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

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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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