibly wide spectrum of styles, themes, media, and techniques.
Join us for a presentation and lively discussion of several Israeli artists’ works. We’ll explore an exciting mix of painting, sculpture, collage, installation and video art for a taste of the creativity that exists in our beloved homeland.
Click here to join the ZOOM
Meeting ID: 886 7322 6285
PASSWORD: 5454
DEAR ERICH
A Jazz Opera by Ted Rosenthal
Sunday, March 2 at 7 pm
Dear Erich was commissioned by New York City Opera and received its world premiere in 2019 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City. Dear Erich was inspired by 200 newly discovered letters written in Germany between 1938 and 1941 by Herta Rosenthal to her son Erich, the composer’s father. Composer Ted Rosenthal is a leading jazz pianist and composer, and has performed worldwide as soloist, with his trio and with many jazz greats.
Special offer! SAVE 25% WITH CODE ERICH
Tickets at TillesCenter.org, 516.299.3100, or in-person at the Tantleff Box Office, open Mon-Fri, 1-6pm, 720 Northern Blvd, Brookville, NY
Unlock code ERICH on Ticketmaster before choosing seats. Offer not applicable on previously purchased tickets. Restrictions apply. No refunds or exchanges.
Presented in collaboration with
The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt
Wednesday, March 19 at 11:00am at the Jewish Museum
Paintings, prints, and drawings representing the Book of Esther made by Rembrandt van Rijn and his contemporaries will be presented with Jewish ceremonial art related to the holiday of Purim from 17th-century Amsterdam. Space is limited for this docent tour, led by Sinai’s own Ronna Niederman.
$20 per person; temple members only limit two tickets per registration Register at mysinai.org/bookofesther
SINAI CINEMA
IS NO
DREAM
The Life of Theodor Herzl
Narrated by Sir Ben Kingsley
SUNDAY, MARCH 30 2:00PM
AT TEMPLE SINAI
It Is No Dream: The Life of Theodor Herzl explores the life and times of Theodor Herzl, father of the modern state of Israel. Narrated by Academy Award®-winner, Sir Ben Kingsley and starring Academy Award®-winner Christoph Waltz as the voice of Theodor Herzl. The film examines how Herzl, a well-known journalist and playwright, an assimilated, Budapest-born Jew, horrified by the Dreyfus trial in Paris and the antisemitism he saw spreading across Europe, took upon himself the task of attempting to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine against all odds.
Over the span of eight years, Herzl organized and led a worldwide political movement that within fifty years led to the establishment of the state of Israel. The film follows Herzl as he meets with Kings, Prime Ministers, Ambassadors, a Sultan, a Pope and government ministers from Constantinople to St. Petersburg, from Paris to Berlin, from Vienna to Vilna in his quest to build a Jewish nation.
Wednesday, March 5 • 7:00pm in the Library
We are excited to invite you to our upcoming evening business networking meeting, where you can meet potential customers, discover new ways to expand your business, explore potential collaborations, create relationships with others in the community.
By helping one another improve our businesses, we are helping to improve the well-being of our Temple Sinai community.
Everyone in welcome! We hope you will join us!
Questions? Contact Richard Blatt by clicking here.
Wednesday, March 12 • 7:30pm in the Library
Friday, March 7 • 9:30am in the Library
Our February Collection
This month, we are focusing on our furry best friends!
Pet Shelters are in need of so much. YOU can help by donating these items and putting them into the bins in the temple lobby:
New or Used:
• flat sheets
• blankets
• towels
• dog and cat toys
• Pedigree wet food
You will helping three local shelters:
• Little Shelter in Huntington
https://www.littleshelter.org/
• Waldo’s Rescue
https://www.waldosrescue.org/
• North Hempstead Animal Shelter
https://northhempsteadny.gov/AnimalShelter
And remember shelters when you are thinking of adding a new member to your family!
All Congregants Welcome to Join Our Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Class Guest Speakers Series
Every year, our sixth grade students and their parents engage in a special unit of study on the Holocaust and Jewish Resistance. The class is led by Ellen Widawsky, a fantastic educatior who has traveled to Germany and Poland with the HAJRTP, studied at Yad Vaschem at the Echoes and Reflections Advanced Teachers Seminar, participated in the Belfer Conference at the USHMM, the Charlotte and Jacques Wolf Educators Conference on Echoes and Reflections in New York City, and traveled with the Sousa Mendes Foundation on their Footsteps to Freedom trip.
Ellen is graciously opening up specific sessions of her class to the entire congregation.
The congregation is welcome to attend these classes, each featuring a different guest speaker:
March 10: Alison Widawsky, a 3G, will tell the story of her zayde, Sam Widawsky, a Holocaust survivor from Poland. 3G is a grandchild of a Holocaust survivor. Widawsky survived the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Kaufering, and other labor camps.
March 17: Joan Arnay Halperin, author of the book My Sister’s Eyes: A Family Chronicle of Rescue and Loss During World War II, will talk about her family connection to Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese Consul General based in France, who signed false visas enabling thousands of Jews (and others) to leave Europe through Portugal. Sousa Mendes and Chiunie Sugihara are both Righteous Among the Nations.
RSVP is required; please email Debra Hollander by clicking here.
