Temple Sinai

Officers' Meeting
2025-08-06 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | https://www.templesinaidc.org/event/officers-meeting-10/2025-08-06/

Shabbat Service with Roos-Waldman Aufruf
2025-08-08 18:30 - 19:30 | Temple Sinai – 3100 Military Road NW, Washington, DC, United States
Join us in person or virtually for our weekly Shabbat service. Click here for livestream.
This week’s service will include an aufruf for Noah Roos and Zoe Waldman. It followed by a Festive Oneg hosted by Rabbi Jon and Elizabeth Roos.

Torah Study
2025-08-09 09:15 - 10:15, 2025-08-16 09:15 - 10:15, 2025-08-23 09:15 - 10:15, 2025-09-06 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.
Visit the Google Classroom
Click to join via Zoom (Meeting ID: 839 7118 5697)

Pulpit Exchange with St. Columba's
2025-08-10 10:30 - 12:00 | St. Columba’s Episcopal Church – 4201 Albemarle St NW, Washington, DC, United States
Join us as we learn from our neighbors and experience worship in a different religious community. Rabbi Goldstein offers the sermon at St. Columba’s Episcopal Church this morning.
We welcome clergy from St. Columba’s at our Shabbat service on Friday, August 1 at 6:30 pm.

Family Shabbat Dinner
2025-08-15 17:30 - 18:30 | Temple Sinai – 3100 Military Road NW, Washington, DC, United States
Come at 5:30 pm for a casual pizza dinner and activities before the 6:30 pm Shabbat Service.
RSVP here
Tonight’s dinner is sponsored in part by Jordan and Arden Missal in honor of the baby naming of Greer Rose Missal.
The cost is $18 per family to ensure this program can continue to thrive. Additional donations are welcome and a zero-cost option is available if this is more appropriate for your family.

Shabbat Service
2025-08-15 18:30 - 19:30, 2025-08-22 18:30 - 19:30, 2025-09-05 18:30 - 19:30 | Temple Sinai – 3100 Military Road NW, Washington, DC, United States
Join us in person or virtually for our weekly Shabbat service. Click here for livestream.
Services are preceded by an oneg beginning at 6:00 pm.

Tot Shabbat Storytime
2025-08-16 09:30 - 10:30 | Temple Sinai – 3100 Military Road NW, Washington, DC, United States
Head to the TSLibrary for a special Shabbat Storytime with librarian Ruth Polk. We’ll also enjoy challah, juice, crafts, and have some time to browse the shelves!
RSVP here.

Best for children ages 0-5 and their families.

Visit the library any time! Check out the online catalogue.

Kehillat Shabbat Service
2025-08-16 10:30 - 12:00 | Temple Sinai – 3100 Military Road NW, Washington, DC, United States
These lay-led services offer opportunities to chant a few verses of Torah or Haftarah in a supportive atmosphere. Participants can also sign up to deliver a d’var Torah (analysis of the weekly Torah portion) that leads to a group discussion.
Livestream links are posted on our website weekly

Tuesday Adult Class - Special Elul Session
2025-08-19 10:00 - 12:00 | Temple Sinai – 3100 Military Road NW, Washington, DC, United States
Join us as we focus on Elul using our text from last year, From Time to Time: Journeys in the Jewish Calendar by Rabbi Dalia Marx, PhD. Participants are welcome to join in person or virtually.
Email Gail Sell with questions.

Serve with Sinai Summer 2025
2025-08-21 10:00 - 12:00 | A Wider Circle – 9159 Brookville Rd, Silver Spring, MD, United States
We know that summer often brings extra free time. Whether you are retired, between jobs, or a teen looking for SSL hours, spend time with fellow volunteers this summer while doing good work for our community. Advanced registration required.
Wednesday, June 18, 10am – 12pm (A Wider Circle, 9159 Brookville Road, Silver Spring)
Tuesday, June 24, 10am – 12pm (DC Diaper Bank, 8860 Monard Drive, Silver Spring) – TEENS ONLY
Thursday, July 17, 10am – 12pm (A Wider Circle, 9159 Brookville Road, Silver Spring)
Thursday, August 21, 10am – 12pm (A Wider Circle, 9159 Brookville Road, Silver Spring)
Register here
A note for our teen volunteers: For A Wider Circle, volunteers under 14 are welcome if they are accompanied by an adult. (Please register each person attending separately.) The teen volunteer session at DC Diaper Bank on Tuesday, June 24 will be staffed by Temple Sinai clergy so kids 12 and up can attend on their own.
If you have questions, please contact Jenny Cohen.

