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One year ago, Carla Power’s If The are the latest victims in what right, particularly when there is a Oceans Were Ink was published. seems to be a secret scourge: the large Coptic population here in It was a non-fiction finalist for the persecution of Christians and other Sussex. We should be reaching out 2016 Pulitzer Prizes. Carla, an minorities in the Muslim world. to them to offer help and kindness. American Jew, lives in Brighton. The parallel is to those non-Jews She spent one year learning the who helped Jews during the Koran from an imam in Oxford. Tikkun Olam is about healing Holocaust. The book is about her learning. the world, not just the Jewish Tikkun Olam is about healing the One of the most powerful world, not just the Jewish world. sections in that book is the world. With people dying The fact that Jews were expelled imam’s differentiation between and suffering, the very least from Muslim countries after Israel Muslim and Islamist. The former we can do is offer comfort, was established must not govern is a person who practices his or sympathy and empathy. our actions now. There are people her faith. The latter is someone who are dying and many others who who uses their faith as a tool to are suffering. The very least we gain political power. We Jews are very good at keeping can do is offer comfort, sympathy On 11 December 2016 antisemitism on our cultural radar. or empathy. Then we can build fundamentalist Islamists detonated But we cannot simply look after bridges in a world that is attacking explosives in Cairo’s St Mark’s ourselves when others are facing differences: perhaps this would be a Cathedral. At least 25 Coptic the same kind of persecution to start in healing our fracturing world. Christians died in the blast. They which we are sensitive. It is not
EDITORIAL BOARD Hazel Coppins, Doris Levinson, Stephanie Megitt, Michael Rich, David Seidel. SJN brings local news, events, articles, reviews, TECHNICAL ADVISOR Brian Megitt announcements, people, congregations, communities, contacts and more. Delivered at ADMINISTRATOR Bernard Swithern the start of each month, SJN is run entirely by ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS Ivor Sorokin, Lydia Swithern volunteers for reporting, editing and circulating COMMUNAL DIARY [email protected] each edition. It has become the cornerstone of COVER AND BROADWAY MUSICAL IMAGES Melanie Seligman the Jewish community across the region. PRODUCTION/LAYOUT Anand Day
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ISSUE 270 | JANUARY 2017 Sussex Jewish News 0/ "OX s (OVE ". 3: 2 4ELEPHONE Contents 3 FEATURES REGULARS 1 A MUSICAL MOMENT 4 SUSSEX AND THE CITY Photo by Melanie Seligman Your news, views and stories from across the county 2 PAUSE FOR THOUGHT 12 CULTURE Books, lectures and concerts 5 DENNIS HOLLIS MM, Z’L A tribute by Sidney Lipman 16 WHAT’S ON Regular and special events in your community 8 100 YEARS OF BROADWAY MUSICALS More pictures from the show YOUR COMMUNITY 10 MORE ABOUT THE MUSICAL Behind the scenes and in front of the stage 13 BRIGHTON & HOVE PROGRESSIVE SYNAGOGUE 14 BRIGHTON & HOVE HEBREW CONGREGATION A VISIT TO AUSCHWITZ 11 14 HOVE HEBREW CONGREGATION Susan Sheftz on a trip into history 15 BRIGHTON & HOVE REFORM SYNAGOGUE
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ISSUE 270 | JANUARY 2017 4 Sussex and the City 5 Your News Deaths We wish Long Life to Births s %RIKA AND -ARION !DLER AND FAMILIES ON THE DEATH OF THEIR Mazel tov to Suzanne Freedman on the safe arrival of her mother, Margot z’l grand-daughter Rachel Clara Freedman in Versailles on 11 s !LAN "ASS ON THE DEATH OF HIS BROTHER -ARTIN ZL November 2016 to parents Danny and Sabrina, a sister for s 4HE FAMILY OF 2ON "ROWN ZL Oscar. s 4HE FAMILY OF .ETTIE .ISSEN ZL s 4HE FAMILY OF -ARTIN 3TARR ZL Special Birthdays Mazel tov to Devorah Dicks, Jacques DuVivier, Helen Epstein, Henrietta Hempling, Ruth Karp, Doris Levinson, Sally Manley, Dr Joanna Seldon passed away peacefully on Tuesday Rosalind Pantoock, Ivor Richards, Anthony Rosenfield, Morris 7 December after a long illness that she faced with Trarragano, Terry Yason, Daniel Wood and all who have spe- much dignity and courage. We wish Long Life to Sir cial birthdays this month. Anthony Seldon and the family. Engagements Mazel tov to Stuart and Rosa Panto on the engagement of Please note that the date of the Torah Montessori their grandson Sam Freeman to Natasha Isaac. Winter fair has been changed from 5 February to 29 January 2017 from 2.30 – 4.30 pm. Weddings If anyone has any unwanted bric a brac or suitable Mazel tov to: tombola gifts for sale at the Torah Montessori Winter s -AGGIE AND !RTHUR /PPENHEIMER ON THE MARRIAGE OF THEIR Fair on 29 January 2017, please take your items to the son Max to Lucinda Brett. Nursery on New Church Road or arrange collection s ,AUREL AND *ULIAN 7OOLFE ON THE MARRIAGE OF THEIR GRAND- by calling Norina on 01273 779889. Thank you. daughter Elise to James Tobias.
Your Views Dear Editor Important message Thank you for this (December) month’s Jewish News. HOSPITAL CHAPLAINCY VISITS Unfortunately my husband, Martin Starr, died on 1st If you are in hospital or know anyone being admitted into hospital, December in Worthing Hospital and never had chance to read please get in touch with info@sussexjewishrepresentativecouncil. it. The magazine will be with him on his final journey. org or telephone 07789 491279 so that a Jewish chaplain can be Susan Starr contacted to visit.
