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Adult Education: Ulpan
10:00–11:00 Hebrew Ulpan Aleph
11:15-12:15 Hebrew Ulpan Bet
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ARK 24 June
The Water and the Wine: Bohemian love and life on a Greek island with Tamar Hodes.
It’s the 1960s and a group of young writers and artists gathers on the Greek island of Hydra. Leonard Cohen is at the start of his career and in love with Marianne Ihlen, who is also muse to her ex-husband, Axel. Australian authors George Johnston and Charmian Clift write, drink and fight. It is a hedonistic time of love, sex and new ideas. As the island hums with excitement, Jack and Frieda Silver join the community, hoping to mend their broken marriage. However, Greece is overtaken by a military junta and the artistic idyll is threatened.
In this fictionalised account, Tamar Hodes explores the destructive side of creativity and the price that we pay for our dreams.
Refreshments of tea/coffee & bagels available from 10.30 am.
Joint Family Activity with Altrincham Mosque POSTPONED
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE
Israeli Dancing
£5 at the door. Beginners always welcome! Contact
Choir rehearsal
New joiners always welcome!
Adult Education: Siddur Hebrew & Access
19:30–20:15 Siddur Hebrew: beginners and improvers
20:30–21:30 Access ~ Reform Jewry today and the Menorah Community
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Erev Shabbat Service and Chavurah Supper – 29 June
At the home of Deborah and Paul Cohen in Gatley. Please email fridaynights@menorah.org.uk if you’d like to attend, and bring a non-meat dish to share.
Shabbat Morning Service
17 Tammuz 5778 ~ Balak ~ Numbers 24:1-25 ~ 1 Samuel 10:1-27
Adult Education: Ulpan
10:00–11:00 Hebrew Ulpan Aleph
11:15-12:15 Hebrew Ulpan Bet
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ARK 1 July
Presentation and discussion, led by Judy Bavin. What does it mean to live a good life? Philosophers have pondered this question for centuries. Does it mean a life of virtue, bravery, selflessness and generosity, or does it mean a life of pleasure and indulgence? Or does it mean a life of happiness….but how do we define happiness? Come and debate these and other fascinating but unanswerable questions. Refreshments of tea/coffee & bagels available from 10.30 am.
Flora Menorah 1 July
Come to see Jack & Judy Zussman’s small but wonderful garden with its amazing collection of over 40 clematis and have tea. First open garden of the season!
Please email to say that you’re coming.
M@M Discussion 2 July
Come along for a lively discussion on the burning issues of the day. To ensure that they will be ‘up-to-the-minute’, topics will be announced here nearer the time.
Israeli Dancing CANCELLED
Apologies – there will be no session this week.
Choir rehearsal
New joiners always welcome!
Film Club July: Garden of the Finzi-Continis
1970/Italy – Drama, Dir: Vittorio De Sica, 95 mins
This classic Italian drama set in the late 1930s is based on the book of the same name by Giorgio Bassani. It focuses on the fate of the intellectual Finzi-Contini family, wealthy Jewish aristocrats who live on an idyllic estate in Ferrara. Siblings Alberto and Micol regularly hold parties with their friends, largely sheltered from the growing anti-Semitism in their country. When the Fascist movement becomes stronger, however, it affects everyone in the orbit of the family forcing them to open the gates of their walled-off dreamworld.
Opera at Menorah – Jenufa: Janáček
Opera appreciation with Joyce Kennedy. This month: Janáček’s Jenufa. Voluntary donation £5.00
Adult Education: Siddur Hebrew & Access
19:30–20:15 Siddur Hebrew: beginners and improvers
20:30–21:30 Access ~ End-of-year celebration and community voices
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Erev Shabbat Service
at Menorah.
Shabbat Morning Service 7 July
24 Tammuz 5778 ~ Pinchas ~ Blessing for Av ~ Numbers 28:1-18 ~ Jeremiah 6:16-7:7
Kiddush is sponsored by Mary and David Cotton to celebrate David’s forthcoming 80th Birthday.
Adult Education: Ulpan
10:00–11:00 Hebrew Ulpan Aleph
11:15-12:15 Hebrew Ulpan Bet
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ARK
Presentation and discussion – speaker and topic to be confirmed.
Refreshments of tea/coffee & bagels available from 10.30 am.
M@M Lunch with Games
Eat, Meet, Defeat!
Enjoy a delicious lunch followed by games: Scrabble, Chess, Cards or Bridge
Israeli Dancing
£5 at the door. Beginners always welcome! Contact
Choir rehearsal
New joiners always welcome!
Erev Shabbat Service – Shabbat Yachdav
Service and chavurah supper at Menorah.
If you can, please bring a non-meat dish – savoury or sweet – to share. As it’s Bastille Day on 14 July, this month’s theme is a French one.
If you’d like to help out at our monthly Shabbat Yachdav, please contact Lorna at
Shabbat Morning Service
2 Av 5778 ~ Mattot – Mas’ei ~ Numbers 36:1-13 ~ Jeremiah 2:4-28; 3:4; 4:1-2
Shabbatots
Under sevens are invited to bring along a cuddly toy friend and a grown-up to the Library at 11 am for stories, singing, prayers, dancing, kiddush and lots of fun! And we will join the main service for the Torah procession and blessing from Rabbi Fabian.
Please let us know if your child has a birthday, or special event we can help to celebrate. Contact Carol Lewis
Q&A Shabbat
In place of a sermon, Rabbi Fabian will speak on topics raised by you. What’s on your mind? Send your questions or thoughts a few days in advance to . “Suppose no one asked a question, what would be the answer?” (Gertrude Stein)
Book Club: 16 July
Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck.
Introduced by Jane Mulvihill.
Israeli Dancing
£5 at the door. Beginners always welcome! Contact