AN ANNUAL attendee at the AJEX Parade, Stanley Perry told us that this time there was an extra VIP flavour. His Loughton and Chigwell contingent were accompanied by Barbara Cohen, Mayor of Loughton, who marched alongside
A TIRELESS stalwart of the AJEX Parade since 1954, Arnold Rose is a member of Jewish Care’s Redbridge Jewish Community Centre (RJCC) and Cranbrook United Synagogue on Beehive Lane, which organises a coach to the Cenotaph
Pat Lidiker reports from the AJEX Annual Remembrance Parade & Ceremony IN NOVEMBER, Jewish ex-servicemen and women, together with family members and supporters of all ages, travelled from across Essex and the East Coast to take
CHIGWELL and Hainault Synagogue’s young families committee (pictured) hosted their first pub quiz fundraiser in November. The event was put on by Sarah Chessis, Ashley Sinclair, Jessica Shine, Julie Murray and David Blitz and was attended
JEWISH Blind & Disabled (JBD) held an event to mark the inaugural concrete at the latest in their expanding number of developments, which includes three existing buildings across Essex. A pour ceremony at their eighth development,
By Pat Lidiker WHILE enjoying opening all the cards from well-wishers on his milestone birthday, Rolf Penzias and his partner of 35 years Lucie Bernheim were not at all fazed to find one from King Charles
A NEW initiative is offering older members of the community the opportunity to socialise and chat about interesting topics at Jewish Care’s Chatty Café with Chabad in Buckhurst Hill. Hosted by volunteers, with cake and coffee,
By Charles Hutchins A NEW adult study group exploring radical readings of the rabbinic text of the Talmud has begun at South West Essex and Settlement Reform Synagogue (SWESRS) The free, weekly drop-in Mishnah Shiur offer
By Manny Robinson IRIS TAYLOR, a Redbridge-based volunteer for Jewish Women’s Aid (JWA), has won the Unsung Hero Award at the national Third Sector Awards ceremony. The 81-year-old member of Cranbrook United Synagogue has been a
By Geoffrey Pepper CHIEF RABBI Ephraim Mirvis, local MP Anna Firth and Deputy Mayor Stephen Habermel were among 300 people attending the induction of Rabbi Geoffrey Hyman at Southend and Westcliff Hebrew Congregation (SWHC), in a
AN ANNUAL attendee at the AJEX Parade, Stanley Perry told us that this time there was an extra VIP flavour. His Loughton and Chigwell contingent were accompanied by Barbara Cohen, Mayor of Loughton, who marched alongside
A TIRELESS stalwart of the AJEX Parade since 1954, Arnold Rose is a member of Jewish Care’s Redbridge Jewish Community Centre (RJCC) and Cranbrook United Synagogue on Beehive Lane, which organises a coach to the Cenotaph
Pat Lidiker reports from the AJEX Annual Remembrance Parade & Ceremony IN NOVEMBER, Jewish ex-servicemen and women, together with family members and supporters of all ages, travelled from across Essex and the East Coast to take
CHIGWELL and Hainault Synagogue’s young families committee (pictured) hosted their first pub quiz fundraiser in November. The event was put on by Sarah Chessis, Ashley Sinclair, Jessica Shine, Julie Murray and David Blitz and was attended
JEWISH Blind & Disabled (JBD) held an event to mark the inaugural concrete at the latest in their expanding number of developments, which includes three existing buildings across Essex. A pour ceremony at their eighth development,
By Pat Lidiker WHILE enjoying opening all the cards from well-wishers on his milestone birthday, Rolf Penzias and his partner of 35 years Lucie Bernheim were not at all fazed to find one from King Charles
A NEW initiative is offering older members of the community the opportunity to socialise and chat about interesting topics at Jewish Care’s Chatty Café with Chabad in Buckhurst Hill. Hosted by volunteers, with cake and coffee,
By Charles Hutchins A NEW adult study group exploring radical readings of the rabbinic text of the Talmud has begun at South West Essex and Settlement Reform Synagogue (SWESRS) The free, weekly drop-in Mishnah Shiur offer
By Manny Robinson IRIS TAYLOR, a Redbridge-based volunteer for Jewish Women’s Aid (JWA), has won the Unsung Hero Award at the national Third Sector Awards ceremony. The 81-year-old member of Cranbrook United Synagogue has been a
By Geoffrey Pepper CHIEF RABBI Ephraim Mirvis, local MP Anna Firth and Deputy Mayor Stephen Habermel were among 300 people attending the induction of Rabbi Geoffrey Hyman at Southend and Westcliff Hebrew Congregation (SWHC), in a
