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HAR SINAI CONGREGATION
- Har Sinai Congregation is the oldest continuously Reform Congregation in the United States.
- With 500 families, Har Sinai Congregation is small enough to provide an intimate, caring, family-oriented environment where everyone knows your name, yet big enough to have all the resources and amenities necessary to meet the needs of all segments of our Congregation.
- A beautiful new temple in Owings Mills at Greenspring and Walnut Avenues.
- Har Sinai Congregation has well respected and nationally known clergy: Rabbi Bradd Boxman recently became the Congregation's new spiritual leader Cantor Ellen Schwab brings a new dimension to Jewish music at the temple
- A commitment to Jewish education and learning as a lifelong process:
- Mommy and Me Program (Fall 2002)
- Religious school from kindergarten through 12th grade
- K-3 grades-one day per week
- 4-7 grades-two days per week
- 8 grade-confirmation-one day per week
- 11-12 grades (post confirmation) - one day a week
- Special 4-year-old program, Ayzeh Kef
- Family Education Programs
- Adult Education that includes weekly Saturday
- Torah study
- Har Sinai Congregation is a Congregation of Learners (COL), where we examine and reinvent our Jewish learning programs to meet the challenges of the 21st Century
- An active Sisterhood and Brotherhood, offering monthly programs.
- Social clubs, such as our vibrant Baby Boomers Club
- Active youth groups:
- HaSTY – Har Sinai Congregation Temple Youth – High School Youth Group
- Chalutzim – Middle School Youth Group
- Tzofim – Elementary School Youth Group
- Worship services to meet congregants' needs:
- Equality of men and women in all aspects of the worship experience
- Personal freedom to wear kippah or tallit
- Friday evening and Saturday morning Shabbat services
- Tot Shabbat and Family Services
- High Holy Day services for all ages
- Special services for all Jewish holidays
- Kabbalat Shabbat services
- Periodic Classical Reform Shabbat services
- Experience all your lifecycle events in a caring community:
- Brit and Baby namings
- Bar and Bat Mitzvah
- Adult Bar and Bat Mitzvah
- Funerals and Shiva
- A Congregation with a strong social action conscience
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