The AGM of Lancaster and Lakes Jewish Community will take place on Thursday 25th February 2016 at 1.30  p.m. at the Jewish Rooms, Lancaster University Chaplaincy Centre. There will be refreshments (bagels cream cheese smoked salmon, please let me know if you need a vegan or gluten free option).  

All members and other interested people are welcome.

  

Agenda:

 

- Review of the year - secretary report (Fiona Frank), havura report (Rob Smith), treasurer's report (Adrienne Wallman), chair's report (Naomi Tadmor).

- Elections of officers:

chair, secretary, treasurer, havura coordinator. 

Rob Smith Havura Coordinator can only continue in this post if others come forward to help with the coordination of the havura programme.  We welcome others to stand for any of the posts or to join the committee - please let Fiona Frank know if you're interested in standing for a position or joining the committee.

- Plans for activities and events in 2016.

Please send apologies to Fiona Frank - and for catering purposes please let Fiona know if you're coming (or just turn up, we always over cater!) 

Fiona Frank 

Secretary,

Lancaster and Lakes Jewish Commmunity committee

fionafrank "at" gmail.com

Latest news on Mon 13th April from Lancaster and Lakes Jewish Community - lancslakesjc@gmail.com 

At our AGM in February 2015 we have appointed a new committee: 

Chair Naomi Tadmor
Secretary Fiona Frank
Treasurer Adrienne Wallman
Havura Organiser Robbie Smith
Committee Naomi Jacobs, Ben Niemark. 

A vote of thanks was given to our departing treasurer Rachel Fligelstone and our chair Stanley Henig.  Stanley was thanked for the work that he has done over the last ten years for Lancaster's Jewish communities. It was unanimously agreed that he should be given the post of Honorary Life President, and he was presented with a certificate of long service stating that trees have been planted in Israel in his name. 


Havura News from Robbie : 

 Dear All,

I hope you this finds you well and you had a good Pesach/Easter/holidays, however you celebrate.

There are lots of exciting things happening for Lancaster & Lakes Jewish Society and our Havura group in the coming weeks and months.  Here is news of what is planned.

Firstly, a reminder that there will be a 

Shabbat Morning Service, 

Saturday, 18th April.  

Jewiish Rooms, Lancaster University Chaplaincy Centre, 

Service starting at 11.00 a.m.,

 `Bring and Share' dairy/vegetarian kiddush to follow.  

Prayer books for the service provided

Everyone  welcome.  

For further details or to have any questions answered, please contact 

Rabbi Robert Ash (robertash1954 "at" gmail.com) 

or Naomi Tadmor (n.tadmor "at" lancaster.ac.uk

We are planning a exciting programme for our Havura  group  over the next few months, which will include guest speakers, also some different types of events - film screenings, book discussions and family-centred activities.

The first of these will be a

Havurah Film Screening

"The Flat"

Sunday 26th April

5.00 p.m - 8.00 p.m.

`Bring and Share dairy/vegetarian' supper

Everyone Welcome 

"The Flat" is an interesting story of a man who is clearing our his aunt's flat in Tel Aviv after her death, and finds clues and evidence about her life and history that he had never known.

This Havura meeting will begin at 5 pm with sharing our supper and a social time, followed by the film, which will begin showing at 6 pm.

Please let either me or Naomi Tadmor know by SUNDAY 19TH APRIL, if you will be coming to this event.  

This is IMPORTANT, as it is planned to be in Naomi Tadmor's house in central Lancaster; but if there will be too many people to comfortably seat and watch the film, we shall need to book a larger venue to show the film.

Further Events and Dates for Your Diary

Shabbat Morning Services - Saturday 9th May, and in June and July,( exact daates tbc)

Bllintze Making (and eating!) Family Event for Shavuot - Sunday 24th May

Havura Meeting with Guest Speaker, Mostyn Jones - Sunday 28th June

Havura Meeting with Guest Speaker or Book Discussion - Sunday 19th July

There are also plans for more guest speakers, films and book discussions in the Autumn; and we shall arrange services in the Jewish Rooms at Lancaster University for the High Holy Days if people want them.

At present, we are introducing book discussions and film screenings as occasional alternatives to our more traditional Havura meetings with guest speakers.  If you would like to form a reading group and/or film club, apart from the Havura group, let me know and I'll circulate your name and email address to the contact list so other people interested in joining can get in touch with you.

That's all for now, folks.

All good wishes,

Robbie

High Holy Days Services 2014 / 5775 at Lancaster. 

