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January 2019
Shabbat Shira Lunch: Dessert Island Discs – With Chazan Stephen Cotsen
Join Rabbi Jeremy as he explores the life of, and the musical influences on, our Chazan. We’ll eat dessert, and Stephen will provide the musical accompaniment. Do join us as we welcome our new Chazan back to the community, and celebrate Shabbat Shira. Chazan Stephen will discuss the main influences on Synagogue music, and will be singing the music that he loves. He will also talk about how he hopes to develop the music of New London. Minimum donation £18…
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Shabbat Lunch and cholent kiddush with member and art collector, David Lewis
David will discuss the stories behind Mostaert’s Cain and Abel (1505/10), Rubens’s La Charrette Embourbée (c.1620), Champaigne’s Moses with the Ten Commandments (c.1640) and an 1892 Pissarro landscape from Eragny, from within the Schorr collection.
Find out more »March 2019
A Tour Guide to Great Lives
Join prize-winning tour guide, award-winning librarian and author Rachel Kolsky for her entertaining insight into her book Women’s London. Inspired by walking tours she devised for The Women’s Library and responding to those who encouraged her to put her words on paper, she has published a guide book to London profiling the impact women have had on its society, heritage and streetscape. From scientists to suffragettes, reformers and royals, authors and artists, sit back and discover some of Rachel's favourite London ladies. Discover…
Find out more »British Museum Tour with Rabbi Jeremy & children’s museum outing (part of the Cheder programme)
Join Rabbi Jeremy on a special guided tour of the Ancient Near East galleries of the British Museum. From Abraham, to Egypt and on to the famous reliefs from the siege of Lachish we’ll learn what we can and can’t learn about the Bible from the archaeological record. This tour is free to members; minimum donation £10 for non-members. Coinciding with Rabbi Jeremy’s tour, the Cheder will also be visiting the museum. Non-cheder children are welcome to join this outing.…
Find out more »Jews and the Brain: Friday night dinner with member and neuroscientist, Daniel Glaser, in conversation with Rabbi Jeremy
These days, neuroscience seems to think it can explain everything. Once upon a time religion did also. New imaging techniques produce more and more impressive pictures of the brain while religious investigators seek the ultimate nature of human existence without MRIs or CTs. Join two New Londoners seeking overlap between scientific and religious perspectives on the brain, and wondering if each can enlighten the other. Dr Daniel Glaser is a neuroscientist who has worked for many years promoting public engagement…
Find out more »April 2019
Reflections on British-Jewish Poetry since 1945
To ask “What is Jewish Poetry?” is to guarantee conflicting, multiple answers. Some people may find the very notion of Jewish poetry in English puzzling. Linguistic essentialists might argue that poetry can only be Jewish if it is written in a Jewish language, such as Yiddish, Hebrew or Ladino. Without dismissing the debate about whether Jewishness constitutes a linguistic, religious or ethnic identity, this talk introduces British-Jewish poetry from a more environmental perspective. Jewish poets in Britain are members of a minority group, who write as Jews because of specific social, cultural and historical experiences. Peter Lawson's talk…
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