SHABBAT & YOM TOV TIMES & FUTURE EVENTS
As part of The United Synagogue’s 150th Anniversary Celebrations you can join Ahavat Yisrael for just £150 for the first year. For more information email 150membership@theus.org or call Aliza or Michelle on 020 8343 5676
17th & 18th January Shabbat Parashat Shemot (please click here for this week’s D’var Torah) We look forward to welcoming you to our services and shiurim:
- Mincha at 4.09 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 sponsored by Sue & Jonathan Bernstein in celebration of Chana’s wedding to Kobi
- Mincha at 3.50 pm followed by Seudah Shlishit with a shiur from guest speaker Rabbi Avraham Zeidman on ‘Hardening Pharoah’s Heart’
- Ma’ariv at 5.17 pm when Shabbat terminates
18th January Motsei Shabbat @ 8.00 pm: Gender Fluidity – Can Zie Make A Minyan? The next in Rabbi Wilkinson’s series of discussions on 21st Century Challenges – a Jewish Perspective. Please click here for information about the venue.
Tuesday 21st January @ 8.00 pm Parashat Shiur: Please click here for information about the venue.
24th January Friday Night Oneg: Join us after dinner for a schmooze, refreshments, singing and words of Torah. Please click here for information about the venue
1st February Motsei Shabbat @ 7.30 pm: 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.
Tuesday 25th February @ 7.30 pm: Women of the US Dinner with guest speaker Caroline Stock, Mayor of Barnet. Tickets £35 each. To join the Ahavat Yisrael table click here to book and then here to inform us that you have done so.
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