Please click this link to see the Chanukah Message from the Board of Deputies. Chanukah message 2025 BoD President

Contrary to the information in the calendar in the Chanukah edition of Kehila, please note that Reform Shabbat services commence at 10.30 am and Liberal Shabbat services commence at 10.45 am.  We apologise for any confusion this may have caused.

Has your child, or a child you know, experienced antisemitism at school? If you live in the Greater London area please contact Anna Silver, Education Officer at the Board of Deputies of British Jews (ASAP) 07790024333 / anna.silver@bod.org.uk.

Many thanks to everyone who helped make Mitzvah Day a success  – both volunteers (on the day and drivers – who took things back to Goods for Good) and those who made donations. We collected enough to fill six cars!

The items pictured here have been left in the cloakroom at Halsbury Close for several weeks.  We would love to return them to their owners so, if they belong to you, please contact admin@choosemosaic.org

Any items not claimed by 30th November will be donated to a charity shop.

The  Stoke on Trent contingent, as well as other MJC  marchers, supporting different towns and organisations around the country at the AJEX  parade last Sunday, would like to thank MJC members that were spotted amongst the crowds supporting the marchers.  They included Chanan Shuall, Flora Richards,  Linda Lucas and  Shelley Cooper. The marchers from  MJC included  Alan Solomon, David Wyman,  Debbie Nissenbaum, Edwin Lucas, Gary Italiaander, Ian Nissenbaum, Jean Allan, ... read more

Wednesday 10 December, 7.30 pm – 8.30 pm
Please join the Board of Deputies at an online event and learn about “The Power of Knowledge: How Jnetics is Changing Lives”.
Please register for the Zoom link via the googledoc at https://forms.gle/ArA1onFofvQDfToV9

This year’s JWA Shabbat will take place on 28th–29th November 2025. Each synagogue will be marking this Shabbat in their services. For more information, visit: https://www.jwa.org.uk/shabbat25/. The Rabbis and Community Care Coordinators are available for any confidential discussion.

Mazal tov to Michael W Harris on his 70th birthday.  Michael is delighted to invite congregants to join him for kiddush after the services.

Remembering the past is remembering the future. Many of us do not remember the war years where people were sacrificed to make life better for us and those not borne by the end of the Second World War. I was a fifties bairn. By  the time I was a teenager the war was a story, ... read more