• Volunteer Week: Sam Brunner

    There is a quote by an unknown author which reads ‘volunteering is the ultimate exercise in democracy. You vote in elections once a year but when you volunteer, you vote every day about the kind of community you want to live in’. This quote resonates with me when talking about volunteering as I spend a […]

  • HMD-Schools Project

    For the last 10 years various synagogues have been running very successful education and workshop sessions for Year 9 school children.The schools sign up for morning or afternoon sessions where the children are welcomed into a Jewish space, given an overview by a Holocaust educator,hear a survivor speak about their personal story and experience and […]

  • Brenda Freedman’s AGM President’s Address 2015

    Friends, it seems quite unbelievable that it is 6 years since I began my term as President. When Robbie phoned me that morning, I was truly speechless. What an enormous honour! Why me? Of all the religious, intellectual and accomplished members how had my name entered the ring? And as he talked to me about […]

  • Fashion Show at Alyth

    Spring was in season at Alyth Synagogue at the James Lakeland Fashion show on Wednesday 29th April.   One hundred and fifty members of the Synagogue came to see the collection. All of the models for the evening are members of Alyth. The audience enjoyed a cheese and wine supper and the surprise of seeing their […]

  • Ramblers in Israel

    The Ramblers have been staying at beautiful Kfar Blum Kibbutz hotel and walking daily except for Shabbat. Our walks have taken us into upper Galilee and the Golan with breathtaking views ,along dried river beds and beside waterfalls and rivers. The photo is taken by the river Jordan. The countryside is covered in amazing wild […]

  • Yom HaShoah at Alyth

    Every year Alyth Synagogue commemorates Yom HaShoah with a ma’ariv evening service and moving testimony from members of the synagogue who are survivors of the Shoah, were refugees from Nazi Europe or the children of survivors.   This year the commemoration focussed on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp on April 15th […]

  • Interfaith Demonstration Seder

    In March 2014, the Rev. Shaun Sanders of Barnet Multi-Faith Forum (BMFF) approached Jackie Goymour, a member of Alyth Synagogue and External Relations Officer of Women’s Interfaith Network (WIN) in March 2014, about the possibility of organising a joint interfaith Seder with the objective to show non-Jewish people how Jews celebrate Pesach. As the timing […]

  • Citizens UK pledge

    Many of those who were at the Alyth Shabbat Hagadol service on Friday 27 March were moved by the testimony of Katherine Hallgarten and Guinean asylum seeker Soulemaine who talked about their experiences of indefinite detention. Katherine was a young child when she was detained in an internment camp on the Isle of Man as […]

  • Friday Night Fever

    The Jewish Chronicle (10/04/2015) Some Synagogues struggle to muster a Friday night minyan. But not Alyth which has doubled attendances over the past year or so. Click here to read the full article.