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DECEMBER 2018 • KISLEV - TEVET 5779 • ISSUE 291 2 Pause for thought 3 Homeless in Brighton

As the winter nights draw in and the heating goes distribute. When you next go shopping please pick on, it can be easy to forget the unimaginable misery up something from the list below and drop it into our facing the city’s homeless community over the next collection point at ODM Office Supplies, 235-237, few months. Hangleton Road, BN3 7LR. Life is never easy if you’re a rough sleeper, but it’s We will be extremely grateful for your donations. considerably worse if you don’t have a roof over your Items needed are sanitary products, deodorant, head. toothbrush and toothpaste, packets of anti-bacterial Elsewhere in this issue, Simon hand wipes, socks, hats, Seligman writes about how he, We will be extremely gloves, thermals for both his daughter and Rabbi Efune grateful for your donations. male and female, chocolate set out to meet and feed some bars and energy bars. of the homeless in Brighton & Hove. This was an eye-opening event for all of them. Call Beryl 01273 734300 or Sarah 01273 327763 for further details. But more can be done. SJRC feels that our community can do something to help homeless men Our thanks to ODM and women by donating goods which we will then

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ISSUE 291 | DECEMBER 2018 Sussex Jewish News Contents PO Box 2178 • Hove BN3 3SZ Telephone: 07906 955 404 2 [email protected] or [email protected] 3 FEATURES

1 LIGHTING THE WORLD Various Chanukiot - photo by Brian Megitt

4 JILL RICHARDS – WORKER Godfrey Gould remembers

6 HELPING THE HOMELESS Simon Seligman on offering a helping hand

6 PITTSBURGH VIGIL Simon Cobbs on the Rep Council commemoration

9 FLORENCE PLACE, REVISITED Godfrey Gould on the cleaned up cemetery MARTIN GROSS 11 OLD STOCK THEATRE REVIEW Funeral Director and Funeral Consultant REGULARS to Jewish communities 4 SUSSEX AND THE CITY Your news, views and stories from across the 01273 439792 county 07801 599771 10 CULTURE 16 WHAT’S ON – DECEMBER Regular and special events in your community

YOUR COMMUNITY 12 BRIGHTON & HOVE REFORM SYNAGOGUE 13 BRIGHTON & HOVE HEBREW CONGREGATION 14 HOVE HEBREW CONGREGATION 15 BRIGHTON & HOVE PROGRESSIVE SYNAGOGUE

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ISSUE 291 | DECEMBER 2018 4 Sussex and the City 5 Your News Births Thank you • Susan and David Rose would like to thank all their Mazel tov to: wonderful friends for their cards and good wishes on the • Jack and Elaine Rose on the birth of a grandson, a third occasion of their golden Wedding Anniversary son for Mariamne and Dan • Ivor and Gweni Sorokin on the birth of grandson Louis, a Deaths brother for Olivia We wish Long Life to the families of Hershel Gorker z’l and Adele Percival z’l Special Birthdays Stonesetting Mazel tov to Alegra Adler, Blanche Brickman and all who have The memorial stone in loving memory of Michael Brummer special birthdays this month will take place on 16 December 2018 at 1.00 pm at the Jewish Cemetery, Meadowview, Brighton.

Your Views SJN is a stimulating publication SJN has been a star Congratulations on producing November’s truly excellent I’m so pleased that you, your friends, and your colleagues edition of SJN. This stimulating publication reaches new enjoyed the show Old Stock. Thanks again for all of your help heights. Well done collecting those stories, we had amazing response from our audiences who were deeply moved by them - some reviewers Bernard and Lydia Swithern even thought that they were a part of the show brought along by the production company! Many thanks again, you’ve been a star! The editors are doing a fine job Warm regards, Maxine Toff wishes to thank the editors who, she says, “are Andy O’Connor doing a fine job”! Marketing Officer The Old Market, Hove

Jill Richards - the Worker by Godfrey R Gould

There were rightly most estimable tributes to Jill Richards (especially plastic bags) until there were two, three, four or z’l as mother, wife and friend in the last issue of SJN. But I more boxes and bags per client. Then all the members of the would like to add a few words about her as a worker for the Board would arrive to collect the parcels and deliver them to community. their clients. And then the chutzpah would start - the wrong kind of jam, or biscuits, or soup, or cake. Jill would cope with I had the privilege of working with Jill for many years on the it all. We even had one ‘gentleman’ who counted the matzos Jewish Welfare Board. Apart from other duties, she alone in each box and complained that in one box there was a ran the then massive task of organising the Pesach Parcels. matzo missing! The number and size of the parcels in those days was far, far greater than today. First Jill would prepare a lengthy list When Jill retired there was nobody who could possibly of items, a huge shopping list. Apart from matzos and wine do what she had done, so the whole exercise had to be there were eggs, butter, cheese, jam (sundry varieties), soups much simplified. But it was still all done in-house. Today (again, sundry varieties), cakes and biscuits (more varieties), the parcels are rather more basic, but certainly look most matzo meal, grape juice, fruit juice, and more and more, all stylish. However, it has been outsourced to be carried out by with many varieties. This list would be then sent to all clients the children of the BHHC Cheder. And they do the packing and they would tick off what they wanted and how much. Jill in the Mark Luck Hall - named after another communal would then aggregate all that was needed and order all the worker, the grandfather of Jill herself. Let’s hope some of food. these youngsters will follow the incredible example set by Jill Richards, a truly great worker for the This would be delivered to AJEX Hall and Jill would then Jewish Community. organize her helpers who would assemble one Sunday morning and, under Jill’s leadership, would sort and pack It was a privilege to have known her and to have worked everything according to the lists into boxes and plastic bags with her.

