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SHALOM AND WELCOME TO THE WESSEX LIBERAL JEWISH COMMUNITY
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HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY COMMEMORATIONS 2012
24th January, 2012 - Remembering the Holocaust. This remembrance event will take place at High Cross Church, Amethyst Road, Somerford, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23 3EB at 10.30am. There will be a presentation about the Kindertransport and a chance to remember those who suffered during the Holocaust. Admission is free but please call Joe Farnand on 01452 280831 to confirm your attendance.

27th January, 2012 - Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration at the Corn Exchange in Dorchester from 12.30pm -1.30pm. Hosted by the South West Dorset Multicultural Network.

27th January, 2012 - Holocaust Memorial Day Service. A ‘pause for thought’ short memorial service at 12 midday in Lady Diana Gardens, Radipole Park Drive, Weymouth. All are welcome at this free event. For more information contact Charlotte Sheppard on 01305 838512 or charlottesheppard@weymouth.gov.uk or see the website: www.visitweymouth.co.uk

29th January, 2012 - Interfaith Commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day at 2pm at Bournemouth University, Multi Faith Chaplaincy, Talbot House, Talbot Campus, BH12 5BB. This is a free, open to all event. It will showcase some of the winning entries to their school’s competition and there will be a sharing of readings and songs from members of different religious and ethnic backgrounds. For more information contact Lynda Ford-Horne on bphmdc@gmail.com or call: 07876653761.

Here is a heartwarming report that fits perfectly with our Mitzvah Day 2011 project - "Eye camp by Israeli doctors in Nepal" "A team of seven Israeli volunteers including three doctors and one nurse visited Nepal for a 13-day stay in April 2011." Read more .../

Click here to download a copy of "Lighting up the Darkness" A Chanukah Guide to Social Justice

Our Constitution was unanimously voted into being on Sunday 11th December. Click here to download a copy.


Our community is an official partner of Mitzvah Day 2011 and our members decided last shabbat to get involved by collecting spectacles (glasses - but not the cases thank you) for Vision Aid Overseas. Collect any spectacles from home, family, colleagues, friends and neighbours and take them to your nearest participating optician.  Notify us through the website or by email so that we know how many pairs of glasses were donated by our efforts.

The following local opticians (by postcode numerical order) are on the Vision Aid Overseas list for you to take your collected glasses:


  • BH2: Classic Eyes 55 Bourne Avenue, Bournemouth BH2 6BY
  • BH4: Scrivens 89 Poole Road, Bournemouth BH4 9BB
  • BH8: Barnaby's Opticians 152 Charminster Rd, Bournemouth BH8 8UU
  • BH14: Perry Opticians, 434 Ashley Rd, Poole BH14 0AA
  • BH15: Vision Express in the Dolphin Centre, Poole, BH15 1ST
  • BH18: Keith Tempany Opticians 185 Broadway, Broadstone BH18 8DH
  •      "      West Opticians 214 Lower Blandford Rd, Broadstone BH18 8DX
  • BH21: Optique 2000, 7a West St., Wimborne BH21 1JN
  •       "     Peter Thomas 43 East St, Wimborne, BH21 1DX
  • BH22: Parley Optonotrists, 127 New Rd, Ferndown BH22 8EB
  • BH23: Leightons Opticians, 13 Saxon Square, Christchurch, BH23 1QA
  • BH24: Kelly Eye Care, 17 The High St., Ringwood, BH24 1AB
Read more about Mitzvah day below.
"Mitzvah Day is a Jewish led day of social action.  On Mitzvah Day, around the world, thousands of people take part in hands on projects, without fundraising, to support charities and to build stronger communities.

Our mission is to reduce hardship and poverty, to help our environment and to bring a little joy - hands on – no fundraising. It is a way for all of us to make our mark regardless of our affiliation, wealth, age, sex or nationality.

Mitzvah Day is based on the Jewish values of tikkun olam (repairing the world), tzedek (righteousness) and gemilut chassadim (acts of lovingkindness).

Mitzvah Day 2011 will launch national Inter Faith Week and we look forward to supporting an increasing number of inter faith events taking place on Mitzvah Day itself.

Mitzvah Day UK became a registered charity in 2008 having launched in the UK with Founding Partner the JCC for London and based on the concept of Mitzvah Day at Temple Israel of Hollywood." Continue .../

OUR PASSOVER SEDER 5771/2011
Thank you Rabbi Rich for a truly inspiring and insightful Seder. In addition, the company was warm, friendly and inclusive; the food was excellent and the service was both spiritual and of the high standard we have come to expect from you. You struck the balance just right. The new Liberal Haggadah is not only scholarly and informative but it is also beautifully illustrated. A modern design classic. Congratulations to all involved in its production.

Liberal Judaism Israel Month. Click here.

On Holocaust Memorial Day (2011) a talk was given in Bournemouth on the role of Muslims in rescuing Jews during the Holocaust. A booklet on this subject can be downloaded from the 'Faith Matters' website by clicking on the uppermost banner in the right hand side panel of this page.

Thank you Rabbi Hilton Ellis for a truly inspiring Shabbat service (Saturday 8th January). The service was followed by a truly magnificent Chavurah buffet. Great teamwork. Marvelous atmosphere. Kol hakavod to everyone involved at whatever level.

"Zionism: a Jewish Communal Response from the UK" Edited by Lucian J. Hudson. This is the electronic version of this important cross-communal publication.

2010 - OUR FIRST CHANNUKAH PARTY

Thank you Rabbi Alan Mann for making our Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services so very inspiring and meaningful. Thank you Geoffrey Cravitz for your vocal support. Your voice immeasurably enriched our prayers. We also thank those of our supporters who provided an abundance of food for kiddushim and breaking the Fast; added to our services by their participation; found us an excellent venue (Village Hotel Bournemouth); provided security or just attended services.

Finally we thank Rabbi Danny Rich and Liberal Judaism for their unstinting support without which the above would not have happened.
The Wessex Liberal Jewish Group Steering Committee.

WHO ARE WE?
Following a public meeting in June addressed by Liberal Judaism Chief Executive, Rabbi Danny Rich the Wessex Liberal Jewish Group is exploring affiliation to Liberal Judaism, a movement of some 10,000 Jews in 35 communities including in Edinburgh, Manchester, Dublin, the East and West Midlands, London and the Home Counties, Essex, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Brighton and Eastbourne.

Our Hebrew name is Adat Chaverim, meaning a Community of Friends.  This is precisely what we aim to be: a sincere, egalitarian and inclusive Jewish community and not just a community of Jews.

Wessex Liberal Jewish Group welcomes individuals, couples and families who consider themselves Jewish or wish to explore what 'being Jewish' means. The Group operates under the auspices of the Rabbinic Conference of Liberal Judaism.

The Wessex Liberal Jewish Group uses the Liberal Judaism siddur, Siddur Lev Chadash for services which are led by our own members or by visiting Liberal rabbis. We usually have two shabbat services per month, on alternating Friday evenings (Erev Shabbat) and Saturday mornings (Shabbat morning).

Why not join us for a service or a social? You may be Jewish or Jew-ish! Send us an email.

To find out more about Liberal Judaism go to www.liberaljudaism.org
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