Temple Emanuel

Rosh HaShanah Day II Reisman Traditional Lay-Led Service
2025-09-24 08:30 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Hybrid (In Person and Virtual Options), 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Join us in Reisman Hall or Livestream!

Rosh HaShanah Day II Adelson Contemporary Service
2025-09-24 10:00 - 12:30 | Hybrid (In Person and Virtual Options), 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Join us in Adelson Community Hall or Livestream

Rosh HaShanah Day II Mincha/Ma'Ariv
2025-09-24 18:00 - 19:00 | Hybrid (In Person and Virtual Options), 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Join us in person in the Gann Chapel or Livestream!

Main Shabbat Morning Service with Guest Speaker Ofir Amir, Co-Founder of the Tribe of Nova Foundation
2025-09-27 09:30 - 12:00 | Rabbi Samuel Chiel Sanctuary, 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
On Sunday, September 28, two buses are leaving from Temple Emanuel at noon to go to the Nova Exhibit. Limited seating is still available. If you are interested in joining us, please register here.
On Shabbat, September 27, we are having a special guest speaker, Ofir Amir, who survived Nova, and who co-founded the Tribe of Nova Foundation. His story of resilience, renewal, and affirmation of life and hope are the inspiring message we all need to hear between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
Please join us for his sermon on Shabbat morning, and please join us at the Nova Exhibit.
About Ofir Amir
Ofir Amir is co-founder and CFO of the Tribe of Nova Foundation, established after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on the Nova Music Festival. Wounded while escaping, Ofir survived and later helped transform tragedy into a movement of healing and resilience.
Before the attack, he was deeply involved in building the Nova community of music, unity, and love. Today, he co-produces the Nova Music Festival Exhibition, an international initiative honoring victims, supporting survivors, and raising funds for mental health care and Beit Nova—a permanent center for remembrance and recovery in Israel.
Through his leadership and testimony, Ofir amplifies the voices of survivors and ensures their stories of courage live on.

Ruach Shabbat Services: Grades K-6
2025-09-27 10:45 - 12:00, 2025-10-04 10:45 - 12:00, 2025-10-11 10:45 - 12:00, 2025-10-18 10:45 - 12:00, 2025-10-25 10:45 - 12:00, 2025-11-01 10:45 - 12:00, 2025-11-08 10:45 - 12:00, 2025-11-15 10:45 - 12:00 and 6 more dates | In Person – Temple Emanuel, 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
For Grades K-6. Join Jon Tatelman on Shabbat morning in Room 22 at Temple Emanuel for a fun children’s service!

Kol Nidre Mincha Service
2025-10-01 17:45 - 18:00 | Hybrid (In Person and Virtual Options), 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Join us in the Rabbi Samuel Chiel Sanctuary or on Livestream

Kol Nidre Minyan Ma'or Service
2025-10-01 17:50 - 20:30 | In Person – Temple Emanuel, 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Join us in the Gazebo Tented Outdoors

Kol Nidre Early Rabbi Samuel Chiel Sanctuary Service
2025-10-01 18:00 - 19:45 | Hybrid (In Person and Virtual Options), 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Join us in-person or Livestream

Kol Nidre Reisman Traditional Lay-Led Service including Mincha/Ma'Ariv
2025-10-01 18:00 - 20:10 | Hybrid (In Person and Virtual Options), 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Join us in Reisman Hall or on Livestream

Kol Nidre Adelson Community Hall Service
2025-10-01 20:15 - 22:00 | Hybrid (In Person and Virtual Options), 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States

Kol Nidre Late Rabbi Samuel Chiel Sanctuary Service
2025-10-01 20:15 - 22:00 | Hybrid (In Person and Virtual Options), 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States

Pre-Ne’ilah Speaker Larry Bacow
2025-10-02 17:15 - 18:15 | Rabbi Samuel Chiel Sanctuary, 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Join us for a special Pre-Ne’ilah presentation from TE member and former Harvard President, Larry Bacow.
Sermon Topic: Lessons From Our Parents

About Larry Bacow
Lawrence S. Bacow is President Emeritus and Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Bacow served as the 29th president of Harvard University from 2018-2023. Widely recognized as one of higher education’s most respected leaders, Bacow’s tenure at Harvard was marked by the creation of a range of academic initiatives, advocacy for public service, diversity and access to opportunity, and steady leadership of the university through the COVID-19 pandemic.
View his full bio HERE→

Main Shabbat Morning ServiceWith Guest Speaker Rabbi Ravid Tilles
2025-10-04 09:30 - 12:00 | Rabbi Samuel Chiel Sanctuary, 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Join us for a special Shabbat morning service with guest speaker, Rabbi Ravid Tilles.
Sermon Topic: Now Is the Best Time to Be Counter Cultural!
Judaism has always, from the very beginning, been a counter point to the surrounding culture. Most of us have grown up in a Jewish community that has struggled to blend our surrounding culture with our ancient tradition. But as the culture around us becomes unbearable, maybe this is the exact time to reclaim our roots!
About Rabbi Ravid Tilles
Rabbi Ravid Tilles is the School Rabbi and Director of Jewish Life and Learning at Schechter Boston. He and his wife, Yaffa, and three sons are members of the Temple Emanuel family.

