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June Highlights
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Shavuot 2023
Dear friend, As part of our interfaith initiatives, we would like to invite members of the Faith and Belief Forum and your communities to a service and refreshments on Thursday 25 May 2023. We will be celebrating Shavuot, one of our Harvest Festivals but Shavuot also remembers the giving of Torah to Moses. In recognition of this great event, Shavuot is sometimes marked by an all-night study session. We will not go quite this far and Rabbi Adrian has assured us that the service will be short! The service will be led by Rabbi Adrian Schell. The evening will start at 6.45 and end by 9.00 p.m. After the service…
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Pesach 2023
Dear Congregants, I am looking forward to celebrating Pesach with you in the coming days. Please find below the full schedule of the services and activities during the festival. As we celebrate the holiday of Pesach, I wish you all a happy, healthy, and kosher holiday. May this time be a time of joy, renewal, and reflection. Pesach is a time when we remember the exodus from Egypt and the birth of our people. It is a story that has been told for generations, and it is a story that continues to inspire us today. As we celebrate together in the coming days, let us remember the lessons of this…
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Yom HaShoah – 17 Aprlil 2023 @ 7pm
Service of Commemoration & Yizkor Canle lighting This year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day Service of Commemoration will take place on 17 April 2023 at 6.45 for 7pm. Cllr Jeremy Amache, Mayor of Wandsworth will open the evening and introduce our speaker for the night, Jacqueline Luck. Jacqueline Luck will tell the story of her grandmother Lela Black.The Wimbledon Synagogue Choir will sing during the ceremony. Please RSVP to office@wimshul.org. The Story of Lela Black 1918-2008 Lela Black née Amiel was born in 1918 in Salonica. When the Germans occupied Greece in 1943, Lela went into hiding. A year later, after being denounced and incarcerated at the Haidari military camp, she was…