Joining Together for Peace The Chutzpah Choir was pleased to be given two short slots at the recent Interfaith Service, held this year at the Brighton & Hove Progressive Synagogue on Sunday 20 November. This annual event is organised by the Interfaith Contact Group (IFCG), which exists to promote contact and dialogue between the many faith communities and traditions in the Brighton & Hove area. The group works towards building peaceful relations and greater understanding between all the diverse communities in our city and each year the Interfaith Service is held in a different sacred space. The service on 20 November included addresses and of singing interspersed with the prayers and readings. The readings from the Deputy Lord Lieutenant, the Brighton Chutzpah Choir chose four Yiddish songs from its repertoire Pavilion MP, and the Brighton & Hove Mayor, as well as that were suitable for the occasion and everyone present readings and prayers from most of the main religious joined in with the last one, which translates as, “If my voice traditions in our city, including the Baha’i, Buddhist, Christian, were louder, if my body stronger, I would tear through the Hindu, Islamic and of course Jewish traditions. It was good streets shouting Peace, Peace...” So in Yiddish: sholem, to see some children from the Baha’i and Islamic faiths taking sholem, sholem. an active part in the service. The hall was packed with people At the end of the service, The Dialogue Society gave everyone from all faiths and none, to such an extent that an overspill a pot of traditional ‘Noah’s Pudding’, made with white beans, had to be arranged in an upstairs room. rice, apricots, figs, raisins, orange, walnuts and pomegranate The IFCG has its own Interfaith Choir, so there was plenty (among other things). Delicious.
ISSUE 270 | JANUARY 2017 4 Sussex and the City 5 Dennis Hollis MM: A very special person by Sidney Lipman From the first moment my wife and I were being served lunch at the Ralli Hall by this distinguished looking man, I strongly suspected that he had had an adventurous life to match. When Dennis Hollis MM recently joined the ranks of AJEX, I was really chuffed when he agreed to recount the high spots of his career in the armed forces during WW11 and thereafter. His reply to my first question, “Why did you volunteer to join up” was totally unexpected. “People around me were being oppressed and I felt it my duty”. Dennis explained that he and his family lived in the East End of London amid the Jewish population, whom they regarded as friends. From early teenage he recalled that he questioned his pal as to why his father wore a brown shirt. “It was something he belonged to”, was the answer. It was a couple of years later when he learned the truth about Fascism. In those days, his mother, like many others, kept the front door open during demonstrations for people to take shelter from the 3IDNEY ,IPMAN AND $ENNIS (OLLIS AT THE (OLOCAUST -EMORIAL THE *EWISH mob! CEMETERY -EADOWVIEW "RIGHTON That’s why Dennis presented himself at the London Station As the war progressed many prisoners were taken but Dennis recruiting office in May 1941 when he was under age. The emphasised there was no hostility to them from our side and Sergeant Major said he was 18 and after a perfunctory they were treated according to convention. medical test, Dennis swore on oath to serve the King, was paid one shilling (a day’s pay) and sent off to Maidstone In a subsequent action Dennis was hit by shrapnel in the where he joined the West Kent Regiment. leg and it was back to England. After this major conflict, Dennis returned to the newsprint industry, but once again he It would appear that was not enough action for Dennis, so volunteered and, much to the dismay of his ever-loving wife he volunteered once again, this time, the 12th Battalion (whom he married in 1944 and who passed away in 1999), Parachute Regiment, plus extra pay. They earned it the hard served another 3 years in the Territorials. way. Marching ten miles in two hours in full battle order ... a real killer! When the time came, his unit was parachuted into You might think that the man had had enough action and a field near the Rhine, where the enemy was concealed in would be quietly relaxing, but I happen to know he was haystacks. What followed is described in this extract from a involved up to the hilt in communal welfare. As the old saying newspaper of 1947: goes: You can’t keep a good man down! “L/Cpl Hollis won his MM for what he did on March 24 1945. Sadly, Dennis passed away peacefully in November 2016 The Paratroopers and gliders carrying the airborne forces and was buried in the Jewish cemetery, Old Shoreham had landed on the other side of the Rhine but a small party of Road, Hove. Members of his family and his many friends and paratroopers was cut off by the enemy and it was essential colleagues accompanied him to his final resting place. He will to contact them by radio in order to guide them to the main be much missed. body and also to communicate with Divisional Headquarters some miles away ... Unfortunately, the only radio was in a glider some distance away which the Germans had covered with Spandau fire. “Two volunteers went out to try and bring the radio back. One was killed and the other badly injured. L/Cpl Hollis (a private MARTIN GROSS at the time) then volunteered and succeeded, as the official Memorials citation reads “at great personal risk to himself”. As a result, the small isolated party was guided back to the main body All aspects of stone-masonry undertaken and contact with Divisional Headquarters”. from new to renovation and cleaning He later received a letter from King George VI who, due to his indisposition, was unable to present him with his Military 01273 439792 Medal. The letter, undated, from Buckingham Palace, reads:- “I greatly regret that I am unable to give you personally the 07801 599771 award which you have so well earned. I now send it to you with my congratulations and my best wishes for your future happiness.”
