Kol Nefesh Masorti

The final Shur will be at 10am on Sunday morning at Jacky and Brian's - preceded by Shacharit at 9am. We will be finishing our study on Interpretation of Jewish texts, looking at some of the "messianic" texts from Isaiah

6.30
Seudah Shelishit at the Kelly's

(Board game Seudah) - come and play games! Bring your own game or Go with the Kelly's Articulate or Ludo.

June 2009

Problems that a female member of the Noam Garin in Tsahal
has had in trying to say kaddish

In Ivrit, listen to

Israel Radio

Or read (in English)
Jerusalem Post Article

May 2009

Conversion in Israel, by Rabbi Andrew Sachs
Article

April 2009
The Count
Not actually from a Masorti site, but an interesting take on the Omer.
Article by Shlomo Gewirtz

Joseph and the four cups of wine?
From this weeks Jerusalem Post

Feb 2009

Tu b'Shvat

Erev Shabbat April 17th (5.30)

KNM's 1st Musical Kabbalat Shabbat for families

Bring your instruments, for a musical feast, followed by an edible one. Erev Shabbat in the spring/summer is a great time to combine our service with music - so come along with your cellos and flutes, guitars and tambourines, and don't forget the children!

Monday April 27th, Tuesday May 5th, 7.30pm

Shiur by Skype. - We'll link up with Rabbi Joel in Jerusalem for a Talmud shiur on the 27th, and the next shiur in our series on Jewish Interpretation on the 5th. You need a computer, Skype and a microphone/speaker

(note the early start time to accommodate the time difference)

Click here for a monthly Jewish calender

Go to the Events calender in the right hand panel to see this weeks Shabbat programme at KNM.
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See http://blessthesun.org

We celebrated this rare event on April 8th.

The Year of the Sun - By Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin
On April 8, 2009, something will happen that the world has not seen happen in 28 years: the sun will return to the place of its creation, at the very time of its creation. So the rabbis tell us. And the Jewish community will do what it hasn’t done in 28 years: gather to bless the anniversary of the birth of the sun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkat_HaHammah
If you are over 50, you may be wondering why you don’t remember this from 27 years ago. That’s because this is such a minor event in the Jewish calendar that most people paid it no attention. One tradition even says that if the sky is overcast that day, forget it.

This recent Voices of Conservative Judaism magazine featured our own Wing Commander Stephen Griffiths in an article on how EAJL is bringing students and teachers together and "reaching those yearning to preserve the traditions of our sacred songs." Kol Hakavod to Stephen, and to Jacky.
read the article

Jews have been studying the Torah for thousands of years without running out of new insights. A group of us started to meet weekly at our homes in the autumn of 2007 to spend a couple of hours continuing this tradition. Bringing a chumash ot two, maybe some commentaries, we read and discussed the next week's sedrah, trying to understand it from a non-fundamentalist perspective. We had fascinating discussions on the moral, historical and halachic meanings of each week's Torah reading, rarely managing to complete the sedrah before time ran out.

This year we have also decided to carry on from the end of Devarim into the Nevi'im. We started with Book of Joshua, and having tired somewhat of the endless and rather blood-thirsty tales of conquest, we have now moved on to the Book of Judges (Shoftim).

Come and join us - no prior knowledge is needed.

On this page, listen to some of the music we experience at KNM

Rachmana d'Aney from the end of the Kol Nidre service.

B'Rosh Hashanah by Finkelstein.

The blessings we sing when called to an Aliyah on the Yamim Noraim.

More music to come.........