Temple Emmanuel of Wakefield

Ways & Means/Social/Function Committee Meeting
2026-02-19 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York)

Erev Shabbat Celebration
2026-02-20 19:30 - 20:30, 2026-02-27 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-03-06 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-03-13 19:30 - 21:00

Meditation
2026-02-21 10:00 - 11:00

Game Night - Beerfest!
2026-02-21 18:30 - 21:30
TEMPLE EMMANUEL’S ANNUAL GAME NIGHT & BEERFEST
Saturday, February 21, 2025 at 6:30 pm
A social evening for Temple members, family and friends over 21
Kosher hotdog dinner with all the fixings, munchies,
Vegetarian Option, too (let us know)
Beverages: Beer, Wine and Soda
Games for grownups
Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit, Mexican Train, Dominos, Poker and more!
Mahjong, Western Style unless someone can bring an American set and players bring their official cards

Bring your favorite game! Something new!
Cost: $20 per person
Pay at the door, cash or check
Please RSVP by February 18th to ensure plenty of food
Marsha Alter mlouisea@gmail.com

Visiting Moms Group
2026-02-24 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-03-10 10:00 - 12:00

CHAI School Classes
2026-02-24 15:30 - 18:00, 2026-03-03 15:30 - 18:00, 2026-03-10 15:30 - 18:00, 2026-03-17 15:30 - 18:00

Continuing Education Committee
2026-02-24 19:30 - 21:00

Continuing Education: Jewish Views of the Afterlife, Part 2 - Beliefs
2026-02-25 19:30 - 20:30
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Shabbat Morning Celebration with Torah Reading Followed by Blue Hostage Ribbon Removal Ceremony
2026-02-28 10:00 - 11:30

Purim Carnival
2026-03-01 10:30 - 12:00

Purim Evening Family Celebration
2026-03-02 19:00 - 20:00

House & Grounds Committee Meeting
2026-03-03 18:45 - 19:30

Ritual Committee Meeting
2026-03-03 19:30 - 21:00

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

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
