10:30-12:15
Our regular Shabbat morning service is a contemporary Reform service led by one of our Rabbis, normally accompanied by our volunteer choir and the piano, with a combination of reading, chanting, song and reflection.
On most weeks there is also a parallel service, meeting the different needs of the community. Occasionally these services take place in our main Beit Tefillah.
Until the mass exodus of Christians and Yazidis, the post 1948 displacement of more than 850,000 Jewish refugees was the largest population movement of non-Muslims from the Arab Middle East and North Africa, yet the subject is hardly ever discussed. Why did Jews leave countries they had been settled in for thousands of years? What lessons can we learn from the mass exodus of minorities? What became of the majority who settled in Israel? How can their cause contribute to peace? Lyn Julius’ book, published in January, aims to answer these questions. Join author Lyn Julius and Alyth member Saul Zadka, himself part of the displacement. Copies of the book will be available to purchase at this shiur hosted by Rabbi Mark.