Happy New Year to everyone! We finished 2025 with a great turn out for the Chanukah celebration. We had 125 reservations and approximately 130 came.

Happy (secular) New Year! Did you make any resolutions? More exercise, less TV, or read the classics?

Here’s a resolution for you: Become even more involved with Sinai Synagogue!

The Torah’s description of the rape of Dina, the daughter of Jacob and her subsequent kidnapping by Shechem and Hamor his father and the Hivites, a local Canaanite clan concludes with a classic ethical dilemma. 

We started downtown at the Morris Performing Arts Center with sufganiyot and speeches by community and civic leaders.

Five Minutes of Torah from Sinai is an email Rabbi Friedland sends 2-3 times a week.  Each email contains material from rabbinic texts on the Torah portion of the week with a contemporary interpretation. Ask to receive the emails and start reading the Torah with new perspectives!

This fall, we will have another Read Hebrew America class on Sunday mornings. It will begin November 16 (which is after the holidays and a personal trip to see Rabbi Friedland’s father-in-law). The class will run for 8 weeks.

The materials we receive are from the National Jewish Outreach Program. It costs nothing, but we do want to know how many people are interested in the class so we can get enough materials before the class begins to start on day one. We will run the class on Zoom.

These are challenging times for Jews all around the world. What can we do? The same thing we’ve always done: Reconnect to your Jewish roots. Take a few minutes each week and read the Torah. So grab a friend or a relative and join us, where our community reads just one Torah portion a week, and discover some surprisingly modern wisdom in a very old book. Go to simchattorahchallenge.org