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Legacy ad A5.indd 1 15/06/2018 09:06 6 Sussex and the City 7 Sussex Jewish Community helping the Homeless by Simon Seligman After attending the around 20 homeless people and received great thanks and incredibly moving appreciation from them for our small gesture on that cold vigil recently for the night. 11 murdered Jews in It was incredibly upsetting to see the situation in which Pittsburgh, Rabbi Efune these individuals unfortunately have found themselves. approached me and Throughout the year it’s a struggle for them all but none more suggested that after so than now, in surviving the this terrible atrocity he extremely cold winter nights. felt compelled to do something positive as As a community I feel it would a personal response be extremely rewarding if to this devastating we could make this a more situation. The following regular project. Maybe not night, Rabbi Efune, my just feeding the homeless daughter Charlotte and but possibly also providing I met up and loaded other helpful items such as the boot of his car with warm blankets, bedding and an enormous saucepan warmer clothing, as well as of piping hot traditional essential hygiene products chicken-noodle soup. that might be needed. Laden with a basket full of bread rolls, thermal cups and If any member of the serviettes, the three of us ventured into Brighton & Hove City community is interested and Centre with the challenge of feeding as many of the city’s able to offer a little time to this project, we will be providing homeless as possible. We managed to chat with and feed more information in future issues of SJN.

Pittsburgh vigil by Simon Cobbs Just two days after the tragic shooting in Pittsburgh that attack should serve as a warning that hate can never be cost eleven members of the Tree of Life Synagogue their tolerated no matter what form it takes”. lives, Sussex Jewish Representative Council held a vigil to allow the people of Brighton and Hove to pay their respects and to remember those victims. A bitterly cold night did not deter some 150 people from attending what proved to be a fitting memorial to the horrendous events that shocked so many around the world. The moving event had the full support of the Brighton & Hove City Council, with its leader Councillor Dan Yates making a fitting tribute to the victims and also making the point that this could be ours or indeed any community in the world. He emphasised the point that the attack occurred on World Refugee Day and at a baby-naming service of a gay couple, both of these being relevant to our city and community. Council members from all parties were present. Vigill©MatthewAndrews

There were many moving tributes to the victims from Asmat The vigil was drawn to a close by Winston Pickett, himself Rou (Vice Chair, Racial Harassment Forum), Richard Williams Jewish and a former resident of Pittsburgh, reciting Kaddish (Chair, Sanctuary-on-Sea), Councillor Emma Daniels, Imam (Mourners’ Prayer) in Hebrew. Debra Goodman, co-chair of Mahib, who represented the Muslim community. the Sussex Jewish Representative Council recited the same Representing the Sussex Jewish Representative Council, prayer in English. was President Beryl Sharpe who made a moving address Finally, Israeli singer Eyal Shavit closed proceedings with a that reminded all those gathered, that “Antisemitism has fitting rendition of ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’ which has now no place in our Society, from graffiti slogans on walls to become synonymous with the aftermath of terror attacks. comments muttered under people’s breaths – whether it be from the far right or left or anywhere in between, it is Remembering the words of Rabbi Efune, on the evening, incumbent upon us all to act against any and all prejudices “We hope that this is the last time we have to gather in this and racism”. She concluded by saying, “The Pittsburgh way to remember the victims of terror”.

ISSUE 291 | DECEMBER 2018 6 Sussex and the City 7 Lunch and Social Club by Jacquie Tichauer This month marks the 18th anniversary of the start of the 739999 or email me on [email protected]. We are sure that Lunch Club and the community is indebted to Alan Burke who our volunteers get as much enjoyment and fulfilment as do inaugurated it. We have been a separate charity in our own our members. You do not have to commit to coming every right since 2010 “Ralli Hall Lunch and Social Club (charity no. week as we would like to build up a group of regular standby 1142922)” and financially independent, having to raise some volunteers. Hope to hear from you. £40,000 each year to break even. JACS joined us on the 1st November for an anniversary On Tuesday 4 December we are holding our Annual celebration which was enjoyed by all and it is lovely working Chanukah party and once again this year we are being together with them once every month. entertained by the wonderful cast of Top Hats. On a sad note, we held a minute’s silence on Tuesday for Winter is now upon us and we are happy to welcome new members who are enjoying our lunches and activities and of the victims of the Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting, which course, the company. was a shock to everyone. We are hoping 2019 will be a more peaceful year for all. Three of our stalwart volunteers who have been helping for many years are now looking to cut down on the days they Sadly, our long-term dedicated Tai Chi instructor Adele come. We are therefore looking for some new volunteers to Percival passed away. She was a wonderful lady and will take their place on a Tuesday morning from 9.30 am to 2.00 be very sadly missed by all of us at the Ralli Hall Lunch and pm. If you feel able to join us please contact me on 01273 Social Club. We wish all her family long life.

