Voices of Sinai

Part I: Chanukah as Chanukah Part II: Chanukah as Sukkot “..have courage to be different and fight for the dignity of difference. Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks “On the other hand, how can I turn my back on my faith and my people?If I try and bend that far, I’ll break. On the other hand…No! There […]

Dear Mrs. Staal, Superintendent Smith, and Assistant Superintendent Tolbert,My son Shai Greenfield is a 7th grader at Campus Middle School and, to put it plainly, we are proud Zionist Jews who believe that the Jews, an indigenous people of the Southern Levant along with the Samaritans, have the unalienable right to self-determination in the birthplace

It’s About That Jewish Freedom/Hope Thing Passover 2024 (5784) “The Exodus from Egypt occurs in every human being, in every era, in every year and even on every day.”  Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, 18th Century   “Jews have a crazy custom at the seder.  They drink four cups of wine and then pour a fifth.

During a recent volunteer teaching experience in Northeast Ohio (where I grew up) at Shaw High School, I asked one high school senior about her desired profession.  In response, she noted she wanted to run Airbnb properties on the beach.  The practical reality for her is that for her to envision having access to that

“If you were to ask what our response to the Holocaust should be, I would say this: Marry and have children, bring new Jewish life into the world, build schools, make communities, have faith in God who had faith in man and make sure that His voice is heard wherever evil threatens.  Pursue justice, defend

“These are things that are limitless…” Our Eternal Values “Hannukah, the Feast of the Maccabees, celebrates a victory—not a military victory only, but a victory also of the spirit over things material. Not a victory only over external enemies— the Greeks; but a victory also over more dangerous internal enemies. A victory of the many

Temple Sinai’s 2021 and 2022 8th and 9th grade classes concluded their year by creating a “TEMPLE Talk” (think TED Talk but for our Temple)! 9th grade spent the year learning about social justice and ways to actively engage with causes they care about in the Colorado community. The 8th and 9th grade classes together

Message in Reaction to Mass Murders, May 2022 In the span of ten days, this nation has been stunned by the two mass murders. On May 14, a man twisted with racism and antisemitism targeted a supermarket frequented by people of color. He murdered 10. Of those shot, 11 were Black and two were White.

High school student Maya Ayres first realized the harms of plastic waste in fifth grade, when she saw garbage inside the nest of a bluebird. Since then, she has been raising awareness about the importance of waste reduction. Orignally posted on Rocky Mountain PBS. Maya is a part of our Temple Sinai Religious School and we