The Faith Awareness series of summer visits to places of worship and other faith-related sites in Leicester continues this evening at Neve Shalom, the synagogue of Leicester Progressive Jewish Congregation. As well being contracted to work 20 hours a week for Leicester Council of Faiths, I now do a day and a half a week with Faith Awareness, the inter-faith programme of Christians Aware.
I've made half a dozen visits to the LPJC Synagogue since my first time in July 2011, and have always enjoyed the hospitality of the community there.
We're keeping up good numbers on these Monday evening visits. We've brought along a dozen people this evening (half of them newbies) and we're matched one-to-one by members of the LPJC.
The original theme for this series of visits was "food and festivals". Our hosts this evening have stuck to that theme. Dov Stekel gives a short talk about the theory of kosher food and its place in the life of the community. That's followed up by a practical demonstration, with a delightful spread of food and drink linked to different occasions in the Jewish calendar.
This is the fifth of six Faith Awareness visits planned for Monday evenings in May and June, the others being
- Jain Centre, Oxford Street (13 May)
- All Saints Church, Kerrysdale Avenue (20 May)
- BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Gipsy Lane (3 June)
- Islam Information Centre, Highfield Street (10 June)
- Guru Amar Das Gurdwara, Clarendon Park Road (24 June)
I may not be able to attend every visit personally, but I hope to arrange for a blog post on each of them. Watch this space!