Israeli folkdance is a joyous folk art form that is easy to start and difficult to stop. It draws from many cultures and expresses itself in dances that range in complexity and speed. See this article for more information.

Join hosts Adele, Lani and Mitch and a friendly group of people that gathers periodically on Zoom or in person to enjoy the folkdances of Israel!

A fundraiser for humanitarian aid in Israel and Palestine. A partnership between communities, volunteers bake and sell bread in the community kitchens to benefit these medical relief organizations:

United Hatzalah: first responders in Israel
Palestine Children’s Relief Fund: medical care for children in Gaza and West Bank

Our goal is to partner with a diverse groups of interfaith congregations on this project. This date will include Ohavi Zedek and Burlington Friends Meeting, as well as other invited local congregations. If your house of worship church, synagogue or mosque is interested in participating, please contact us.

Bread (challah, pita, gluten-free oat) will be baked in the OZ kitchen from 12pm – 6pm and available for pick-up in the evening or the following day in Burlington or Richmond. Volunteers are also needed during the following time slots: Noon – 1:30pm, 1:30pm – 3pm, and 3pm – 5pm.

Purchase Bread / Sign Up to Volunteer Here

All Jewish identified adults to explore our feelings and reactions to the tensions in Israel/ Palestine today. We will use Jewish values, and Jewish and Palestinian writings as a basis for holding courageous conversations together. Coffee and goodies included.

These 5 conversations will build on each other. Come to as many as you can. In person at Ohavi Zedek, monthly on Sunday mornings. Please register so we can send you materials ahead of each session.

Sundays from 9:15 – 11:00 in the OZ Sanctuary & Social Hall

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The Temple Sinai Young Families Program offers a monthly playgroup during the school year. Children are invited to bring push toys or ride on toys to use in our big social hall. We will also have toys available to play with. Designed for ages 0-6, but all are welcome!

Israeli folkdance is a joyous folk art form that is easy to start and difficult to stop. It draws from many cultures and expresses itself in dances that range in complexity and speed. See this article for more information.

Join hosts Adele, Lani and Mitch and a friendly friendly group of people that gathers periodically on Zoom or in person to enjoy the folkdances of Israel!

We mostly dance around a circle so no partner is required. We have a large repertoire of beginner-friendly dances. New dancers are encouraged to come at the beginning of the session to benefit from instruction. Please wear shoes with clean soles.

This program is free with an optional donation.

Register Here

Join us for our service in person and on ZOOM.

There will be a short service to say kaddish, followed by dinner!

Please bring your menorah and candles so we can light them all together.

Please bring a brisket or latkes or a side dish to share!

No Registration necessary! Just join us!

Join us for a Potluck with latkes, children's games and

live music by the RJC Klezmer Band!

For more information please contact office@rutlandjewishcenter.org

Join Temple Sinai for a Young Families Hanukkah Party! This festive holiday program is designed to engage young children and their families. Snacks and social time are included!

Join us to celebrate Hanukkah!

Email Aimee Hutton at aimee.hutton@templesinaivt.org for more information.

Register Here

Join Ohavi Zedek for our annual, all ages Chanukah Party!

Enjoy: Delicious Latkes and Sufganiot (donuts), Music & Sing-Along, Raffle, Dreidel, Games, Crafts, Gift Shop, Face Painting, & More!

https://ohavizedek.org/event/chanukah2025/

Following our outdoor “Talmud al Fresco” session, join Rabbi David for an evening of text, food, and conversation inspired by The Boy on the Door on the Ox: An Unusual Spiritual Journey Through the Strangest Jewish Texts. Together, we’ll taste some of the most surprising, puzzling, and playful passages in Jewish tradition—stories that stretch the imagination and invite us to see holiness through encounters with text. Dinner will be provided.

Bring your rock 'n' roll soul to Rock Shabbat with Dahg! Temple Sinai's house rock band will play a mix of contemporary Jewish popular and liturgical music, as well as great rock songs from the 60s right up to the present.

A Talk, with Film Clips, by UVM Lane Series Director Natalie Neuert

Natalie Neuert will discuss how these Weimar Era Jewish directors became three of the most successful, influential, and revered artists in American cinema. Her talk will include a look at their early German work; their arrival and establishment of careers in Hollywood; and their lasting impact on the American film industry.

PLEASE REGISTER HERE

Tot Shabbat is a Shabbat service designed to engage young children and their families. Snacks and social time will follow the service.

Contact Aimee Hutton at aimee.hutton@templesinaivt.org for more details

We are gearing up for another Jewish trip with teens from multiple Vermont and New Hampshire congregations!  This year we are exploring Boston on Veteran’s Day, Tuesday November 11th. 

