Dear Temple Emanuel Family, For the past ten years, Temple Emanuel has been blessed with the spiritual leadership of Rabbi Dean Shapiro. We have studied, prayed and socialized together, celebrated simchas together, and most recently weathered the challenges of COVID-19 together. We have grown together as a congregation through his expertise in social justice and […]
Creating a Mikdash M’at
Creating a Mikdash M’at Preparing your home for the High Holy Days With the current health pandemic and restrictions on group gatherings, our kitchens have become our classroom, our basements are our yoga studios, and the dining room has become our office. Where, then, is our synagogue? The rabbis asked this same question right after […]
The High Holy Days are Coming!
To the Temple Emanuel Community, Shanah Tovah! The New Year is nearly here! The Hebrew word “shanah” means “year,” and it also means “change.” This has certainly been a year of massive change. When everything feels different, it is good to know that some things are certain: Jewish custom and tradition. The High Holy Days. Our […]
Meet Rabbi Cookie!
Temple Emanuel’s Summer Services with Rabbi Cookie Olshein Rabbi Olshein is a graduate of The George Washington University, of California Western School of Law, and Hebrew Union College – where she was a classmate of Rabbi Dean! Rabbi Cookie Olshein will lead Shabbat morning services and Torah study throughout the summer at Temple Emanuel. She […]
There is no US and THEM
What a week! What a year! It’s like we’re living simultaneously on a volcano and on a glacier. Everything is extreme, both hot and cold. Our streets smolder and our passions burn, while our jobs freeze up and our lives seem to move in slow motion. Tear gas and tears. There’s no equilibrium, no sense […]
Staying Connected
Passover 2020
Mah nishtanah ha-laila ha-zeh? How is this night different from all other nights? Mah nishtanah ha-Pesach ha-zeh? How is this Passover different from all other Passovers? In many ways. Because of Covid-19, many of us will be separated from people we care about, people with whom we usually celebrate Passover. That means we won’t […]
Add one shabbat practice
We are, as a whole, over worked, over stimulated, over extended, over indulged. Judaism has a technology, a tool designed for the job of helping us slow down, re-connect, and remember who we really are – not just workers, but children of God. That technology is called Shabbat. Shabbat is a set of practices that […]
Read 1 Jewish Book
Read 1 Jewish Book We are a highly literate people, and this is a golden age of Jewish literature. Fiction, history, spirituality and mysticism, the arts, culture, language, even graphic novels: think of one topic, and read one book. Our synagogue library is filled with great books, and I’d be very happy to help you […]
Give to One More Jewish Cause
I proposed we embrace our Judaism by committing to seven specific acts in the year ahead. I’ll use this space to remind you of them in these intermediary days. The giving of tzedakah is a fundamental Jewish practice. It’s how we know the stereotype of the greedy Jew is a lie. Giving benefits the […]
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