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  • Help secure the future of the Essex Jewish News

    February 29, 2024
    One of the only newspapers of its type anywhere in the world, the Essex Jewish News (EJN) is a vital part of the Essex Jewish community.
    For more than 50 years, it has covered and highlighted the successes and achievements of the Jewish congregations, schools, charities, ... Read more
  • London Jewish Forum – Breakfast Hustings

    February 27, 2024

    LJF is delighted to invite you to three Jewish community breakfast briefings with the Mayor of London candidates.

    Green Party Jewish Breakfast Husting Briefing. Taking place at JW3 on 14.3.24 at 8am.- https://www.jw3.org.uk/whats-on/mayoral-breakfast-briefing-green-party-candidate.

    Conservative Party Jewish Breakfast Husting Briefing. Taking place at JW3 on 25.3.24 at ... Read more

  • PJ Library – Free Jewish Children’s Books

    February 22, 2024

    Why not sign up to receive FREE Jewish children’s books every month? Sign up now for books and see what great activities PJ Library offers too! Just click on this link – www.pjlibrary.org.uk

  • Jewish Care – Singing for Memory

    February 21, 2024

    Supporting people living with conditions affecting memory. Singing for Memory is a weekly fun and engaging singing session providing a friendly
    and stimulating social environment, for those living with dementia, together with their carers.

    Singing for Memory is not ... Read more

  • Modern Hebrew Ulpan at ELELS

    February 21, 2024
    Learn to speak Hebrew in 2004!

    Would you like to be able to have a conversation in Hebrew? Order your FALAFEL and KAFEH in Ivrit? Make new friends and strengthen your links with Israel by learning the language?  And we haven’t mentioned yet how good the ... Read more

  • Responses to 7 October: LCSCA in conversation with Deborah Lipstadt

    February 21, 2024

    Event Date: Sunday 25 Feb 2024 11:00am @ Westminster University

    LCSCA’s book of responses to 7 October is published in May. Contributors will share their thoughts with the President’s Special Envoy.

    The London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (LCSCA) ... Read more

  • Introduction to Biblical Hebrew at The Ark Synagogue (via Zoom)

    February 21, 2024

    Introduction to Biblical Hebrew at The Ark Synagogue (via Zoom)

    with Rabbi Lea Mühlstein

    Weekly on Wednesday at 4-5pm UK time on zoom

    First class: 6 March 2024

    Learners must be familiar with the Hebrew alphabet but don’t need any other prior knowledge ... Read more

  • Trevor Leighman running for MDA

    February 16, 2024

    Our member Jack Leighman (Leaf) urges you to support his husband Trevor, in his fundraising efforts for a truly great cause – Magen David Adom UK. Trevor will be running in the Jerusalem Marathon on 8th March. Click here to go to his fundraising ... Read more

  • The NHS Jewish BRCA Testing Programme

    February 16, 2024

    Having Jewish ancestry increases your risk of having a BRCA gene fault – 1 in 40 Ashkenazi Jews and around 1 in 140 Sephardi Jews has a faulty BRCA gene, compared to around 1 in 250 individuals in the UK general population.

    Up to 40% ... Read more

  • Foster For Redbridge

    February 7, 2024

    We often take some things for granted.  Taking our children to the park or to a playground; jumping in puddles; getting your wellies stuck in thick mud.  Many children in Redbridge, however, have never experienced these fun and free activities.  A care leaver remembers the time that ... Read more