Together Groups

Angela Wilson will be showing a selection of paintings by artists some of whom you will be familiar with, while others you will never have heard of! We will be exploring their lives and their artworks. No previous knowledge or artistic experience is necessary. Just sit back, relax and enjoy some of the most beautiful, unusual, avant-garde and disturbing paintings in the world.

After the session we will have tea together and you will have the opportunity to discuss the art.

£2 for EHRS Members  ~  £5 for Non EHRS Members

Tuesdays 30 April, 14 & 28 May, 11 June, 14:30-16:00

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Wednesdays 3 & 17 April, 8 & 22 May, 5 & 19 June, 20:00-21:30

Led by Annita Tischler, Beginners Bridge will enable you to learn the basics of the game in a friendly and welcoming setting. Booking is essential. As places are limited to a maximum of 20, priority will be given to EHRS members.
Donation: £2 per session for EHRS members, £3 per session for non members
Block booking available for these 6 sessions, click here

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Join our monthly Cookalong’s where we create delicious treats together with all different types of foods. Open to all adults who would like to join us.

Past Cookalong’s have included Hamantashen for Purim, Vegan dishes, Chinese fakeaway, fresh pasta, a Tu B’Shevat seder, Pesach florentines and cocktails, Foraging and Freebies, Shavuot alternatives to cheesecake, cookies & loaf cakes for tea, making our own ice-cream, and vegan & Parev desserts.

Wednesday 24 April, 20:30 on Zoom
A Sweet Tooth Pesach: We will be making Kosher for Pesach Gluten Free Shortbread Biscuits and Cookie Bars from the comfort of our own kitchens on Zoom. For ingredients and Zoom details please email rabbi.debbie@ehrs.uk

Wednesday 22 May, 20:00 on Zoom
A Shavuot Fruit Feast – Join Rabbi Debbie as we learn how to make our own fruit leather, and a delicious strawberry sorbet that doesn’t require an ice cream maker, both of which will keep until Shavuot (unless you can’t wait!)

Wednesday 26 June, 19:00-21:00 at EHRS
Quick & Dirty Challah Making: Join Rabbi Mark in person at EHRS as he returns for a second year! Prepare, shape and bake your own Challah to take home for Shabbat. All ingredients provided in his recipe which anyone can make easily. Booking essential as this will take place in the EHRS kitchen, and places are limited. Please click here to book.

Please click here to register your interest and be added to our mailing list for future cookalongs

(previously Israeli Dancing)
Mondays, 11:00-12:30

Please join us for our dance class at EHRS. This class is for all adults and runs weekly.

A warm welcome to all who want to join us for this energetic and fun morning.

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During the special Jewish Year known as the ‘Shmita’ or sabbatical, we are looking forward to learning with our EHRS member Peter Bradley about local foraging opportunities through the seasons.

Find what food the local area offers us for free, and learn how to use them from Vegan Honey to Ketchup, Salad to Soup!

Sunday 30 June

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Here at EHRS we do a truly incredible job supporting each other as a community throughout the year, but at the last major festival we celebrated together we were passionately reminded by Rabbi Mark that our responsibilities extend beyond our own thriving Jewish community. As we reach our new year it’s time to turn that rallying call into action.

We are forming a new Interfaith Group based on what our members would like – so we really want and need to hear ideas from you!

Our Rabbis are all keen to take part but we’d like to assemble an enthusiastic group of people to form a committee tasked with planning interfaith activities throughout the year. We’d especially like to hear from members of all ages from 12 to 120, whether that’s your suggestions or if you’d like to become a part of this new group, it’s a unique opportunity to shape our Synagogue’s activities.

If you’d like to be a part of the conversation or come on board, please get in touch with Debbie Drapkin by calling the synagogue or emailing debbie.drapkin@ehrs.uk

If you are the parent of a teen who is battling an eating disorder, you might like to chat with other mums and dads in a similar situation to share your struggles, exchange tips on how to cope or just know that you are not alone.

To join this warm, non-judgemental group, please click here to register.

Following on from the success of Genesis, a recently established bereavement group for those who have recently lost their partners and which is now full, there is demand for another group.

This group will be for those in their 70s and bereaved, who would like to meet others in a similar situation with a view to doing things together.

If this appeals to you and you would like to find out more please click here to register your interest for this group.

Rambling Group

There’s only one thing that beats getting out into the fresh air and discovering new places – and that’s doing it with other people.
As part of EHRS’s Together Groups, Rambling is a fantastic way to make new friends and learn about local lore. Worried about breaking the ice? That’s the beauty of being part of a group, you will have your love of great views, fresh air and a love of nature in common.
Led by our member Phil Muller, our monthly walks will be approximately 1-2 hours, moderately challenging, and super friendly. Open to all ages.
To find out more about our future walks simply email rambling@ehrs.uk

Sunday 28 April, 11:00 – We will be holding a special family friendly Matzah Ramble following the sculpture trail in Oxhey Woods
Sunday 26 May, 10:30 – Whippendale Woods & Cassiobury Park
Sunday 30 June, 10:30 – details to be confirmed

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Calling all Rummikub players!

Do you love playing Rummikub?  This friendly Group takes place monthly on Tuesdays (4th Tuesday of the month), 14:00-16:00. Open to all ages and abilities.

Dates: 7 & 21 May, 4 June, 7, 16 & 30 July

Donation £2 per person. Booking essential.

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Mondays, 14:00-15:30

Singing Circle is for anyone who enjoys bursting out into song. You don’t need perfect pitch or be able to read music. Most of our 150 + song repertoire (which we add to every week) consists of popular songs, and songs from the shows which we sing along to while watching YouTube videos to ensure that, when we sing them unaccompanied, everyone is on the same (eco-friendly) page!

We designate the first Monday in the month as an opportunity to learn some Israeli songs or lively songs from our EHRS liturgy. No knowledge of Hebrew is needed as everything is transliterated into English characters.

Join Lawrence Cohen our facilitator, and Angela, Estelle and Linda, our song leaders, for joyful harmonies with a break for coffee and chit chat. This group runs weekly at EHRS.

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EHRS’s stimulating and friendly Talmud class is open to all levels of Jewish knowledge.

Join Rabbi Mark to grapple with the ideas of our classical Rabbis. Join the discussion of 2000 years ago and its remarkable relevance to issues today.
No previous Talmud study experience necessary, just a thirst to get deep into the foundational texts of Judaism. This class is conducted online through Zoom as discussion and argument is what it is all about!

Please email rabbi.mark@ehrs.uk to get the Zoom details and the Talmud texts we are studying.

Upcoming dates:
Sundays 28 April, 12 & 26 May, and 16 June, 10:00-11:00