Brotherhood 2016

The Brotherhood offers the men of Temple Sinai the opportunity to build and strengthen friendships, support the operation and community of Temple Sinai, and to do mitzvot for the greater Burlington area.

Brotherhood has many events and activities planned for 2016. In conjunction with the Social Action Committee and the 5th Grade Religious School parents Brotherhood hosted the 5th Grade class folk/youth service and dinner on February 5. Brotherhood will also be involved in the Temple's Purim Party on March 26 and plans to arrange for Kosher wines to be tasted at several Onegs before Passover with an opportunity for the congregation to order the wines. Brotherhood will be very involved in Temple's Jubilee celebration on June 24-26, and will organize and conduct the Temple Work Day on June 5. As usual Brotherhood will arrange for High Holiday ushering and Sukkah construction and takedown, and will host a Shabbat service and Oneg. Other events under consideration are a Trivia Game Night and Dinner, a Movie Night and perhaps a Jewish Humor Night.

Dues are $18 annually (suggested optional level is $25) and can be sent to or dropped off at the Temple office in the Brotherhood mailbox. We also have available "official" Brotherhood t-shirts. Remember you do not have to be a Temple or Brotherhood member to participate in our activities--all are welcome! 

For more information about the Brotherhood email Steve Greenfield at spgreenfield@comcast.net or call him at 802-879-3132.

2015 Brotherhood

The Brotherhood offers the men of Temple Sinai the opportunity to build and strengthen friendships, support the operation and community of Temple to do mitzvot for the greater Burlington area.

Brotherhood has many events and activities planned for 2015. Some of the special events include: co-sponsoring the Temple Purim Party on Saturday March 7 at which there will be a Megillah reading, games for children, food and drink for all and live music by our own Rock Shabbat band; arranging a Kosher for Passover Wine Tasting; making repairs/doing maintenance at the annual Temple Work Day to be held in June; leading a Shabbat service with Oneg to follow; and other events that will develop as the year goes on. Brotherhood will also as usual arrange for High Holiday ushering and the construction/takedown of the Sukkah, and will reach out to other Temple groups including Membership, Sisterhood and Social Action to explore opportunities to co-sponsor activities.

Dues are $18 annually (suggested optional level is $25) and can be sent to or dropped off at the Temple office in the Brotherhood mailbox. We also have available "official" Brotherhood T-shirts and hoodies. Remember you do not have to be a Temple or Brotherhood member to participate in our activities. All are welcome! 

For more information about the Brotherhood email Steve Greenfield at spgreenfield@comcast.net or call him at 802-879-3132.

Hood Blog

Brotherhood has many events and activities planned for 2014. Brotherhood sponsored, jointly with Sisterhood, a Purim celebration on March15 which featured a Megillah reading, games for children, dinner and live music by Temple's own Rock (Shabbat) Band. The Brotherhood also provided and served the food for Temple's Youth Shabbat service on March 28 and will provide the Oneg for and lead the Shabbat service on April 18. Another Temple Work Day will be held in June and other events are planned for later in the year - check back for details

Hike Against Hunger 2013

On Sunday 10/13 I was part of a group of about 40-50 that participated in what I believe was the fourth annual Temple Sinai Hike Against Hunger.  As always it involved members of Temple dragging themselves up Mt. Philo after pledging – or in the case of the kids getting grownups to pledge – financial donations to the Hunger Free Vermont project.  As you know if you’ve been there Mt. Philo is an ideal hike for the casual or infrequent exerciser – just enough to make you breath hard, not enough to hurt you.  This along with the unbelievably good weather we had for the event on Sunday – it was a Vermont Life calendar photo-worthy day – no doubt accounts for the many people, wedding parties and dogs we happily shared the mountain with.  

Anyhow, this year the Hike was the joint project of Temple Sinai’s Social Action Committee, the Young Judea high school youth group in which our kids participate with other area Young Judeans, and the TS Brotherhood.  Also three pugs, who raised the overall cuteness factor of the TS group considerably.  The Social Action Committee paid for the food, Young Judea bought the food (which was strictly kosher as all YJ events are) and the Brotherhood supplied the grills and labor to cook the food.  There was certainly no hunger on the mountain that day, as we had enough to share with some of the fellow non-TS hikers, which means that if you thought of coming but did not because you thought there would not be enough food you erred.

Thanks go to the organizers of this consistently wonderful project:  Doug Kallen and the SA committee, Young Judea and their adult guide and mentor (and TS member) Gail Issenberg, and fearless leader of the Brotherhood Steve Greenfield.  Hopefully we’ll see you on an equally wonderful day next fall.

Bruce Hicken  

Upcoming Fall Events

Remaining events planned for 2013 include:

• Building the Sukkah (done on Sept.15) and taking it down

•  Holding the last quarterly meeting of the Brotherhood on Sunday October 6 at 10 a.m. at Temple
• Doing the BBQ for the Hike Against Hunger at Mt. Philo on Sunday October 13 jointly with Young Judea
• The Second Annual Brotherhood Bowling Bash (at which all are welcome like all Brotherhood events) this fall on a date to be determined. 

Watch for the announcement coming soon that  "official" Brotherhood apparel is available!

Brotherhood Work Day June 2, 2013

Temple Work Day will be held on Sunday June 2 (rain date is June 9) at 10 am and the Brothers will be doing a variety of Temple improvement projects for several hours, preceded by our quarterly meeting with the usual refreshments.

We also have events scheduled for the summer and fall - more about these later!

Upcoming Brotherhood Events

The Brotherhood is leading the Friday evening Shabbat service on March 22 and is helping with the Oneg. Brotherhood will also be digging holes in early May for the Temple's new saplings (this is BYOS - Bring Your Own Shovel!) and will arrange for them to be watered regularly.

Brotherhood will be providing the food for the last Tot Shabbat of this school year on April 12 and we may resume doing this in the fall. 

Temple Work Day will be held on Sunday June 2 (rain date is June 9) at 10 am and the Brothers will be doing a variety of Temple improvement projects for several hours, preceded by our quarterly meeting. 

We also have events scheduled for the summer and fall - more about these later!