Temple Sinai may be small, but your time will be well spent…read more The people who attend come from all over Long Island and are warm and friendly. It's a great place to attend a Friday service and just unwind from your week. Would highly recommend stopping in and enjoy there services

Temple Sinai is a very small Reform synagogue with pretty traditional roots. It is a very warm and…read moreopen community with members from a wide mix of backgrounds. Many of them have religiously mixed marriages. The Rabbi is amazing - very smart, always up on current topics, and tries to keep the members engaged during services. It's also very informal - jeans for services: no problem. The only negatives are that Temple Sinai does not offer Saturday services unless there is a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, and only the High Holy Days are celebrated by services on their actual dates. Also, the facilities are not fancy so if you want glitz and glamour, this is not the place for you. However, it is the people and Rabbi that make a temple and that is what brought me here 10 years ago and why I still belong, even though my daughter finished religious school long ago.

What a magnificent wedding we attended on Sunday, December 12, 2023. The inside of Temple Avodah is…read morevery lovely and allows for a dramatic entrance by the bride. Elegant and fun! The Kombert caterers put out an amazing assortment of delicacies both at the cocktail hour, reception, and then afterwards for dessert. The frozen margaritas at the cocktail hour were delicious. So was the tuna tartare and everything else offered that I tasted. The main course included filet mignon which everyone seemed to love. I enjoyed the salmon! The selection of desserts included chocolate mousse cake, a s'mores bar, a jelly bean cart, "security" walking around offering chocolate cigars and candy cigarettes and so much more. Above all, the wait staff were professional and friendly. Every single one of them! The band was the East Coast Band. They were amazing too. No one wanted to sit when they sang. They just kept on getting us revved up to dance the night away.

5 starz - food 5 starz - service…read more 5 starz - decor Kombert caterers Will make your event beautiful !!

If you're looking for a venue for a mitzvah this is a great place. The manager is knowledgeable and…read morepolite. The space is large and accommodate a lot of guests. Clean, spacious and staff is great.

A very inspirational small synagogue that is accepting of all levels of understanding of Judaism…read more One of the longest continuously running congregations on Long Island that is constantly adapting to change with recently implemented Zoom services and adult religious lessons and many adaptations to encourage a wide variety of perspectives. No Hebrew School or building fund means very modest dues making this perhaps the most affordable congregation one can find. Yet it is rich in spirit. Members come from many areas of Long Island and Queens to this modest Shul located just a short distance south of the Garden City Hotel. Progressive yet very spiritual and deeply religious Rabbi.

Temple B'nai Torah is in the process of merging with Temple Emmanuel of East Meadow to form the…read more"new TBT." This merger will strengthen an already strong and vibrant center of Reform Judaism on the south shore of Long Island, and create an even better community for the members of both legacy congregations. We did it once before with the Judea/Suburban merger and we will do it again with the TBT/TEEM merger!

Temple B'nai Torah was formed on July 1, 2008 with a merger of The Suburman Temple of Watagh and…read moreTemple Judea of Massapequa. The reform congregation continues the rich heritage of both organizations.

We come from Forest Hills to attend services here. When unable to come to the synagogue, we are…read moreable to participate on Zoom. The temple congregation is very warm, inviting and involved in the community, organizing beach clean-ups, outdoor summer Shabbat services, book clubs and teen trips. Words cannot describe the gratitude we have to Cantor Galina, in getting our daughter prepared for her Bat Mitzvah. It took us a long time for us to find a temple we could call home, Temple Israel of Lawrence is that place.

It is always a joy to attend services and other events at Temple Israel…read more The uplifting music, the empathic clergy and the warm and welcoming congregants combine to create a very positive experience.

Warm uplifting services with Rabbi Bravo,piano and band accompaniment. Kids get to come up to the…read morebima and sing with the rabbi and cantor. Very welcoming to both young families and empty nesters. Highly recommend the moadon (Hebrew school).

We attended a Bat Mitzvah at Makom NY at Bethpage Worship Center on Thursday October 12, 2017. The…read moresinging was phenomenal and uplifting. It was a visiting cantor from California and she absolutely made the ceremony! It was downhill other than that. I have never been to a religious house of worship where the officiate does not mention the need for thoughts and prayers to go out to community members in need. This particular rabbi did not mention once the devastated people of Texas or Puerto Rico (hurricanes) nor the California raging wildfires. Nor did she mention Jews in oppressive circumstances in Syria (war) and elsewhere in the Middle East. What else is a community for if not to support those in need? A basic tenet of Judaism as noted "Pirke Avot 2:5 Hillel said, do not separate yourself from the community, "was clearly missing from this service. Makom NY's website states the following are included in their mission: Meaningful worship, impactful relationships. Joyous holiday celebrations, learning for all ages and stages, sacred moments and life cycle, social action and outreach and connection to Israel. As for meaningful worship; The Lulav and Etrog were shown and offered but not explained. This was a Bat Mitzvah, it would behoove the officiate to remember that not everyone attending this service is a fully informed Jew. Inclusiveness is necessary to all of the congregants. As for impactful relationships; It was abundantly clear that the Bat Mitzvah girl's mother and family were completely left out of this event. Not one Aliyah for mom, grandmother, grandfather, aunt or any other member of the girl's family. What kind of religion does not honor thy mother? The Rabbi could not have failed to notice this conspicuous absence and yet chose to do nothing. As for social action and outreach; Again, no mention of any kind of those in need. It's a Shanda! After reading about Makom NY (https://www.makomny.org/) we were so interested in seeing what this "new" model of Judaism was about in person, however, after the ceremony, we were completely disappointed. The choices of the rabbi were disgraceful; as a woman, a mother and a Jew, she fell short of her moral responsibilities.

A previous reviewer complained that we do not have the Yizkor service at Congregation Ohr Torah…read more Yes we do!!! The reviewer perhaps went to our Sephardic minyan, and in that custom, they do not have Yizkor. Our Ashkenazic minyan, the original Shul minyan, always has Yizkor when appropriate. Also, the Ashkenazic minyan does not charge for aliyahs (being called to read the torah); the Sephardic minyan raffles off this honor. As for his statement about "Clergy from Israel," please be assured that our Rabbi, Rabbi Dovid M. Cohen, is a graduate of Yeshiva University, has a law degree from Columbia University, and also holds a Masters Degree in Family Therapy. He is a native of Long Island.

We started to go to Ohr Torah in 1988 through 1989. Later on we go to Ohr Torah in 1994 all the…read moreway to 2000 when we have regular services, Mitzvahs services and high holiday services. Now few years ago they charged more money to read the torah every high holidays, I wanted to read the torah but we have to wait and see if it's gonna get changed in the near future when they will be cutting the costs of reading the torah. If they don't cut the costs, then there will be budget cuts instead to read the torah. Last year and this year, they didi not do Yizkor service for people who lost their love ones. When I go to another synagogue for the Yom Kippur service, we will get better services especially praying, reading the torah and Yizkor service for people who lost their love ones. In the future there will be changed for low costs for reading the torah every Yom Kippur for 17 other men in the big shul where it used to be the Social Hole that used to be parties. We've have to wait and see when they will change the newer Clergy from Israel including new Rabbis and new Cantors after the whole community fired them for reasons why they did NOT do Yizkor service last year and this year and cutting the costs to read the torahs.