Doroteinu Chanukah Social
2015-12-09 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London)
Nothing too taxing but we hope to eat a few doughnuts for Channukah, play some gentle (board) games and light four candles (or should that be Fork Handles)! Doroteinu means all ages, so do come and join us – you don’t have to be retired. And the cakes are really nice.
Guests are welcome to join us, but please do let us know in advance so that we can give you a warm welcome.

Cancelled! Adult Education with Rabbi Pete Tobias: Who wrote the Torah and why did they write it?
2015-12-10 20:00 - 21:00
Rabbi Pete Tobias
Unfortunately, this event has been cancelled.

Rabbi Pete Tobias is taking a series of 3 sessions asking who wrote the Torah and why. Sessions will be on Thursdays 12 and 26 November and 10 December.
Non-members are welcome to attend, for a small fee payable in advance, and please contact the Synagogue Office beforehand to confirm attendance and to check that the session is running.

Kinus
2015-12-11 18:00 - 2015-12-13 15:00
A democratic decision-making event for children in years 7 to 10. Venue tbc.

Shabbat @ Home
2015-12-11 20:00 - 21:30
On the second Friday of each month a member invites us to welcome Shabbat at home with them. The service is informal and friendly, from our siddur, but please feel free to bring a reading or a topic for discussion. Please bring something to share for the Kiddush.
Seymour and Liz are hosting this month. Please contact the office for the address and to let us know you intend to come (but you won’t be turned away if you don’t).
Hosts needed: If you would like to host one of these services in future months, please contact the Synagogue Office.

Bookcrashers
2015-12-12 10:00 - 11:00
No specified book this month, just come and share with the group books that you have enjoyed. All are welcome, whether you have read the book or not.
Why not get a copy of the book from the local independent book shop in Surbiton – Regency Bookshop? You can order a book to be in the shop usually within 48 hours. Order on Thursday and pick it up on the way to KLS on Saturday.

Chanukah Family Service
2015-12-12 11:30 - 12:45
Saturday morning at 11.30am led by Rabbi Charley Baginsky.
This is a chance for the whole family, and the wider KLS family too, to pray, discuss the Torah reading and show off what the children have been up to at religion school. We have multi-lingual renditions of Happy Birthday for all those who have celebrated that month – so far we have sung in English, Hebrew, French, German, Welsh, Spanish, Italian and Russian!
For more information about the services at KLS see Services

HeBrew Café - this month only, the Falafel Bar!
2015-12-12 12:30 - 13:00
After the Family Service – our fundraising café. For Chanukah we are doing something different – we’re having a Falafel Bar! In the spirit of Ben Yehudah Street in Jerusalem, falafel will be served in pitta bread with salad, accompanied by delicious sauces. We will also have that Chanuakah tradition – latkes. Falafels will cost £3 and latkes £1.50.
If you yearn for our normal filled bagels (smoked salmon with or without cream cheese, egg mayo or tuna mayo – at a cost of £2 to £2.50), these will be available by pre-order only by the end of Wednesday 9 December.
Cakes, sweets and hot and cold drinks also on sale.

Chanukah Party
2015-12-12 13:15 - 15:00
Celebrate Chanukah with us. Games (active and less active), crafts, doughnuts, drinks, candles. Everyone, whatever your age is welcome. Small donation of £1 to cover costs. Please let the office know if you are hoping to join us – we don’t want to have too few doughnuts!

Veidah
2015-12-18 18:00 - 2015-12-22 15:00
The decison-making forum for the 15+. Venue tbc.

Shabbat Service
2015-12-18 20:00 - 21:00
Service led by Sandra Webber .
Bring something to share for kiddush afterwards!

Ivrit (Basic Hebrew conversation) Class
2015-12-21 20:00 - 21:00
Basic Hebrew lessons with Marta Friedmann. Weekly class.
To join the class, you need to know the letters as you will spend only one or two lesson on the script ones. You need to order two books:
“To succeed in Hebrew part-1″ (green colour) and “Let’s learn Hebrew picture dictionary” by Marlene Goodmann £7.99
Please contact the Synagogue Office for more details – as the course has already started, we need to ascertain your ability, and if necessary start a new course.