The Community Renewal Fund by Beryl Sharpe and Debra Goodman (Fund Administrators)

The Community Renewal Fund was set up under the auspices Hat Productions; Jewish School Exploratory Project; Ralli Hall of the Sussex Jewish Representative Council, to establish a Lunch & Social Club; Restoration of Chief Constable Henry fund for the Jewish community to secure the future of Jewish Solomon’s Grave at Florence Place Cemetery; Helping Hands life in Sussex. Shabbat Dinner and a donation to Night The remit of the fund is to award grants to groups or Shelter. individuals, whose projects or activities are considered to The project has always received full support from our be in the interest of maintaining current and future Jewish Synagogues and funding is based on the £10 voluntary levy life in Sussex, but are prevented from doing so by a lack of added to each member’s annual Synagogue membership fees. finance. Examples of those who have benefited from this fund Any person or group wishing to organise an activity be it are the Ralli Hall Lunch & Social Club, Helping Hands, Yom educational, sporting, social or of a charitable nature, that Ha’atzmaut celebrations, Sussex Limmud, Lishmah, JACS, would be of interest to, or benefit the local Jewish community, Sussex Friends of Israel, Sussex Jewish Film Club, Camp but are prevented from doing so due to lack of finance, are Gan Israel, Showtime 2008, 250th Anniversary of Brighton welcome to apply. Jewry, Sussex Jewish News, Torah Academy Nursery, Brighton Jewish Futures, Sunday Football Club, Brighton & Hove Holocaust Education Project, JLGB and Sussex Jewish Community Care. This past year the following have received grants/loans: cross communal Yom Ha’atzmaut Celebrations – Israel’s 70th; cross communal Yom Ha’Shoah Commemoration – Yellow Candle Project; Jewish Community Hustings; Camp Gan Israel; Top Top Hat Productions Presents ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF NEW WEBSITE: www.sussexjewishrepresentativecouncil.org ‘Love Notes’ featuring lots of lovely songs from the shows and the charts at Ralli Hall, Denmark Villas, Hove 12th January 2019 at 7.30 pm 13th January at 2.30 pm Tickets £10 Adults £6 for under 12s. Contact Laura on 01273 722173.

ISSUE 291 | DECEMBER 2018 8 Sussex and the City 9 Ralli Hall by Roger Abrahams

I should like to thank Maxine for standing in for me last permitting, you should see a number of changes for month during my absence abroad. I was particularly the better in the coming months and the Board is most happy to see that she included the fabulous photo of excited at the prospect of the planned improvements - the first Mothers’ Meeting of the New Hove Parish Hall watch this space. in 1913. You will, of course, have recognised this as Finally, I should like to wish you all a Happy Chanukah our own Ralli Hall, which, now being Grade 2 Listed, and look forward to many more of you showing your has been lovingly cared for since the building was commitment to our unique Jewish Community Centre, purchased by the B&HJYC (now the B&HJCF) in 1976. by renewing, or taking out, membership of B&HJCF In fact, apart from the stern faces of the members of when you receive the renewal forms during the next the Mothers’ Union, with their heavy Edwardian outfits, month or so. If you have never previously been the more formal uniform of ‘Mr. Plod’ and the recently members, or have not been members for many years, painted number 81 (Denmark Villas) on the two pillars so do not receive the forms in the post, please contact - to prevent confusion by the delivery persons, there the office by phoning 01273 202254, or emailing have been no changes whatsoever to the main front using [email protected] and you will be sent elevation of the building. the appropriate form, together with a pre-paid and Running through the highlights of our Community addressed envelope for your kind response. Activities during the last year, one of the most important For 2019, membership per Adult, (from 18 years) updates has been the installation by the Community including Single Parents, will be £30.00, with Family Security Trust (the CST) of an extremely powerful Membership, including children under 18 years, at Transmitter and Receiver unit, together with the most £55.00. Children will also be included with Single up-to-date walkie-talkies, so as to allow communication Parent Membership (but not one of a couple). Students by the various operatives not only locally, but direct to from 18 years of age in full-time education will be their London Headquarters. This installation is for the offered free membership. benefit of the whole of the Brighton & Hove Jewish Community and we are very happy to be able to help, I look forward to seeing you at Ralli Hall. not only our own building and those persons using it, but also all the other Communal Jewish buildings around the city. Important message Also included is a CCTV installation comprising no HOSPITAL CHAPLAINCY VISITS less than sixteen cameras around the building, both If you are in hospital or know anyone being admitted inside and out, again with a direct link to the CST in into hospital, please get in touch with info@ London and the local Headquarters. It is very sad that sussexjewishrepresentativecouncil.org or telephone 07789 such equipment is so necessary but unfortunately, we 491279 so that a Jewish chaplain can be contacted to visit. live in potentially dangerous times. We are therefore, very fortunate to have such an organisation as the CST helping to keep us safe, with the added bonus that the Voluntary Support Agencies organisation is being funded by extremely altruistic Jewish businessmen. • Ralli Hall Lunch & Social Club (Day Centre) 01273 739999 [email protected] We were also very happy to have been chosen to host most important Community meetings addressed by • Norwood/Tikvah, Rachel Mazzier House 01273 564021 the Chief Rabbi and the Israeli Ambassador to the • Hyman Fine House 01273 688226 UK, and also to host the first Israel Independence Day • Helping Hands 01273 747722 [email protected] Celebrations for a number of years. Fortunately, we are licensed to hold meetings and simchas with up • Brighton & Hove Jewish Welfare Board 07952 479111 or to 200 persons in our Great Hall, and are considered [email protected]; website: www.bhjwb.org by the Community as “neutral territory”, with Rabbis • Brighton & Hove Jewish Housing Association. [email protected] from all four of our local congregations attending when appropriate. • Welfare at Brighton & Hove Progressive Synagogue/L’chaim project 01273 737223 We have also noted that we are being used more and • Welfare Officer at Brighton & Hove Reform. (Sue Rosenfield) more for simchas, funerals, stone settings and the like, 01273 735343 which is why we are now concentrating on upgrading the facilities in the Great Hall, the Magrill Lounge • Brighton & Hove Jewish Community Foundation at Ralli Hall. and the various kitchens, so as to make Ralli Hall the Tel: 01273 202254 or [email protected] building of choice for the whole community. Funding

