Upcoming Events

Inviting the entire Temple Mount Sinai community to join together:

Scholar-in-Residence Weekend

December 9-11, 2016

In Partnership with the Jewish Federation of Greater El Paso

Executive Director of The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (AJA) and the Edward M. Ackerman Family Distinguished Professor of the American Jewish Experience & Reform Jewish History at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in Cincinnati.

Babysitting available. Please let us know that you are attending so that we can make arrangements.

Friday, December 9, 2016

6:15pm Shabbat evening service

7:30pm Shabbat dinner ($15/adult, $7/student, free for 5 and under) and learning:

“HE WAS ONE OF US!” – AMERICAN JEWRY’S RELATIONSHIP WITH ABRAHAM LINCOLN

This session is based on Professor Zola’s new volume, We Called Him Rabbi Abraham: Lincoln and American Jewry (Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 2014) which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Few are aware of the remarkable history linking American Jewry and President Lincoln. Dr. Zola will explain why many of Lincoln’s personal and professional characteristics that have caused American Jews to embrace the sixteenth president as a man who possessed a Jewish soul. Lincoln’s remarkable human qualities offer American Jewry an uplifting legacy to ponder.

Saturday, December 10, 2016

10:30am Shabbat morning service

Noon Kiddush lunch (please rsvp so that we prepare enough food) and learning:

GREAT VOICES, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND JEWS IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH

Have you ever wondered what some of the leading American rabbis handled pivotal world events from the pulpit? What did American rabbis tell their congregants about topics such as the rise of Adolph Hitler, the outbreak of World War II, the struggle for Civil Rights in the 1950s and 1960s, and so forth? Dr. Zola, will introduce us to some of Judaism's most remarkable rabbinical leaders. This will be a rare opportunity for you to actually hear a series of remarkable vocal recordings (digitized with visuals added) of several towering rabbinic voices, all of which come from the AJA's extraordinary historical collection. This will be your chance to listen to sermonic voices that you may know by reputation - but have never actually heard.

Sunday, December 11, 2016

9:30am Religious School Tefilah (worship)

10am Nosh and Learning:

Remarkable Documents of the American Jewish Archives: Why We Preserve Primary Source Materials and How it Relates to Us

The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives is the world’s largest catalogued collection of documentary evidence on the history of North American Jewry. It is an archives composed of more than 20 million individual records. Dr. Zola, Executive Director of The Marcus Center and Associate Professor of the American Jewish Experience at HUC-JIR will show us a few of the AJA’s most fascinating and historically significant documents. He’ll help us to understand what’s worth saving, and how what might seem unimportant now can be incredibly meaningful and powerful for generations to come who seek to understand our family, our community and our Temple better.