Temple De Hirsch Sinai

Thank you to everyone who attended our recent Wrestling with the Moment featuring Eitan Levine and Eric Cortellessa. We loved seeing our community come together to engage with important questions and to listen to and share perspectives with one another. 💙

Hear from our Temple Habitat for Humanity volunteers who recently spent time building a home over the weekend 🔨 🏠:

“Seven of us from Temple spent the day helping build a home — a small act of tikkun olam we were grateful to be a part of. Marilynn and Josh Kaplan, Ron Pechmagre, Demetria Spinrad, Daniel Stiepleman, and Lynne and Brad Smith all spent Saturday, May 30 house building with Habitat for Humanity. Habitat for Humanity partners with volunteers and future homeowners to build safe, affordable housing for families in need.

We all had a wonderful time helping others and getting to know Temple members we hadn’t known before. It was a beautiful and sunny day and a wonderful experience. We heartily encourage helping this organization out if you can. And you may even learn a few house building skills like how to frame a house!”

Thank you to our volunteers for helping make a difference in the community. 💙

"I understand the reticence to air our dirty laundry—our shonda for the goyim— to a world seemingly salivating to leverage any Jewish failures as fodder to destroy the Jewish State and relegate global Jewry to its previous pariah status. That will inevitably happen. But with the stakes so high, a resistance to moral clarity cannot impede our need to act. The world may hold Israel and Jews to unreasonable standards. But that does not justify an abdication of the sacred ethic which inspires our actions and defines us as Jews."

Check out Rabbi Daniel Weiner’s latest Substack article, “With Firmness in the Right,” in the comments below!

Coming this Saturday! You won’t want to miss out!

You’re invited to our next installment of Wrestling with the Moment: Judaism, the Middle East, and America in 2026. Join us for a deep and entertaining conversation featuring TIME Magazine staff writer Eric Cortellessa, comedian and social commentator Eitan Levine, and TDHS’s own Rabbi Jeff Silverstein.

Register here: https://templedehirschsinai.shulcloud.com/form/wwtm-may30-2026?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio