Kingston Liberal Synagogue

Shabbat Island Discs with.....
2015-04-17 20:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London)
Music Service led by Rabbi Charley Baginsky, with our Music Director, Rebekka Wedell, and the KLS Choir, and featuring several of our Israeli members 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. Come and find out more and hear their music choices.
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.

Yom Ha-Shoah
2015-04-16
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 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).

Erev Yom HaShoah Service
2015-04-15 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).
Rabbi Charley Baginsky will lead the service, with Music Director, Rebekka Wedell, and the KLS Choir.

Visitors are welcome to join us, but please contact the Office beforehand.

Choir Rehearsal
2015-04-14 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.

Table Tennis Club
2015-04-14 20:00 - 22:00
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.

Kindertransport - talk by Michele M Gold
2015-04-14 19:30 - 21:30 | Finchley United Synagogue, Kinloss Gardens, London, N3 3DU, United Kingdom
From December 1938 until the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, some 10,000 children traveled alone from Germany, Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia to Great Britain on the Kindertransport. Michele M Gold has written a book, “Memories That Won’t Go Away: A Tribute to the Children of the Kindertransport”, telling the stories of hundreds of these kinder. Their experiences as strangers in a strange land were often complicated and painful, but as this book illustrates, the rescued children and their many thousands of descendants remain eternally grateful to the nation that saved them.
Michele is giving a presentation followed a a Q&A session.
Tickets £5 to be booked in advance.

Chavurah Supper
2015-04-10 18:30 - 20:30
Monthly 1st Friday of the month (apart from December and April!!)
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 student rabbi Naomi Goldman. Please bring a plated vegetarian or fish supper and, if possible, a favourite dish to share. All ages welcome.
Guests are welcome to services @ KLS, but please contact the office beforehand.
Apr 10 – this Shabbat is also the last day of Pesach, the day the Israelites crossed the Red Sea. We will talk about what freedom means to us. Bring nice Pesach food (guidelines nearer the time)
May 1 – Counting the Omer – get together to mark spring shading into summer and find out why we are counting at this time of year. Spring food!
Jun 5 – Summer shabbat and summer food
Jul 3 – Reflect on the year that’s gone and say goodbye before the Chavura suppers take a break for the summer. Bring your favourite dish of this year so far.

COMMUNAL SEDER - 6.30pm
2015-04-04 18:30 - 22:00
Communal Seder held at the synagogue.
Doors open at 6.00 pm: Seder begins promptly at 6.30 pm.
Join us for a community meal – there will be a fish or vegetarian main meal and lovely desserts afterwards. It is not recommended for children under 5 due to the late finish.
As seating is limited, you are advised to apply QUICKLY while there is availability. Please contact the Office on office@klsonline.org for a booking form. Payment is due at time of booking.
The new Liberal Judaism Haggadah will be used exclusively– if you have a copy please bring it with you. Copies will be provided on loan to those who do not own one, but you may want to order by contacting the Office.

Pesach
2015-04-03
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 the Israelites during the tenth plague–and of the following day, when the Israelites had to leave Egypt hurriedly. Centered on the family or communal celebration of the seder (ritual meal), Passover is one of the most beloved of all Jewish holidays.
The first night of Pesach is Friday 3 April, and the festival finishes on Friday 10 April.

Choir Rehearsal
2015-03-31 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 choral 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.

Ivrit (Basic Hebrew conversation) Class
2015-03-30 20:00 - 21:30
Basic Hebrew lessons with Marta Friedmann. Weekly class starting on Monday 23 March.
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
Contact the Synagogue Office for more details.

Shabbat Lounge Service
2015-03-28 11:15 - 12:30
An informal music service held from 11.15am to 12.30pm, led by Rabbi Charley Baginsky with our Music Director Rebekka Wedell. Why Shabbat Lounge? We drag the sofas in from the Mosaic Room into the Sanctuary, and sit around the portable Ark. We then need you to help to drag the sofas back! 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.

Shabbat Island Discs with.....
2015-03-27 20:00 - 21:00
Music Service led by Rabbi Charley Baginsky and the KLS Choir, and featuring Ethan Kelly who will reveal his 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 “guest” will be interviewed, and this is a great opportunity to find out more about your fellow congregants. Come and find out more and hear their music choices.
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.

Lent Lunchtime Talks - Rabbi Baginsky
2015-03-26 13:10 - 14:00 | All Saints Church, Market Place, Kingston, United Kingdom
Rabbi Charley Baginsky and Mr Jeremy Rodell Chairman (SW London Humanists) give the fifth in a series of Lent lunchtime talks with the theme “Kingston: Still a Christian Country? The ongoing role of Christianity in modern Britain”
Free. No booking required. All welcome.

Basic Hebrew Class
2015-03-23 20:00 - 21:00
Basic Hebrew lessons. Weekly class starting on Monday 23 March. Contact the Synagogue Office for more details.

