September 27, 2025: Shabbat Morning Service
2025-09-27 10:30 - 12:00 (America/Chicago) | Temple Emanu-El Lefkowitz Chapel
with Rabbi Michael Lewis and Cantor Hallie Weiner

The Ehnes Quartet
2025-09-29 19:30 - 21:30 | Temple Emanu-El Stern Chapel
Temple is excited to welcome the Ehnes Quartet for the opening concert of the 2025/26 Dallas Chamber Music Society season. Hailed as “a magnificent quartet” with a “dream-team line-up,” the ensemble features violinists James Ehnes and Amy Schwartz Moretti, violist Che-Yen Chen, and cellist Edward Arron. Don’t miss this extraordinary evening of world-class chamber music.
Temple members receive 50% off with code STERN at checkout.

Yoga Emanu-El
2025-09-30 15:00 - 16:00, 2025-10-07 15:00 - 16:00, 2025-10-14 15:00 - 16:00
Join instructor Debbi K. Levy for an hour of yoga and mindfulness surrounded by the beauty Temple’s prayer spaces.

Yom Kippur 2025/5786
2025-10-01 19:30 - 2025-10-02 18:30 | Temple Emanu-El Dallas
Since last Rosh Hashanah, we have experienced the sweetness of honey and the salt of tears. We have felt anxiety and relief, loneliness and enduring connection. The stirring shofar sounds remind us that our faith and community can steady us and inspire us with hope. We look forward to many meaningful, spiritual and connective moments together, in person and online, with friends and family, as our hearts connect to one another and to the Holy one. G’mar Chatimah Tovah!

October 3, 2025: Shabbat Evening Service
2025-10-03 18:15 - 19:30 | Temple Emanu-El Stern Chapel
with Cantor Leslie Niren and Rabbi Michael Lewis

Chever Torah
2025-10-04 09:00 - 10:30, 2025-10-11 09:00 - 10:30, 2025-10-18 09:00 - 10:30 | Temple Emanu-El Barbara Zale Center for Living History

October 4, 2025: Shabbat Morning Service
2025-10-04 10:30 - 12:00 | Temple Emanu-El Lefkowitz Chapel
with Rabbi Kimberly Herzog Cohen and Randy Pearlman, Cantorial Soloist

Sunday Morning Together Time
2025-10-05 09:15 - 11:00 | Temple Emanu-El Haas Amphitheater and Ratner Courtyard
Join Together Time to engage with your child ages 0-5, enjoy a fun activity and get to know other Temple families. Following our time together, you will have the opportunity to play in the toddler playscape (weather permitting).

Remember, Reflect, Hope: October 7 Memorial
2025-10-05 17:00
Join us in a meaningful evening of remembrance at the Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas community commemoration of the attacks of October 7, 2023. The event is designed to bring us together through an art exhibition, music, stories of personal impact and prayerful messages of connection and resilience. Temple is proud to be a community partner for this event. Registration is required.

October 7, 2025: Sukkot Morning Festival Service
2025-10-07 10:30 - 12:00 | Temple Sukkah
Our outdoor Sukkot morning service will celebrate the joy of the season and the wonder of God’s world with song and silence, words of praise and Torah and the lulav and etrog. Together we will also mark the second anniversary of the October 7 terrorist attacks, honoring the creativity that has emerged in Israel since that day with a special art piece by Yael Sela of the Nova Tribe Community Association and an exhibition of healing and hope by Israeli artist Ira Ginzburg, provided by the Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas. The morning will conclude with an oneg reception in the courtyard and the opportunity to meet Tal Kuperstein, cousin of our community Sh’lichah Aya Margalit and father of Bar Kuperstein (age 23), who is being held hostage in Gaza. Please dress comfortably for the weather.
Please note, this service is in person only.

Talmud with Rabbi David Stern
2025-10-08 07:30, 2025-10-15 07:30 | Online on Zoom
Join us for another exciting year of discovery, argument and inspiration as we continue to study Tractate Ta’anit, and explore our own perspectives on human power and limitation.

Opening Your Heart with Psalm 27
2025-10-08 09:00 - 09:45 | Online on Zoom
Psalms have long brought comfort to people on difficult days, hope and courage at challenging times, in both personal and communal life, for us as individuals and as Jewish people. Psalm 27 guides us through the full range of human emotions over the seven weeks surrounding Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Join Rabbi Debra Robbins to explore this sustaining and surprising Psalm throughout the sacred season. The online class includes music, writing, reflection and conversation. Please be prepared to turn on your camera as is the custom of this weekly communal gathering.
We will use Opening Your Heart with Psalm 27 by Rabbi Debra Robbins which is available at Judaic Treasures or from the CCAR Press, Opening Your Heart with Psalm 27: A Spiritual Practice for the Jewish New Year. It is also available as an e-book or as an App.
If you’d like to follow along each day here is the Reader’s Navigation Guide from CCAR Press.
Reader’s Navigation Guide 2025.pdf
NOTE: In order to have 6 sessions during this time period around the various holy days our class meets on a variety of days, but always at the same time!.

