TOMORROW AND FRIDAY SHAVUOT 5783 Erev Shavuot (Tikkun Leyl Shavuot) Thursday 25 May, from 19:00 Our Tikkun Leyl Shavuot this year will celebrate the diversity of adult learning and engagement in our community, with a series of sessions bringing the best of Alyth programmes to Shavuot. After a short welcome at 19:00, we will enjoy an evening of learning, food, music, prayer and being together. The timetable of the evening is below. Click here for the full Shavuot programme including information about the sessions.
19:15 Issues that divide us and how we find common ground: Revelation (in person and online). Click here to join online (Meeting ID: 857 6237 7975, Passcode: 785089) or 19:15 Table Talk with Ruth Nieman, author of Freekeh and The Galilean Kitchen (in person only) 20:15 Dinner together 21:00 Erev Shavuot Service (in person and online). Click here to join online (Meeting ID: 889 6089 5707, Passcode: 429209) 21:45 Alyth Chevruta Project - The Book of Ruth. Choice of 2 tracks: Track 1: Chapter 4 in detail (in person and online). Click here to join online (Meeting ID: 871 2989 1090, Passcode: 311220) Track 2: Highlights from this season of ACP. or 21:45 Jewish Music for this Moment - Should I stay or should I go? The soundtrack of the book of Ruth (in person only) 22:45 Refreshments 23:00 Sugyot Every Progressive Jew Should Know - The limits of diversity (in person and online). Click here to join online (Meeting ID: 890 2856 7929, Passcode: 311220) or 23:00 Alyth Late Night TV Club - S'rugim (in person only)
Shavuot morning - Friday 26 May 07:45 for an 08:00 start Heathboddedut Welcome the morning with Shacharit and meditation practices on the Heath with Rabbi Elliott and our JMM team. Meet on the corner of Hampstead Way and Wellgarth Road.
Choir Rehearsal(09:00) Rehearsing Alyth’s choral repertoire for Shabbat and Festival Services.
Shavuot morning services (from 10:00) 10:00 Gesher Shavuot (in person only) Our musical 'Gesher' service provides a bridge between our youngest family services and the next stage in Alyth families’ prayer life.
10:15 Choral service (including blessing of our children at 11:00) (in person and online). Includes a supervised kids' corner so parents can pray. Please note the start time. Click here to join (Meeting ID: 842 0780 2091 Passcode: 785089) 11:00 Sensory Shavuot (in person only) A Shavuot service designed to stimulate your babies’ senses in the first years of their life.
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FRIDAY 26 MAY AFTERNOON BE WITH US ONLINE JMM (17:00-18:00) Jewish Mindfulness Meditation helps us to open our hearts and find peace through our spiritual heritage. Click hereto make a donation towards the costs of employing the facilitators. Click here to join (Meeting ID: 977 611 369 Password: 035091). EREV SHABBAT 26 MAY
PRAY WITH US IN PERSON AND ONLINE Erev Shabbat Service (18:30) We welcome Shabbat as a community, joining together online and in person. Led by the Alyth Clergy. The D'var Torah will be given by Alyth member Gloria Abramoff. Click hereto join online (Meeting ID: 896 6605 0229 Passcode: 785089).
SHABBAT MORNING 27 MAY
PRAY WITH US IN PERSON AND ONLINE Shabbat Morning Service (10:30) Led by Cantor Tamara with the Alyth choir. Including the Bat Mitzvah of Savannah Bernstein. Click hereto join online (Meeting ID: 844 1231 3190 Passcode: 785089).
PRAY WITH US IN PERSON AND ONLINE Imrei Finu (10:30) An informal Shabbat morning service with guitar, including the singing of new and familiar melodies. Led by Rabbi Josh with Justin Wise. Click here to join online (Meeting ID: 854 1273 8843 Passcode: 496169).
Click herefor the Shabbat Supplement and the Community News (available from 17:00 on Friday afternoon).
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SUNDAY 28 MAY
PRAY WITH US IN PERSON AND ONLINE Sunday Shacharit (09:00-10:15) Our lay-led minyan with bagel breakfast, led by Alyth members. Click here to join online (Meeting ID: 864 4782 5935, Password: 785089). BE WITH US ONLINE Biblical Hebrew (11:15) A programme for those with high level Hebrew reading ability. Email edwardjgold@hotmail.com if you would like to join this class so that you can be sent the link and materials in advance.
