Pesach 5776

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Pesach

Service Times

15 Nisan 5776 23 April 2016

For Pesach are found on the back page.

Chayim Arukim

3,328 years free and counting!

to all those who have Yahrzeit over the next two weeks as follows ‫שבת‬

Bernard Cohen Denise Simon

Father Father

Sun

Vicky Lee Howard Klass

Father Mother

Mon

Stephanie Klass Andrea Conrad

Father Mother

Tues

Edward Price Joe Rich

Father Mother

Linda Arnold

Mother

28 April 20 Nisan

Tessa Frieslander

Husband

‫שבת‬

Barbara Myers Jonathan Brownson Bernard Verby Larry Ward

Father Grandmother Father Father

Sun

Sheilah Sheldon Jo Rich

Father Grandmother

Mon

David Mond Jonathan Mond Marcia Joseph Liz Alexander Muriel Mond

23 April 15 Nisan 24 April 16 Nisan 25 April 17 Nisan 26 April 18 Nisan

Wed

27 April 19 Nisan

Thurs

30 April 22 Nisan

1 May 23 Nisan 2 May 24 Nisan

Tues

3 May 25 Nisan

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Thought For The Week Standing Proud Pesach marks the birth of the Jewish

Perhaps the miracle of Jewish survival that

nation and our historic redemption after

historians cannot explain comes down to

210 years of slavery in Egypt. The cycle of

that blessing given to the Israelites when

the Jewish year brings us back to Pesach

they left Egypt; the blessing that gives the

every spring time and renews our sense

Jewish people the strength to stand proud

of freedom and our faith in the power of

in the face of discrimination and oppres-

redemption.

sion and the same blessing that continues

Father Father Father Father Husband

As I mentioned last week on Shabbat

to protect the people and the state of

Hagadol, there is a Chassidic idea that the

Israel from the hostile nations that sur-

Jewish people came out of Egypt blessed

round her.

Kitty Joseph

Mother

with a new strength – a renewed survival

On these days of Pesach we celebrate

Lawrence Huddlestone Father

Yvonne Myers

Father

instinct. Throughout Jewish history this

the miracle of Jewish survival, not just as

Wed

Maurice Miller Aryeh Gradel

Mother Mother

has helped us to endure subjugation and

a historic event but as a present reality.

Thurs

Rita Leigh Mark Saperia Vicky Lee Aubrey Greene

Mother Father Grandmother Father

oppression. Our tiny nation has been occu-

We look forward to a time when Jews are

pied and exiled, murdered and expelled,

not oppressed or victimised, but free to

Fri

forced into ghettos and victimized by anti-

live according to the laws of the Torah,

Rochelle King Jonathan Brownson

Father Grandfather

Semites. The Assyrians, the Babylonians

in Israel and wherever we choose. The

‫שבת‬

Ella Lentin Muriel Davies Martin Davies Gillian Cohen

Mother Husband Fahter Father

and the Romans, the Crusaders and the

eventual redemption for which we daven

Ottomans, the Cossacks, the Nazis and

constantly will bring an end to war and

Russia’s Communist regime have all tried

suffering throughout the world, and an

Mazaltov to

to wipe us out. Against all the odds, the

era of peace and security. May it happen

Margalit & Marc Levene and to Niki & Clive Leveson on the birth of a daughter and granddaughter.

Jewish people are still here, and many of

speedily in our days.

4 May 26 Nisan 5 May 27 Nisan

6 May 28 Nisan 7 May 29 Nisan

the nations that have oppressed us are themselves extinct.

Rabbi Joel Portnoy


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