Sinai Stories

As a child, I was fortunate to experience a large family Seder. However, it was a very different Seder from the happy festive event that Temple Sinai offers the community […]

The Temple Sinai Library strives to be a welcoming space for Jewish learning, study, culture, and respite for the congregation, clergy, staff and members. As the Temple Sinai librarian, I […]

One of my favorite childhood memories is my dad taking my brother and me for winter hikes in Mill Creek Park, near where we lived in Youngstown, Ohio. Sometimes my […]

As a long-time Temple Sinai member, I never gave much thought to the pews in the Sanctuary until I became the head of the Ritual Committee almost 20 years ago. […]

As we sat enjoying our end of year pot-luck dinner on the porch of Lafe Solomon’s and Cam Crockett’s house on May 2, members of Kitah Dalet, aka The Daletniks, […]

When we were in our twenties in DC, we didn’t really have a Jewish home here. We would “shul-shop,” checking out a rotating series of High Holiday services at various […]

This is the 30th anniversary of Temple Sinai’s first B’not Mitzvah class. Rabbi Mindy Portnoy was our teacher. Eleven people participated in the ceremony on November 13, 1993. All five […]

During the autumn of my first year of medical school, I noticed what looked like a lean-to built onto the side of my dorm’s rooftop. It was adorned with leaves […]

“Camp friends are the best friends.” You may have seen this phrase pop up on social media or heard people say it in your presence, particularly during the summer as […]

We had considered joining Temple Sinai (TS) in the fall of 2019 and then covid struck the world with force. We decided to delay our move from a local temple […]