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Parshah of the Week

Parshah Shemini for Shabbat, April 26, 2025/ Nissan 28, 5785 Torah Reading: Shemini: Leviticus 9:1- 11:47. Haftarah: Samuel II 6:1-19. This week’s reading, Shemini, is a continuation of the previous week’s [Read more]
Pesach (Passover) 2025/ 5785

Pesach (Passover) 2025/ 5785 is from April 12 to April 20 2025 Passover is celebrated by Jews every year, commemorating the anniversary of our miraculos Exodus from Egyptian slavery, as told in the Bible. On the first [Read more]
Purim 5785/ 2025 begins on Thursday night, March 13 and continues until Shabbat, March 14

Purim 2025 begins Thursday night, March 13, and continues through Friday, March 14 (extending over Shabbat and beyond in Jerusalem) The festival of Purim commemorates the Divinely orchestrated salvation of the [Read more]
Tu B’shvat – 15 Shevat 2025 The New Year for Trees (Tu Bishvat)

Tu Bishvat- 15 Shevat 2025/ Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025 The New Year for Trees (Tu Bishvat) The 15th of Shevat on the Jewish calendar—celebrated this year on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025—is the day that marks the [Read more]
Asarah B’Tevet (this year, January 10, 2025)/ Ayuno del 10 de Tevet 5785

Asarah B’Tevet On Asarah B’Tevet, the 10th day of the Jewish month of Tevet, in the year 3336 from Creation (425 BCE), the armies of the Babylonian emperor Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem. [Read more]
Chanukah 5785, Candle Lighting

CHANUKAH CANDLE LIGHTING – Chanukah 2024 (5785) The order of lighting the Chanukah candles is from left to right, always starting with the corresponding night, and then lighting the remaining nights that have [Read more]
Chanukah begins Wednesday evening, December 25

Chanukah begins Wednesday evening, December 25, 2024 and continues through Thursday, January 2, 2025 Hanukkah (Chanukah) is the Jewish eight-day, wintertime “festival of lights,” celebrated with a [Read more]

Pesach (Passover) 2025/ 5785

Pesach (Passover) 2025/ 5785 is from April 12 to April 20 2025 Passover is celebrated by Jews every year, commemorating the anniversary of our miraculos Exodus from [Read more]
Purim 5785/ 2025 begins on Thursday night, March 13 and continues until Shabbat, March 14

Purim 2025 begins Thursday night, March 13, and continues through Friday, March 14 (extending over Shabbat and beyond in Jerusalem) The festival of Purim commemorates the [Read more]
Tu B’shvat – 15 Shevat 2025 The New Year for Trees (Tu Bishvat)

Tu Bishvat- 15 Shevat 2025/ Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025 The New Year for Trees (Tu Bishvat) The 15th of Shevat on the Jewish calendar—celebrated this year on Thursday, Feb. [Read more]
Asarah B’Tevet (this year, January 10, 2025)/ Ayuno del 10 de Tevet 5785

Asarah B’Tevet On Asarah B’Tevet, the 10th day of the Jewish month of Tevet, in the year 3336 from Creation (425 BCE), the armies of the Babylonian [Read more]
Jewish Holidays in 2025/ 5785

Jewish Holidays in 2025 Friday, January 10 Fast of Tevet (Tevet 10) Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025 [Read more]

Purim 5785 in Our Synagogue

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Asarah B’Tevet (this year, January 10, 2025)/ Ayuno del 10 de Tevet 5785

Asarah B’Tevet On Asarah B’Tevet, the 10th day of the Jewish month of Tevet, in the year 3336 from Creation (425 BCE), the armies of the Babylonian [Read more]
Shemini Atzeret & Simchat Torah in a Nutshell 5785 / 2024

Shemini Atzeret & Simchat Torah 5785 Immediately following the seven-day festival of Sukkot comes the two-day festival of Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah. (In [Read more]
The Month of Elul/ Observancias de Elul

The Month of Elul Elul is the 12th and final month in the Jewish calendar (the sixth month counting from Nisan). Leading up to the High Holidays, Rosh Hashanah and Yom [Read more]
SHAVUOT 5784, from sunset on 11 June, 2024 until nightfall on June 13, 2024

Shavuot 5784/ 2024 A two-day holiday, celebrated from sunset on June 11, 2024 until nightfall on June 13, 2024) coincides with the date that God gave the tprah to the Jewish [Read more]
Rosh Chodesh Observances

