Announcements & Events Temple Sinai offers many opportunities to gather and socialize.
Jewish Museum & Cultural Center 2026 Arthur Z. Steinberg Lecture Series Celebrating America at 250 (607 Effingham Street, Portsmouth) – March 8th, March 22nd & March 29th @ 2:00 p.m. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.jewishmuseumportsmouth.org. Cost: $25 per lecture, students $10 at the door with ID.
Aaron Endowed Lecture – Musical Fossils- Sampling Jewish Prayer in Pop, Rock and Hip Hop, at Mary M. Torggler Fine Arts Center, CNU – Sunday, March 22nd @ 12:30 p.m. Lecture by Michael Levine, Assistant Professor of Musicology at CNU . 3D-Pen Creations! In conjunction with the Aaron Endowed Lecture Musical Fossils @ 1:30 p.m. Visit https://www.jewishpeninsula.org/community-calendar/musical-fossils-cnu to learn more!
Sunday, April 19th @ 2:00 p.m. – Yom HaShoah Commemoration. The Virginia Holocaust Museum invites you to their 2026 Yom HaShoah Commemoration, honoring the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. This year’s program features a keynote address by internet sensation and third generation descendant of Holocaust survivors, Miriam Malnik-Ezagui. She is a widely followed Orthodox Jewish digital educator, labor and delivery nurse, and mother whose social media platform offers an authentic window into modern Jewish life. Through her videos, she shares what it means to live as an Orthodox Jewish woman today from family and faith to daily traditions while also carrying forward the powerful legacy of her Holocaust survivor grandparents. To reserve your seat please visit www.vaholocaust.org.
Celebrations
We have community dinners before Shabbat several times a year. The Oneg Shabbat (“Joy of Shabbat”), after the service, is a good way to meet old and new friends; it occasionally features a presentation or discussion.
Temple Sinai also hosts receptions for celebrations such as members’ Bar/Bat Mitzvah. We have special celebrations or observances for most Jewish holidays. The congregation gathers for fundraiser events that feature music, or a gala social events, and our Congregational meeting to elect officers and review business, and features a special Brotherhood brunch.