diff --git a/packages/blaze/dombackend.js b/packages/blaze/dombackend.js
index a65be634a..350f8ed11 100644
--- a/packages/blaze/dombackend.js
+++ b/packages/blaze/dombackend.js
@@ -144,6 +144,32 @@ DOMBackend.Events = {
   }
 };
 
+// Mimic jQuery's delegated event behavior: handlers see the matched element
+// as currentTarget. jQuery sets it on its own event object, which nothing
+// else sees and which keeps it, so an async handler can still read it after
+// an `await`. Here the handlers get the native event itself, so currentTarget
+// is shadowed by an own getter instead: it returns the matched element while
+// the handler runs and once the dispatch is over, and the native value in
+// between, so later listeners of the same dispatch (e.g. on document) see
+// their own currentTarget.
+const withCurrentTarget = (event, currentTarget, callback) => {
+    let inHandler = true;
+    Object.defineProperty(event, 'currentTarget', {
+        configurable: true,
+        get() {
+            if (inHandler || this.eventPhase === Event.NONE) return currentTarget;
+            // The native getter, from the event's own prototype chain (an
+            // event from an iframe has that realm's Event.prototype).
+            return Reflect.get(Object.getPrototypeOf(this), 'currentTarget', this);
+        },
+    });
+    try {
+        return callback();
+    } finally {
+        inHandler = false;
+    }
+};
+
 const createWrapper = (elem, type, selector, handler) => {
     // jQuery delegation evaluates the selector rooted at the delegation
     // element ($(elem).find(selector)): for 'div p', both the div and the p
@@ -173,13 +199,9 @@ const createWrapper = (elem, type, selector, handler) => {
         }
 
         if (target) {
-            // Mimic jQuery's delegated event behavior
-            Object.defineProperty(event, 'currentTarget', {
-                value: target,
-                configurable: true,
-            });
             // mimic jQuery event return false behavior
-            const value = handler.call(target, event);
+            const value = withCurrentTarget(event, target,
+                () => handler.call(target, event));
             if (value === false) {
                 event.preventDefault();
                 event.stopPropagation();
diff --git a/packages/spacebars-tests/template_tests.html b/packages/spacebars-tests/template_tests.html
index 13169c49c..86693a9fa 100644
--- a/packages/spacebars-tests/template_tests.html
+++ b/packages/spacebars-tests/template_tests.html
@@ -1222,3 +1222,7 @@
     <span>{{item.msg}}-{{logRenderItem item}}</span>
   {{/each}}
 </template>
+
+<template name="spacebars_test_event_current_target">
+  <div class="card"><span class="title">title</span></div>
+</template>
diff --git a/packages/spacebars-tests/template_tests.js b/packages/spacebars-tests/template_tests.js
index ca051cb73..797868ca7 100644
--- a/packages/spacebars-tests/template_tests.js
+++ b/packages/spacebars-tests/template_tests.js
@@ -4699,3 +4699,91 @@ Tinytest.add(
       'stale DOM: surviving view still shows old data after update');
   }
 );
+
+// Event handlers see the matched element as currentTarget, but the other
+// listeners of the same dispatch must see their own: in jQuery mode handlers
+// get a jQuery event object and the native event is untouched. Like that
+// jQuery event, the event the handler received still reports the matched
+// element once the dispatch is over, so async handlers can read it after an
+// `await`. (In jQuery mode that is the jQuery event; the native one is null.)
+Tinytest.add(
+  'spacebars-tests - template_tests - delegated event shows later listeners their own currentTarget',
+  function (test) {
+    const tmpl = Template.spacebars_test_event_current_target;
+    const seen = [];
+    let handlerEvent;
+    tmpl.events({
+      'click .card': function (evt) {
+        handlerEvent = evt;
+        seen.push(evt.currentTarget.className);
+      },
+    });
+    const div = renderToDiv(tmpl);
+    document.body.appendChild(div);
+    const onDocument = function (evt) {
+      seen.push(evt.currentTarget === document ? 'document' : evt.currentTarget.className);
+    };
+    document.addEventListener('click', onDocument);
+
+    const evt = new MouseEvent('click', { bubbles: true, cancelable: true });
+    div.querySelector('.title').dispatchEvent(evt);
+    document.removeEventListener('click', onDocument);
+
+    test.equal(seen, ['card', 'document']);
+    test.equal(handlerEvent.currentTarget.className, 'card');
+    document.body.removeChild(div);
+  }
+);
+
+Tinytest.add(
+  'spacebars-tests - template_tests - capturing event keeps currentTarget after the dispatch',
+  function (test) {
+    const tmpl = new Template(
+      Template.spacebars_test_event_current_target.viewName,
+      Template.spacebars_test_event_current_target.renderFunction);
+    const seen = [];
+    let handlerEvent;
+    tmpl.events({
+      'mouseenter .card': function (evt) {
+        handlerEvent = evt;
+        seen.push(evt.currentTarget.className);
+      },
+    });
+    const div = renderToDiv(tmpl);
+    document.body.appendChild(div);
+
+    const evt = new MouseEvent('mouseenter', { bubbles: false });
+    div.querySelector('.card').dispatchEvent(evt);
+
+    test.equal(seen, ['card']);
+    test.equal(handlerEvent.currentTarget.className, 'card');
+    document.body.removeChild(div);
+  }
+);
+
+Tinytest.addAsync(
+  'spacebars-tests - template_tests - async event handler sees currentTarget after an await',
+  async function (test) {
+    const tmpl = new Template(
+      Template.spacebars_test_event_current_target.viewName,
+      Template.spacebars_test_event_current_target.renderFunction);
+    let resume;
+    const resumed = new Promise((resolve) => { resume = resolve; });
+    tmpl.events({
+      async 'click .card'(evt) {
+        // A timer resolves only after the synchronous dispatch is over.
+        await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 0));
+        resume(evt.currentTarget);
+      },
+    });
+    const div = renderToDiv(tmpl);
+    document.body.appendChild(div);
+
+    div.querySelector('.title').dispatchEvent(
+      new MouseEvent('click', { bubbles: true, cancelable: true }));
+    const currentTarget = await resumed;
+
+    test.isTrue(currentTarget === div.querySelector('.card'));
+    document.body.removeChild(div);
+  }
+);