ISSUE 270 | JANUARY 2017 6 Sussex and the City 7 Helping Hands by Jason Lever In previous issues, we outlined our plans to The idea is to offer more general assistance or company link up with a city-wide initiative - Know My on top of the core Helping Hands’ support with everyday Neighbour – where the aim is ‘encouraging activities and at times of ill-health and other difficulties. So, neighbourliness for a better-connected it could be popping round with the occasional cake, offering Brighton and Hove’. BBC Sussex recently to change a light bulb, picking up a pint of milk during bad found that 70% of 400 people surveyed weather or offering to walk their dog. Once Spring starts up said they had experienced loneliness in the again, I certainly plan to offer my neighbour a mixed bag of 01273 747722 last 12 months. herbs from my garden, which abound in our long, warmer It was timely for Helping Hands, with its volunteers, to take seasons now. on this initiative on Mitzvah Day, 27 November 2017. As SJN We’ve already had some very positive, initial feedback readers will know, the essence of this fantastic campaign and are looking forward in the coming months to receiving and framework for action, now entering its 11th year, is to reports on relationships and friendships which have been “give our time, not our money, to make a difference to the built. If you have not yet taken part, please do contact us, as community around us. We introduce people to social action, your participation will be really welcome, even if you are not to their neighbours and to local charities setting up projects currently a volunteer with Helping Hands. which address real needs”. Do sign up and join this very important project across our It was in this vein that over fifteen Helping Hands volunteers community. Helping Hands shares Know My Neighbour’s call took part and dropped in specially designed Know my for action – ‘what small part can you play?’ Neighbour postcards to over 30 of our clients. The aim was A Guide for Neighbours can be found at: https:// to match people living as nearby as possible, if not actual iknowmyneighbour.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/neighbour- neighbours, and ask “if you need any help or would you like guide-by-time-to-talk-befriending.pdf me/us to pop in for a chat over a cuppa?”.
but also provide entertainment for several hundred of our Ralli Hall Community - definitely a win-win situation. by Roger Abrahams In the meantime, I look forward to seeing you at Ralli Hall. I hope that you all had a Happy and Healthy Chanukah and that many of you joined us at the first night lighting of the magnificent Chanukia in Palmeira Square. The main event in November was the super show, A Hundred Years of Broadway Musicals, put on by Top Hat Productions. A cast of almost twenty, from youngsters to those of more mature years, with the music provided by their excellent musical director, filled the stage with sound and colour, while twenty-seven timeless and tuneful songs enchanted the audience during two packed performances – my congratulations to all concerned. Although I will not attempt to list all of those who helped to make the show such a success, I must particularly mention the three-lady production team who started the ball rolling, then saw it through to its triumphant end, Diane Lewis (who apparently thought up the idea during a “rather tipsy night out” - to quote her directors’ note), Samantha Rowland and Wendy Lovegrove, who not only produced, directed and choreographed the show, but also took part in many of the numbers. I do not know yet whether the production was a one-show wonder, but I sincerely hope that this will not be the case. Not only did it give the cast several months of a most enjoyable activity, but it also brought in a substantial number of helpers (about two dozen as per the programme), including the lighting, sound and front and back-stagers, the narrators and the pit singers etc., who, no doubt, also enjoyed being involved, as well as helping to make the production such a success. Ralli Hall is here to provide a venue for Jewish Community Activities of all types and for all ages, and we therefore welcome any such events, particularly ones that not only provide a lot of fun for a substantial number of people over a considerable period, as well as the helpers on the night,
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Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women (AJEX) by Norman Grant On Remembrance Sunday, the branch paraded at the to welcome the congregation, I was very conscious that the Civic service at the Old Steine in Brighton, together with pulpit on which I stood was donated in 1887 to mark the representatives from many other organisations, to pay wedding of Sir Edward Sassoon, which was held in that year. respects to the fallen. And I thought of the many wonderful people that had spoken In the afternoon, we held our annual remembrance service from it over the years. in the historic Middle Street Synagogue, as part of the It made me both humble and proud to remember, in my celebrations for 250 years of Jewish life in Brighton and Hove. welcome, those members of the Jewish community who This was the first time for many years that we have had the fought for our Country after that time. opportunity to hold our service in this wonderful synagogue, The Holocaust Memorial Service will be held at the Meadow which was hosted by the Brighton and Hove Hebrew View Cemetery, Bear Road, Brighton BN2 4DE on Sunday Congregation and conducted by Rabbi Hershel Rader with 29th January 2017 at 11am, conducted by this year’s AJEX Chazan Shlomo Brummer, in a most moving manner. Hon. Chaplain, Rabbi Hershel Rader. All members of the The synagogue was completely full with members of the local Jewish community are welcome to attend. Jewish community, together with many dignitaries, led by the Lest we forget. Lord Lieutenant of East Sussex, the Mayor and Mayoress of Norman Grant is the Chairman of the Brighton, Hove and Brighton and Hove and the High Sheriff. District branch of AJEX. When, as is my usual custom, I gave my opening address
anniversaries in 2016 and requested donations be made to Ralli Hall Lunch and Social Club The Lunch Club instead of personal gifts. by Jacquie Tichauer In December, we ended the year with a wonderful Chanukah I am pleased to say that 2016 was a very good year for the Party and now we are starting to make plans for 2017 which Lunch Club. Our member numbers have greatly increased. of course will include our days out and weekends away. On Tuesdays we now have around 55 members and on a On Sunday 26 February, we are holding a Vintage Afternoon Thursday there are approximately 35. On the first Thursday Tea with an entertainer. Tickets are now on sale at £15 and of every month we welcome the members of JACS who join are available from Laura (01273 722173). us for lunch, listen to an interesting speaker and then we all enjoy tea afterwards. In the winter months, there is nothing like a good 3-course kosher meal. We are open on Tuesdays and Thursdays and We are a few people short of the 100 needed to make up The you will be made more than welcome (all ages welcome). 100 Club, but we have nevertheless decided that we will start our quarterly lucky draw within the next few months. I would like to wish all my lovely and dedicated volunteers, members, our new fundraising team and the community who On behalf of Lunch Club, I would like to give a big Thank support us, a very happy, healthy and peaceful 2017. You to the very kind people who celebrated birthdays and
Hayley Southon is the Multidisciplinary Team Co-ordinator at Ladies Who Lunch the Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital. From a letter by Hayley Southon The Department of Paediatric Oncology at Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals recently received a donation from Ladies Who Lunch, which enabled them to purchase some much- needed medical equipment for use, not only on the Paediatric/Teenager oncology ward, but also in the community. The equipment consists of two high-tech mobile scales which can be used for babies and teenagers, giving the patients the Brighton & Hove AJEX freedom to be weighed wherever they may be comfortable, in Annual Holocaust Memorial Service the playroom, at school or at home. to be held on The other equipment that the hospital could purchase was Sunday, 29th January 2017 the mobile observation machine which enables the children’s blood pressure and pulse rates to be observed in the comfort at 11am at Meadow View Cemetery of their own homes or at school instead of them having to Conducted by Rabbi Hershel Rader take time off school to come to the hospital. (AJEX Chaplain 2016/17 - 5777) The funds donated have really improved the care that can be provided to the patients and has given the patients a little more independence. Ladies Who Lunch is a group of ten local ladies who meet every month in one another’s homes, donating the sum of £5 each time for the privilege of eating, socialising and raising money for charity.
