Welcome to Sinai Temple!

Sinai Temple

Welcome to Sinai Temple. Sinai is a conservative congregation founded in 1906. We are committed to the land and people of Israel, to the serious study of ancient and modern Jewish learning, and to the beautiful music and spiritual richness of prayer. In our diverse community, we have several different kinds of worship services, with our main sanctuary attracting an average of one-thousand people on Shabbat mornings. We are a congregation of spiritual seekers, loving tradition, embracing modernity, animated by the Jewish mission of improving the world.

Thank you for visiting - we hope you will decide to join us.

Office Hours:

Monday - 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday - 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday - 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday - 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Friday - 8:30 am - 3:00 pm
Saturday - Closed
Sunday - Closed

Sinai Temple observes the following holidays:

New Year’s Day (January 1)
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (3rd Monday in January)
Presidents’ Day (3rd Monday in February)
Pesach (1st and 2nd day)
Pesach (7th and 8th day)
Memorial Day (last Monday in May)
Shavuot (2 days)
Independence Day (July 4)
Labor Day
Rosh Hashanah (2 days)
Yom Kippur
Sukkot (1st and 2nd day)
Shemini Atzeret
Simchat Torah
Veterans’ Day (Nov. 11)
Thanksgiving Day
Day after Thanksgiving
Christmas Day

Service Hours:

FRIDAYS

Mincha/Shabbat Service
Every Friday Night
5:45 p.m.

Jammies ‘N’ Jeans Shabbat/ Shabbat in the Park
1st Friday of the month
5:45 p.m.

The Ted and Hedy Orden & Family Friday Night Live
2nd Friday of the month
7:30 p.m.

SATURDAYS

Main Sanctuary
Every Shabbat morning
8:45 a.m.
The Rabbi begins teaching at 10:00 a.m. each Shabbat

Family Minyan
Almost every Shabbat morning (9:00 a.m. when there is a B’nai Mitzvah)
9:30 a.m.

Torah in the Round
3rd Shabbat of each month
9:30 a.m.

STARS Shabbat Morning
Once a month
10:00 a.m.

TOT Shabbat
3rd Shabbat of each month
9:00 a.m.

The Feit Family Shabbat LIVE
2nd Saturday of the month
11:00 a.m.

Daily Minyan
Sunday Mornings - 8:30 a.m.
Monday – Friday – 7:30 a.m.
Evenings – 5:45 p.m. or 4:30 p.m. (depending on the time change)

History

In 1906, Sinai Temple was established as the first Conservative congregation in Southern California. From 1906 until 1925, housed at the corner of 12th and Valencia, just west of what is now the Los Angeles Convention Center, the congregation outgrew its first facility. Land was bought at 4th and New Hampshire in the Mid-Wilshire district just east of Hancock Park, and High Holy Days were celebrated in 1925 in the skeleton of the developing new facility. The westward movement of the Jewish community of Los Angeles led to the acquisition and development of the current site at Wilshire and Beverly Glen in Westwood in 1956. On S'elihot 1960, services were enjoyed in our new sanctuary, with the first school facilities and Kohn Chapel completed in 1969. The recent building expansion, completed in September 1998, resulted in vastly improved school and banquet facilities. Throughout the twentieth century and into this new millennium, Sinai Temple continues to flourish as a leader of modern Conservative Jewish life and thought.

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