Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello residence stands as a complex and paradoxical symbol of democracy. Designed by Jefferson, built and tended by enslaved people, the palatial Virginia plantation was presidential retreat, retirement home, and Jefferson’s final resting place. After it was sold due to mounting debts, Uriah Phillips Levy—a Jewish naval officer and fervent believer in Jeffersonian […]
Raise your voice for abortion rights at the Jewish Rally for Abortion Justice on Tuesday, May 17, at 9 am in Washington, DC. Join Rabbi Goldstein and the Women of Reform Judaism, and the RAC at this powerful moment of collective action. The temple is providing a bus that will pick up from Temple Sinai […]
Temple Sinai, The Davis Center for Social Justice, and Multiracial Sinai are pleased to announce an upcoming DC area wide in-person presentation of Beyond the Count: Perspectives and Lived Experiences of Jews of Color. The report provides the first-ever look on such a large scale of the Jews of Color community in the United States. […]
Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello residence stands as a complex and paradoxical symbol of democracy. Designed by Jefferson, built and tended by enslaved people, the palatial Virginia plantation was presidential retreat, retirement home, and Jefferson’s final resting place. After it was sold due to mounting debts, Uriah Phillips Levy—a Jewish naval officer and fervent believer in Jeffersonian […]
*Thurs. May 19 from 9-11:30am on the Social Hall Patio *Sat. May 21 from 9-10:30am at the TSNS playground Come join us for a book fair to support the TSNS library and grow your own book collection! We will have a wide assortment of teacher and parent-recommended books for purchase, with a particular emphasis on […]
*Thurs. May 19 from 9-11:30am on the Social Hall Patio *Sat. May 21 from 9-10:30am at the TSNS playground Come join us for a book fair to support the TSNS library and grow your own book collection! We will have a wide assortment of teacher and parent-recommended books for purchase, with a particular emphasis on […]
Have you been wishing you could do something to help the pandemic engendered learning loss in our community? Here’s your chance, and it will only take a few hours. The Temple Sinai sponsored Book Fair at Browne Education Campus is BACK! The Book Fair provides appealing books for kids to read over the summer to […]
Join the latest in our Get Voter Ready! series, this time featuring candidates for Maryland House of Delegates (Districts 15, 16, 17, and 39) as well as candidates for Montgomery County Executive. The Maryland House of Delegates section will run from 10 - 11:15am and is in person only at Temple Beth Ami (14330 Travilah […]
Breaking The Cycle of Gun Violence Through Community Intervention: How to Define, Fund, Measure, and Sustain CVI The GVP Group is presenting its second Zoom Webinar of 2022 on “community violence intervention” (CVI) programs. These are community-based, public health oriented, data-driven strategies which already have documented reduced gun violence in some U.S. communities, e.g., in […]
Join us on June 18 for the Poor People’s Campaign Moral March on Washington and to the Polls! Inspired by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Temple Sinai has long been a leading supporter of this initiative, which advocates for the needs of low-income Americans. Many of you will remember Reverend William Barber’s rousing sermon at […]
On Sunday, June 19, we will be hosting a film screening of Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America at Edlavitch DC JCC 1529 16th St NW Washington, DC 20036 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGsGRSgZbXY Juneteenth has long been celebrated by African Americans in the U.S., recognizing June 19, 1865, when many enslaved people in Texas learned […]
Please join Temple Micah, HIAS, and The Davis Center for Social Justice at Temple Sinai in a discussion on migration, asylum, and justice. This program will examine two of the most significant and problematic programs along the United States-Mexico border in recent history and implore participants to consider how they can demand and support a […]