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FRIDAY 26 APRIL
Baby Den: Pesach Special (10:30)
Chug-a-lug into Shabbat. Sing your favourite Baby Den songs, dance to a Shabbat beat and wave to some familiar faces. For families with Young Children
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Ruach (16:30)
Our pre Bar/Bat Mitzvah programme delivered by our wonderful team of madrichim. Participants can come from 16:30 for Drop-In and are expected to stay for the Erev Shabbat Service, finishing at 19:30
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Jewish Mindfulness Meditation: Online (17:00)
Jewish Mindfulness Meditation helps us to open our hearts and find peace through our spiritual heritage. Click here to make a donation towards the costs of employing the facilitators. (ID: 977 611 369 Password: 035091)
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Erev Shabbat Service (18:30)
We welcome Shabbat as a community, joining together online and in person. Led by Rabbi Elliott and Louis Graham.
(ID: 892 7116 7329 Passcode: 785089)
Click here for the Shabbat supplement and community news.
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SATURDAY 27 APRIL
Choir Rehearsals (9:15)
Rehearsing Alyth’s choral repertoire for Shabbat Services
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Shabbat Chol Hamoed Pesach Choral Service (10:30)
A special Shabbat morning service for Chol HaMoed, the Shabbat during Pesach.
Led by Rabbi Elliott with the Alyth Choir.
(ID: 828 1256 3058 Passcode: 785089)
Click here for the Shabbat supplement and community news.
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SUNDAY 28 APRIL
Sunday Shacharit (9:00)
Every Alyth week begins with a lay-led minyan, led by Alyth members. All are welcome. (Meeting ID: 864 4782 5935, Password: 785089)
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Matzah Ramble: Greys Court (near Henley) (10:00)
An undulating 7 mile walk through beech woodlands and arable farmland. Including a visit to the glorious gardens of Grey’s Court. Please bring a packed Pesadik lunch. For information or to register, email vivienne.bellos@btinternet.com. Please give Viv your mobile number in case of cancellation or change of plans
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Sunday Morning Galim (10:00)
Our Jewish education programme for Reception to Year 6. SMG provides our youngest members the opportunity to explore their Jewish identity, key Jewish behaviour and rituals and Jewish texts.
Prayer Book Hebrew: Studying the Hebrew and how it is Translated (11:15)
A programme for those with high level Hebrew reading ability. Email edwardjgold@hotmail.com to join this class and be sent the text
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Erev Seventh Day Study and Service (19:00-20:30)
Join Rabbi Elliott for our Erev 7th Day study and evening service. The evening will weave study into our traditional Erev Festival service, as we explore the pleasures and the dangers of studying together, through a number of Talmudic texts that address the presence of demons in the House of Study.
(ID: 814 4747 3518 Passcode: 311220)
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MONDAY 29 APRIL
Seventh Day Pesach Service (10:15)
A 7th Day Pesach Morning Shacharit service with our full musical repertoire, led by Rabbi Golan with the Alyth Choir. There will be a special supervised kids corner so adults can pray while their children are looked after, with a Family Breakout Service during the Torah service.
Please note the start time due to midweek parking restrictions.
(ID: 873 2072 4921 Passcode: 785089)
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Mimouna for Young Adults (19:00)
Join Rabbi Elliott to conclude Pesach with this traditional Maghrebi practice of gathering for a meal of all the leavened food we have denied ourselves for the last week. Pizza will be provided, but please bring your own glutenous dessert. Please register here so that we know how many to cater for and let us know if you need gluten free leaven!
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TUESDAY 30 APRIL
Hebrew Reading Courses (19:00 & 20:00)
For beginners, to learn the aleph-bet and basic decoding skills at 19:00.
For those already proficient in Hebrew reading, to continue to develop their skills at 20:00. Taught by Alyth member Jan Roseman. Contact alythadmin@alyth.org.uk
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Alyth Choral Society (20:00)
We have two or three concerts a year, new members are always welcome to join. Click here or email alythchoralsociety@gmail.com if our future programme inspires you
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WEDNESDAY 1 MAY
Biblical Hebrew: Studying the Weekly Parashah (18:00)
A programme for those with high level Hebrew reading ability. To join this class and be sent the link and materials in advance, email edwardjgold@hotmail.com
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THURSDAY 2 MAY
Mellow Chair Yoga for All Ages (11:00)
Our special Chair Yoga and Meditation with Maxine, open to all ages wishing to enhance overall mental and physical wellbeing. Click here to register and pay for the class. (ID: 892 6465 8503, Passcode: 202122)
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Alyth Children’s Theatre (17:00)
Our drama group for Primary School aged children. The group rehearse all year and then perform the show in June 2024
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FRIDAY 3 MAY
Baby Den (10:30)
Chug-a-lug into Shabbat. Sing your favourite Baby Den songs, dance to a Shabbat beat and wave to some familiar faces. For families with Young Children
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Ruach (16:30)
Our pre Bar/Bat Mitzvah programme delivered by our wonderful team of madrichim. Participants can come from 16:30 for Drop-In and are expected to stay for the Erev Shabbat Service, finishing at 19:30
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Erev Shabbat Service (18:30)
We welcome Shabbat as a community, joining together online and in person. Led by Rabbi Hannah, Rabbi Elliott and Rabbi Golan. The D’var Torah will be given by Rabbi Dr Deborah Kahn-Harris.
