Temple Emmanuel of Wakefield

Kitah Bet
2024-04-09 16:30 - 18:00 (America/New_York)

Temple Board Meeting
2024-04-09 19:30 - 21:00

Volunteer at Wakefield Community Dinners
2024-04-10 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 with Rabbi Greg, please sign up here.

Continuing Ed: Trailblazing Jewish Americans 1776-2024, Civil Rights
2024-04-10 19:30 - 20:30

Shabbat Songs for Beginners
2024-04-12 18:45 - 19:30, 2024-04-19 18:45 - 19:30, 2024-04-26 18:45 - 19:30
Ever wanted to try leading part of Shabbat services?
Rabbi Greg will offer weekly, individualized classes from 6:45-7:30pm in the sanctuary to help familiarize participants with Jewish liturgy. All are welcome – neither experience nor singing ability are necessary!

Erev Shabbat Celebration
2024-04-12 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-04-26 19:30 - 21:00

Shabbat Morning Celebration including Torah Study with Rabbi Greg
2024-04-13 09:30 - 11:30

Sisterhood Annual Meeting
2024-04-14 19:30 - 21:00

Ways & Means Committee Meeting
2024-04-15 19:30 - 21:00

School Committee Meeting
2024-04-16 19:30 - 21:00

Jewish Meditation Circle
2024-04-19 19:30 - 20:30

Shabbat Morning Celebration
2024-04-20 09:30 - 11:30

Kasher the Kitchen for Pesach
2024-04-21 09:30 - 12:00

Fast of the First Born Siyyum
2024-04-22 08:00 - 09:00

Pesach First Day Services
2024-04-23 09:30 - 12:00

Community Seder
2024-04-23 18:00 - 21:00
COMMUNITY SEDER
Temple Emmanuel will be holding a hybrid Community Seder on the second evening of Passover,
Tuesday, April 23 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) $50.00
Children (7-15 years old) $25.00
Children (6 years old and under) $ 5.00

Reservations and payment may be made through the Temple website or by contacting Susan Hochberg at shochberg.sh@gmail.com

If sending a check to the Temple, please mark PESACH RESERVATIONS on the outside of the envelope
Please make your reservation by Thursday April 18

For those who cannot attend in person:
Join Zoom Meeting
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Continuing Education Committee
2024-04-24 19:00 - 19:30

Continuing Ed: Trailblazing Jewish Americans 1776-2024, Clothing Designers
2024-04-24 19:30 - 20:30

Shabbat at Breakheart
2024-04-27 09:30 - 11:00
Jewish Wilderness Spirituality
Meeting with Rabbi Greg Saturday Morning at the Northeast Regional Vocational School, 100 Hemlock Road, Wakefield at 9:30 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

Happy Challah Gays Brunch
2024-04-28 10:00 - 12:00
Happy Challah Gays!
LGBTQ Pesach Brunch
Sunday, April 28 at 10:00 AM
While Temple Emmanuel has a robust and growing LGBTQ community, many are siloed and haven’t met one another! For this event, we welcome anyone who identifies as Jewish and LGBTQ to enjoy some good food and good company. LGBTQ Jews of all ages and races, as well as their families, partners and children are encouraged to join.

Matza, coffee and babysitting will be provided.

Please RSVP Rabbi Greg by 5 PM, Fri 4/26
gregory.hersh@gmail.com

Pesach Eighth Day Services (with Yizkor)
2024-04-30 09:30 - 12:00

Hebrew Level II Class
2024-05-01 18:15 - 19:15
For those who already know the basics of Hebrew, this class is for you! Our Hebrew Level II class will promote Hebrew vocabulary, grammar, and reading skills. To get the most out of the class, participants will attend weekly for the full 8-9 week unit. That said, drop-ins and people of all knowledge-levels and backgrounds are welcome.

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Erev Shabbat Celebration with CHAI School Participation
2024-05-03 19:00 - 20:30

Tot Shabbat
2024-05-04 09:30 - 10:30

Sisterhood Sunday Walkers
2024-05-05 11:00 - 12:00
When: Sunday May 5, weather permitting
Time: 11:00 AM
Where: Breakheart Reservation
Meeting location: Northeast Regional High School 100 Hemlock Rd. Wakefield, entrance to Breakheart
Parking: NRHS parking lot. Note: it is partially a construction site, but still OK to park
RSVP: Sue Hochberg shochberg.sh@gmail.com. Please let me know if you are coming
Trail information: 3 mile paved loop, shady, hilly in places, rest area/bathroom 1/2 way
Sue H’s Cell for day of the walk: 781-258-7760

Temple Reads: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James Mc Bride
2024-05-05 19:00 - 21:00
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
by James Mc Bride
Sunday May 5 at 7:00 PM via Zoom
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe’s theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe.
As these characters’ stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white, Christian America struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town’s white establishment played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community—heaven and earth—that sustain us.
Bringing his masterly storytelling skills and his deep faith in humanity to The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride has written a novel as compassionate as Deacon King Kong and as inventive as The Good Lord Bird. (Amazon)
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Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)
2024-05-06
