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 »
This May, social justice leaders and activists from across the Reform Movement will convene for the RAC’s D.C. Day of Action. This gathering will provide an opportunity to learn, connect, and act together on Capitol Hill as part of our newly-launched Power for Purpose: the Reform Movement’s 2023 Campaign for Climate Justice. Keynote sessions will Continue Reading »
Panelists are drawn from our own cadre of Temple Sinai experts: Rabbi Hannah Goldstein, Dr. Sara Imershein and Judith Lichtman, and moderated by Karen Rothenberg. Register now - please attend in person, if possible. A Zoom option is also available. To submit questions for our panelists in advance, please email Karen Rothenberg. Refreshments at 7 Continue Reading »
Please join us for a visit to the Sandy Spring Slave Museum and African Art Gallery on Saturday, May 20 at 2pm for a one-hour talk on "Truth Telling: The Story of African Americans in Montgomery County". People can then tour the museum and the exhibitions outdoors. Visit the website to learn more about current Continue Reading »
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 - one of the receiving schools for migrants from the US/Mexico border - is returning this Continue Reading »