Upcoming Livestreamed Services and Events
We’ll use Zoom as our online meeting platform. If this is your first time using Zoom, download the Zoom application to your device before clicking on the event link. You do not have to create a Zoom account in order to listen to the recording—but if you do, you can test out your speakers before the service. Click here for instructions on how to test your computer’s audio in Zoom.
If you would like some help in learning how to use Zoom, please contact Nancy LaFleur and we will connect you with a tech assistant to help you.
For non-Temple online resources, click here.
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Upcoming Events
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Passover Events
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Sheer-li Storytime
Song and story hour for kids with Cantor Vera Wednesday and Fridays (through April 10), 10:00–10:30 am https://zoom.us/j/195481334 Meeting ID: 195 481 334 Temple Emanu-El Lunch Check-in Tuesday, March 31, 11:00–noon (NOTE TIME CHANGE) https://zoom.us/j/462459566 Meeting ID: 462 459 566 Torah: Good to the Last Drop Torah conversation with Cantor Vera. BYOB! Thursdays, 8:30–9:30 pm https://zoom.us/j/937697052 Meeting ID: 937 697 052 Family Sleepwear Shabbat For younger children and the young at heart; come dressed in your Shabbat pajama best! Friday, March 20, 5:30–6:00 pm https://zoom.us/j/623441038 Meeting ID: 623 441 038 Kabbalat Shabbat Fridays @ 7:30pm, using Mishkan T’filah siddur which can be accessed here: https://www.ccarnet.org/publications/mishkan-tfilah-for-shabbat/ Service link: https://zoom.us/j/648219501 Meeting ID: 648 219 501 Havdalah Saturdays @ 7:30 pm https://zoom.us/j/650828913 Meeting ID: 650 828 913 Youth Shabbat Saturday, March 28, 9:30 am, using Mishkan T’filah for Youth https://zoom.us/j/597268808?pwd=Ykx4MHhoUTlqbUdQTnYzclFqS0VDZz09 Meeting ID: 597 268 808 Password: 052319 Shabbat Morning Song Supplement |
Pesach Song Session
Sunday, March 29, 2:00–3:00 pm Gather your favorite Haggadah and the wordsheet below! https://zoom.us/j/765490039pwd=NVFxSVVPaFBMUmxXRE5kcmxlUzVQUT09 Meeting ID: 765 490 039 Password: 011931 Pesach Mash-Up Song Sheet Velveteen Rabbi's Haggadah for Pesach Pesach I Service Thursday, April 9, 9:30 am https://zoom.us/j/813345920 Meeting ID: 813 345 920 Temple Emanu-El Community Seder Thursday, April 9, 5:30 pm https://zoom.us/j/670709504?pwd=d2tYZy91c3F0aFlzcVlHbm5tbVFKUT09 Meeting ID: 670 709 504 Password: 047500 Velveteen Rabbi's Haggadah for Pesach Shabbat Chol HaMo'ed Pesach Service Led by Phil Platcow Saturday, April 11, 9:30 am https://zoom.us/j/951081160 Meeting ID: 951 081 160 Pesach VIII Service (withYizkor) Led by Cantor Vera Thursday, April 16, 9:30 am https://zoom.us/j/387156490 Meeting ID: 387 156 490 |
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Cantor Vera will be providing some music at the JALSA Schmoozefest on Tuesday, March 31, at noon.
Join her, together with comedian Jimmy Tingle, Middlesex Sheriff Peter Koutoujian,and Maddie Ribble (Mass Public Health Association) for learning, music, and laughter. https://zoom.us/j/271644617 |
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Photos and Videos from Zoom Events
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7th Grade Shabbat Service
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Challah-making with Cantor Vera
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Shir-Li Storytime Video
Click the image below to view the recording.
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A message from Temple leadership
Dear chevre, dear holy community,
Kol ha’olam kulo gesher tsar m’od—v’ha’ikar lo l’hitpacheid klal. The whole world is a very narrow bridge, and the most important thing is not to be paralyzed by fear. (Adapted from Rabbi Nachman of Braslav.)
We are living through a difficult time together, and we are acting with love and energy to keep one another safe. With the current information from the CDC and our Massachusetts government, we at Temple Emanu-El are proactively suspending all in-person group activities at our Temple and switching to virtual services and meetings for the next two weeks. We’ll reach out again on March 26 once we’ve reassessed, with further information on how to proceed.
