Events

PRE-PURIM INITIATIVE

We have launched a Purim initiative for young, middle and old this year and we need your help! We are organising a distribution for the homeless on the Sunday before Purim.

Join us on Sunday 17 March from 12.00pm to 2.00pm in Shul where we will be packing Magen Avot Synagogue labelled bags with supplies for those sleeping on the street.

Please donate items from the following list and drop them off at 33 Rowsley Avenue before Friday 15 March: soap, deodorant, shampoo, sanitary towels, hand gel antibacterial, wipes, toothbrush, toothpaste, socks, lip balm, plasters, hand warmers, crackers, granola bars, protein bars, biscuits, gloves and hats. Directions to participate in the distribution will be shared on Sunday 17 March. Please join us in our effort to help those in need and to be Mekadesh Shaym Shomayim (make a real Kiddush Hashem!).

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US Womens Shabbat

Marking our US Women’s Shabbat, we will be honouring this year’s Eshet Chayil Sara Spizzichino. Our schedule will be as follows: On Friday night there will be a Women’s Kabbalat Shabbat from 4.45pm and there will be an Oneg Shabbat at the home of Sara and Marco Spizzichino from 8.30pm. On Shabbat Morning Sara will speak after Mussaf and Rebbetzen Dina Golker will present the award. There will be a special Kiddush to mark the US Women’s and Eshet Chayil Shabbat.

Seuda Shlishit: Dr Erica Brown

Dr. Erica Brown is the Vice Provost for Values and Leadership at Yeshiva University and the founding director of its Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks/Herenstein Center for Values and Leadership. She previously served as the director of the Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership at The George Washington University and as the Scholar-in-Residence for the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston and the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington. Erica was a Jerusalem Fellow, an Avi Chai Fellow, the recipient of the 2009 Covenant Award, and is a faculty member of the Wexner Foundation. She has written or co-authored 15 books on the Hebrew Bible, spirituality, and leadership and has been published in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Tablet, First Things, and The Jewish Review of Books, wrote a monthly column for the New York Jewish Week and is a consulting editor for the journal Tradition. Her latest book is Kohelet and the Search for Meaning (Maggid, 2023). She currently serves as a community scholar for Congregation Etz Chaim in Livingston, New Jersey. Erica has interviewed Isaac Herzog, the President of Israel, Madeleine Albright, David Brooks, Jeffrey Goldberg, Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, David Gregory, Dennis Ross, David Makovsky, Sarah Hurwitz, Ruth Messinger, and Dara Horn, among others. She tweets on one page of Talmud study a day at the twitter handle @DrEricaBrown. She is the proud mother of four children, four in-law children, and five beautiful grandchildren.

Simchat Torah Lunch 2022

This year’s Simchat Torah Lunch honouring our Chatan Torah Rabbi Yoni Golker, and Chatan Bereishit Richard Herman will take place immediately after davening on Tuesday 18 October 2022. There is now a booking form which can be used to register and pay for seats at the lunch. Costs are as follows: Adults £15, Children (up to 12) £10, and Family (immediate only) £50. Please feel free to bring a bottle!

BOOKING LINK: https://tinyurl.com/MALunch22