Temple Emmanuel of Wakefield

Continuing Education: Trailblazing American Jewish Musicians
2025-04-09 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-04-23 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-05-07 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
This course is open to anyone who enjoys music! We’ll explore different eras and genres of 20th century music, where American Jews have had outsized impact. All are welcome to learn some of the ways that Jewish people have been pioneers and influencers over the last 100 years to help make music what it is today.
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Fast of the First Born Siyyum
2025-04-10 08:00 - 09:00

Erev Shabbat Celebration
2025-04-11 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-05-02 19:30 - 21:00

Shabbat Morning Torah Study with Rabbi Greg
2025-04-12 09:30 - 10:30

Pesach First Day Services
2025-04-13 09:30 - 12:00

Community Seder
2025-04-13 18:00 - 21:00
COMMUNITY SEDER
Temple Emmanuel will be holding a hybrid Community Seder on the second evening of Passover, Sunday, April 13 at 6:00 PM
Rabbi Greg Hersh will conduct our Seder Service

We will be serving a catered, Kosher for Passover, four course dinner

Adults (16 years and older) $55.00
Children (7-15 years old) $30.00
Children (6 years old and under) $10.00

Reservations and payment may be made by filling out this form

If sending a check to the Temple, please mark PESACH RESERVATIONS
on the outside of the envelope

You can also pay via Donorbox

Please make your reservation by Tuesday April 8

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School Committee Meeting
2025-04-15 19:30 - 21:00

Jewish Meditation Circle
2025-04-18 19:30 - 20:30

Shabbat Morning Celebration
2025-04-19 09:30 - 11:00

Pesach Eighth Day Services with Yizkor
2025-04-20 09:30 - 12:00

Ways & Means Committee Meeting
2025-04-21 19:30 - 21:00

Continuing Education Committee Meeting
2025-04-22 19:30 - 21:00

Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), No Service
2025-04-24

Erev Shabbat Celebration led by Rabbi Micah, Rabbinic Candidate
2025-04-25 19:30 - 21:00

Special Tot Shabbat, led by Rabbi Micah, Rabbinic Candidate
2025-04-26 09:00 - 10:00

Shabbat Morning Celebration led by Rabbi Micah, Rabbinic Candidate, followed by Special Kiddush
2025-04-26 10:00 - 12:00

Brunch and Meet & Greet Rabbi Micah, Rabbinic Candidate
2025-04-27 12:00 - 14:00

Nathans & Ronstadt Duo
2025-04-27 14:00 - 16:00
Aaron Nathans & Michael G. Ronstadt
April 27
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Cello-guitar songwriting duo Aaron Nathans & Michael G. Ronstadt never lose their capacity to surprise. This progressive folk act combines uninhibited musical creativity and mastery with accessible story songs and an oddball sense of humor. Audiences will see and hear things done with a cello they never thought possible, meandering stories as captivating as the music, and hook-filled story songs that you’ll remember long after the lights come up. Guitarist/vocalist Nathans, from the Philadelphia area, is an award-winning leader in the Philly songwriting community. Cellist/vocalist Ronstadt, nephew of Linda Ronstadt, is a Cincinnati-based cello bandleader, teacher, touring artist, and much in-demand studio sideman.

As an acoustic duo, the two create a compelling musical palate. Ronstadt’s cello lines are reminiscent of the live-layered magic of Zoe Keating, and his songwriting reflects the creative diversity of Paul Simon. He weaves intricate patterns around Nathans’ baritone voice, studied folk meters and dash of irony in the tradition of David Wilcox and Dar Williams.
To RSVP: Call the Temple at 781-245-1886 and select option 5
Tickets: 18 and older $25, under 18 $10
Cash or check made payable to Temple Emmanuel at the door
Temple Emmanuel is located at 120 Chestnut St. Wakefield, MA 01880.
www.WakefieldTemple.org

Sisterhood Annual Meeting including Election of Officers
2025-04-28 19:30 - 21:00

Yom HaZikaron (Israel Remembrance Day), No Service
2025-04-30

Yom Ha Atzma'ut (Israel Independence Day), No Service
2025-05-01

Tot Shabbat
2025-05-03 09:30 - 10:30

Sisterhood Sunday Walkers
2025-05-04 11:00 - 12:00
When: Sunday May 4, 2025 Weather permitting
Time: 11:00 AM
Where: Horn Pond, Woburn Mass
https://www.alltrails.com/parks/us/massachusetts/horn-pond-recreation-area?ref=result-card
Meeting location: Lake Ave Parking lot
Parking: If there are no spaces in the lot, park around the pond or at another lot, but meet in the Lake Ave parking lot.
RSVP: Let me know if you can make it via text 781-258-7760 or email shochberg.sh@gmail.com
Trail information: In addition to the paved loop around the pond, there are trails leading off the main trail. Refer to web site
Sue H’s Cell for day of the walk: 781-258-7760

Temple Reads & Dinner: Once We Were Home by Jennifer Rosner
2025-05-04 18:00 - 20:30
Once We Were Home
by Jennifer Rosner
When: Sunday 5/4/2025
Time: 6 PM Dinner in person
7 PM Book Discussion : Hybrid
Where: Home of Alissa Onigman
Address/Parking: To be provided after you RSVP
Menu: Pizza/beverages (cost to be shared by attendees)
Potluck for Dessert and Salad
RSVP: Required for Potluck by 5/3/2025 to Sue Hochberg shochberg.sh@gmail.com including what you will bring
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Ana will never forget her mother’s face when she and her baby brother, Oskar, were sent out of their Polish ghetto and into the arms of a Christian friend. For Oskar, though, their new family is the only one he remembers. When a woman from a Jewish reclamation organization seizes them, believing she has their best interest at heart, Ana sees an opportunity to reconnect with her roots, while Oskar sees only the loss of the home he loves.
Roger grows up in a monastery in France, inventing stories and trading riddles with his best friend in a life of quiet concealment. When a relative seeks to retrieve him, the Church steals him across the Pyrenees before relinquishing him to family in Jerusalem.
Renata, a post-graduate student in archaeology, has spent her life unearthing secrets from the past–except for her own. After her mother’s death, Renata’s grief is entwined with all the questions her mother left unanswered, including why they fled Germany so quickly when Renata was a little girl.
Two decades later, they are each building lives for themselves, trying to move on from the trauma and loss that haunts them. But as their stories converge in Israel, in unexpected ways, they must each ask where and to whom they truly belong.
Beautifully evocative and tender, filled with both luminosity and anguish, Once We Were Home reveals a little-known history. Based on the true stories of children stolen during wartime, this heart-wrenching novel raises questions of complicity and responsibility, belonging and identity, good intentions and unforeseen consequences, as it confronts what it really means to find home.

Membership Committee Meeting
2025-05-05 19:30 - 21:00

House & Grounds Committee Meeting
2025-05-06 18:45 - 19:30

Ritual Committee Meeting
2025-05-06 19:30 - 21:00
