Temple Emanuel is a Reform synagogue and a member of the Union for Reform Judaism, has a membership of over 150 families. Though Reform, we have a Conservative minyan which meets on Saturday mornings. Congregation Temple Emanuel began as a permanent religious organization in September 1895, with its first Temple being erected in 1901. A wooden building of Byzantine design served the Congregation until the erection of the current Temple Emanuel, which was dedicated in 1923. This synogogue has been in continous use ever since serving the greater Beaumont and Golden Triangle area. We recently raised over $1,700,000 to restore and update our beautiful Temple and its magnificent Sanctuary with construction beginning immediately following the High Holy Days of 2004. continued
Internationally renowned musician and pedagogue Eduard Schmieder will return to Beaumont after an absence of 25 years to give a concert at 7 p.m. April 7 at Temple Emanuel, 1120 Broadway, in Beaumont.
Schmieder, currently the Carnell Distinguished Professor of Violin at Temple University in Philadelphia, returns “home” to Beaumont to honor his many friends and colleagues from his years of teaching at Lamar University, the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University and Southern Methodist University, and as concertmaster of the Symphony of Southeast Texas.
For my first column as president, I want to share with the congregation at large an excerpt from my remarks at the Annual Meeting. I've omitted some of the jokes, since there should be some benefit to attendance. (Or perhaps to non-attendence, depending on your sense of humor.)
I want to begin by thanking you all for your trust in me, and I am truly honored to serve you as president. Your support is particularly meaningful to me because I am a newcomer; though after 7 years in Beaumont, I=ll have to stop using that soon. But I have a wonderful Board with lots of institutional memory, and I am confident that together we can serve the congregation well. I would like to thank Stephen Bender, his better three-quarters Ania, and the members of his Board and committees whose hard work and selfless dedication to doing what is best for Temple Emanuel have made the last two years wonderful ones for our congregation.
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Thank you,
Joe Weinman
Suzye Doblin
Fundraising and Planned Giving Committee
Rabbi's Message
Preventing a crisis inTexaspublic schools…
One evening last year I was working at my computer when I received a call from Matthew Swerdlow, who was then working as a legislative aid in Austin. He had me go to the live feed from the legislature so that I could watch a vote on the teaching of Bible in Texasschools. Bipartisan efforts led by the Texas Freedom Network (TFN) thwarted this attempt (H.B. 1287) to require that all of the state’s public high schools teach classes about the Bible. By adding key safeguards to the bill including stronger protection for the religious freedom of all students, training for teachers, sound curriculum and textbook standards, and no requirement that schools even offer classes about the Bible, the revised bill received nearly unanimous votes in both chambers the legislature. These were stunning defeats for far-right groups that sought to turn our state’s public schools into Sunday schools.
TempleEmanuel’s primary mission objectives are “…to provide a place of worship to the Jewish citizens of the area and to provide religious educational training to the Congregation’s children and its adults and to be a forceful member of the Southeast Texas community on social action issues."
Every synagogue program and function today relates to our mission objectives, but with so many pressing member needs, increasing costs and diminishing membership, maintenance of our facilities and meeting our mission statement goals will be an ever increasing financial problem.Leaving a legacy through planned giving will solve this problem for generations of Jews in Southeast Texas and ensure a strong and vital Jewish community.
We honor those individuals who have made an investment in the future of our synagogue. These individuals have made a decision to support us now and later through planned giving to TempleEmanuel and our Endowment Fund.
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