by Davis Center Contributor | Jul 12, 2024 | Making a Difference
By Sara Imershein I have spent my life fighting for equality for women, and specifically for reproductive freedom. My first political action was in 1971, two years before Roe was decided. I organized my high school girlfriends to send a telegram to...
by Davis Center Contributor | May 1, 2024 | Making a Difference
by Ilene Weinreich I was very pleased to learn that The Davis Center awarded DC Volunteer Lawyers Project (DCVLP) $1,500 from the Eugene Lipman Social Action Fund. Like most members of Temple Sinai, I feel a religious obligation to pursue justice and strive for a more...
by Davis Center Contributor | Apr 25, 2024 | Making a Difference
by Nat Cohen One of the pillars of Temple Sinai’s social justice work is strengthening our democracy. The Get Out the Vote initiative of the Davis Center for Social Justice focuses on empowering voters of color and combatting voter suppression, particularly in...
by Davis Center Contributor | Apr 25, 2024 | Green Team, Making a Difference
By Robyn Miller-Tarnoff Next time you eat at the Temple, instead of tossing your leftover food, plate, fork and napkin in a garbage can, drop them in one of the new green composting bins – you’ll be doing a mitzvah! As part of our commitment to climate action...
by Davis Center Contributor | Apr 11, 2024 | Making a Difference, Uncategorized
by Michelle Engelmann If we don’t workYou can’t workJustice for Early Education TeachersPay us what we deserve!Teachers create theFuture of the country!* *Seen on a protest sign at the Early Education Rally on April 5 Mayor Bowser’s proposed budget completely wipes...
by Davis Center Contributor | Mar 28, 2024 | Gun Violence Prevention, Making a Difference
by Steve Klitzman The Davis Center has donated $1000 to the first ever faith-based gun “buyback” in upper Montgomery County on April 20, 2024 in Germantown, MD. This section of the county has seen a recent uptick in gun violence. The buyback is being organized by the...
by Davis Center Contributor | Dec 20, 2023 | Making a Difference
by Nancy Liebermann, Member of Multiracial Sinai Committee “‘Don’t Get Sick. It’s Too Expensive’: Medical Debt is Putting More Americans in Financial Crisis” Such was the headline of a December 2023 article in The Guardian about...
by Davis Center Contributor | Sep 28, 2023 | Gun Violence Prevention, Making a Difference
by Steve Klitzman, Chair, Temple Sinai GVP Group The Gun Violence Prevention Group is holding its 21st GVP educational program on Sunday, Nov. 5 at 7 pm (in person and on Zoom) with Temple Shalom in Chevy Chase. The program is entitled “Gun Industry...
by Davis Center Contributor | Sep 27, 2023 | Making a Difference, Refugees
by Cam Crockett In February 2018, Rabbi Roos, his wife Elizabeth, and 9 other congregants traveled to Lumpkin, Georgia to visit the Stewart Detention Center. Our mission was to witness the conditions at Stewart, visit detainees, and then share what we learned with the...
by Davis Center Contributor | Sep 12, 2023 | Making a Difference, Refugees
by Catherine Ribnick As mentioned in the Summer Davis Center newsletter, Temple Sinai has joined the New Neighbors Interfaith Alliance, an impressive organization of approximately 25 faith communities, whose goal is “to support the local immigrant community [in MoCo...
