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Serve with Sinai: Repairing the World and Building Community

Posted on October 8, 2025

by Susan Wegner, Chair of Serve with Sinai There’s a longstanding debate in philanthropic circles about the relative merits and effectiveness of efforts focused on direct service vs. policy and Continue Reading »

My Experience on Temple Sinai’s Southern Border Trip

Posted on February 25, 2025

By Naomi Karp The headlines about the Southern border are dramatic:  “Trump Officials Move to Quickly Expel Migrants Allowed in Temporarily” and “Trump Plans to Use Military Sites Across the Continue Reading »

Annual Reports from 2024 Lipman Grant Recipients

Posted on February 25, 2025

The Davis Center awards annual social justice grants in honor of Rabbi Eugene J. Lipman who served as rabbi at Temple Sinai from 1961 until retiring in 1987. In awarding Continue Reading »

Meadow Reproductive Health and Wellness: The Pinnacle of a Career in Reproductive Health

Posted on July 12, 2024

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 Continue Reading »

Lipman Grant Spotlight: DC Volunteer Lawyers Project

Posted on May 1, 2024

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 Continue Reading »

DC Ballot Initiative 83: Improving DC Elections

Posted on April 25, 2024

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 Continue Reading »

What’s with the Green Bins? Temple Sinai is Composting!

Posted on April 25, 2024

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 Continue Reading »

“If We Don’t Work, You Can’t Work”: The Pay Equity Fund

Posted on April 11, 2024

by Michelle Engelmann If we don’t work You can’t work Justice for Early Education Teachers Pay us what we deserve! Teachers create the Future of the country!* *Seen on a Continue Reading »

Davis Center Supports First Faith-Based Gun Buyback in Montgomery County

Posted on March 28, 2024

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 Continue Reading »

‘Don’t Get Sick. It’s Too Expensive’ – Temple Sinai campaigns to eliminate medical debt

Posted on December 20, 2023

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 Continue Reading »