Join together with other Temple Sinai congregants for an unforgettable journey through the American South, February 16 - 19, 2023. Learn on-location about the Civil Rights Movement and the role of the Jewish community in this ongoing struggle. Highlights include: • The Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery, AL • Memorial for Peace and Justice Continue Reading »
Temple Sinai is sponsoring a weekend to collect used (or new) sports equipment to enable Leveling the Playing Field (LPF) to distribute to low-income schools, leagues and sports programs in D.C., Montgomery and Prince George's counties, Baltimore and Philadelphia. This event is co-sponsored by the Davis Center for Social Justice, the TS Religious School, and Continue Reading »
Please join the Washington Interfaith Network (WIN) for an informative session on strategies for enhancing public safety. The session will begin at 1:15 at Foundry United Methodist Church, 1500 16th Street, NW. Public safety is an important issue which cuts across many issues of concern to all of us including issues of racial justice and Continue Reading »
Please join Dr. Sara Imershein on Tuesday, March 21 from 6 pm - 7 pm at Temple Sinai for a conversation about abortion and Judaism. Dr. Imershein is a local abortion provider, educator, and advocate for reproductive freedom. What is an abortion and how is it done? What are Jewish teachings on abortion? ASK QUESTIONS! Continue Reading »
Join us as celebrate Shabbat while “Praying With Our Feet” at A Wider Circle in Silver Spring, MD. This is a wonderful opportunity to observe Shabbat through tikkun olam, repairing the world. Volunteers will help load furniture, restock household items, sort through donations, repair objects, and do whatever else may be needed. All ages welcome, Continue Reading »
Did you attend last June's Mass Poor People's and Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls? Are you interested in the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival? If so, join the PPC's national campaign training on March 27th at 7 pm on Zoom, led by the National Continue Reading »
Promising bills on community solar, energy savings through electrification, clean trucks and buses, Maryland the Beautiful, and native plants have advanced in the MD Senate and House. Each will be voted up or down by April 10. To learn more about each bill and access scripts for your representatives, click here. Contact your MD senator Continue Reading »
Join WIN and Council Member At-Large Robert White on April 11. This action will focus on affordable housing and black homeownership, due to White serving as chair of the Housing Committee. Program begins at 7:30 pm at Varick Memorial AME Zion, 255 Anacostia Ave., NE. Register
Join us as celebrate Shabbat while “Praying With Our Feet” at A Wider Circle in Silver Spring, MD. This is a wonderful opportunity to observe Shabbat through tikkun olam, repairing the world. Volunteers will help load furniture, restock household items, sort through donations, repair objects, and do whatever else may be needed. All ages welcome, Continue Reading »
Join WIN and Council Member Brooke Pinto who represents Ward 2. Council Member Pinto is chair of the Judiciary and Public Safety Committee, so this meeting will focus primarily on public safety, and particularly on strategies to reduce gun violence other than increasing police presence. Although relatively few TS members live in Ward 2, this Continue Reading »
Hearing a lot about affordable housing but not really sure what "it" is? Having trouble sorting out fact from fiction on the neighborhood listserv? There's a lot of activity right now around development of affordable housing in Upper Northwest and understanding what it means for us as neighbors and as Jews isn't always clear. This Continue Reading »
St. John’s Episcopal Church, Gun Violence Prevention Ministry, and the Temple Sinai Gun Violence Prevention Group, invite you to this hybrid community forum on gun safety policies. A recent empirical study has identified four state-level policies that will save lives and on which there is substantial consensus between Americans who do and do not own Continue Reading »