In light of current high rates of Covid, we have decided that for the next two Shabbatot, our programme will be online only. This will ensure that we keep everyone safe while able to provide the best possible online services. Please join us online - details of how to join are below. There is a great deal of uncertainty about how we will be able to meet in January. We will update as soon as possible.
Office Opening Hours
The Alyth office will be staffed on 24, 29, 30 & 31 December from 10:00 - 16:00. The office will be closed on 25, 26, 27, 28 December and 1, 2, 3 January. The office will re-open on Tuesday 4 January. The Emergency Careline will be answered for urgent pastoral support, for example in cases of hospitalisation or bereavement.
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FRIDAY 24 DECEMBER
EREV SHABBAT 24 DECEMBER
PRAY WITH US - ONLINE ONLY Erev Shabbat Service (18:30-19:30) With Rabbi Josh and Rabbi Hannah. We welcome Shabbat as a community, joining together online from the Alyth Beit Tefillah. Click hereto join(Meeting ID: 835 5631 4624, Passcode: 785089). The "Zoom screen" can also be seen via our YouTube channel by going to www.youtube.com/c/AlythRS The Shabbat Supplement and Community News will be available from 17:00 Friday afternoon on the synagogue website. Please click here to view the siddur online.
SHABBAT MORNING 25 DECEMBER PRAY WITH US - ONLINE ONLY Shabbat Morning Service (10:30) Led by Rabbi Josh and Cantor Tamara from our Beit Tefillah. Unfortunately our Bar Mitzvah for this week has had to be postponed. We wish Noaz and his family a speedy recovery and look forward to celebrating with him later in the year.
Click here to join (Meeting ID: 889 9617 8314, Passcode: 785089). The "Zoom screen" can also be seen via our YouTube channel by going to www.youtube.com/c/AlythRS The Shabbat Supplement and Community News will be available from 17:00 Friday afternoon on the synagogue website. Please click here to view the siddur online.
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WEEK COMMMENCING 26 DECEMBER
SUNDAY 26 DECEMBER
PRAY WITH US ONLINE Sunday Shacharit (09:00-10:30) Our weekly minyan led by Alyth members. This week will take place offsite. Click here to join online (Meeting ID: 864 4782 5935, Password: 785089).
WEDNESDAY 29 DECEMBER PRAY WITH US ONLINE Wednesday Ma’ariv Online (20:00-20:45) A mid-week evening service led by Alyth members. This is the last Wednesday Ma'ariv session. We extend the thanks of the whole Alyth community to Michael Simon who has led this project since March 2020 and all who have participated. Click here to join (Meeting ID: 880 9384 2526, Passcode: 543468). Please note that the Alyth office will be staffed from 10:00-16:00 on 29, 30 & 31 December. The Emergency Careline will be answered for urgent pastoral support, for example in cases of hospitalisation or bereavement.
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EREV SHABBAT 31 DECEMBER
PRAY WITH US - ONLINE ONLY Erev Shabbat Service (18:30-19:30) Join Cantor Tamara and Student Rabbi Nicola Feuchtwang as we welcome Shabbat as a community, joining together online from the Alyth Beit Tefillah. Click here to join (Meeting ID: 867 8075 1868, Passcode: 785089).
SHABBAT MORNING 1 JANUARY PRAY WITH US - ONLINE ONLY Shabbat Morning Service (10:30) Led by Rabbi Elliott and Cantor Tamara from our Beit Tefillah. Click hereto join (Meeting ID: 863 3651 2010, Passcode: 785089).
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Coming up in early January
There is a great deal of uncertainty about January, and whether we will be able to meet together in person. We will share more information as soon as we can. In the meantime, the following activities will be online in the first week or so of the year:
Tuesday 4 January New Year Shacharit Online (08:30) A special shacharit service to kick off 2022 with Rabbi Elliott and Cantor Tamara. Click hereto join (Meeting ID: 896 6849 1374 Passcode: 785089)
Wednesday 5 January News, Views and Schmooze Online (11:00-12:00) Join us for a couple of hours of schmooze to discuss what is going on in the world around us. Led by volunteers from the Soup and Schmooze group. This week's group will be online. Click here to join (Meeting ID: 837 1668 3440 Passcode: 187790)
Thursday 6 January Pardes Online (13:00) Over four weeks, join Rabbi Laura Janner Klausner in an exploration of Jewish texts about parenting and grandparenting - its joys, its tribulations, its challenges and its triumphs. Click hereto join (Meeting ID: 123 761 361 Password: 019498)
Thursday 6 January Budapest Information Evening Online: For October 2022 (18:30 - 19:30) An opportunity for parents to find out more about the October 2022 Yr8 Budapest trip! Contact mike@alyth.org.uk for more information. Click hereto join (Meeting ID: 854 1354 0916 Passcode: 687224)
Saturday 8 January Shabbat Shiur Online: The 10 Plagues – More than a list (09:15) On seder night, we encounter the ten plagues as a simple list. However, the narrative in which they are found takes up six chapters of Exodus, read across two weekly portions, full of allusions, parallels and subtleties of language. Together we will look at rabbinic texts to help make greater sense of this difficult narrative. With Rabbi Josh. Click here to join (Meeting ID: 240 937 705 Password: 602287)
Saturday 8 January NEW: Poetry Service (10:30) As part of our new tefillah offerings for 2022, join Rabbi Elliott on Zoom for a reflective service that combines the traditional Shabbat liturgy with poetry from Jewish tradition and beyond. The plague of darkness is central to Parashat Bo, so the theme of this service will be darkness and bringing light into darkness, to link into Mental Health Awareness Shabbat. Click hereto join (Meeting ID: 856 4764 8365 Passcode: 545723) And coming up later in the month:
Sunday 16 January Tu B'shvat Tea with a “grain” of difference! (16:00) From her recently published cookbook, Freekeh: Wild Wheat & Ancient Grains, recipes for healthy eating, Ruth will be presenting a delicious tea of grains and fruit to help us celebrate Tu B'shvat. For more information, contact sam@alyth.org.uk This event will take place subject to Covid protocols in mid-January.
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Annual Meeting of Congregants 2022 Annual Meeting of Congregants 2022 Sunday 23 January (10:30) Please save the date for our AMC which will take place on Sunday 23 January at 10:30am. This meeting will now take place ONLINE only. The notice and papers for the meeting will go out via email in the last week of December.
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Rabbi Hannah's Sabbatical
Rabbi Hannah will be on sabbatical from this Erev Shabbat for two months, returning on Thursday 24 February. We wish her a good period of rest and restoration.
During her absence, please contact tamara@alyth.org.uk regarding Young Family provision, and elliott@alyth.org.uk regarding our Essentials programme. For any other queries, please contact the main synagogue office.
Please remember that we also have two special numbers in addition to the main synagogue number: Alyth Careline – 020 8457 8798 This will be answered by a member of the Alyth professional team between 08:00 and 21:00. Emergency Careline – 07726 631808 Please use this number if you need urgent pastoral support, for example in cases of hospitalization or bereavement. This number will be answered by a member of the Alyth professional team.
