Temple Sinai

Shabbat Service
2026-09-25 18:30 - 19:30, 2026-09-18 18:30 - 19:30, 2026-09-11 18:30 - 19:30, 2026-09-04 18:30 - 19:30, 2026-08-28 18:30 - 19:30, 2026-08-21 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | 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.

Caregivers Drop-In Group
2026-09-23 10:30 - 11:30, 2026-08-19 10:30 - 11:30
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, often 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.

B'not Mitzvah of Sienna Sherman and Zelda Burton
2026-09-19 10:30 - 12:00

Kehillat Shabbat Service
2026-09-19 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

Tot Shabbat Storytime
2026-09-19 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.

Torah Study
2026-09-19 09:15 - 10:15, 2026-09-12 09:15 - 10:15, 2026-09-05 09:15 - 10:15, 2026-08-29 09:15 - 10:15, 2026-08-22 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)

YAWS Meeting
2026-09-17 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-08-20 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.

Board of Trustees Meeting
2026-09-16 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-08-19 19:30 - 21:30 | Temple Sinai – 3100 Military Road NW, Washington, DC, United States

Daytimers Social
2026-09-16 10:30 - 11:30, 2026-08-19 10:30 - 11:30 | Temple Sinai – 3100 Military Road NW, Washington, DC, United States
Attention retirees! Please join us the 3rd Wednesday of the month for an in-person social hour in our beautiful new space. We will provide the coffee and homemade cake, and you will provide the company and conversation. If you can, please let Karen Auerbach know if you are coming. You are also welcome to just show up!

Fall Festival
2026-09-13 10:00 - 12:00
Join the Temple Sinai community of young families for our Fall Festival! Featuring family-friendly activities, crafts, treats, a moon bounce, and more! And a chance to learn more about the Temple Sinai community.
Request tickets
Questions? Contact Lisa Resnikoff.
This event is part of our Young Families High Holidays programming, which is open to the community.

Community Memorial Services
2026-09-06 10:00 - 11:00 | Garden of Remembrance – 14321 Comus Rd, Clarksburg, MD, United States
All are invited to attend services at the Garden of Remembrance in Clarksburg, MD, each led by community rabbis and cantors. For more information, please call GOR at 301.428.3000.

Kehillat Shabbat Service
2026-09-05 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

Officers' Meeting
2026-09-02 19:30 - 21:00 | https://www.templesinaidc.org/event/officers-meeting-10/2026-09-02/

CIESJ Book Discussion
2026-08-30 10:00 - 11:00
Join Congregation Ramot Shalom of Be’er Shevah and Temple Sinai of DC for a virtual book discussion of Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran by Roya Hakakian. With attention focused on Iran this spring, we felt that both American Jews and Israelis would be interested in this first-person account of a Jewish young woman before, during, and after the Iranian revolution of 1979. The book is accessible and compelling; the author is a poet, journalist, and former associate producer of CBS’s 60 Minutes.
Register to join via Zoom

The book was written up by the Jewish Book Council as follows:
In Journey from the Land of No Roya Hakakian recalls her childhood and adolescence in prerevolutionary Iran with candor and verve. The result is a beautifully written coming-of-age story about one deeply intelligent and perceptive girl’s attempt to ï¬?nd an authentic voice of her own at a time of cultural closing and repression. Remarkably, she manages to re-create a time and place dominated by religious fanaticism, violence, and fear with an open heart and often with great humor.
Hakakian was twelve years old in 1979 when the revolution swept through Tehran. The daughter of an esteemed poet, she grew up in a household that hummed with intellectual life. Family gatherings were punctuated by witty, satirical exchanges and spontaneous recitations of poetry. But the Hakakians were also part of the very small Jewish population in Iran who witnessed the iron fist of the Islamic fundamentalists increasingly tightening its grip. It is with the innocent confusion of youth that Roya describes her discovery of a swastika — “a plus sign gone awry, a dark reptile with four hungry claws” — painted on the wall near her home. As a schoolgirl she watched as friends accused of reading blasphemous books were escorted from class by Islamic Society guards, never to return. Only much later did Roya learn that she was spared a similar fate because her teacher admired her writing.
Hakakian relates in the most poignant and at times painful ways what life was like for women after the country fell into the hands of Islamic fundamentalists who had declared an insidious war against them, but we see it all through the eyes of a strong, youthful optimist who somehow came up in the world believing that she was different, knowing she was special. At her loneliest, Roya discovers the consolations of writing while sitting on the rooftop of her house late at night. There, “pen in hand, I led my own chorus of words, with a melody of my own making.” And she discovers the craft that would ultimately enable her to find her own voice and become her own person.
A wonderfully evocative story, Journey from the Land of No reveals an Iran most readers have not encountered and marks the debut of a stunning new talent.

B'nei Mitzvah of Zach Friedman and Martin Lourie
2026-08-29 10:30 - 12:00

Bat Mitzvah of Willa Fleischman
2026-08-22 10:30 - 12:00

Tot Shabbat Playdate
2026-08-22 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.
