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Temple Sinai (Denver, Colorado)
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Temple Sinai is a Reform
synagogue
located at 3509 S. Glencoe in Denver, Colorado
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The workbook Tzedakah, Gemilut Chasadim, and Ahavah: A Manual for World Repair (1990), by Joel Lurie Grishaver and Beth Huppin, was piloted at the synagogue.
In September 1995, more than 650 members of the synagogue spent a day removing graffiti in Denver, painting buildings, cooking pastries, repairing toys, scraping walls, and potting plants, in an effort to fulfill a mitzvah
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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.
Reform Judaism
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Synagogue
A synagogue is a Jewish house of prayer. This use of the Greek term synagogue originates in the Septuagint where it sometimes translates the Hebrew word for assembly, kahal...
located at 3509 S. Glencoe in Denver, Colorado
Colorado
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Services
It is a full-functioning synagogue with a religious school catering to preschoolers through confirmation students. Services are performed every Friday night, Saturday morning, and on holidays. The synagogue has a pre-school, which has a student:teacher ration of 4:1.Building
The synagogue has a large, many-colored mural of playing children, with Jewish ritual objects and words and saying in Hebrew around them. The current building was built in 1996. In 2003, a meditation garden was under construction.History
It was started in 1967 by Rabbi Raymond A. Zwerin, who had been ordained three years prior at the Hebrew Union CollegeHebrew Union College
The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is the oldest extant Jewish seminary in the Americas and the main seminary for training rabbis, cantors, educators and communal workers in Reform Judaism.HUC-JIR has campuses in Cincinnati, New York, Los Angeles and Jerusalem.The Jerusalem...
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The workbook Tzedakah, Gemilut Chasadim, and Ahavah: A Manual for World Repair (1990), by Joel Lurie Grishaver and Beth Huppin, was piloted at the synagogue.
In September 1995, more than 650 members of the synagogue spent a day removing graffiti in Denver, painting buildings, cooking pastries, repairing toys, scraping walls, and potting plants, in an effort to fulfill a mitzvah
Mitzvah
The primary meaning of the Hebrew word refers to precepts and commandments as commanded by God...
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Clergy and staff
Rabbi Zwerin recently retired as senior rabbi. The senior rabbi is Richard S. Rheins and the associate rabbi is Jay TelRav. The Cantorial Soloist and Music Director is Bryan Zive.Recognition
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.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.