News - September 2007

Rosh Hashanah Newsletter

The Rosh Hashanah newsletter is now available to download from our newsletter page. We apologise for the deley in publishing the ewsletter but this was due to broadband connection problems at the home of the editor.

News - August 2007

Open Days  and Inter-faith pilgrimage

The synagogue was open on Sunday 2 September 2007 as part of the European Day of Jewish Heritage & Culture and on Sunday 9 September 2007 as part of the English Heritage Open Day. We were very encouyraged by the number of visitors on both days.. On Sunday 9 September, an Inter-faith pilgramage from Gillingham to Rochester called at the synagogue as one of a number of places of worship where they stopped for refreshment and reflection in the spirit of comradeship and solidarity between the different faiths.

News Archive - June 2007

The Value of Prayer

On Sunday June 10th, Chatham Synagogue hosted a discussion with Rev. Malcolm Weisman, the Minister for Small Communities, on the sbject “The Value of Prayer”. This was a Jewish Kent event and so the discussion covered traditional and progressive forms of Jewish prayer.

For further details please visit our events page.

News Archive - April 2007

Jewish Life in the Medway Towns Exhibition

This highly successful exhibition is now at the Visitor Information Centre on Rochester High Street until June. Opening times are: Weekdays 9-5, Saturdays 9-1, (Sundays closed).

Our Passover newsletter is now available for download from our newsletter page. We wish all visitors to this website Chag Sameach and a very Happy Passover.

News Archive - January 2007

Holocaust Memorial Day

This year, once again, Chatham Memorial Synagogue was proud to have been involved with our partner organisations in a very successful commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day at the Chapter school in Strood.

On January 27 2007, the staff and students put togeher a most moving and inspiring programme of poetry, readings, drama and dance together with powerful audio-visual presentations.

It was particluarly pleasing, in view of the bad press that young people often get these days, to see a group of students showimg such genuine feeling for a subject that related to events which occurred before their parents were born.

As well as focusing on the Holocaust itself, the event also referred to other recent attrocities in Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia and Cambodia. The theme for this year’s event was ‘The Dignity of Difference’ - a powerful message for the students to take back with them into their everyday lives.

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