Temple Sinai of Saratoga

06/11/2026

🪻Take a Stroll through the memorial garden right next to Temple Sinai🪴 If you are interested in joining the Temple Sinai Garden Committee, reach out to the office, [email protected].

06/03/2026

What an incredible evening at the gala! ✨ It was so much fun celebrating with such amazing people, enjoying great conversations, and making wonderful memories together. The energy, the laughter, and the beautiful atmosphere made it a night to remember. Thank you to everyone who helped make the event so special— We are already looking forward to next year! 💫🥂

06/02/2026

Happy Pride Month!

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!!

It’s Pride Month in Saratoga and we are so excited to bring so many wonderful activities to the LGBTQIA+ community of Saratoga County!

Please save this calendar and share with friends. We hope to see you out to celebrate PRIDE!!

05/20/2026

We stand in solidarity with our Muslim siblings.

We are devastated. Today, gunmen opened fire at the Islamic Center of San Diego — killing three people in what appears to be a targeted act of hate. We grieve for the victims and their families.

No community should be targeted by violence. This is what happens when anti-Muslim rhetoric goes unchallenged — words have consequences. Together, we must change the way we dismantle hate and protect all of our communities.

05/14/2026

04/27/2026

A Novel recommendation from the library committee!

I’d heard the name of the novelist Amos Oz (1939-2018). I found him in our library upstairs (just turn left at the top of the stairs, then again … you can’t miss it). I read a lot of fiction and was drawn to A Tale of Love and Darkness by its very title. Tale … love … darkness. I picked it up and found that Oz had written an autobiography as the novelist he was … a colorful depiction of the Palestine he grew up in as a child and the new State of Israel he matured in: a melting pot of Eastern European refugees from a recovering Europe; early Zionists who had come to found an everlasting home for themselves and for generations to come; Jews from all over with wholly diverse traditions; Jewish intellectuals arguing over questions of the development of modern Hebrew and what the shtetl meant now in its destruction. Oz also tells about his grandmother who never stopped cleaning her surroundings and herself and cursing what she considered exotic insects lying in wait to attack. If you are drawn to the drama of a land in flux from day to day and at the same time a family living through it and the changes most of us experience, A Tale of Love and Darkness is for you.

READ AND TELL US WHAT YOU THINK IN THE COMMENTS.
FIND A COPY IN THE PARLOR LIBRARY.

04/22/2026

A friendly message from the Library Committee!

The Temple Sinai Liibrary, open whenever the Temple Building is open, was enlarged in 2013 with deep appreciation for a generous grant from the Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust. Beginning with a collection of approximately 200 books, it now numbers close to 3000 volumes.

The sections include:
100-199 Classical Judaica: (Talmud, Mishnah, Gemara, Halakah, Midrash, Kabbalah, medieval and modern Jewish thought and Jewish folklore)

200-299 Jewish Observance and Practice: (general works on Judaism; Jewish religious movements; guides to Jewish living and observance; comparative religion

300-399 Jewish Education

400-499 Hebrew, Jewish Languages (Yiddish and Ladino) and Sciences

500-599 Jewish Literature

600-699 The Jewish Community, Society, and the Arts: (organizations, institutions, customs, economic and social issues; Jews in the World Order; Art; Music; Entertainment; Culinary Arts)

700-799 Jewish History, Geography, and Collective Biography

800-899 Israel, Zionism and the Middle East

900-999 General Works (Encyclopedias; Essay Collections; Yearbooks)

Fiction
Biography
Children’s Collection

DVD’s and CD’s may also be signed out. Sign out books are located in both the Library and the Parlor.

04/19/2026

We had a wonderful time at our Family Learning Day! We brought in family heirlooms, made family trees, and celebrated our great, big Jewish family!

04/16/2026

Tonight, the religious school commemorated Yom HaShoah by making yahrzeit candles and writing the names of those who perished from Golcov Jenikov, the original home of our Czech Torah scroll. Zichronam livracha - may their memories be for a blessing.

04/09/2026

We have a Banksy on our hands!