Services for the High Holy Days will take place in the Jewish rooms at the Chaplaincy of Lancaster University. Services will be led by Rabbi Dr Robert Ash using the recently published Machzor of Liberal Judaism.


Erev Rosh Hashanah

Wednesday 24 September 7.00 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah Morning

Thursday 25 September 11.00 a.m.
(please bring vegetarian/fish fare to share for Kiddush after the service).

Yom Kippur fast begins (London time) 6.19 p.m.

Erev Yom Kippur (Kol Nidrei)

Friday 3 October 7.00 p.m.

Yom Kippur Day

Saturday 4 October

Morning Service & Musaf 11.00 a.m.

Afternoon Service 4.00 p.m.

Memorial Service (Yizkor) 5.30 p.m.

Concluding Service (Neilah) 6.00 p.m.

Fast Ends (London time) 7.18 p.m.

For further information or to reserve your own copy of Liberal Judaism’s High Holy Days prayer book Machzor Ruach Chadashah (£18.90):

phone 0777 531 0944 or email robertash1954@gmail.com

For directions or parking information or for information about Lancaster and Lakes Jewish Community email lancslakesjc@gmail.com or tel 07778 737681.

Lancaster and Lakes Jewish Community lives!

We have had an approach from Rabbi Robert Ash who is now living in Preston who is interested in conducting High Holy Day services in Lancaster University Jewish rooms - so please get in touch (lancslakesjc@gmail.com) if you're interested in participating in these services.

We continue to serve all local Jewish people, those with Jewish heritage, Jewish family and/or an interest in Judaism.
We use the Jewish rooms at Lancaster University and sometimes meet in members' homes for monthly Havura meetings.

Contact us at lancslakesjc@gmail.com - and/or you can contact us through the University Jewish Society email jsoc@lancs.ac.uk.

If you have any concerns about any matters relating to Jewish life in Lancaster, please get in touch!

 

Jewish life in Lancaster

Jewish life in Lancaster

The committee of Lancaster and Lakes Jewish Community exists to serve all local Jewish people, those with Jewish heritage, Jewish family, and an interest in Judaism.

It's a small community but we're still active. We use the Jewish rooms at Lancaster University and sometimes meet in members' homes.

Contact us through the University jsoc, jsoc@lancaster.ac.uk and we'll add you to our mailing list and do whatever we can to help! 

Jewish life in Lancaster

The committee of Lancaster and Lakes Jewish Community exists to serve all local Jewish people, those with Jewish heritage, Jewish family, and an interest in Judaism.

It's a small community but we're still active. We use the Jewish rooms at Lancaster University and sometimes meet in members' homes.

FRIDAY 7th OCTOBER 2011

a Kol Nidre (erev Yom Kippur) service preceded by a pre-fast meal at Lancaster University Chaplaincy Centre Jewish Rooms.

During the autumn we will be running bagel brunches, evening outings, and all kinds of things - based around the university and the city.

Contact jsoc@lancaster.ac.uk for all info and to book in for the meal and/or service.

Fiona Frank

Secretary, Lancaster and Lakes Jewish Community

Klezmer Night 11th December 2010

Klezmer Music, Dance and Story-Telling
Sat 11th December 2010


An evening Klezmer dance with a Yiddish story-teller

at
The Gregson Community and Arts Centre, Moorgate, Moor Lane, Lancaster LA1 3PR


7.30 p.m. - 11.00 p.m. Klezmer dance, with the Klatsch, callers
Judith Plowman and Sue Cooper, with interval entertainment from
spell-binding Yiddish storyteller Shonaleigh - official consort to the
Story-Teller Laureate.

£7.50/£5.00 (lower price for Gregson members, concessions, and people
attending in the afternoon)





6.30 p.m. A FREE showing of the short film 'Hannah Frank, The Spark
Divine' - by Sarah Thomas, film maker who was based at Lancaster until
recently. Hannah Frank, 1908-2008, was a Glasgow artist whose eerie
black and white prints are showing in the Gregson bar during
December. Order a meal from the Gregson's varied menu and eat it in
the hall as you watch the film.


Organised by Lancaster and Lakes Jewish Community and the WEA Folk to
Folk class.
For further information email Fiona Frank at lancslakesjc@gmail.com
or Sian Phillips on Siande_lier@hotmail.com or phone 07778 737681.

Get your tickets in advance for the evening dance from the Gregson on
01524 849959 or just turn up.