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.

Cinema Emanu-El: Farewell, Mr. Haffmann

Temple Emanu-El Tobian Auditorium

You’ll be swept up in this tense historical drama set in the German occupation of France, based on a play by Jean-Philippe Daguerre. Jewish jeweler Joseph Haffman leaves his shop in the care of his assistant Mercier as he tries to flee to Switzerland. He ends up hiding in his own basement when his exit...

ATiD Late Night Shabbat

Temple Emanu-El Linz Hall

Join ATiD 20s and 30s for our second Late Night Shabbat of the year. We will be having a short service followed by a dessert reception.

Ice Cream and Conversation: Let’s Talk About Being Jewish on Campus

Temple Emanu-El Weiss Youth Wing

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

Cinema Emanu-El: June Zero

Temple Emanu-El Tobian Auditorium

View the 1961 trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann from the perspectives of his Jewish Moroccan prison guard, an Israeli police investigator who’s also a Holocaust survivor and a 13-year-old Libyan immigrant. Hebrew, with subtitles.

August 3: Shabbat Morning Service

Temple Emanu-El Lefkowitz Chapel

with Rabbi Debra Robbins and Cantor Hallie Weiner | D'var Torah by Philip Einsohn

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.