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.
November happenings from our newsletter
SPECIAL CELEBRATIONS!
- Our first three Conversion grads. Join us to honor them on Fri 11/21
- And celebrate six B’nai Mitzvot coming to our bimah in 2026
- Read about a hostage family dramatically reunited in Israel
- Add to your calendar: Fri 11/7 for Potluck Dinner and Sat 12/6 for Silent Auction.
Proudly affiliated with the
Jewish Federation of Greater Charlotte
and the Union for Reform Judaism.
