Lunch Bunch will meet on Wednesday, September 10 at noon at Mt. Sinai. All members are welcome.
Religious Education for children begins on Sunday, Sept. 14 at 10:00 am. This first session of Religious School will be followed by a "pizza picnic" at 11:30 am. with games and fun for everyone. To register children for the Mt. Sinai religious school programor to get more information, contact the synagogue at office@mswisc.org or our religious school principal, Jeannie Waldman at waldman@charter.net.
Sunday, September 21 at 2:00 pm.: A premier screening of "Chosen Towns", a new one-hour documentary about Jewish life in Wisconsin's small communities. This film will be shown on Wisconsin Public Television at a later date. After the showing, enjoy a "talk-back" with one of the film's producers. Some scenes were filmed at Mt. Sinai, so you could show up on television. [The time for the screening is listed incorrectly in the September newsletter. 2:00 pm. is the correct time.]
MARSHFIELD SHABBAT & POTLUCK DINNER on Friday evening, September 26,
at 6:15 pm, at the home of Marian Greenburg and Richard Tierney. For the potluck, please bring a main dish, salad, or vegetable and bread, a beverage, or dessert to pass.
Erev Rosh Hashanah Service;Monday, September 29 at 8:00 pm. Click HEREfor complete High Holiday Services schedule.
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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.
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Special / Unusual Items
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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