Labor on the Bimah: Torah Study, Kaddish Minyan & Brunch Discussion
2025-08-30 09:15 - 12:15 (America/New_York) | Temple Sinai – 3100 Military Road NW, Washington, DC, United States
9:15 am: “Labor on the Bimah” themed Torah Study led by Rabbi Sarah Bassin
10:15 am: Kaddish Minyan
10:45 am: Brunch & Discussion
In the spirit of JUFJ’s Labor on the Bimah Program, Washington Interfaith Network (WIN) Organizer Micah Haskell-Hoehl and Metro AFL-CIO President Samuel Epps will discuss critical issues DC’s deal with the Washington Commanders poses for DC’s working people and their families. From Micah’s perspective as an organizer in faith communities and Samuel’s as a labor leader and organizer, they will walk us through the Mayor’s original proposal, the improvements accomplished so far, and unfinished business regarding affordable housing, jobs and accountability and enforceability of the Commanders’ promises.
No RSVP needed to join Torah Study or Kaddish Minyan, but please let us know if you plan to stay for brunch here.
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Elul Guest Scholar Dalia Marx
2025-09-05 - 2025-09-06
Sponsored in part by the Rabbi Fred N. Reiner Life Long Learning Fund
Rabbi Dr. Dalia Marx will be the featured guest speaker for our month of Elul preparations for the new year. She will speak at:

Shabbat services, Friday, September 5, at 6:30 pm with an oneg preceding the service at 6:00 pm
Torah Study, Saturday, September 6, at 9:15 am
Kehillat Shabbat services, Saturday, September 6 at 10:30 am with a kiddush lunch following the service.
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Rabbi Marx describes the month of Elul as a time of soul-searching and repentance (teshuvah) that are individual and personal but that take place within a larger matrix of mutual responsibility and an effort to seek the face of God and other people. Elul concludes the Hebrew year, but it also flows into the year to come, as a month of self-evaluation (cheshbon ha-nefesh), doing teshuvah, and preparing our hearts for the Days of Awe, the new year, and its blessings (From Time to Time, 333). Her teachings will focus on this time of year and elevate our engagement with this special period on the Jewish calendar.

About Rabbi Marx
Rabbi Dalia Marx, Ph.D., is the Rabbi Aaron D. Panken Professor of Liturgy and Midrash at Hebrew Union College’s Taube Family Campus in Jerusalem, and teaches in various academic institutions in Israel and Europe.
Marx, a tenth generation Jerusalemite, earned her doctorate at the Hebrew University and her rabbinic ordination at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem and Cincinnati in 2002. She is involved in various research projects and is active in promoting liberal Judaism in Israel. Marx writes for academic and popular journals and publications.
Marx is the lead editor of the Israeli Reform siddur, Tfillat HaAdam (2020). She is the author of When I Sleep and When I Wake: On Prayers between Dusk and Dawn (Yediot Sfarim, 2010, in Hebrew), A Feminist Commentary of the Babylonian Talmud (Mohr Siebeck, 2013). She is currently working on the new Israeli Reform High Holidays Machzor, together with Rabbi Leora Ezrachi.
Her book on the Jewish calendar, From Time to Time: Journeys in the Jewish Calendar (CCAR Press, 2024), was the core text for our adult learning course over the past year. Rabbi Dalia’s HUC podcast with Rabbi Dan Prath, Kanfei Ruach (Produced and Edited by Doron Levin) about Jewish Prayer.
Marx lives in Jerusalem with her husband, Roly Zyblersztein, Ph.D. They have three children.

