Meretz Hanukkah party with Rabbi Herschel Gluck
Dec
28
Time: 6.30 pm start
Location: 37a Broadhurst Gardens, London NW6 3QT
Lights in the Darkness – Rabbi Gluck at our Meretz Hanukkah party
Meretz UK invites you to our annual Hanukkah Party with this year’s special guest, Rabbi Herschel Gluck OBE. He will kindle the menorah candles and speak briefly about Lights in the Darkness – Hanukkah and the challenges of our troubling times.
- £5 contributions and refreshments served: doughnuts and dreidls de riguer!
- The picture above shows a boy in front of a Hanukkah lamp, 1950, from the Hashomer Hatzair Archives, Yad Ya’ari
- With thanks to Hashomer Hatzair Trust UK for supporting this event
An inspiring speaker and teacher, Rabbi Gluck gave us a wonderful talk two years ago titled Jews and Muslims in London – Co-operation that Works. He chairs the Muslim-Jewish Forum of Stamford Hill and co-chairs the Arab-Jewish Forum. Rabbi Gluck is also renowned for his community-building and peace mediation initiatives globally and locally. Most recently he visited Poland and participated in events hosted by the Jewish community. His talk will likely address the world’s current refugee crisis and the tradition of seeking freedom, in the context of the liberation struggle and defence of the Jewish faith at the time of the Maccabee Revolt of 166 BCE. Find out more about Reb Herschel here…
A 19th century hanukkiah (menorah) made in Lemberg, now Lviv in Ukraine – from The Jewish Museum of New York