Mt Sinai Congregation

06/02/2026

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06/02/2026

June Birthdays! 🎉😁💫🎂🎈🎁🎊
2 Philip Reichert
5 Noam Mantaka
7 Kathleen Dow
14 Ben Thornell
24 Sherry Snyder
30 Carol Serelson

06/02/2026

This Sunday!!! 🎉

06/02/2026

Weekly Message from the Board President

Company’s coming! And a lot of it, if past history is any indication. The Yiddish Food Festival is this Sunday, June 7, from 11 AM to 3 PM. The Klez Dispensers will be performing Klezmer music. Our Israeli folk dancers will perform. There will be tours of the Synagogue, and an opportunity to meet Rabbi Mitch Delcau and ask him questions.

And most of all… is the food! Our volunteers have been hard at work preparing tons of food for sale. Here’s a quick list of what will be available:

Chicken soup with Matzah balls

Stuffed Cabbage Rolls

Bagels and Lox

Pastrami Sandwiches

Kosher Hot Dogs

Potato Knishes

Latkes

Israeli Salad

Hummus with Pita

Sweet Noodle Kugel

Challah

Hamantashen

Biscochos

Apple Strudel

Rugelach

Mandelbrot

Honey Cake

Macaroons

Matzah Brittle

Pop and Water

People start lining up outside the Synagogue doors just before 11 AM. At 11, Jason Bloomberg will go out the front door and sound the Shofar (“scaring all of the cats in the neighborhood” as he puts it). Then all of the front doors of the Synagogue will be opened, and the crowd will pour in. They will line up to exchange their money for wooden shekels (one dollar = one shekel) and then come into the Social Hall to shop and enjoy the festivities.

Getting ready has been a lot of work, and we’re not done yet. Cooking will take place all week and the social hall will be cleaned and then set up with all of our tables and chairs. We’re setting up the social hall on Wednesday at 5:30. Please come give us a hand. It shouldn’t take long if we get a lot of people.

Our thanks go to Jeff and Mary Weinstein and the many volunteers who have spent long hours in the Synagogue kitchen preparing the food.

We look our best during the Yiddish Food Festival. If you want to see how wonderful our Mt. Sinai community is, come to the Festival.

With such a large crowd coming, we will need your help on the day of the Festival. Please come to the Synagogue at 9 AM on Sunday to help us put the final touches on everything and then stay for the Festival itself. We need people everywhere, to make sure our guests have a wonderful time.

We’ll want to take a breather after the Festival, so let’s get together for a Shalom Dinner on Wednesday, June 10. It will be a night off from cooking and way to relax after the hustle and bustle of the Festival. Let’s meet at Tres Amigos Mexican Restaurant on West Lincolnway at 6:30 PM on Wednesday. There’s bound to be good stories to share.

On to other news… Rabbi Mitch Delcau is officially our Rabbi! His contract went into effect today. The Rabbi and his wife Kelly (and their daughter Lili) closed on a house in Cheyenne last week. The Rabbi has already been leading services for us, and Kelly immediately stepped in to help with the Festival and other Synagogue activities. Welcome to the Delcau family!

And we have to bid a fond farewell to Ben Thornell and Rebecca Slingwine, and their adorable kids Tirzah and Toren. You may remember Ben was our Office Administrator before Stephanie Sterling stepped in. Ben and Rebecca have moved to Eureka, California. Ben sent us an email about the move:

“Thank you all for welcoming us to Wyoming, to Mt. Sinai, and to the Jewish faith. Rebecca and I have always felt that converting to Judaism was like we were returning home. We are so proud and happy to be Jews, to have been part of Mt. Sinai, and to call the wonderful community in Wyoming our home.

Goodbye for now, but not forever, and thank you all again!”

We wish them all the best in their new adventure.

Back in April Jay Abramson contacted us. He is working on a project to post pictures of Torah scrolls from around the world. He asked for photos of our Torahs, and we obliged. He also asked for some background about our congregation. That turned into a lengthy article about Mt. Sinai, including our history and photos. Mr. Abramson just notified us that the article has appeared in the Times of Israel.

You can see it here: https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/mt-sinai-congregation-wyomings-oldest-synagogue/

Here’s our Yiddish Phrase of the Week:

Nem di oygn in di hent.
Take your eyes in your hands.

Shalom,

Dave Lerner
President
Mt. Sinai Board of Directors

From the blog of Jay Abramson at The Times of Israel

06/02/2026

June 1, 2026
Coming Up!

Tuesday, June 2 – 12 noon – Torah Tuesday led by Jeff Weinstein. Bring your lunch, learn, and discuss.

Friday, June 5 – Erev Shabbat service led by Rabbi Delcau, in person and via Zoom. Services will be in person and via Zoom. We’ll open the Zoom meeting at 6:30 so people can chat. Services begin at 7:00. Please email [email protected] to receive the Zoom link.

Sunday, June 7 – 11 AM to 3 PM – YIDDISH FOOD FESTIVAL!!!

Monday, June 8 – 5:30 PM – Bibles and Beer in person at Uncle Charlie’s and via Zoom. Jason Bloomberg is the moderator. Please email [email protected] if you want to be added to the list of those sent the Zoom link each week.

Tuesday, June 9 – 12 noon – Torah Tuesday. Bring your lunch, learn, and discuss.

