Celebrate Hanukkah with your Temple Emanu-El Community from the comfort of your home! Log on to your computer and l ight the Hanukkah candles as we sing songs and share stories. RSVP to receive the log-in information.

Rabbi Ayala Ronen Samuels is the founding Rabbi of a new Reform Congregation in Caesarea. Join her for lunch as you have the opportunity to ask any question about Israeli life, culture, and progressive Judaism. This is a great follow up from Rabbi Gilad Kariv’s visit as we have the chance to  continue the conversation.

Rabbi Rex Perlmeter is offering a class for those who would like to begin to develop a mindfulness meditation practice and would appreciate a structured step-by-step approach. This class is an opportunity to pause in the midst of our hectic lives, to calm our bodies and minds and to shift from a mode of mind oriented toward “doing” to a more spacious mode of mind that rests in “being”. Each session will be framed by a Jewish concept of teaching as we cultivate steadiness, compassion, self-acceptance and kindness. This class is appropriate to both beginners and those with some meditation experience. It will provide an inclusive and welcoming environment that is accessible to all. No meditation experience or Jewish knowledge is necessary. You are welcome just as you are.

Join Elizabeth Miller, a health and wellness consultant, to learn strategies on how to age well, how to keep your mind active, and how to live your life to the fullest.

Create your own oral history to preserve your story. Gail Meyers was trained at Columbia University in Community Based Oral History. Attend an introductory session about the power of sharing your story and then participants will be invited to sign up for private sessions to record their own stories with Gail as the interviewer.