On Saturday 23rd June, Student Rabbi Daniela Touti and members of our Rosh Chodesh group led a special Shabbat morning service. The service, which was dedicated to the memory of the late Betty Benscher, commemorated the centenary of (some) women getting the right to vote. Members of our Rosh Chodesh group choose or contributed to […]
Our first ever Annual General Meeting took place on Thursday 7th June at Marlborough Road with, on a rough count of heads, over 60 members in attendance. The main purpose of the AGM being to: Approve the final accounts for the year ending 31st December 2017 Take various reports from Council Officers and Committees or […]
Josh celebrated his Bar Mitzvah on 3rd March, this is his D’var Torah My Torah Portion tells the story of the Golden Calf, made by the people whilst Moses when up to the top of Mount Sinai to collect the 10 commandments from God. Whilst Moses was away from his people for 40 days and […]
Special Shabbat Service – Saturday 6th January 2018 A Celebration of the Past and Future As we come close to the sale of our Perrymans Farm Road (PFR) site, we invite all members of ELELS to a day of celebration to mark the closure of the building as we take the first step towards moving […]
On 16th December we celebrated Shabbat and the fourth day /fifth night of Chanukah. After a special Shelanu (inclusive) morning service, the community shared a Chavurah lunch before our Chanukah party. The day ended with Havdallah and the lighting of our fifth candles. Here is a selection of photos from the party, Havdallah and candle […]
East London & Essex Liberal Synagogue celebrated Mitzvah Day with a number of activities. On Saturday morning, our Cheder classes held a bake sale where lovely fresh home baked (and mainly chocolate) cakes were on sale. This raised over £50 and the money will be donated to Haven House Hospice, the local children’s hospice being […]
8th November 2017 (Updated 14th December 2017) NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING: REVISED DATE SUNDAY 14th JANUARY 2018 Members were advised that ELELS would hold an EGM on Sunday 10th December 2017 at Marlborough Road 10.30 am for 11.00 am start. Due to bad weather, the EGM had to be cancelled and notice of the revised date […]
We have received the following note of thanks from the family of Joe Swinburne: Dear Rabbi Hulbert and all at the East London and Essex Liberal Synagogue Michael and I would like to thank you for your love and kindness shown to Joe throughout his illness and indeed during all the time that you have […]
Ben Glassman writes: Organising the High Holy Days is always a huge undertaking, but this year, with a new community and two new venues, it was on another level. Everything needed to be considered again from scratch – and sometimes reconsidered again when our initial decisions didn’t prove that popular! Now that they’re successfully over […]
Rabbi Richard Jacobi writes the Thought for the Week on Parashat Shoftim in this weeks LJ Today linking the theme of Justice to some recent events including those in Charlottesville earlier this week. This time last year, a 19-year-old Syrian woman swam at the Rio Olympic Games, competing under the Olympic flag as part of the […]