Shalom & Welcome
Join a vibrant Jewish community close to home.
A Reform Jewish community in Charlotte’s western suburbs
You may not be able to live in a traditional Jewish neighborhood like your grandparents did, but you can belong to a vibrant and inclusive Jewish community right near home.
About Temple Emanuel. Our historic 1929 downtown Gastonia building is close to Belmont, Cramerton and McAdenville, as well as Bessemer City, Dallas, Kings Mountain, Lincolnton and Lake Wylie, SC. One of the South’s oldest synagogues outside a big city… Read more.
Our Religious School. Children truly love our K-12 religious school, and educating Jewish children is a labor of love from our Harvard-educated religious school director, Morah Rochelle Wilensky…Read more.
Learn more. We welcome you to come for Shabbat and High Holidays, and of course we’re delighted if you’d like to join our congregation, or even make a donation. Just reach out to a Temple member by calling or emailing from our contact page.
Mid March news update
Remembering Marshall Rauch
- Click here to learn more about this remarkable man who did so much for the Temple, our city, state and nation, and countless people he helped during his 102 year lifetime. And please note these important April dates:
- April 5: Dasha Verhosek Bat Mitzvah
- April 6: Panera Coffee & Conversation
- April 13: 2nd Night Seder
- April 20: Adult Ed – “Poetry as a Window to Understanding the Holocaust” (3/30 program on “Raising Children Jewish in a Christian Community” has been postponed.)
