Sinai Brookline

06/01/2026

🏳️‍🌈Celebrate Pride Month with Temple Sinai!🏳️‍⚧️
🔗Visit our website for more info, and to register for events: https://sinaibrookline.org/series/celebrate-pride-2026/

🩷Rainbow Shabbat | Friday June 5th, services at 6:00pm followed by an oneg
Join us to hear from some Temple Sinai members speaking about their personal LGBTQ+ journeys, experiences, identities, and discoveries. Our rainbow Shabbat will be a celebration of courage, authenticity, resilience, and joy. All are welcome! Sponsored by Temple Sinai’s Rainbow Committee.

💚Interfaith Pride Service | Sunday, June 7 at 2pm
Join Brookline clergy for our second annual Interfaith Pride Service on the lawn outside United Parish in Brookline (210 Harvard Street). Together, we will celebrate LGBTQ+ pride, inclusion, and the strength of our diverse faith communities. All are welcome!

🩵Film Screening: The History of Sound | Sunday, June 14 at 3pm
Join us for a screening of The History of Sound at West Newton Cinema, followed by a panel sponsored by Brookline clergy. Set around World War I, the fi lm tells a tender story of two young men bound by music and a profound connection. The discussion will feature Rabbi Toba Spitzer and Rev. Diego Garrido Barrieto.

💜Pride Liberation Seder | Tuesday, June 16 at 6pm at Temple Israel
The Pride Liberation Seder uses the model of the Passover Haggadah to tell the story of the liberation of the LGBTQ+ community. The Haggadah is adapted to provide q***r history, explain the variety of q***r symbols, and furnish a platform for people to tell their personal stories of their LGBTQ+ experiences.

05/28/2026

Jewish Heritage Night at Fenway Park! ⚾️✡️

05/27/2026

🌈Join the Rainbow Committee's movie screening on Saturday, May 30 at 5pm:

🍿"Kissing Jessica Stein", a comedy about two women who decide to dabble in a same-sex relationship because of a series of failed heterosexual affairs. Heather Juergensen and Jennifer Westfeldt, who wrote and star as said “let’s-give-it-a-whirl ‘lesbians,” have wit and chemistry on their side and create the nearest cinema has come to a gay Woody Allen movie.

05/19/2026

05/18/2026

🌾Two Ways to Celebrate Shavu’ot 5786!

📖Erev Shavu’ot & Yizkor Service
Thursday, May 21 at 7:00pm at Temple Sinai’s Sanctuary
This service will also include Yizkor memorial prayers recited on this and other festivals. Please join us to remember a dear relative or just to celebrate the holiday.

🦉Annual Brookline Community Tikkun Leil Shavu’ot All-Night Shavu’ot Study
Thursday, May 21, 8:00pm - 4:00am, held at the Kehillath Israel campus
Temple Sinai joins other Brookline-area synagogues and minyanim for an all-night Jewish learning and cultural experience at the Brookline Community Tikkun Leil Shavuot! Over 500 people gather each year for dozens of Jewish learning sessions, including text study, art, music, cooking and food, and more, with a Sermon Slam as a highlight around 12:30am, to celebrate the Giving of the Torah on Shavu’ot. Sessions are led by community rabbis, teachers, volunteers, educators and activists.

05/14/2026

🇩🇪Exploring the Culture of Weimar Garmany
🗓️Weds, May 20, 27 & June 3, 7:00 - 8:30 pm

💭Join us with Temple Sinai member Marvin Kabakoff for a three session offering that will explore the amazing cultural explosion of Weimar Germany, 1918-33. The class will start with the historical background Weimar, laying out the political and economic situation, and then look at the music and theater of the period, the art and architecture, the literature and philosophy, the incredible film industry, and the freedom of sexual expression. In person only.

05/12/2026

💭Join us for the final session of "Israel Today: A Portrait of a Nation in Transition"

🇮🇱Session 3: “Why are Israelis So Happy in the World's Indexes?”
🗓️Sunday, May 17, 1:00-2:30pm, with Temple Sinai member Larry Lowenthal, join us in person or contact the temple office to join by Zoom

05/11/2026

🌳Why Israel’s Nature Matters: 72 Years of Conservation and What Comes Next

🗓️Wednesday, May 13 at 7:00pm at Temple Sinai (in person only)

Join Temple Sinai member Rachel Canar, Executive Director of Nature Israel (ASPNI), for a presentation to explore what makes Israel’s ecology unique, why its protection matters now more than ever, and the essential truth that caring for nature is not separate from human resilience but foundational to it. In a time of profound challenge, The Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI) has spent more than seven decades safeguarding Israel’s most precious ecosystems — work that strengthens the wellbeing of all species in the region. (Rachel will also share some stunning photographs of wildlife in Israel.) Sponsored by the Israel Committee.

05/05/2026

🍽️Last chance to sign up for our May Community Dinner!
⏰Friday, May 8, 6pm

🕍Celebrate Shabbat with your Temple Sinai community! We will enjoy a catered Shabbat meal, and come together to connect as a community. Join us for our Erev Shabbat Services with our Shabbat@Six Band, with dinner to follow in Ehrenfried Hall. All ages welcome.

🔗Registration closes Wed. May 6 at noon - sign up now:

Celebrate Shabbat with your Sinai community. We will enjoy a catered Shabbat meal, and come together to connect as a community. All ages welcome.

04/30/2026

Jews Against ICE Standout at Citizens Bank today!