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may 2017 • IYYAR / SIVAN 5777 • ISSUE 274 2 Pause for thought 3 Pesach is over, but what the holiday represents to us was missing from the script, especially as we enter into lingers in the mind. For example, a good Haggadah an age with fewer and fewer survivors. Toward the end for leading a Seder is A Different Night published by of the play Eva Schloss, the narrator, who was present the Shalom Hartman Institute in Israel. In addition to at this event, intones that Otto Frank married her offering the regular Haggadah’s prayers and text, it mother and they decided to start a family. Objectively, adds some important detail. Its perspective is that each you have to wonder why. If life was so horrible for Jews, Seder is to be a night of education, something that is why bring more into the world? There were no answers, not necessarily facilitated by an annual recitation that no insight into how people who had lost everything proceeds without questioning. A Different Night offers found the will, the resolve, to rebuild their lives in a new pointers, touchstones for discussion by everyone country. It was touched upon briefly in the question and around the table. For example, answer session in a response about what is an evil child? What is The Rep Council deserves our what life is like as a refugee. slavery? What is freedom? All thanks for bringing And Then How does one cope? It is no longer are important questions that enough to simply hear yet another can generate some interesting They Came For Me to Ralli exegesis on the horrors perpetrated by answers that prompt further Hall. But one line implied the Nazis and those who stood by and learning. something was missing from did nothing. After many years, we need Not long after Pesach, more now. We need to educate our we commemorated Yom the script. next generations on what is necessary Ha’Shoah. This year the to recover and succeed after the Sussex Jewish Representative Council arranged for a infliction of victimisation. The survivors of the Holocaust performance of And Then They Came For Me. It was have not allowed their ordeals to force them into a commendable performance and the Rep Council inaction. For all they have been through and particularly deserves our thanks for bringing it to . for their contributions since that time, they deserve all But one line in the play seemed to imply that something the more our total admiration.

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issue 274 | may 2017 2 Contents 3 Sussex Jewish News PO Box 2178 • Hove BN3 3SZ Telephone: 07906 955 404 FEATURES 1 YOM YERUSHALAYIM MARTIN GROSS The Knesseth Israel Quarter and the Mahane Funeral Director and Yehuda Market Funeral Consultant 8 ANOTHER BLUE PLAQUE UNVEILED to Jewish communities Captain Edward Zeff honoured at 9 ABOUT OUR COVER 01273 439792 Brian Megitt explains about the images 07801 599771 10 ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH REFUGEES An open letter from the Association

REGULARS 4 SUSSEX AND THE CITY Your news, views and stories from across the county 11 CULTURE Hebrew and a quiz 16 WHAT’S ON Regular and special events in your community

YOUR COMMUNITY 12 & Hove Hebrew Congregation 13 Hove Hebrew Congregation 14 Brighton & Hove Progressive 15 Brighton & Hove Reform Synagogue

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issue 274 | may 2017 4 Sussex and the City 5 Your News Engagements Births Mazel tov to Ryan Kingsley and Fiona Mackenzie on their engagement. • Mazel tov to Rabbi Pesach and Penina Efune on the birth of a baby granddaughter, Neshama, to Devori and Yitzhok. • Mazel tov to Debra Goodman and Micheal Korby on the Silver Wedding birth of Leora Betty Levy born to Charlotte and Nicholas on Mazel tov to Parisa and Jonathan Walker on their 25th 15 April. wedding anniversary. • Mazel tov to Rabbi Hershel and Perla Rader on the birth of Issachar Dov, a baby grandson. Get Well We wish a refuah sheleimah to Alan Bass, Martin Boyask, Special Birthdays Hazel Coppins, Benita Ferris, Irvyn Isaacs, Chana Moshenska Mazel tov to Diana Barnett, Karen Fielder, Ann Lewis and all and all who are unwell or in hospital at the present time. who have special birthdays this month. Deaths Achievements We wish Long Life to the families of Joe Blume z’l and • Mazel tov to the Brighton & Hove Albion Seagulls on being Warwick Winston z’l. promoted to the Premier League. • Hazel & Joe Rubin wish their daughter Rachel Hirsh and granddaughter Enya, from Tel Aviv, Mazel tov on completing Stonesettings the London Marathon on April 16. The memorial stone in loving memory of Julie Benjamin will • Mazel tov to Ivan Lyons for completing the London take place on Sunday 21 May at 3.00 pm at the Jewish Marathon – his 103rd! Cemetery, Meadowview, Brighton.