Shabbat @ Home
2016-01-01 20:00 - 21:30
Each month a member invites us to welcome Shabbat at home with them. The service is informal and friendly, from our siddur, but please feel free to bring a reading or a topic for discussion. Please bring something to share for the Kiddush.
Mark and Jenny are our hosts in January, and Craig Simmons will be leading the service. Please contact the office for the address and to let us know you intend to come (but you won’t be turned away if you don’t).
Hosts needed: If you would like to host one of these services in future months, please contact the Synagogue Office.

Chavurah Supper
2016-01-08 19:00 - 21:00
Monthly 1st (or 2nd!) Friday of the month

You are warmly invited to this year’s Chavurah Suppers, a great way to relax, let go of the week and welcome in Shabbat with other KLS members. Using the LJ Youth Siddur, we will be singing together, sharing our stories from the week that has gone, de-stressing, and most importantly sharing food, in an informal Friday night service and shared supper, with Gabriel Webber. Please bring a plated vegetarian or fish supper and, if possible, a favourite dish to share. All ages welcome.
At the earlier-than-usual time of 7pm to make it easier for families to join us, come along to spend the winter evening with friends welcoming in Shabbat! Bring a vegetarian or fish dish to share.
Guests are welcome to services @ KLS, but please contact the office beforehand.

Bookcrashers
2016-01-09 10:00 - 11:00
Book choice for January to be confirmed. All are welcome, whether you have read the book or not.
Why not get a copy of the book from the local independent book shop in Surbiton – Regency Bookshop? You can order a book to be in the shop usually within 48 hours. Order on Thursday and pick it up on the way to KLS on Saturday.

Family Service
2016-01-09 11:30 - 12:30
This is a chance for the whole family, and the wider KLS family too, to pray, discuss the Torah reading and show off what the children have been up to at religion school. We have multi-lingual renditions of Happy Birthday for all those who have celebrated that month – so far we have sung in English, Hebrew, French, German, Welsh, Spanish, Italian and Russian!
For more information about the services at KLS see Services

HeBrew Cafe
2016-01-09 12:30 - 13:00
After the Family Service – our fundraising café selling filled bagels, crisps, cake, sweets and hot and cold drinks

Shabbat Service
2016-01-15 20:00 - 21:00
The weather may be cold, but the service will be hot. Join Rabbi Janet for a Friday night service based on Craig Taubman’s Friday Night Live, the Los Angeles service which started a revolution in synagogue music. Special guest Dereck Rose will join Vince in providing some great music to welcome Shabbat. Please bring something to share for Kiddush.

Shabbat Music Service
2016-01-22 20:00 - 21:00
Tu B’shevat – the ‘New Year for Trees’ – celebrating with Wine, Fruit, Poetry and Song!
Tu B’shevat on 25 January is the day in the Jewish calendar that marks the beginning of a new year for trees! This is the time when the earliest-blooming trees in the Land of Israel emerge from their winter sleep – when the sap starts to rise – beginning a new fruit-bearing cycle. It is also a day when we remember that “[man] is a tree in the field” (Deuteronomy 20:19), and so we reflect on our relationship with nature. It’s tradition to mark the day of Tu B’Shevat by eating fruit, mentioned by the Torah in its praise of the bounty of the Holy Land: grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives and dates. Seventeenth-century Jews would gather in their homes for a fifteen course meal, each course being one of the foods associated with the Holy Land. Today in Israel, it is customary to take children on tree-planting outings.
We can’t promise a fifteen course meal at KLS but please join us for a special Friday night service to celebrate trees, the end of winter and all nature. Please feel free to bring a piece of music or poetry.

Shabbat Service
2016-01-29 20:00 - 21:00
Shabbat Service led by Gabriel Webber. Please bring something to share for Kiddush.
Guests are welcome to KLS, but please contact the office beforehand.

Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration
2016-01-31 14:00 - 16:00
What is Holocaust Memorial Day?

