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| VISION STATEMENT AND STRATEGIC VALUES |
 We,
the members of Temple Sinai, are a community of Reform
Jews characterized by warmth, learning and holiness.
Our community embodies the values of Avodah,
Torah, K'hillah and K'lal Yisrael. |
 Avodah - Ritual
Life
We seek a sense of holiness in our synagogue,
our homes, and our daily lives. We connect with God,
with our community and with ourselves through worship, study
and participation in Jewish activities. |
 Torah - Learning
and Study
We seek meaning and Jewish continuity
by engaging all generations in dynamic study of Jewish heritage
and practice. |
 K'hillah - Community
We see our Temple community as an extended
family, where we can be known and cherished. We celebrate
together in joy and comfort one another in sorrow. |
 Tikkun
Olam/K’lal Yisrael - Repair of the World / The Greater
Jewish Community
We are committed to the sacred task of
promoting social justice and helping those in need, purposefully
translating the principles of Judaism into action. Recognizing
that all Jews are responsible for one another, we foster
a personal connection with the Jewish people in our greater
community, Israel and throughout the world. |
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| SHABBAT DINNER |
Bring your family and share in the joy of
SHABBAT and CELEBRATE Israel’s 60th Birthday!
Friday, May 9, 2008
Congregational Shabbat Dinner with guest speaker Professor
Lisa Grant. Dinner will consist of all Israeli Foods!
Click
here to print a reservation form
Guest Speaker: Professor Lisa Grant - May 9th at 8:00
pm
Topic: “Sacred Vision, Complex Reality: The Place
of Israel in American Jewish Life”
Lisa D. Grant is Associate Professor of Jewish Education at
the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York
school. Her research interests include adult Jewish learning,
professional development of Jewish educators, and the place of
Israel in American Jewish life. She is the lead author of A
Journey of Heart and Mind: Transformative Learning in Adulthood (
JTS Press: 2004), with Diane Schuster, Meredith Woocher, and
Steven M. Cohen, and author of Aytz Hayim Hi, a two-year
curriculum guide for Adult Bat Mitzvah.
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| Bennett Cancer Center Benefit |
Walk,
Run, and Ride for the Bennett Cancer Center – June
1
SUPPORT THE BENNETT CANCER CENTER
HOPE IN MOTION
June 1, 2008
PLEASE HELP US REACH OUR GOAL OF $5,000
Click Here to Join Our Team or to Donate Online
The Bennett Cancer Center has helped so many of our temple family
cope with the physical and emotional tolls of cancer. It is a
place for healing, where science and soul come together.
Crucial programs at the Bennett Center (clinical trials, transportation
and childcare, and integrative medicine) are made possible by
Hope in Motion.
The Hope in Motion web site features a quote from the bar mitzvah
speech of one of our own religious school students. Click on
the “Survivor” tab to see what he said about the
Bennett Cancer Center.
To Donate:
Click on “Donate to a participant/team.”
Select our team: Temple Sinai or anyone who is already a member
of the team. Make your generous contribution right on line.
To Participate:
Click on “Join a team.”
Select our team: Temple Sinai.
Ask everyone you know to contribute to sponsor you.
Questions? Contact Gail Karlitz: GKarlitz1@aol.com
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| Mitzvah Day |
OUR 12TH ANNUAL MITZVAH
DAY - MAY 4, 2008
Click
Here To Register Online
The big day will be here soon. You will be receiving the registration
packet within a week or so. We hope you will sign up quickly
because some of the activities can accommodate only limited numbers
of people, and we want you to get your first choice.
Schedule
9:00am
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Registration |
| 9:15am |
Welcome by Rabbi Disick |
| 9:30am |
Most activities will begin. There are many
activities to choose from which would give to the community
or beautify our temple. Your Team Captain will contact you
about the exact time and location for the activity you select. |
| 5:30pm |
BBQ at Temple Sinai. It will be fun to
get back together, and it will be delicious as always. |
This year promises to be great fun, and in addition you get
the satisfaction of doing real Mitzvot. We hope to see all of
you there!
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| NATURE WALK & ART PROJECT |
Join us for a special Lag B’Omer Picnic,
Nature Walk and Art Project – All Ages!
Saturday, May 17th • 11:30 a.m.
- 1:30 p.m.
Stamford Museum & Nature Center
The fee is $6.00 per child and includes lunch. There is no
fee for parent chaperones. We will meet at the totem pole.
Please sign up with Shelly Sodaro in the office by May 10th.
If you have any questions, please call or e-mail Dina Savitt:
dsavitt@optonline.net, or 322-3634.
Lag B’Omer is the shorthand way of saying the thirty-third
day of the Omer. It falls on the 33rd day of the counting of
the Omer, as counted from the second day of Passover until
the holiday of Shavuot. Th is corresponds to the 18th day of
the month of Iyar (2007: Sunday May 6).
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| ISRAEL TOUR |
TOUR HIGHLIGHTS:
- Visit the Old City of Jaffa and stroll through the renovated
artists’ colony and the ancient port
- Experience a Jeep tour climbing to the Golan Heights in
the footsteps of IDF soldiers and their battles
- Visit the award winning Golan Winery, located in the Golan Heights,
which is known as Israel’s first world class winery
- Explore Safed, a center of Jewish mysticism for hundreds
of years, and a contemporary artists’ colony
- Plant a tree at the JNF Forest near the Golani Junction
- Go to Beit Shean National Park, one of the largest archaeological
sites in Israel
- Ascend Masada, Herod’s mountain palace and site of
the Zealots’ last stand against the Romans
- Experience the weightlessness of the Dead Sea
- Visit the Western Wall Tunnel, the underground continuation
of the wall along the Temple Mount
- Observe Shabbat with sister congregation Yozma in Modi’in
To register please call 1-888-811-2812 and select option 1 or
visit www.arzaworld.com/809_Israel_Tour.
Contact Melissa Cohavi at 322-1649 for more details.
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