Parshat Ekev

Come and join us at 6pm this Kabbalat Shabbat for musical prayer and words of Torah.  We are honoured to hear Dr David Bernstein, Dean of Pardes Jerusalem give a Dvar Torah this Friday night. Make sure you attend what will be a wonderful welcome into Shabbat.  

On Shabbat morning, we are further honoured to help celebrate the 5th Batmitzvah anniversary of Lexi Kowal.  Lexi will layn Maftir and Haftorah, followed by a Kiddush kindly sponsored by her parents, Lionel and Rita Kowal. Mazeltov to Lexi and the entire family, may you all continue to receive only nachas and blessings from one another.  

Mazel tov as well to our gabbait Ronit Travers who will also be layning in honour of her bat mitzvah anniversary. The Dvar Torah this week will be given by Benji Prawer. Shacharit commences 9.45am.

Performance @ Shira! Save the date: Sunday 31 August 7.45pm

Shira is excited to host acclaimed international educator and performer Helen Gottstein, performing her best selling one woman show:  "Under the Radar - The Israel that doesn't make the headlines". The show looks at all sorts of integration, border crossings evolutions and developments in current Israeli culture. 

Please join us for an extremely topical, thought provoking and entertaining evening! Tickets are $15 at the door, but please, RSVPs are essential! For more information join our Facebook events page here.

Two of our members are off overseas on their respective journeys, and we wish Rachel (Rocky) Neumann (who will be leading Kabbalat Shabbat this week!) and Natalie Krasnostein a nesiah tova (a good journey), and look forward to seeing you on your return in the future.

Shabbat Shalom

Posted on August 14, 2014 .