Shabbat Morning Service
If you have a Yahrzeit and would like to have a mitzvah either on Zoom or at the Synagogue, please email the office and we will allocate the reading of your […]
Calendar of Events
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Events
Rosh Hashanah
Rosh Hashanah is on 1st Tishri. On the Shabbat nearest this date, we hold an Selichot Service, which traditionally should start late. We, as with other communities, tend to start […]
Yom Kippur
Ten days after Rosh Hashanah is the Holiest day of the year, Yom Kippur. Kol Nidrei, the evening service, is one of the most spiritual of the year and sets […]
Sukkot
Sukkot is the final of the 3 harvest festivals and is celebrated by the building of a sukkah. Our sukkah is a permanent wooden structure, open to the skies, so […]
Simchat Torah
At Simchat Torah we offer the special mitzvah of finishing reading the Torah, which ends with the death of Moses, to either a Chatan (bridegroom) or Kallah (bride) of the […]
Tu Bishvat
The kabbalists, a group of Jewish mystics living in Israel in the 16th century, created a Seder for Tu Bishvat (New Year for trees). They gathered in the evening around […]
Purim
Purim is a joyous festival, commemorating the survival of the Jews who, as narrated in the biblical Book of Esther, had been doomed to annihilation in Persia in the 5th […]
Pesach
Following the tradition of other LJ Synagogues, at SPS we do not hold a service for Erev Pesach but many families conduct their own Seder at home. Our practice has […]