As you know from the last newsletter, we have had budget deficits in each of the last three years and expect to have one again this year. In order to shore up Temple Sinai’s finances, as well as recognize our diverse congregational membership, below is the new dues structure for next year: L’Dor v’Dor Level […]
Mens Club Breakfast – May 6th 9:00 a.m.
On the one hand an inverted US yield curve is said to be problematic for our economic growth. On the other hand consumer confidence continues to rise along with greater than expected revenues/profits by the digital industry. Or is all of this a result of global quantitative easing? What to expect in the coming near […]
Financial Update – Transparency
Since I joined the Board last July as a Member-At-Large, I have heard a lot of talk about a lack of transparency in the finances of the synagogue. I was asked to step into the role of Financial Officer (CFO) in late October, and I reluctantly accepted. Although I have been on the Boards of […]
Reno Jewish Story Club Meeting
Monday, April 23, 2018, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. “A Contract With God” by Will Eisner Will Eisner was born to poor Hungarian-Romanian immigrant parents in Brooklyn, NY in 1917… just as WW I ended. He had his father’s gift for drawing and pursued this skill into his teens in Depression era 1930s at DeWitt Clinton […]
Spring Simcha 2018
It’s time to start spreading the word! The 2nd Annual Spring Simcha Fundraiser for Youth Programs is right around the corner! Saturday 4/21/2018 5-9:00 p.m. The Grove in South Reno Super Hero Theme (costumes encouraged) Silent Auction, Raffle, Dinner, Dancing and fun for the whole family! $60/person for adults (includes 5 raffle tickets and 1 […]
2018-03-26 Reno Jewish Story Club
Reno Jewish Story Club Meeting Monday, March 26, 2018, 7 – 9:00 p.m. “Cheesus Christ” and “Pick a Color” by Etgar Keret If you search the internet for Israeli authors our contemporary, Etgar Keret, pops up time and again. He’s everywhere, working in print, film and television. Our first Reno Story Club exposure to Keret […]
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 […]