Question:  Why doesn’t the Torah portion of the Song at the Sea end with the song?  That should be the climax.  The Ten Commandments reading ends with that. Instead after the song, we continue to read - In the wilderness, the whole Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron.

Mardi Gras? Carnivale? No thanks. We prefer Purim!

By the time you read this, the Megillah will have been chanted and the hamantaschen—beautifully baked by our incredible Sisterhood—will have been happily devoured. But Purim is more than a single evening of costumes and cookies. It is memory, mischief, and meaning wrapped together.

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.

The Sinai Synagogue Board of Directors held a strategic retreat Sunday, January 25, 2026, at the Jewish Federation of St. Joseph Valley, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in order to give themselves a chance to meet in person and to discuss the “Big Rocks” facing our shul in the next 18 months.

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