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Most NLPJC events are at the Community Rooms adjacent to St. Mary's Church, Spensley Walk, Stoke Newington Church Street, London N16. Occasionally an event is held at nearby Abney Hall. How to get there.
Cheder coincides with the first Shabbat service during term time - its starting time is 10.50am. Contact NLPJC for details.
Please note: Fortnightly Shabbat morning Children's Hebrew Classes at 10am. Contact
Yasmin Max.
Hebrew text on-screen: Links are provided below to web-pages which display the Torah portion in both English and Hebrew. MS Internet Explorer_6 and Opera_8 are both capable of rendering fully pointed right-to-left Hebrew. Some other web browsers are not able to display Hebrew vowel points in their correct vertical and horizontal alignments and you may also notice incorrect letter spacing.
Torah portions/Parshiot: Each named portion is cited below in full, e.g. Genesis 1:1-6:8. However, only a part is likely to be read on each Shabbat. The name of the portion, e.g. Bereishis, is usually a word within the opening lines of the Hebrew text.
Colour coding of diary item background colours:
| pale grey | month indicators |
| white | religious services, e.g. Erev Shabbat, Shabbat and Festivals |
| mid-blue | Adult Learning Programme |
| light blue | Other Educational Courses |
| peach | other NLPJC ceremonies and functions |
| pale green | Jewish-interest and other events organised independently of NLPJC |
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Saturday 1 May, 32nd Day of the Omer
17 Iyar 5770
תש״ע אייר יז
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10:00am
10:00am
10:40am-10:50am
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Torah Breakfast
Children's Hebrew
Kol b'yachad service for children.
Cheder and crèche
Shabbat Service: Omer
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The Shabbat Service will be followed by a picnic in Clissold Park for Lag B'Omer.
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Saturday 15 May, 46th Day of the Omer
2 Sivan 5770
תש״ע סיון ב
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10:00am
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Torah Breakfast
Children's Hebrew
Kol b'yachad service for children.
Cheder - no crèche, but access to toys
Special Shabbat Service: Welcoming and celebrating our new babies and toddlers in the community
Torah Portion: Numbers 1:1 Bamidbar / במדבר,
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Parsha synopsis by Rabbi Elizabeth Tikvah Sarah: B’midbar is the first parashah (portion) of the Book of B’midbar/Numbers: Focussed on listing the names of the tribes and their leaders, the formation of the camp for the march through the wilderness, and the duties of the various families of the tribe of Levi, it does not make a very exciting read. Nevertheless, it provides information that is essential for understanding the narrative that enfolds in succeeding parashiyyot (portions).
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Tuesday 18 May |
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Shavuot - an evening of prayer and learning
Beyond Words, Beyond Imagining
Journeys in Jewish Mysticism at Shavuot
details are on the home page |
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Friday 28 May |
| 7:15pm / 8:00pm |
Erev Shabbat Service / Supper and event (to be announced) |
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Saturday 5 June
23 Sivan 5770
תש״ע סיון כג
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10:00am
10:40am-10:50am
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11:00am
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Torah Breakfast
Kol b'yachad service for children.
No cheder or crèche, but toys are available
Shabbat Service:
Torah Portion: Numbers 13:2 Shelach / שלח,
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Parsha synopsis by Rabbi Kathleen de Magtige-Middleton: Moses is commanded to send twelve scouts to reconnoitre the land of Canaan. They return after 40 days laden with fruit and the message that the land is inhabited by giants, and therefore unconquerable. Only two of the scouts, Caleb and Joshua, bring positive tidings that the land can be conquered, but the people refuse to listen to them. The people’s lack of faith is punished with 40 years of wandering in the desert. They will die in the desert and a new, more faithful generation will come after them and take possession of the land. Of that generation only Caleb and Joshua, the faithful scouts will be allowed to enter the land. The portion concludes with a collection of miscellaneous laws regarding sacrifices, desecration of the Shabbat and the ritual law of attaching fringes on the four corners of one’s garment.
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Sunday 13 June |
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Where you go, I will follow
Learning about Becoming Jewish By Choice
An introduction to a course of six weekly sessions, 15 June to 20 July
more information
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Saturday 19 June
7 Tammuz 5770
תש״ע תמוז ז
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10:00am
10:00am
10:40am-10:50am
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Torah Breakfast
Children's Hebrew
Kol b'yachad service for children.
