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Sukkat Shalom August 2010 Chair: Gillian Raab, [email protected] Edinburgh Liberal Jewish Community Secretary: Nancy Warren, [email protected] Newsletter: Hannah Holtschneider, [email protected] Scottish Charity No SC035678 Treasurer: Jonathan Broadie, [email protected] Membership: Maureen McKinnon, [email protected] Community Phone: 0131 777 8024 Email [email protected] Web www.eljc.org Date Sunday 22 August 2010 Events and Services Event Choosing Judaism Date Friday 6 August 2010 Venue Usual Location Event Erev Shabbat Service with 'Tent' Time 11am Time 7pm Event Cantillation Especially for youngish adults, but young at heart of any age are welcome. Followed by a Time 2.30pm meal at a local restaurant. Please email [email protected] if you are planning to Event Spinoza Discussion Group come to the restaurant. Date Sunday 8 August 2010 Time 4pm Afternoon theatre outing, see page 4. Date Friday 27 August 2010 Date Friday 13 August 2010 Event Kabbalat Shabbat Service Event Erev Shabbat Service with Shabbat Resouled Time 6.15pm Venue Marchmont St Giles, Special service for Human Rights day see page 4 1a Kilgraston Road Time 6.15pm HIGH HOLIDAYS 2010/5771 Date Sunday 15th August 2010 led by Rabbi Mark Solomon Bereaved families forum event for Jewish Community at 8pm, see page 5 for details. Date Saturday 21 August 2010 Rosh Hashanah (8/9 September 2010) Event Shabbat Service, led by Rabbi Mark Erev Rosh Hashanah Service, 7pm, 8.9.2010. Rosh Hashanah Service, 11am, 9.9.2010 2010, Time 11am Yom Kippur (17/18 September 2010) Kol Nidre Service, 7pm, 17.9.2010 Event Tea & Talmud Yom Kippur Services, 11am, 18.9.2010 Time 3pm See page 2 for tickets for nonmembers. ELJC support line Contents Page 2 Future dates, Liberal Judaism 07904 813162 Page 3 From the chairman, interfaith Page 4 Community matters Use this number if you have an emergency and Page 5 Bereaved families forum really need to speak to someone. It goes to one Page 6 Pride Scotia report of our members. Otherwise please leave a message on the community phone and we will respond as soon as possible. page 2 need to renew our efforts to ensure that the Bill is Future Dates permanently quashed. The IRAC website is a good Our regular schedule is as follows: source of information on the Conversion Bill and First Friday of each Calendar month other issues related to religious pluralism in Israel. Erev Shabbat service http://www.irac.org/ The shabbat morning 2 weeks after this Shabbat morning service Weekends when no other service Women of the Wall Short Kabbalat Shabbat service Solidarity in London September 2010 A group of 30 women (and two men) Fri 3 Erev Shabbat Service from across the Jewish community Wed 8 Erev Rosh Hashanah Service gathered by the Israeli embassy in Thur 9 Rosh Hashanah Service London to pray together on Rosh Chodesh Av in Fri 10 Erev Shabbat Shuvah Service tbc. solidarity with Nashkot HaKotel (Women of the Wall). Fri 17 Kol Nidrei Service The group, which included eight rabbis, celebrated a Sat 18 Yom Kippur Services musical and contemplative ‘tent’style Rosh Chodesh Sat 25 Succoth Service service, led by Liberal Judaism’s Young Adult Worker, Wed 29 Simchat Torah Service Avivit Katzil, and Leo Baeck College’s Student Rabbi Anna Gerrard. Meanwhile, in Jerusalem, the group’s leader, Anat Hoffman, was arrested at the Kotel for High Holy day tickets carrying a Sefer Torah. If you would like to join the Members will be receiving their tickets by post in the next Rosh Chodesh solidarity prayer service, please next few weeks. If you are interested in joining we email Avivit on [email protected]. Men and offer a reduced price membership for the rest of the women of all ages warmly welcome. year. Email [email protected] for details. Nonmembers are welcome to attend but, for security reasons we ask that they contact us to obtain tickets 200th Anniversary of by leaving a message on the community phone or emailing [email protected]. Progressive Judaism Rabbis and lay members from Europe and across the Atlantic flocked to Seesen in Germany this Jewish Calendar weekend to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Rosh Chodesh Ellul 9/10 August first ever Progressive Jewish service. In paying Chanukkah 29 December 2010 homage to the founders of our movement, attendees Tu Bishvat 20 January 2011 also celebrated the revival of German Jewry. Rabbi Purim 20 March 2011 Danny Rich said the anniversary reminded all Pesach 1925 April 2011 participants of “the very real pioneering efforts of our Yom HaShoah 1 May 2011 founders who, in the face of increasing Jewish Yom HaAtzmaut 10 May 2011 assimilation stood up for the possibility that Jews Shavuot 8 June 2011 could be full citizens of the emerging European