KOL KINLOSS
NEWSLETTER OF FINCHLEY SYNAGOGUE
‫שמיני‬
Shemini
17/18 April 2015
‫ כ׳׳ט ניסן תשע׳׳ה‬Volume 19/Number 23
Shabbat Mevarchim commences at 7:46pm and terminates at 8:53pm.
Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat at 7:30pm.
This week’s Kiddush is sponsored by
Simone and Barnett Horwitz
on the occassion of
Katie Englender’s forthcoming marriage
to Danny Noakes.
SHABBAT LEARNING AT KINLOSS
Shabbat Morning
‫בס”ד‬
WWW.KINLOSS.ORG.UK
SHABBAT AT KINLOSS
HASHKAMA 7:45am
in the Liora Graham Beit
Hamidrash, followed by Kiddush
and a short shiur.
MAIN SYNAGOGUE 9:15am
led by Eli Sufrin. Kriat Hatorah by
David Kass. Rabbi Lawrence will
speak before Musaph.
8:30am: (Sephardi Synagogue)
Mishnah Masechet Shabbat by Rabbi Heller.
Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum will not be giving his
THE MINYAN 9:15am
shiur this Shabbat. His shiur
in the Nissan and Rifca Deal Hall.
will resume next Shabbat, 25th April.
Shabbat Afternoon
6:50pm: Daf Yomi shiur by Jeffrey Sagal.
Between Mincha and Ma’ariv today,
RABBI LAITNER
will deliver a shiur on
“Ideas from Chazal to help Jews
in the Diaspora relate to Yom Haatzmaut
and Eretz Yisrael”
in the Liora Graham Beit Hamidrash.
All welcome.
Kriat Hatorah by Carl White. Rabbi
Lawrence will speak before Kriat
Hatorah.
SEPHARDI SERVICE 9:00am
in the Sephardi Synagogue led by
Rabbi Heller and Reuben Gorji.
YOUTH SERVICE
This week our Youth will be
supporting the minyan at
Rubens House residential home.
Mincha at 7:50pm, Ma’ariv at 8:53pm.
This week’s Newsletter is sponsored by
Simone and Barnett Horwitz on the occassion of
Katie Englender’s forthcoming marriage to Danny Noakes.
0 - 4 year olds with Sara Keen in the foyer of the Kinloss Suite.
Reception up to School Year 2 with Miriam Kaye in the Avram Nemetnejad Room
(2nd Floor).
School Years 3 - 4 with Yehonatan Malachi in the 1st Floor Classrooms.
School Years 5 - 6 with Jason Marantz in the 1st Floor Classrooms.
Children’s Services from 0-School Year 4 will start at 10:45am. School Years 5 - 6 will start
at 10:30am.
All Services to be followed by a kiddush.
ANIM ZEMIROT CLUB
Anim Zemirot Club is on a break
for the next couple of weeks and will
resume on Shabbat 2nd May.
SPONSORS NEEDED
If you would like to sponsor a
Kiddush or Kol Kinloss to mark a
special occasion, or a yahrzeit, please
call the Shul Office on 8346 8551,
and we will be happy to assist you.
BNEI AKIVA
Bnei Akiva, takes
place today, from
3:30 -5:00pm.
SECURITY NOTICE
Urgent Request for Male and Female Security
Volunteers (aged 18-65)
Shul members, PLEASE join our security rotas. Our
Shul is one of the most visible, high profile buildings in
London. The Community remains on a serious state of alert
and we MUST provide a visible deterrent.
You would only be required for one hour every eight weeks.
Please email [email protected], or call Martin Shiers on 07831 836 031, to register your interest.
Mazaltov to the children in our
community celebrating their birthdays
this week:
Tomer Brittan (8)
Sarah Clif (10)
Elijah Michel Daniel (3)
Sam Ezekiel (11)
Yona Frankfurt (2)
Joseph Gorjian (10)
Ariella Hart (3)
Lyla Jamieson (7)
Maayan Levene (5)
Jessica Malka (11)
Levi Rosenthal (1)
Asher Sosnow (6)
If you require help or support,
please call Jennifer 020 8349 5263
on Mondays or Wednesdays,
from 9:00am – 5:00pm, or email jennifer.
[email protected].
All messages treated in the strictest confidence.
SHABBAT 18TH APRIL
This Shabbat, Yad Vashem (UK) will be exhibiting pictures
in the Kinloss Suite foyer, for Yom Hashoah.
Come along to meet and greet at the Meet & Greet
table, at the Kiddush, this Shabbat.
YOM HA’ATZMAUT 2015
AT KINLOSS
YOM HA’ATZMAUT Wednesday 22nd April
Once again Kinloss is delighted and honoured to host the
annual Bnei Akiva Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut
service. Doors open at 6.30pm and the service commences
at 7.00pm. The service will be followed by a cocktail
reception. For tickets to the cocktail reception, for more
information, please email: [email protected]
SPECIAL FESTIVE BREAKFAST Thursday 23rd April
Shacharit, in the Main Shul, at 6.45am followed by the
breakfast, which will conclude at approximately 8.15am.
