Congregation Sinai has an energetic Social Action Committee. While the committee has been active for many years, it has enjoyed a recent rejuvenation and a new dedication to Tikkun Olam, repair of the world.  The committee sees its mission as providing an opportunity for all congregants to recognize their Jewish responsibility  to help others in the community.

In the last year the committee adopted both a continuing project and a number of smaller efforts. For the continuing project it partnered with the Milwaukee County Social Development Commission Family Shelter, one of the very few homeless shelters for intact families.  The committee and its many volunteers sponsored two major mitzvah days at the shelter.  Last fall nearly 100 congregants built and installed shelving walls for the shelter’s clothing bank, danced & made felt blankets with the children, and painted a substantial portion of the interior of the building.  Families from Sinai joined with families at the shelter for a wonderful day and everyone could be proud of the day’s accomplishments.

Your help is essential in making Sinai an active and vibrant community. Whether you volunteer for a single project, or offer to serve on an ongoing committee, we value the participation and engagement of every congregant.

The Talmud explains: while the sage, Choni, was walking along a road, he saw a man planting a carob tree.

Choni asked him: “How long will it take for this tree to bear fruit?”

“Seventy years,” replied the man.

Choni then asked: “Are you so healthy a man that you expect to live that length of time and eat its fruit?”

The man answered: “I found a fruitful world because my ancestors planted it for me. Likewise, I am planting for my children.”