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From the Inside: A Hundred Years of Broadway Musicals from Top Hat Productions by Wendy Lovegrove When I received a message from Diane The biggest problems we faced were push that little bit further to produce a Lewis back in January 2016, asking lack of infrastructure, funding and truly uplifting experience. whether I would be interested in being rehearsal space – not to mention a in a ‘show’ at Ralli Hall, my inner voice Musical Director. Diane convened What I would really like to say about all shouted ‘Finally! At last!’ It has been a meeting at Ralli Hall for anyone of this, are the unexpected spin-offs more than twenty years since the last interested in being part of the project which have surprised and amazed me. community musical production took – and the snowball started to roll. Not only did the cast come together in place and it’s been sorely missed. Sadly, and sticking with the analogy, friendship and commitment, but also the snowball began gathering grit and gathered supporters along the way. The I started chatting through an idea with almost came to a complete halt for a generosity of people, in its truest sense my daughter, Samantha Rowland, that while, but our little team became more of kindness, compassion and the giving I’d been considering a show comprising focused and were determined to make of time, things you simply cannot buy, a century-span tribute to Jewish this project happen. plus the elation experienced by those composers of Broadway musicals, on stage, has been staggering. there being plenty to choose from... Now, nine months later - a significant The format would be numbers from term - it is finally over and the A spiritual expression of our better each decade starting with the 1920s performances took place on November selves coming together in music and and linked by a narration. Pretty soon, 26th and 27th to an overwhelming joy. messages were flying between the three reception. The two audiences really If you are interested in joining our of us and the snowball started rolling. rocked it and their support added that group in any capacity, singing, dancing, final touch of magic that made the cast costumes, backstage etc, please contact me at [email protected]. A view from the audience BY $ORIS ,EVINSON Free Wood from Times of Israel and TIP reports I went to the evening performance on the Saturday and have to say that Two Arab Israeli timber suppliers have suppliers. “We must continue with this I was ‘blown away’ by the fabulous offered to donate wood panelling to co-existence and promote peace.” entertainment. The quality of the music, a synagogue that suffered extensive damage in November’s brush fires. Trends show that Arab Israelis are singing and dance numbers was superb increasingly assimilating into Israeli – a fantastic evening of joy at Ralli Hall, The wood is to be supplied free of society - most recently in education. bringing back memories of long ago charge and without labour costs. “I Between 2013 and 2016, the number when we all took part in the famous had tears in my eyes when I heard of Arab Israeli teachers in Israel’s state Ralli Hall shows. It was innovative and what was happening”, said the schools rose by 40 percent. The result inspirational and I applaud Diane Lewis congregation’s rabbi, Dov Hiyon. is largely the product of a government- and her team for taking up the challenge “It was so emotional to hear that sponsored initiative to integrate more and bringing some smiles back into the Muslims were asking to donate to a Arab Israeli teachers into public community, together with charm and Jewish synagogue. I’ve invited them schools. Likewise, the number of enchantment which have been sorely to evening prayers to personally thank Arab Israelis attending universities is lacking for a while. I hope that this marks them.” trending upwards, and 14.4 percent the beginning of a revival of musical of Israel’s bachelor degree students entertainment for the whole community “Jews and Arabs live together in Haifa, in 2015, were Arab; an extremely high and brings back some happiness to us all and there is no discrimination”, said success rate considering the country’s in Brighton and Hove. Walid Abu-Ahmed, one of the wood population is around 20 percent Arab.
