Annual Events - Temple Emanuel

Each year we gather multiple times to celebrate holidays, social events, to take care of our cemetary, and enjoy eachothers company. Descriptions of our regular and recurring services and events can be found below. For the most up-to-date information about any specific service, including date, time, and location (including the current Zoom link), please see our Calendar.

Zoom Hanukkah Candle Lighting

Join us each Hanukkah evening at 6:15 pm for a short but sweet Zoom gathering to light our candles together, sing a song, and share stories – about 15 minutes each night, and we do start promptly at 6:15.
Dates: December 14th – 21st, except for Sunday, Dec 14, and Friday, Dec 19, when we will light candles together in person.
Song and Prayer Sheet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dNLdLU61XQ71oKJz1XjmQwqjtHXwNZi9PlnzhUmshPI
Zoom Information: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89049151147?pwd=3tnptTsqv4xBYpWFVGa4n7PZ2wyimg.1
Optional Call In: 1 929 205 6099 / Meeting ID: 890 4915 1147 / Passcode: 284134
Join instructions: https://us02web.zoom.us/meetings/89049151147/invitations?signature=S3mFpEabMVNyb2WaCbu2qnYjdqjLO–Mx0njaQoWQS8
Tu Bishvat Seder

Join us for a special Shabbat service and Tu BiShvat seder, celebrating renewal, gratitude, and our connection to the natural world. Challah, drinks, and the seder will be provided. We look forward to celebrating together!
Check back here or on the Calendar as we get closer for more details.
Purim Shabbat

Celebrate Purim Shabbat with us – Join us for a joyful, carnivalesque evening featuring Purim trivia, singing, and an interpretive Purim spiel. Challah and hamentaschen will be provided. We hope to see you there!
Check back here or on the Calendar as we get closer for more details.
Community Passover Seder

Join us for this year’s Temple Emanu-El Community Seder. We’ll gather together for an evening Seder dinner, singing, story, and community.
We ask everyone who would like to attend to bring a dairy or vegan Kosher-for Passover dish to pass.
For folks whose last names start with A – G, please bring a salad; H – S, please bring a main dish; and T – Z, please bring a dessert.
Drinks, matzah, and the ceremonial foods of the seder plate will be provided.
What is a Kosher-for-Passover dish, you ask?
Foods prohibited during Passover (“chametz”) are generally any food containing wheat, rye, barley, oats, or spelt. This includes baked goods, leavened bread, and pasta.
Because they may contain ingredients that are chametz, the following products require a certification on the package indicating that they are kosher for Passover: cookies, cakes, crackers, etc; matzah and any product containing matzah, matzah flour, or matzah meal; candy (including chocolate); ice cream; oil; soft drinks; vinegar; wine; yogurt; an processed foods, including tuna fish, tomato sauce, etc.
Passover certification is not necessary for fresh fruits, vegetables, eggs, dairy products, and fish.
Kitniyot (Hebrew for “legumes”) are beans, corn, millet, peas, rice, soy (including tofu), mustard, buckwheat, green beans, and sesame seeds. They are traditionally eaten by Sephardi, but not Ashkenazi, Jews during Passover. In recent years, however, more Ashkenazi Jews have followed the Sephardi practice of considering them not to be chametz. Although peanuts and peanut oil are derived from legumes, both communities have always considered them kosher for Passover.
If you bring an item with kitniyot, please label it clearly.
Check back here or on the Calendar as we get closer for more details.
Shavuot
Annual Congregational Picnic
Cemetery Clean Up
Flags In
High Holidays
Sukkot
Simchat Torah
Hanukkah Celebration