Alyth Centre is back!  You can read the brand new Alyth Centre magazine on-line by following this link.  If you know of someone who does not have access to the Internet and think they would like a copy then please call Gillian Lee on 020 8457 8791 and she will be delighted to print and send them one.   By publishing Centre in this way we expect to save more than 75,000 pieces of paper each year. 

So far a couple of interesting articles have been submitted which you see below but we want to encourage you to get writing so that this page becomes a lively reflection of our community, its activities and passions!   Together let's make Alyth Centre the best on-line Jewish magazine!

Your articles and photos are welcome.  Please send them to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it and she will pass them on to the Editor, Marketa Zvelebil .

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Purim!!!  Lots of fun and can you help?

On Saturday evening 20th February Alyth is hosting the 5th Annual RSY-Netzer Purim Spiel-Off Competition.

Teams of young people from Reform shuls around the country will be performing their own creative and entertaining versions of the Purim Story.Come and enjoy the show and support our Alyth Youth team in their bid to win 1st prize again!

To book tickets which are £5 for adults and free of charge for accompanied under 18's, please email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or call 020 8349 5666 alternatively you can buy your tickets from Gillian Lee in the Synagogue office.

As the hosting community we will be accommodating and catering for about 100 young participants at Alyth from Friday afternoon until Sunday morning,and welcoming up to 300 visitors to the Show on Saturday night.  If you think you can help the catering team at any point over the weekend,or bake some cakes,cupcakes,brownies etc for the pre-show reception and interval refreshments please contact Janet or Miriam via Gillian Lee in the Synagogue office who will be really delighted to hear from you!

The festival of Purim itself takes place on the following weekend.  Click here to find out about Erev Purim XXXX Rated Talmud on Saturday February 27th  and the Esther Fiesta on Sunday February 28th.

OUR WEEKLY EMAIL - Hello from Alyth - Everything (almost!) that is happening at Alyth over the next week together with a thought for the week from one of Alyth's Rabbis and Jewish Educators (on page 2) - exactly as e-mailed to hundreds of households in the community each week.   Click "read more" for this week's edition.

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Like an extended family

Officially known as North Western Reform Synagogue, our synagogue is an open partnership between our 2100 adult members and 900 child members with our team of professional staff and three dynamic Rabbis. Many members of Alyth speak of this community as being like an extended family for them. We, the members and staff of this Synagogue hope to welcome you into this family.

This is your community

Alyth includes activities for every age and interest; Jewish worship for all, Jewish learning for all, Jewish social activities for all, Jewish culture and music for all. The size of our community and our seventy five years of tradition mean that we are able to welcome you to a very wide diversity of ways of enjoying the life of our community.

Rabbi Mark Goldsmith, Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner and Rabbi Josh Levy invite you to contact any one of us so that we can help you to find your feet in Alyth and to begin to feel that this is your community. Rabbi Chananya Ben Teradion said that when two people sit together and words of Torah pass between them, the presence of God rests between them also. We hope that the time that you spend in our community helps you to find the spiritual fulfilment that you may need.

Always available to you

We aim always to be available to be your Rabbis, when you want to find out about a Synagogue programme, when something significant has happened in your life for which the support of a Rabbi might be helpful or when you have an idea for how our community can develop. Through the Alyth Careline in partnership with Lynette Sunderland, Community Director, one of us is available 24 hours a day, every day.

Rabbi Mark Goldsmith

Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner

Rabbi Josh Levy 

Welcome to the dynamic and interactive www.alyth.org.uk , North Western Reform Synagogue on the Internet   All of the staff of Alyth have worked with the Movement for Reform Judaism's web design service, led by Brian Teeman, to create what you see today, with the guidance of Alyth's Council.  We aim for this site to be part of our community, full of useful information and the contacts to get yourself involved, full of learning resources to help you to build your Judaism, fun and easy to use.   Click "read more" for a quick guide to what you can find on the site.  Click anything in blue and you will go straight to that part of the website.