Each year, communities across Britain come together to remember the millions of people killed in the Holocaust, Nazi Persecution and in subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur and other parts of the world. The Nazi persecution alone led to the death of some six million Jews.
The initiative is supported by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust who have set the theme for Holocaust Memorial Day in 2016: Don’t stand by.
The Royal Borough of Kingston’s Holocaust Memorial Day will be held on Sunday 31 January 2016 in Kingston Guildhall. It is being organised by the Kingston Inter Faith Forum in conjunction with Kingston University.

The event is open to all. No booking is required. It will be followed by refreshments.

Bookcrashers - different time this month!!!!
2016-02-06 13:00 - 14:00
Our next bookcrashers’ book is “A woman on the edge of time” by Jeremy Gavron. One of our crashers knew Hannah Gavron and will be adding her personal insights to our discussions. Please note that we are meeting at 1pm this month. All are welcome, whether you have read the book or not.
March’s book will be “The House by the Lake” by Thomas Harding.
Why not get a copy of the book from the local independent book shop in Surbiton – Regency Bookshop? You can order a book to be in the shop usually within 48 hours. Order on Thursday and pick it up on the way to KLS on Saturday.

APAW!
2016-02-12 18:00 - 2016-02-14 15:00
Activity weekend for children in school years 3-4. Venue tbc.

NAW!
2016-02-12 18:00 - 2016-02-14 15:00
Activity weekend for children in school years 7-8. Venue tbc.

Shabbat @ Home
2016-02-12 20:00 - 21:30
On the second Friday of each month a member invites us to welcome Shabbat at home with them. The service is informal and friendly, from our siddur, but please feel free to bring a reading or a topic for discussion. Please bring something to share for the Kiddush.
The venue for this month is in Surbiton. Please contact the office for the address and to let us know you intend to come (but you won’t be turned away if you don’t). The service leader this month is Rabbi Adam Frankenberg.
Hosts needed: If you would like to host one of these services in future months, please contact the Synagogue Office.

YAW!
2016-02-15 10:00 - 18:00
Hiking day for children in school years 9-10. This year it’s going to be at KLS!

Choir Rehearsal
2016-02-23 20:00 - 22:00, 2016-03-01 20:00 - 22:00
Usually once or twice monthly on Tuesdays @ 8pm
The KLS Choir rehearses once or twice a month (and enjoy tea, cake and chat!), and sings at the monthly music service on the 4th Friday of the month and at other services. You don’t have to read music, you don’t have to read Hebrew. Come and try it! Singing is a great way to meet people, blow away life’s cobwebs, contribute to KLS, learn about our prayers and about Jewish music. Interested? Contact Sandra Webber via the KLS office.

Doroteinu
2016-02-24 14:00 - 18:00
A talk by Dr Mark Woolfe about food fraud. Mark has spoken about this before but ever new ways turn up of fooling us poor consumers. This is a new presentation not a repeat of the previous one he gave to Doroteinu so do come and hear about the latest dubious practices.
If you are planning to come by car we often need drivers to pick up the less mobile. Please contact the committee if you can help. If you need transport please contact the committee or a local friend who you think might be going.
Doroteinu means all ages, so do come and join us – you don’t have to be retired. Don’t forget anyone is welcome, KLS member or not, whether 18 or 95. And the cakes are really nice.
Guests are welcome to join us, but please do let us know in advance so that we can give you a warm welcome.

Shabbat Island Discs with......
2016-02-26 20:00 - 21:30
Music Service led by Vince Daly and the KLS Choir, and featuring KLS members Maya and David Aviram who will reveal their choice of music as part of our regular Shabbat Island Discs feature, which takes place on the fourth Friday night of each month. As usual in these services the guests will be interviewed, and this is a great opportunity to find out more about your fellow congregants.
Bring something to share for kiddush afterwards!
Both members and guests can take a turn at choosing the music. If you’d like a chance, contact Sandra Webber.

Shabbat Service
2016-03-05 11:15 - 12:30
Service held from 11.15am to 12.30pm. Followed by kiddush.
This week Vince Daly will be leading the service, with Rabbi Janet Darley. Janet expects to visit the refugee “jungle” at Calais and will be talking about her reasons for going and what she saw there.
See Services for more information on the type of services that we hold at KLS.

Guests are welcome to KLS, but please contact the office beforehand.
