Beit Emanuel, formally the Temple Emamuel, is a Progressive Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Parktown, a suburb of Johannesburg, in the district of Gauteng, South Africa.

[3] However, just as building work was set to commence, a neighbourhood petition circulated against plans for a synagogue in a residential area.

[3] Kallenbach used the same Art Deco design that he and his partners A.M. Kennedy and A.S. Furner had prepared for the Parktown site, but scaled it down according to the smaller plot size.

[6] Today the synagogue has moved away from the formality of conventional Reform Judaism and instead concentrates on prayers (ancient and modern) that encourage greater congregant participation.

[8][9] In 1986, the synagogue's US-born rabbi, Norman Mendel told an audience that Progressive Jewry in the country were leading the Jewish struggle against the "indefensible, immoral and evil."