• Meet to take the 7:40 am Dartmouth Coach, arriving South Station 10:30 am

• 11-11:30 am Visit New England Holocaust memorial

• 11:30 - 12:30 pm Eat lunch at the Kosher Milk Street Cafe, ice cream at JP Licks (also kosher)

• 1 pm Tour of Vilna Shul and Jewish Beacon Hill 

• 3 pm tea party with teens from Sinai in Brookline

• 4:30 pm Mayyim Hayyim tour

• Take the bus home at 6:30 pm, arriving Hanover at 9:30 pm

The cost is estimated to be $190 per person, which includes transportation on the Dartmouth Coach and Boston T Subway, lunch, snacks, and tours of the shul and the mikvah.  (Those using alternate transportation would pay $55 less). The Harriet Feinberg matching teen grant provides a $90 subsidy to each Kol Ha’Emek teen so their cost will be $100 total. Other congregations may also have funds to subsidize teens participating on the trip–please ask your leader.   If the cost is lower, we will return the extra to families.  

Melissa Herman of Kol Ha’Emek will be leading the trip, with support from educators at other congregations in VT and NH.  

If you are interested in participating, please fill out this form and send a deposit of $100 to Kol Ha’Emek, 5 Occom Ridge, Hanover NH 03755, Attn: Teen Trip to Boston.  Balances will be due on October 17.

The Northern Nosh is a collaborative project of Jewish organizations and individuals to share and celebrate Jewish food and culture. The festival is an intergenerational and family-friendly event. Our 4th annual festival will include a variety of Jewish foods lovingly made by our community members and professionals, music for kids and adults, kids crafts and other programs and activities.

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Join Temple Sinai for a fun night out!

Come hang out and meet other Jews. Meet new friends or bring your own! Share your fund of random knowledge with us as we join Trivia Night at Burger Bar in Colchester (by Fanny Allen and St. Michael’s College). Trivia starts at 7 pm. Come early and shmooze! No sign up is required but if you want to let us know, you can email Danielle at danielle.levine@templesinaivt.org. We will make teams and tables as people arrive. We suggest arriving between 6:30 and 6:45pm so we can settle in. There will be food and drink available for purchase if you like (but it’s not required)

The Temple Sinai Young Families Program offers a monthly playgroup during the school year. Children are invited to bring push toys or ride on toys to use in our big social hall. We will also have toys available to play with. Designed for ages 0-6, but all are welcome!

Shabbaton with Dan Nichols

October 31 - November 1

We have a weekend of events planned and hope you will join us for some or all of them!
Friday, Oct 31st, 5:30 pm Shabbat Dinner
Please join us for Shabbat dinner before Shabbat with Dan Nichols. We will provide the main dish from Pulcinella's and ask you bring a side or salad.
Cost for the dinner is $10/pp or $25 for the entire family.Please RSVP below!

6:30 pm Friday Shabbat Service with Dan Nichols
All are welcome!

9:30 am Morning Service with Rabbi David Edleson
All are welcome!

11:00 am  Teen Program "Oh.My.God."
Please join Dan for a deep dive into song craft and explore singer-writer's (Jewish and secular) perspectives on the meaning of time, love, place, purpose, and “more-than-me-ness.”

7:00 pm Dan Nichols Concert
All are welcome! BYOB. 
$18/pp (under age 18 free)

Film Screening, Discussion and Potluck Dinner
Sponsored by OZ Adult Ed with Friends of Standing Together

About the Film:
This is an award-winning documentary exploring the complex relationship of shared humanity, culture and connection between Israelis & Palestinians—and the transformative journey that follows when they are faced with meeting ‘the other’ amidst the difficulty of the conflict & occupation—providing an extraordinary example of what we are all capable of as humans.

Filmed from 2017-2024, including post October 7th and during the subsequent war, The Other focuses on Israeli & Palestinian peace-builders, anti-occupation activists, artists, academics, ex-fighters, bereaved parents and many more living the reality on the ground. Whether in non-violent co-resistance, peace-building, or shared community, we witness those who have only known each other through hate, bloodshed, inequality, and war, transcend beyond narrative & belief systems. They teach us that unlearning deep-seated conditioning is possible and that we can liberate ourselves from generational trauma, hatred and fear—no matter how ingrained and legitimate those fears are.

The Temple Sinai Young Families Program…offers a monthly playgroup during the school year. Children are invited to bring push toys or ride on toys to use in our big social hall. We will also have toys available to play with.

Designed for ages 0-6, but all are welcome!

For more information, please contact Aimee Hutton

Shows at 2 & 6 Tickets: $8 matinee $10 evening Seniors and students $8 all shows

AMONG NEIGHBORS, a new, award-winning documentary that has been recently released in New York, is coming to the Middlebury Marquis Theatre on October 22!

Produced and directed by award-winning filmmaker Yoav Potash (“Crime After Crime,” Sundance Film Festival) and Executive Produced by Anita Friedman, “Among Neighbors” is an evocative and heart-pounding murder mystery with urgent political relevance. This outstanding film tells an incredible story of a town where history has been silenced, but a brave eyewitness to murder speaks out in search of the Jewish boy she loved.

The film brings the Polish response to the Holocaust to life through the last living eyewitnesses, revealing both love and betrayal as it zeroes in on the only living Holocaust survivor from the town, and an aging eyewitness who saw Jews murdered there, not by Nazis, but by her own Polish neighbors.