We are happy to have Cantor Arik Luck with us as our guest cantor for this service. 

We look forward to sharing this sacred time with you in person, on Zoom, or live streamed on YouTube.

You can find the Zoom link in our weekly email or by calling our office during regular office hours (Monday–Thursday, 9 AM–5 PM; Friday, 9 AM–3 PM).

If you would like to attend in-person, please log into your Temple Sinai account to register for yourself and/or your family. 

ABOUT CANTOR LUCK
Since 2015, Cantor Luck has served as the Ben and A. Jess Shenson Cantor at Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco. Previously, he had served six years at Beth Emet The Free Synagogue, in Evanston, IL. In addition to his full-time work as cantor and clergy, Cantor Luck has appeared as a principle soloist in numerous concerts throughout the country, including Siamsa na nGael: If It Weren’t For the Irish and the Jews (Chicago Symphony Center, with Martin Sheen), The Bloch Sacred Service (Music Institute of Chicago), Schoenberg’s A Survivor From Warsaw (Skokie Valley Symphony Orchestra), Standing Out/Fitting In: Jewish Stories/American Songs (Aspen, CO), and Abraham’s Children: A Prayer for Peace (Indiana University, with Iraqi tenor Omer Turkmenoglu). In the Fall of 2015, Cantor Luck was honored to have been invited to lead Shabbat evening services at the URJ (Union for Reform Judaism) Biennial Convention in Orlando, FL, before a congregation of 5,000 attendees from all over North America and beyond. His musical revue dedicated to the life of Moishe Oysher has been performed all over the US and internationally, and a live record album of the performance, entitled Arik Luck is Moishe Oysher: The Master Singer of His People! is available online for purchase and streaming. He has also recently been given the honor of singing the National Anthem for both the San Francisco Giants and the Golden State Warriors.

Cantor Luck has served on the faculty of the Union for Reform Judaism Summer Learning Institute, is a proud seventh year faculty member of URJ Camp Newman, and previously served five years on faculty at Olin Sang Ruby Union Institute (OSRUI), the URJ summer camp in Oconomowoc, WI. He is a member of the American Conference of Cantors (ACC), was a founding member and former president of the Reform Cantors of Chicago (RCC), holds a Masters Degree of Sacred Music from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music, and was ordained as a cantor by HUC-JIR DFSSM in 2009. He is also a proud Tartan, having graduated from the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama in 2000, and is thrilled to return to Pittsburgh! Cantor Luck resides in San Francisco with his spouse, Rachel, their three children, and their dog, Fievel.

Prayer through music, or music through prayer. Whichever way you look at it, the informal Shabbat service has both. Rabbi Fellman leads us in singing or chanting almost all the Hebrew prayers, interspersed with interpretive readings from Mishkan Tefilah. The service includes a Torah reading of the weekly Parashah and a short dvar Torah, usually by a lay member of the congregation and finishes with Kiddush.

TEMPLE SINAI COVID POLICY UPDATE (Effective August 5, 2021): MASKS ARE NOW REQUIRED AT ALL TIMES WHILE AT TEMPLE SINAI

Anyone entering the Temple Sinai grounds or building must (a) be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, (b) wear a mask at all times, (c) not be experiencing symptoms of COVID or aware of any recent exposure at the time of entry, and (d) agree to comply with all Temple Sinai COVID requirements.  

By entering Temple Sinai grounds or building you are indicating your understanding of and agreement with these rules on behalf of yourself and any minors whom you are accompanying.

Masks are available for anyone who did not bring one.

Fully Vaccinated means at least two weeks after the second shot of a two-shot regimen (e.g. Pfizer or Moderna) or after the single shot of a one-shot regimen (e.g. Johnson & Johnson).

Exceptions: masks are not required for children under the age of two. Vaccinations are not required for individuals for whom they are not yet available (under the age of 12) or those for whom vaccination is not possible. For full details, click to see the current policy.