The breakfast is sponsored by the Elek Family to mark the
Yahrzeit of Miriam Elek ‫ע׳׳ה‬
Friends of Bnei Akiva invite you to a
Yom Ha’atzmaut Cocktail Reception
on 22nd April,
immediately
after the
ceremony
(approximately
8:30pm).
For tickets
or more
information,
please email:
[email protected]
Some Thoughts on the Parsha
BY RABBI JEREMY LAWRENCE
SHEMINI
Religious Get Up And Go
“Eats Shoots and Leaves” is a book written
Lynn Truss; a zero tolerance guide to English
grammar & punctuation. (The name comes
from the famous panda joke.) It devotes a half
a chapter to the semi-colon. Apparently some
writers favour the semi-colon. Others detest it.
Some editors manically eliminate it. However,
as Lynn Truss explained, the semi-colon finds a
very comfortable home in the bible.
The part about holiness is descriptive. Our
holiness is an automatic consequence of our
relationship with G-d who brought us out of
Egypt.
we can eat, beyond simple shoots and leaves.
Be Holy – because I am holy, says G-d. You
have to live up to My standards. “I raised you
physically out of Egypt. You must climb up
spiritually to meet me.”
However, with the assistance of the scriptural
semi-colon, the sentence reads differently.
For I am the Lord your G-d who raised you up
from the land of Egypt to be your G-d; ‘SemiIt’s a puzzling sort of a thought. Anyone who’s colon’ and you shall be holy for I am holy.
looked at a Sefer Torah knows that it has no
After the semi-colon is an independent clause.
punctuation at all.
It is an imperative and it is directed at us. No
At the very end of this week’s parsha, we have longer a description – it is an instruction: Be
the introduction of the laws of kashrut – what holy.
The passage concludes with the following
You shall do these things…
The Parsha began with the spirit of G-d entering
the Tabernacle in the Israelite camp. The
Parsha ends with us being told to join ourselves
to the spirit of G-d. In contextualising this
For I am the Lord your G-d who raised you up instruction with the laws of Kashrut, we learn
from the land of Egypt to be your G-d and you that it is a journey and a bonding which is not
will be holy for I am holy.
just reserved for the hours we spend at shul; it
begins in our homes and at our tables, at the
Free from any punctuation, that is how it moments we attend to our most basic needs.
reads. G-d is the subject of the sentence. He
raised us physically out of Egypt to be our G-d. Wishing you a Shabbat Shalom
Because He is holy – as our G-d, He raises us
R’ Jeremy Lawrence
spiritually into a state of holiness.
ְִֶ ,‫ִלהיות לכם‬,‫ הּמעלהֶאתכם מארץֵמצרים‬,‫כיֲאניְה׳‬
‫לאלקים; ִוהייתם קדש כי קדש אני‬
SHEMINI STATISTICS
Mitzvot:
Verses:
Words:
Letters:
Haftarah:
17 of the 613 Mitzvot, 11 positive and 6 negative
91 (13th shortest of the 54 Sidrot)
1238 (13th shortest)
4670 (13th shortest)
40 verses (5th longest of the 80 Haftarot)
Page No.
SONCINO
HERTZ
ARTSCROLL
Sidra
651
443
588
Haftarah
1189
948
1207
KCC Summer Term
Programme
Highlights for the forthcoming
term include:
Two tours with Rachel Kolsky
- Dickens to Diamonds:
Hatton Garden
and
East End Radicals.
A KLC series on Tension
Seeking,
with a light supper provided.
Plus, we have an interesting
variety of films to show at our
Film Club, Lunch and Learn
returns with a fantastic lineup of speakers, as well as
the resumption of our Ivrit
Discussion Group, Shared
Reading Group, Supervised
Bridge, Whisky Society and
Friendship Club.
For further information, please
contact Emma on 8349 5269
or email [email protected]
THANK YOU TO:
*
Security Team 1. If you have any queries please email [email protected]
or speak to Martin Shiers on 07831 836 031.
*
Jacqui Gittelmon’s Kiddush Team.
*
Erica Silas and Rakel Bassalian of our Welcoming Committee.
We are delighted to welcome
Deborah Blackston as our new, full time,
Banqueting Manager. Deborah joins us
after many years working in the catering and graphic design
industry. For all event enquiries, please feel free to email her at
[email protected] or call 8349 5268.
BOARD NOMINATION FORMS
Please make sure you return your
Board Nomination Forms
by 12 noon
on Sunday 26th April.
Last Tuesday, over 100
people came to hear
Michele M Gold give a
talk on Memories that
won’t go away - a
tribute to the children
of the Kindertransport,
in the Deal Hall.
Seuda Shlishit
Our Seuda Shlishit season will be resuming from Shabbat 2nd May.
If you are interested in sponsoring one of our seudas, please contact
Dalia Hajioff by emailing [email protected]
SHARED READING GROUP
The next Shared Reading Group will take place on Monday 27th April,
at 1:30pm, in Benchers Cafe.
For more information, please email [email protected]
KOLLEL EVENTS
Lunch & Learn returns on Wednesday 29th April,
with Rebetzen Ilana Epstein.