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A Visit to Auschwitz by Susan Sheftz I had felt the need for some years to visit Auschwitz and how tourists, and vast contingents of Israeli school children were more timely than when a group organised by Rabbi Efune was on making their high-school pilgrimage. The cemeteries had a lot of offer. the headstones rebuilt after the desecration of Nazi occupation I really had no idea who my fellow travellers would be, and had and the headstones broken beyond repair were built together in fact not travelled since losing my beloved hubby some 6 years to make a wall. The tour overran somewhat and after collecting ago, so was rather apprehensive. After initial hiccups of awaiting our luggage, we once again boarded the coach to Auschwitz/ a new passport, and seeing if I could actually be accommodated Birkenau, eating a packed lunch on board. No matter what one with the group, I was finally on my way. The journey was made sees or reads about this place, nothing can prepare you for what so much easier by the warmth and inclusiveness of almost awaits. everyone, some of whom were known to me. Most of us walked in silence on this wet, gloomy day which Being less than a two day trip we were on the go from arrival to emphasised the horror and desolation of the place. The groups of departure, which was to be expected, but so much was crammed non-Jewish people of all nationalities exited the buildings, tears in. On arrival, we offloaded our baggage at the hotel, and after streaming down their faces, each with their own guide speaking a light lunch of falafel, made straight by coach to Schindler’s their mother tongue; Japanese, Scandinavian, German etc.. factory where we were met by a very informative guide who Again we had a wonderful guide, who showed humility and gave us a very honest appraisal of Oscar Schindler (unlike the compassion. Seeing everything, including the worse possible, glamorised film version) and the guide’s own relatives during the the ovens, the thing that got to me the most was the room time of Nazi occupation. He then proceeded to escort us round we entered in which human hair of all hues filled the space the labyrinth of rooms, including 0scar’s desk. I enquired as to from floor to ceiling. It was all too hard and the cruelty and the where the infamous list was, expecting to see that, and was told unimaginable brutality of day-to-day life there was too much to it was in Russia. take in. The sights I saw will stay with me for the rest of my life. This tour was followed by an evening meal and then a film about We left Birkenau at approximately 6.30 p.m and dusk was already Auschwitz. I had actually seen it before, and decided to go for setting in on this gloomy, harrowing place. a walk to take in the local colour along with Brian and Evelyn Finally I wish to commend Rabbi Efune for putting all this Evans, whom I met for the first time and who, along with myself, together and for allowing me to share in this one-off experience. were picked up by the Rabbi to and from Gatwick. Others had As the sole member of the Progressive Synagogue on this trip, I decided to go for a drink in the Jewish quarter where klezmer did not feel excluded in any shape or form. music blared out, adding to the ambiance of the place. The square cobbled stones made walking not so easy underfoot. I was in awe of the supposed Jewishness of the area: even the railings had Magen Davids and Menorahs intertwined. The restaurants offering such delights as cholent (which I was brought up on, and no one’s cholent rivalled that of my late mother) amongst other Jewish culinary delights, were I learned, fake, as all of the restaurants were neither owned nor managed by Jewish people. Therefore these were simply more tourist attractions for Krakow, as were the Tuk Tuk-like transports emblazoned with signs saying Schindler’s Factory Tour and Jewish Old Quarter. The following morning after breakfast we vacated our rooms. (I had actually fared very well and had a suite all to myself.) We boarded the coach once more, this time for a tour of the Synagogues with, again, an equally eloquent and informative guide well-versed in Jewish culture. Krakow was awash with
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Two Interesting Programmes at The Keep Holocaust Memorial Day at the On Wednesday 25 January, to mark Holocaust Memorial University of Sussex Day, The Keep presents Arnold Daghani – Artist and Wednesday 8 February 2017, 13.15 – 18.00 Holocaust Survivor, with archivist Samira Teuteberg and film director, writer and founder of Latest TV, Bill Smith. To mark Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, University of Holocaust Memorial Day the life, work, and legacy of Arnold Sussex, Gardner Centre Road, East Sussex, BN1 9RA Daghani is examined. For more information, please click on s 0ROFESSOR -ARY &ULBROOK 0ROFESSOR OF 'ERMAN (ISTORY http://www.thekeep.info/events/arnold-daghani-artist-and- and Dean of the Faculty of Social and Historical holocaust-survivor-with-archivist-samira-teuteberg-and- Sciences, UCL ‘After Nazism: Addressing the film-director-writer-and-founder-of-latest-tv-bill-smith/ Legacies of Persecution’ On Wednesday 5 April The Keep presents German s &REDDIE +NOLLER SURVIVOR OF !USCHWITZ AND "ERGEN Jewish Families and the Holocaust with archivist Samira Belsen camps, will answer questions from the audience Teuteberg. For more information, please click on http:// after a showing of: ‘Surviving the Holocaust: Freddie www.thekeep.info/events/german-jewish-families-and-the- Knoller’s War’ holocaust-with-archivist-samira-teuteberg/. The stories of s &ILM @The Children of the Holocaust’, an animated individual families that are stored at The Keep are explored documentary series made with ‘BBC Learning’, based and illustrate the way in which family photos, poetry, on interviews with WW2 Holocaust Survivors from official documents, drawings and paintings show how the Leeds, followed by a question and answer session with Holocaust unfolded and how individuals and families built Kath Shackleton, producer of the film. new lives in the aftermath. This event is open to all, however booking is essential as Each talk costs £3.00. Prior registration is encouraged by seating is limited. ringing 01273 482349 or emailing [email protected]. uk. The Keep is located at Woollards Way, Brighton BN1 Book your place now for this event: http://www.sussex. ac.uk/cgjs/hmd 9BP.
The scene was illustrated with many quotes and with Jewish Historical Society of England, ephemera and other personal material which Gaster never Sussex Branch threw away. And so much was made topical by references to by Godfrey R Gould Brighton, Hove and Worthing. Vanessa spoke with such ease that an already excellent lecture was one in which a large and A capacity crowd attended our November 2016 meeting at eager audience was totally satisfied. Ralli Hall to hear Vanessa Freedman, Jewish Studies Librarian at University College, London, speak on Moses Gaster. Our next two meetings will take place at Ralli Hall starting at 7.45 pm prompt. Please try to ensure that you are seated by We started with a near disaster as a sub-station fault caused that time to avoid disturbing the speaker and the audience. a power failure to the ground floor at Ralli Hall and the booth at the petrol filling station opposite. However, the stalwart On 31 January 2017, Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain of efforts of Gavin, the caretaker, enabled us to transfer with Maidenhead Synagogue, will speak on “River Jews - the barely a hitch to a most suitable basement room for the surprising story of Jews along the Thames from mediaeval lecture. This was based on the vast Moses Gaster archive times till today”. which is held by University College, London. Our speaker And on 28 February 2017, Dr Rosa Vidal Doval of Queen Mary started with an account of Gaster’s early life in Romania, University of London, will speak on “From Solomon ha-Levi to followed by his lectureship at Oxford and his time when Pablo de Santa Maria (c. 1350 - 1435)”. Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation of the All are invited, free for members and students, only £4.00 for United Kingdom. Moses Gaster’s remarkable attitude to most welcome visitors, to include also light refreshments after Jewish life and belief, and his relationship with the great and the lecture, questions and discussion. We aim to finish at the the good of his day was fascinating. Especially so, was his latest by 9.30 pm. close involvement with Zionism, of which cause he was an early protagonist. All this was underpinned with a picture of Gaster, the man and with his family. It Happened in France As a contribution to this year’s Holocaust French boy, Julien Quintin, and Memorial Week, the Sussex Jewish Film the other is a Jewish boy, Jean Club presents Au Revoir les Enfants Bonnet, who is being hidden (Goodbye Children), a classic French film from the Nazis by the friars by Louis Malle, with English subtitles. It’s who run the school. But will his identity remain secret? based on events that actually happened The film will be shown at Ralli Hall on Sunday 29 January - when Malle was at a boarding school during the war and is doors 7.00 pm (hot and cold drinks available), with the film his most autobiographical work. The film won Golden Lion at starting at 7.30 pm. All are welcome but everyone needs to the Venice Film Festival and BAFTA for Best Foreign Film. be signed in, so please arrive by 7.15 pm. Students come Set in a Catholic boarding school in the French countryside free but a small donation on the door is requested from during World War II, two boys become friends. One is a others. We hope to see you there!
