Summer Hiatus of Ebulletin & Shabbat services

During the summer break we will be on hiatus with our next Shabbat Morning service being on 2nd September with Sasha’s Bat Mitzvah and Shabbat Evening Services resuming after the High Holiday period. In the interim we have our Elul study session in August (more info below).

The Ebulletin will also be on Hiatus until Thursday 10th August. In the meantime you can find information about our upcoming events & services, as well as information on the High Holidays, on our calendar on the website linked below:

High Holiday booking open for members. Non-member booking opens 1st September.

Kehillah members and Supporting Friends are now able to book for our ticketed High Holiday services and events (i.e. Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur services & our Rosh Hashanah community lunch), which are all taking place at St. Mary’s.

Due to more limited space at High Holidays this year, along with a growing number of people wanting to attend, we are opening advanced bookings to members as first priority.

We encourage our members (and Supporting Friends) to book before 1st September, when we will be opening bookings up to our non-members, where we have capacity.

Elul study session – The New Year for the Animals: Grounding Ourselves within Creation, 17th August – 8pm-9:30pm

Celebrate a different Jewish New Year: Rosh Hashanah La’Behemah – the New Year for the Animals with trainee Rabbi, Kohenet Yael Tischler at St. Mary’s Centre

We will begin preparations for our own New Year by grounding ourselves as one of many species in the created world. We will study Perek Shirah, a Jewish text that imagines that every living being has a song of its own. We will sing the songs of the Universe as imagined by Perek Shirah, and begin our annual period of reflection by meditating on our existence as part of the great tapestry of the natural world. The evening will be songful, soulful, thoughtful and playful.

Do you have a collapsable Gazebo Kehillah can borrow for the High Holidays? Volunteers still needed!

We are well into planning the Kehillah High Holiday season. We are also looking into using a Gazebo outside the venue. If you have a collapsable Gazebo that Kehillah can borrow for the High Holidays, please contact Holly below.

Don’t want to recieve the Kehillah newsletter by post? Updates to emergency contacts? – let us know!

If you are a member or Supporting Friend currently recieving the Kehillah Newsletter (sent out 1-2 times a year) and would prefer to recieve a link to this to read online, please contact Ashleigh our Administrator to update your information. Similarly if you would prefer to recieve the Newsletter by post, please also let Ashleigh know.

We have also in recent months had tricky situations contacting next of kin/emergency contacts where necessary, especially in cases where there has been the death of a member of our burial scheme. Please also let Ashleigh know the name, phone number and the relationship of the person to you if you would like to add/change any emergency contacts to the records we hold on members.