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Important COVID-19 Update

Our building is closed, but our Temple Emanuel community is here for you.

Join Us Online.

Services are being held virtually with live streaming.
Classes are being conducted using Zoom.
As a community, we are supporting each other in numerous ways.

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We can’t wait to learn, pray, and connect with you online!

Featured Events

April 4 @ 9:00 am

Jewish Mindfulness and Meditation

Learn how to bring deeper meaning to your Judaism through meditation as well as to explore how meditation can quiet the mind.

April 5 @ 10:00 am

Online Learning with Micah Goodman

Learn with Dr. Micah Goodman, author, teacher, thinker, director of Ein Prat-The Midrasha and senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute.

April 5 @ 2:00 pm

Israeli Poetry with Rachel Korazim and the Global Jewish Community

Joins us for online teaching with Rachel Korazim

April 6 @ 5:00 pm

iGenesis Passover Community Project

Join this Unique Online Project - Learn how to play a favorite Passover song! Then help us make a Temple Emanuel community recording of “Dayenu”.

April 7 @ 6:00 pm

Remembrance of Things Past: Reading Marcel Proust in Our Time

We will read Swann’s Way in increments of 40 pages a week, for twelve weeks.

April 9 @ 6:30 pm

Let My People Sing: Virtual Second Night Seder

How is this night different from all other nights? At every Passover Seder for generations, our people have been asking this question. This year, for the first time in Jewish history, we have a new answer. 

April 18 @ 1:00 pm

Pirke Avot Study

Each week from the conclusion of Passover to Shavout we will follow the tradition of spending some time delving into Pirke Avot.

April 20 @ 8:00 pm

Music of the Holocaust from Germany to Poland

with Cantor Elias Rosemberg Join us online with Zoom We’ll begin examining the term, Degenerate Music, that […]

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A Podcast from Temple Emanuel; From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life: Bringing weekly Jewish insights into your life. Join Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz, Rabbi Michelle Robinson and Rav-Hazzan Aliza Berger of Temple Emanuel in Newton, MA as they share modern ancient wisdom.

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We celebrate diversity, offer innovative Jewish programming, and are deeply committed to cultivating a relationship with Judaism that is meaningful and relevant to you.

We are proud to welcome the membership and participation of interfaith couples and families, as well as people of every ability, background, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, and socio-economic status.

We welcome you to come as you are.