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2017: A Year of Anniversaries – and Events@BHPS New Hope? Lectures and Lunches by Rabbi Elli Tikvah Sarah Join us for Sundays with a diference. Three stimulating 2016 was a very significant year for the Jews of Sussex, as lectures by experts in their felds, followed by lunch. Tickets we celebrated the 250th anniversary of Brighton Jewry – and cost £20 and include welcome drink, lecture and lunch. Book 2017 is set to be even more significant for Jews throughout all three now to receive a 10% discount. the world, as we mark the 100th Anniversary of the Balfour 29 January – Sir Anthony Seldon – Beyond Happiness Declaration (https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Balfour_ Sir Anthony Seldon is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Declaration). Buckingham and former Head of Brighton College and Wellington On 2 November 2017, Lord Balfour wrote a letter to Lord College. He co-founded Action for Happiness, a body to raise Rothschild that has since become famous: awareness of happiness and reduction of depression. He distinguishes between pleasure, happiness and joy and offers an “His Majesty’s Government view with favour the original 8 step approach to make our lives more meaningful. establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the 26 February – Sydney Anglo, FBA – Great Pianists of the 20th achievement of this object, it being clearly understood Century that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil Professor Anglo, Emeritus Professor in the History of Ideas, and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in University of Swansea,has written many books on early-modern Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in intellectual history and is now completing a history of 20th- any other country.” century piano playing. His talk will explore the difficulties of the subject and will offer examples of recordings. The great teacher So, twenty years after the First Zionist Congress gathered in Leschetizky (1830-1915) used to ask prospective pupils: “Were Basle in Switzerland, the possibility of realising the Zionist you a child prodigy? Are you of Slavic descent? Are you a Jew?” dream – made all the more real by subsequent events: the How pertinent were these questions and have they remained so? end of the First World War a year later, swiftly followed by the 30 April - Barry Hyman-The story of Marks and Spencer 1984- collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the division of the region 1965 formerly ruled by the Turks between France and Britain and, in particular, the formation of the British Mandate in Palestine, Barry Hyman is the retired Head of Media and Public Relations at which came into operation on 29 September 1923. M&S. Time The British Mandate in Palestine was due to last 25 years. All session begin at 11.30 am with a welcome drink on arrival. During that time, the rise of Nazism and with the triumph The lecture will begin at noon. Lunch will be served from 1.00 of Hitler in the German elections of 1933, the enactment pm. Lunch includes wine or a soft drink and is followed by coffee. of his plan to isolate and demonise the Jewish people Vegetarian, permitted fish or other special dietary requirements). as a precursor to the murder of six million Jews and the Tickets must be purchased at least two weeks in advance from destruction of tens of thousands of Jewish communities Event Brite at www.eventbrite.co.uk and searching for the event across Europe. It was in the aftermath of the Sho’ah that the or by ringing the office 01273 737223. Tickets must be shown at United Nations voted on 29 November 1947 to partition the the door. BHPS is fully wheelchair accessible land on the eastern seaboard of the Mediterranean into two Open Wednesdays states: a Jewish state and an Arab state (See: http://www. jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/partition_plan.html). BHPS is open every Wednesday from 11 am – 4 pm for social activities. These include scrabble, chess, bridge, exercise There is no need to rehearse everything that has transpired classes, computer training, access to the library, knitting and during the past 70 years. We know, 100 years on, that the weaving. work of realising the Balfour Declaration in full has yet to be On Wednesday 11 January Claire Bessel will be giving a completed. Another less well-known letter, written by Martin professional weaving lesson. All materials supplied. Please bring Buber to Mahatma Gandhi on 24 February 1939, says it a packed lunch (vegetarian or permitted fish). Hot drinks are all. Writing in response to Gandhi’s position that ‘Palestine available. Ring the office for further details if you would like to join belongs to the Arabs,’ Buber declared: us. “…. two vital claims are opposed to each other, two claims Access to Hebrew and Exploring Judaism Classes of a different nature and a different origin which cannot Classes recommence on Saturday 14 January. Exploring Judaism objectively be pitted against one another and between and Access to Hebrew classes are led by Rabbi Elli Tikvah Sarah which no objective decision can be made as to which is just, and are open to all who wish to broaden and deepen their Jewish which unjust... We considered and still consider it our duty knowledge. to understand and to honor the claim which is opposed to Access to Hebrew class. - 1.00-2.00 pm ours and to endeavor to reconcile both claims” (See Arthur Exploring Judaism - 2.15 – 3.45pm Hertzberg, Ed., The Zionist Idea, Jewish Publication Society, 1997, pp. 463-464, for the full text of the letter). Friday Night Onagim – Erev Shabbat Service 7.30 pm followed by a talk The work remains of reconciling the ‘two vital claims’ to the land, loved equally by both Israelis and Palestinians. Let s 13 Jan - Jess Wood Sarah: Painting as visual theology – an illustrated talk on the subject of her PhD. us hope and pray that during 2017 progress will be made towards an equitable solution to the conflict that ensures s 10 Feb - Josie Spiegel: Jewish traces in contemporary Dutch sovereignty and security, justice and peace for both peoples. For full details of all BHPS activities see our website.