nation states without compromising their commitment Rosh Hashanah 5772 29 September 2011 to Judaism or their loyalty to their new countries.” Yom Kippur 8 October 2011 Ba'alei Tefillah Programme We have already received the first few applications for this programme, and several more enquiries. Please do not delay if you have members who might wish to participate. Full details are available from Alex Wakely on 020 7631 9830 or Conversion Bill Stalled [email protected]. Thanks to the actions of Progressive Jews from around the world, MK Rotem’s Conversion Bill has now been shelved until after the High Holidays. When the Knesset reconvenes in the New Year, we will all page 3 From the chairman After a relatively quiet month in July, at least by our standards, we have a huge number of events to look forward to in August. We have a Tent service on Friday 6th August and the opportunity to join Rabbi Nancy Morris and members of Glasgow Reform Synagogue for a theatre trip on the 8th. For he following Erev Shabbat (13th August) we are delighted to have received support from ScoJec (Scottish Council of Jewish Communities) to bring the group Shabbat Resouled to lead an Edinburgh Festival Erev Shabbat service. As you may know we do not usually advertise the venues for our services. But we are making an exception on this occasion in order to reach Jewish visitors to the Festivals, and we have prepared some posters and flyers for the event. If you could help by distributing some flyers or putting up posters in places where Jewish Festival visitors might see them then please get in touch with [email protected] or leave a message on the community phone. Later that weekend (Sunday 15th) we are privileged that the Bereaved Families forum has agreed to put on a special event for Sukkat Shalom and the Edinburgh Hebrew Congregation. And if all that is not enough for you there are many other events of Jewish interest during the Festivals, some of which were listed in our July newsletter. If you no longer have your July copy to hand you can access it at http://www.eljc.org/newsletter/Jul10NLpublic.pdf. Enjoy. Gillian Raab “AntiSemitism and Islamophobia” Friday 13th August, 2.00pm 3.00pm, St John’s Church Princes Street www.interfaithconnect.org Martin Bright, political editor of the Jewish Chronicle An online interfaith discussion forum is being launched (and formerly of the New Statesman) discusses Anti by the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland Semitism and Islamophobia and other expressions (ACPOS).The Interfaith web forum is the first of its of discrimination or hate crime with members of the kind to be used by police forces and partnership Jewish and Muslim communities. agencies across Scotland to gather opinions from young people of all faiths. Archbishop Elias Chacour Elias Chacour, a Palestinianborn Christian and Israeli Masharef: Photographs from citizen is noted for his efforts to promote reconciliation between Arabs and Israelis. Named ‘Man of the Year’ Palestine in Israel in 2001, his advocacy of nonviolence and his 7th August 25th September, Scottish inspirational work and teaching give grounds for Storytelling Centre, 43 High Street, Edinburgh believing that if we can live the Golden Rule, common In October/November last year, a small group from to all faiths, we can reach the promised land of peace. Edinburgh visited Palestine to meet Palestinian people Blood Brothers and organisations. During their trip, they met and Friday 20th August, 10:30am 12:30pm, St walked with the Shatha walking group in the hills John’s Church Princes Street around Ramallah, inspired by Rajah Shehadeh's book He discusses with Kathy Galloway, head of Christian "Palestinian Walks". For them this was a great way to Aid Scotland his struggle to be a light in the darkness appreciate the beauty of the countryside, so different and to model the ways of peace. from their own; to get to know the walkers and something about their lives by walking and talking; to The promise of the promised land join them in asserting their right to walk in their Friday 20th August, 7.30 9.00pm St Mary’s disappearing land. The exhibition is of photographs RC Cathedral, near Picardy Place taken by Shatha members during their weekly walks. page 4 Community Matters Mazal Tov To Rebekah Gronowski on the birth of her greatgrandson Finley. To Leslie Mutch and Sarah Meek on their acceptance by the Rabbinic Board of Liberal Judaism. We welcome them as members of Sukkat Shalom. To Stav SadatPoleg on having two of her poems published in Brand Literary Magazine. You can read them at http://www.brandliterarymagazine.co.uk/. To Julia Merrick on the publication of "Sir Herbert Seddon and he book he nearly didn't write" about the famous orthopaedic surgeon and his patients.