Cheder and crèche, toys are available
Shabbat Service (includes the Bat Mitzvah of Ella Tober Collins. See NLPJC Magazine (Jun/Jul/Aug), page 1, col.1):
Torah Portion: Numbers 19:2 Chukat / חקת,
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Parsha synopsis by Rabbi Elizabeth Tikvah Sarah: When the wilderness narrative resumes, in this week’s Torah portion, Chukkat, thirty eight years have passed – and not a single word about them. This is startling. The Torah documents so much about the dramatic events that happened during the second year of the wilderness journey.
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Friday 25 June |
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Erev Shabbat Service / Supper and Event (to be announced) |
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Saturday 3 July
21 Tammuz 5770
תש״ע תמוז כא
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10:00am
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10:40am-10:50am
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Torah Breakfast
Children's Hebrew
Kol b'yachad service for children.
Cheder and crèche, toys are available
Shabbat Service:
Torah Portion: Numbers 25:11 Pinchas / פינחס,
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Parsha synopsis by Rabbi Janet Burden: When I read book reviews in the press, I sometimes stop and wonder about the criteria they use for judging literature. Placed cold before the doyennes of the New York Times Review of Books, for example, would the Bible have ever passed muster? I doubt it, somehow. After all, the characters on its pages are not what such critics would call "pleasingly developed and well-rounded."
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Saturday 17 July
6 Av 5770
תש״ע אב ו
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10:00am
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10:40am-10:50am
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Torah Breakfast
Children's Hebrew
Kol b'yachad service for children.
Cheder and crèche, toys are available
Shabbat Service (includes the Bar Mitzvah of Yeshaya Lomotey,
See NLPJC Magazine (Jun/Jul/Aug), page 1, col.1):
Torah Portion: Deuteronomy 1:1 Devarim / דברים,
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Parsha synopsis by Rabbi Charley Baginsky: This week we enter a new book of Torah, Deuteronomy – the final book of the whole Torah. Although there is a certain arbitrariness to the names of each portion, as they are simply taken from one of the first words of the parasha, there often seems to be an innate and intimate link between the name and the content. Devarim is no exception for it means “words”, “these are the words that Moses spoke…” In the other books of the Torah the Israelites are instructed by the words of God through Moses, the mouthpiece; but here Moses addresses the community of Israel directly.
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Friday 23 July |
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Erev Shabbat Service / Supper and Event (to be announced) |
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Saturday 7 August
27 Av 5770
תש״ע אב כז
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10:00am
10:40am-10:50am
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Torah Breakfast
Kol b'yachad service for children
No cheder or creche, but toys are available
Shabbat Service:
Torah Portion: Deuteronomy 11:26 Re'eh / ראה,
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Parsha synopsis by Rabbi Kathleen de Magtige–Middleton: Re’eh continues Moses’ speeches to the Israelites prior to their entering the Promised Land. Moses urges them to observe God’s commandments whence they have settled in the land and to destroy the existing holy sites of the local Canaanite people. He introduces the concept of one central sanctuary in a place designated by God which would be the only legitimate site on which sacrifices and worship would be allowed. He continues with some further instructions related to the occupation of the land; commandments regarding sacrifices, tithing, slaughtering and eating of meat (and regarding the meat of which animal is permitted and which are not) the sabbatical year, the treatment of Hebrew slaves and the observance of the Three Pilgrim festivals; Pesach, Shavuot and Sukkoth..
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Saturday 21 August
11 Ellul 5770
תש״ע אלול יא
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10:00am
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Torah Breakfast
Kol b'yachad service for children.
No cheder or crèche, but toys are available
Shabbat Service:
Torah Portion: Deuteronomy 21:10 Ki Teitsei / כי תצא,
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Parsha synopsis by Rabbi Janet Burden: If we were writing an outline of the Torah, this section would probably be called “Miscellaneous Laws,” subtitled “Things that don’t fit anywhere else.” The order makes no sense to the logic of a modern mind. First we’re talking about lost things, then suddenly, there’s a verse about not cross-dressing. Later on, we are reading about shooing a mother bird away from her nest, then suddenly we’re told to build a parapet on our roofs so that no one should fall from them. So what’s going on here?
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Wednesday 8 September |
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Erev Rosh Hashanah |
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Thursday 9 September |
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Rosh Hashanah |
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Friday 17 September |
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Kol Nidre |
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Saturday 18 September |
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Yom Kippur |
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Wednesday 22 September |
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Sukkot Service and Supper |
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Wednesday 29 September |
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Simchat Torah Service and Supper |
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