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BKY Mitzvah Day this Friday!

18th November 2016 – After Erev Shabbat Service

Unitarian Hall, 112 Palace Gardens Terrace, London W8 4RT

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BKY is continuing its Mitzvah Day campaign to collect goods for the Refugee Drop In centre to help support those coming in search of safety and a better life.

As coverage of the closure of the camps in Calais showed the refugee crisis continues unabated and BKY is trying to do a little something to help

We are looking for new underwear (socks, bras, pants and vests) for men, women, boys and girls of any size and in any colour, which will later be taken to the LJS Refugee Drop In for collecting. If you can’t make it on the 18th get in touch and we will give you details of somewhere you can drop it off.

We will also be packaging treats and toiletries for vulnerable older people in the local area after the service, so it would be great for everyone to come and join in with that too. Please remember to bring something to eat for a shared vegetarian or (labelled) kosher fish evening meal.

Thank you for all your help.

Jewish Film Festival – get tickets for The Writer

On Sunday 20 November at 16:00 JW3 in Finchley will be screening dark comedy The Writer.

Acclaimed author and TV writer Sayed Kashua, the creator of the hit series Arab Labour, is back with a new show, The Writer. This gentle comedy is a mockumentary based on Kashua’s own life as an Arab Israeli who lives with his family in a secular neighbourhood in Jerusalem. Our protagonist, Kateb, is enjoying a huge success with his TV show (called, as you could probably guess, “Arab Labour”), but he is not happy.

We will be meeting at JW3 at 15:30 before going in to see the film. If you want to find out more about Sayed Kashua and the show, check out this HuffPo article here – it looks good!. If you would like to book tickets in advance please email admin@bky.org.uk

Introducing Rafe Stephenson

Beginning work on BKY’s Community Coordination project this week is Rafe Stephenson.

“I’m 31, I have a degree in French and Hispanic Studies, and another in Religious Studies. I’m currently studying for an MA in Biblical Studies at Heythrop College. I’m a member at Ealing Liberal Synagogue and I help Rabbi Janet Burden run the religion school there. Jewish history is my special interest, but I’m just as invested in Jewish future; I think that it’s really important, especially in today’s world, that we make an effort to create time to ‘be Jewish together’, whatever that means for us, so I’m really excited to work with the community towards helping BKY to grow to its full potential.”

Rafe will be coming to JW3 on Sunday for The Writer (above) and hopes to meet more of us over the coming weeks as he starts to help and develop BKY.

Bollywood Klezmer is cancelled

Apologies, Bollywood Klezmer at LJS this weekend is no longer going ahead.

Our thoughts are with Ariel Chalklin this week

Everyone at BKY is thinking of Ariel at this sad time with the loss of her partner Ursula Brown. The funeral will be held at West Chapel, Golders Green Crematorium, Hoop Lane, London NW11 7NL at 3pm on Thursday 17th November.

Services and Study Sessions

Unitarian Hall 112 Palace Gardens Terrace, London W8 4RT – Nearest Tube: Notting Hill Gate

Friday 18 November: Rabbi Janet Burden

Erev Shabbat Service (18:30)

Please help us with BKY’s Mitzvah Day UK 2016 by bringing as many new underpants, socks and bras in different sizes as you can for distribution at the LJS Asylum Seekers’ drop-in project. We will also be making up treat packs for vulnerable local older people after the service, See above for further details

-PLEASE bring something to eat for a shared vegetarian or (labelled) kosher fish evening meal.

Saturday 26 November – Study Session:

Jewish Identity in the 21st Century

David Solomon will give a brief introduction, then lead a discussion in this Study Session on Jewish identity.

What does it mean to be Jewish or to ‘have a Jewish identity’ now? Is our Jewish identity one thing or a cluster of things? How far is it personal and individual and how far something I have in common with other Jews? How does this part of our identities fit in with other parts?

Friday 2 December:

Erev Shabbat Service (18:30)

followed by After Service Event on Ruth Gruber: Ruth Gruber was the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants, born in Brooklyn in 1911. She defied tradition becoming the world’s youngest PHD at age 20. She was a foreign correspondent reporting from the Soviet Arctic, escorted Holocaust refugees on a secret war-time mission and stunned the world with dispatches from the Palestine-bound ship Exodus in 1947.

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Saturday 10 December:

Discussion based Torah Service led by Sef Townsend (Ba’al Tefillah) (11:00 – 14:00)

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Friday 16 December: Rabbi Mark Solomon

Erev Shabbat Service (18:30)

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Saturday 24 December: No Session

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Friday 6 January

Erev Shabbat Service (18:30)

Followed by After Service Community Discussion: Is Britain Still a Christian Country?

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Saturday 14 January

Discussion-based Torah service (11:00 – 14:00)

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Friday 20 January

Erev Shabbat Service (18:30)

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If you are interested in Pastoral care of any kind, please don’t hesitate to contact us at admin@bky.org.uk or by calling the BKY phone on 07505 477 459

Events

The Great Yiddish Parade Workshops

Sunday November 20th 3.30 – 6.30pm

Sunday December 11th 3.30 – 6.30pm

At SOAS, Russell Square. Rooms G51 and G51a

The Great Yiddish Parade is the combination of
The London Winchevsky Chorus and
The London Yiddish Marching Band

The Parade brings Yiddish into real happenings: cultural, social, political, where people sing songs as a form of cultural inclusion, crowd participation, social protest and demonstrations for equality and justice. Not always at the same time!! The Parade is flexible and inclusive. You may be Jewish or not, political or not, a Yiddish speaker or not, a musician, a singer or not.

Bring veggie snacks and drinks to share

The fee is on a sliding scale £10-£20 – more info on Facebook.

A Half Lived Life: Isaac Rosenberg Statue Fundraising Event

Sunday 27^th November, 6pm

Beveridge Hall, Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, WC1E 7HU

A Celebration of the life of the poet painter Isaac Rosenberg in verse, music and images

Klezmer Klub providing music

£25 (students £15). Links to booking details and programme available here:

http://www.jeecs.org.uk/events