Two Little Ducks

There will be a Bingo Evening at the BHH Synagogue on Wednesday 21st October from 8pm Compered by Howard Lee, it promises to be a great night’s entertainment for all!

The evening will cost £10 for 10 Games which will include refreshments, with a raffle that can be entered for £1. There will be great prizes such as facials and manicures. Not only an inexpensive night but raising money for a great charity- Yorkshire Cancer Relief.

For tickets please email ros@rpeters.demon.co.uk or phone 07803293246.

AJEX on parade

AJEX ON PARADE TO HONOUR CANDIAN JEWISH AIRMEN

Seven Jewish Canadian Airmen will be remembered at Stonefall Airmen’s Cemetery, Harrogate, on Sunday 13th September when AJEX participates in the Royal Air Force ceremony to honour the memories of those lost during the last war.

At the colourful ceremony in the presence of the Mayor of Harrogate, military senior officers will lay wreaths flanked by many Standards and a Military Band. Leeds AJEX will lay a wreath and the Standard of the Leeds Major Clive Behrens branch of the Royal British Legion will be present.

This annual event is supported by AJEX as the 7 Jewish Airmen have no known relatives able to visit, so afterwards we visit each grave to say Kaddish and dip the two Jewish Standards in their honour. We remember them because they gave their lives for us.

A convoy of cars will leave the car park behind Moortown Casino at 1.45 pm. If making your own way, please be there for 2.30pm.

Medals should be worn. Please join us whether you are ex-service or not.

For more information contact Wilf Jackson (Standard Bearer)- 0113 2934012

Autumn Dance Courses

Autumn Dance Courses start at Sinai from 9th September 2009. LIDO (Leeds Israeli Dancing Organisation) is delighted to offer two new 5 week courses for beginner and intermediate Israeli dancers. Gain fitness and have fun!

They teach lines, circles and partner dances - both traditional and modern - in this vibrant
class. Men, women and young people of all ages welcome. The beginners classes start from 7.15pm and the intermediate classes from 8.30 pm. You can pay for 5 classes for £15 or £4 per session on the door.

Click here to download a pdf application form.

Please contact: julia@bjmedia.co.uk or call 07762 059 858 for more details

Holocaust Diaries & Memoirs

Melton Graduate Programme Holocaust Course -
THE HOLOCAUST IN DIARIES & MEMOIRS

In Autumn 2009, Ian Vellins will start to lead a course on the experiences of those who lived through the Holocaust.

Shortly after the fall of Warsaw to the German armed forces, a teacher, Chaim Aharon Kaplan (whose writings will be read in Lesson 3, Holidays and Occasions) made the following observation in his diary (October 7, 1939) regarding the fate of the Jews vis-à-vis that of the Poles:

‘Ours is a tragedy on a personal level, while theirs is so merely on a national level.’

It is only in the last few years that a new spotlight has been thrown upon learning about the daily life of the Jews in Occupied Europe, focusing on providing an understanding of what the individual Jew lived through.

Ian Vellins offers a 10 week Melton Graduate Course in the autumn please contact Makor 2680899 or email helen@makor.co.uk

Zone Junior Golf Day

The Zone Junior Golf Day on Thursday 3rd September for those Year 3 and above. Taking place from 9.30am til about 4.30pm at the Moor Allerton Golf Club, there will be a day of lessons and fun for beginners and an 18 hole competition for Golfers.

Please email adam@1zone.org.uk a.s.a.p to confirm a place or if you have any questions. Adam need to know numbers for coaching and catering purposes!

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Get dramatic!

Click below to see the flyer for a new drama workshop being run by Emma Gordon at The Zone. Be sure to register your interest!

Social Bridge Tournament

1st Annual Leeds Jewish Welfare Board

'Social Bridge Tournament'

Duplicate Tournament for 'The Welfare Board Cup'

Plus Rubber Bridge for Social Players

Sunday 6 September 2009, 7.00pm, MAZ Centre

£15 oer head (including tea and sandwiches)

Contacts:- Jacqui (2892995); Jocelyn (2669151); Gillian (2695065)

European Jewish Culture Day

HULL JEWISH ARCHIVE
Presents

Guided Tour of Delhi Street Cemetery
European Day of Jewish Culture & Heritage

Sunday 6th September 2009, 3:30 pm

• Printed leaflet


• Learn about community notables


• Site map available


• Help locating relatives

Tel: 01482 650 282; Address: Hull Jewish Archive, 30 Pryme St, Anlaby, HU10 6SH

Hero Paramedic

MAGEN DAVID ADOM REGIONAL OFFICE
invite you to meet

SARAH CASCELLA
Our “hero paramedic” from MDA Ashkelon Station

Sarah is 26 years old and made Aliyah from France in 2005. She immediately joined Magen David Adom as a volunteer Paramedic stationed at the MDA Station in Ashkelon. One of her first journeys out of the MDA Station was to the Ashkelon Mall which had been hit by a Grad Rocket. Sarah talks with great emotion about this visit and also her other work which included treating Palestinians at the Erez Crossing. She has just completed a course in Emergency Medicine at Ben Gurion University.

Monday, 7th September 2009 The Elldan Suite of the Marjorie & Arnold Ziff Centre,
Leeds, starting at 7.30pm.

