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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
11 Tevet 5769.

Belarus Fund

Target to bring 20 children from Belarus to Radlett in June 2009.
Our Goal: £15000
Currently: £5583
Updated: 28/11/08

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Home arrow The Wider Community
The Wider Community

Our congregation is part of the wider community; in particular we play a role in the wider community of Radlett, the surrounding areas from which we draw our members, as well as the wider Jewish community.

Our synagogue is situated in a location that has the highest proportion of Jewish residents in the country according to the 2001 national census.  We aim to play our part in the locality, and promote good relations with all our neighbours.

We welcome visits to our synagogue by local schools. We take part in cross-communal events, like the annual Remembrance Day service at the Radlett War Memorial, and Rabbi Paul Freedman visits events at local churches, and their representatives visit our synagogue. He has given talks with local church leaders, for example on biblical subjects, each from their own perspective. Our choir has given joint concerts with local church choirs.

We attend meetings at Aldenham Parish Council with representatives of local faiths which seek to promote understanding and community within Radlett. These meetings aim to promote respect for people in general as well as respect for different religious groupings. We also send a representative to the Hertsmere Faiths Forum, which aims to inform Hertfordshire County Council thinking on issues that affect members of local religious faiths.

Our members are active in the local branch of the Council for Christians and Jews which meets regularly. Amongst other events, the CCJ has organised visits to a local mosque, a Buddhist monastery and a Hindu temple.

Every month, we have a food collection to support local homeless and other disadvantaged people, through the Watford New Hope Trust, a Christian charity which was also one of the causes that benefited from money raised by a recent High Holy Day appeal.



Food for the Needy

Each month, the Synagogue collects and delivers food, donated by Synagogue members, to Watford New Hope Trust which provides lunch six days a week for around 50 homeless people: usually soup and sandwiches, fruit and whatever else they have been given.

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CCJ Introduction

The Council of Christians and Jews is Britain’s oldest national Inter-Faith organisation.

It was established in 1942 to promote religious and cultural understanding between Christians and Jews; to work for the elimination of religious and racial prejudice, hatred and discrimination, particularly anti-Semitism; and to promote religious and racial harmony on the basis of ethical and social teachings common to Christianity and Judaism.

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