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Sukkat Shalom Sukkat Shalom March 2011 Chair: Gillian Raab, [email protected] Secretary: Nancy Warren, [email protected] Edinburgh Liberal Jewish Community Newsletter: Hannah Holtschneider, [email protected] Treasurer: Jonathan Broadie, [email protected] Scottish Charity No SC035678 Membership: Eva Wiseman, [email protected] Catering: Maureen Mckinnon, [email protected] Community Phone: 0131 777 8024 Email [email protected] Web www.eljc.org Event Cantillation Events and Services Venue St Mark's, 7 Castle Terrace Time 3pm Date Friday 4 March Event Kabbalat Shabbat Service Event Spinoza Venue Marchmont St Giles, 1a Kilgraston Road Venue St Mark's, 7 Castle Terrace Time 6:15pm Time 4pm Date Friday 11 March SATURDAY 19 MARCH Event Erev Shabbat Service Purim Activities Venue Columcille Centre, 2 Newbattle Terrace Marchmont St Giles, 1a Kilgraston Road Time 7pm 5:30pm Pizza Supper 6:30pm Havdalah and Purim service Date Friday 18 March with megillah reading, led by Event Erev Shabbat Service led by Rabbi Mark Rabbi Mark Solomon Solomon 8pm Depart for Edinburgh Hebrew Venue Marchmont St Giles, 1a Kilgraston Road Congregation for Purimspiel Time 6:15pm 8:30pm Purimspiel, 4 Salisbury Road See p2 come in costume! bring along some Date Saturday 19 March Hamentaschen to share! Event Tea & Talmud Date Saturday 26 March Venue Marchmont St Giles, 1a Kilgraston Road Event Shabbat Service Time 1pm Venue Columcille Centre, 2 Newbattle Terrace Time 11:00am Date Sunday 20 March Event Choosing Judaism Date Friday 1 April Venue Usual Location Event Kabbalat Shabbat Service Time 10:30 Venue Marchmont St Giles, 1a Kilgraston Road Time 6:15pm ELJC support line Contents 07904 813162 Page 2 Calendar, Members' news, Purim, Community Seder Use this number if you have an emergency and Page 3 Liberal Judaism really need to speak to someone. It goes to one Page 4 Fairtrade, dress up or stitch up of our members. Otherwise please leave a Page 5 Sermon by Imam Halima Krausen message on the community phone and we will Page 6 Interfaith announcements Page 7 Announcements, recipe respond as soon as possible. Page 8 Current events at the Jewish Museum, Vienna page 2 Future Dates News of members Our regular schedule is as follows: Joel Marks and Sam Foster and family (Oliver, Our Erev Shabbat service will be on the SECOND Zachary and Nathaniel) are moving South to Morpeth Friday of each calendar month where Sam is now a partner in a GP practice and and our Shabbat morning service on the Saturday Philippa Levinson will be moving South too, to be after the FOURTH Friday. closer to her parents. They will all be missed, but we These services take place in the Columcille Centre, wish them well in their new homes and hope they will 2 Newbattle Terrace. keep in touch. We are delighted to welcome Colin Gajewski Fri 8 April Erev Shabbat Service and Andrew Smith as members following their recent Fri 15 April Kabbalat Shabbat Service (Mark succesful interviews with the Rabbinic Board of Solomon) Liberal Judaism and formal admission ceremony at Sat 16 April Shabbat Service (Mark Solomon) our last Shabbat morning service.. Tea & Talmud Sun 17 April Cantillation, Spinoza Community Seder Mon 18 April First night Seder As usual, we will be holding a community Seder on Sat 23 April Shabbat Service the first night of Pesach (Monday 18th April 2011). Fri 29 April Kabbalat Shabbat Service Again, we are delighted that our Rabbi Mark Solomon will be leading it. The Seder will be held in Marchmont St Giles Jewish Calendar Church Centre (same venue as last year). Last year Pesach 19­25 April 2011 we had well over 100 people and we had to expand Yom HaShoah 1 May 2011 into two rooms. As a result timings were difficult, we Yom HaAtzmaut 10 May 2011 finished late and some people had to leave before Shavuot 8 June 2011 the end. So this year we have decided to use only Rosh Hashanah 5772 29 September 2011 one room. This means that our numbers will be Yom Kippur 8 October 2011 strictly limited to 80 places. So if you want to come you must book in time. A booking form is attached to this email or enclosed if you receive your newsletter by post. You Community Matters can also download it from our website (www.eljc.org). If all the 80 places are filled we will do our Purim 2011 best to find places at home Seders (perhaps on the We are thrilled that second night) for any people who we can't fit in. If we will be having our you are having a home Seder on either night and own Megillah could fit in one or two extra guests can you please let reading this year. Do us know soon. bring your own gragger if you have one to make a