Temple Emanuel

Ruach Shabbat Services: Grades K-6
2025-05-24 10:45 - 12:00, 2025-05-31 10:45 - 12:00, 2025-06-07 10:45 - 12:00, 2025-06-14 10:45 - 12:00, 2025-06-21 10:45 - 12:00, 2025-06-28 10:45 - 12:00, 2025-07-12 10:45 - 12:00, 2025-07-19 10:45 - 12:00 (America/New_York) and 9 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!

6th Grade Shabbat Service
2025-05-31 09:30 - 12:00 | Gann Chapel, 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Calling all 6th grade families!
Join us for services and a special kiddush in the Gann Chapel.
Register Here→

Honor our Members Through the Decades Shabbat Morning Service: Celebrating our B'nei Mitzvah Celebrants During Covid & This Year's New Members
2025-06-07 09:30 - 12:00 | In Person – Temple Emanuel, 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
We began the celebration of our members Through the Decades at Temple Emanuel in 2023 by honoring our members who joined our community from the 1940s through the 2020s. In 2024, we went on to celebrate Travelers with our community, B’nei Mitzvah from the 1950s to 1990 and Adult B’nei Mitzvah from the 1990s and 2000s. The celebration continues this year!
Join us June 7, 2025 as we continue to honor our members Through the Decades, celebrating our B’nei Mitzvah who celebrated their Bar and Bat Mitzvah during Covid, from March 14, 2020 through May 29, 2021. We want to honor you and your families with our entire community, together in the Rabbi Samuel Chiel Sanctuary! We will also honor and welcome all of our New Members this shul year who joined our community since July 1st!
If that includes you, plan to be with us so we can honor you!
If it does not include you, join us on this special Shabbat to celebrate our community.
Festive kiddush to follow!
Contact us with any questions at ThroughTheDecades@templeemanuel.com
Temple Emanuel is all about community and our community is all about you.
Marcie Abramson and Amy B. Klein, Membership Committee Co-Chairs
Sandy Cohn Thau, Vice President of Membership

Pride Shabbat
2025-06-21 09:30 - 12:00 | Rabbi Samuel Chiel Sanctuary, 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Join us for Temple Emanuel’s Pride Shabbat! This year, we will hear a special sermon from our Ritual Coordinator, AJ Helman.
Sermon Topic – Both/And: Being a Proud Queer Zionist Jew in a Post-October 7 World
Minyan Ma’or’s events in Reisman will include a D’var Torah by Reva Kasman. The drash theme will be: “Redefining Bravery: Personal and Parsha-Based Reflections for Pride Shabbat”
About AJ Helman
AJ Helman (they/them/theirs) is an educator and artist with a focus on Jewish and LGBTQ+ theater and education. After graduating from Emerson College with a BFA in Theater Education and Performance, AJ remained in Boston, working in the local theater and film industries as both an artist and a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion liaison. As part of their activism and educator work, they facilitated workshops on gender diversity in theater and spearheaded better inclusion practices for transgender employees in the film industry thanks to the support of Ryan Reynolds’ and Blake Lively’s Group Effort Initiative. AJ proudly marched with Keshet at San Francisco Pride directly following the Supreme Court’s overturning of the Defense of Marriage Act, effectively making LGBTQ+ marriage in the United States legal. In addition to their activism and artistry, AJ is thrilled to be a part of the Temple Emanuel staff as the Ritual Coordinator.

Ruach Shabbat Services: Grades K-6
2025-07-05 10:45 - 12:00 | In Person – Temple Emanuel, 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
For Grades K-6. This week, join Ritual Coordinator AJ Helman on Shabbat morning in Room 22 at Temple Emanuel for a fun children’s service!

Main Shabbat Morning ServiceWith Guest Speaker Rabbi Rachel Silverman
2025-08-16 09:30 - 12:00 | Rabbi Samuel Chiel Sanctuary, 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Rabbi Rachel Silverman will share an incredible experience they had at the Ramah day camp where a phone-free experiment resulted in some unexpected results with profound implications for our own lives. Come join us to explore together the ways powering off our devices can power on greater joy, connection, and well-being.
Sermon Topic: The Power of Off
About Rabbi Rachel Silverman
Rabbi Rachel Silverman (she/her) first joined the Camp Ramah New England staff as a Rosh Edah (unit head) at the overnight camp from 2005-2010. Many years later, she’s thrilled to be back as the Director of Ramah Boston, our newest day camp. Rabbi Silverman previously served as a congregational rabbi in both Brookline and Sharon, MA, after receiving her ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2010. When she is not at camp, she is a ceramic artist and enjoys biking, cooking, and gardening. She lives in Sharon, MA, with her husband Josh, their three kids (Anna, Danny, and Benjamin), dog (Abby).

