Alexa Foley – D’var Torah
So, when I heard the rabbis voice chanting my Torah portion with the trope, it was so beautiful and melodic and I was thinking, oh wow, this is going to be awesome and profound and special! And then I read my Torah portion was all about animal blood, animal fat and expulsion… Eeeeeww, really? Wow. […]
Stephen Myerson – D’var Torah
Shabbat Shalom and welcome all to our B’nei Mitzvah. If I were still 13, I would both thank my parents and blame them for the stage fright I felt at 13 years of age. At my first Bar Mitzvah 60 years ago, I was motivated by parental insistence and images of my grandparents weeping in […]
2018-03-11 Sunday Forum at UUFNN
Sunday Forum: What Jews can Teach UUs March 11, 9 AM, Starr King Room UU Fellowship of Northern Nevada (780 Del Monte Ln, Reno, Nevada) Jewish members bring a richness to our spiritual lives. Rabbi Ethan Bair, of Temple Sinai, will engage UUs on their third UU Principle of “encouragement to spiritual growth”, as […]
Reno Jewish Story Club Meeting
Monday, February 26, 2018, 7 to 9 p.m. Two Stories by Shani Boianjiu: Means of Suppressing Demonstrations What Happens When the Two Israels Meet? An unusual combination this month — a work of fiction and a work of biography — by the same Israeli author! Shani Boianjiu comes from Romanian and Iraqi roots, and grew […]
Reno Jewish Story Club Meeting
Monday, January 22, 2018, 7 to 9:00 p.m. “Innocent Spirit” by Alicia Steinberg and “Kindergarten” by Victor Perera Last fall, UNR Prof Darrell Lockhart recommended “Oy Caramba!” a collection of translated short stories by Jewish Latin American authors from ten countries [edited by Ilan Stavans]. Many of the stories evoke the theme of being a […]
Tzedakah Challenge
Tzedakah Challenge Leading Up To Mitzvah Day – March 18, 2018 at Temple Sinai It has been said that it is better to give a penny a day for one hundred days than to give one hundred dollars only once, because the daily penny trains your hand to be generous. Our Sinai School […]