Welcome to the Temple Sinai web site!

Information on Religious School Registration
Pending receipt of payments in full, registrations will be accepted for the 2009-2010 Religious School prior to August 8th, using on-line forms (pdf file, MSWord File). Otherwise registrations will be accepted in-person only between 6:30 to 8 p.m on September 8th and 10th.

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.

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. Of significant importance is a September 2008 architectural proposal to expand our current facility, with an option to build/renovate an alternate location.

The latest Temple Sinai news may be read on our on-line monthly bulletin, The Tablet . The prior month Tablet, as well as Temple Sinai's annual report for 5767 (2006-07) are also available on-line. To read the Tablet, which includes the current month calendar of events (and the multi-month calendar - see button on the left) 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.