Essex Jewish News

30/10/2024

🪔✨ Wishing You a Bright and Joyous Diwali! ✨🪔To everyone celebrating, may this Festival of Lights bring peace, prosperity, and endless joy to your home. Let the glow of Diwali lamps illuminate your path and fill your heart with love and happiness.Share your Diwali celebrations with us! 🌸

29/10/2024

Jewish Care’s MIKE Youth Leadership Programme is back for another year! 🎉

MIKE stands for:
💪🏼Motivation
💡Inspiration
🧠Knowledge
📚Education

Give your child a fast track to ALL the above advantages and more…

🔑Regular confidence and leadership building workshops
🎓Prizes and accreditation for top graduates
🌍Organised personal development trips
👫🏻Enhanced communication and social skills
📄UCAS and CV-enhancing opportunity
🏆Perfect place to complete the skills section for the DofE Award

A brilliant extra-curricular activity, and most of all…FUN! 🥳

MIKE runs on Tuesday nights in Redbridge, weekly for year 9, fortnightly for years 10 and 11, and monthly for years 12 and 13.

For more information:
📞07391738281

📧[email protected]
Sign up here: bit.ly/3A7Sxdv

18/10/2024

🗞️Jewish Care Essex hub to complete by 2026

Building on Jewish Care’s Sugar & Ronson Campus – a first-class care and community hub on the site of the old Redbridge Jewish Community Centre (RJCC) – is fully underway.

The campus will include the Sugar Family Care Home, a 66-bed residence that will replace Vi & John Rubens House, and the modern and fully accessible Ronson Community Centre.

🔗 https://essexjewishnews.co.uk/jewish-care-essex-hub-to-complete-by-2026/

18/10/2024

🕍 Chief Rabbi opens Chigwell’s magnificent refurbishment

WOW! That’s the one word which describes the £1.2million refurbished Chigwell and Hainault United Synagogue in Limes Avenue. There appears little doubt that it could – and should – become a magnificent centre for the local Orthodox Jewish community.

The beautifully designed synagogue itself has plush, comfortable seats, and an impressive area to house the Sifrei Torah. The ladies’ gallery offers excellent views of the services, too.

Enhanced facilities have also been created for the on-site nursery and a variety of classrooms for other educational and communal purposes.

The building project had taken around 20 months. The community’s financial donations (from more than 1,000 people) were matched by the family of Lord and Lady Sugar, while the United Synagogue also made a contribution.

🔗 https://essexjewishnews.co.uk/chief-rabbi-opens-chigwells-magnificent-refurbishment/

11/10/2024

As we come together in prayer and introspection on Yom Kippur, we wish you an easy and meaningful fast. May you find peace, forgiveness, and renewal in the coming year. G’mar Chatimah Tovah! 🌟

03/10/2024

🗞️ We are thrilled to let you know the Rosh Hashanah edition of the Essex Jewish News is now available for you to read for free.

The print edition is in all synagogues for Rosh Hashanah, plus schools, delis, libraries, supermarkets and communal buildings.

The digital version is always online now https://issuu.com/essexjewishnews/docs/2860_ejn_rosh_hashanna_2024_-_issuu

👏A big thank you to everyone who made this come together. We wish you all a Happy New Year.

02/10/2024

Wishing you all a happy and healthy Jewish new year. Stay safe 💙

10/09/2024

06/09/2024

⛳️ Teddy Sheringham helps Clore celebrate 25 years at golf event

The event brought together parents, grandparents, and supporters for a day of fun and fundraising, with all proceeds dedicated to enhancing educational delivery at the school.

It was made even more special by the presence of former England footballer and local hero, Teddy Sheringham.

Visit our website for the full story - https://essexjewishnews.co.uk/teddy-sheringham-helps-clore-celebrate-25-years-at-golf-event/

27/08/2024

Work Avenue is set to launch an employment programme designed specifically to empower women to get back into work.

EMPOWER HER has been created to help all those women looking to re-enter the workforce after a period of absence – whether that’s been to raise a family, care for a loved one or any other reason.

Full story online https://essexjewishnews.co.uk/new-programme-to-empower-jewish-women-to-back-into-work/

27/08/2024

More than £6,000 was raised by Southend and Westcliff Hebrew Congregation Warden Geoffrey Pepper when he took on a sponsored walk for Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem.

The proceeds have been ring-fenced towards the completion of the Gandel Rehabilitation Centre in Mount Scopus – which opened earlier this year to meet the additional need of those injured in the war.

Full story online https://essexjewishnews.co.uk/geoffreys-walk-raises-6000-to-help-fund-israeli-rehabilitation-centre/

27/08/2024

🥳 Monty Goldstein marked his 100th birthday by enjoying one of his favourite pastimes… singing.

