Temple Sinai of North Dade

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Reform synagogue in North Miami Beach; host of Operation Tourniquet IDF combat-tourniquet drive

Temple Sinai of North Dade

Type Reform synagogue (Union for Reform Judaism)
Founded 1956
Registration ID EIN 59-0903811 (Temple Sinai of North Dade, Inc.)
Headquarters Carolyn Kemelhor Campus, 18801 NE 22nd Avenue, North Miami Beach / Miami, Florida 33180
Key people Alan E. Litwak (senior rabbi); Norman Cohen Falah (cantor); David Paskin (youth education); Ralph P. Kingsley (emeritus); Susan Warech (administration)


Temple Sinai of North Dade (also Temple Sinai of North Dade, Inc.; DBA Jacobson Sinai Academy, Sinai Community) is a Reform congregation on a 14-acre campus in Sky Lake, North Miami Beach. It is a member of the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ; NFTY Southern Tropical Region). The congregation’s published values include “Support for the People, Land, and State of Israel.” After 7 October 2023 it ran Operation Tourniquet, a drive to buy Combat Application Tourniquets (CATs) for Israel Defense Forces soldiers. Westminster Synagogue in London listed that campaign on its support page and invited donations to it.[1][2][3][4]

History and campus

A handful of families founded the congregation in 1956 as a religious centre for North Dade. In 1967, under Ralph P. Kingsley (later rabbi emeritus; previously a US Air Force chaplain), it moved to the present Carolyn Kemelhor Campus, 18801 NE 22nd Avenue, across the Oleta River from the Michael-Ann Russell JCC. Buildings named on the campus include the Rabbi Ralph P. Kingsley Synagogue, Feinbloom Administration Building, Abe & Helen Feinbloom Sanctuary, Arnold & Roselyn Meyer Early Childhood Education Center, a Holocaust memorial and the George J. & Lila Berlin Community Bridge.[1][5][6]

Florida incorporation as Temple Sinai of North Dade, Inc. is dated 7 June 1984 (entity N03515; later reinstated after a 2018 administrative dissolution). IRS EIN 59-0903811. As a church it is not required to file a Form 990. URJ listed about 210 member families. A separately numbered foundation, Temple Sinai Foundation Inc., shares the same street address.[7][8][2]

Clergy

Name Role Notes
Ralph P. Kingsley Rabbi from 1967; emeritus Air Force chaplain; previously Garden City Jewish Center, Long Island
Alan E. Litwak Senior rabbi since 1 July 2002 Northern California; HUC President’s Rabbinic Council; past president, Rabbinical Association of Greater Miami; board, Greater Miami Jewish Federation
Norman Cohen Falah Cantor TefiLatina! and other recordings
David Paskin Director of youth education since 2018 “Rock n’ Roll Rabbi”; previously Temple Beth Abraham, Massachusetts
Susan Warech Director of administration; registered agent Florida corporate filings

Israel and Operation Tourniquet

The history page lists “Support for the People, Land, and State of Israel” among standing values.[1]

Operation Tourniquet is the congregation’s post-October 2023 appeal, hosted on its ShulCloud site. The form states that the drive supplies life-saving Combat Application Tourniquets to Israeli soldiers through combat medics.[4]

Westminster Synagogue reproduced the appeal on its “Ways to Support” list, under the heading Temple Sinai Operation Tourniquet, in these terms:

“We’re focusing exclusively on Combat Tourniquets. We’re in direct contact with the IDF to find the supply gaps and give each soldier a chance to save their own and other’s life by directly proving them with a tourniquet. Over the last week we’ve handed thousands of tourniquets directly to soldiers throughout Israel. We just partnered with a 501c3 and are fundraising for 3000 new tourniquets this weeks. Each one is $20.”[3]

The same Westminster page also listed kibbutz relief, Leket, Kol Haneshama and the New Israel Fund. The Temple Sinai text is explicit that the goods are for IDF soldiers and that the organisers are “in direct contact with the IDF.”

CAT-pattern tourniquets are standard IDF / TCCC kit. UK charity law treats support for a foreign army as outside ordinary charitable purpose; that is a point for the Westminster listing, not a Florida ruling on Temple Sinai.[3]

Fidelity Charitable’s FY2018 Schedule I includes a grant line to Temple Sinai of North Dade (donor-advised fund pass-through). Because the temple files as a church, there is no public 990 grants schedule of its own outgoing gifts.[9]

Education

On-campus programmes: Gan Sinai preschool, Sinai Learning Lab, Club Sinai after-school, Sun Sinai religious school, Camp Sinai, teen programmes. DBA Jacobson Sinai Academy. URJ camp affiliations: 6 Points Sci-Tech & Arts, 6 Points Sports, Camp Coleman.[2][10]

Contact

18801 NE 22nd Avenue, North Miami Beach, Florida 33180
Tel. +1 305-932-9010
tsnd.org
Greater Miami Jewish Federation directory listing.[11]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Our History & Legacy, Temple Sinai of North Dade.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Temple Sinai of North Dade, Union for Reform Judaism.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Ways to Support, Westminster Synagogue.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Operation Tourniquet, Temple Sinai ShulCloud form.
  5. ↑ Our Campus & Facilities, Temple Sinai of North Dade.
  6. ↑ Clergy & Leadership Team, Temple Sinai of North Dade.
  7. ↑ TEMPLE SINAI OF NORTH DADE, INC., EIN 59-0903811.
  8. ↑ Florida Department of State, Temple Sinai of North Dade, Inc., N03515.
  9. ↑ Fidelity Charitable, Form 990 FY2018, Schedule I.
  10. ↑ Temple Sinai of North Dade home page.
  11. ↑ Temple Sinai of North Dade, Jewish Miami.
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