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Chanukah Greetings 5777 Volume 58 December 2016/January/February 2017 Southend & Westcliff Hebrew Congregation AH GREETIN UK GS AN 5 H 77 C 7 This page is kindly sponsored by Rosalyn and Derek Silverstone. Wishing the Community a Happy Chanukah 2 Contents Organisations Within Page 3 Diary of Events, Organisations within the Community The Community Page 4 President’s Report AID Society Jeffrey Greenstein 477617 Page 6 Social & Personal, Stone Settings, The Shop A.J.E.X. Jeffrey Barcan 343192 Page 7 Rabbi’s Report, Public Menorah Times Bereavement Support Group Janice Steel 07752 874065 Page 8 Board of Deputies, Shabbat UK, Anton Du Beke Board of Deputies (Southend) Peter Baum [email protected] Page 10 Editorial, WIZO, Waitresses Cheder Head Teacher Rebbetzin Sufrin [email protected] Page 11 Canvey Island – History of Jewish Community, Cheder/Youth Co-ordinator Barry Jacobs 07876 685826 Page 12 Selichot, AJEX, Lost – Now Found! Community Care Committee Janice Steel 07752 874065 Page 14 Southend Friends of Israel, Word Search Puzzle Community Security Trust David Ramet 07946 650339 Page 15 Stamps of Israel, Jews on Canvey Island Council of Christians & Jews Stuart Jacobs 432967 Page 16 Jewish Care Emunah Rochelle Spector 436791 Page 17 Israel Trek for MDA Essex AJR Esther Rinkoff 0208 385 3070 Page 18 & 19 Simcha Pages Fair Reporting Lewis Herlitz 520759 Page 20 Gabbaim Diary, Chevra Kadisha J.A.C.S. Allan Goldstein 01268 771978 Page 21 Neil Shestopal (z”l), Minyan Men J.N.F. Impact Anthony Larholt 348221 Page 22 Kristalnacht “Nicky’s Family”, Israel Trek cont’d Jewish Community Centre Hilary De Martino 334655 Page 23 A Tale of Two Weddings Jewish Genealogical Society Anne Marcus 586877 Page 24 Our Youth Jewish Press Geoffrey Pepper [email protected] Page 25 Introduction to Chaya Faigie Jundef Ladies’ Guild Lisa Berg/Sara Vandermolen 07760 141162 Page 26 Israel’s Guide Dogs Little Latkas Karen Jacobs 07887 847059 Meals on Wheels Hilary De Martino 334655 Diary of S&WHC Events Monday Friendship Club Maurice Symons 351845 Pop In Centre Janice Steel 344900 December 2016 Southend Security Trust Michael Yaffe 07742 599304 24th Chanukah – 1st Candle Tuesday Nighters Lawrence Collin 353416 25th Chanukah – 1st Day 2nd Candle W.I.Z.O. Jackie Kalms 437801 26th Chanukah – 2nd Day 3rd Candle 27th Chanukah – 3rd Day 4th Candle 28th Chanukah – 4th Day 5th Candle Gala Night Advertising 29th Chanukah – 5th Day 6th Candle Contact Shul Office – 01702 344900 30th Chanukah – 6th Day 7th Candle 31st Chanukah – 7th Day 8th Candle Advertising Rates - Social & Personal (pre-paid to the Synagogue Office) January 2017 Up to 30 words - £25, 31 – 40 words - £30, Boxed Advert - £35 8th Fast of Teveth Published by the S&WHC 14th Auf Ruf – Rabbi Bar Synagogue Office, Finchley Road, Westcliff on Sea, Essex SS0 8AD. 19th Chupa – Rabbi Bar (New Jersey) Editor: Rochelle O’Brart 26th Holocaust Memorial Day 27th & 28th Youth Shabbaton Communications addressed to: The Editor, Community Voice February 2017 Copy Deadline for Pesach issue: 26th AID Society Annual Quiz March 2017 26th January 2017 8th Ladies Guild Lunch – Anton Du Beke All dates and times correct at going to print 9th Fast of Esther 12th Purim Management of Shul Services Gabbaim: 13th Shushan Purim 14th Ladies Guild Purim Party Geoffrey Pepper, Stanley Robinson 25th Barmitzvah – Sam Alexander April 2017 SYNAGOGUE OFFICE HOURS 10th Erev Pesach Normal Hours - Monday to Wednesday 9.00am – 3.00pm S&WHC Cemetery: Thursday 9.00am – 5.00pm Friday 9.00am – 1.00pm Stock Road, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS2 5QF Saturday – CLOSED Opening times: Sunday – CLOSED (as of week commencing 1-1-17) Winter: Sunday - Friday 10am - 3pm GMT Tel: 01702 344900 Fax: 01702 391131 Summer: Sunday - Friday 10am - 4pm BST If the office is closed, please leave a message and your call will be returned Cemetery Management: Email: shuloffi[email protected] Ivor Rose, Andrew Roth, Maurice Symons Website: www.swhc.org.uk 3 These parades are not just for those who actually fought in President’s the armed forces but it is now a well-established practice for family and friends who just wish to honour those who are no Report longer with us, to participate in the Remembrance Parades I open my report by thanking you, the both here and in London. community, for all your participation Just when we thought that all the activities were finished. Our in the festivities