To celebrate the occasion, the London Cantorial Singers together with members of the former Cranbrook United Synagogue choir joined forces at a Shabbat service at Cranbrook shul to present some of the music Monty had sung since he first joined a choir at the age of eight.

Visit our website for the full story - https://essexjewishnews.co.uk/one-hundred-its-the-full-monty/

19/08/2024

New Exhibition Celebrates The Rich Legacy of The Brady Girls’ Club in London’s Jewish East End

https://essexjewishnews.co.uk/new-exhibition-celebrates-the-rich-legacy-of-the-brady-girls-club-in-londons-jewish-east-end/

09/08/2024

Great news

08/08/2024

Happy 100th birthday to Redbridge Jewish Community Centre member, Monty. 💜🫶🏼🎁

Monty is a well-loved member of the community and has been involved in community activities since he was a young boy. In 1932, aged 8, Monty auditioned for the Stepney Green shul choir at the East London Synagogue. Monty moved from the East End to Gants Hill where he sang in the Beehive Lane Shul choir for 60 years. On Shabbat, Monty will read his Bar Mitzvah portion in Shul.

Monty and his wife, Rhoda, love amateur dramatics and singing and were active members of both the Oxford Review Group and the Sue Moss Group. They visited many care homes and day centres to entertain the members and residents and are most famous for their duet of Bei Mir Bist Du Shein by the Andrew Sisters.

Between Monty and Rhoda, who were married over 30 years ago, the couple have seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Rhoda is also celebrating as she will turn 93 tomorrow.

Monty says, “Rhoda and I love going to the Tuesday Club. We enjoy seeing all our friends there, and we love the hot meal that we have at the Centre. We also have Meals on Wheels delivered every week by a Jewish Care volunteer, which is a great help. It was wonderful to celebrate with my family and friends at the club and the celebrations will be continuing throughout the week! I’d like to say a massive thank you to Timea, the staff and volunteers for making it so special.”

Join us in wishing Mazel Tov to Monty and Rhoda. 🎁🎈

Shabbat Shalom. 💜

24/07/2024

Southend and District Reform Synagogue reported a near full house for the community’s annual special birthday and new members’ Shabbat.

More than 80 people were in attendance as Rabbi Warren Elf welcomed special guests including new local MP David Burton-Sampson, Deputy Mayor of Southend Nigel Folkard and his wife Marion, and the Leader of Southend Council Daniel Cowan.

https://essexjewishnews.co.uk/new-southend-mp-joins-reform-shul-for-special-shabbat/

22/07/2024

Jewish Blind & Disabled () – which has three buildings of specially adapted mobility apartments in Essex – was named as Charity Employer of the Year at the Business Awards 2024.

The event celebrates the excellence, innovation and spirit of enterprise within the Jewish community. Work Avenue – the community’s leading employment and business support organisation – received a record 110 nominations for this year’s awards.

https://essexjewishnews.co.uk/jbd-named-charity-employer-of-the-year-at-work-avenue-business-awards/

10/07/2024

The Jewish Living Experience Exhibition came to Chelmsford, Essex, for the first time – with a launch event attended by senior civic and faith leaders.

Full story https://essexjewishnews.co.uk/jewish-living-experience-exhibition-comes-to-essex/

Chelmsford Jewish Community The Board of Deputies of British Jews

27/06/2024

Come and show your support

The Jewish Living Exhibition is coming to Chelmsford!

Here are our CJC Chair Stan and Hanan of East London and Essex Liberal Synagogue, along with Simon (who is a member of both communities) and Ben of Essex SACRE. They spent the day planning how to get the most of this very special The Board of Deputies of British Jews project.

A launch event will take take place on the evening of Monday 8 July, with many dignitaries in attendance.

Members and friends of the Chelmsford Jewish Community are encouraged to attend. Please email [email protected] to find out more.

21/06/2024

Full story and photos in the next issue of the Essex Jewish News

12/06/2024

We are very sad to share the news that local legend Sid Green has passed away. A full tribute will be in the next issue of the Essex Jewish News. You can read about the recent party in recognition of his incredible volunteering work here:

https://essexjewishnews.co.uk/sid-green-honoured-for-his-45-years-as-a-volunteer/

12/06/2024

⚽️ Read how this week's Super Sunday football match between parents of Clore Tikva School and Wohl Ilford Jewish Primary School (WIJPS) raised £24,485 to help ensure that both schools can continue to deliver high-quality education.

Full story
https://essexjewishnews.co.uk/clore-v-wijps-super-sunday-football-match-raises-over-24000/