We will be having our annual joint effort to make our own tasty honey cakes to serve over Rosh Hashanah.

If you are happy to participate in producing cakes for the community and some for members who are on their own at home, we invite you to come along at 10.00 am.

Just bring an apron, roll up your sleeves and BAKE.  Please contact the office to enlist.

Have you suffered the loss of a partner, relative or friend?  Do you feel sad, lonely and isolated?  Please come along at 6.40 pm to a restaurant in Hatch End.  To book your place, please contact Bobbi Riesel via the office.

Rabbi Frank will be taking the Erev Shabbat service at Sufra, the multifaith food bank charity plus training and advice centre in Stonebridge Park.   A vegetarian dinner will be served. Please arrive by 6.30 pm for candle lighting. Lots of conversation, sharing life-stories, offering hope. There is plenty of parking in front of the premises, 160 Pitfield Way, Stonebridge, London, NW10 0PW.

Traditionally, the Selichot service is held during the hours of darkness on the Saturday night before Rosh Hashanah.  This service provides an opportunity to prepare for “The Days of Awe” in a quiet atmosphere, which is enhanced by some of the music of the High Holydays.

The Mosaic Liberal service will be at 7.45 pm.  At 8.00 pm there will be a study session  and refreshments.  The Mosaic Reform service will commence at 9.30 pm.

In the Ashkenazi tradition, special prayers of repentance, called selichot, are said during the days before Rosh Hashanah, and it is customary to have an inspiring selichot service at the end of the Shabbat preceding Rosh Hashanah. Many shuls have large choral events but ours is intimate, warm and encourages participation. The music is evocative, lyrical and designed for everyone to join in. The service introduces some of the familiar melodies used during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Each year a group of smaller Masorti communities join together for this beautiful service, which is directed by   Chazan Jacky Chernett and includes a choir made up of members of the participating shuls. This year, Selichot will be hosted by Hatch End Masorti at 9.45 pm in the Girl Guide HQ.

We invite everyone to join us at 7.00 pm for Kabbalat Shabbat – our contemplative Friday Night service which invites us to leave behind the busy-ness of the week and experience the precious gift of peace (shalom), rest (menucha) and renewal (nafash) that Shabbat offers. Here is a space for quiet reflection, personal prayer, music to lift the spirit (ruach) and heart-warming translations of new and familiar prayers that help us worship in a meaningful way. If you are not familiar with Hebrew, you will find the prayers have been transliterated so you can easily follow along.  We look forward to sharing this time with you. Kabbalat Shabbat replaces the regular Liberal Friday night service this evening.

Please join us for Tashlich at 5.00 pm.  Meet at the alley at the bottom of Woodhall Avenue junction with Lawn Vale, Hatch End.  The following directions are as if you were leaving the Guide HQ. :Exit the car park in front of the Guide HQ. Turn right onto Grimsdyke Road toward Uxbridge Road/A410.  Turn right onto Uxbridge Road/A410.  At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto Uxbridge Road/A404.  Turn left onto Paines Lane. Turn immediately right onto Woodhall Avenue.  The alley is 20 yards PAST Lawn Vale on the right.

Continuing the alternating monthly arrangement, Mosaic Reform  will be joining the Mosaic Liberal Erev Shabbat service upstairs in the Liberal sanctuary. Yahrzeit will be observed for both Reform and Liberal members.

Next month (October 19)  the joint service will be led by Mosaic Reform downstairs.  These special services will usually be held on the third Friday of the month.

Please join Rabbi Kathleen de Magtige-Middleton at 8 pm for the third in a series of sessions on “A Culinary Voyage through the Festivals” – this time looking at Succot

Further sessions will cover:

Chanukah – 27th November

Rabbi Kathleen invites everybody young and old to Shabbat Shira at 11.00 am.

Singing, music, Torah service followed by Kiddush.  Early arrivals will be treated to an informal singing session before the service.

Continuing the alternating monthly arrangement, Mosaic Liberal  will be joining the Mosaic Reform Erev Shabbat service downstairs in the Reform Synagogue Hall. Yahrzeit will be observed for both Reform and Liberal members.

Next month (November 16)  the joint service will be led by Mosaic Liberal upstairs.  These special services will usually be held on the third Friday of the month.

Continuing the alternating monthly arrangement, Mosaic Reform  will be joining the Mosaic Liberal Erev Shabbat service upstairs in the Liberal sanctuary. Yahrzeit will be observed for both Reform and Liberal members.

Next month (December 21)  the joint service will be led by Mosaic Reform downstairs.  These special services will usually be held on the third Friday of the month.