Lay Leadership
A Message From Our President
Hello and welcome to TSND’s website! I invite you to explore it and become acquainted with all that our Reform Synagogue offers: Shabbat services, High Holy Services, varied educational programs, and abundant social activities for all age groups: all in a welcoming and inclusive atmosphere.
My husband and I experienced heartfelt welcome and inclusion, when we first visited TSND seven years ago shortly after we emigrated from Ecuador. Now, TSND is our spiritual home and proudly: our Synagogue.
You are welcome to join us and become involved in one or several of our varied initiatives: Religious School, Early Childhood Education, Youth Group, Camp Sinai, Sisterhood, Brotherhood, Empty Nesters, Jewish Living programs, Adult Education, Social Action, Choir, to cite a few. Our synagogue has always something going on and something new being created.
Explore this website and join us!
Sincerely,
Doris Pienknagura
President, Temple Sinai of North Dade
2018-2019 Board of Trustees
EXECUTIVE BOARD
| Doris Pienknagura | President |
| Darren Friedman | 1st Vice President |
| Lenny Feldman | 2nd Vice President |
| Bob Mirel | Treasurer |
| Carol Moss | Secretary |
| Sue Klau | Past President |
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
| Courtney Augusta | Maureen Boiarsky |
| Sharron Botwinick | Andrew Chesnick |
| Donald Goodman | Henry Hirsch |
| Howard Katzman | Claudia Leib |
| Ryan Sherman | Gail Slatko |
| Renee Yeslow |
TRUSTEES EMERITI
| George Berlin* | Norman Leopold | |
| Sam Bloom* | Arnold Meyer* | |
| Rose Ellen Glickman | Florence Nelson* | |
| Ralph Hollander* | Aaron Podhurst | |
| Stuart Israelson | Kenneth Schwartz* | |
| Jeannette Jacobson* | Al Sherman* | |
| Sue Shapiro Klau | Barbara Silverman | |
| Norman S. Klein | Daniel Supon* | |
| Robert Layton | Jon Sussman | |
| Murphy Leopold | *in loving memory | |
Temple Sinai LEAP Program
Temple Sinai’s Leadership Education and Preparation course – L.E.A.P. – was created by the Board Development Committee in 2008 and is designed to strengthen our synagogue community by identifying and training talented and energetic partners who are trained to be knowledgeable about the synagogue, support our mission to nurture souls to a fuller Jewish life, and who are or will be ready to assume leadership roles.
L.E.A.P. is a series of 5 intense sessions culminating with a Shabbat graduation. It offers its participants opportunities for personal growth and development as well as training to accept a position of leadership. In a spiraling curriculum, L.E.A.P. participants learn about our campus, the history of Reform Judaism and Temple Sinai, the synagogue’s relationship to the wider Jewish community, the organization of the congregation including governance, finance, programs and education. There is a focus on spirituality and specific leadership lessons which come both from text study at the beginning of each session as well as from other activities.