Friday, June 12 – Erev Shabbat service in person and via Zoom. Services will be in person and via Zoom. We’ll open the Zoom meeting at 6:30 so people can chat. Services begin at 7:00. Please email [email protected] to receive the Zoom link.

Sunday, June 14 - 1:30 PM - Sisterhood Meeting.

Sunday, June 14 – 3 PM – Israeli Dancing – come join us!

Monday, June 15 – 5:30 PM – Bibles and Beer in person at Uncle Charlie’s and via Zoom. Jason Bloomberg is the moderator. Please email [email protected] if you want to be added to the list of those sent the Zoom link each week.

05/30/2026

Shabbat Shalom to all! Am Yisrael Chai!🇮🇱

05/26/2026

Reform Judaism (not "Reformed Judaism) is constantly "re-forming" in response to the circumstances of Jewish life in each age. The video picks up in the early 1800's but the real origins of Reform Judaism begin long before the first Reform Service as detailed in "The Rise of Reform Judaism" by W. Gunther Plaut, a copy is available in the Mt. Sinai Synagogue Library.

05/25/2026

Weekly Message from the Board President

Have you seen them? Our banners advertising the Yiddish Food Festival went up over the weekend at Lions, Cahill, Brimmer, and Holiday Parks. And our billboards are up in four locations around town. The Yiddish Food Festival is just two weeks away, on Sunday, June 7, and we’re in the final push to get everything ready.

Our volunteers have been spending hours in the Synagogue kitchen, preparing amazing amounts of food for our guests. Last year, we had almost 1,000 people come through our doors during the Festival (we counted – it was 968.) So we’re expecting a very good crowd this year.

In addition to the food, Rabbi Delcau will introduce himself to the community with Ask the Rabbi sessions. Our guests are invited to come and talk with the Rabbi and ask anything they want. There will be tours of the Synagogue, a Klezmer band will take the stage, and our Israeli Folk Dancers will perform.

The Yiddish Food Festival is our biggest fundraiser of the year, and many people in the community look forward to it and come back year after year.

We are going to need lots of volunteers. We need people to man the food booths, help in the kitchen, help with the shekel sales, and more. If you have even a couple of hours to spare, please come to the Synagogue on Sunday, June 7 at 9:00 AM. Our doors open to the public at 11 and we want everything to be perfect when they come in.

We’re going to be setting up the social hall next week for the Festival and putting out all of our long tables and chairs. We need your help with something ahead of time. The library has some excess books they would like to give away. They are on white shelves on the left side of the room as you enter. We’re going to need those shelves for the Festival, so please come to the Synagogue and help yourself to the books on those shelves.

Special thanks to Rabbi Delcau. He led services this past Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, to help us celebrate Shavuot and Shabbat. All of the services were well attended. And then he and his family came back to the Synagogue on Sunday to help with the cooking for the Festival.

Rabbi Delcau’s official start date is next Monday. He will be taking over Torah Tuesday from Jeff Weinstein. Jeff did a fantastic job leading the discussions of the Torah over the past year. It’s time for him to take a break, and we’re looking forward to seeing Rabbi Delcau leading the talks.

Did you know that Mt. Sinai has its own YouTube channel? We have 159 videos on there, including many Shabbat services, as well as holidays and other observances. You can see it by clicking here: https://www.youtube.com/.

Here’s our Yiddish Phrase of the Week:
Er iz antlofn vu der shvartser fefer vakst.
He ran off to the place where black pepper grows.

Shalom,
Dave Lerner
President
Mt. Sinai Board of Directors

05/25/2026

Coming Up!
Tuesday, May 26 – 12 noon – Torah Tuesday led by Jeff Weinstein. Bring your lunch, learn, and discuss.
Friday, May 29 – Erev Shabbat service in person and via Zoom. We’ll open the Zoom meeting at 6:30 so people can chat. Services begin at 7:00. Please email [email protected] to receive the Zoom link.
Sunday, May 31 – 3 PM – Israeli Dancing – come join us!
Monday, June 1 – 5:30 PM – Bibles and Beer in person at Uncle Charlie’s and via Zoom. Jason Bloomberg is the moderator. Please email [email protected] if you want to be added to the list of those sent the Zoom link each week.
Tuesday, June 2 – 12 noon – Torah Tuesday led by Jeff Weinstein. Bring your lunch, learn, and discuss.
Friday, June 5 – Rabbi Delcau will lead a Kabbalat Shabbat service. Services will be in person and via Zoom. We’ll open the Zoom meeting at 6:30 so people can chat. Services begin at 7:00. Please email [email protected] to receive the Zoom link.
Saturday, June 6 – 10 AM – Rabbi Delcau will lead a Shabbat morning service. Dairy kiddush luncheon to follow after services. Services will be in person and via Zoom. We’ll open the Zoom meeting at 9:30 so people can chat. Services begin at 10:00. Please email [email protected] to receive the Zoom link.
Sunday, June 7 – 11 AM to 3 PM – YIDDISH FOOD FESTIVAL!!!
Monday, June 8 – 5:30 PM – Bibles and Beer in person at Uncle Charlie’s and via Zoom. Jason Bloomberg is the moderator. Please email [email protected] if you want to be added to the list of those sent the Zoom link each week.