The decision not to expel Ken Livingstone goes against Your views Labour’s fundamental values of equality, dignity, and justice, The following is a letter from Hove & Portslade MP Peter Kyle and sadly calls into question our party’s long and proud in response to Arthur Oppenheimer’s letter to him expressing history of standing against hatred, discrimination and anti- his great disappointment that the Labour Party did not expel semitic abuse. Ken Livingstone for his alleged antisemitic remarks. The letter I am also appalled that the disciplinary hearing has distracted is reprinted with the permission of Mr Kyle. from the truly important events of this week, when people needed Labour to be concentrating on war crimes in Syria, Dear Arthur, school funding, Brexit, and the NHS crisis. Thank you for contacting me. Alongside other Labour MPs, I have written to the ruling I am truly honoured to hear that I have gained the total body of the Labour Party to demand that they act urgently respect and confidence of the local Brighton & Hove Jewish to address and make amends for this disgraceful state Community, and I value your support immensely. of affairs. In particular, we have urged that the decision I am desperately saddened by the decision not to expel Ken not to permanently expel Ken Livingstone be immediately Livingstone, and it is heart-breaking to hear that yourself reconsidered. We will be seeking out all other opportunities and others no longer feel able to support the Labour Party for sanity to be restored. as a result. I am truly sorry for the pain and offence that this Once again, I am truly sorry. decision has caused. All the best, Voluntary Support Agencies Peter • Ralli Hall Lunch & Social Club (Day Centre) 01273 739999 [email protected] • Norwood/Tikvah, Rachel Mazzier House 01273 564021 Chutzpah Choir at Fringe City • Hyman Fine House 01273 688226 Are you thinking of coming along to Jubilee Square • Helping Hands 01273 747722 [email protected] on Sunday 7 May to support the Chutzpah Choir’s • Brighton & Hove Jewish Welfare Board 07952 479111 or slot at ‘Fringe City’ (free)? [email protected]; website: www.bhjwb.org • Brighton & Hove Jewish Housing Association. [email protected] If so, it’s probably best to arrive by about 4.00 pm • Welfare at Brighton & Hove Progressive Synagogue/L’chaim project as the times given in last month’s SJN, of 4.15 – 01273 737223 4.45 pm are approximate. It’s possible that they may put us on 5 or 10 minutes earlier. • Welfare Officer at Brighton & Hove Reform. (Sue Rosenfield) 01273 735343 We hope it will be a sunny day and that the • Jewish Community Centre at Ralli Hall. Various communal activities. audience will join in with some of the wordless 01273 202254 or [email protected] choruses when invited to do so....

issue 274 | may 2017 4 Sussex and the City 5 Seagulls Fly Into A New League Just as we were about to finalise this issue of SJN, Brighton “We were this close to going out of the Football League and & Hove Albion won a football match against Wigan Athletic. who knows what the future would’ve held if we were in the Normally, that would just be a win and three points in the Conference without a stadium, so this is a truly amazing bag but this was a very special victory. This was the win that feeling as a fan and chairman of this football club.” brought a leap from the Championship to the Premier League Bloom heaped praise on Albion boss Chris Hughton for the and sealed all the hard work and team effort needed to rise to magnificent job he’s done since taking charge of the club, the pinnacle of English football and join the great names such and believes the playing squad thoroughly deserve their place as Arsenal, Chelsea, Spurs, Manchester United and City, in the Premier League. Liverpool and Everton, next season. “He’s been here for two and a half seasons and has done a So, hearty congratulations and a big mazeltov to the Seagulls magnificent job. We were in a bad position in early January from us all at SJN. two and a half years ago when he came in. After the win against Wigan, Brighton & Hove Albion’s “The first stage of what he needed to do was to keep us up, chairman, Tony Bloom, spoke of his immense pride at seeing which he did and it wasn’t pretty or easy. the club reach the Premier League for the first time and praised the tremendous effort involved from everyone to “It was a very tough season, but you have that in football and make the dream a reality. as a club we’ve recruited very well in the last few [transfer] windows. Speaking about the “The team spirit in the squad is fantastic and he’s done magnitude remarkably well in a very tough league. We’ve thoroughly of the club’s deserved it and I think he’s done magnificently.” achievement, The Seagulls secured promotion after coming agonisingly he said, close last season, and Bloom applauded the team’s “Myself, outstanding reaction, before looking ahead to the club’s first the 30,000 season in the Premier League. people here, “Last season we got to 89 points and in almost any other the tens of season it gets you automatic promotion, but it didn’t happen thousands of for us. other people “We’ve been on the go since the first day of the season and in the city we’ve got 92 points with three games to go, which is an and Brighton amazing achievement by Chris and all the players. supporters living across “Brighton’s a great city with a great fanbase. We have an the world amazing stadium that will be sold out every single game and will be elated hopefully on the pitch we will do the city and our supporters that we’re in proud.” the Premier Asked if he was looking forward to any one particular Premier League. League game, he responded that he was looking forward to “Days like all thirty-eight of them. this are never All photographs copyright Paul Hazlewood, Club inevitable, Photographer, Brighton & Hove Albion you can go close six or seven times on the spin. Everyone at the club has been working very hard to get to this position, and I think we absolutely deserve it.”

