Congregation Sinai - Milwaukee

Congregation Sinai - Milwaukee We are a reform Jewish Congregation in the North Shore of Milwaukee. Founded in 1955, Sinai is a reform Jewish congregation in the north shore of Milwaukee.

Joyous worship, lifelong Jewish education, and a warm, diverse, welcoming atmosphere are what make us who we are.

You don’t prove your commitment to free speech by defending people you agree with.You prove it when you don’t.
04/17/2026

You don’t prove your commitment to free speech by defending people you agree with.
You prove it when you don’t.

You don’t prove your commitment to free speech by defending people you agree with. You prove it when you don’t.

What if the Exodus isn’t about where we came from, but about who we’re meant to become?
04/05/2026

What if the Exodus isn’t about where we came from, but about who we’re meant to become?

Or were they? Rethinking the Exodus with S. David Sperling PhD

Freedom isn’t the absence of obligation. It’s the embrace of the right one. Passover is the journey from memory… to resp...
03/30/2026

Freedom isn’t the absence of obligation. It’s the embrace of the right one. Passover is the journey from memory… to responsibility.

How Passover should move us from memory to action

Passover tells the story of ancient slavery, but the truth is harder: slavery still exists. With 50 million people trapp...
03/27/2026

Passover tells the story of ancient slavery, but the truth is harder: slavery still exists. With 50 million people trapped in modern exploitation worldwide, the Exodus is not just history, it is a timeless moral imperative. This year, the question is not whether Pharaoh lives. We know he does. It’s whether we are willing to answer, like Moses, “Hineni, here I am.”

Passover is about ancient slavery, but slavery still exists. With 50 million slaves today, the Exodus is a timeless moral imperative. The question is not whether Pharaoh lives. We know he does. It’s whether we are willing to answer, like Moses, “Hineni, here I am.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/davidbcohen/p/when-the-sirens-sound?r=17mmsj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeO...
03/24/2026

https://open.substack.com/pub/davidbcohen/p/when-the-sirens-sound?r=17mmsj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
In Israel, families run to shelter when sirens sound, living with a relentless rhythm of interruption and fear. Here in America, we watch from afar—but the distance is not as great as we might wish. When violence targets a synagogue, the question becomes immediate: Are we safe? Jewish communities are taking that question seriously, strengthening security while refusing to surrender the essence of who we are. Because Judaism calls us not only to guard life, but to choose life—to gather, to pray, to build. In this moment, we hold two realities at once: the siren and the song.

On Israel, proximity, and the quiet work of keeping Jewish life possible

War produces terrible outcomes. But not all terrible outcomes are the same. One recent tragedy may have been a catastrop...
03/16/2026

War produces terrible outcomes. But not all terrible outcomes are the same. One recent tragedy may have been a catastrophic mistake. Another raises a harder question: what does it mean when great powers ignore the oldest rule of the sea, that you do not leave drowning sailors behind?

Power, restraint, and a torpedo in the Indian Ocean

https://open.substack.com/pub/davidbcohen/p/what-do-you-do-with-a-power-drunk?r=17mmsj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&...
03/07/2026

https://open.substack.com/pub/davidbcohen/p/what-do-you-do-with-a-power-drunk?r=17mmsj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
War reveals many things, including the character of those who speak about it.

This week’s Torah portion tells the story of the Golden Calf — a moment when fear, impatience, and immature leadership produced disaster.

Watching the rhetoric surrounding the Iran war this week, I found myself wondering whether the ancient warning still applies.

Civilization, it turns out, depends on grown-ups.

The rhetoric of War and the quiet warning of the Golden Calf

https://davidbcohen.substack.com/p/the-third-prophet-of-dystopia?r=17mmsjFor years we’ve asked: Are we living in Orwell’...
02/23/2026

https://davidbcohen.substack.com/p/the-third-prophet-of-dystopia?r=17mmsj
For years we’ve asked: Are we living in Orwell’s world or Huxley’s?
There’s a third possibility.
Kurt Vonnegut warned not about tyranny or sedation — but about absurdity. About what happens when systems, whether efficient or chaotic, lose their moral center.
A society can function and still forget what it is for.
That may be the real dystopi

Aldous Huxley and George Orwell were both prescient. But Kurt Vonnegut may have seen our danger most clearly.

Some moments must be sung. Not because the journey is over, but because the chains are broken. And we dare not forget wh...
02/02/2026

Some moments must be sung. Not because the journey is over, but because the chains are broken. And we dare not forget what that breaking cost.
REDEMPTION SONG: SOME MOMENTS NEED A MELODY

Some moments need a melody

We like to believe that catastrophe announces itself clearly, that warning signs are unmistakable, and that only willful...
01/29/2026

We like to believe that catastrophe announces itself clearly, that warning signs are unmistakable, and that only willful blindness explains failure to act. But history does not feel that way from the inside. It arrives in fragments, distractions, and slow moral erosion—until suddenly, what once seemed unthinkable begins to feel normal.

In truth, History arrives in fragments, distractions, and misapprehensions. Only far later do the trends seem obvious

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8223 N Port Washington Road
Milwaukee, WI
53217

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 6pm
Friday 9am - 3pm

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