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stones, the resting places of infants, mainly by the Florence Place - revisited side wall, but that of Marguerite Alexandra Irene by Godfrey R Gould Dreyfuss, born 15 June 1902; died 24 January 1903, Many readers will recall the photographs of Florence is by the path. Like Alice Levy, 2nd Lieutenant Clifford Place Cemetery overgrown with weeds, ivy, trees Isaacs, Machine Gun Corps, is commemorated only and much other vegetation, making it a veritable by a stone plaque, this time on his father’s grave. wilderness. Also remembered are the valiant efforts Lieutenant Isaacs died on 1 August 1917 and is buried by local and other volunteers, month after month to at Wimeraux, but there is also a memorial window to try to clear the overgrowth. It was a back-breaking him at Meadowview Prayer House. Another World War task and without any visible results because of I soldier, but actually buried here, is Lieutenant Arthur the enormity of the work. But this year Brighton & Sampson Marks, 9th Royal Sussex Regiment. Having Hove Hebrew Congregation has taken the bull by served throughout the War and through many of the the horns (metaphorically - we don’t want anybody most bitter battles unscathed, he died on 28 October complaining we’re being cruel to animals) and funded 1918 aged 33 in St Thomas’s Hospital, London, from a commercial professional contractor to undertake the pneumonia. His father, Alderman Barnett Marks, the work. Organised by Jonathan Conway, Board member first Jewish and a highly respected Mayor of Hove, responsible for Cemeteries, the work has now been 1910-13, is buried just in front of his son. Another completed superbly, although continuing maintenance Alderman, Harry Benjamin Lewis, is buried with other will be essential. There was one lady who said that members of his family, but of him we know little - yet. there was something special about the former wild Some deceased like you to know where they lived. appearance, the current soft greys and fawns now One such person lived in Walsingham Road, Hove, giving it a gentle serenity, reflecting, perhaps, the another, David Hart, at King’s Road, Brighton and eternity of the place? Sackel Leo Springer at Bury Road, London. Some The first token of this effort was that we were able to came from abroad. Sisters Rachel (d.1927) and have the highly successful Memorial Service for Henry Therese (d.1944) were from Alsace-Lorraine, and Solomon z’l on 1 July last. Another concomitant was a Maria, relict of Joseph Arone, was from Paris. We request from the that we should even have the gravestone of Madame Henn Ebstein, open the Cemetery to the general public as part of the also from Alsace Lorraine, but the non-Hebrew text National Heritage Open House activities in September. is entirely in French. She lived with her husband at After Jonathan contacted me and I discussed it with 15 Brunswick Place. In between, so to say, there is Gordon Franks, we decided to have two conducted the grave of a youth who died following a fall on a tours of the Cemetery on the morning of Sunday 16 Boulogne-Folkestone Ferry. September. Because of the limitations of the site, we It is a commandment that we should remember our decided that there would be two pre-booked tours dead, and that we should erect a memorial to their each of 15 participants (actually the first had 18). And memory. Many of those at Florence Place, especially the whole event was swiftly fully booked and with a those of granite or marble, are in excellent condition, waiting list. After Gordon and I had given a very brief as are others, but some are totally perished. Much introduction and Gordon had circulated an Information restoration is needed. If there is to be any priority, then Sheet which he had written, we divided each group the restoration of the entrance plaque to Thomas Read in half, Gordon starting at one end and I the other, Kemp who gave the ground to the community, and the crossing in the middle. We highlighted half a dozen reconstruction of those to Sir John Howard and Levi or so eminent individuals, commenting especially Emanuel Cohen probably should be amongst the first. on their contributions to the community in general. However, all this costs a great deal of money. The response from our visitors was overwhelmingly positive, with requests for more. Apart from any other But the content of this article surely indicates how factors this is surely one way to raise the positive important and how interesting is the past. This is profile of our Jewish community. the living testament to our history cast in stone. We must not forget those who sowed the seeds of our But the clearance has now enabled us to see many community. Otherwise what sort of future do we more most interesting gravestones. The earliest deserve? memorial we can find is of little Alice Levy who died in her second year in 1822. Actually, it is a memorial If an organisation would like a special visit, this can perched against the back wall as the Cemetery was easily be arranged. Please get in touch by email: not opened until 1826. There are many other small [email protected] or phone: 01273 419412.

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Jewish Historical Society of England - Sussex Branch   by Godfrey R Gould  Our sixteenth session was opened on 23 October by Dr Jennifer Craig-Norton, British Academy Post- doctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of Southampton, who addressed us on Jewish Refugees from Fascism in Sussex 1933-45. Dr Craig-Norton presented an account of the flight of Jews from German persecution prior to the Second World War, rather different from that which we are so often used to hearing. With testimony from