Main Shabbat Morning ServiceWith Guest Speaker Rabbi Jamie Kotler
2025-08-23 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 Jamie Kotler.
Sermon Topic: Inheritance – A Personal Journey of Discovery and Choice.
We have no control over what we are bequeathed. Or do we?

About Rabbi Jamie Kotler
Rabbi Jamie Kotler teaches Torah and Jewish texts at synagogue communities in the Boston area and beyond. She has served as chaplain at Fireman House (Hebrew Senior Life), and has served on the Boards of The Rashi School, and Mayyim Hayyim, and on the building committee for Newbridge on the Charles at Hebrew Senior Life.
Rabbi Kotler grew up in Brazil and Mexico, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, with little religious practice or knowledge. She began studying Torah as a young mother of three. Her desire to steep herself in the texts and traditions she had missed as a child led her to enter rabbinical school at the age of 54 and was ordained by the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College in June 2016. Before entering the rabbinate, she was a computer programmer (EDS, TX and Hewlett-Packard, CA), a financial analyst (Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, CA), and a consultant to small businesses.
Rabbi Kotler holds a BA in Biology from Brown University and an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business. She is married to Harold Kotler, and together they have five grown children and four grandchildren.

Selichot Service
2025-09-13 20:00 - 21:00 | Reisman Hall, 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Join us for our beautiful Selichot services Saturday night, September 13, from 8:00 to 9:00, preceded by a lovely collation generously sponsored by our Sisterhood.Selichot is about getting ready for our High Holiday season by hearing the beautiful songs, reciting the familiar prayers, feeling the sacred and serious mood—and sharing it all with our beloved community.In addition, we are going to have a conversation around this question: When is a light touch the right response to a heavy world? We all know about the Coldplay moment this summer. That brief moment, caught on camera, destroyed careers, reputations, marriages, families. Literally the opposite of light, humorous, or funny.Yet when Astronomer responded to this deeply painful moment, it did so with a brief appearance by Gwyneth Paltrow, who herself had been married to Coldplay’s lead singer, Chris Martin, with whom she had two children. Her words were light, funny, dry, wry—and were very well received. The overwhelming reaction was that Gwyneth Paltrow’s piece landed and effectively enabled the company to move on.We will watch the clip of the Coldplay moment and Gwyneth Paltrow’s words and ask: why did it land so well, did you have any reservations about it, and what can it teach us about how to engage our world today? When things are heavy, when and how do we go light?
Join us in Reisman Hall or via livestream here.
View the songsheet here.
View our service booklet here.
View the Coldplay moment & Gwenyth Platrow’s words here.

Rosh HaShanah Day I Early Rabbi Samuel Chiel Sanctuary Service
2025-09-23 08:00 - 11:00 | Hybrid (In Person and Virtual Options), 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States

Rosh HaShanah I Reisman Traditional Lay-Led Service
2025-09-23 08:30 - 13:00 | Hybrid (In Person and Virtual Options), 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Join us in Reisman Hall or Livestream!

Rosh HaShanah Day I Late Rabbi Samuel Chiel Sanctuary Service
2025-09-23 11:30 - 14:00 | Live Stream Rabbi Samuel Chiel Sanctuary
Join us in-person in the Rabbi Samuel Chiel Sanctuary or Livestream!

Rosh HaShanah Day I Adelson Community Hall Service
2025-09-23 11:30 - 14:00 | Hybrid (In Person and Virtual Options), 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Join us in Adelson Community Hall or Virtually.

Rosh HaShanah Day II Early Sanctuary Service
2025-09-24 08:00 - 10:30 | Hybrid (In Person and Virtual Options), 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Join in person in the Rabbi Samuel Chiel Sanctuary or Livestream!

Rosh HaShanah Day II Reisman Traditional Lay-Led Service
2025-09-24 08:30 - 13:00 | Hybrid (In Person and Virtual Options), 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
