SHABBAT & YOM TOV TIMES & FUTURE EVENTS
6th & 7th December Shabbat Parashat Vayetze (please click here for this week’s D’var Torah) We look forward to welcoming you to our services and shiurim:
- Mincha at 3.38 pm when Shabbat comes in followed by Kabbalat Shabbat
- Shacharit at 9:15 am
- Rabbi Wilkinson will deliver his D’var Torah during our sit-down Kugel, Coffee & Malt Whisky Kiddush with challah for those davening early Mincha.
- Early Mincha at 12.20 pm
- Ma’ariv at 4.51 pm five minutes after Shabbat terminates at 4.46 pm
Future Guest Speakers: We look forward to welcoming the following guest speakers at our sit-down Kiddush:
- 14th December Parashat Vayishlach: Rabbi Malcolm Herman
- 28th December Shabbat Chanukah: Debbie Rowe
22nd – 25th December To Chanukah And Beyond: Ancient Wisdom for Contemporary Times: A programme at Stanmore & Canons Park Shul each morning with four tracks to choose from and a different keynote speaker each day. Please click here for more information
Motsei Shabbat 11th January @ 7.30 pm United Synagogue Siyum HaShas: A celebration of Torah learning for the whole community at Hampstead Garden Suburb Synagogue. Guests include the Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, Dayan Gelley, Dayan Binstock, Dayan Simons, Rebbetzen Lauren Levine and Rabbi Barry Lerer. Dinner and dancing to the music of Chazan Avrami Freilich. Tickets are £20. Please click here to book
A series of Motsei Shabbat discussions with Rabbi Wilkinson on 21st Century Challenges – a Jewish Perspective. Please click here for information about the venue. :
- 18th January: Gender Fluidity – Can Zie Make A Minyan?
- 22nd February: Topic to be decided based on popular demand/hot topic of the day!
7.30 pm Motsei Shabbat 1st February: the return of our very popular Fish & Chip Supper Quiz: Tickets are just £17.50 an adult/£10 for students. You can either join an existing table or make up one of your own. Please click here for tickets.
OUR CORE VALUES
We have come together as a community to celebrate our love for Torah, Israel and our fellow Jew. As an orthodox kehillah under the auspices of the United Synagogue, we look forward to welcoming anyone and everyone who is seeking to increase their own personal knowledge and observance wherever they may currently be on their own particular journey. We believe that learning should be a joy and we intend to offer inspirational shiruim and divrei Torah for both men and women. In addition to this, our love of Israel will be celebrated not just through regular Shabbat tefilla but also on key dates such as Yom Ha’atzmaut and we are particularly honoured and delighted to have received this message of support from Eliahu Bendahan, Israel’s Deputy Defence Minister: 
“I was very happy to receive your letter informing me that on Shabbos Parashas Yisro, B’ezras H’, you will merit to inaugurate the Beit HaKnesset Ahavas Yisrael in Edgware, London.
May it be the will (of the Almighty) that you (all) shall merit to daven at the Beit HaKnesset for the People of Israel, for the Land of Israel and for the State of Israel and, B’ezras H’, we shall all merit, together, the arrival of Moshiach, speedly and in our days.”
With blessing and Kol Tuv,
Rabbi Eliahu Bendahan
Deputy Defence Minister”
The best way to experience all of our values is to join us for our Shabbat services and see for yourself. Children will be particularly welcome either in the main service or in their own children’s service or crèche.
WHAT TO EXPECT
We hope that everyone will feel comfortable in our services but we do ask that you keep your conversation for the Kiddush afterwards as we will be asking for quiet during the davening. Children are more than welcome and we will, of course, be tolerant of their ability to maintain the desired level of decorum.
In line with many United Synagogue shuls, we ask that ladies who are, or who have been, married wear a hat or otherwise cover their hair in shul. We also respectfully ask all ladies and men to dress appropriately for participating in Orthodox religious services.
We currently hold our services in Langdon’s premises off Manor Park Crescent HA8 7FR and we ask for your understanding if the facilities are not as perfect as we hope they will ultimately be. However, whatever we may lack in facilities we hope to more than make up for in a warm, welcoming and inspirational atmosphere.
Contact Details:
Although our services will take place in Langdon’s premises, please do not address any mail there. Instead please contact us at:
m: PO Box 796, Edgware, Middlesex, HA8 4RY.
t : 020 8050 1613