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When Faiths Unite from the Editor June 2020 the magazine of finchley progressive synagogue When Faiths Unite From the Editor... darren beach Almost three months other with quizzes, have become the highlight into lockdown, what of the week. And for the elderly and vulnerable, has changed the it can be a lifesaver from a morale point of most? It’s arguable view, reminding them that their relatives are that one of the there at the other end. Many of us know how biggest challenges amazing staff at care homes have been, not has been the way we only with health issues but also with helping communicate. With their residents learn how to use modern ways of workplaces, pubs, communicating (it’s never too late). places of worship Here at FPS we all know the huge value for and even visiting your family being off limits, a community of staying in touch, of reaching everyone has been forced to adapt the way they out to everyone and of being inclusive. In this communicate with their friends, their relatives, Shofar we also look at communication of a their clients and their community. different type - of language, of culture and of It has also brought home the importance keeping Jewish life going in often precarious of real, genuine communication. In ‘normal circumstances. times’, we’re far too used to sending a quick The Covid-19 pandemic has left many of us “how are you doing, must catch up soon” text in difficult situations. The government (and I’m message, punching out a “have a great birthday not Emily Maitlis so I think I’m on safe ground xx” Facebook post or promising to “have a drink here) has not helped matters with their constant some time” with an old friend. Now, with so mixed messaging depending on the angle many of us stuck at home - many of us entirely ministers have been ordered to spin that day. alone - we appreciate more and more the value So we are left to be our own communications of connection, of hearing someone laugh at your management team, reaching out to those joke, of seeing familiar faces. Zoom calls with we love and those in need, and helping us all old buddies, whether to chinwag or to test each remain positive. Take care everyone. Cover: At the Queens Crescent Community Oak and Imam Bodrul from Baitul Copy deadline is the 10th Centre handing out food for increasing Atman Mosque. photo credit: of each month. Please numbers in need. Made for Ramadan but www.jewishnews.timesofisrael.com email all content to not just for Muslims. FPS Rabbi Rebecca [email protected] with Mother Carol from St Martin’s Gospel 2 From the Rabbi rabbi rebecca birk I have been reading the letters of Vita Sackville- West and Virginia Woolf during lockdown. It’s strange what one reaches for when things are quieter. These letters are amazing. They talk of writing and travel and food and plans, loads and loads of plans. The efficiency of the postal service meant they had several times a day to receive a letter and adjust their plans. Almost as immediate as our email and WhatsApp. I loved this one: That’s why I still insist on ‘thank you’ letters Thursday 10 December 1925 so the art is not completely lost on them. I still insist they write not reluctantly, but they don’t - 52 Tavistock Square whip out the envelopes with alacrity. Letters My dear Vita are the equivalent of slow cooking. Maybe we Would Tuesday afternoon suit you? can appreciate it better, especially now the Post Office queues are slowing down! Should I stay till Friday or Saturday? I’m loving communicating with you all. Should Leonard come and fetch me back? Don’t stop telling me how you are. Many are Should you mind if I only brought one dressing gown? frantic about returning to normality. And I certainly know how Should I be a nuisance if I had breakfast in bed? excruciatingly tough it has been for some. The mention of ‘dressing gown’ - so charming But I do wonder if we, - aren’t we all relishing more comfortable clothes, who have been safe, if not dressing gowns themselves? Aren’t we might miss some of benefiting from easy communication, knowing this. people are at home and being able to contact them? The art of letter-writing is something I synagogue opening I am so sorry that we used to love. I still have all the letters I received have no clarity yet on how and when our whilst at University and studying in Israel or Hutton Grove building will open again. Please Boston. They’re precious. It’s so intimate and know we are in constant communication with descriptive: writing on a page and sending to Liberal Judaism and other congregations, the recipient only. and of course are considering governmental We know how precious good communication advice constantly. There is a great chance our can be. I watch regretfully as my children HHD services will be different this year and we communicate only through a keyboard, or a will communicate with you every step of our phone. Never knowing what it is to experience planning. those pale blue, tissue-thin airmail letters. 3 From the Chair cathy burnstone So much has been written and said about the thanks to the hard work suffering and hardship people have had to and input of our Rabbis, endure with the Coronavirus and the lockdown Liberal Judaism Team with good reason. As a corollary to this, there and lay members. We are some unexpected joys too. Personally I as a Liberal Judaism have enjoyed walking and running in the park movement are well every day at 6.30 am and seeing the march of and truly on the map spring, as well as meeting some new people of Jewish life, with in and hearing their stories. excess of 1000 Biennial As an FPS member, like many of us I have participants. found myself attending many more services Seeing the success than usual. I’m particularly grateful for the of streaming all these services, study sessions morning meditation and Shacharit service as it and meetings, I imagine this is going to bring enables me to have a positive start to the day, changes to the way in which our communities meditate with the Shacharit community and operate and interact in the future. enjoy Dean’s beautiful music. As Chair I also As always I want to thank Rabbi Rebecca for have never attended so many Liberal Judaism her great commitment to us and all of the extra meetings from the comfort of my sofa! opportunities she has given us for engaging The Biennial was a wonderful occasion with each other at FPS. did you know? did you know? Where is South Finchley? We all know tube Who are the world’s best Jewish tennis players? stations at West and East, and a big Got to be Americans, right? Wrong. As bus station at North. But what about of the lockdown-enforced break, the ‘South’? Well, until the early 1900s world’s leading Jewish male player the area just east of Finchley Road is Argentina’s Diego Schwartzmann and north of Golders Green had that at number 13, while women’s world moniker, until Henrietta Barnett number 5 Elena stepped in and renamed it - you’ve Svitolina of Ukraine guessed - Hampstead Garden Suburb. is of Jewish stock. 4 Communication: Mother Tongues darren beach The recent popularity of the Netflix series Unorthodox has probably raised the profile of the Yiddish language beyond anything seen worldwide since Fiddler On The Roof was topping box office charts in the 1960s. Based on the 2012 memoir by Deborah Feldman about a young woman who had taken the momentous decision to leave the Hasidic Satmar sect, the TV series became a surprise hit in spite of having plenty of dialogue in Yiddish. Ah, Yiddish - the language of Jewish Grandma jokes, of ‘loan words’ like chutzpah and meshuga that have entered into English usage and of course the language of the Shtetl that could temporarily give its inhabitants some freedom of expression. Fast forward to the 21st century, where Prior to the Second World War it is estimated there has long been a trend towards the desire that there were 11-13 million Yiddish speakers. to keep historic languages - and the culture that 85 per cent of Jews who were murdered in the surrounds them - alive before the pace of modern Shoah spoke Yiddish, around five million in global communication overcomes them. Welsh total. However, the aftermath of the War led has gone from being a pariah language in Britain to steep and continued decline, as Yiddish was to a thriving official second language. Cornish is either prohibited in the Soviet Union or, in the protected by an EU directive. case of the So how many Yiddish speakers are there nascent State now? Estimates vary - the 2011 census in the of Israel, new USA found that around 160,000 people spoke arrivals were Yiddish at home, though the real worldwide encouraged figure is more likely to be closer to half a million to speak only if not more when you include the former Soviet in Hebrew Union. Besides the popularity of Unorthodox, in order to one other major fillip for Yiddish has been a New help foster a York production of Fiddler On The Roof in Yiddish new national (A Fidler Afn Dakh), directed by Joel Grey, which identity. The had a successful run between February and June end result 2019.
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