The Chief Rabbi paid tribute to a “quite extraordinary” Shabbat UK, as over 1,000 UK Jews came together on Saturday night for a Havdalah concert.
Speaking at the Havdalah UK event at the Watford Colosseum, Rabbi Mirvis told the crowd that this year’s Shabbat UK had seen “close to 500 challah makes, people preparing for the largest ever shul dinners, thousands of people preparing for home hospitality events [and] extraordinary shiurim and lectures and talks given by some of the most outstanding minds in the Jewish world”.
He also urged those who had taken part in the Shabbat UK celebration not to forget “that there are another 51 Shabbatot in the year”.
The audience enjoyed performances from the Portnoy Brothers band, as well as from the Maccabeats, the Jewish acapella group.