During this time, Temple staff will continue to work from the building, and the building will remain open during normal business hours. Regularly scheduled Shabbat services will be livestreamed through Zoom; please see below for information on how to access Zoom recordings, including a link for this weekend’s Shabbat services on Friday and Saturday. Invitations to our Shabbat services will be sent out weekly and posted here (see below) and on our Facebook page, with a link for you to click on and a password. If you need support in learning how to use Zoom, please get in touch with Nancy LaFleur and we will connect you with someone who can help you set it up. Please also stop by and borrow a Mishkan T’filah and a Sim Shalom so that you can follow along in the siddur during livestreamed services. You can find lots of recordings of prayers and songs for Shabbat and holidays here on our website, and those offerings will expand.
There has never been a more important time to keep our connections with one another strong. During this period of avoiding large group settings—which we practice to keep our bodies safe--please take extra time and care to connect with friends, family, and others by phone, video, email, letters, and small group or individual visits if healthy and low-risk—whatever method is best for you and your family. We hope you’ll continue to enjoy Shabbat, Havdalah, Pesach, and other special ritual moments at home, with or without company (and please tune in for the services on Zoom!). We will post more resources shortly on our Temple website, blessings and songs for home practice, to help you host rituals more easily at home.
Distance from one another is difficult, and keeping the physical distance from turning into emotional distance takes real work. Navigating changing circumstances can be disorienting and emotionally taxing. Please don’t hesitate to call Cantor Vera or ask for a visit if you have a question, a concern, or just want to talk. She will continue to meet with congregants, and pastoral care will never be “out of stock.”
It’s also important to take thought for members of our wider community with more limited access to resources, who may depend on vital public services to get through each day and may suffer disproportionately if those services are suspended. We are starting a food drive for Emmaus; please see below for more details. Please also get in touch with Cantor Vera and Sharyn Russell if you are willing to run an occasional errand for members who are at high risk and need to limit their time in public.
We will continue to be in touch with the CDC and state authorities and follow all official recommendations. We will continue to hold one another in thought and prayer and affection; we will continue to learn together, pray together, and keep our hearts close.
With blessings for a Shabbat shalom, a rest of fullness and peace, and a r’fu’ah sh’leimah, a whole and complete healing, on our world and on each one of us,
Cantor Vera Broekhuysen & Loren Goldstein, Temple President
Jenn Lampron, Vice President
Nancy LaFleur, Executive Director
Kol ha’olam kulo gesher tsar m’od—v’ha’ikar lo l’hitpacheid klal. The whole world is a very narrow bridge, and the most important thing is not to be paralyzed by fear. (Adapted from Rabbi Nachman of Braslav.)
We are living through a difficult time together, and we are acting with love and energy to keep one another safe. With the current information from the CDC and our Massachusetts government, we at Temple Emanu-El are proactively suspending all in-person group activities at our Temple and switching to virtual services and meetings for the next two weeks. We’ll reach out again on March 26 once we’ve reassessed, with further information on how to proceed.
During this time, Temple staff will continue to work from the building, and the building will remain open during normal business hours. Regularly scheduled Shabbat services will be livestreamed through Zoom; please see below for information on how to access Zoom recordings, including a link for this weekend’s Shabbat services on Friday and Saturday. Invitations to our Shabbat services will be sent out weekly and posted here (see below) and on our Facebook page, with a link for you to click on and a password. If you need support in learning how to use Zoom, please get in touch with Nancy LaFleur and we will connect you with someone who can help you set it up. Please also stop by and borrow a Mishkan T’filah and a Sim Shalom so that you can follow along in the siddur during livestreamed services. You can find lots of recordings of prayers and songs for Shabbat and holidays here on our website, and those offerings will expand.
There has never been a more important time to keep our connections with one another strong. During this period of avoiding large group settings—which we practice to keep our bodies safe--please take extra time and care to connect with friends, family, and others by phone, video, email, letters, and small group or individual visits if healthy and low-risk—whatever method is best for you and your family. We hope you’ll continue to enjoy Shabbat, Havdalah, Pesach, and other special ritual moments at home, with or without company (and please tune in for the services on Zoom!). We will post more resources shortly on our Temple website, blessings and songs for home practice, to help you host rituals more easily at home.
