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October 2019
Elul Study Sessions
Learning in preparation for the High Holy Days with the New London clergy team: Opening the Gates – Thursday 19 September What does it mean to prepare for the year ahead? Rabbis Jeremy and Natasha will lead a study session based on some of the great Mussar (ethical preparation) texts of our tradition. Closing the Gates – Thursday 3 October A glimpse into the psychospiritual, theological, and musical realms of Ne’ilah with Chazan Stephen Cotsen and Rabbi Natasha Mann. All…
Find out more »December 2019
Installation of Rabbi Natasha Mann
New London Synagogue together with Hatch End Masorti and Masorti Judaism are delighted to invite you to the Installation of Rabbi Natasha Mann at New London Synagogue, 33 Abbey Road, London NW8 0AT. Reception to follow
Find out more »Community Friday Night Dinner ~ Welcoming the Night
6.30pm: Musical Kabbalat Shabbat and Ma’ariv 7.30pm: Dinner and Learning with the Rabbis 'Darkness and Light: The Drive Behind the Ḥanukkah Miracle' Adults: £20 (Non-Members £25), Students and Teens: £15, Children: £10
Find out more »Chanukah Tea Party
3.00pm: Games session - please feel free to bring your favourite game. There will be prizes! 4.00pm: Lighting of the first Chanukah candle 4.30pm: Fabulous Chanukah Tea, featuring fresh latkes, doughnuts, smoked salmon, and much more!
Find out more »January 2020
Special Shabbat Event: What would Louis do? On the role of women at New London
With guests Rabbi Jackie Tabick, Britain’s first ordained female Rabbi (Rabbi Jacobs signed her 1975 ordination papers) and Simon Eder of the Friends of Louis Jacobs. Rabbis Jackie and Jeremy will give a joint-sermon and there will be an opportunity for further learning after Kiddush. Booking not required.
Find out more »Hebrew Alef (Hebrew for Beginners)
Sundays 19 and 26 January, 2 and 9 February 2020, 10.00am-12.30pm. If you want to know your alef from your bet, come and learn at Chazan Stephen Cotsen’s Hebrew reading crash course. Free to NLS members, £10 non members
Find out more »Remembrance and Resistance ~ Communal Friday Night Dinner
BOOKING HAS NOW CLOSED Please join us for a special Friday Night service and dinner in honour of Holocaust Memorial Day. We will be joined by our beloved member Hannah Lewis MBE, who survived Nazi Occupied Poland as a child and who now works with the Holocaust Education Trust in order to teach young people about her experiences. Hannah and Rabbi Jeremy will hold a public conversation about Hannah’s life, learning and teaching. Dinner will follow Kabbalat Shabbat service at…
Find out more »February 2020
SILVER AT THE CONCLUSION OF SHABBAT
Join Stephanie Souroujon former curator at the Goldsmiths’ Company with Rabbi Jeremy. We will schmooze, nosh, make Havdalah and then have the opportunity to learn about Anglo Silver Judaica; its makers and their art, with a special focus on New London’s fabulous collection. This event is not taking place at NLS. Confirmation of venue address will be supplied upon booking.
Find out more »March 2020
Bnei Mitzvah Lunch at Rabbi Jeremy & Josephine’s house
Please book here to join us. £10 adults, £5 children
Find out more »Purim ~ A Mad Hatter’s Tea Party!!!!
Please join us for an evening of noise, storytelling, and festive fun! Families are welcome to join us for our youth festivities run by NOAM from 5.30pm. From 6.30pm, Lester Kershenbaum will honour us with his famous megillah reading and the community is invited to a Purim banquet afterwards. Start preparing your costumes! On Tuesday 10 March, Shacharit will start at 7.30am and will be followed by the reading of the megillah and Purim breakfast.
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