Temple Emanuel

Ruach Shabbat Services: Grades K-6
2024-12-21 10:45 - 12:00, 2024-12-28 10:45 - 12:00, 2025-01-04 10:45 - 12:00, 2025-01-11 10:45 - 12:00, 2025-01-18 10:45 - 12:00, 2025-01-25 10:45 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | 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!

Drop-In Play
2024-12-25 15:30 - 17:30, 2025-01-01 15:30 - 17:30, 2025-01-08 15:30 - 17:30, 2025-01-15 15:30 - 17:30, 2025-01-22 15:30 - 17:30, 2025-01-29 15:30 - 17:30 | Housman Activity Center, 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Join us for Drop-In Play to help your little one burn off excess energy in our Housman Activity Center!
Register Today!
This program is generously sponsored by the Cindy Levinson Fund for Parenting Education

Yisod 9th Night of Hanukkah Party
2025-01-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Aeronaut Brewing Company, 14 Tyler Street, Somerville, MA, 02143, United States
Join us in keeping the festive Hanukkah spirit alive for one more night! Enjoy delicious jelly donuts, play dreidel, and peruse Aeronaut’s delicious food and beverage options.
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Baby Brunch
2025-01-05 09:00 - 10:00 | In Person – Temple Emanuel, 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Join us for a brunch in the Rabbi Marshall R. Lifson Library Foyer! This is a great opportunity to meet other parents with infants, share stories, and enjoy a delicious FREE breakfast together.
Register Today!
Sponsored by TE Sisterhood and the Cindy Levinson Fund for Parenting Education

K'tonton Pre-K Dropoff Program
2025-01-05 10:00 - 12:00 | TE Preschool, 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Our much loved “K’tonton” program for Pre-K students, ages 3-5 is returning twice a month! This program will meet two Sundays a month from 10:00-12:00 and is the perfect “taste of Religious School” for our littlest friends.
Discover the joy of Jewish learning with your pre-k friends!
Please note: K’tonton is now at capacity. Contact us HERE to join the waitlist!

Seated Zumba Gold
2025-01-09 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-01-23 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual
With Ketty Rosenfeld
Thursday mornings| 9:00 – 10:00am
Session Dates: Sept 11, 25; Oct 23, 30; Nov 6, 13, 20; Dec 4; Jan 8, 22, 29; Feb 5, 12, 19; March 5, 12; April 16, 23, 30; May 21, 28
Join us Online via Zoom
Meeting ID: 871 2457 6849
We are grateful for the Temple Emanuel Senior Fund for supporting Zumba Gold this season. No RSVP needed – No Charge – All are welcome. Questions? Please contact Tracy Schneider.

A Taste of Shabbat Alive
2025-01-10 17:45 - 18:15 | Rabbi Samuel Chiel Sanctuary, 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Join us for our last young family dinner of the season! We’ll meet outdoors for a musical Kabbalat Shabbat service filled with singing, dancing, and stories, geared specifically for families with young children from birth to age 5. After services, we’ll share a free festive Shabbat dinner in Adelson Community Hall – a perfect place to meet other young families!
Registration appreciated.
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Generously supported by the Dr. Trudy Karger Family Education Fund

Bet-Gimel (2-3) Shabbat Service
2025-01-11 10:30 - 12:00 | Leventhal-Sidman Community Court, 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Come experience Shabbat morning services with your Grade 2-3 children! Meet right outside the Rabbi Chiel sanctuary for a welcome circle, “Shul I Spy” game, and Children’s services with Jon Tatleman. Students are invited up to the Bima at the end of the main services, followed by a Kiddush luncheon for the community.
We look forward to seeing you there!

Gan (K) Bedtime Shema
2025-01-12 10:45 - 12:00 | TE Preschool, 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Open to all Temple Emanuel Kindergarten families!*
Kindergarteners decorate their own shema pillowcases and learn about the bedtime shema with Rabbi Robinson.
Students: wear your favorite PJ’s and bring one favorite stuffy to Religious School at the regular time!
Grown-ups: meet your children in their classrooms at 10:45 to decorate special Shema pillow cases, learn about the bedtime shema with Rabbi Michelle Robinson, and enjoy a bedtime snack and story together!
*Children do not need to be part of the Religious School to participate! If your Kindergartener is not in the Religious School, please email Amanda at acutter@templeemanuel.com to let her know you are attending!

Kitot Gimel-Hey/Grades 3-5 Lunch
2025-01-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Solomon Youth Lounge, 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
For Grades 3-5
Enjoy a delicious pizza lunch with friends in the Youth Lounge!
Cost: $15
Save the date(s) for future lunches:
October 20
November 17
December 15
January 12
February 9
March 16
April 6
May 4
Register Here→

