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Candice and Robert Haas Visiting Scholar
The High Holy Day season is designed as a time for intensive introspection; a time for reflection on how we have lived the past year and how we want to live in the coming year.
Join us for a special weekend of spiritual renewal as we explore three major areas of Jewish religious life--Torah, worship, and acts of loving kindness. How do we experience each of these dimensions in our lives? Can we imagine living so that head, heart, and hands are integrated and mutually enriching?

Rabbi Rose’s events at Temple:

Friday, September 3, Olan Sanctuary
• 6:15 p.m. Shabbat Service:
Spiritual Renewal: Head, Heart, and Hands

Saturday morning, September 4, Linz Hall
• 9 a.m. Chever Torah
Text and Context: The Making of Torah in Every Generation

Saturday evening, September 4, Linz Hall
• 7:30 p.m. Dessert and wine reception
• 8:15 p.m. Havdalah
• 8:30 p.m. S’lichot Learning and Prayer
Tikkun: Self, Community, and World
We will look at mystical concepts of Tikkun Olam and social justice, and examine how we can sustain ourselves spiritually in our work of repairing the world.

Sunday, September 5, Linz Hall
• 10 - 11 a.m. In Speech and in Silence: The Dynamics of Prayer and Meditation - A meditation class

Reservation required for Sunday event. Contact Nancy Rivin at
nrivin@tedallas.org or 214.706.0000, ext. 155 to make your reservation.

Young Adults Rosh Hashanah Service and Apple Martini Reception, Sept. 8
Join Temple Emanu-El Young Adults for the 6th annual Young Adult Erev Rosh Hashanah Service and Apple Martini Reception on Wednesday, Sept. 8. Services begin at 8:15 p.m. in Pollman Hall and are led by Rabbi Oren Hayon and student Cantor Leslie Niren. A reception will follow at 9:30 p.m. in Linz Hall. This event is FREE for all Young Adults, ages 21-39.

Young Adults attending services with their families are encouraged to join the Young Adult Reception in Linz Hall. Please show your High Holiday admission card to gain access back to Temple.

Please bring canned and/or non-perishable food items for the Temple Emanu-El High Holy Day Food Drive.Young Adults will deliver the canned goods collected at Temple during the High Holy Days to North Dallas Shared Ministries on Sunday, September 26, 1-4 p.m.
For more information about the event or to get involved with the Rosh Hashanah committee, contact Lauren or Mickey Seidenstein, at
lauren@seidenstein.us or mickey@seidenstein.us or Mimi Zimmerman, Young Adults Coordinator, at 214.706.0000, ext. 166, or at mzimmerman@tedallas.org. We look forward to seeing you there!

Yom Kippur Study
Finding Ordinary Happiness in Simple Pleasures:
Reading, Writing and Listening

Saturday, Sept. 18, 12:30 – 2 p.m., Linz Hall
Dr. Willard Spiegelman, Duwain E. Hughes Jr. Distinguished Professor of English, Southern Methodist University

On this Day of Atonement and reflection, Willard Spiegelman will talk about some ideas from his recent book, Seven Pleasures: Essays on Ordinary Happiness. He will focus on the ways in which attentiveness helps to center the body, the mind, and the spirit. His pleasures are also, importantly, activities that foster, and come of, what Wordsworth called “the bliss of solitude.” In an age of mass culture, group activity, and too much noise, peace and quiet are in short supply.

Sukkot Across Emanu-El on September 24, 2010
Join us for a community celebration!

Services begin at 6:15 p.m. in the Olan Sanctuary. Dinner follows in the Klein Garden with activities for all ages.

$10 for adults and $5 for children ages 3-10 years.

Complimentary childcare is available, BY RSVP ONLY, during services for children ages 3 months to 5 years and during dinner for children 3 months to 3 years.

The evening will include:
Dinner, hosted by Women for Reform Judaism
Arts and Crafts
Storytelling and Songs in the Sukkah
Adult Study focused on the texts and stories of Sukkot
Games and more!

For more information, to RSVP or volunteer, please visit www.tedallas.org/sukkot or contact Sherri Samuels at ssamuels@tedallas.org or 214-706-0000 x.131.

Registration Deadline: September 20, 2010

September 29, Sept. 30
Celebrate Simchat Torah at Temple Emanu-El!
Join the entire congregation as we remove the Torah scrolls from the Ark and rejoice in the Olan Sanctuary with song and dance! We will consecrate our youngest students, enjoy hearing last year’s bar and bat mitzvah students read from the Torah, and move together to joyous music. We will provide the flags - or feel free to bring your own - and experience the joy of this festive holiday!

Wednesday, September 29th
7 - 8:15 p.m. Simchat Torah Service and Celebration

Thursday, September 30th
10:30 a.m. Simchat Torah Festival Service with Yizkor

For more information please contact Diana Coben Einstein at deinstein@tedallas.org or 214-706-0000 x.126.