Cambridge Chaplaincy update

R' Elazar and Alissa Symon Lent Term is (almost) over. Despite term not taking place in person, we have been busy with activity. We are aware of about 30 Jewish students present in town. Many are international students, post-grads, as well as British under-grads who received special permission to come back to college, or live in private housing. We are doing our best to support them by: • Holding a take-away "Lunch and Love" every Tuesday, where we see students in person for a short while • Distributing Shabbat meals every Friday • Holding (recently) Kabalat Shabbat at 3TL • Going on various walks and runs • Setting up a chat for those in Cambridge, to encourage connection and support • Purim! We just had a wonderful Purim, Megilah was read in 3TL, Mishlochei Manot were distributed, and Purim feasts were given out. A special thank you to Ros and Barry Landy, that despite not being able to distribute in person, made many Mishlochei Manot that were delivered by us and appreciated by the Cambridge students At the same time we are running an online program and trying to support our students back home, by running various events: • A weekly live streamed Havdalah • Yidflix: a joint watching and discussion of Jewish related content • Weekly Hebrew reading group - we are currently reading the stories of King David in the book of Shmuel • Purim: many students attended a Chaplaincy National event of an online Megilah and a cocktail making workshop. We also held a zoom Purim Shpiel on Friday afternoon • We are attending and supporting the various Jsoc online events, including a weekly virtual Kabalat shabbat, great talks

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by various speakers, and more. We are especially excited for Virtual Parents Shabbat, that will be taking place this ThursdayFriday It's still hard to know what the Easter Term will allow. We are currently concentrating on finishing Lent Term in the best possible way and figuring out how we can best support students in the upcoming Pesach Holiday.

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