Emanuel Congregation | Reform Synagogue

Shalom Chevrei (Friends): At the end of April (27-29), we will engage in a significant and creative experiment: a legacy weekend to...

In Memory of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther Kind Jr., We Continue to March This past Shabbat, the majority of us sat around our family's and...

Shalom friends: We live in a world that still knows too much poverty, violence, and oppression. Nameless people struggle. Faceless...

Shalom friends: Last Wednesday, during a cold March morning in the middle of Evanston, Betsy and I stood together as the words of our...

Dear Chevrei, As our treasured space sharing relationship with CJDS draws to a close over the next few weeks, you may notice some small...

Shalom friends: This week I share a few things on my mind... On Purim What an amazing Purim we enjoyed at Emanuel! I am so inspired by...

Shalom Chevrei. (My Friends.) Shabbat Zakhor, our Sabbath of Memory, brought us a number of moments worth remembering. First of all, we...

I get it. We pray to honor victims, whose lives are cut far too short by gun violence. We pray to comfort the mourners, who face the...

Shalom Chevrei (My Friends), I spent last week at the Religious Action Center’s Balfour Brickner Clergy Seminar and Fellowship Program....

NFTY Camp Car is a program that partners with Cooke Magnet Elementary School in Waukegan, IL to give underprivileged kids an amazing...