Purim HeBrew Cafe
2016-03-19 12:30 - 13:00 (Europe/London)
This week we are celebrating the festival of Purim. Come dressed up as your favourite historical, fantasy, biblical, movie, theatre, book character. Bring traditional food for the competition – savoury or sweet Hamantaschen, or anything special you normally cook for Purim. Bring a food donation for the mishloach manot (literally ‘sending of portions’ of food to family, friends, community) to be donated to the Kingston Food Bank. Everyone will join together for the Family Service, and then after Kiddush, we will be having a Purim-themed HeBrew Cafe and party.

Shabbat Island Discs with......
2016-03-25 20:00 - 21:30
Music Service led by Vince Daly and the KLS Choir, and featuring guests 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.

Machaneh Aviv
2016-04-05 - 2016-04-10
Spring Camp for children in school years 3-10

Choir Rehearsal
2016-04-12 20:00 - 22:00, 2016-05-03 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.

Shabbat Music Service
2016-04-15 20:00 - 21:00
Shabbat Service led by Vince Daly. Please bring something to share for Kiddush.

AGM
2016-04-16 10:00 - 11:15

Family Service
2016-04-16 11:30 - 12:30
Family service held from 11.30am to 12.30pm. The service will be led by Gabriel Webber, with Tammy Rich.
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.

HeBrew Cafe
2016-04-16 12:45 - 13:15, 2016-05-14 12:45 - 13:15
After the Family Service – our fundraising café selling filled bagels, crisps, cake, sweets and hot and cold drinks

Bookcrashers
2016-04-16 13:00 - 14:00
Our next bookcrashers’ book is “The Boston Girl” by Anita Daimant. 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 Wednesday and pick it up on the way to KLS on Saturday.
More about “The Boston Girl”….
New York Times bestseller!
An unforgettable novel about a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century, told “with humor and optimism…through the eyes of an irresistible heroine” (People)—from the acclaimed author of The Red Tent.
Anita Diamant’s “vivid, affectionate portrait of American womanhood” (Los Angeles Times), follows the life of one woman, Addie Baum, through a period of dramatic change. Addie is The Boston Girl, the spirited daughter of an immigrant Jewish family, born in 1900 to parents who were unprepared for America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End of Boston, then a teeming multicultural neighborhood, Addie’s intelligence and curiosity take her to a world her parents can’t imagine—a world of short skirts, movies, celebrity culture, and new opportunities for women. Addie wants to finish high school and dreams of going to college. She wants a career and to find true love. From the one-room tenement apartment she shared with her parents and two sisters, to the library group for girls she joins at a neighborhood settlement house, to her first, disastrous love affair, to finding the love of her life, eighty-five-year-old Addie recounts her adventures with humor and compassion for the naïve girl she once was.
Written with the same attention to historical detail and emotional resonance that made Diamant’s previous novels bestsellers, The Boston Girl is a moving portrait of one woman’s complicated life in twentieth century America, and a fascinating look at a generation of women finding their places in a changing world. “Diamant brings to life a piece of feminism’s forgotten history” (Good Housekeeping) in this “inspirational…page-turning portrait of immigrant life in the early twentieth century” (Booklist). – See more at: http://books.simonandschuster.com/The-Boston-Girl/Anita-Diamant/9781439199367#sthash.g1cbg8jp.dpuf

1st Night Pesach
2016-04-22

2nd Night Pesach
2016-04-23

Communal Seder
2016-04-23 18:30 - 22:00
Communal Seder meal held at the synagogue. Bookings now CLOSED – we do not have any more spaces. Sorry!

3rd Night Pesach
2016-04-24

4th Night Pesach
2016-04-25

5th Night Pesach
2016-04-26

6th Night Pesach
2016-04-27

7th Night Pesach
2016-04-29

Shabbat Service
2016-04-29 20:00 - 21:00
Shabbat Service. Please bring something to share for Kiddush.
Guests are welcome to KLS, but please contact the office beforehand.

Family Service - Farewell to Rabbi Charley Baginsky
2016-04-30 11:30 - 12:30
Family service held from 11.30am to 12.30pm. The service will be led by Rabbis Charley Baginsky and Danny Rich, with Tammy Rich, Rebekkah Wedell, the KLS Choir, and Beiteinu singers, making our farewell to Rabbi Charley.
There will be a valedictory kiddush. 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.

Holocaust Memorial Day Workshop
2016-05-01 10:00 - 13:00
Yom Hashoah is when Israel and Jewish communities remember the victims of the Holocaust. On May 1st, the closest Sunday to Yom Hashoah this year, we will be running a special workshop for the young people in 3 local Jewish communities, in school years 8 to 10. This will provide the opportunity for the young people and their parents to hear a survivor’s story, participate in a question and answer session, watch a short film and take part in a related group activity which focuses on creating a better world for the future.
The format of the morning will be very similar to that of the workshops we have run for the past ten years for local Kingston and Elmbridge schools (the very successful joint project of the two Kingston synagogues) and will be held at Kingston Liberal Synagogue. We have long thought that our own synagogue students were missing out on these workshops, and we hope you will take advantage of this opportunity. To assist in the organisation of the morning we would appreciate your attendance confirmation by Thursday, April 14th.

Council Meeting
2016-05-03 20:00 - 22:00, 2016-05-17 20:00 - 22:00

Erev Yom HaShoah Service
2016-05-04 20:00 - 21:30
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 is marked on the 27th day in the month of Nisan – a week after the seventh day of Passover, and a week before Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day for Israel’s fallen soldiers).
Sandra Webber will lead the service with the KLS Choir.
Visitors are welcome to join us, but please contact the Office beforehand.

Shabbat Service
2016-05-07 11:15 - 12:30
Service held from 11.15am to 12.30pm led by Craig Simmons and our Director of Music, Rebekka Wedell. Followed by kiddush. 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.

Table Tennis Club
2016-05-10 20:00 - 22:00 | NFJ Hall
2nd Tuesday of the month from 8-10pm
All welcome to join us for a friendly game of table tennis. We meet monthly, usually on the second Tuesday of the month, at the synagogue in the NFJ Hall. All ages and all abilities. The club recently received a new table in celebration of Robert Markless’s tutorship of 100 Bnei Mitzvah.
We have two tables and play singles as well as doubles. We usually end the evening with all around the table, when people have to keep moving around and hitting alternatively, losing a “life” every time they lose a point. After three lives, a person falls out. This continues until two left and they then play a best of five points singles. It can be very hectic at times, but good fun.
We took part in a national tournament in 2012 and won a trophy!
Please contact the Synagogue Office if you would like to join us
The new table tennis table is “christened”!!!
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Shabbat @ Home
2016-05-13 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).
Hosts needed: If you would like to host one of these services in future months, please contact the Synagogue Office.

Family Service
2016-05-14 11:30 - 12:30
Family Service held from 11.30am to 12.30pm, led by Gabriel Webber. Followed by kiddush. 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.

Doroteinu
2016-05-18 14:00 - 16:00
A talk on cyber crime, and how to stop yourself from becoming a victim.
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.
