License plate: TEk=FUN Hi, My name is Doug Hinko and I am excited to challenge students creativity and technology skills as we explore our understanding of Judaism and its place in our world through the use of technology, art and other mediums. I am excited to spend time getting to know everyone!
In choir, it is my hope that the kids embrace this message of respecting one another, as we ourselves would like to be respected. In working together as an ensemble, as a team, we want to be inspired by one another, pay close attention to one another, and be happy with each other’s successes. Only then, can we sing and inspire as one!
During the High Holy Days, one of the prayers we chant is the “Sh’ma Koleinu”: Hear Our Voice. In this prayer, there is a line which begins “Al tashlicheinu l’eit ziknah”; do not cast off your old. For the last couple of months, I have been working on transitioning my parents in to assisted living. While I do this work with love and care, I can’t help but have compassion for others in the new community my parents are now living in. On any given day when I am there, I go out of my way to do something helpful…
Recognized as one of “The Top Five Best New Voices in Jewish Music” by The Forward, Marcus Feldman is the Senior Cantor of Sinai Temple. His voice has been heard at Dodger Stadium, The Getty Center, and all over the world via his YouTube channel. Training in opera as a tenor, Cantor Feldman graduated from the University of Southern California’s Thorton School of Music and the Marshall School of Business as a Renaissance Scholar in 2007. Ordained as a cantor in 2011 at the Academy for Jewish Religion, California, Cantor Feldman holds a Master’s of Jewish Sacred Music degree from the…
Rabbi Erez Sherman was ordained from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in May 2009. He is also a graduate of Albert A. List College and Columbia University (with degrees in Music and Talmud). At Sinai Temple, Rabbi Sherman oversees the Sinai Temple Israel Center, which engages the synagogue and the Los Angeles community in Israel advocacy and education through speakers, classes, trips, and programs. He founded the Sinai Temple Israel Center Rabbinical School Fellowship, which trains future Rabbis through seminaries across North America how to engage Israel in a deep and nuanced manner. He also directs the David and…
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My name is Jacob Gown and I’m the Director of Musical Engagement. I’m also the head teacher for 5th grade. I was born on Sivan 30, 5738. The number 30 is important to me because I feel like my life shifted for the better when I became 30 years old. I found that I was more focused on what I want from life and started becoming more intentional with my actions. When I was 30 I began dating Debbie, the woman who I ultimately married. All this relates to the concept of intention. When we pray Shacharit each morning we…
Danielle has had the pleasure of returning to the Sinai Temple community. She attended Sinai Akiba Academy Day School, where she met her husband in the 4th grade. She was also confirmed at Sinai Temple. Sometime later, she returned and taught at Sinai Akiba Academy and Sinai Temple Religious School. She received her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Comparative Religions from the University of California, Riverside. She holds a double Masters Degree in Education Administration and Hebrew Letters from the University of Judaism (American Jewish University). Danielle has visited Israel many times and has led teenage groups on tours throughout…
MUSIC UPLIFTS OUR SOULS Music reaches where words cannot go. For generations, people who barely knew the prayers still found that the melodies of our tradition lodged in their memories and in their souls. – Rabbi David Wolpe The music of Sinai Temple is inspirational, accessible and rooted in a long history of tradition. Led by Cantor Marcus Feldman, our Music Department, in partnership with the Sinai Temple clergy, works strategically to blend traditional, nostalgic and contemporary melodies, while ensuring that the prayers we sing remain true to our history. Celebrating the Music of Sinai Temple In 2017, Cantor Marcus…
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