Temple Sinai at 70: Honoring Our Heritage & Building Our Future Guest Speaker: Ken Jaffe, Executive Vice President of Temple Sinai In December of 1950, a group of seven families went in search of a new kind of Reform Jewish community that would establish a “congregation of equals” and founded their new congregation: Temple Sinai. […]
Meet Theater J’s New Artistic Director: Hayley Finn Introduced By Managing Director David Lloyd Olson Theater J Managing Director David Lloyd Olson will introduce and interview Theater J’s brand-new artistic director, Hayley Finn who began her tenure on Wednesday February 1st. As co-leaders of the nation’s largest and most prominent Jewish theater, Olson and Finn […]
Israeli Government Policies: Likely Impact on Israeli Society & American Jewish Communities Relationship With Israel Join the Temple Sinai DayTimers for an interesting Zoom presentation. There will be ample opportunity for questions and comments following the presentation. Please invite friends who are interested to register. We will hear from Barak Ravid from his home in Tel-Aviv concerning the […]
Join the Temple Sinai DayTimers for an entertaining and informative Zoom program with two of our favorite local arts critics, Jane Horwitz and Robert Aubry Davis. This dynamic pair will tell us how the local arts scene has survived the COVID pandemic and how it has been changed. Perhaps they will share their assessment of […]
The Way We Were: Reminiscences from Cantor Croen Join us to view the new video developed by the Temple Sinai Archives, Library, and Music Committees "The Way We Were,” which is an oral history covering the 27 years Cantor Croen has been with Temple Sinai. Cantor Croen is interviewed by Tara Sonenshine. The program will […]
Memories of Times Past Join the DayTimers for an informal chat with Rabbi Reiner and Cantor Croen as they reminisce about their years working together at Temple Sinai. This will be a hybrid program, please join us in person but if you cannot be there in person, you will be able to watch a live stream […]
Not a Picasso, but Still Precious: A German Museum Returns Family Silver Lost to the Nazis More than eighty years after German Jews were forced to turn over silver objects like kiddush cups and candle sticks to the Nazis, a Munich museum curator is on a quest to return the stolen silver to the victims […]
Preserving the Rule of Law Jennifer Rubin, a highly respected opinion columnist for The Washington Post, will discuss the role of federal and state courts, lawmakers, and voters in preserving the bedrock principles that preserve our democracy. At The Washington Post, she covers politics and policy, foreign and domestic, and provides insight into the conservative […]
Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America Private equity surrounds us. Firms like Blackstone, Carlyle, and KKR are among the largest employers in America and hold assets that rival those of small countries. Yet few understand what these firms are or how they work. Brendan Ballou will explain how private equity has reshaped American business […]
The Supreme Court: The Bad, the Worse, and the Ugly Journalist Mark Joseph Stern, who covers the Supreme Court for Slate Magazine, will discuss how the Supreme Court’s right-wing majority, under the guise of judicial review, advances key Republican policies as well as its indefensible resistance to the barest ethical standards. Further, he will discuss […]