MONDAY 29 MAY: BANK HOLIDAY Please note the office is closed today. In an emergency, please call 020 8457 8798
TUESDAY 30 MAY
BE WITH US IN PERSON Pizza, Pimms, Popcorn and a Producer (19:30) Calling all young adults to join us for this one-off film night with our member Lucie Kon from the BBC, for a viewing of a new film with pizza, pimms and popcorn! The Crown Shyness is an Italian film about Jewish twin brothers with learning difficulties. One is desperate to have sex and the other, desperate for romance. It's an unusual but brilliant film which raises all kinds of questions. Click here for a synopsis and click here to register.
BE WITH US IN PERSON Alyth Choral Society (20:00) For Choral Society Members only. Go to www.alythchoralsociety.org for more information.
THURSDAY 1 JUNE BE WITH US ONLINE Mellow Yoga for All Ages (11:00) Our special Chair Yoga and Meditation with Maxine, open to all ages wishing to enhance overall mental and physical wellbeing. Click here to register and pay for the class. Click here to join online (Meeting ID: 892 6465 8503, Passcode: 202324).
LEARN WITH US IN PERSON AND ONLINE Pardes: The Composers of Alyth (13:00) Alyth has a rich and diverse range of musical traditions. Join Cantor Tamara for a special series of Pardes to celebrate the composers whose music Alyth has used over the last 90 years. Click here to join online (Meeting ID: 123 761 361 Password: 019498)
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FRIDAY 2 JUNE
FOR YOUNG FAMILIES IN PERSON Baby Den (10:30) Chug-a-lug into Shabbat. Sing your favourite Baby Den songs, dance to a Shabbat beat and wave to some familiar faces. For families with Young Children.
BE WITH US ONLINE JMM (17:00-18:00) Jewish Mindfulness Meditation helps us to open our hearts and find peace through our spiritual heritage. Click hereto make a donation towards the costs of employing the facilitators. Click here to join (Meeting ID: 977 611 369 Password: 035091).
EREV SHABBAT 2 JUNE
PRAY WITH US IN PERSON AND ONLINE Erev Shabbat Service (18:30) We welcome Shabbat as a community, joining together online and in person. Click here to join online (Meeting ID: 831 5022 1250 Passcode: 785089).
SHABBAT MORNING 3 JUNE BE WITH US IN PERSON Choir Rehearsal (09:15) Rehearsing Alyth’s choral repertoire.
PRAY WITH US IN PERSON AND ONLINE Shabbat Morning Service (10:30) Led by Rabbi Josh, including the Bar Mitzvah of Haiden Sampson-Yamoah. Click here Meeting ID: 839 9203 6305 Passcode: 785089). FOR YOUNG FAMILIES IN PERSON Sensory Shabbat (10:30) Please note the start time A Shabbat service designed to stimulate your babies’ senses in the first years of their life.
Click here for the Shabbat Supplement and the Community News (available from 17:00 on Friday afternoon). The "Zoom screen" can also be seen via our YouTube channel by going to www.youtube.com/c/AlythRS
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COMING UP IN JUNE
Alyth 90 Saturday 10 - Sunday 18 June A series of events to celebrate Alyth 90. Our main celebration will take place on Friday 16 June celebrating the 90th anniversary of the first ever Alyth service on Friday 16 June 1933. Click here for the full Alyth 90 programme.
Alyth Children's Theatre Presents: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Sunday 25 June, 14:30 and 18:00 Tickets are now on sale for this year’s ACT Show: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Jr Tickets £10 for adults, £8 for concessions and £3 for children (still in school). Please click here to book your tickets and please spread the word to friends and family! You can also buy tickets on the door.
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BUILDING AT ALYTH To see the progress that has been made click here for our Instagram and click here for Facebook page. FACES OF ALYTH Each week, over the expected 54 weeks of the building project, we’ll share a short video clip of Alyth members, Trustees, Clergy and Staff Team speaking about why they love Alyth, what matters to them, and why the renewal of our building is such an important and exciting time for the future of the whole community.
Every Friday we’ll post a video on our social media and on the website. Click herefor last week's faces of Alyth on Instagram and click here for Facebook. Watch out or this week's!
Emergency Careline – 020 8457 8798 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.
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