Proposed Resolution (Subject to Modification) for June 8, 2025.
This is the Temple Sinai version. The Rodef Shalom version will have the references to the congregations reversed.
WHEREAS, the Officers and steering committee of Temple Sinai Pittsburgh Pennsylvania (“Temple Sinai”) have spent more than eighteen months exploring a potential unification of Temple Sinai and Rodef Shalom Congregation (“Rodef Shalom”), to the benefit of each and to the future of Reform Judaism in Pittsburgh; and
WHEREAS, the unification (merger) of Temple Sinai with another congregation must ultimately be approved by the Board of Trustees and Members in good standing of Temple Sinai as set forth in the Bylaws of Temple Sinai; and
WHEREAS, at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of Temple Sinai, the Board voted to recommend to the members of Temple Sinai that they approve the pursuit of unification between Temple Sinai and Rodef Shalom, pursuant to a Brit or Term Sheet adopted by the boards of the respective congregations.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Members recommend that Temple Sinai take the necessary steps to continue the process of unification with Rodef Shalom, under the terms and process described in the Brit, as recommended by the Board; and
RESOLVED FURTHER, that the proper Officers of Temple Sinai are authorized and directed on behalf of Temple Sinai, to pursue a plan of unification under the terms and process as described in the Term Sheet and to negotiate and deliver all documents necessary to achieve the proposed unification.