Rabbi Roselaar’s weekly shiurim on Monday and Thursday mornings.
On Monday - Mishna - Massechet Sanhedrin
On Thursday - Rishon with Rashi.
For more information, or to book Kollel events,
please call Emma on 020 8349 5267, or email [email protected]
THE KEHILLA WISHES ‫“ חיים ארוכים‬LONG LIFE”
TO THE FOLLOWING WHO HAVE YAHRZEIT
Saturday 18 April
Cynthia Rothman
Father
Bernard TrentMother
Stephen BarnettFather
Simon BittonMother
Marion DubowHusband
Beatrice Primhak
Mother
Louis StantonBrother
Wednesday 22 April
Yvette KamlishFather
Sunday 19 April
Thursday 23 April
Rochelle BardFather
Sidney Benjamin
Son
Helene LeveneMother
Howard Samuels
Mother
Jacob ShabathaiWife
Susan SharpFather
Michael Zabaroff
Mother
Gloria GilchristFather
Barnett HorwitzFather
Carole JaysonMother-in-law
Rami KanzenFather
Sylvia KaymanFather
Louis LewisMother
Matty ShearMother
Monday 20 April
Friday 24 April
Alan BearmanBrother
Anne BermanMother
Kate CohenBrother
Selma MandersSister
Wendy RybHusband
Sadie BloomMother
Josephine Cohen
Brother
Warren LevyMother
Judith NewmanMother
Nedjat ToubianMother
Tuesday 21 April
Philip EliasMother
Michael Goldman
Mother
There will be a service at Rubens House on the 18th April. John Fischer will be leining.
Please reply by email to [email protected] if you can attend
Future service dates are 16th May, 25th May ( 2nd day Shavuot ) & 13th June
TABLE TENNIS
Table tennis has started again, this time by popular request we meet Mondays
from 6:30pm. Two squads are being coached, but we are still looking for more
keen players for our junior and senior teams. Call Stuart 07973 712 730.
Sacks Morasha School Annual Dinner - A night of music and art - Tuesday 16th June,
in the Kinloss Suite. Special Guests, Lord and Lady Sacks. Cost: £100 per person.
Featuring ‘Jerusalem Hassadna Conservatory Jazz Quartet’:
http://www.jerusalemconservatory.org/
Further details from Sacks Morasha School: 020 3115 1900,
or email [email protected]
KINLOSS NOTICE BOARD
MAZALTOV TO:
* Simone Horwitz on the occassion of her daughter, Katie Englender’s
forthcoming marriage to Danny Noakes. Mazaltov to the Horwitz, Noakes,
Englender and Allen families. Remembering Gary Englender at this time.
* Sara and Allen Levene on their daughter, Dodie’s passing her medical school
finals, and becoming a third generation doctor. Mazaltov to all the family at
this special time.
General Election 2015
An evening with Mike Freer
Conservative MP for Finchley and Golders Green
Date: 30th April 2015
Time: 8pm
Location: Small Deal Hall
In the run-up to the General Election, Kinloss are providing a platform for
members to hear from local candidates from all the main parties.
Mike was elected as the Member of Parliament in May 2010 with a majority of 5,809. Mike has
lived in Finchley for over twenty years and previously represented Finchley Church End as a local
Councillor. He is a member of Friends of Windsor Open Space, Conservative Friends of Israel,
Conservative Muslim Forum, Conservative Friends of Cyprus and is also a Friend of British Asian
Conservative link. He is also Patron of the local charity, Resources for Autism.
Mike has worked over many years for inter-faith understanding. He was the Chairman of Barnet's
Multi-faith forum, and a member of both the Parliamentary Group Against Anti-Semitism
(serving as Vice-President) and the All Party Parliamentary Group on Islamaphobia.
TOMBSTONE CONSECRATIONS
MON 20 APR
SUN 26 APR
WEDS 29 APR
MON 4 MAY
SUN 10 MAY
SERVICES
(‫ שבת‬see front
page)
11:30am at Bushey in memory of Irene Davis ‫ע׳׳ה‬
1:00pm at Bushey in memory of Beryl Niederberg ‫ע׳׳ה‬
11:30am at Bushey in memory of Frances Winston ‫ע׳׳ה‬
11:00am at Bushey in memory of Harold Gotkine ‫ע׳׳ה‬
12:30pm at Bushey in memory of Henry Chern ‫ע׳׳ה‬
Sun
Mon
Rosh Chodesh
Rosh Chodesh
Shacharit 1
7:15am
6:50am
Shacharit 2
Sephardi Shacharit
8:15am
8:00am
8:00am
6:30am
Mincha followed
by Ma’ariv
7:30pm
7:30pm
Tues
Weds
Thurs
Yom Hazikaron
Yom Ha’atzmaut
7:00am
7:00am
followed by
Festive Breakfast
7:00am
8:00am
6:45am
8:00am
6:45am
6:45am
8:00am
6:45am
7:30pm
7:30pm
6:45am
7:30pm
Fri
Next ShabbatMincha/Kabbalat
Shabbat 7:30pm