ATiD Pizza in the Hut
2025-10-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Temple Emanu-El Nasher-Haemisegger Family Atrium
The ATiD, 20s and 30s, community invites you to bring in Sukkot together with a pizza party in the sukkah!

Friday Morning Together Time
2025-10-10 09:45 - 11:00 | Temple Emanu-El Nasher-Haemisegger Family Atrium
Following ECEC Shabbat, stay for Together Time, a special gathering designed for children ages 3 and under and their caretakers. We’ll begin with Shabbat blessings, enjoy a lively music session, and share an interactive activity together. Come build community and celebrate Shabbat with us!

ECEC Visiting Days
2025-10-10 09:45 - 11:15 | Temple Emanu-El Tycher Gathering Space
Come see how Temple Emanu-El ECEC’s child-centered community embraces the collaborative pedagogy approaches of Reggio Emilia and the International Baccalaureate to facilitate authentic exploration opportunities with the experiential world. Visits will begin in Tycher Gathering Space with a meet and greet, then a guided campus tour, followed by an opportunity to ask questions. The complete visit lasts approximately 90 minutes.

October 10, 2025: Sukkot All-In Shabbat
2025-10-10 17:00 - 20:00 | Temple Emanu-El Nasher-Haemisegger Family Atrium
5-6 p.m.: Chavayah: Sukkot HaYotzer | Start the evening with an experiential hour of art projects for all age groups.
6-7 p.m.: Shabbat service for all ages.
7-8 p.m.: Festive congregational dinner

October 11, 2025: Shabbat Morning Service
2025-10-11 10:30 - 12:00 | Temple Emanu-El Lefkowitz Chapel
with Rabbi Kimberly Herzog Cohen and Cantor Hallie Weiner

October 11, 2025: Kayleigh Potash Bat Mitzvah
2025-10-11 10:30 - 12:00 | Temple Emanu-El Stern Chapel

October 11, 2025: Jack Morrow Bar Mitzvah
2025-10-11 16:30 - 18:00 | Temple Emanu-El Stern Chapel

Goin' to the Delivery Room Fall 2025
2025-10-12 09:30
We’re excited to welcome back Goin’ to the Delivery Room, our four-week class for first-time expectant parents. Facilitators Alex Horn and Carly Goldman team up for three Sunday morning sessions and a Shabbat experience, Oct. 12, 26 and Nov. 9, 14. In a small-group setting, explore the roles and responsibilities of Jewish parenting and the rituals that shape our families.

DAI Civics Academy
2025-10-12 13:00 | Northway Christian Church, 7202 W Northwest Highway, Dallas, TX, 75225
Join Northway Christian Church, NorthPark Presbyterian and Temple Emanu-El in a Dallas Area Interfaith Civics Academy on housing, early childhood education and immigration.

October 13, 2025: Simchat Torah Evening Service
2025-10-13 17:00 - 19:00 | Temple Emanu-El Stern Chapel
5 p.m.: Casual Congregational Dinner
6 p.m.: Simchat Torah Evening Service
This joyful and energetic evening will include consecration of our youngest learners, unrolling the Torah from beginning to end, Torah reading by post b’nai mitzvah students, singing and dancing with the Torah and our sixth-grade siddur ceremony. Join us for cookies and ice cream following the service.

October 14, 2025: Simchat Torah Morning Festival Service with Yizkor
2025-10-14 10:30 - 12:00 | Temple Emanu-El Stern Chapel
This service includes the opportunity to read the end and the beginning of the Torah and to remember your loved ones.

Café Emanu-El: Social Hour for Seniors
2025-10-15 14:00 - 15:00 | Temple Emanu-El Tycher Gathering Space
Come to Temple on the third Wednesday of every month from 2-3 p.m. to schmooze, sip and snack with a vibrant community of older adults.
Learn more about Forest Forward from LaSheryl Walker, Director of Partnerships & Community Engagement, as she shares the organization’s mission to drive equitable development and revitalize South Dallas through community-centered initiatives. This conversation will also highlight the shared history between Temple Emanu-El, the broader Jewish community and South Dallas.

October 17, 2025: Shabbat Evening Service
2025-10-17 18:15 - 19:30 | Temple Emanu-El Stern Chapel
