• Artzenu: Learning with Zeev Engelmayer

    Temple Emanu-El Barbara Zale Center for Living History

    Create a postcard with Zeev, an Israeli cartoonist and humorist who is well known as “Shoshke,” his performance art character who is a symbol of free speech and artistic freedom. This session will be led by Aya Margalit, Temple Sh'lichah, while Zeev joins us live from Israel on Zoom. A light lunch will be served...

  • Artzenu: Lavi Lipshitz Photography Exhibit

    Lavi was a 20-year-old staff sergeant in the IDF who captured life on the front lines. He was killed on Oct. 31 by a Hamas missile in the northern Gaza Strip. His father, Nitzan, has made his photographs available for the world to witness. Make time to explore the photos and join us for an...

    May 17: Yom HaAtzmaut All-In Shabbat

    Temple Emanu-El Nasher-Haemisegger Family Atrium

    Join us to celebrate Yom HaAtzmaut with a Shabbat evening for the whole family! Start off with a family friendly service followed by a congregational dinner and activities for kids. Supplemental materials can be found here

    Noa | Yom HaAtzmaut Israel Benefit Concert

    Temple Emanu-El

    Celebrate Yom HaAtzmaut with a benefit concert featuring Achinoam Nini aka Noa, an internationally acclaimed Israeli concert and recording artist, songwriter and percussionist. Joined by her longstanding musical collaborator Gil Dor and Grammy-winning pianist Ruslan Sirota, the trio will help us to connect to Israel, celebrate our spiritual homeland and raise funds to support Israel....

  • Coffee and Conversation: Being Jewish on Campus

    Halcyon Coffee 2900 Greenville Ave.

    Local college students and those who are home for the summer are invited to join Rabbi Michael Lewis for a casual discussion on the present realities of being a Jew on campus and process personal experiences and feelings about Israel, antisemitism and more.

  • September 20: Shabbat Evening Service and Speaker

    Temple Emanu-El Stern Chapel

    We will welcome Zalman Spivack, an Israeli tour guide and educator who many Temple members learned from this past February on the mission to Israel by the Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas. In his teaching, Zalman will share personal insights about life in Israel since October 7.

  • October 7th Community Commemoration

    Congregation Shearith Israel

    Join Temple, the Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas and the Dallas Jewish community in remembrance, unity and hope. One year later, we will come together to honor the lives lost, reflect on our solidarity with Israel and pray for a peaceful future.

  • Art in Times of War with Maya Yehezkel

    Temple Emanu-El Linz Hall

    Maya Yehezkel, Israeli tour guide and sand artist, who some of us got to know on the Temple leadership mission to Israel or at our Artzenu lunch and learn, will join us for an evening of learning through art. Maya will share with how she and other Israelis have used art to cope and heal...

  • Feb. 7, 2025: Shabbat Shirah with Nigunim Ensemble

    Temple Emanu-El Stern Chapel

    Celebrate Shabbat Shirah, the Sabbath of Song, with the Temple Emanu-El Choir and MAC Artists Nigunim Ensemble, the talented Israeli duo who blend Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Mizrahi and secular musical influences into arrangements that reflect the diversity of Israeli and global Jewish communities. Together we will explore our relationship with our spiritual homeland through the richness...