Join the Sinai Synagogue family at 7pm on Tuesday, May 14, for our third annual Shavuot program.  Hear stories by three of our members — Colin Pier Silver, Jeff New, and Peri Arnold — about their journeys to becoming members at Sinai Synagogue, along with their Jewish traditions. The program will include appetizers, desserts, and the Rabbi’s famous coffee bar!  RSVP to Judy in … Read More »

The third annual Michiana Jewish Film Festival will take place the week of May 20, 2013, at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center on the campus of the University of Notre Dame. Tickets are on sale now and may be purchased at the DeBartolo box office. For more information, including descriptions of the eight films and a list of showtimes, visit the Jewish Federation website.… Read More »

On Tuesday, May 28, at 7:30pm, we will have a brief annual congregational meeting.  The principal item on the agenda will be the election of next year’s officers and board of directors members.… Read More »

Sinai Synagogue offers a number of special worship and study opportunities in addition to our regular Shabbat morning services. At 9:00am each Shabbat morning, we begin with Torah study and breakfast thanks to Breadsmith kosher bakery. Our sages had fascinating and diverse insights into our sacred Torah. Come learn from their insights and offer your own. On the 2nd and 4th Shabbat of the month, at… Read More »

Mel’s morning breakfasts are back at Sinai with a side order of Talmud! About 100 years ago a study program was begun to encourage Jews to make the study of Talmud part of their daily practice. It takes over 7 years of learning a daf a day (or folio, front and back sides of one page of Talmud) to complete the entire Talmud. The new cycle began this past August. At Sinai, every morning after miny… Read More »

--Notes for the End of Neilah- Wendy Mogel, the well known therapist and author, wrote her book The Blessing of a Skinned Knee to help her parent her … Read More »

The start of a new year brings with it opportunities for reflection and growth. Besides becoming a household with two college age students in it (I ca… Read More »

-How a Library Book Taught Me About Atonement- On Yom Kippur we list numerous sins in our communal confession of the Al Het. But one sin they don’t … Read More »

-What is True Happiness?- This morning we read of the difficult trial God placed before Abraham. Tradition tells us that Abraham faced ten difficult t… Read More »

-Against Self-Reliance- Everyday we learn Talmud at Sinai as part of a world wide effort to study each of the 2711 pages of the Talmud. I encourage yo… Read More »

In a fascinating discussion on the squabble between Moshe and Aharon following the deaths of Nadav and Avihu about whether or not the Kohanim should h… Read More »

In an essay on the psychology of prejudice, Professor G T Patrick of the University of Iowa levels a common criticism of our society, “We like … t… Read More »

Today is Shabbat HaGadol, the Shabbat before Pesah. It is referred to as Hagadol for any number of reasons – the special haftarah we read this morni… Read More »

I remember when I was in youth group a popular values clarification activity was to ask the question, “If American and Israel went to war, which sid… Read More »

A colleague whose congregation is larger than ours but I believe less demographically diverse – a larger percentage are over 55 – told me that his… Read More »