Rosh Chodesh Observances, Friday, February 9, 2024/ 30 Shevat 5784 Today is the first of the two Rosh Chodesh (“Head of the Month”) days for the month of Adar I [Read more]

Shirley Baehr 1951 – 2016

It was 30 years ago this year when I went to my friend’s house and found this beautiful lady, on the doorstep, practically gift-wrapped and ready to take away. I remember when Shirley and I went on our first date I reached out to hold her hand only to find she wasn’t there. I looked around to [Read more]
What led these wandering Jews to The Costa Blanca – Shirley and Laurence Baehr by Helena Greene
Hav and Ruth Send Greetings from The W.L.J.C. Bournemouth Community
Helena and Leslie Winestone – The Helena Greene Interview
Helena’s Farewell speech to Gloria Richmond

Pesach (Passover) 2025/ 5785

Pesach (Passover) 2025/ 5785 is from April 12 to April 20 2025 Passover is celebrated by Jews every year, commemorating the anniversary of our miraculos Exodus from [Read more]
Purim 5785/ 2025 begins on Thursday night, March 13 and continues until Shabbat, March 14

Purim 2025 begins Thursday night, March 13, and continues through Friday, March 14 (extending over Shabbat and beyond in Jerusalem) The festival of Purim commemorates the [Read more]
Tu B’shvat – 15 Shevat 2025 The New Year for Trees (Tu Bishvat)

Tu Bishvat- 15 Shevat 2025/ Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025 The New Year for Trees (Tu Bishvat) The 15th of Shevat on the Jewish calendar—celebrated this year on Thursday, Feb. [Read more]
Asarah B’Tevet (this year, January 10, 2025)/ Ayuno del 10 de Tevet 5785

Asarah B’Tevet On Asarah B’Tevet, the 10th day of the Jewish month of Tevet, in the year 3336 from Creation (425 BCE), the armies of the Babylonian [Read more]
Jewish Holidays in 2025/ 5785

Jewish Holidays in 2025 Friday, January 10 Fast of Tevet (Tevet 10) Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025 [Read more]

Parshah of the Week

Parshah Shemini for Shabbat, April 26, 2025/ Nissan 28, 5785 Torah Reading: Shemini: Leviticus 9:1- 11:47. Haftarah: Samuel II 6:1-19. This week’s reading, Shemini, is [Read more]
Pesach (Passover) 2025/ 5785

Pesach (Passover) 2025/ 5785 is from April 12 to April 20 2025 Passover is celebrated by Jews every year, commemorating the anniversary of our miraculos Exodus from [Read more]
Advantages of Membership

Name(required) Email(required) Website Message Submit Δ Members and non-members can enjoy social events in our social centre Free use of the Social Centre [Read more]
Jewish Holidays in 2025/ 5785

Jewish Holidays in 2025 Friday, January 10 Fast of Tevet (Tevet 10) Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025 [Read more]
Synagogue Services

Friday Night Services. Regular Friday Night services are held in our Synagogue, in Benidorm, at 7.00pm. Please note that the Synagogue will re-open for Friday evening [Read more]
Reopening of the Synagogue

The Synagogue will close for the summer break after our last Friday evening service on Friday 30 June 2023, and will re-open on Friday 1 September 2023 for our regular [Read more]
A Very Special Synagogue – Observations from a regular visitor

The question that we are asked, more than any other, is why do you keep going back to Javea? Why don’t you go anywhere else? To Hilary and I, the answer is quite simple [Read more]
Links

Communities If you find yourself in Cornwall do visit The Cornwall Jewish Community see their website kehillatkernow.com The Wessex Liberal Jewish Community extends a [Read more]
Synagogue Services

Our Synagogue services commence at 7.00pm and we look forward to welcoming everyone to join us for our Shabbat service. Please note that the start time for our services [Read more]
Our Synagogue

The Comunidad Israelita de Alicante is a Jewish Community serving the Costa Blanca area of Spain. Our members range from as far away as Gandia in the North, Torrevieja and [Read more]
Facebook Page

We now have our own Facebook Page which is fully operational and to which regular posts are made by accepted members. However, please feel free to visit us. Just search [Read more]
Message from the President

After many years of outstanding service to our Community, Harvey Bourne, our President, has decided to stand down. It is with great regret that the Board of Management have [Read more]