First Friday Oneg Shabbat (Temple Teens)
2025-09-05 16:30 - 18:15, 2025-10-03 16:30 - 18:15 | Temple Sinai – 3100 Military Road NW, Washington, DC, United States
End the week by coming and having a casual hang with your Temple Sinai friends – old and new. We’ll gather in the Youth Lounge for snacks, games, chats, and Shabbat vibes. RSVP is required – cost is free! Stay for services after if you’d like! Questions? Email Tess! tweiss@templesinaidc.org

Torah Study
2025-09-06 09:15 - 10:15, 2025-09-13 09:15 - 10:15, 2025-09-20 09:15 - 10:15, 2025-09-27 09:15 - 10:15, 2025-10-04 09:15 - 10:15, 2025-10-11 09:15 - 10:15, 2025-10-18 09:15 - 10:15, 2025-10-25 09:15 - 10:15 | Temple Sinai – 3100 Military Road NW, Washington, DC, United States
Join us in person or virtually every Saturday morning for a discussion of the Torah reading for the week led by our clergy. No RSVP necessary.
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SinaiReads Book Discussion
2025-09-09 10:00 - 11:30 | https://templesinaidc-org.zoom.us/j/4080916682
Rabbi Hannah Goldstein will lead a discussion of The Third Temple by Yishai Sarid, translated by Yardenne Greenspan. Join in person or virtually; no advance registration required.

TSMRJ Book Club
2025-09-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Temple Sinai – 3100 Military Road NW, Washington, DC, United States
All are welcome to join the Brotherhood for a discussion of The Last of the Seven: A Novel of World War II.
Questions? Contact Howard Oppenheim (howard.i.oppenheim@gmail.com)

Annual Security Training for Members & Volunteers
2025-09-14 10:00 - 11:00
Join us for an eye-opening safety orientation led by TS Executive Director Lee Levitt and the expert team from JShield: Security by the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington. This essential training is designed for all who frequently visit our building and are eager to learn effective strategies to enhance personal and community safety. Don’t miss this opportunity to empower yourself with the knowledge and tools to stay safe and secure.
Note: This is an in-person opportunity only.
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Daytimers with Rabbi Fred Reiner
2025-09-15 13:00 - 14:00
A Changing World & Jewish Beliefs and Values
In the early days of the administration last winter, Rabbi Reiner wrote a statement of core Jewish beliefs that was signed by over 600 Jewish clergy. The statement restated our beliefs that were challenged by the executive orders and sudden changes that were emerging daily.
The response was overwhelming, and rabbis and cantors across the country used the text for study, and many at their Passover seders. Rabbi Reiner will discuss the statement, its genesis, and its place with other statements of Jewish belief.
Please register to join us in person at Temple Sinai or via livestream.
Please register to join us in person at Temple Sinai or via livestream.

TSRS Apple Picking
2025-09-21 10:00 - 14:00
Meet up with TSRS friends at an orchard in Maryland! Click here for exact location and to register (you must be logged in to your ShulCloud member account to view the registration form).
Contact Elise Margosis with questions.

Religious School
2025-10-05 08:30 - 13:00, 2025-10-12 08:30 - 13:00, 2025-10-19 08:30 - 13:00, 2025-10-26 08:30 - 13:00 | Temple Sinai – 3100 Military Road NW, Washington, DC, United States
Early Session: 8:30am – 10:30am
Late Session: 11:00am – 1:00pm

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CIESJ Presents: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) In Troubled Times
2025-10-05 10:30 - 11:30 | https://templesinaidc-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/76STxmFsQyis08zFCVtRYg
The IDF has faced increasing controversy over its role in the West Bank and Gaza. While failing to protect Palestinian and Bedouin Arabs in the West Bank and those who have accompanied them for their protection, it has also faced attacks from irate settlers. In addition, the composition of the IDF and its leadership has undergone a transition from those from the Kibbutz to many from the nationalist religious camp. The ideals of the IDF have been challenged since October 7th and individual soldiers have been convicted of war crimes. What does the future hold for this important Israeli institution?
Chaim Levinson is an investigative journalist for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz (Israel’s newspaper of record). He also works as an editor and hosts programs on Israeli television and radio. Born into a family of Orthodox immigrants from the United States to Israel, he grew up in Jerusalem where he first became involved in journalism. In 2004 he began to work at Yedioth Ahronoth, a national paper in Israel, and in 2008 moved to Haaretz where he uncovered various governmental improprieties. Currently much of his work involves covering the West Bank Settlers.

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In 2023, Temple Sinai established the Committee for Israel Engagement and Social Justice (CIESJ) to grow Temple Sinai’s engagement in issues concerning Israel, to support Israel’s as it strives to achieve its ideals as a Jewish and democratic State, and to work with the wider Jewish community to achieve these objectives. Learn more.

