Temple Emmanuel of Wakefield

Membership Committee Meeting
2024-12-02 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-01-06 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York)

Giving Tuesday
2024-12-03

House & Grounds Committee Meeting
2024-12-03 18:45 - 19:30, 2025-01-07 18:45 - 19:30

Ritual Committee Meeting
2024-12-03 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-01-07 19:30 - 21:00

Potluck Supper and Singing led by the CHAI School!
2024-12-06 18:30 - 20:00
POTLUCK SUPPER AND SINGING!
Friday December 6 at 6:30 PM
Our CHAI School students will lead us in candle lighting, blessings over the food and wine, and Birkat Hamazon (grace after the meal). We will also have a brief sing-a-long, camp-style led by Rabbi Greg and Morah Brenda. We sincerely hope you can make it!

For kashrut purposes, the meal will be kosher dairy (no meat) and please bring a 3×5 card with list of ingredients in your dish, for allergy purposes.

Please RSVP to Susan Silbovitz at svitz9@gmail.com by December 4. This is open to CHAI School families, Temple members and anyone else who wants to have a fun evening!

Please join us!

Tot Shabbat
2024-12-07 09:30 - 10:30

Sisterhood Sunday Walkers
2024-12-08 11:00 - 12:00
When: Sunday December 8, 2024 weather permitting at 11 AM

Where: Middlesex Fells Reservation, Healthy Heart Trail

Meeting Location: 26 South Ave., Melrose (Laura Canter’s home)

Parking: On-street parking at South Ave or tandem park in Laura’s driveway

RSVP: Please RSVP to Sue H C: 781-258-7760

MISC: Approximately 60 minute walk, starting on sidewalks from Laura’s house. The whole walk will be about 2.5 miles. Please dress for walking on trails in the woods. Recommend sturdy footwear and a walking stick if you have them (Laura has a few extras). Laura will provide hot beverages and a snack at her home afterward.

Menorah Lighting on Reading Town Common
2024-12-08 17:00 - 18:00
The rain/bad weather location is the First Congregational Church of Reading

Bowling Night!
2024-12-08 18:00 - 20:00
TEMPLE COMMUNITY FUN SOCIAL EVENT
BRING FRIENDS AND FAMILY…

DECEMBER 8TH, 6:00 PM

WAKEFIELD BOWLADROME
96 WATER STREET
WAKEFIELD, MA

REGISTER FOR
EVENT:

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$25 FOR 13 AND OLDER, $5 FOR 12 AND
UNDER. CASH AT THE DOOR

Temple Board Meeting
2024-12-10 19:30 - 21:00

Volunteer at Wakefield Community Dinners
2024-12-11 15:30 - 18:30, 2025-01-08 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.

Early Chanukah Celebration & Shabbat Service, IN-PERSON only, Lay-led
2024-12-13 19:00 - 20:30
Come join us for lighting Chanukah Menorahs and Shabbat candles!
There will be a short Shabbat Celebration following in Weizmann Hall, then it’s LATKE time!
Friday, December 13 at 7:00 PM, in-person only

Shabbat Morning Celebration, Lay-led
2024-12-14 09:30 - 11:00, 2024-12-21 09:30 - 11:00

School Committee Meeting
2024-12-17 19:30 - 21:00

CHAI School Chanukah Festival
2024-12-22 10:30 - 12:00

Chanukah, First Night
2024-12-25

Menorah Lighting on Wakefield Commons
2024-12-29 16:00 - 17:00

Chanukah, Eighth Night
2025-01-01

Erev Shabbat Celebration, led by Rabbi Pam
2025-01-03 19:30 - 21:00

Tot Shabbat, led by Rabbi Pam
2025-01-04 09:30 - 10:30

Sisterhood Sunday Walkers
2025-01-05 11:00 - 12:00
When: Sunday January 5, 2025 weather permitting
Time: 11:00 AM
Where: Breakheart Reservation
Meeting location: Northeast Regional High School Parking Lot, 100 Hemlock Rd. Wakefield
Parking: Parking lot in front of the building. Please note that there is construction going on, a new school, but parking is still available
RSVP: Sue Hochberg shochberg.sh@gmail.com. Please let me know if you are coming so we don’t leave without you.
Trail information: 3 mile paved loop, hilly in places, rest area/bathroom 1/2 way.
Sue H’s Cell for day of the walk: 781-258-7760

Erev Shabbat Celebration, Lay-led
2025-01-10 19:30 - 21:00

Shabbat Morning Celebration, led by Rabbi Pam
2025-01-11 09:30 - 11:30

Bagels and Chairs Work Party!
2025-01-12 10:00 - 12:00
BAGELS AND CHAIRS WORK PARTY!

Sunday Morning, January 12 at 10:00 AM

Join us for bagels and a nosh, then help repair some of our new chairs that need a quick fix! Or help tidy another part of the Temple!
Please RSVP to Ben if you will be joining the party!

Temple Reads: Kantika by Elizabeth Graver
2025-01-12 19:00 - 20:30
Kantika
by Elizabeth Graver
Sunday January 12 at 7:00 PM via Zoom
Join Temple Reads
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83712160257?pwd=PaRCHyAn4UKgurlgWg1rv0gT1OdYS3.1
Meeting ID: 837 1216 0257
Passcode: 967104
A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New York, exploring displacement, endurance, and family as home.
A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family’s displacement across four countries, Kantika—“song” in Ladino—follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul. When the Cohens lose their wealth and are forced to move to Barcelona and start anew, Rebecca fashions a life and self from what comes her way—a failed marriage, the need to earn a living, but also passion, pleasure and motherhood. Moving from Spain to Cuba to New York for an arranged second marriage, she faces her greatest challenge—her disabled stepdaughter, Luna, whose feistiness equals her own and whose challenges pit new family against old.
Exploring identity, place and exile, Kantika also reveals how the female body—in work, art and love—serves as a site of both suffering and joy. A haunting, inspiring meditation on the tenacity of women, this lush, lyrical novel from Elizabeth Graver celebrates the insistence on seizing beauty and grabbing hold of one’s one and only life.