40 Club
2015-03-22 15:00 - 17:00
The 40 Club was set up almost forty years ago to provide occasions for members of both Kingston synagogues (United at Uxbridge Road and KLS) to meet socially. We meet at the home of Susan Zissman on one Sunday afternoon a month starting at 3pm unless it is a lunch at 12.30pm.
We have talks, music afternoons, fun or just nosh and natter and Susan supplies a superb tea.
If you are interested please contact the KLS office to get Susan’s phone number to learn more and get her full address. Synagogue members and their friends will always be welcome. When it is a lunch, it would be appreciated if you would provide a contribution to the meal.
Forthcoming dates are Sundays, 22 March, 19 April, 24 May, 28 June (summer lunch at 12.30), 19 July, 23 August, 20 September and 18 October.
We look forward to seeing more KLS members on these very enjoyable afternoons.

Youth Club
2015-03-21 13:00 - 15:00
For children aged 7 to 16 (school years 3 to 11), meets monthly after the Family Service and HeBrew Café at KLS for a range of activities from craft to sports.

HeBrew Café
2015-03-21 12:45 - 13:15
After the Family Service – our fundraising café selling filled bagels, crisps, cake, sweets and hot and cold drinks

Family Service
2015-03-21 11:30 - 12:30
Service held from 11.30am to 12.30pm, led by Sandra Webber and Tammy Rich.
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!
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.

Music Club
2015-03-21 10:00 - 11:00
This is an opportunity for musically interested members to share music of a largely Jewish nature (of any genre). Bring music you’ve enjoyed either on a CD, your phone, ipod etc and we’ll listen to and discuss each other’s choices in the library. Or just come along to hear what others have selected.
We’ll also discuss the timing of future gatherings.
If you would like more information, please contact the office.

Shabbat Service
2015-03-20 20:00 - 21:00
Shabbat Service led by Seymour Kelly. Please bring something to share for Kiddush.

Doroteinu
2015-03-18 14:00 - 16:00
Doroteinu means “all our generations” and is for young and old, and everyone in between – anyone who has not got their nose to the grindstone when we have our meetings. We usually meet on Wednesday afternoons. At this meeting, Helen Setright will talk about Jews in Kingston-upon-Thames during the Crusades. Helen’s talks are always fascinating so this is one not to miss.
Please do come along – it costs just £2 for the talk and tea and cake afterwards. If you need help to get here, contact the office.

Shabbat Service
2015-03-14 11:15 - 12:30
Service held from 11.15am to 12.30pm, led by Vince Daly. 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.

Shabbat @ Home
2015-03-13 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 New Malden, and Rabbi Charley Baginsky and Music Director Rebekka Wedell will be leading. 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 host family have a tradition of having fish and chips on Friday nights- if you wish to join them, please let the office know so that the hosts can order enough!
Hosts needed: If you would like to host one of these services in future months, please contact the Synagogue Office.

Film Club
2015-03-10 13:00 - 16:30 | Odeon Cinema, Rotunda, Kingston, United Kingdom
Jill and Norman Hyman are planning a new activity for KLS members, and this is how we would like it to work. Once a month, on a Tuesday afternoon, we plan to see a film at the Rotunda cinema in central Kingston and members can join us if you wish.
Tuesday has been selected because ticket prices are reduced to £5.50 each regardless of age. Kingston is very well served by public transport and is therefore relatively easy to reach.
We will meet in the foyer by the box office about 15 minutes before the commencement of the film. You need to purchase your own ticket and can sit where you wish. After the film, members who would like a cup of tea or coffee or light refreshment could move on to one of the Rotunda’s cafés or bars and we could then discuss the film together.
The film club is open to all members regardless of age. Initially, we will be selecting the film and advising members ideally by email or KLS publications of title and times to meet.
If you require any further details or you have some questions please contact the Synagogue office.
Also please contact us to register your interest so that we can gauge the level of response.
Details for this month: “The Second Best Marigold Hotel”, at the Rotunda Kingston. Please meet in the foyer by booking office at 1pm, film starts 1.20pm. Please remember to buy your ticket beforehand. The film is 2 hours long so we should be out by 3.45pm just in time for tea and discussion if you wish.

Purim Family Fun
2015-03-07 12:45 - 14:30
Please join us for Purim celebrations, you will need to:
Come along in fancy dress for the parade, prizes will be given!
Bring a dish to share for lunch (please let us know what you would like to bring)
Bring a piece of unwanted clothing for the Dress The Mannequin Game
Join us straight after kiddush in the hall for lunch and some Purim fun!

Purim Family Service
2015-03-07 11:30 - 12:30
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! There is also a group for the littlest ones, ShabbaTots.
For more information about the services at KLS see Services

Bookcrashers
2015-03-07 10:00 - 11:00
Come and join us whether you have read “The Book” or not. This month we are reading ‘The Interpretation of Murder’ by Jed Rubenfeld. Meet in the Library.

Purim
2015-03-05 08:00 - 17:00
פּוּרִים
The story of Purim is told in the Book of Esther, whose eponymous heroine plays the leading role in saving her people. The holiday is traditionally celebrated with wild abandon, fancy dress and partying as well as the reading of the Megillah (retelling the story). There is also a tradition of giving gifts to friends and the poor.

Council Meeting
2015-03-03 20:00 - 22:00
