Temple Emanu-El

About

WHERE YOU BELONG! All Are Welcome!
www.emanuel-mich.org
248-967-4020

Story

We are a neighborhood congregation that knows and cares about its members, yet is large enough to provide quality professional and lay leadership that is able to respond to the many and diverse needs of today’s Jewish families.

From our Nursery School to Adult Programming, we offer meaningful and substantive Jewish educational opportunities, supported by a warm and welcoming temple. Our inclusive worship services provide the spiritual foundation for personal Jewish enrichment. Our social action programs and projects extend our commitment to tikkun olam (repairing the world) into the greater metropolitan community.

Now in our 60th anniversary year, this is an exciting time to be a part of our Temple Emanu-El Family. The only Reform synagogue inthe southeast corner of Oakland County, we are firmly established as a significant Jewish presence in our community.

WELCOME MESSAGE FROM RABBI KLEIN AND CANTOR SHARLEIN
"We welcome you into our family with the promise that we will always be here for you - whether in responding to your family's life-cycle needs, offering a wide variety of educational opportunities for you and your children, or engaging your Jewish identity in spiritual and social settings. We encourage you to worship with us, learn with us, and find your own place within the many activities of our congregational community, knowing that it is here where one is best able to find and express one's authentic Jewish self. It is our pleasure to help you, encourage you, and support you in that quest. Our offices are always open."

Mission

Temple Emanu-El is a Reform Jewish Congregation that welcomes, includes and invites all to actively participate in Jewish life. We are a community that keeps alive our cherished tradition of a relationship to God through communal worship, by sharing Jewish learning, spiritual celebrations, and a commitment to social justice. We are a Family of Families, focused on building a caring, supportive and inclusive community, dedicated to the ongoing study of Torah, and ensuring the continuity of our Jewish tradition from generation to generation.

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WORSHIP
Worship services at Temple Emanu-El are warm and welcoming, offering spiritual expression that balances creative and traditional religious observance.

First Friday Family Services (September-June):
Open to all, with a special emphasis on the children in the congregation, these services feature the Youth Choir, stories, and magic tricks with Rabbi Klein. 7:00pm

Weekly Erev Shabbat Services (September-June):
Worship on the 2nd through 5th Fridays of each month with participatory music and a sermon; these services may include life cycle events, Shir Chadash (adult choir), or other community highlights. Service times vary between 8:00pm and 6:30pm; please call or check the website for this week's time.

Summer Services in the Birnkrant Garden (July-August):
Throughout the summer, meaningful and musical erev Shabbat evening services are held outdoors, weather permitting. 7:00pm

Weekly Shabbat Morning Services (September-June)
We celebrate Shabbat as a community; on weeks with a bar/bat mitzvah we gather for prayer in the sanctuary; other weeks a more casual worship service is held in the foyer and includes a Torah discussion.

RELIGIOUS SCHOOL AND YOUTH ACTIVITIES
Our motto: "Torah, Avodah, Gemilut Chasadim: Tradition, Spirituality, Ethics: Live It, Learn It, Love It."

Education at Temple Emanu-El provides the opportunity to explore, learn, and experience Jewish tradition, spirituality, and ethics in a supportive and stimulating learning environment. We seek to empower each person to participate in acquiring the knowledge, skills, and inspiration to make Judaism a meaningful and enriching part of his or her life.

Through our programs, we seek to help students develop a religious and cultural awareness of themselves as members of the Jewish community and as Reform Jews in particular. We are committed to past, present, and future generations to kindle the light of spirituality and lifelong Jewish learning.

-Elementary: K-3rd Grade/Gan-Gimel (Sun. mornings)
-Machon/Middle School: 4th-7th Grade (Sun. mornings and Tues. or Thurs. afternoons)
-Monday Night School: 8th-12th grade; 7th Grade at mid-year (Mon. evenings)

-No'ar Club: 4th and 5th Grade Youth Group
-JETS: 6th-8th Grade Youth Group
-TEMTY (Temple Emanu-El Temple Youth): 9th-12th Grade Senior Youth Group
-Children's Choir: K-3rd Grade
-Youth Choir: 4th-7th Grade

EARLY CHILDHOOD COMMUNITY (ECC)
The most important gift of a pre-school education is to give children a good feeling about themselves as well as a love for learning. Temple Emanu-El's ECC offers a variety of programs for children ages six weeks to five years old. Our warm, caring, professional faculty and our developmentally based curriculum teach the skills and knowledge that provide the foundation for future schooling.

Pre-school (15 mo-5 yrs, Sept.-June) features:
-A professional full-time faculty
-Extended Care before and after school
-Flexible Scheduling
-Optional Vacation Care during school-breaks
-Open enrollment throughout the year, subject to availability
-Regular interaction with Rabbi Klein and Cantor Sharlein
-Children 3 and under do not have to be toilet-trained
-A nut-free environment

Summer Day Camp (15 mo-5 yrs, June-Aug.) features:
-Three, three-week sessions; enroll for one or all
-A “Safety Town” program for the older children
-All other key features of our Pre-school Program

Infant Tot (6 wks-15 months, year round) features:
-A 3 to 1 teacher-infant staffing ratio
-Year-round (51 week) programming, open during secular school holiday periods.
-Flexible Scheduling
-Open enrollment throughout the year, subject to availability

ARMS, GROUPS, AND COMMITTEES
-Adult Education Committee/Community of Learners
-Arts and Decor Committee
-Brotherhood
-Budget Committee
-Building and Grounds Committee
-Caring Community
-Catering Committee
-Cemetery committee
-Dues Committee
-Fundraising Committee
-Garden Chavurah
-Library Committee
-Membership Committee
-Nechamah (Bereavement Support)
-Prime Time Members (Empty Nesters)
-PTO (Parent Temple Organization)
-Religious Committee
-Shir Chadash (Adult Choir)
-Social Action Committee
-Sisterhood/Women of Reform Judaism
-Youth Committee
-Ushers/Kabbalat Panim (Welcoming Faces)

A SAMPLING OF EVENTS AND PROGRAMS
-Book Reviews
-Chanukah Latke Dinner
-Chili Cook-off and Bingo Party
-Game Night
-Hawaiian Shirt Shabbat
-Intergenerational Shabbat
-Miriam's Seder
-Pizza in the Hut (Sukkot dinner)
-Purim Carnival
-Scholar-in-Residence Weekend
-Souper Supper in the Sukkah
-Torah Study
-Tu Bishvat Seder
-Volunteer Shabbat
-Weinstein Scholar Lecture
-Wine Tasting