Distance from one another is difficult, and keeping the physical distance from turning into emotional distance takes real work. Navigating changing circumstances can be disorienting and emotionally taxing. Please don’t hesitate to call Cantor Vera or ask for a visit if you have a question, a concern, or just want to talk. She will continue to meet with congregants, and pastoral care will never be “out of stock.”
It’s also important to take thought for members of our wider community with more limited access to resources, who may depend on vital public services to get through each day and may suffer disproportionately if those services are suspended. We are starting a food drive for Emmaus; please see below for more details. Please also get in touch with Cantor Vera and Sharyn Russell if you are willing to run an occasional errand for members who are at high risk and need to limit their time in public.
We will continue to be in touch with the CDC and state authorities and follow all official recommendations. We will continue to hold one another in thought and prayer and affection; we will continue to learn together, pray together, and keep our hearts close.
With blessings for a Shabbat shalom, a rest of fullness and peace, and a r’fu’ah sh’leimah, a whole and complete healing, on our world and on each one of us,
Cantor Vera Broekhuysen & Loren Goldstein, Temple President
Jenn Lampron, Vice President
Nancy LaFleur, Executive Director
Emmaus Food Drive
Dear friends,
Emmaus in downtown Haverhill is helping their clients adapt to the current coronavirus health emergency and prepare for any potential changes to state and local services currently available to them. As we care for one another and ourselves, it’s also critical to take thought for our larger local community. We are blessed by our longstanding relationship with Emmaus and this opportunity to support our local population of families experiencing homelessness, who are some of the most vulnerable to coronavirus and its economic effects.
We can help! We are running a food drive for Emmaus over the next month. As we get ready to celebrate freedom from hunger and privation at Pesach, we are also able to help keep others from the fear and indignity of food insecurity. Please bring unopened
If you would prefer to donate without schlepping the food here, you can also order from Amazon or another online vendor and have it shipped directly to Emmaus, Inc. (127 How Street, Haverhill, MA 01830).
With blessings on our work together, and gratitude for the strong kesher, connection, we have in our community,
Cantor Vera
Emmaus in downtown Haverhill is helping their clients adapt to the current coronavirus health emergency and prepare for any potential changes to state and local services currently available to them. As we care for one another and ourselves, it’s also critical to take thought for our larger local community. We are blessed by our longstanding relationship with Emmaus and this opportunity to support our local population of families experiencing homelessness, who are some of the most vulnerable to coronavirus and its economic effects.
We can help! We are running a food drive for Emmaus over the next month. As we get ready to celebrate freedom from hunger and privation at Pesach, we are also able to help keep others from the fear and indignity of food insecurity. Please bring unopened
- canned/dry goods
- cereal
- tuna
- juice boxes
- beans
- granola bars
- jars of alternate peanut butters (sunflower, almond, etc.)
- jelly
- shelf-stable milk
- individual fruit cups
If you would prefer to donate without schlepping the food here, you can also order from Amazon or another online vendor and have it shipped directly to Emmaus, Inc. (127 How Street, Haverhill, MA 01830).
With blessings on our work together, and gratitude for the strong kesher, connection, we have in our community,
Cantor Vera
About Temple Emanu-El
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Temple Emanu-El is a dynamic Reform congregation with a traditional, yet creative, orientation serving a community of diverse needs and backgrounds. Since 1937, members of the Jewish community of Greater Haverhill have joined together to express our Jewish identities through worship, education, social action, friendship, and socialization. As a congregation, we foster a deep commitment to a Jewish way of life and to the future of our community.
From the celebration of new life to the recitation of Kaddish, Temple Emanu-El is your spiritual family for honoring life cycle events as well as the Jewish holy days. Cantor Vera Broekhuysen, Rabbinic Intern Jen Stevens, our members, and our staff assist in the preparation and celebration of b'nei mitzvah and confirmation, weddings, brit milah, and baby namings, and provide support in times of need. During the year, you will enjoy participating in our ritual services, including weekly Shabbat services as well as annual observances of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret, Simchat Torah, Purim, and other events which honor and celebrate the history of our people. We also have special community interfaith services commemorating Yom HaShoah and the life of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. that bring us together to strengthen our ties with the community outside our Temple. |
Calendar at a Glance
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