Wakefield Public Menorah Lighting on the Upper Common
2019-12-22 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
There will be latkes, donuts and goodies provided by the Chabad of the North Shore.
Chabad will be hosting the celebration after the lighting in the conference room of the Town Hall to avoid any weather issues and to encourage attendees to hang out to celebrate.

Chanukah, Last Night
2019-12-29
TEMPLE EMMANUEL CHANUKIAH

Chanukah Party
2019-12-29 17:00 - 19:00
Celebrate Last Night of Hanukkah with family and friends at Temple Emmanuel
Bring your menorah for a group candle lighting and enjoy singing, dancing, food and games
Latkes and applesauce will be served, desserts will be provided
All are welcome! RSVP to Susan Silbovitz at svitz9@gmail.com or call at 919-605-0523

Erev Shabbat Celebration
2020-01-03 19:30 - 21:00, 2020-01-10 19:30 - 21:00, 2020-01-24 19:30 - 21:00

Shabbat Morning Celebration followed by Kiddush & Torah Study with Rabbi Greg
2020-01-04 09:30 - 12:00

Once a Week with the Rabbi
2020-01-05 10:30 - 12:00, 2020-01-07 15:30 - 16:30, 2020-01-08 15:30 - 17:00, 2020-01-12 10:30 - 12:00, 2020-01-15 15:30 - 17:00, 2020-01-19 10:30 - 12:00, 2020-01-21 15:30 - 16:30, 2020-01-22 15:30 - 17:00

Membership Committee Meeting, Postponed to January 20
2020-01-06 19:30 - 21:00

House & Grounds Committee Meeting
2020-01-07 18:45 - 19:30

Ritual Committee Meeting HAS BEEN CANCELED
2020-01-07 19:30 - 21:00

School Committee Meeting
2020-01-08 17:30 - 18:30

Introduction to Judaism, Class 7: Prophesy and Prophetic Vision, Haftarot and Role of Miracles
2020-01-08 19:30 - 20:30
Introduction to Judaism is a conversion course open to all who are interested. Come learn what it means to be Jewish! People of all religious backgrounds, races, gender identities, sexual orientations, and ages are welcome to join this class. Those interested in converting to Judaism must attend each session or make other arrangements with Rabbi Greg. Whether or not you’re converting, all are welcome to join in the classes and discussions.

Tot Shabbat
2020-01-11 09:30 - 10:30

IMPORTANT MEMBERSHIP INFORMATIONAL SESSION
2020-01-12 12:30 - 14:00
Important membership informational session on our Temple’s future and the efforts of our Strategic Planning Committee to this goal, Sunday 12:30 – 2:00 PM:
a) Understanding the process and the overall recommendation to go with the house sale route
b) Discussing the current steps approved by the Board (initial plot plan assessments and legal support)
c) Requesting the Board to call a special membership meeting for a vote to sell the single family house adjacent to the Temple and surrounding property

Sisterhood Movie Night at Liz & Joe's
2020-01-12 18:00 - 21:00
Girls Night Out!
Sunday Jan 12
6:00 PM: Joe’s Pizza & Salad & Dessert
7:00 PM Movie: Live and Become, a 5 star film

Live and Become is a 2005 French drama film about an Ethiopian Christian boy who disguises himself as an Ethiopian Jew to escape famine and emigrates to Israel. It was directed by Romanian-born Radu Mihăileanu. It won awards at the Berlin and Vancouver film festivals among others.
Schlomo, an Ethiopian boy, is placed by his Christian mother with an Ethiopian Jewish woman whose child has died. This woman, who will become his adoptive mother, is about to be airlifted from a Sudanese refugee camp to Israel during Operation Moses in 1984. His birth mother, who hopes for a better life for him, tells him “Go, live, and become,” as he leaves her to get on the bus. The film tells of his growing up in Israel and how he deals with the secrets he carries: not being Jewish and having left his birth mother.
Runs about 140 min. Bring glasses, some subtitles
Location: Liz Freeman’s house, 8 Dexter Lane, Wakefield
Free – we have the menu covered – just bring yourself
RSVP to Liz by Jan. 9: lindentree85@comcast.net
or call 781-246-2836

Temple Board Meeting
2020-01-14 19:30 - 21:00

2020-01-15 00:00
Mishloach Manot 2020

Mussar: Jewish Ethical and Spiritual Development, Balancing Joy and Worry
2020-01-15 19:30 - 20:30

Jewish Meditation Circle
2020-01-17 19:30 - 20:30

Shabbat Morning Celebration
2020-01-18 09:30 - 12:00

Temple Reads
2020-01-19 19:00 - 20:30
The Catcher was a Spy, The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg
by Nicholas Dawidoff

at the home of Maggie Leshen & Howard Faigel
Moe Berg is the only major-league baseball player whose baseball card is on display at the headquarters of the CIA. For Berg was much more than a third-string catcher who played on several major league teams between 1923 and 1939. Educated at Princeton and the Sorbonne, he as reputed to speak a dozen languages (although it was also said he couldn’t hit in any of them) and went on to become an OSS spy in Europe during World War II.
As Nicholas Dawidoff follows Berg from his claustrophobic childhood through his glamorous (though equivocal) careers in sports and espionage and into the long, nomadic years during which he lived on the hospitality of such scattered acquaintances as Joe DiMaggio and Albert Einstein, he succeeds not only in establishing where Berg went, but who he was beneath his layers of carefully constructed cover. As engrossing as a novel by John le Carré, The Catcher Was a Spy is a triumphant work of historical and psychological detection. (from Amazon)

Introduction to Judaism, Class 8: Destruction of the 2nd Temple, Pharisees/Sadducees, Jewish/Christian Split
2020-01-22 19:30 - 20:30