the children themselves, she has also researched  contemporaneous accounts of the various Refugee  Agencies, the foster parents and the children’s own - parents. We learned that there is so much more  than the well-known Kindertransport, and that at  least double the numbers of those children were in   fact rescued. And amongst the Refugee Hostels in  Sussex there was one at Wyberlye House, Burgess  Hill, another in and even one in Brighton. And finally came the often-distressing accounts of  proud Jewish women who came here to be domestic  servants, a role of which they had never had any   practical experience.   What made the address so much more fascinating  was the personal emphasis on real people at that time, both good and not so good. All was not sweetness and light, many of the children having been poorly treated both by the agencies that were supposed to help them as well as the foster If you would like to save money on parents, both gentile and to their shame, Jewish! your home/business expenses The highlight, however, was the continuing thread of with a Which? recommended the narrative, that of 14-year old Bruno Nussbaum supplier, please contact David whose passion was to become an architect. Told that there would be no need for architects in England after Schaverien tel: 01273 779001 the War, he retorted that there would be “in Europe email: [email protected] and in the Universe”. Allowed to study illustration at Worthing College of Art, and after Service in the British Army, he eventually did achieve his undying ambition to have the prized letters RIBA after his name. Brighton & Hove Jewish Welfare Board provides affordable This was an excellent evening, with a very high accommodation in Central Hove standard set for the rest of the season. It currently has a vacancy for a one bedroom unfurnished flat, The first meeting in 2019 will be on 29 January when suitable for single occupancy and a one bedroom unfurnished we will welcome Dr Imogen Choi, Queen Sofia Official flat suitable for a couple. Fellow and Lecturer in Spanish, Exeter College, and The rent includes central heating; constant hot water; use of Associate Professor in Spanish at the University of garden; television and telephone points. Oxford, whose subject will be Mediaeval Sephardi Literature. There is no charge for members, season For further information or to request an application form ticket holders and students, but only £5 for visitors, please telephone 07716 114012 or email to include refreshments after the lecture, questions [email protected] and discussion.

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Old Stock- A Refugee Love Story Review by Yael Breuer

Ben Caplan as The Wanderer in Old Stock Dani Oore (Chaim), Mary Fay Coady (Chaya) (credit: (Credit – Stoo Metz Photography Graeme Braidthwaite)

If I have one regret about going to see Old Stock - and the powerful music of Old Stock is available A Refugee Love Story at the Old Market theatre, it is on CD and vinyl. The rest of the cast/musicians are that I went to see the performance on its penultimate excellent, too, and Mary Fay Coady and Dani Oore, as night and not on the first, as that would have given me Chaya and Chaim, offer wonderful violin and clarinet enough time to urge everyone I know to go and see it. performances throughout the play. Old Stock is a musical/theatrical performance During the week of the Brighton performances, the Old with a hybrid of Klezmer and Folk music that is Market hosted a small exhibition of artefacts brought simultaneously entertaining, dark and poignant. It to the UK and to tells the story of two Romanian refugees who arrive in Brighton by Jewish Canada in 1908 and is based on the story of Chaya refugees. Doris and Chaim, the great-grandparents of the play’s Levinson helped writer, Hannah Moscovitch. A tale of hardship and in its arrangement displacement, like so many other tales of Jewish and members of history, it also resonates with more contemporary the local Jewish and universal stories of refugees worldwide. The community offered programme of the performance that I picked up at a variety of objects the theatre describes its theme as, “How to love after that were put on being broken by the horrors of war. It’s about refugees display and told who get out before it’s too late, and those who get out the stories of their after it’s too late. And it’s about looking into the eyes families. of God”. Typewriter used to copy all the Despite arriving refugee stories sent in to the The story is a century old but there are elements in at the safety of production team the narration, the music and commentary that are Canada from First current. In fact, the title ‘Old Stock’ is borrowed World War Europe, Chaim and Chaya did not live from a comment made in 2005 by Stephen Harper, happily ever after and their marriage was not a fairy the Canadian prime minister at the time, who drew tale. They had lost close family members in Europe, a distinction between refugees and “old stock suffered ill health and their new life in Canada was full Canadians”. of hardship and the haunts of war. But they did live, Ben Caplan, the actor playing the narrator, is such faced the hardships and coped. And they had children, an impressive character (with an incredible voice) then grandchildren, and great grandchildren. One that when I got home I looked him up, thinking that of these was the writer of the play and many others I had discovered a hitherto little-known talent. I was are around today, a proof of the victory of hope and wrong. Caplan is a successful Canadian musician determination against evil and hardship.

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communities. Yet, I could not avoid thinking of another Pittsburgh and Jerusalem terrorist attack, against other Jews killed while they were at by Rabbi Dr Andrea Zanardo prayer. Perhaps we have forgotten, although it was only in November 2014, when two Palestinian terrorists entered a On the cold evening of October 29, I found myself together synagogue in Jerusalem, armed with axes and knives. They with a crowd of Brighton and Hove residents, of many killed four Rabbis, seriously wounded six other worshippers, religions and some of no religion at all, to express our it is chilling to think that every Jew in that minyan was pain and our concerns, (and, we Jews, to experience attacked as well as a Druse policeman, may his heroism be support), after the horrendous massacre at The Tree of always remembered, who died from his wounds a few hours Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. Everyone in the crowd held after the attack he tried to counter. a small candle and the view all these little lights made me think of Chanukah. Such a horror did not happen in the so called “settlements”. Those Jewish villages that, for some reason, someone It was particularly moving to listen to those Brighton & Hove thinks are a legitimate target because of their location Council members, who a few days before had approved the “beyond the Green Line”. No, the terror attack, the IHRA definition of antisemitism, in defiance of the national massacre, happened in Har Nof, in West Jerusalem, leader of the Labour party. Their courageous, ongoing in a part of the Holy City which according to every support of the Jewish people, us, was and is remarkable. possible interpretation of the international law is fully I got very emotional listening to the local Imam, especially and legitimately part of the State of Israel, certainly not when he invoked the name of God in Arabic, opening one of “occupied land”. Nonetheless, in the streets of Ramallah the most pro-Jewish speeches I had ever heard in my life, and in other Palestinian towns, a jubilant crowd celebrated (and thank God I have heard a lot of them). the assassination of four innocent Jews, and Hamas paid I was not the only one who thought that all these lights honour to the murderers, by calling them “heroes” and were a symbol of hope and indeed this was mentioned by “martyrs”. other Jewish speakers. Chanukah is a festival of hope and I think we should ask ourselves such a question, as that evening, outside the , there was much difficult as it may seem. Why are the murders of Jews hope. Chanukah is also a celebration of religious freedom, in a synagogue in the USA universally condemned as because the Maccabees fought in order to have the barbaric (and rightly so!), while the slaughter of Jews in freedom to practice their and our religion, and that evening Israel is rapidly forgotten and even celebrated as an act of we were all expressing our support for religious freedom, heroism? Many columnist and politicians want us to think, saying out loud that no worshipper, of any religion, should that it is “because of the Occupation”, that it is because of feel unsafe while praying. Israeli politics. They blame other Jews, the government of It was truly marvellous to feel embraced by such a strong Israel, for antisemitism. They imply that antisemitism is a support from so many people from so many different consequence of choices and behaviour of other Jews. In other words, they want us to believe that antisemitism is