issue 274 | may 2017 6 Sussex and the City 7 Hyman Fine House by Natasha Carson, Manager The sun is shining and we are getting ready for our 2nd Flourish Brighton event showcasing the wonderful creative projects that take place in our home. Last year’s day was a great success and we hope that you will be able to join us this time round. We will be at the Yellow Wave Events Space down by the sea on 299, Madeira Drive, from 10.00 am onwards on the 25th of May. This year we are also adding a kosher beach barbeque if the weather is kind to us! As I write this we are just getting set up for tonight’s Seder, this is such a lovely time of year, full of memories of Seders gone by. Thinking of what’s gone by more recently, we had a fabulous Purim Party: highlights included the very talented Marco the Magician and the even more talented students from who performed a Purim Spiel written by Cecily Woolf. If you would like to learn more about volunteering in the home, please contact Natasha or Mark on 01273 688226. Ralli Hall Lunch and Social Club by Jacqueline Tichauer In March, we had a meeting with our volunteers, followed by The community is indebted to Alan Burke, who, over 15 years a lovely brunch which is our way of thanking our wonderful ago, started this wonderful and much needed venture. To see volunteers. These meetings are vital to the smooth running of the happy smiling faces of our members on a Tuesday and the Lunch Club and to get our volunteers’ views on its day-to- Thursday is a testament to his dedication. day running. We are looking for volunteers on a Tuesday afternoon from We also held a board meeting of the Lunch Club and are 1.45 to 4.00 pm and Thursday morning from 10.30 pm to 2.00 delighted to welcome two new committee members, Philip pm. WITHOUT VOLUNTEERS we cannot run the Lunch Club. Simons and David Booker, who will be a great asset to our If you would like to come and play Bridge on a Tuesday or committee. Thursday afternoon please join us and we will also make you Thankfully the weather is improving, so we are planning an a cup of tea. outing to a garden centre on the 19th May and hopefully another weekend away in July.

calendar with family or friends. Together with his joyful Purim Ralli Hall celebrations and occasional other events during the year, this by Roger Abrahams wonderful simcha appears to have become an annual fixture I mentioned last month the Ralli Hall policy concerning the and is now celebrated by a hall full of guests, often well over provision of accommodation for our community, particularly one hundred strong. for community activities when, more often than not, the I should like to take this opportunity of congratulating accommodation is provided without charge. Brighton Lubavitch, particularly the Efune and Lewis families, The Sussex Jewish Representative Council presented a on the thirtieth anniversary of their Chabad work in the city – production of And Then They Came for Me to commemorate Irit and I were among about 240 members of the community Yom Ha’Shoa. This moving account to remember the world who all thoroughly enjoyed the recent simcha at our of Anne Frank by two Holocaust survivors was important magnificent Falmer football stadium. to be seen not only by members of our community, but Finally, a further reminder of the B&HJCF Annual General particularly by young people of all communities. I am proud Meeting, which will be held on Wednesday, 21June at the to announce that Ralli Hall donated the use of our Great Hall usual time of 8.10 pm (as the parking restrictions finish at for the production and, on the following day, a repeat of the 8.00 pm). production for a substantial number of local secondary school In the meantime, I look forward to seeing you at Ralli Hall. pupils, as part of their Personal Social Health and Education (PSHE) curriculum. It is very important that this tragic part of our now not-so-recent history is not forgotten, or brushed For your diary under the carpet, by the world as a whole and particularly by Thursday 25 May those who were not alive when the tragedy occurred. Hyman Fine Creative Project Exhibition at 299, Madeira Drive, Brighton from 10.00 am Also, I am very pleased that Rabbi Efune once again held a Communal Seder at Ralli Hall on the first night of Pesach for 4 weekends in May those members of our community who, for one reason or Ilana Richardson and Friends invite you to an Open House another, could not celebrate this most important part of our art exhibition at 66, Langdale Gardens, Hove.