(ID: 814 6531 8254 Passcode: 785089)
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SATURDAY 4 MAY
Shabbat Shiur: Scripture Exposes Her – Solving the Mystery of Shelomit bat Dibri (9:15)
There is only one named woman in the book of Leviticus: Shelomit bat Dibri. She is a footnote in someone else’s story, the mother of a man sentenced to death for blasphemy. But who was Shelomit? Did she have her own story? And how might we relate to her story today? Join Student Rabbi Yael Tischler of Leo Baeck College to uncover the tale of this mysterious ancestor.
(ID: 867 1920 5853 Passcode: 311220)
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Shabbat Morning Choral Service (10:30)
Led by Rabbi Golan with the Alyth choir. Including the B’not Mitzvot of Esther Dupont and Anna Agostini.
(ID: 811 7011 0652 Passcode: 785089)
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Kollot (10:30)
Our informal, unaccompanied, participatory minyan. Led by Rabbi Elliott.
(ID: 818 0604 5984 Passcode: 225964)
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Sensory Shabbat (11:00)
Our Shabbat service designed to stimulate your babies’ senses in the first years of their life. Join the team and the dungareenees in this service where you and your baby can touch, see, smell and hear your way through the service
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Shabbat B’Yachad Lunch (12:30)
As part of the Alyth Friendship Project, a special lunch after the shabbat service. For catering purposes, please let Lynette know you are coming at lynette@alyth.org.uk or 020 8457 8793. There is no charge for this but donations are always appreciated
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SAVE THE DATES
Yom Hashoah Commemoration Concert and Memorial Service (Sunday 5 May, 18:30)
Please join us for a very special evening as the Alyth Choral Society, conducted by Alison Smart Fisher, together with a Children’s Choir from Alyth and St Mary-at-Finchley Parish Church, perform “Annelies” by James Whitbourn. First commissioned by the Jewish Music Institute it is the story of Anne Frank. The performance will take us through a very moving vocal and visual journey. After the concert which starts at 18:30, there will be a short evening and memorial service at 20:15 in memory of all those who died during the Shoah. Spaces are limited and we advise you to book in as soon as possible by clicking here
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Composer-in-Residence: Cantor Natalie Young (10-12 May 2024)
We are delighted to welcome Cantor Natali Young for an extended weekend of learning and singing together. Cantor Natalie is an internationally renowned composer and spiritual leader. The weekend will include: a special Sing With Us preceding the Erev Shabbat Service to learn new melodies to our traditional liturgy; a special Erev Shabbat service with songs and melodies that we already know, interwoven with Cantor Natalie’s own compositions; a special Shabbat morning service, as we celebrate our choral musical tradition; and a Saturday afternoon concert, which will lead into our special Yom Hazikaron memorial event, for which Cantor Natalie will contribute to the music.
This event is the third in a series of Alyth Composers and Songwriters in Residence, a programme made possible in memory of Raymond and Joy Goldman
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Remembering the Fallen, Hope for the Future: Marking Yom Hazikaron & Yom Ha’atzmaut as a community (Saturday 11 May, 18:30)
This year Yom Hazikaron (the day on which we remember Israel’s fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism) and Yom Ha’atzma’ut (the day on which we celebrate Israel’s independence) will be particularly poignant and challenging for many in our community. At Alyth we want to ensure that as many of our members are able to participate in this act of communal remembrance in as many ways as possible.
Concert: from Composer-in-Residence, Cantor Natalie Young (18:30)
We will begin our commemoration early on Saturday 11 May at 18:30 with a concert from Composer-in-Residence, Cantor Natalie Young
Communal meal (19:00)
Following the concert, we will have a communal meal. Please click here to let us know that you will be attending so that we can cater appropriately.
Yom Hazikaron & Yom Ha’atzmaut Ritual (19:30)
Following the meal, there will be a special ritual that will incorporate music from Cantor Natalie Young, testimony from Israel, and the completion of a unique artwork that is being constructed by everyone in the community.
Please click here to download the artwork information.
Yom Hazikaron Memorial Service (Sunday 12 May, 19:30)
Rabbi Golan will be leading a more traditional ma’ariv and memorial service as Yom Hazikaron comes in on Sunday 12 May at 19:30.
Please join us for this very important and timely weekend of remembrance and hope.
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