Welcome to the Temple Sinai web site!

Located in the historical district of downtown Saratoga Springs New York, Temple Sinai is a progressive Reform synagogue that began in the early 1960's as a study group of a dozen families. Their love of learning nurtured a growing cadre of interested individuals and, in 1965, Temple Sinai was established as Saratoga's Reform synagogue. Since that time, the congregation has grown to include more than 170 families and individual members representing a diversity of life styles, professions and religious observances as well as an ever-widening geographic locale. Our congregation combines the benefits of both smaller and larger synagogues with its friendly, warm atmosphere, and programs that seek to meet the needs of the members as well as of the larger Jewish community. Our rabbis, Linda Motzkin and Jonathan Rubenstein serve not only as our spiritual leaders but are both skilled teachers and counselors and are active in local community and interfaith efforts.

Our Temple Sinai web site has been developed to highlight key elements of the Temple Sinai community including our religious school, adult religious education, social activities and other current information for current and future temple members as well as for visitors. To supplement our web site (as well as our monthly bulletin and e-mail announcements), The Temple Sinai Chronicle has been created to include timely comments and articles from the temple leadership and the rabbis, announcements and articles from committees, and interactive comments with the congregation.

A recent project led by Rabbis Linda and Jonathan involving congregants of all ages is taking place in Temple Sinai - the Bread and Torah Project. During the past months, the Bread and Torah project has been featured in several newspapers, magazine articles and other publications. With the Rabbis' recent sabatical 'rest' during their journey in Chile, the Congregation looks forward to experience and be led by the Rabbis' current and future creative innovations.

Because of the growth of our membership, religious school and programs, a committee was formed to evaluate the medium and long term programmatic and physical plant needs of the congregation. Our Project Genesis page provides summary results of meetings. It has also been expanded to include a link to an intereactive Blog. Recently, a green project has been initiated to help the environment, cut our energy costs, and reduce our carbon footprint. The project, based on a professional energy audit, will require volunteers ranging from fundraising to publicity to light construction. Details will be updated on The Temple Sinai Chronicle.

The latest Temple Sinai news may be read on our on-line monthly bulletin, The Tablet . To read the current and/or prior month Tablets , which includes the current month calendar of events (the multi-month calendar is available as a web page) you need Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is freeware. It can be downloaded for all operating systems and computer types at

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html .

Temple Sinai is one of a number of congregations caring for a torah scroll which had been confisgated during the Holocaust. In 2003, a Temple Sinai member completed research on the story behind this Holocaust memorial torah scroll. It's an incredible story, and provided on this site.  

Temple Sinai is a member of the Union for Reform Judaism , formerly the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Temple Sinai has established a privacy policy to alleviate privacy concerns relating to electronic communications.