Saturday, July 11: Northwoods Shabbat at Lac du Flambeau cottage of Rabbi Dan Danson and Julie Luks; 11:00 A.M.
Friday, August 7: Shabbat Service and BBQ/Potluck at Mt. Sinai; 6:15 pm.
Upcoming Events
On Friday evening, June 26 through Sunday morning, June 28,Mt.Sinai is going camping! We will be staying in group sites at the Chippewa/Miller Dam Chequamegon Waters Campground outside of Medford. Stay with us overnight at the campsite or just come out for a day. Enjoy Shabbat in nature! We will have a lay lead Shabbat Service on Saturday morning as well as a short Havdalah ceremony on Saturday evening. The rest of the time can be spent hiking, fishing, swimming or just socializing with friends and family around a campfire. There are even flushing toilets and hot showers for those of us that enjoy camping-lite. Cost of the site reservation will be determined by the number of campers, however we expect costs to be minimal. To RSVP or for questions, please contact Melanie Kuolt at mkkuolt@hotmail.com or 715-344-9444.
Please join us at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, July 11, for a Northwood's Shabbat service at the cottage of Rabbi Dan Danson and Julie Luks, 2330 Point Ln, Lac du Flambeau, WI, 54538. Map Services will be followed by lunch (please bring a vegetarian dish to pass) and you are invited to stay afterwards for swimming and boating, If you have life-vests for your children, please bring them. Please RSVP to the office no later than July 5 (675-2560 or mceling@mswisc.org).
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Welcome to Mt. Sinai
Mt. Sinai is affiliated with the Union For Reform Judaism (URJ). We have over 90 member familes living in 7 counties in north central Wisconsin. Some of the cities and towns where members live are Wausau, Stevens Point, Marshfield, and Minocqua.
Rabbi Dan Danson has been our full-time spiritual leader since 1988. Click on Meet Our Rabbi to learn about his background and interests. You can e-mail him at ddanson@mswisc.org.
For more information on Mt. Sinai, see the other sections of this website or contact us by email or phone.
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Special / Unusual Items
To celebrate and honor the joyous events in your family's lives, consider ordering a leaf for our Tree of Lifein the Mt. Sinai social hall. Click HERE for more information on this great way to commemorate happy occasions.
Paul Newman died in 2008. Read about this new kind of Jewish film star in The Jewish Daily Forward by clicking HERE.
Click on this article from the New York Times titled 'How do you prove you're a Jew?' Rabbi Danson played a key role in the events that are described in this article about issues of identity in contemporary Israel.
Click on this article from the New York Times about young adults forming "minyanim" to worship on their own terms. No rabbi or established synagogue is required for this dynamicalternative approach to Jewish Services.
Click here to read an amazing article on Bar/Bat Mitzvah lavish festivitiesfrom the Washington Post. "It isn't hard to find rabbis who worry about this arms race to ever-flashier fetes, who think parents are driven by the need to publicly demonstrate their affluence, who wonder what poker and popcorn have to do with Judaism."
Click on this article from The Jewish Daily Forward on some challenges to gay and lesbian synagogues as they become more accepted by the wider Jewish community.
Click here for access to an interactive Hebrew/English calendarwith Jewish holidays highlighted for this year and four years into the future.
Click on Jewish Food Itemsto learn about the availability of Jewish foods at local stores.
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