Join Cantors Sergei & Elena Schwartz for an Information Session about next summer’s incredible trip to GERMANY!
Monday, November 4 • 7:00pm on ZOOM
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Friday, November 8, 2024 • 6:30pm
Join Temple Sinai’s own Jonathan Rothschild during Kristallnacht Shabbat, when he will share his parents’ harrowing experiences in Germany on that fateful night.
REMINDER: to enhance security, a password is now required to view our livestream. The password and instructions to log in to the livestream have been sent to you in a separate email. If you have any questions, call the temple office at 516.621.6800. during our Shabbat Service
Please click here to view our complete health and safety protocols. If you would prefer to join us virtually, click here to livestream the service.
saturday morning minyan
Saturday, November 9 at 9:00am
IN PERSON AND VIA LIVESTREAM
Shabbat is a time for reflection, gratitude, and enrichment.
All are welcome on Saturday mornings as we blend ancient traditions and modern interpretations.
Rabbi Ilana Schachter invites you to a reflective experience filled with prayer and learning.
No previous knowledge of Hebrew, liturgy, or text required – join us as we learn from our tradition and from one another!
Click here to view the livestream.
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, December 6 • 6:30pm during our Shabbat Service
We are excited to welcome Rabbi Stas Wojciechowicz to Temple Sinai. Rabbi Wojciechowicz leads the Ec Chaim Center and Synagogue for Progressive Judaism, in Warsaw, Poland, and was the first non-Orthodox rabbi in the community. Born and raised in Uzbekistan, Rabbi Wojciechowicz immigrated to Israel at the age of 17.
A graduate of Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem, he served as a congregational rabbi in Ashdod, Israel and St.Petersburg, Russia, before joining the Ec Chaim Center in 2010. Rabbi Wojciechowicz also serves as a Vice Chair of the Polish Council of Christians and Jews, and is one of the founders of the Central European Beit Din, the Jewish law court for Progressive Jews in five countries - Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Austria. A goalkeeper for the Warsaw Maccabi football team, Rabbi Wojciechowicz is fluent in four languages: Russian, Hebrew, English and Polish.
WHAT IS DEMOCRACY?
A FILM BY ASTRA TAYLOR
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3 • 2:00pm
at Temple Sinai
presented by
Coming at a moment of profound political and social crisis, What Is Democracy? reflects on a word we too often take for granted.
Director Astra Taylor’s idiosyncratic, philosophical journey spans millennia and continents: from ancient Athens’ groundbreaking experiment in selfgovernment to capitalism’s roots in medieval Italy; from modern-day Greece grappling with financial collapse and a mounting refugee crisis to the United States reckoning with its racist past and the growing gap between rich and poor.
Featuring a diverse cast—including celebrated theorists, trauma surgeons, activists, factory workers, asylum seekers, and former prime ministers—this urgent film connects the past and the present, the emotional and the intellectual, the personal and the political, in order to provoke and inspire. If we want to live in democracy, we must first ask what the word even means.
Register at mysinai.org/democracy
co-sponsored by Adult Engagement & Friend of a Friend
Margalit Fox the mrs. Mandelbaum
Thursday, November 14 • 7:30pm in the Simcha Room
America’s first great mob boss was a nice Jewish mother.
In 1850, an impoverished twenty-five-year-old named Fredericka Mandelbaum came to New York in steerage and worked as a peddler on the streets of Lower Manhattan. By the 1870s she was a fixture of high society and an admired philanthropist. How was she able to ascend from tenement poverty to vast wealth?
Combining deep historical research with the narrative flair for which she is celebrated, Margalit Fox tells the unforgettable true story of a once-famous heroine whose life exemplifies America’s cherished rags-to-riches narrative while simultaneously upending it entirely.
Israel After October 7: Risks and Opportunities
Thursday, November 21 • 7:30pm in the Sanctuary
Register at mysinai.org/idoaharoniaronoff
Ido Aharoni Aronoff, a distinguished Israeli diplomat and public figure, boasts a 25-year career in Israel’s Foreign Service. The Ambassador served as Israel’s longest-serving Consul-General in New York from 2010-2016. He is a trusted advisor to global companies, a public speaker, university lecturer, writer, investor, and the host of TAU Unbound, the official English language podcast of Tel Aviv University.
Tuesday, November 26 7:30pm • in the Simcha Room
White ADL NY/NJ Associate Regional Director
David
Brotherhood Monthly Meeting
Wednesday, November 13 7:00pm in the Library
Click here to RSVP
sip, schmooze, and study
Rabbi Michael White SCoTCH and SACRED TEXT
with
Tuesday, November 19 at 7:30pm
Hosted by Brotherhood, this award-winning program takes place four times a year.
We know you’ll find both the stimulating discussion on Torah and the camaraderie to be most worthwhile.
Click here to RSVP Location will be provided upon registration
If you are looking for new ways to promote and grow your business, we hope you will join us.
The next meeting of Temple Sinai’s amazing networking group, CONNECT, will take place on Wednesday, November 6 at 9:00am at Diane’s Bakery Cafe (23 Bryant Avenue, Roslyn).
The mission of CONNECT is to bring professionals together with the goal of referring good contacts and potential clients to one another. By helping one another improve our businesses, we are helping to improve the well-being of our Temple Sinai community.
We hope you will join us!
Let us know you are coming by clicking here.
wine, women wisdom
&
led by Cantor-Educator Elena Schwartz
Wednesday November 20 at 7:00pm
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Now in its tenth year, this popular series, presented by Friend of a Friend/Chaverot, features Cantor-Educator Elena Schwartz leading interactive discussions on the wisdom of Jewish teachings. The sessions give women the opportunity to learn, laugh, and connect over a glass of wine while gaining insights into sacred texts. SAVE THE DATE! for the Friend of a Friend Chanukah Luncheon
Thursday, December 5 12:00pm Mim’s Restaurant
Details to follow
Let’s Fill the Community Food Bank
Pause and imagine the feeling if food was on your “wish list.”
We are partnering with the Sid Jacobson JCC to supply the Community Needs Food Bank with the items on their wish list.
Please drop off the following items in the bins in the temple lobby (NON-PERISHABLES ONLY; NO GLASS JARS):
• canned protein (chicken, salmon, sardines, tuna)
