55+
The 55+ Club at Temple Emunah is a social organization that promotes friendship and bonding among seniors in the community within the framework of a Jewish temple. 55+ is a member of Hazak, the seniors organization of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, but actually predates that organization. We are proud to have won a Sollie Gold award this year from the USCJ, recognizing our entire program.
Our programs include monthly Sunday morning breakfasts with speakers or entertainment, trips to interesting places, movie matinees during the winter months, and services to our members including a break-the-fast immediately following the shofar blowing that ends Yom Kippur.
55+ also sponsors several special interest groups (SIG's). These include a book group, a bridge group that meets on Thursday afternoons, and a mah jongg group that meets on Monday afternoons at 1:15 in the Social Hall. A class on computers for beginners has formed and will begin weekly meetings starting May 21st at 2:30. If you are interested in one (or more) of these or have suggestions for additional groups please contact us with your ideas at
.For membership information, contact Arthur Orenberg at (781) 862-0620 or just come to the next Sunday morning breakfast. Dues are $10 per person; our fiscal year is September through August.
A summary of upcoming events may be seen by clicking here.
The latest message from our president, Rose-Billie Canter, may be seen by clicking here .
You may click on one of the links below for more information on our activities.
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55+ Board
55+ Board 2011 – 2012
Elected Officers
| President | Rose-Billie Canter |
| VP, Webmaster & Fliers | Joe Canter |
| VP, Trips | Anita Feld |
| Financial Secretary | Jerry Wasserman |
| Recording Secretary | Gershon Goldberg |
| Treasurer | Arthur Orenberg |
Board Members
| Senior Advisor | Marcia Camac |
| Senior Advisor | Mort Camac |
| Past President | Lester Macklin | Movie Matinee | Marilyn & Mel Tracey |
| Trips | Barbara Hantman |
| Trips/Program | Barbara Newman |
| Program Chair | Jolley Anne Weinstock |
| Program | Ann Landau |
| Kitchen Chair | Debbie Kivel |
| Kitchen | Maxine Wasserman | Setup Chair | Roger Kravett |
| Book Group Co-Chair | Ellen Macklin |
| Book Group Co-Chair | Estelle Schwedock |
| Reservations | Charlotte Alterson |
| Reservations | Mickie Leff |
55+ Book Group
55+ sponsors a book group that is now in its seventh year. We meet on a monthly basis to discuss a book of Jewish interest. By now we have amassed quite a selection of books.
Click here for our 'bibliography',
For further information, please email us at
.55+ Breakfasts
On our May 6 Sunday Breakfast we will hear Anna Solomon, novelist, whose book "The Little Bride" was a Boston Globe bestseller. It is the story of a 16 year old, Minna, who leaves 1880's Odessa to marry Max, who is 40, and homestead in the Dakota Territory. Our final breakfast of the year on June 17th, Father's Day, will feature Superior Court Judge Robert Barton (retired).
See the attached flier (not yet available)(click here) for more details.
55+ Bridge Group
The 55+ Bridge Group meets every Thursday from 1 - 3 pm in the Social Hall.
For information call Marcia Camac at 781-861-8834.
55+ Movie Matinees
Our Movie Matinees were originally conceived of as a way to get together during the winter months, when we tend not to schedule trips because travel can be iffy at best.
The Movie Matinee season is over, but movies will resume in November and continue through March. Movie titles will be published in your monthly mailing.
We encourage your input on film selections. We try to screen a variety of films of Jewish interest. If you have questions or suggestions, please contact us via email at
.55+ Trips
The 55+ Club sponsors a number of trips each year. These include day trips to local attractions as well as more ambitious overnight forays. In the past we have seen plays in Lowell, Boston, and Worcester, visited museums such as Peabody Essex and Harvard Semitic, gone to local concerts such as the Lexington Symphony, we've cruised Boston Harbor to see the Tall Ships, and we've taken a day trip to the Lower East Side of New York. Our most recent overnight trips have been to Tanglewood and the Berkshires, Lincoln, New Hampshire for some R&R, and Jewish Montreal. For all but our most local trips, we arrange transportation via bus for short trips or motor coach for the longer ones.
This past summer we made three local trips, a Bicentennial Band Concert and an Encore HD Performance of Tosca, both in July and saw a baseball game in September.
The very successful inter-generational trip to Lowell, to see the Spinners baseball game on September 1. was a sell-out; in fact, we were oversubscribed! It was especially fun to see the excitement on the faces of the kids: "We've never been this close to the field before!"
This year we are planning another encore Met HD performance, "La Traviata" on May 2nd, a Tall Ships cruise on July 1, a Lowell Spinners game on July 30, a Tanglewood trip in mid-to-late August, and a tour of the Gropius House in Lincoln in early September. Watch your mailings or come back to this page for more information.
A few photos taken on some earlier trips are shown below.
In the Shed at Tanglewood before the performance
At the Clark Art Museum
The Bridge of Flowers (sadly destroyed in the recent flooding)
Shaar Hashomayim in Montreal
A "cruise" in New Hampshire