Notice of a Special General Meeting

You are requested to attend a Special General Meeting of the Synagogue on

Tuesday 7th February 2012 at 7.45 pm prompt at the synagogue

AGENDA

1. Opening Prayer
2. Apologies for absence and welcome from the Chair of Council.
3. To Elect our representative to the Board of Deputies for the Triennial Session 2012-2015
4. To Elect an additional non-voting under 35 years of age observer
5. Vote by a show of hands
6. To Close the meeting and announce that a Council meeting will take place afterwards

Should you wish to nominate a member as the representative or as the under 35 years of age observer please let me know in writing or by e mail at least 7 days prior to the meeting.
enquiries@sukkatshalom.org.uk

Please note that Rachel Savage has asked to be put forward as our representative. Rachel is currently our under 35 years of age observer. Simon Sugarman our current representative is not prepared to stand.

Angela Jacobs Honorary Secretary

B,Nei Mitzvot Since the Synagogue was Founded

Paul Yogi Mayer died in July 2011. Yogi as he was affectionally known was born in 1912 and grew up in the Rhineland-Pfalz region in Germany. He was a very independent young man in Germany at a time when it did not bode well for Jews exercising their human rights as individuals and citizens of the country. This independence led to Yogi being summoned before the notorious Head of Gestapo, Chief Reinhard Heydrich, who forbade him to speak in any public or closed meetings.. As he grew up he had no bitterness towards the Germany of his childhood in spite of evading arrest for political activities and having to emigrate with his wife Ilse and child Thomas to London in 1939.

Following the devastating earthquake and tsunami on Friday 11 March which measured 8.9 on the Richter scale, the fifth largest recorded in history, Japan faces a growing humanitarian crisis.

The official death toll stands at 2400 with many more missing and injured and the numbers are expected to rise. More than a million homes are without power and water, hundreds of thousands have been displaced and a huge response operation is underway. The scale of needs is almost incomprehensible.

Adding to the growing concerns the Japanese government has warned that radiation levels at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have increased to reach levels harmful to human health, leading to further displacement of people.

Special General Meeting in order to ratify some changes to the Synagogue Constitiution

If you are driven, creative, motivated and want to make a difference in the UK Jewish community, you should apply for the UJIA Adam Science Foundation Leadership Programme. ASFLP is a dynamic leadership programme for young professionals who will take an active leadership role in the community.

In the first year you will develop your vision, leadership skills, understanding and knowledge of the community and afterwards continue your communal journey through the Alumni Network.
Who should apply:
• Young professionals

I received this image from a friend in Canada. This is how it should be

Sukkat Shalom Reform Synagogue is part of the Movement for Reform Judaism.
Reform Judaism: http://www.reformjudaism.org.uk/

Adjacent to the shul, on our grounds you will find the small office of the Jewish Joint Burial Society.
Membership of the JJBS is included in our fees
Jewish Funerals: http://www.jewishfunerals.org.uk/

Sukkat Shalom Reform Synagogue supports the Board of Deputies
http://www.boardofdeputies.org.uk/

The World Union of Progressive Jews has its own website.
There are many interesting article to read about Reform Judaism all over the world on the site

We are friendly Reform community based in Wanstead E11, East London.

Our synagogue is housed in the beautifully restored Grade II listed building that was once part of the old Wanstead Hospital complex and prior to that the Merchant Seaman’s Orphan's Asylum.

With a growing community of 380 FullMmembers and 15 Associate Members plus around 127 children, Sukkat Shalom offers its members:

• Regular Shabbat services – Some designed with the family and young children in mind.
• 2 Friday night services a month with one of those services followed by a Chavurah meal.
• A Friday night service once a month followed by an Oneg or a lively Discussion.
• Cheder (Religion School) classes for our children on a Sunday morning.
  

On the 24th of November 1980 at The Bowls Chigwell Essex, which was the home of Harry Goldsmith a past chairman of South West Essex Reform Synagogue, a meeting was held with a view to starting a branch congregation in the Woodford/Buckhurst Hill/Loughton area.

Various senior members of SWERS were present including Rabbis Henry Goldstein and Howard Cooper also David Barnett Chairman of the Congregational Development Committee of the R.S.G.B. There were a further 21 other people present who had by attending expressed an interest in a new congregation.

enquiries@sukkatshalom.org.uk

Sukkat Shalom Reform Synagogue
1 Victory Road
Hermon Hill
Wanstead
London
E11 1UL

Tel: 020 8530 3345
(The synagogue is manned by an answering machine, but messages are picked up at least every 24 hours)

If you find that the above e mail address is not working please contact the Administrator Frank Godson on frank.godson@sukkatshalom.org.uk

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