Highgate Shul: Audio

On this page you can listen to, or download, recordings of events at the shul.

To listen to a recording simply click on the link and your web-browser should take you directly to an audio player. To download the recording, right click on the link, choose 'Save As' and save to your hard drive.

Please note these recordings are the property of Highgate Synagogue. We have uploaded them to this site as an archival resource for our community and others. Please therefore do not use them for any other purpose.

Dame Esther Rantzen DBE, 4th February 2020

Dame Esther talks about her amazing life and career

Click Here to Listen To: Dame Esther Rantzen DBE in Conversation with Adam Leigh (1 hr 37 mins)

For more information about Dame Esther and this event please click here

Manfred Goldberg BEM, 28th January 2020

Manfred shares his amazing story of survival

Click Here to Listen To: A Childhood In The Holocaust (1 hr 29 mins)

For more information about Manfred and this event please click here

Historical Financial Dilemmas Series

Given by Rabbi Aubrey Hersh

Part I - Hands off my Van Gogh: Holocaust Restitution and Stolen Art (60 mins) 17 May 2016

Part II - Who's been sitting in my seat? (63 mins) 31 May 2016

Rabbi Dr. Akiva Tatz Lecture, 19th January 2014

Jewish Medical Ethics - Autonomy (1 hr 12 mins)

Ben Helfgott Interview, 29th July 2012

Ben Helfgott Interview (1 hr 20 mins)

Ben was interviewed by Rabbi Aubrey Hersh on Tisha B'Av – the saddest day in the Jewish Calendar. This year Tisha B’Av took place during the Olympics and Ben spoke about both his experiences during the holocaust and also competing for Great Britain in the Olympics.

This year is also the 40^thanniversary of the Munich massacre during the 1972 Olympics at which Ben was present and spent the evening with a number of the Israeli Olympic Team the night before they were murdered.