ISSUE 270 | JANUARY 2017 14 15 Rabbi Hershel Rader "RIGHTON (OVE (EBREW #ONGREGATION .EW #HURCH 2OAD (OVE ". !$ BHHC 4EL %MAIL OFlCE BHHC SHULORG WWWBHHC SHULORG Miraculous thoughts for the end of Chanukah by Rabbi Hershel Rader The last day of Chanukah was 1 January. If this festival was in the morning it was found that none of the oil had burned just for a day, like Purim, it would have ended a week ago! and the Menorah was still full. This miracle continued until the So why do we celebrate Chanukah for eight days? Everyone end of the eight days. Hence, a miracle occurred on all of the knows the answer; because there was enough oil for only one eight days. day and it lasted for eight. There are other approaches to answering this question. The But Rabbi Yosef Cairo, author of the Shulchan Aruch, poses Pri Chadash points out that if there had been no miracle of the following question: If there was enough oil to last for one the oil we would still celebrate one day to commemorate the day then the miracle of the oil was only for the subsequent great Jewish victory over the Greeks. It follows that the first seven days. If so we should celebrate for seven days, not day of Chanukah celebrates the victory and the other seven eight. He offers three different answers: the miracle of the oil. Firstly, those who were preparing the Menorah for lighting Whatever the answer, it is clear that Chanukah, which marks knew it would take eight days until fresh oil arrived. They our triumphant resistance to assimilation, has a connection divided the existing flask of oil into eight parts, so that the with oil. For that matter the Temple Menorah, a major symbol Menorah would be lit every day, albeit not for the entire day. of Judaism, was fueled by oil. The Rabbis describe oil in two A miracle occurred and the small amount of oil put in the very different, almost contradictory, ways. On the one hand Menorah each day lasted the entire day. Hence, there was a it ‘spreads and penetrates’ into places a liquid such as water miracle on the first day as well. does not reach. On the other hand ‘oil floats on water’ and Secondly, on the first night, the entire contents of the flask has the ability to remain totally separate. were emptied into the Menorah, which should have enabled A large part of the history of the Jewish people is one of the Menorah to be lit for one entire day. However, after filling dispersion. We have been exiled from our homeland and the Menorah the flask was miraculously still full. This miracle spread throughout the world, penetrating and enhancing alien occurred on each of the eight days. societies. The genius of Jewish survival has been our ability Thirdly, on the first night the entire contents of the flask were to maintain our unique and separate spiritual heritage and emptied into the Menorah. When the Menorah was checked identity.
(OVE (EBREW #ONGREGATION (OLLAND 2OAD (OVE ". *. 4EL %MAIL HOLLANDROADSHUL BTCONNECTCOM AND RABBIVCSILVERMAN GMAILCOM HHC 7EB WWWHOLLANDROADSHULCOM The early history of Hove Hebrew Congregation by Dr Sam Barsam With the end of the official celebrations marking 250 years of Tensions peaked 13 years later when, in 1927 it is recorded Jewish life in Brighton and Hove last month, it is worth noting that Mr L.W. Frankel, a member of Middle Street Synagogue, Hove Hebrew Congregation’s role since emerging on the was refused an aliyah (honour) one Shabbat following a recent scene. visit to Palestine – in those days a potentially perilous journey. While the popular account maintains that the synagogue In response, he called a meeting at his house in Brunswick was founded ‘on a broiges’, the prevailing catalyst was Terrace to discuss the formation of a new synagogue. The undoubtedly more prosaic and even pedestrian: a collective proposition met with broad support; regular services of ‘The discontent at the distance worshippers had to walk to Middle New Synagogue’ were held first at The Little Vic Theatre in St Street Synagogue. When that august and ornate structure Margaret’s Place. Soon thereafter the congregation’s building was consecrated in 1875, it catered to a Jewish population committee learned that Moss’s Olympia Gymnasium, at the living in the heart of Brighton. By the late 1920s, Hove had corner of Lansdowne Road and Holland Road, was for sale, become a new demographic locus of Jewish life. whereupon an approach was made. In addition, with an influx of Jews to Britain, fleeing the On 14 December 1929, the foundation stone was laid by pogroms and dislocations of Czarist Russia and Eastern Chief Rabbi Rev Dr J H Hertz. The Mayor and Mayoress of Europe since the late 1800s, a clash of cultures, habits and Hove, together with other dignitaries, joined in the historic intergroup resentments began to play a role in the inevitable event and were presented with a leather-bound Singer’s tensions between the aristocratic, Sephardic and highly Prayer Book in a silken lined case, an exemplar of which can Anglicised ‘old guard’ and the more ethnic Ostjuden (eastern be found in a glass display in the foyer of the synagogue Jews) who were finding their way to Britain’s south coast in today. increasing numbers. Other memorabilia in the way of photographs can be seen in Thus, on the one hand, archival records note that a certain the remodelled Talmud Torah Hall, appropriately now known Aaron Samuels moved to Hove from Westcliff-on-Sea in as the kiddush hall where the shul’s haimishkeit lives on. 1914 and formed a minyan (prayer meeting) at his home The above is an excerpt from Dr Sam Barsam’s chapter on in Montefiore Road with the help of his father-in-law, the history of Hove Hebrew Congregation in An Anthology of Rabbi Nachum Lipman, who served as the chief shochet the Brighton & Hove Jewish Community 1766-2016, edited by (slaughterer) to the UK Jewish Community for 47 years. This Godfrey Gould and Michael Crook, published by the Jewish minyan gathered new members in the ensuing years, together Historical Society of England, Sussex Branch and available with an accumulation of resentments with Middle Street from the shul office. Synagogue. ISSUE 270 | JANUARY 2017 BHRS Rabbi Dr Andrea Zanardo "RIGHTON (OVE 2EFORM 3YNAGOGUE 0ALMEIRA !VENUE (OVE ". '% 4EL %MAIL OFlCE BH RSORG WWWBH RSORG HTTPSWWWFACEBOOKCOM"RIGHTON2EFORM
