Temple Sinai

Pastor Lindeman to lead worship hour At 10 a.m. on Sept. 30 there will be a service of public worship at Church of the Lighted Window in La Cañada. Pastor Skip Lindeman will lead the service and deliver the morning message. Visitors are welcome. Joseph A. Klice, organist, will provide special music for the morning. Directly following worship there will be coffee hour hosted by members of the Music Board. Church of the Lighted Window is a Congregational church affiliated with the United Church of Christ.

La Cañada Presbyterian’s organist/pianist Kemp Smeal invites the community to a performance at 4 p.m. on Sept 30 at Glendale City Church, at 610 E. California Ave. in Glendale. The performance is part of the inaugural recital of the church’s new IV manual, 150 ranks Colby/Harrah organ. For more information, call (818) 244-7241.   St. George’s Episcopal Church presents a concert to benefit the San Gabriel Valley Habitat for Humanity at 3 p.m. on Sept.

Community outreach is important to Cathi Comras. For more than 15 years, Comras has been a member of the Temple Sinai congregation, and during her time there, she has worked to help educate the community about social issues and give to the needy. “Temple Sinai is about education,” Comras said. “By far, studying the Torah, for me personally, feels like something that I can’t find anywhere.” Comras’ outreach work with the temple extends to the community at large.

Funeral services were held Tuesday at Mount Sinai Memorial Park for Rabbi Carole Meyers of La Cañada, the first female rabbi in Los Angeles to lead a congregation. Meyers, 50, died last Thursday after a two-month battle with bone cancer. She led Temple Sinai of Glendale for 15 years. Meyers became a rabbi at the age of 29, and was hired at a time when female rabbis were very uncommon. Most women in the rabbinate worked on college campuses, in social services, or as assistant rabbis.

Martin Chalifour, principal concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, will give a violin performance accompanied by a concert grand piano and ensemble on Sunday, July 15, at 3 p.m. In addition to his work with the Philharmonic, Chalifour is a professor at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music. A Canadian native, he began his orchestral career in 1984 with the late Robert Shaw and the Atlanta Symphony, playing as associate concertmaster for six years.

Homeowners council to meet on city issues The Glendale Homeowners Coordinating Council will meet Monday to hear a presentation by County Supervisor Michael Antonovich and discuss other pressing city issues. The council meets at 7 p.m. at the First Congregational Church of Glendale at 2001 Cañada Blvd. Temple Sinai getting ready to tee off Tee time for Temple Sinai's fifth annual charitable golf tournament is 7:30 a.m. Tuesday at the La Cañada Flintridge Country Club, 5500 Godbey Drive.

Beginning at 10 a.m. April 29, Temple Sinai of Glendale will hold its annual Mitzvah (Good Deed) Day. That is the date Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has declared Big Sunday, a city-wide day of volunteerism. Hundreds of volunteer opportunities will be taking place throughout the Los Angeles area. Last year, 32,000 people came out to lend a hand to help out 250 charitable organizations. Social Action, or Tikkun Olam, has always been part of Judaism. The Foothill community is invited to join the Temple Sinai congregation ?

As part of its annual Holocaust Remembrance Day observance on April 15, the Brotherhood of Temple Sinai of Glendale has invited two Holocaust survivors to speak of their experiences. This year, the speakers are Anna Deutsch and Mike Schwartz. Deutsch and Schwartz were both 17 when their personal nightmares began. Deutsch was born in Hungary and Schwartz was from Romania. Now married, their paths never crossed during that terrible period of history. But their common bond was something they were able to share when they met during the last decade.

As part of its annual Holocaust Remembrance Day observance on April 15, the Brotherhood of Temple Sinai of Glendale has invited two Holocaust survivors to speak of their experiences. This year, the speakers are Anna Deutsch and Mike Schwartz. Deutsch and Schwartz were both 17 when their personal nightmares began. Deutsch was born in Hungary and Schwartz was from Romania. Now married, their paths never crossed during that terrible period of history. But their common bond was something they were able to share when they met during the last decade.