Shabbat Shalom (Parashat R'eh)

1. NLS trip to Paris in November

You may remember the recent visit to New London by members of the Adath Shalom Masorti community in Paris. A return visit wll take place from Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd November. The trip is being organised by Minyan Chadash and by Odile and Mark Ellison in Paris, and is for the whole community. For advantageous rates now is the time to book.

We have a limited number of Return Rail Tickets at an incredible £55 each on a first - come first served basis. To book, call the office on 020 7328 1026. The train leaves St Pancras at 9.00 am on Friday arriving at midday giving you time to relax or explore Paris before Shabbat comes in. The return train on Sunday arrives in St Pancras at 10.30 pm.

As guests of Adath Shalom, we'll attend Shabbat services on Friday night and Saturday morning and a shiur on Shabbat afternoon. As for Shabbat meals, if you're staying with a family, you'll have Friday night dinner with them; if you're in the hotel, Friday night dinner will be in the synagogue, with some of the community members. Lunch, for all of us with some of our French hosts, will be in the synagogue. The Adath Shalom Community is being most generous and gracious.

You can choose home hospitality or an hotel. A number of Adath Shalom families have offered home hospitality. Sleeping will be on sofa beds and the like, and most of these families do not live near the synagogue. Gina Sanders has been in touch with a hotel, and has secured good rates for us. Hotel Eiffel Petit Louvre www.hotel-paris-petitlouvre.com is, yes, close to the Eiffel Tower and also to the Adath Shalom Synagogue. All rooms are en suite and the hotel is decorated in an Impressionist style! For two people sharing a room,(includes breakfast) the total price is approx £98 per person. The price for a single room is approx £162. Hotel bookings require a £25 deposit to the office.When you book your fare, please tell the NLS office what your plans are for accommodation. 
 
Saturday evening is free...enjoy! On Sunday morning, we have a tour of the fascinating Jewish "Le Marais" district. Sunday afternoon and early evening are free as there is so much to see and do in Paris. As well as shops and art galleries, the Jewish Museum is open until 6.00 pm.

Everyone needs to pay £25 per person on booking, to cover the guide’s fee and to enable us to buy a gift for the Adath Shalom community.

Bon voyage and please book soon for what promises to be a wonderful weekend.

2. Sticky Sunday - Box-ing Sunday in Abbey Road
 
Sarah is looking for a couple of volunteers to help her with newsletter preparations this coming Sunday morning. If you can spare two hours to help her address and frank envelopes and prepare tickets, please email or call her in the office ASAPto make arrangements.

Stephen is also looking for a couple of volunteers for the annual 'clearing out of books from the boxes' exercise this Sunday morning. (All Siddurim/Chumashim and Machzorim owned by the shul are meant to be returned to the foyer - or bookshelves in the Ladies Gallery - each week, but the reality is that that rarely happens, resulting in constant shortages of books on busy weeks!)  If you can help, please call him on 07976 802 555

3. The Week Ahead

The Kabbalat Shabbat service this evening begins at 6.30 pm. Tomorrow morning Shacharit is at 9.15 am.  We are delighted to welcome Rabbi Daniella Kolodny who will be delivering the sermon and teaching this week. Until June, 2009, Rabbi Daniella Kolodny served as the Jewish chaplain to the U.S. Naval Academy and was the only active duty female rabbi in the U.S. Navy chaplain corps. Rabbi Kolodny was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York in 2004.  Since completing her service in the Navy, Rabbi Kolodny has moved to London to join her new husband, Robert Owen, in the U.K.  Robert will be reading the Torah and the Haftarah for us this week.

On Sunday morning, Shacharit is at 9.30 am in the New London Hall.

Shacharit on  Friday morning for Rosh Chodesh Ellul will be at 7.30 am followed by breakfast. As some of our regulars are on holiday, please try and help us make up the minyan.

Next Shabbat the sermon will be given by June Jacobs CBE

4. Forthcoming Events

Sunday 6th September, 2:30pm (tbc) - High Holydays Security Rota Briefing. This is session for everybody on the Security rota to learn about their role and responsibilities. Information about the security rota will be going out in the coming weeks. To register or for more details, contact Stephen Greene by clicking  here. 

Saturday 12th September Selichot Concert at 9.15 pm and Service at 10.45 pm. To see the concert programme click here. 

Preparing for the High Holy Days - Two evenings with Rabbi Jeremy Gordon, devoted to the history, meaning and music of key liturgical texts from Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur. 8.00 - 9.30 pm, cost £5 to include refreshments.
Monday 14th September - Un'taneh Tokef
Monday 21st September - Kol Nidrei

5. And finally...

Sylvia Shaw has now moved to - Lady Sarah Cohen House, Asher Loftus Way, Colney Hatch Lane, Barnet, N11 3ND. Tel: 020 8920 4400. Visitors would be very much welcomed.

Mazal tov to Angela Levin and Bob Low on the birth of a grand daughter, Jessica Chloe, to Angela's son Daren and Philippa, and of course, to Rabbi Jeremy Gordon the proud uncle.

Mazal tov to Jayne and David Franks on the birth of their daughter Ella Grace

Shabbat Shalom

Stephen Cotsen