Staff Spotlight: Jack Merchele
If you’ve attended Emanuel Congregation’s Shabbat services online or in person in the past month, you’ve heard the work of Jack Mecherle,...
Hebrew Learning at Any Age!
During the school year, we are intentional about building Jewish Life Vocabulary at ECRS. We use Hebrew as much as possible to refer to...
Reflections on B'midbar and Pride month
This week we begin reading from the book of B’midbar or Numbers. The word B’midbar means wilderness, but it is called Numbers in English...
Volunteer Spotlight: Ben Abrams
Ben Abrams had stepped up his volunteering this past year at Emanuel Congregation. He began serving as one of two facilitators for the...
Teacher Appreciation at Emanuel Congregation Religious School
Wow! What an amazing school year it has been at ECRS! We just celebrated our closing day yesterday. Of course, there was plenty of...
Passover 2022
This Passover, I am thinking a lot about the idea of how we share and retell our stories. Throughout my time at Hebrew Union College, we...
So much to be grateful for...
As many of you know, We celebrated our first Interfaith Model Seder on April 3 with colleagues and friends from the many congregations...
The Sea of Change
I don’t remember ever feeling this nervous and excited. I am on stage in front of nearly 200 of my colleagues, mic in hand, ready to...
לֹא יִשָּׂא גוֹי אֶל גוֹי חֶרֶב לֹא יִלְמְדוּ עוֹד מִלְחָמָה.
Nation shall not lift sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. -Isaiah 2:4, Micah 4:3 There is a heartbreak that has...
Volunteer Spotlight: Simona Bogode, Emanuel Eeshas
Born in the former Soviet Union, Simona Bogode found her Jewish home at Emanuel Congregation in 2020. Since then, she’s been an active...