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I saw a lady wearing a kefyah by Rabbi Dr Andrea Zanardo A few days ago, I saw a lady wearing a kefyah, a The comparison between Jewish and Palestinian refugees Palestinian scarf. The number of people wearing such a reminds me of the comparison between Jacob and Esau, scarf is dwindling nowadays, even in Brighton; and that which we read a few days ago in the Torah. Rebecca was the first kefyah I have seen this year. But then it struck pushes Jacob to steal the blessing that his father wanted me… it was on November 30th. In the Israeli calendar, this to give to Esau, his brother. Then Esau lived for years, for is the Day to Mark the Departure and Expulsion of Jews decades, in the shadow of this event, looking forward to from the Arab Countries and Iran. the moment for revenge. Jacob grew up and became a more mature person. Through the vicissitudes that the I was tempted to ask that kefyah-wearing lady, who Torah tells us, he met Rachel, fell in love, worked for seven certainly cares very much about the Palestinians, if years to marry her, was cheated by Laban, found himself there was room for other Middle Eastern refugees in her with Leah, whom he did not love, worked hard another bleeding heart. If she knew that, in 1948, there were more seven years, and finally could marry the love of his life. than 140.000 Jews in Algeria, and that now there are none. Whether she knew that Nasser declared that all Egyptian On the one side, you have someone, Esau, who became Jews to be enemies of the State in 1956. Whether she had obsessed about being a victim. A victim of his brother’s heard about the pogroms in Libya in 1966 etc, etc... tricks, which he had to suffer when he was young. While Jacob, on the other side, is able to understand I resisted the temptation. But the comparison between complexities. He knows, he has learnt, that things are the Palestinians and the Mizrahim, or North African Jews, not always in black and white, and that life is more than lingered in my mind for a while. What a stark contrast. a confrontation between victims and perpetrators. This The Palestinians are kept in refugee camps in Lebanon, is not, as we know, the way the media chooses to look Jordan, Syria, as well as in the Palestinian Authority. They at the Middle East. They want us to believe that the cannot work. They have to live off benefits provided by situation is in black and white; that the Jewish State is the the UN. The very definition of “Palestinian refugees” is perpetrator, and that the Palestinians are always victims, constantly updated in order to have a larger number of forever victims, and the only victims. And by peddling this clients to care for. If you are a great grandson of someone representation, they erase or ignore the Jewish victims of who, prior to 1948, lived in the then Palestine for two the conflict. We, of course, as the children of Jacob, have years, you can call yourself a “Palestinian refugee” and the duty to remember this on at least one day per year. receive money from the United Nations. These people dream of an impossible return, to places that they Taken from Rabbi Andrea’s Sermon on 3rd December themselves have never seen. 2016 On the other hand, think about the Mizrahim; those Jewish refugees from North African Countries. Part of them also lived in refugee camps; but they left those places after a few months. There is no such thing as a UN sponsored agency for Jewish refugees. They have moved on and do not live in the shadow of the tragedy that happened in the past. They have been able to rebuild their lives and to turn the page.
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REGULAR ACTIVITIES SHABBAT SHALOM – BRIGHTON TIMES Mondays In Light Candles Out Havdalah ¢ Lunch & Learn with Rabbi Efune 12.30 - 1.30 pm at the Brighton Fri 6 3.54 pm Sat 7 5.09 pm Hillel Centre, 66/67 Middle Street, Brighton. Tel: 01273 321919 Fri 13 4.03 pm Sat 14 5.18 pm ¢ Afternoon Club with tea 1.30 pm. Ralli Hall Tel: Reba 01444 484839 Fri 20 4.14 pm Sat 21 5.25 pm ¢ Rubber and Duplicate Bridge 1.30 pm - 4.30 pm £4.00 + £1.00 Fri 27 4.26 pm Sat 28 5.38 pm transport Ralli Hall. Tel: Reba 01444 484839 ¢ Contemporary Basic Talmud with Rabbi Efune. Men only. 8.15 EV ENTS IN JANUARY pm at Chabad House 01273 321919 Thursday 5 ¢ Torah & Tea with Penina Efune. Personalising Prayer – an in-depth ¢ JACS members are invited to the Ralli Hall Lunch & Social Club. Tel: look at the Morning Prayers and their relevance and meaning for our Jacqueline 01273 739999 lives. Enjoy herbal teas and delicious snacks. All ladies welcome. 8.00 pm at Chabad House 01273 321919 Sunday 8 ¢ SARID (Association of Jewish Refugees) meets every 3rd ¢ Sussex Jewish News – Submission deadline for the January 2016 issue. Send your articles, thoughts, photos and announcements to sjneditor@ Monday of the month at 10.45 am, Ralli Hall. £1.50 Tel: 0208 385 sussexjewishnews.com or [email protected] 3070 or email [email protected]
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