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  • Dreaming of camp…

    Dreaming of camp…

    Happy New year! May 2012 bring you all much joy and happiness – and a little fewer snow days than last year! 🙂 Together with Lew Shaffer and…

  • “What’s God got to do with it?” – Adult Education Opportunity Feb 4th @ 3pm

    So, as Ike and Tina Turner might say “What’s God got to do with it?” Come decide in this lay led, 5 week class that will meet once…

  • “Torahs’R’us: All you ever wanted to know about Torah but were afraid to ask”

    “Torahs’R’us: All you ever wanted to know about Torah but were afraid to ask”

    A brand-new educational opportunity for adults for 2012 This course will examine the Torah-reading traditions, its history and meaning, the structure of the Torah service and much more.…

  • Prayer is for everyone…

    Prayer is for everyone…

    There is a wonderful Chasidic story about a boy who did not know how to pray – so the rabbi advised him to recite the letters of the…

  • Thanksgiving, the Jewish Way

      The entire congregation is invited to an intergenerational educational program on Sunday, November 20th, 9:30 – 12:00 noon. A morning of learning, music, fun, food and community. The program…

  • Building the community…

    Building the community…

    If God does not build the house, the workers labor in vain… (Psalm 127). There is an ancient Jewish tradition: when building a house, to leave one corner,…

  • IT’S HERE!

    It’s here. Finally. 5772. For once the event, or should I say events, will live up to the hype. No disappointment here like Geraldo Rivera had when he…

  • High Holy Day Cantorial Soloists Laurel Shader and Anna Zonderman

    High Holy Day Cantorial Soloists Laurel Shader and Anna Zonderman

    Laurel Shader, a member of Temple Emanuel since 1985, has been a High Holy Day cantorial soloist at TE since 1996. She has also been the music director/arranger…

  • Cantorial Soloist at Bnei Mitzvah services – Susan Pinsky Bleeks

    Cantorial Soloist at Bnei Mitzvah services – Susan Pinsky Bleeks

    Susan Pinsky Bleeks has spent her entire adult life involved in her twin passions of Jewish Education and Music. She & her husband Tom joined Temple Emanuel in…

  • Getting better…

    I’ve got to admit it’s getting better… If you were around Temple Emanuel this August, you couldn’t have missed all the renovations. Floors in the Social Hall and…

  • Slach lanu… forgive us before the High Holy Days?

    Slach lanu… forgive us before the High Holy Days?

    In our tradition, the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are known as the most awe-inspiring and powerful Holy Days. In our modern reality, the High Holy Days continue…

  • Shiru l’Adonai Shir Chadash, Sing unto God a new song…

    Shiru l’Adonai Shir Chadash, Sing unto God a new song…

    If favorite books are like old friends, prayerbooks are like trusted and beloved family members. We turn to them in joy as well as in sorrow, in wonder…