Temple Sinai Rochester NY

Today, three years after October 7, we remember the lives taken, honor the survivors, and hold close all those whose lives were forever changed. May the memory of those we lost be a blessing.

We invite you to join the Rochester Jewish community for remembrance, reflection, and hope at one of this week’s commemorative events:

🕯️ Tonight, October 7 | 6:30 PM
An Evening of Songs, Memories, & Hope

🖼️ Thursday, October 8 | 5:00 PM
October Seventh Art Exhibit Opening

🎬 Thursday, October 8 | 7:00 PM
Film screening: The Campaign: Disinformation in a Time of War (for mature audiences)

As we remember, may we find comfort and strength in being together.

Register here: https://jewishfederationofgreaterroche.regfox.com/107-commemoration-community-events

Celebrate Simchat Torah with us at Temple Sinai! Join our community for a weekend of worship, celebration, and special milestones.

**Friday, October 2**
🕠 5:30 PM — Pre-Oneg hors d’oeuvres
🕕 6:00 PM — Erev Shabbat/Simchat Torah & Consecration Service

**Saturday, October 3**
🕥 10:30 AM — Simchat Torah Service with Yizkor Prayers and the Bat Mitzvah of Tsofia Zohar

We look forward to celebrating together!

🌟 Our first Bim Bam Morning: Pray & Play! is this Sunday!

Bring your little ones to Temple Sinai on Sunday, October 4, from 9:30–11:30 AM for a short service with Leah Saada-Sherman in the sanctuary, followed by games, arts & crafts, and activities with Kathy Adams in the social hall.

🥯 Bagels and cream cheese will be served!

Whether you’ve joined us before or are visiting for the first time, we’d love to welcome your family!

An incredible opportunity for teens, through the JFOGR:

A reminder for our schedule, all at Temple Sinai. Please see link for parking details.

Sunday, September 20
8:00pm Erev Yom Kippur - Kol Nidre

Monday, September 21
OFFICE CLOSED - YOM KIPPUR
10:00am Yom Kippur Services
10am Yom Kippur Bim Bam Young Family Service - YL
11:00am - Teen Program
12:30pm - Torah Study
3:00pm - Service for Families with Children
4:15pm – Children’s Movie - Library
4:15pm - Mincha/Afternoon Torah + Haftarah readings
5:00pm - Yizkor
6:00pm - Neilah
7:00pm Post-Neilah Break-Fast

High Holy Days - Temple Sinai All attendees without reserved parking or a handicap parking tag will park in overflow parking. There will be Event Parking signs directing traffic to Trinity Reformed Church (“TRC”), 909 N. Landing Rd., where there are two parking lots. Please use this overflow parking site first.

Bim Bam Shabbat is this Friday the 18th!

Join us for a joyful Shabbat experience for young children and their families, featuring a short kids’ service, pizza dinner, arts & crafts, and a bounce house.

Friday at 5:30 PM
Free to attend — donations encouraged.

We’d love to see you there!

Dear Temple Sinai Family,

This year, as we enter the High Holy Days, we are also coming home. After fifty years, our High Holy Day services are returning to Temple Sinai.

Rosh Hashanah begins this year on September 11 — a date that reminds us how fragile our world can be, and how deeply we need places of meaning, connection, and hope.

Coming home is about more than a building. It is about returning to one another — with our differences, our questions, our hopes, and our shared responsibility for the community we are creating together.

We enter this new year carrying concern for Israel, for our own country, and for a world that often feels unsettled. In such a time, our spiritual home matters all the more: a place where Judaism is defined positively — by meaning, learning, prayer, compassion, joy, community, and the work of making life more sacred.

May Temple Sinai be a place where we breathe more deeply, listen more carefully, and remember what we are for, not only what we are against.

We look forward to coming home together this High Holy Day season — and to making Temple Sinai an ever stronger spiritual home in the year ahead.

Shanah Tovah,

Or Zohar, Senior Rabbi
Renata Braun, Cantor
Alan Katz, Rabbi Emeritus
Josh Faber, President
Mary Mansfield, Executive Director
Susan Rizzo, Education Director

The clegy of Temple Sinai Rochester NY wishing you joyful, meaningful and peaceful New Year!

L’Shanah Tovah Umetukah 🍎🍯
The Temple office will close at noon on Friday the 11th.
See our web site for service info.