Sinai Memorial Chapel

"I hope you're proud of yourself for the times you've said "yes," when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to someone else." - Mister Fred Rogers
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#WednesdayWisdom #quotes #canvalove #mrrogers #greatgifts

"Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people." - Prince, z"l
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#RIPPRince #MissingPrince #PrinceQuotes #princesott #PRINCE #PurpleRain #quoteoftheday #QUotes #canvalove

"I've always been into self-dramatization. I intend to live forever." - Leonard Cohen, z"l (May his memory be for a blessing)
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#RIPLeonardCohen #jewishquotes #canvalove #leonardcohenquotes #zichronolvracha #זל #MayHisMemoryBeForaBlessing #leonardcohen

Shabbat Shalom!

"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal." - Albert Pine

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein
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#canvalove #hanukkah2020 #chanukah2020 #MiraclesHappen #jewishquotes #HappyHanukkah #alberteinsteinquotes

“He has told you, O man, what is good, And what the L~RD requires of you: Only to do justice And to love goodness, And to walk modestly with your G~d; Then will your name achieve wisdom.” - Micah 6:8-9 via Sefaria
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#WednesdayWisdom #JewishQuotes #micah68 #CanvaLove #quoteoftheday

"In a dark time, the eye begins to see." - Theodore Roethke

End Well | Take 10

Andy Cohen talks about how covid hit him personally and how men should show up for each other and talk about death, mourning and loss at End Well's #TAKE10
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https://2020.endwellproject.org/solidarity/show-(up)-time! #Endwell

2020.endwellproject.org Take time to #Take10 right now to join a conversation about the messy and beautiful gifts of being alive in 2020. Watch celebrities and unsung heroes share their stories.

End Well | Take 10

Maria Shriver & Claire Bidwell Smith share their thoughts on loss, grief & being kind during End Well's #TAKE10.
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https://2020.endwellproject.org/solace/everybody-hurts?mc_cid=9abb360f92&mc_eid=51b19f677e #EndWell

2020.endwellproject.org Take time to #Take10 right now to join a conversation about the messy and beautiful gifts of being alive in 2020. Watch celebrities and unsung heroes share their stories.

TORAH: The Maccabees stood up to the wicked — we need to do the same

"Injustice thrives in silence." - Rabbi Dov Greenberg, Chabad at Stanford in the J. The Jewish News of Northern California
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#shinebright #ShabbatShalom #chanukah2020 #nesgadolhayahsham #bravery

jweekly.com The Torah column is supported by a generous donation from Eve Gordon-Ramek in memory of Kenneth Gordon. Hanukkah recalls a time more than 2,000 years ago when the Jews living under Greek rule were persecuted. The Greeks forcibly attempted to Hellenize the Jewish people. They outlawed the practice of...

"Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." - WL Watkinson

"Every moment of light and darkness is a miracle." Walt Whitman
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#חנוכה #canvalove #Hanukkah #hanukkah2020 #HanukkahQuotes #quoteoftheday #MiraclesHappen #chanukah #chanukah2020 #ShineBright #FirstNightofHanukkah #nesGadolHayahSham

"We laugh to keep from crying." - Kanye West

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly." - Langston Hughes

Shabbat Shalom!
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#שבתשלום #ShabbatShalom #GoodShabbos #GutShabbos #canvalove

"I prayed for freedom for 20-years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs." - Frederick Douglass

"If you want something, go get it. Period." - Chris Gardner
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#GoGetIt #getitdone #doneisbetterthanperfect #ChrisGardner #pursuitofhappiness

"The end is just the beginning." - T.S. ELIOT
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#wednesdaymorning #wednesdayvibes #WednesdayThought #wednesdaymotivation #WednesdayWisdom #canvalove #quoteoftheday

On World AIDS Day, we are inspired to do what we can to help end the stigma and discrimination of all people living with HIV. We remember those we have lost with honor and blessings.

#WAD2020 #RockTheRibbon #WorldAIDSDay #stopHIV
#endTheStigma

"The highest of distinction is service to others." - King George VI

"We can also give peace a chance." - Yitzhak Rabin, z"l

Grief & Growing™: A Healing Program for Bereaved Individuals and Families - Bay Area Jewish Healing Center

Everyone deserves the opportunity and support to reflect on the loss of someone significant in their lives who has died. This clinically-based, Bay Area Jewish Healing Center program is uniquely designed to help individuals and families attend to their losses in community and gain the tools they need in their mourning.

Please learn about these two Grief and Growing™ weekends. Applications are due November 30 for the Adult February 6-7 program and December 30 for the Families March 6-7 Redwoods program.

jewishhealingcenter.org Everyone deserves the opportunity and support to reflect on the loss of someone significant in their lives who has died. Grief and Growing™ is a clinically-based, Jewish healing program uniquely designed to help individuals and families attend to their losses in community, and gain the tools they ...

Shabbat Shalom!
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#שבתשלום #ShabbatShalom #GoodShabbos #GutShabbos #canvalove

J. The Jewish News of Northern California

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan on this week's Torah portion, a story of family alienation and reconciliation:

"We must be headlights and not taillights." - Honorable John Robert Lewis, z"l #GoodTrouble

Thank you to Jorun & Harmon Shragge Jr. for the gift of See’s Candies decadent chocolate treats for our entire team!

We are filled with Hakarat HaTov (gratitude) with the support from this entire community in accomplishing this essential work. Thank you.
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#HakaratHatov #gratitude #seescandies #CanvaLove #ChocolateMakesEverythingBetter #ChevraKadisha #JewishBayArea #JewishSanFrancisco

[11/19/20]   "Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean." - Christopher Reeve, z"l
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#SupermanFan #WeCanAllBeSuperman #quotes #SwimLessons #QuotesforLife #SwimmingQuotes #ChristopherReeve

Non-Jewish leader works to clean up Poland's forgotten Jewish cemeteries

Meet Michał Laszczkowski, a non-Jewish Polish man who is the driving force behind a national push to restore Poland's hundreds of forgotten Jewish cemeteries.

jweekly.com National Independence Day in Poland has served in recent years as a backdrop for antisemitic, xenophobic and violent incidents at nationalist rallies. Last week, thousands in Warsaw flouted the coronavirus ban on public gatherings and clashed with police who tried to disperse them. The illegal proce...

NorCal Board of Rabbis leaders get their 15-minute close-ups – J.

Our friend Dan Pine covered a tribute gathering for the many Rabbis that serve our community. Our very own Executive Director was quoted in the J. The Jewish News of Northern California to all of the rabbis we regularly work with, “Your ability to be different from each other and at the same time be collaborators is a very unusual thing... you have provided an essential part of the infrastructure of our community.”
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#jewishsanfrancisco #ThisiswhatRabbisDo #JewishBayArea

jweekly.com More than 100 people gathered online this week to honor all of the rabbis who serve the Bay Area Jewish community — and, more specifically, the 20 rabbis who have served as presidents and directors of the Northern California Board of Rabbis over the years. “It’s a pleasure to be in ‘Hollywoo...

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." - Walt Whitman
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#inspiration #WaltWhitman #CanvaLove #quoteoftheday #sunshinedaydream #wednesdaywisdom #quotes

"There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you could lose, or it can rain." - Casey Stengel
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#quoteoftheday #rainyday #inspiration #CaseyStengel