Temple Emmanuel of Wakefield

Summer Celebration AT BETH SHALOM in MELROSE!
2025-05-31 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)

Cocktails and Kvetching (for Young Jewish Adults)
2025-05-31 18:30 - 20:30
Are you a Nice Jewish Boy / Girl / Person with nothing to do on a Saturday evening? Are you struggling to make friends in your 20s, 30s, or 40s? So are we! Join us at Temple Emmanuel of Wakefield for our new event for Jewish young adults (and their non-Jewish friends), Cocktails and Kvetching! Have a cocktail, some snacks, and break the ice with fun kvetching conversation prompts.
Topics may include:
– How many unread emails you have
– Things that can ruin a perfectly good bagel
– The worst advice you’ve received from a relative this year
– Your inability to digest lactose
– And more!
Save the date! Saturday May 31 from 6:30 to 8:30PM. We can’t wait to see you and do some good-natured complaining with you.
See this for more information!

Sisterhood Sunday Walkers
2025-06-01 11:00 - 12:00
When: Sunday June 1, 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

Erev Shavuot Celebration with Flower Crown Decoration and Tikkun Leil Study Session
2025-06-01 18:00 - 19:00
EREV SHAVUOT CELEBRATION
HELP DECORATE 3 TORAH CROWNS WITH FLOWERS &
MUNCH PIZZA!
LISTEN TO RABBI GREG LEAD A FUN TIKKUN LEIL STUDY &
EAT ICE CREAM!
IN-PERSON ONLY

Honor Shavuot by Decorating the Torahs
Bring your whole family and a bouquet of flowers
Pizza and ice cream provided

Sunday, June 1 6:00-7:00 PM

Please RSVP by May 29: svitz9@gmail.com

Shavuot First Day Services with Yizkor
2025-06-02 09:30 - 11:30

Membership Committee Meeting
2025-06-02 19:30 - 21:00

Shavuot Second Day, No Service
2025-06-03

House & Grounds Committee Meeting
2025-06-03 18:45 - 19:30

Continuing Education: Trailblazing American Jewish Musicians
2025-06-04 19:30 - 20:30
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.
Join Class
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83198856281?pwd=4kDQ9xWi4bQoKPGPBEXgLB0M2TstPg.1
Meeting ID: 831 9885 6281
Passcode: 662309

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

Erev Shabbat Celebration led by Barrett Deninger
2025-06-06 19:30 - 21:00

Shabbat Morning Celebration including the Bat Mitzvah of Barrett Deninger
2025-06-07 09:30 - 11:30

Festival by the Lake
2025-06-08 10:00 - 16:00
Rain Date is June 8

Temple Board Meeting
2025-06-10 19:30 - 21:00

Volunteer at Wakefield Community Dinners
2025-06-11 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 with Rabbi Greg, please sign up here.

Erev Shabbat Celebration including Installation of Temple Board Members and Sisterhood Officers & Board Members
2025-06-13 19:30 - 21:00

Tot Shabbat
2025-06-14 09:30 - 10:30

Game Night
2025-06-14 18:30 - 21:00
Bring a favorite board game or learn a new one. All ages welcome. Beverages and light snacks will be provided.

School Committee Meeting
2025-06-17 19:30 - 21:00

Jewish Meditation Circle
2025-06-20 19:30 - 20:30

Shabbat at Breakheart
2025-06-21 09:30 - 10:30
Jewish Wilderness Spirituality
Meet 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

Brunch in Honor of Rabbi Greg
2025-06-22 11:30 - 13:30
BRUNCH IN HONOR OF RABBI GREG HERSH

Sunday June 22 at 11:30 AM
RSVP Susan: svitz9@gmail.com by 6/20/25
Join us as we celebrate and thank Rabbi Greg for the last nine wonderful years and wish him the best in his future endeavors.

Sisterhood Board Meeting HAS BEEN CANCELED
2025-06-23 19:30 - 21:00

Erev Shabbat Celebration
2025-06-27 19:30 - 21:00

Shabbat Morning Celebration including the Bar Mitzvah of Matthew Meahl
2025-06-28 09:30 - 11:30

Sisterhood Sunday Walkers CANCELLED
2025-07-06 11:00 - 12:00

Volunteer at Wakefield Community Dinners
2025-07-09 15:30 - 18:30

Family Picnic on the Temple Lawn
2025-07-13 09:30 - 10:30

Temple Reads: Going Home by Tom Lamont
2025-07-13 19:30 - 21:00
Going Home
by
Tom Lamont
Sunday July 13 at 7:30 PM
Going Home is a sparkling, funny, bighearted story of family and what happens when three men—all of whom are completely ill-suited for fatherhood—take charge of a toddler following an unexpected loss.
Téo Erskine, now in his thirties, has moved on from childish things: He has a good job, a slick apartment in London, and when he heads back to the suburbs on the occasional weekend to visit his old friends, he makes sure everyone knows he can afford to pick up the tab. So what if he asks a few too many questions about Lia, the girl of their group, wondering if she will come out, if she’s seeing anyone, if she might give him another shot? Téo is hazily aware that something possibly happened between Lia and Ben Mossam, Téo’s closest friend and his greatest annoyance, but he can’t bring himself to ask. Lia, meanwhile, has no time to indulge their rivalry. She’s now the single mother of a toddler son, a kid named Joel that Téo occasionally (and halfheartedly) offers to babysit.
Téo is home for one such weekend when the unthinkable happens—a tragedy in the heart of their group—and he suddenly finds himself the unlikely guardian for little Joel. Together with his father, Vic, Ben Mossam, and Sybil, Lia’s beguiling rabbi, they bide time until they can find a proper home for Joel, teaching him to play video games, plying him with chicken nuggets and waffles, and learning to sing him lullabies at night. But when a juvenile mistake leads to a terrible betrayal, Téo must decide what kind of man he wants to be. Wise, relatable, and blissfully laugh-out-loud funny, Going Home is a captivating first novel that explores the mysterious ways children can force us to grow up fast while simultaneously keeping us young forever.

Sisterhood Board Meeting
2025-07-29 19:30 - 20:30
