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Join a vibrant Jewish community close to home.

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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.

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September happenings from our newsletter 

High holidays…And more

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  • Rosh Hashanah Eve:  Mon. 9/22.  Day: Tues. 9/23
  • Yom Kippur Eve: Wed. 10/1.  Day:  Thurs. 10/2
  • How to register guests for services, and have loved ones remembered for Yizkor.
  • Please help us set up our great new Alvin Witten Family Library.
  • Welcome to our latest new members.
  • Find out what’s happening in our Greater Charlotte Jewish Community.
Emmanuel Temple Gastonia
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320 S, South St., Gastonia, NC 28052
(704) 865-1541
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 Proudly affiliated with the 

Jewish Federation of Greater Charlotte

and the Union for Reform Judaism.