CHAI School Chanukah Festival
2024-12-22 10:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York)

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, 2025-01-24 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

Membership Committee Meeting
2025-01-06 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-02-03 19:30 - 21:00

House & Grounds Committee Meeting
2025-01-07 18:45 - 19:30, 2025-02-04 18:45 - 19:30

Ritual Committee Meeting
2025-01-07 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-02-04 19:30 - 21:00

Volunteer at Wakefield Community Dinners
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.

Erev Shabbat Celebration, Lay-led
2025-01-10 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-02-07 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
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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.

Sisterhood Board Meeting
2025-01-13 19:30 - 20:30

Temple Board Meeting
2025-01-14 19:30 - 21:00

Jewish Meditation Circle, led by Rabbi Pam
2025-01-17 19:30 - 20:30

Shabbat Morning Celebration, Lay-led
2025-01-18 09:30 - 11:00

School Committee Meeting
2025-01-21 19:30 - 21:00

One Hour Family Shabbat Celebration, led by Rabbi Pam
2025-01-25 09:30 - 10:30
Temple Emmanuel Family Service, Saturday January 25
9:30-10:30 AM in the sanctuary
Please join us for singing, praying and looking in the Torah. All adults, CHAI School students, and siblings are welcome! Children who wish will be invited to stand on the Bima with Rabbi Pam at the beginning of the service to sing Hinay Mah Tov, and again at the end of the service to sing Bim Bam Shabbat Shalom. There will also be an opportunity to come up and look inside the Torah! The service will be followed by Kiddush upstairs that will include a light snack.

Continuing Education Committee Meeting
2025-01-28 19:30 - 21:00

Tot Shabbat, led by Rabbi Pam
2025-02-01 09:30 - 10:30
Children and parents are welcome to bring something to share relating to trees as we celebrate Tu B’Shvat. Leaf, tree needle, pine cone, fruit that grows on a tree, photo or drawing are some ideas.

4 Chaplains Event
2025-02-02 09:00 - 10:00
On Sunday, February 2, Temple Emmanuel will welcome Paul Cancelliere and the Wakefield Veterans Advisory Board to lead the annual “Four Chaplains” memorial service. This event honors the Four Chaplains, including Rabbi Alexander D. Goode, who died rescuing civilian and military personnel as the American troop ship SS Dorchester sank on February 3, 1943. There is a memorial monument in front of the synagogue, one of several in the country, that commemorates the ultimate sacrifices made by these men of different faiths. The service begins at 9:00 AM, and it is open to the public.

Pizza & Movie Afternoon
2025-02-02 13:00 - 16:00
The Sisterhood of Temple Emmanuel invites the
Temple community, family and friends
to a
PIZZA AND MOVIE EVENT
What: Pizza lunch, movie: Kiss Me Kosher, a rom-com set in Israel, followed by a discussion
When: Sunday Feb 2, 2025
Snow Date: Feb 23, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM
Where: Temple Emmanuel
Cost: $10/pp Pizza, salad, beverages and dessert
Movie only: Free

RSVP by 1/29/25 to Sue Hochberg shochberg.sh@gmail.com
Please mention if you will be having lunch