caused by the Jews.  Whoever indulges in this kind of thinking has clearly not learnt enough from the story of Chanukah, the first and  most ancient festival of Jewish pride, which is also a celebration of freedom of religion. Let us not forget that blaming Jews for antisemitism is precisely what drives the  action of terrorists in the USA and in the Middle East. May   such barbarism come to an end speedily and in our days.    Bulletin Board – December  Saturday 1st 10.30am Shabbat Doroteinu  Sunday 2nd 12.30pm Youth Event   1st night Chanukah Thursday 6th 7pm *** The ‘Z’ Word Saturday 8th 9am *** Torah Breakfast 12.30pm Cheder Chavurah Lunch & Prize Giving  Monday 10th 7.30pm Rosh Chodesh   Thursday 13th 7pm *** The ‘Z’ Word  Friday 14th 6.30pm Shabbat Kolot  Sunday 16th 2.30pm Community Tea  (The diary is subject to change)  *** Please book your place by calling the Shul Office 

ISSUE 291 | DECEMBER 2018 Rabbi Hershel Rader Brighton & Hove Hebrew Congregation, 31 New Church Road, Hove BN3 3AD 12 BHHC Tel: 01273 888855 Email: [email protected] www.bhhc-shul.org 13 The Power of Light by Rabbi Hershel Rader

Chanukah is celebrated with light. Whether we use whole day but however many he crammed into the olive oil lamps, candles, paraffin or, as I heard once warehouse there was still some space between the happened in a Soviet Labour Camp, rags soaked in balloons. butter the end product is a flame which generates light. The next son decided that he would use bundles of hay. Light is a physical phenomenon which seems to border He also succeeded in almost filling the warehouse but on the spiritual. It cannot be touched and takes up no there were still gaps. exclusive space. When we use something physical, The youngest son waited until five minutes before the it is diminished. The more money we spend, the less deadline. Then he called out ‘Done it!’ we have. The more petrol we use, the emptier the tank becomes. The more food we eat, the more we need to The others ran to see, wondering how on earth the restock the pantry. Conversely, the spiritual seems to youngest son could have succeeded. Inside the increase with use. A teacher shares his knowledge and darkened warehouse, the youngest son had lit a lamp. not only do the students gain but he is enriched. The The entire building was filled with light; every last more one loves, the more one’s love grows. When one corner. Needless to say, the youngest son won. gives a spiritual gift, the recipient gains and the giver A small amount of light can dispel a room-full of loses nothing. A flame is similar. If you use one flame to darkness. Rather than focusing on the negative; by light another, the first flame remains as bright as it was accentuating the positive, the negative dissipates before. Its light is not diminished by being shared; on by itself. One good deed, one act of kindness, one the contrary, now there is twice the light. moment of thoughtfulness can have a tremendous The Chanukah story tells us of a battle for the spiritual effect on the world around us. future of the Jewish people. Unlike the Persians in the Perla and I wish the entire community a Happy and Purim narrative and the Nazis during the Holocaust Illuminating Chanukah. who desired the physical obliteration of our people, the Greeks had no desire to attack the Jews as long as they assimilated into the alien Hellenistic culture. This is why we celebrate Chanukah with light; a physical phenomenon akin to the spiritual; for the victory was Events at BHHC: one of the spirit. This is why we increase the number December 2018-April 2019 of Chanukah lights daily; to stress that in matters of holiness there must be constant ascent. Catered Lunch & Learn A businessman wanted to test which of his three sons Monthly on Wednesdays at 12.15pm had the most initiative. He gave each of them a day to 5 December, 9 January, 6 February, 6 March, 3 April Featuring a three course lunch – cost £7.50 fill a huge warehouse - whoever filled it completely, in whatever way, would inherit the business. Chanukah Community Dinner The eldest son decided to use balloons. He spent the Featuring Salt Beef n’ Latkes Sunday 9 December at 7.00pm £17.50 per person £50 family ticket Our Weekly Shiurim Monthly Friday Night Dinners Three shiurim are held every week at 31 New 14 December at 5.45 pm Church Road, Hove. 18 January at 5.45 pm Wednesdays, 12.30-1.30 pm. 22 February at 6.30 pm (provisional time) Lunch and Learn for all. 15 March at 7.00 pm (provisional time) A light informal lunch followed by a shiur. £3 a head. Cost £15.00 - Spaces limited Thursdays, 10.00 to 11 am. Ladies’ Shiur. (no charge). Pesach Seder Friday 19 April Saturdays, half an hour before Minchah (times vary - please see weekly notices). The shiur is Please call the shul office 01273 888855 to book or for followed by Minchah, a Seudah Shilitit and Ma’ariv further information (no charge).

