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Monday-Friday 10:00-10:30 (zoom)Weekday Morning Prayer Friday, 28 May, 18:30-20:30 (zoom)Community talk: 18:30-19:00Kabbalat Shabbat Saturday, 29 May, 10:30-12:00 (zoom)Torah Brunch Torah Weekly PortionB’haalot’cha – When You Raise [the Lamps]Numbers 8:1-12:16SummaryGod speaks to Moses, describing the menorah for the Tent of Meeting. The Levites are appointed to serve as assistants under Aaron and his sons. (8:1-26)Those who areContinue reading “This Week in Our Community”

NO WEEKDAY MORNING PRAYER THIS WEEK Sunday, 16 May, 19:00-20:00 (zoom)Shavuot Evening Service Followed by Tikkun Leil Shavuot – Shavout Leaning Night English Programme:20:15-21:00 Rabbi Barbara Borts: Food and Drink in Yiddish SongRabbi Dr Barbara Borts has worked in synagogues in the UK, Europe, and North America. Now, she spends her time going to Yiddish reading circles,Continue reading “This Week in Our Community”

Monday-Friday 10:00-10:30 (zoom)Weekday Morning Prayer Friday, 14 May, 18:30-20:30 (zoom)Community talk: 18:30-19:00Kabbalat Shabbat Sunday, 16 May, 19:00-20:30 (zoom)Shavuot Evening Service & Learning Torah Weekly PortionB’midbar – In the WildernessNumbers 1:1-4:20SummaryGod commands Moses to take a census of all the Israelite males over the age of twenty. (1:1-46)The duties of the Levites, who are not included in the census, are detailed.Continue reading “This Week in Our Community”

Monday-Friday 10:00-10:30 (zoom)Weekday Morning Prayer Wednesday, 5 May, 19:00-21:00 (zoom)Introduction to Judaism courseBasics of Hebrew: 19:00-19:30 Friday, 7 May, 18:30-20:30 (zoom)Community talk: 18:30-19:00Kabbalat Shabbat – Europe Day ShabbatGuest Speaker: Rabbi Dr. Elisa Klapheck Saturday, 8 May, 10:30-11:30 (zoom)Shabbat Morning Service Torah Weekly PortionB’har – B’chukotaiOn Mount [Sinai] – My LawsLeviticus 25:1-27:34SummaryGod instructs Moses to tell the Israelites thatContinue reading “This Week in Our Community”

Monday-Friday 10:00-10:30 (zoom)Weekday Morning PrayerNOT ON THURSDAY, 29 APRIL Friday, 30 April, 18:30-20:30 (zoom)Community talk: 18:30-19:00Kabbalat Shabbat Saturday, 1 May, 10:30-12:30 (zoom)Torah Brunch Torah Weekly PortionEmor – SpeakLeviticus 21:1-24:23SummaryLaws regulating the lives and sacrifices of the priests are presented. (21:1-22:33)The set times of the Jewish calendar are named and described: the Sabbath, Rosh Hashanah, YomContinue reading “This Week in Our Community”

Monday-Friday 10:00-10:30 (zoom)Weekday Morning Prayer Wednesday, 21 April, 19:00-21:00 (zoom)Introduction to Judaism Course(19:00-19:30 Basics of Hebrew) Mittwoch, 21. April, 19:00-20:00 (zoom, extern)Vortragsreihe Jüdische Philosophen:Leo BaeckRabbiner Prof. Walter Homolka (Potsdam) Friday, 23 April, 19:00-20:30 (synagogue & zoom)Israeli Shabbat: Kabbalat Shabbat & Concert with Cantor Aviv WeinbergCosponsored by the Luxembourg Friends of Progressive Judaism in Israel &Continue reading “This Week in Our Community”

No zoom Morning Prayer this week. Friday, 16 April, 18:30-20:30 (zoom)Community Talk: 18:30-19:00Kabbalat Shabbat & Rosh Hodesh Sivan Torah Weekly Portion Tazria-Metzorah – Bearing Seed / A LeperLeviticus 12:1-15:33SummaryGod describes the rituals of purification for a woman after childbirth. (12:1-8)God sets forth the methods for diagnosing and treating a variety of skin diseases, including tzara-at (a leprousContinue reading “This Week in Our Community”

Monday-Friday, 10:00-10:30Weekday Morning Prayer Wednesday, 7 April, 19:00-21:00 (zoom)Introduction to Judaism course(19:00-19:30 Basics of Hebrew) Friday, 9 April, 18:30-20:30 (zoom)Community Talk: 18:30-19:00Before the service:Invocation for Yom Hashoah(27 Nissan – 9 April)Kabbalat Shabbat & Rosh Hodesh Saturday, 10 April, 10:30-11:30 (zoom)Shabbat Morning Service Torah Weekly PortionSh’mini – The Eighth [Day]Leviticus 9:1−11:47 SummaryAaron and his sons follow Moses’ instructionsContinue reading “This Week in Our Community”