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Fine Arts Committee on Culture and Community

The mission of Temple Sinai’s Fine Arts Committee on Culture and Community (FACoCaC) is to organize live performances of interest to the Jewish community. All of our programs are open to the wider community, that is, you needn’t be a member of Temple Sinai or even Jewish to attend; and with very few exceptions our events are free. Contact us at engage@oaklandsinai.org

In addition to performances, we organize other community-building activities, again open to everyone.

Friday, September 12, 2025, 5:00, the annual shofar blowing class, this jointly with the Ritual Committee. Sacred garden; dust off your shofar and learn how to make it sing.
Saturday, December 27, 2025, blood drive in Stern Hall on Saturday. What greater mitzvah is there than saving lives?
Also on Saturday, December 27, 2025, immediately after services, it’s National Shakshuka Day. Come sample various versions of this Middle Eastern staple at the kiddush lunch.
Each Spring, a couple of weeks prior to Pesach, we assemble volunteers to call every family in the congregation to wish them a Happy Passover. We welcome anyone who would like to participate in this mitzvah. E-mail us at engage@oaklandsinai.org to join.
FACoCaC has accepted the honor of ensuring that we have ushers at every Friday evening service. Sign up to join in this simple but important mitzvah.
Upon request we also conduct Tours of the Organ Loft (with PORC, the Pipe Organ Restoration Committee)

Performances

Wednesday, 7:00PM, September 10, 2025, award-winning historical novelist Mike Cooper will read from his Wages of Empire. Please register to attend.
Wednesday, 7:00PM, October 29, 2025, Marcia Falk and Lucy Lang Day will read from their latest collections of poetry. FACoCaC has been presenting two poetry reading per year for over a decade. The second one of the year is scheduled for April 29, 2026.
Saturday, June 20, 2026, the 27th annual in our Jewish Poets of Tin Pan Alley sing-along/concert series, this one entitled, Over the Rainbow: A Judy Garland Souvenir Songbook. This is our only fund-raiser; we use the proceeds to bring this same program to Bay Area retirement communities.