ISSUE 291 | DECEMBER 2018 Rabbi Samuel de Beck Spitzer Hove Hebrew Congregation, 79 Holland Road, Hove BN3 1JN Tel: 01273 732035 14 HHC Email: [email protected] www.hollandroadshul.com 15 Fine Art by Rabbi Samuel de Beck Spitzer For the miracles, the redemption, the mighty deeds Biblical personality of the master craftsman Bezalel and the victories in battle which You performed for our and his God-inspired task in designing the Holy ancestors in those days at this time. Tabernacle etc.. However, if we are to genuinely and comprehensively understand the Festival of Hanukah, - Chanukah Prayer: Amidah/Grace after meals if we celebrate ‘light over dark’, the ‘pure over the As Chanukah begins on the evening of the second day impure’, the ‘righteous over the wicked’, the ‘weak over of this calendar month, I feel it appropriate to discuss the mighty’ and ultimately, the values of the Torah over something that I consider to be directly related to the Greek Hellenism, then surely these questions need to eight-day Festival of ‘Light’, with specific reference to be addressed! Let us not forget that a Gymnasium, the ideological conflict that played such an important where naked sporting events and contests took place, role. The events leading up to the story of Chanukah was constructed directly adjacent to the Holy Temple that influenced the Hasmonean dynasty cannot be in Jerusalem. The human physical form in all of its described without mentioning the Greek raison d’etre glory was considered sacrosanct, so much so that the which was at its height. The influence of Hellenism has Syrian Greeks of that period forbade the fundamental left an indelible mark on Jewish practice, outlook and Hebrew practice of male circumcision, depicting it as lifestyle for evermore. Many a PhD has been written on a vile mutilation. So, although the Hasmonean revolt various Judeo-Greco explorations, but if we take the was a military defeat, it cannot be divorced from its liberty to consider the visual Arts, indeed that which has ideological underpinning and let us not be deceived, come to be defined as European ‘Fine Art’ (itself owing Hellenism had proved to be very popular amongst our much to ancient Greece, hence it being synonymous kinsmen. with Yefet the son of Noah and tied to the Hebrew word In conclusion, is ‘Art’ given its due position within our for beauty) would have been anomalous to the Jewish faith schools? Do we invest sufficient time, resources spirit if not for its brazen assault on Jewish thought. and attention into developing its intricate skills? What In brief, normative Jewish practice does not condone role does it have within religious consciousness, if any? the abstract creation of the human form. According to Does the firing-up of our imagination and emotion as some Halachic authorities, under certain circumstances a reaction to works of Art, carry gravitas within our this may be allowed if the image contains a noticeable religious tapestry? How is it permitted? Or is it indeed defect or imperfection. For we know from the Torah necessary? that ‘man’ is made in the image of God and therefore There is no doubt that the world has witnessed great only God is permitted to create man, otherwise it may painters and artists who happen to be Jewish, but that be akin to a type of blasphemy or if worshipped, then does not provide for answers nor does it prove anything idolatry. Living in an Anglican country this is all rather other than that they were Jewish. And what is Jewish alien to our senses, but certainly in parts of the world Art anyway? Interesting to note that invariably, these where Hinduism or Buddhism is dominant this is all Jewish artists were always taught by those outside of too relevant and in direct contravention of Jewish Law. their faith. Many consider Catholicism with its human effigies and the Orthodox Church with their iconography, to fall Chanukah Sameach! within the same category. I somewhat digress but not entirely, as much European ‘Fine Art’ revolves around the human form or religious imagery. So where does Judaism stand on the subject of visual artistic creation? Indeed, does tangible visual aesthetic really play a relevant role in our Jewish faith? Or is it merely an appendage, something of a pleasant distraction, an aide-memoire perhaps? Do we only possess a literary and auditory Tradition The congregation is warmly invited to or do we also give genuine credibility to visual celebrate Chanukah with a doughnut artistic endeavour as well? And if so … then Kiddush after the Shabbat Service on when, where and to what purpose? 8 December I do not profess to possess all of the answers to these questions, in fact when I have posed these questions to men of stature I have been left bereft of any satisfactory response. At best, I have received quotes regarding the