Chamber Music Concerts
2025-01-12 15:00 - 16:30 | Rabbi Samuel Chiel Sanctuary, 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Constantine Finehouse (piano) will open this year’s exciting free Chamber Music Concert series with works by Brahms, Chopin, Liszt, and Schumann. Join us in-person or on livestream!
About Constantine Finehouse
Constantine Finehouse has performed extensively in the US and abroad, including in Salzburg, Trieste, London, Ghent, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Odessa. His 2009 solo release, “Backwards Glance,” interweaves works by Brahms and Richard Beaudoin. “The Bolcom Project”, made in collaboration with his American Double partner, violinist Philip Ficsor, included an Albany Records two-CD album and a national tour with concerts in Boston, New York, Denver, Santa Barbara, Spokane and at Yale University. Fanfare praised the recording as “indispensable to any serious collector with an interest in later 20th-century duo repertoire for violin and piano.” The American and European premieres of William Bolcom’s Horn Trio, in collaboration with Ficsor and Steven Gross took place in the summer and fall of 2018. The work, commissioned by the group, was recorded at the Martinu Hall in Prague and released on Naxos Records in December 2021. Finehouse’s recording of Bolcom’s piano solo works for Naxos saw its world-wide launch in December 2017. His latest album “The Brahms Age” on Hänssler Classic with violinist, Daniel Kurganov, follows their 2021 release “Rhythm and the Borrowed Past” on Orchid Classics and “Between the Notes” on Spice Classics in 2018. “Settling Old Scores” with cellist, Sebastian Bäverstam, duo’s second release, features sonatas by Brahms and Shostakovich. During recent concert seasons Finehouse has performed at the Mozarteum (Salzburg), Miaskovsky Hall (Moscow Conservatory), Merkin Recital Hall, Weill Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall) and Jordan Hall (Boston), as well as at Harvard, Yale, and Emory universities, and St. Vincent’s and Elmira colleges, among others. With degrees from Juilliard and Yale, Finehouse teaches at New England Conservatory, and serves as Visiting Artist/Faculty at Westmont College, CA.
The Chamber Series is sponsored by Saul B. and Naomi R. Cohen Foundation
THE SAUL B. AND NAOMI R. COHEN FOUNDATION
Founded in 1997, the Foundation supports and promotes the fine and performing arts. It awards grants to promising young artists and especially gifted performing musicians to enable them to further their artistic pursuits. The Foundation also assists in the development of the musical careers of classical artists with assistance in arranging performance engagements, counseling in career strategy, guidance in the selection of live and recorded performances and help in day-to-day living matters.
To receive email communications about the Chamber Concert series, please contact HERE→

Navigating Healthcare in Boston
2025-01-14 18:30 - 19:15 | Gann Chapel, 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Despite the extraordinarily robust healthcare ecosystem in Boston navigating the system as a patient requires understanding the complexities of the local healthcare companies, insurance coverage limitations, identifying and retaining primary care and the best ways of communicating with clinical providers. Dr. Howard Heller will share his perspective of the most critical issues gained from 33 years of experience caring for patients in Boston/Cambridge as a primary care doctor, as a specialist and also as a patient.

Genealogy Talk
2025-01-15 19:00 - 21:30 | Hybrid (In Person and Virtual Options), 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Dispelling the Myths of Jewish Genealogy
Have you thought the barriers to researching your Jewish ancestors were insurmountable? You may have based those conclusions on myths. This presentation will describe the facts that dispel widely-held myths, and identify the first steps to get started in Jewish Genealogy research. Brought to life with family stories, don’t miss this lively and informative evening!
The presenter, Sonia Lipetz, is President of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston. She has been researching her family in Belarus and Ukraine for close to 20 years! When away from her computer, she is an avid tennis player and fan.
Doors open at 7pm, program online starts at 7:30pm. Virtual attendees will receive a link the day before the event. A light dinner will be served.
Register Here by January 13th.
For more information, please contact Jane.

Teen Lounge Night: Celtics Watch Party
2025-01-15 19:00 - 22:00 | Solomon Youth Lounge, 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Temple Emanuel High School Teens – Come watch your Boston Celtics play the Toronto Raptors and hang out with other high schoolers in the Solomon Youth Lounge.
Pizza will be provided at NO COST!
Registration is required
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The Choreography of Davening Explained
2025-01-18 12:30 - 14:00 | Reisman Hall, 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Minyan Ma’or warmly welcomes all to join as Yair Listokin explains some Shabbat davening practices during lunch this Shabbat. For example, why do some stand during kaddish? What’s the three steps back and forth all about at the beginning and end of an Amidah? LOTS more will be explained!
We look forward to this educational session!

Yisod Bar Mitzvah Party
2025-01-18 18:30 - 22:00 | Reisman Hall, 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Party like it’s your Bar/Bat Mitzvah with Yisod! In place of our usual Friday night dinner, join us on Saturday night for a nostalgic party that takes you back to your favorite Bnei Mitzvah memories – DJed by the amazing Larry Falk! Dress code is casual – wear your own Bar/Bat Mitzvah swag!
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Snowtubing at Nashoba Valley
2025-01-19 16:00 - 20:00 | In Person – Other, MA, United States
Join the Youth Department on MLK Weekend for Snow Tubing at Nashoba Valley Ski Area!
Families are welcome (parents must accompany children below 5th grade). We will travel by bus to Westford for tubing, snacks and fun. Dinner is not included so please bring extra money for the lodge (pizza and other dairy options are available). Sign up early for this great event!
$60 includes bus ride to and from TE, tubing, snacks and water.
Please note: parents will need to fill out a waiver form after initially registering
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Status of Haredi Draft Legislation
2025-01-26 10:00 - 11:30 | Virtual
Presentation by Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer, a prominent member of the Haredi community in Israel who will discuss the complexities surrounding Haredi participation in the draft.
Q&A to follow.
Register Here→
Sponsored by The IAC

Second Nurture Foster Family Support Group
2025-01-26 13:30 - 15:30 | In Person – Temple Emanuel, 385 Ward Street, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Help support a gathering of local foster families who meet monthly for discussions (and snacks!), with supervised kids’ activities in an nearby room. Martha Hausman, The 2N Family Support Specialist (FSS) facilitates these informal meetings with each parent taking a turn to share what’s happening in their lives, and everyone offering their wisdom. The Cohort soon becomes its own little community.
Volunteers will:

Sign people in
Help kids get snacks
Show adults and kids the rooms we will meet in
Supervise/play with kids while their adults meet

Sign-up to volunteer HERE→
Contact Martha with any questions!
