Belsize Square SynagogueOur 2025 Chanukah Market will be from 12 noon to 4 pm on Sunday 7 December. See you there!
Chevra haChachamotFrom Aleph and Rabbi Rami Avraham Efal:
As winter descends with its long, dark nights—and following a long season of collective pain—Daroma: Temple of One invites you to a 10-week online practice season (from Hanukkah through Tu Bishvat) to deepen one's personal practice, radical interiority, ancestral connection and spiritual formation — in fellowship. Led by Rabbi Rami Avraham Efal and guided by the fierce wisdom of the Kotzker Rebbe, depicted in Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel's book "Passion for Truth", we’ll draw from the Zohar, Tanya, Hasidic and Zen Buddhist teachings, texts on non-dual consciousness, and grief, plus pop-up sessions for meditation, tefillah and more.
Register: https://www.ramiefal.com/journal/daroma-temple-of-one-5786-winter-practice-season
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From Aleph and Rose Espinola:
This project consists of an online, multimedia exhibit and chapbook, curated by Rose Espinola with artworks from Ayeola Omolara Kaplan.
The ceremony will include storytelling and intention-setting. The artist and author will also answer participant questions.
All are invited to join; the experiences of Jewish people of color will be centered.
A Zoom link will be shared after registered. You may connect by computer, the phone app, or through a dial-in phone number.
Register: https://actionnetwork.org/events/art-chapbook-ceremony/
View samples from the exhibit: https://roseespinola.com/jewish-postpartum/
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From Aleph:
In this 2-part series, Rabbi Charna and Rabbi Jonathan will guide us through a study of what the dawning of the Age of Aquarius means.
Format: Remote - Zoom link will be sent in confirmation email
We will focus on
- Honoring what we’ve inherited
- Releasing what no longer serves
- Stepping into leadership rooted in heart and wholeness
This is not a lecture. It’s a guided journey of reflection, dialogue, and spiritual evolution.
Register: https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/iv5z4k8xbwHeFOynJHwmUA
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“There are both successes to point to and some significant gaps to still fill to help day schools and camps fully include Sephardic and Mizrahi families,” said Sarah Levin, Executive Director of JIMENA. “We want to work with community, school, and camp leaders to do this in thoughtful, respectful ways so that every child sees their traditions, history, and modern-day cultural norms reflected in these spaces.”
The New York Assessment: https://www.jimena.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/NY-Seph-Day-School-Inclusion-Report.pdf
The LA Assessment: https://www.jimena.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/LA-Day-School-and-Camp-Report.pdf
For practical next steps, JIMENA encourages school leaders to access our Sephardic and Mizrahi Education Toolkit: https://www.sepharditoolkit.org
JIMENA's mission is to achieve universal recognition of the heritage, history, and rights of the one million indigenous Jewish refugees from the Middle East and North Africa and their Mizrahi and Sephardi descendants.
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Join Beit Toratah this Sunday, Nov. 9, 1-3 PM ET for the study of Leviticus 2.
The text details several forms of grain gifts—baked, griddled, or fried—all prepared without leaven or honey, yet always with salt, symbol of the covenant with the Goddess. Offerings of first grain are roasted or crushed with oil and frankincense, their scented part turned to smoke in devotion to Tehovah.
Study Materials: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wdCMK0vvTSptUAVcolj4LGMq6ixH9frWVkvNkjDEBLs/edit?mc_cid=f2473736c3&mc_eid=bac61ec896&tab=t.0
Living wills address the physical body. Financial wills protect property. But an ethical will is a gift of the heart and spirit—a way to pass along the stories, values, and wisdom that have shaped your life.
Class is $18
This event will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience.
Register: https://ritualwell.org/event/before-i-go-writing-the-ethical-will/
Leah kvetches all the time"No one should go hungry due to their circumstances, the state in which they live, or the President’s willingness to follow the law. The millions of American families struggling with hunger deserve better than the fear and uncertainty that has been unleashed upon them."
A Petition, if you like those: https://mazon.org/policy_actions/call-on-congress-to-avert-hunger-crisis-and-fund-november-snap-benefits/
Donate to Mazon: https://giving.mazon.org/page/mazon
Thank you for continuing to raise your voice in this urgent moment. Together, we are making it impossible for our leaders to look away.
Abby J. Leibman
President & CEO
MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger
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From Harif:
The daughter of oud-player Sol Basha, Madrid-based Regine Basha is an artist, curator, story-teller and founder of the project Tuning Baghdad. This is an audio-visual archive of music and stories recalling Regine’s Iraqi-Jewish upbringing, her father´s deep relationship to Arabic music and the lost Jewish performers of Iraqi Maqam. She also has a keen interest in Mizrahi food and has hosted a show called Kitchen Radio.
Join Zoom meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88256691342?pwd=aaNVy8ngLli0NaGOZLl7ohUTMUEM1z.1
Meeting ID: 882 5669 1342
Passcode: SalehDaoud
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Global Day of Jewish Learning Event with Kabbalah Experience!
Register for Zoom or In-Person Here:
https://kabbalahexperience.com/special-events-2025/
This year study’s theme, 70 Faces of Torah, celebrates Judaism’s embrace of multiple and competing perspectives to enrich our understanding of the world, Torah, and ourselves.
Please register before Thursday so we can plan accordingly!!
