Bevis Marks

Join us for a Megilliah Reading followed by  hamentashchen and refreshments. Arbit and Megillah with Rabbi Joseph Dweck    

Megillah and regular morning service with Rabbi Elia  

This event is now cancelled March Topic: Synagogues: United, Sephardic and The Federation Join Rabbi Morris for monthly lectures and learn the stories behind the institutions that define British Jewry today Followed by refreshments and socializing. Sponsorship opportunities available

Unfortunately this event is now cancelled Join us for a community Shabbat dinner with Rabbi Joseph Dweck at Bevis Marks Synagogue on Friday 20th March 6.30pm services, followed by dinner. Rabbi Dweck will also deliver a sermon on Shabbat Morning  

Getting Emotional in Barcelona, 1320: Visual Expressions of the Emotional Life of Sephardic Jewry  The magnificent manuscripts illuminated for medieval Sephardi Jews often depict the characters of the biblical narratives embodying a rich spectrum of emotions. This is accomplished through the thinnest of lines on the parchment leaves—in spaces only centimeters high—showing furrowed brows, pouting […]

Join Rabbi Morris in conversation with Stanley Mirvis talking about "The Sephardic Caribbean: Plantations, Slavery, and Colony" . In this talk Dr. Stanley Mirvis, Assistant Professor of history and the Harold and Jean Grossman Chair of Jewish Studies at Arizona State University, will discuss his anticipated new book: The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica: A Testamentary […]

Join Rabbi Morris in conversation with Laura Arnold Leibman talking about “Giving Sephardic Women a Voice" Laura Arnold Leibman is Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1995. In her new book, The Art of the Jewish Family, Dr Laura Arnold Leibman, of Reed University, Oregon, examines […]

Join Rabbi Morris in conversation with Eliezer Papo talking about Sephardim and Ottoman Jewry in the Modern State: How They Helped Create The World We Know Today. Elizer Papo is a Senior Lecturer Ben-Gurion University in the Department of Hebrew Literature. He is the Chairman of Moshe David Gaon Center for Ladino Culture. He is the President […]

Rabbi Morris takes participants on a live tour of the UK’s oldest synagogue, London’s Bevis Marks Synagogue built in 1701. Enjoy its beautiful interior and learn its remarkable history as your are entertained with stories about its famous congregants including Sir Moses Montefiore and Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. £5 suggested donation. Private tours can be […]

Join Rabbi Morris in conversation with Matthias Lehmann. He will speak on his book  “Emissaries from the Holy Land: How Sephardic Rabbis Created a Unified Mediterranean Jewish Community” Matthias B. Lehmann is the Teller Family Chair in Jewish History at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman […]