Election time has arrived here on our TV screens and in our lives. On the night when the Jewish people were checking their homes for chometz, the British electorate were given the opportunity to put seven politicians on a stage and under a microscope. Politicians seeking election expect the …
…….OF HARDBOILED EGG, SALTWATER AND A NIGHT OF JEWISH CONTINUITY What’s your flavour? The French say chacun a son gout; for Israelis al taam vereyach eyn lehitvakeyach – over the taste and aroma one cannot argue. For us in the UK, we say there is no accounting for taste. Each person has the flavours …
To arrange the Sale of your Chametz please download this form. NB: Must be returned to the Shul Office no later than Midday Wednesday 1st April. Download Sale-of-Chametz-2015 Form
Parshat Yitro 7th February 2015 We welcome our civic guests, led by the worshipful Mayor of Bury, our own Councillor Michelle Wiseman. We salute the presence in our congregation this Shabbat morning of dedicated men and women occupying distinguished offices, working for the good of the community. Civic Shabbat …
Shabbat 31st January 2015 – Barmitzvah of Uri Cohen My dear Uri On behalf of everyone gathered for your special simcha we want to extend to your our sincerest wishes of mazeltov. We also extend to you our hearty beracha of yasher koach for the expert and confident manner in …
Reflections on the Massacre at HyperCacher Sermon: Shabbat 24th January 2015 A response of unity and solidarity has been the order of the day for the last couple of weeks. It was a feeling of solidarity that I experienced last week as in Yerushalayim when on holiday to see our family …
Sermon Shabbat Parshat Vayechi 3rd January 2015 The Book of Devarim contains a statement of the Almighty powerfulness of G-d and in our humble recognition that only He is the true source of power in this world. Eyn ohd milevado – there is none other besides Him. דברים פרק ד (לה) אתה הראת לדעת …
The Jewish homeland is the great project that has occupied world Jewry in the last over a hundred years. How does a large group of the Jewish people go and set up a state of their own? They do it in the place that they call home, in a place …
Reflections on Space Exploration Sermon: Parshat Chayey Sarah The excitement this week around the space mission Rosetta the robotic space probe built and launched by the European Space Agency, enabling scientists to study the comet with an unpronounceable name Churyumov–Gerasimenko or more simply 67P. Rosetta was launched on 2 March 2004. For ten years it …