Sukkot Day I Service with Guest Speaker Dr. Mark Poznansky
2025-10-07 09:30 - 12:00 | Rabbi Samuel Chiel Sanctuary, 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Sermon topic – Building a Sukkah of Hope One Fellow at a Time
On October 7, 2023, the world changed both in Israel and here in the United States for us as Jews. Antisemitism has become mainstream, most visibly in academia. Join us on the first day of Sukkot, October 7th, as Dr. Mark Poznansky shares stories from the trenches of academic medicine where he and his colleagues are making a difference and charting a path for us to make a difference too.
About Dr. Mark Poznansky
Mark C Poznansky, MD, PhD, is a Professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, an attending physician in infectious diseases medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and Director of the Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center at MGH. He holds a doctoral degree Cambridge University and a medical degree from University of Edinburgh. The translational medical research center, the Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, that Dr. Poznansky founded and directs sits at the interface between scientific discovery and medical product development, discovering novel immune processes, defining their molecular mechanisms and exploring their relevance to the development of vaccines and immunotherapies for cancer, infectious diseases and type I diabetes. Dr. Poznansky is also the co-founder of the Harvard Medical School chapter of Kalaniyot which sets as its mission to foster academic relations between Israeli academic medical centers and HMS here in Boston. He is also the co-founder of the Jewish Employee Resource Group at Mass General Brigham that helps support the community of Jewish and Jewish affiliated healthcare workers in this large Massachusetts based healthcare system. Dr. Poznansky also serves on the Board of the newly formed American Jewish Medical Association.

Hartman Shabbat Scholar-in-Residence Micah Goodman in the Main Service
2025-11-15 09:30 - 13:30 | Rabbi Samuel Chiel Sanctuary, 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
We will kick off our shul year of Hartman learning at Temple Emanuel on November 15, 2025 when we will welcome our friend and teacher, Dr. Micah Goodman.
Micah will join us in person on Shabbat morning, teaching us in the Talmud Class at 8:30am, delivering the sermon during Shabbat morning services beginning at 9:30am, and teaching us again post-Kiddush.
Talmud Class before services – The Artificial Intelligence Revolution vs. The Vision of Theodor Herzl
Sermon – What Was the Message of Abraham Our Father?
Post-Kiddush Talk – The Crisis of the West – Is Israel the Problem or the Solution?
Upcoming Hartman Learning Programs:
Shabbat, November 15 – Micah Goodman Shabbat Scholar in Residence
Sunday, November 16, 2025 @ 10:00 am– TE-Hartman Trip 2026 Information Session. Register here!
Monday December 8, 2025 @ 8:00 pm – Hartman learning in person – Pathways to Hope: Ronit Heyd in Conversation with Hartman Hazon Participants from Israel
Wednesday February 25, 2026 @ 8:00 pm – Hartman learning in person with Elana Stein Hain – details to be announced.
June 24 – June 30, 2026 – TE-Hartman 2026 Trip to Israel. Let us know here you’d like to learn more!
Look for recordings of all our online sessions and selected lectures of Hartman scholars at Temple Emanuel here.
Watch for updated details on this program and all Hartman learning opportunities in our weekly Friday midday Hartman @ Home email.

Rabbi Samuel Chiel Kallah: Shabbat Morning Service
2025-11-22 09:30 - 12:00 | Rabbi Samuel Chiel Sanctuary, 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Sermon Topic: Campus Chaos – A View from Inside Academia Today
Antisemitism, Activism, AI, Administrative Upheaval, Anticipations undermined…Rabbi Dr. Pamela Barmash has been a professor for two decades at Washington University in St. Louis. In the past two years, so much has changed. Yet her department, Jewish Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, has managed to be an oasis of respectful conversation. Could this be a model for life beyond the University? What can we learn from her experience on campus?

Friday Night Service
2025-12-26 18:30 - 19:30 | Hybrid (In Person and Virtual Options), 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
On Friday evening, December 26th, we are excited to offer a traditional Kabbalat Shabbat service at 6:30pm in the Gann Chapel in lieu of Shabbat Alive. Come join us in spirited davening, followed by an oneg Shabbat!
At 4:00pm, the Minyan Ma’or-led service will also meet in the Gann Chapel in lively prayer.
