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Temple De Hirsch Sinai is a Reform Jewish congregation with synagogues at campuses in Seattle and nearby Bellevue, Washington, in the United States.The congregation was formed as a 1971 merger between the earlier Temple De Hirsch (Seattle, founded 1899) and Temple Sinai (Bellevue, founded 1961) [1] and is the largest Reform congregation in the Pacific Northwest.
Nevertheless, more than half of Rodef Shalom's members still lived near the Allegheny City Temple, so when a move was suggested due to crowded conditions, the congregation opted to expand where it stood. The original Temple building was torn down in 1900, replaced by a Charles Bickel-designed edifice. The new, larger structure was dedicated on ...
Sinai Temple was a filming location for the 2024 Netflix romantic comedy TV series Nobody Wants This, in which it doubled for the synagogue where main character Noah Roklov serves as a rabbi. Sinai Temple is mentioned in dialogue during the 2024 movie Thelma , starring June Squibb in the title role.
Among the practices Hailperin instituted were organ music during the prayer services, the elimination of the rabbinically-mandated second day of festival observance, the election of women to the temple's board of trustees, the calling of women to the Torah reading, and counting women as part of the minyan. [14] [9]
In 2011, Temple Sinai received a $21,000 grant from the Rose Community Foundation for the integration of special-needs children into its religious school. [9] The temple's maintenance manual was featured in The Temple Management Manual (2003), by the National Association of Temple Administrators (U.S.), Union of American Hebrew Congregations. [10]
The Second Unitarian Church is a historic church and synagogue building at 11 Charles Street in Brookline, Massachusetts.Built in 1916 for a Unitarian congregation, it was acquired by the innovative Reform Jewish Temple Sinai congregation in 1944.
[96] Rabbi Scott Gurdin at Temple Sinai said Wright "is missing an opportunity to build alliances and bridges." [ 97 ] The National Jewish Democratic Council distributed a statement reading, "Obama showed good judgment in strongly separating himself from Reverend Jeremiah Wright".