There will also an update on the work of Magen David Adom by
Richard Simon. UK Regional Director. PLEASE BRING YOUR FRIENDS WITH YOU- THERE WILL NOT BE AN APPEAL

LIDO Couple's Workshop

LIDO (Leeds Israeli Dance Orgnaisation) cordially invite singles and partners to their FIRST COUPLES DANCE WORKSHOP IN THE NORTH!! Just bring yourself and they will find you someone to dance with! Of course anyone with a ready-made partner (experienced or not) is very welcome.

Meet at 7 at Sinai Synagogue to get ready and start around 7.30 - expect to be joined by visitors from London and Manchester, who will arrive from out of town by 8. Wear soft soled shoes, trackies etc.. Feel free to bring snacks (strictly kosher and fairtrade - fruit, chocolate etc).

Leeds Day Limmud: Book Online

Another exciting and stimulating day-long learning event has been planned in Limmud’s unique style for Sunday 15 November 2009. From Israeli dancing to Jewish magic; from Jews of Jamaica to Darwin; and a tour of old Jewish Leeds to Chazanut and Jews & football.

BOOK ONLINE HERE: http://www.limmud.org/day/leeds/09/form/

What is included?

• A full day of presentations and workshops
• Kosher lunch (special diets available)
• Crèche for babies and toddlers
• Young Limmud programme
• Refreshments throughout the day
  

Venue and Time

Weetwood Hall is situated at the junction of the Ring Road and Otley Road in Lawnswood in north Leeds. It is easy to reach and has ample car parking - directions will be supplied in your registration pack. A maximum of 370 places will be available, allocated on a first come, first served basis. Registration is at 9am, with the first session starting at 10am and the last session finishing at 5.30pm.

Cost and booking

Whole day, including lunch, tea and coffee:

Adults- £32 after Oct 13th; £27 before
Under 16s- £15
Crèche(up to age 4)- £15
Family ticket (2 adults and up to 4 children)- £90

LJI Bar Night

LJI's first Charity Bar Night!

Thursday 16th July 2009
Veuve Champagne Bar
Chapel Allerton
8pm onwards

Please come and support LJI's first ever fundraising event for Ezer Mizion, the World's largest Jewish Bone Marrow Registry. This is in memory of Leeds born Kitty Doerfler who was born with Leukaemia and died in 2007 aged 15 months.

Ezer Mizion currently tests in Israel where the diversity of the Jewish population is more varied than anywhere else globally. However, they also contribute to a registry that helps people worldwide.

The more tests they can fund, the more donors there will be on the register and therefore the more lives they can save!

Suggested donations are £10 on the night.

http://www.blood.co.uk/
http://www.ezermizion.org/

Clothing Exchange

Spectrum is holding a clothing exchange afternoon at the MAZCC on Sunday 30th August 2009 between 2pm and 5pm. All proceeds from the event will go to the Welfare Board Rainbow Project.

This is your opportunity to exchange your unwanted new or “as good as new” clothes for men, women and children including shoes, bags and hats for a new outfit.

How does it work?

Bring your clothes preferably already on a hanger and exchange each item for a ticket which can then be exchanged for another item new to you absolutely free of charge. All items must be clean and ready to use.

Cost of entry is only £5 per family.

For further details contact Sandra 2252179

PhysCap Football Fun Day

On Sunday 26th July 2009 in association with Masternaut, PhysCap will be having their 11th corporate football 5 a side tournament and family fun day, at The Grammar School at Leeds on Harrogate Road.

Please support them by entering your team and lets help raise as much money as we can. The full day tournament is affiliated to the West Riding CFA with qualified referees, great prizes and trophies and there’ll be all the usual family fun day entertainment, with BBQ and bar refreshments.

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O2 Cricket Cup Competition

LEEDS JEWISH REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL AND YORKSHIRE CRICKET CLUB

PRESENT

THE O2 CRICKET CUP COMPETITION

ON SUNDAY 5^TH JULY

10am – 3pm

To be held at the

CARRIBEAN CRICKET CLUB

SCOTHALL ROAD

There will be a 10-13 year interfaith group and a 14 - 16 year interfaith group. With COACHING, FOOD and MUSIC, it is going to be an exciting day for all. Telephone 0113 2697520 for more information.

Who do you think you are?

Below is the ticket for Yorkshire Cancer Research's forthcoming event at the BHH Synagogue on Wednesday 9th September at 7.30 p.m.

Dr. Nick Barratt will be speaking- he is the consultant to the B.B.C. programme " Who Do You Think You Are?" Tickets will be available from Committee Members- £15 including light Refreshments.

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Communal Diary: 21st - 27th June

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Salsa Passion

A sassy, salsa and supper night at Sinai!

Fiddler on the Roof

The Bradford Youth Players (ages 16-25) are putting on a production of "Fiddler on the Roof" in July. The show is on at the Lord Kalms Theatre at Dixons City Academy (Ripley Street, off Manchester Road, Bradford, BD5 7RR) on 15-18 July 2009, performances starting at 7.30pm.

The BYP are the only youth group in West Yorkshire which delivers all of its youth work through the performing arts. Although not a Jewish group, they are very keen to welcome members of the Leeds and Bradford Jewish communities.

Tickets are £9 for adults, £7 for concessions, and just £5 for full-time students & young people (aged 25 or under). They can be purchased online at www.bradfordyouthplayers.co.uk/bookings/booking.html, by email (byptickets@hotmail.co.uk), by phone (0750 47 45 220) or by post by returning a booking form with full payment to the address on the form.

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