ISSUE 291 | DECEMBER 2018 BHPS Rabbi Elizabeth Tikvah Sarah Brighton & Hove Progressive Synagogue, 6 Lansdowne Road, Hove BN3 1FF Tel: 01273 737223 Email: [email protected] www.brightonandhoveprosynagogue.org.uk 14 Brighton & Hove Progressive Synagogue Twitter@BHPS2011 15 Jewish Connections with Human Rights by Rabbi Elli Tikvah Sarah This year we have been marking several anniversaries, the formulation of the Universal Declaration of Human including the 70th birthday of the establishment of the Rights. In her book, A Magna Carta for all Humanity, State of Israel (14 May 1948/5 Iyyar 5708) and the 80th homing in on human rights, published in 2015 to anniversary of Kristallnacht (9-10 November 1938/16 coincide with the 800th anniversary of the Magna Cheshvan 5699). Carta, Professor Francesca Klug, who played a major role in the creation of the UK Human Rights Act 1998, On 10 December it will be the 70th anniversary of the for which she was awarded an OBE, shows how Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Although not Jewish teaching informed the Universal Declaration. a date on the Jewish calendar, the UDHR was ratified by the UN in the aftermath of the Sho’ah and has So, perhaps 10 December should be added to the significant Jewish connections. Jewish calendar. As it happens, for decades now the Liberal and Reform movements have observed Human One of the main architects of the UDHR was the Rights Shabbat on the nearest Shabbat to the 10th. Of French Jewish lawyer, René Cassin. The Jewish course, there are other times in the Jewish year, when human rights charity, René Cassin, based in Britain we can focus on human rights, not least at Pesach, has adopted his name to remind us of the Jewish Sukkot and Chanukkah. This year, Chanukkah, the links with the Universal Declaration. Passionate festival of ‘dedication’, begins quite early, and as it about the Jewish roots of human rights, last year, happens the eighth and final day falls on 10 December. the charity published Human Rights Thought for the As we light the Chanukkiyyah each evening, and see Week. 54 Human Rights Commentaries on the Weekly the flames accumulating night after night, may our Parasha, an inspiring collection which includes pieces commitment to increasing the light in memory of the by a range of rabbis and engaged laypeople (my Maccabean struggle against Imperial tyranny, inspire commentary is on parashat Bo). I’m very proud that us to re-dedicate ourselves to the continuing task of one of the young people who grew up at Brighton and protecting human rights here in Britain and extending Hove Progressive Synagogue, Hannah Swirsky, is now human rights throughout the world. working as Campaigns Officer for René Cassin. Chanukkah Samei’ach! It’s no accident that Jewish input was so central to

December 14: Barbara Odell introduces: ‘A Winter Tale’. Read Events@BHPS your own favourite seasonal poem. Third Season of Sunday Lectures and Lunches for 2018/19. All are very welcome to our events, but if you are not a member 11.30 am Welcome drink on arrival 12 to 1.00pm Lecture by or friend of our synagogue please let us know you are coming on guest speaker and Q&A session [email protected] or 01273-737223. 1:00 – 3:00 pm Lunch including wine or soft drinks and coffee Exploring Judaism with Rabbi Elli (*) is open to all those who Only £22.50 per person. Non-members and their friends welcome wish to broaden and deepen their Jewish knowledge. December 2: Dr Wilf Assin, consultant psychiatrist on Post The curriculum draws on Jewish texts (e.g. Torah, TaNaKH, Traumatic Stress Disorder: Not all wounds are Mishnah, Talmud, Siddur & Machzor) and includes an visible. exploration of the differences between Liberal Judaism and other Jewish denominations. The course includes the festivals and January 27: Sir Anthony Seldon - 300 years of Premiership in commemorative days as they come up. Britain. How the job of PM has evolved over the last three centuries, particularly in recent times. Classes are held on Shabbat from 2:15 - 3:45 pm, after the Access to Hebrew class See our website for the full series programme and booking details. 1 December Chanukkah Shabbat Chanukkah 8 December No classes, see Shabbat Chanukkah programme 11 am Shabbat Chanukkah Service followed by bring and above share Chavurah lunch with latkes. 15 December What is Liberal Judaism? 1:30 - 3:00 pm Children’s Programme of Chanukkah fun 1:30 - 3:00 pm Guest Speaker: Dr Tony Klug ‘Is there a Plausible Access to Classical Hebrew with Rabbi Elli (*), Alternative to the Two-State Solution?’ Shabbat afternoons, 1 to 2 pm Dr Tony Klug is a Special Advisor on the Middle East to the Oxford Are you interested in being able to read and understand the Hebrew Research Group and a Consultant to the Palestine Strategy Group Bible or the prayer book? This class is open to students of all levels and the Israel Strategic Forum. – from total beginners to those wishing to study classical Hebrew grammar and/or prepare a Torah reading. Students work on their 3:00 - 3:30 pm Coffee, tea and doughnuts. own or in chavruta (pairs), with input and support from Rabbi Elli. 3:30 - 4:00 pm Havdalah, Chanukkah candle-lighting and songs. To join the class, please contact the synagogue: info@bhps-online. Onagim org Join us on Friday evenings at 7.30 pm for a shortened service, light (*) Please note there are no classes on 22 and 29 Dec 2018 and 5 refreshments and an interesting talk and discussion. Jan 2019

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„„ Something to Say? - Discussion Group with Rabbi Samuel, every other Tuesday Hove Hebrew Congregation, 79 Holland Road, Hove 10.30 am Tel: 01273 732035 EVENTS IN DECEMBER „ Ralli Hall Lunch and Social Club, 10.30 am - 4.30 pm Tel: Sunday 2 „ Jacqueline 01273 739999 Weekly Ralli Hall „„ BHPS Sunday Lecture & Lunch - ‘Not All Wounds are Visible – Post- traumatic Stress Disorder’ with Dr Wilfred Assin at 6, Lansdowne „„ Mummy and ME Music with Penina Efune at Montessori Nursery Road, Hove. Tickets £22.50 to include lunch E: info@bhps-online. from 11.30 am to 1.00 pm. Enjoy a stimulating environment with your org or T: 01273 737223 baby/toddler, some meaningful discussion, music and movement „„ Giant Menorah lighting at 5.15 pm. Everyone invited „„ Painting with Rochelle (JAS), Studio at Ralli Hall, 2.00 - 4.00 pm. Tuesday 4 Tel: 07811 601106

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