Daytimers with Senior Diplomat G. Jonathan Greenwald
2025-10-13 13:00 - 14:00 | https://templesinaidc-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/ONisfS2mQKq_CATDaefUHA
Is There a Day After Gaza?
Temple Sinai DayTimers and Committee for Israel Engagement and Social Justice have invited Diplomat Jonathan Greenwald, representing J Street, to address the immediate status in Israel, as well as the historical and broader context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the alternative futures that are conceivable for that conflict in this highly fluid period. There will be time for questions and comments following his presentation.
Jonathan (Jon) Greenwald, a Wilkes-Barre, PA native, has spent half a century in public service, including 30 years as a senior U.S. diplomat and 17 years as Vice President for the International Crisis Group, a prominent non-governmental conflict resolution organization. He has taught diplomacy at Lawrence University, served as the State Department’s nominee on the panel that adjudicated Holocaust-era claims for Austria, and authored Berlin Witness: An American Diplomat’s Chronicle of East German’s Revolution.
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CIESJ Presents: The Attack on Civil Liberties in Israel
2025-10-19 10:30 - 11:30 | https://templesinaidc-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/FmpjsqlhRpCdmyiLBpd7Nw
A year before October 7th, the Netanyahu government launched an unprecedented attack on Israel’s judicial system—and with it, an assault on civil liberties. This radical overhaul was widely condemned by Israelis across the political spectrum and sparked weekly mass protests involving hundreds of thousands of citizens.
Today, this struggle continues as the government intensifies its aggressive campaign against civil society organizations and openly challenges judicial, security, and even military leadership. The crisis has escalated, leading to continued protests and public strikes. Israelis are taking to the streets to demand action on multiple fronts: the release of hostages, an end to the prolonged war, and a solution to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
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Noa Sattath serves as Executive Director of ACRI (the Association for Civil Rights in Israel), Israel’s equivalent of the American Civil Liberties Union. Since November 2021, she has led the organization through its most challenging period, confronting both the government’s judicial overhaul and unprecedented human rights violations following October 7th.
Under her leadership, ACRI has fought pivotal legal battles through High Court petitions that curb government overreach, protect prisoners’ rights, defend freedom of expression, and challenge abuses of power by authorities.
An ordained Reform Rabbi, Noa previously led the Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC), the Jerusalem Open House for Pride and Tolerance where she helped organize Jerusalem’s first Pride March, and MEET, a technology-focused organization affiliated with MIT that develops joint leadership programs for young Israelis and Palestinians.

In 2023, Temple Sinai established the Committee for Israel Engagement and Social Justice (CIESJ) to grow Temple Sinai’s engagement in issues concerning Israel, to support Israel’s as it strives to achieve its ideals as a Jewish and democratic State, and to work with the wider Jewish community to achieve these objectives. Learn more.

Confirmation
2025-10-19 11:00 - 12:30 | Temple Sinai – 3100 Military Road NW, Washington, DC, United States
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1:1 Hebrew Tutoring
2025-10-20 16:00 - 20:00, 2025-10-21 16:00 - 20:00, 2025-10-23 16:00 - 20:00 | Temple Sinai – 3100 Military Road NW, Washington, DC, United States
1:1 online Hebrew tutoring for 20 minute sessions for 4th-6th grade TSRS students.

Tuesday Adult Class
2025-10-21 10:00 - 11:30 | https://templesinaidc-org.zoom.us/j/87033408056
This year’s theme is Jewish liturgy and services. Please purchase a copy of the book Inviting God In: A Guide to Jewish Prayer by Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin. In-person and virtual participation welcome.
This class is taught by Rabbi Jon Roos and meets on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month through Spring 2026. If you have questions, email Gail Sell.
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Noar & Temple Teens
2025-10-21 18:00 - 20:30 | Temple Sinai – 3100 Military Road NW, Washington, DC, United States
Optional Pizza Dinner: 6:00-6:30 pm
Classes: 6:30-8:30 pm

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