TSWRJ is delighted to offer a virtual presentation by UMD Judaic Studies expert, Dr. Maxine Grossman on Women & Jewish Identity in the Dead Sea Scrolls. This talk was originally intended as the special highlight of the 2020 Sisterhood Shabbat celebration, which will not happen this year. We are fortunate to be able to nevertheless […]
Please join us for TSWRJ's annual meeting, where we will remember our fabulous past year and ask the membership to approve a new slate of Board members, a budget for the coming year, and the minutes from our last general meeting in September 2019. A link to documents for the meeting was sent via email […]
Temple Sinai WRJ is kicking off the new year with a virtual gathering. We hope to “see” you there, via Zoom, of course. There will be a short general membership meeting at the start and then we’ll mingle and catch up! Bring your own favorite beverage! RSVP
Family, food and faith: Join TSWRJ and the Temple’s Membership and Engagement Committee along with Rabbi Roos when we host filmmaker and Jewish mom Bonnie Rich for a Q&A with Deborah Kalb, Temple Sinai member, blogger, and author, about Rich’s award-winning personal documentary, Life is Rich (watch the trailer here). While her Jewish camp-going, two-time […]
Join us to hear Temple Sinai authors Deborah Kalb, Rabbi Mindy Portnoy, and Allison Soffer discuss their children's books. The books are great for holiday gifts! Deborah Kalb: George Washington and the Magic Hat; John Adams and the Magic Bobblehead; Thomas Jefferson and the Return of the Magic Hat Rabbi Mindy Portnoy: The Matzah Ball, A Passover […]
Join Temple Sinai Women of Reform Judaism and Cantor Croen as we gather on Zoom to light candles on the sixth night of Chanukah. Register
Belly of the Beast is a moving documentary about illegal sterilization and raises questions around power, reproductive injustice, and race. The New York Times called Belly of the Beast a “critic’s pick.” The panel discussion will include filmmaker Erika Cohn and Kelli Dillon (who is featured in the documentary) and it will be moderated by Temple Sinai […]
From the Bread Box to the Ballot Box: How White and Black Women Faced Different Challenges — and the Food that Sustained Them The 2021 Roundtable includes: Dr. Martha Jones - Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All Laura Kumin - All Stirred Up: Suffrage Cookbooks, Food, […]