FRS Chanukah 2024/5785
Everything you need to know about Chanukah 2024/5785 at FRS!
Places at the home candle lightings and Friday Night Lights are limited so please pre book (at no cost) via the links below.
You can download chanukah blessing sheets by clicking here
What's on:
Wednesday 25/12 - Night 1: Home Candle Lighting @ the Philips'
- 5pm
- in N20
- please sign up here if you wish to attend
Thursday 26/12 - Night 2: Home Candle Lighting @ the home of Judy and David Plaut
- 4.30pm
- in Potter's Bar
- please sign up here if you wish to attend
AND Home Candle Lighting @ the Kays'
- 5pm
- in Muswell Hill
- please sign up here if you wish to attend
Friday 27/12 - Night 3: Friday Night Lights! (click here for further details)
- Kuddle-Up Chanukah (from 4.15 as usual) + Friday night dinner
- Family fun from 5.30 - 6.30pm
- Followed by candle lighting and Kabbalat Shabbat (multi-access), fish and chips dinner and a musical Oneg Shabbat with guest musician and teacher, Eliana Light, as well as other guests from the Limmud community.
- Booking required if you wish to attend either of the dinners.
Saturday 28/12 - Young Adults' Pub night with Rabbi Deborah and Maya
- 5pm
- Join Rabbi Deborah and Maya for candles and a catch up at a local pub
- Email maya.gottlieb@frs.org.uk if you would like to join us
Sunday 29/12 - Night 5: Home Candle Lighting @ the Reinhardts'
- 5pm
- in West Finchley
- please sign up here if you wish to attend
Monday 30/12 - Night 6: 'Light and Learn’ with Rabbi Eleanor
- 6.30 - 8pm at FRS
- After lighting candles, please join Rabbi Eleanor to explore a classic midrash about another source of light: just ahead of Rosh Chodesh, we'll consider what the moon's size and brightness can teach us about ourselves
Tuesday 31/12 - Night 7: Online Candle Lighting
- 6pm on Zoom
Wednesday 1/1 - Night 8: ‘New Lights for a New Year’ with Rabbi Howard
- 5pm at FRS
- Candle lighting, conversation and poetry
AND B'Yachad Candle Lighting in Edgware
- 7pm
- Venue shared upon booking
- please sign up here if you wish to attend
If you wish to attend any of the home candle lightings or 'Friday Night Lights', please pre-book (at no cost) via the above links.
If you would like to join us for any of the events also being streamed online you can do so here:
https://zoom.us/j/6861340661 Meeting ID: 6861340661 Password: siddur