over the past three Youth Club held a Fun Day where friends from this area mixed months. Many of you were in Shul with friends from London. They even hired a ‘bucking bronco’ on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. to make the day more enjoyable. On Succot the attendance was good I am delighted to mention the engagement of our dear Rabbi and better than last year. I hope that Bar to Chaya Faigie Jundef. To celebrate this event, Rabbi Bar those who came enjoyed the party in invited the community to attend an engagement party. This the Sukkah on the Thursday during the week of Succot and delightful function was a great success and I am so pleased enjoyed being entertained by Rabbi Ziskind. There were that Chaya Faigie’s parents Rabbi and Mrs Jundef were able snacks and drinks available and even the weather “played to come over here from the USA to be with the happy couple ball” and the evening stayed dry for the party. as were Rabbi Bar’s parents Rabbi and Mrs Bar Sheshet. On the Wednesday of Succot, our new Belz Chassidic Mazel Tov Rabbi Bar and Chaya Faigie and thank you for members held a Fun Day and invited families from Stamford inviting us all to celebrate the engagement with you. The Hill. Judging by the packed car park and the large number wedding, by the way, will be on 19th January 2017 in of people that came, it seems to have been a very successful Lakewood, New Jersey, USA. day. If I may be permitted to return to the subject of our On Simchat Torah, the congregation was invited to a lunch Ladies Guild. As you are aware they support our Shul and following the service. This followed a running Kiddush where community and I do not know what we would do without snacks and drink were available throughout the service. them. They prepare our weekly Kiddushim, decorate our Shul The reason we were able to invite the congregation to the on Shavuot and our Sukkah, clean our Sefer Torah silverware, Simchat Torah lunch was due to the Chatanim, Geoffrey prepare and distribute parcels of goods to needy members of Cohen and Michael Aarons and Lady of the Year, Sara our community at Pesach and perform other charitable works Vandermolen, having a separate function the day before. In of kindness to these members. For many years now, the £10 past years, because of their invited guests, we had little room annual subscriptions to the Ladies Guild has been collected left for the congregation and it became a fight to try and seat from their members in person. Recently, the Ladies Guild everyone who wanted to attend. We had no such problem this executive have been discussing with me ideas for year and all who wanted to come were seated and catered alternative ways to collect their annual subscriptions. What for. Much of the success for this year’s functions was due to we have agreed to try is that the Ladies Guild subscription our Ladies Guild who, under the guidance and direction of will be incorporated into the invoice that the Shul sends out Sara Vandermolen and Lisa Berg, helped to do the ordering to you for annual membership to SWHC. The Shul Office will of food, catering and arranging. Thank you to all who were then take off the £10 Ladies Guild subscription from each involved. member’s payment and deposit that money with the Ladies More recently, we had the services both in Shul and at the Guild. I would be happy to hear from you if you have any Cenotaph to remember those who gave up their lives for questions or objections to paying your subscriptions in this their country. I thank all those who came along on Sunday way. and participated in the parade by marching or being in the Finally I, on behalf of all the members of our community, crowd supporting the marchers. Thanks to the hard work of would like to add my condolences to Dawn Shestopal and Barry Jacobs, we had members of our youth organisations family on the recent loss of her dear husband, Neil (OBM). marching along with the adults. An additional wreath on We will miss him. He was a good friend to our community behalf of JLGB was laid at the Cenotaph for the first time and he was always welcome to visit us and participate in our in many years, this year. The following week, ten of us went services. up to London for the Annual National AJEX Parade. It was Derek Silverstone heart-warming to see representatives from South Africa, Israel President and France marching alongside the U.K. branches of AJEX. E. 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