Erev Shabbat Celebration
2026-03-06 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-03-13 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-03-27 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-04-03 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York)

Tot Shabbat
2026-03-07 09:30 - 10:30

Sisterhood Sunday Walkers CANCELLED
2026-03-08 11:00 - 12:00

Temple Reads: Absolution by Alice McDermott
2026-03-08 19:00 - 20:30
Absolution
by Alice McDermott March 8 at 7:00 PM
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Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Kirkus Reviews, Los Angeles Times, NPR, Oprah Daily, Real Simple, and Vogue
A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award.
American women―American wives―have been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in Absolution they take center stage. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963, the two women form a wary alliance as they balance the era’s mandate to be “helpmeets” to their ambitious husbands with their own inchoate impulse to “do good” for the people of Vietnam.
Sixty years later, Charlene’s daughter, spurred by an encounter with an aging Vietnam vet, reaches out to Tricia. Together, they look back at their time in Saigon, taking wry account of that pivotal year and of Charlene’s altruistic machinations, and discovering how their own lives as women on the periphery―of politics, of history, of war, of their husbands’ convictions―have been shaped and burdened by the same sort of unintended consequences that followed America’s tragic interference in Southeast Asia.
A virtuosic new novel from Alice McDermott, one of our most observant, most affecting writers, about folly and grace, obligation, sacrifice, and, finally, the quest for absolution in a broken world.

Membership Committee Meeting
2026-03-09 19:30 - 21:00

Visiting Moms Group
2026-03-10 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-03-24 10:00 - 12:00

CHAI School Classes
2026-03-10 15:30 - 18:00, 2026-03-17 15:30 - 18:00, 2026-03-24 15:30 - 18:00, 2026-03-31 15:30 - 18:00

Temple Board Meeting
2026-03-10 19:30 - 21:00

Volunteer at Wakefield Community Dinners
2026-03-11 15:30 - 18:30
Mitzvah opportunity! Temple Emmanuel is now partnered with Wakefield Community Dinners. Held at Most Blessed Sacrament in Wakefield, the Community Dinners happen the 2nd Wednesday of every month, with the opportunity to feed 80+ neighbors and friends from Wakefield, Stoneham, Melrose and towns as far as Medford, Salem and Norwood.
Volunteer hours are 3:30-6:30pm. Guests come as families or alone. Although many are experiencing food insecurity, most are impacted with social isolation. We provide a hot meal, salad, bread, desserts, and most importantly, camaraderie.
If you’d like to have fun, share smiles, and engage in holy work, please sign up here.
Contact Bev Weiner if you have any questions: theweino@aol.com

Shabbat Morning Celebration - Torah Study Session
2026-03-14 10:00 - 11:30

Ways & Means Committee Meeting
2026-03-16 19:30 - 21:00

Lunch & Learn: Midrash on Passover and the Exodus
2026-03-17 12:30 - 13:30
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School Committee Meeting
2026-03-17 19:30 - 21:00

Erev Shabbat Celebration Followed by a Celebratory Oneg Shabbat
2026-03-20 19:30 - 20:30

Shabbat Morning Celebration with Torah Reading Followed by a Joyous Kiddush
2026-03-21 10:00 - 11:30

Rabbi Micah's Installation Followed by Brunch in Honor of His Installation
2026-03-22 11:00 - 13:00

Continuing Education Committee
2026-03-24 19:30 - 21:00

Continuing Education: Jewish Views of the Afterlife, Part 3 - Rituals & Practices
2026-03-25 19:30 - 20:30
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Shabbat at Breakheart
2026-03-28 10:00 - 11:00
Jewish Wilderness Spirituality
Meet with Rabbi Micah Saturday Morning at the Northeast Regional Vocational School, 100 Hemlock Road, Wakefield at 10:00 AM at the larger parking lot to the right of the Vocational School Building
Please click on the link below for directions
https://goo.gl/maps/bntTRr8bd5x

Kasher the Kitchen for Pesach
2026-03-29 09:30 - 11:30

Fast of the First Born Siyyum
2026-04-01 08:00 - 09:00

Pesach First Day Service
2026-04-02 10:00 - 11:30

Pesach Community Seder
2026-04-02 18:00 - 20:30
Temple Emmanuel will be holding a Community Seder on the second evening of Passover,
Thursday, April 2 at 6:00 PM

Rabbi Micah Becker-Klein 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 through the online form or by contacting Susan Silbovitz at svitz9@gmail.com or use this:

If sending a check to the Temple, please mark
PESACH RESERVATIONS
on the outside of the envelope.
Please make your reservation by
Wednesday, March 25
