July 6: Shabbat Morning Service

Temple Emanu-El Lefkowitz Chapel

with Rabbi Kimberly Herzog Cohen and Cantor Hallie Weiner | D'var Torah by Peggy Kaufman

Choosing Judaism: Summer 2024

Temple Emanu-El Ackerman Conference Room

Choosing Judaism is an eight session class for those pursuing conversion. The students will explore their own personal reasons for converting, learn more about integrating Judaism in their lives, conversion rituals, and Israel, among other topics.

Coffee and Conversation: Being Jewish on Campus

Halcyon Coffee 2900 Greenville Ave.

Local college students and those who are home for the summer are invited to join Rabbi Michael Lewis for a casual discussion on the present realities of being a Jew on campus and process personal experiences and feelings about Israel, antisemitism and more.

Cinema Emanu-El: Ben-Gurion Epilogue

Temple Emanu-El Tobian Auditorium

"Ben-Gurion Epilogue" is a documentary featuring a 1968 interview with Israel’s first prime minister, at age 82, from his desert home in Sde Boker. His crucial role in the development of the young country and his military and political legacy have resonance today as Israel grapples with the October 7 attacks and their aftermath. Stay...

July 12: Shabbat Evening Service

Temple Emanu-El Stern Chapel

This evening's service features the extended Kabbalat Shabbat format, a lively, music-centered experience without prayer books and all prayers and music lyrics provided on screens. Kabbalat Shabbat is the traditional Friday evening service that begins with a series of psalms, each representing a day of the week. We look forward to celebrating Shabbat with warmth,...

Cinema Emanu-El: 999: The Forgotten Girls of the Holocaust

Temple Emanu-El Tobian Auditorium

In 1942, 999 Jewish Slovak girls were lured into government service with the promise they’d be helping their families by working in a shoe factory. They became the first official Jewish transport to Auschwitz. Survivors of that transport share their stories in this gripping documentary.