great Get Your Haggadot in Time racket every time for Pesach you hear Haman's Like last year we will be using the Liberal Judaism name. You could make your own if you don't have Haggadah B’Chol Dor Va’Dor at the seder. Many one and we do have a few spare ones. in case you people bought their own last year and we liked them don't manage to. a lot. They have a section that is especially suited to We will also be having a Fancy Dress Competition using with young children. We do have a few with prizes for all the kids who dress up, and maybe community ones to lend out at the Seder, but we one or two for the adults. So do all come in costume strongly suggest that you get your own either for the ­ cross­dressing is to be encouraged. Community Seder or to use at home. We will be starting the evening with a light supper. They are available to purchase by calling We will provide some pizzas and drinks. It would be Liberal Judaism on 020 7580 1661 or by visiting nice if some people would contribute hamantashen http://www.liberaljudaism.org/publications­and­ too. See page 1 for timings and details. resources/shop.html. Price: £8.50 plus postage page 3 have any trouble accessing these. http://www.forward.com/articles/134961/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/01/palestin e­papers­peace­talks http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0070htg People Power – a Short Survey Liberal Judaism wants to find out more about the A DIY Wedding Workshop for volunteers who sustain our communities, in order to ensure that these irreplaceable people are better People in Mixed­Faith acknowledged and valued. Please take a couple of Relationships minutes to complete our short survey at If you’ve recently got engaged or are thinking about www.surveymonkey.com/s/ljvolunteers. Thank you! getting married and in a mixed faith relationship, then Jeneration can help. Jeneration's Do­It­Yourself wedding workshop is for you if you are discussing Stop the Delegitimisation of what it means to be Jewish (or not Jewish) and Israeli Human Rights NGOs wondering how to address that in your wedding and Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR) is calling on its your marriage together. supporters and contacts in the Diaspora to write to Sunday 10th April 2011, 10am­4pm, £10.00 per Israeli PM Netanyahu, urging him to prevent the person at a Finchley venue. creation of proposed parliamentary committees to Take your partner by the hand and email investigate the funding of left wing human rights [email protected] or call on 07815 776435 for NGOs, and to publicly acknowledge the important role more information. they play in Israel's democracy. More information is available in Ha’aretz and you can read in detail about what RHR are asking its supporters to do by clicking Online Booking Open: Day of here. Celebration for Liberal Judaism http://www.haaretz.com/print­edition/news/knesset­ Please visit http://tinyurl.com/ljdocform. More may­vote­down­inquiry­into­leftist­ngos­1.340947 information on the Day of Celebration, to be held on http://itnewsletter.itnewsletter.co.il/sending/webpage.a 22nd May at the LJS in its centenary year, can be spx?d=51281124166734987648065739279615892& found on Liberal Judaism’s website: w=1&ar=0&isDe=True&rfl=False&l=216478&sll=0&mlt http://www.liberaljudaism.org/events­ =True activities/thought­for­the­day.html. Speakers include Daniel Finkelstein OBE, Lee Montagu and Jo Coburn. Cost: £6 for adults, £1 for under­18s or those in full­ Phenomenal Week for Liberal time education. Judaism in the Media Liberal Judaism had a phenomenal amount of coverage in the media in late January, with five of our The First Disability Inclusion rabbis featured in the national and international Seminar media. The Times published an article by Rabbi Northwood and Pinner Synagogue on Sunday Alexandra Wright about the LJS centenary and also 10th April 2011 covered the appointment of Liberal Judaism‘s It is open to all disabled Liberal Jews, people who are president, Rabbi Julia Neuberger, to West London caring for a disabled adult or child and those who Synagogue. Chief executive, Rabbi Danny Rich, was have responsibility for ensuring equal access to and inclusion in synagogue life. quoted in the legendary American paper, the Jewish Please contact Leon Charikar, National Board Officer Daily Forward, on the subject of organ donation and for Social Action and Inclusion, if you would like to the Guardian published an incisive letter from Rabbi know more, as soon as possible. Elizabeth Tikvah Sarah on the Al­Jazeera/Guardian [email protected] ­ 07533 620 738.
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