YAWS Meeting
2025-08-21 19:30 - 21:30 | Temple Sinai – 3100 Military Road NW, Washington, DC, United States
We are a group of parents of young adults and teens who are struggling with life. Examples of such difficulties might be: isolation, social difficulties, school avoidance, school failure or other learning differences, vocational struggles, inhibitions around launching and independence or strained relations with friends and family. Many struggle with mental illness, learning disabilities, Asperger’s, substance abuse or autism. Some are undiagnosed, just not living up to society’s expectations.

We meet once a month and support and encourage one another as we look at strategies for helping our young adults. We understand the journey, which has many twists and turns, often not what we expected when thinking about raising a child. We laugh, cry, share resources, and support one another. Occasionally, we have speakers join us and supplement our knowledge of resources available, including housing options, legal remedies, new medications or treatments, etc.

The group meets monthly and is open to anyone interested. All information shared is completely confidential. Should you have any questions, please call the Temple Sinai office at (202) 363-6394.

Tot Shabbat Playdate
2025-08-23 09:30 - 10:30 | Temple Sinai – 3100 Military Road NW, Washington, DC, United States
Join us for a tot-friendly service led by our clergy followed by time on the playground. We’ll have challah, juice, bagels, and coffee too!
RSVP here.

Best for children ages 0-5 and their families.

B'nei Mitzvah of Ryan Sternberg and Lily Hausfeld
2025-08-23 10:30 - 12:00 | Temple Sinai – 3100 Military Road NW, Washington, DC, United States

Community Madrichim Training Program
2025-08-24 11:30 - 15:30 | Temple Sinai – 3100 Military Road NW, Washington, DC, United States

Caregivers Drop-In Group
2025-08-27 10:30 - 11:30 | Temple Sinai – 3100 Military Road NW, Washington, DC, United States
Are you caregiving for a loved one? Are you seeking a safe space to talk about the stresses and challenges of caring for someone with dementia/Alzheimer’s, stroke, cancer and other debilitating chronic illnesses? Please join us for a monthly drop-in group, usually on the last Wednesday of the month at 10:30 am, informally facilitated by Sinai Cares Staff Social Worker Deborah Gordis. These sessions provide an unstructured opportunity for peer support, sharing and connection. All are welcome. Please reach out to Deb with any questions at dgordis@templesinaidc.org.

Shabbat Healing Service
2025-08-29 18:30 - 19:30 | Temple Sinai – 3100 Military Road NW, Washington, DC, United States
Join us in person or virtually for a service that will offer the opportunity for communal singing, reflective meditation, and an extended healing liturgy. Tonight’s service will also include a marriage blessing (aufruf) for Keith Rosten and Olga Applegate.
Click here for livestream.

Services are preceded by an oneg beginning at 6:00 pm. Tonight’s oneg is sponsored by Keith Rosten & Olga Applegate in celebration of their aufruf and marriage.

Labor on the Bimah: Torah Study, Kaddish Minyan & Brunch Discussion
2025-08-30 09:15 - 12:15 | 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.
Visit the Torah Study Google Classroom
Click to join via Zoom (Meeting ID: 839 7118 5697)

Officers' Meeting
2025-09-03 19:30 - 21:00 | https://www.templesinaidc.org/event/officers-meeting-10/2025-09-03/

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.
RSVP for lunch.

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 | 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

Kehillat Shabbat Service
2025-09-06 10:30 - 12:00 | Temple Sinai – 3100 Military Road NW, Washington, DC, United States
These lay-led services offer opportunities to chant a few verses of Torah or Haftarah in a supportive atmosphere. Participants can also sign up to deliver a d’var Torah (analysis of the weekly Torah portion) that leads to a group discussion.
Click here for livestream

Bat Mitzvah of Emma Reiser
2025-09-06 10:30 - 12:00 | Temple Sinai – 3100 Military Road NW, Washington, DC, United States

TSWRJ Hike
2025-09-07 09:00 - 10:30
Meet the WRJ for a hike in Rock Creek Park. Contact Liz Brenner for the meeting location.

TSWRJ Opening Meeting
2025-09-07 16:00 - 18:00
Join us for wine and cheese at an informal get together to meet new and old friends and kick off our new programs for 2025-26!
RSVP to let us know you’ll join us at a member’s home in NW DC. Watch for an email a few days before the event with the exact address.

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.
