Festivals

פֶּסַח Pesach Originally a combination of a couple of different spring festivals, it is a commemoration of the Exodus from Egypt--especially the night when God "passed over" the houses of […]

יום השואה Thursday 16th April The full name of the day commemorating the victims of the Holocaust is "Yom Hashoah Ve-Hagevurah"--literally the "Day of (Remembrance of) the Holocaust and the Heroism." It […]

יום העצמאות Yom HaZikaron/Yom HaAtzma'ut: The fourth of Iyar, the day preceding Israel's Independence Day, was declared by the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) to be a Memorial Day for those who lost their lives […]

Shavuot (Lag b'Omer): Literally translated as the "Feast of Weeks,” is celebrated seven weeks after Pesach (Passover). Since the counting of this period (Sefirat ha-omer) begins on the second evening of Pesach, Shavuot […]

Shavuot (Lag b'Omer): Literally translated as the "Feast of Weeks,” is celebrated seven weeks after Pesach (Passover). Since the counting of this period (Sefirat ha-omer) begins on the second evening of Pesach, Shavuot […]

Come along at 7pm to learn some of the songs that we will be singing in the services over the High Holy Days.  Our Director of Music, Rebekka Wedell, will […]