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What’s Happening at Temple Sinai? Well, quite a bit!

You’ll find our upcoming events for the month in the calendar and below, and underneath the calendar are events with detail.
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5th Annual Reverse Tashlich
Sep
6
social action, High Holy Days

5th Annual Reverse Tashlich

Join us and OZ for a community waterway cleanup at Burlington’s Urban Reserve, near the Burlington Bike Path!

Take note: We are meeting at a new location this year!,

Reverse Tashlich 2026 is part of a global Jewish movement bringing communities together to care for our environment and help prevent trash from entering our waterways.

This event is appropriate for ages 10 and up and will include group cleanup activities, with support from community members involved with the Burlington Parks Commission.

Please wear sturdy shoes, long pants, and long sleeves. Bring bug spray, sunscreen, and work gloves if you have them; gloves will also be available.

Please arrive a few minutes before our 1:00 PM start time. Park in the lot near the A-Dog Skatepark and the Community Sailing Center. We’ll gather there to sign a Release of Liability form before heading together to our cleanup area.

We’ll begin with a brief centering ritual connecting our environmental work to the spirit of Reverse Tashlich, and then get to work caring for this special part of Burlington’s waterfront.

Come ready to lend a hand, connect with community, and help keep Burlington’s waterways clean!

About Reverse Tashlich:  This program is a recent add-on to the Jewish traditional Tashlich, an annual ritual in which some Jewish people throw crumbs of bread into a body of water during the Rosh Hashanah holiday.  The physical act of tossing crumbs is a metaphor for the mental process of seeking to toss away bad habits and improve ourselves in the coming year.

Burlington’s ‘Reverse Tashlich’ began in 2022 when we joined 240+ other communities in this new tradition of cleaning up a body of water. Read more about the movement here and about Repair the Sea organization.

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COTS Back to School Bonanza
Aug
1
Avodah, social action

COTS Back to School Bonanza

The Social Action Committee is collecting items from July 1-31 for COTS’ Back to School Bonanza on August 1.

The Bonanza is a free event, where hundreds of Vermont students in grades K-12 who are experiencing homelessness or need can have fun while they choose their backpacks, school supplies, and first day of school outfits donated by the community.

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Reverse Tashlich
Sep
28
social action, High Holy Days

Reverse Tashlich

This event is appropriate for people of all ages, and will include group clean up activities facilitated by community members who have been involved in the Barge Canal area management.

About Reverse Tashlich: This program is a recent add-on to the Jewish traditional Tashlich, an annual ritual in which some jewish people throw crumbs of bread into a body of water during the Rosh Hashanah holiday. The physical act of tossing crumbs is metaphor for the mental process of seeking to toss away bad habits and improve ourselves in the coming year.

Burlington’s ‘Reverse Tashlich’ began in 2022 when, we join 240+ other communities in this new traditional of cleaning up a body of water.

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Reverse Tashlich
Oct
6
social action, High Holy Days

Reverse Tashlich

This event is appropriate for people of all ages, and will include group clean up activities facilitated by community members who have been involved in the Barge Canal area management.

About Reverse Tashlich: This program is a recent add-on to the Jewish traditional Tashlich, an annual ritual in which some jewish people throw crumbs of bread into a body of water during the Rosh Hashanah holiday. The physical act of tossing crumbs is metaphor for the mental process of seeking to toss away bad habits and improve ourselves in the coming year.

Burlington’s ‘Reverse Tashlich’ began in 2022 when, we join 240+ other communities in this new traditional of cleaning up a body of water.

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Reverse Tashlich
Sep
24
social action, High Holy Days

Reverse Tashlich

This event is appropriate for people of all ages, and will include group clean up activities facilitated by community members who have been involved in the Barge Canal area management.

About Reverse Tashlich: This program is a recent add-on to the Jewish traditional Tashlich, an annual ritual in which some jewish people throw crumbs of bread into a body of water during the Rosh Hashanah holiday. The physical act of tossing crumbs is metaphor for the mental process of seeking to toss away bad habits and improve ourselves in the coming year.

Burlington’s ‘Reverse Tashlich’ began in 2022 when, we join 240+ other communities in this new traditional of cleaning up a body of water.

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Oct
30
social action, Classes & Workshops

VT International Film Festival Presents: Three Minutes. A Lengthening

Also showing virtually all day – Oct 31-Nov 2

Three-minutes’ worth of 16mm film on the verge of ruin is what Glenn Kurtz found in his parent’s Florida home shortly after their passing. Shot by Kurtz’s grandfather on a European tour in 1938, the amateur footage captures the Jewish community of Nasielsk, Poland, just one year prior to the Nazis’ brutal invasion. Frame by frame, slowed, stilled, played backwards and forwards, Three Minutes: A Lengthening interrogates the found footage to resurrect the people and the town that disappeared in one of history’s most monumental tragedies. Based on Kurtz’s award-winning book, Three Minutes in Poland, and narrated by Helena Bonham Carter, this documentary is an act of archival revelation, both fascinating in its scholarship and chilling in its discovery. ~TW

***Followed by a Q&A via Zoom with the director – this screening only***

Sponsored by: Temple Sinai and Ohavi Zedek

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