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languages under the baton of maestri such as Zubin Mehta, Hove Shul’s New Rabbi Aims for Justus Frantz, Christoph Poppen and Daniel Oren. the High Notes Stanley Cohen, Chair of Hove Hebrew Congregation, said: “It is a pleasure to confirm Rabbi de Beck Spitzer as our Hove Hebrew new minister. He embodies exactly the right credentials Congregation has we were seeking and fulfils our challenging expectations. confirmed that Rabbi Together with the Board, I am delighted that we have a Samuel de Beck Spitzer forward-thinking rabbi that has the enthusiasm and essential is their new Community communicative approach to grow a vibrant congregation. Rabbi, who took up the He is keen to establish a welcoming social environment and pulpit on 28 April 2017, 2 the ideal infrastructure to encourage young families to our Iyar 5777. membership. I am truly optimistic that he will meet these Rabbi Spitzer has had ambitious objectives for our traditional, yet modern Jewish a career both as a community”. community rabbi, having Rabbi de Beck Spitzer said: “I am filled with gratitude for served the Lisbon Jewish having been offered the task of ‘picking up the mantle’ of community, and as a Community Rabbi to the Hove Hebrew Congregation and it soloist with the New Israeli is my intention to create a welcoming haven for those near Opera. and afar. I am firmly of the belief that there are many forms Born in North London to of ‘attachment’ to Community, each of equal validity. In French / Indian parents, this era of globalism, I feel it essential that we think beyond he became, in his teens, conventional boundaries, always striving for ‘Kiddush a beloved disciple and Hashem’ whilst allowing for those who wish to join forces in adherent of the late Rabbi aiding to create a dynamic and caring Community. Allow me Samuel Shmelke Pinter and subsequently attended Yeshivot to invite you to join the HHC in this new and exciting journey and kollel in Jerusalem. He received his Semicha, (rabbinical on the South Coast of ”. ordination) from Dayan Zalman Nehemia Goldberg in 2001 and has a Diploma in Religious Studies from the Israeli Ministry of Education. In 2015, Rabbi Spitzer held the position of Rabino to the Community in Lisbon, Portugal, at the Shaarei Tikva Synagogue. Prior and post his rabbinical studies, Rabbi Samuel graduated with Honours in Music from the London College of Music, majoring in both Piano and Voice and went on to Postgraduate Studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, where he was also awarded their Professional Performers PPRNCM Diploma. He is a professional baritone singer having performed principal roles in five different

Sussex Jewish Golfing Society by Richard Simmons The first meeting of our golfing season on 3 April was at the prestigious West Hove Golf Club. The new Captain’s drive-in was very well attended and we all enjoyed a great day with good weather and an excellent dinner in the evening. Twelve of us fought a keenly contested match at The Dyke Golf Club against a strong team from London’s Dyrham Park Country Club. We always look forward to playing this annual match and this year was our turn to host it. Our next meeting will be at Kingswood Golf Club in Surrey on 10 May and we expect a large attendance. This picturesque course has become a popular annual venue as it is host to professional and amateur championships, while offering a fair challenge to our golfers. As usual, there will be trophies for the high and low handicap winners presented at the formal dinner after the golf. We are looking for new members to join us, both male and female, accomplished golfers or beginners, young or not so young. For more information please contact our Hon Secretary Ashley Woolfe at: [email protected]

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Blue Plaque Unveiling - Captain Edward Zeff by Godfrey R Gould spoke of the large number of Jews who had made their homes in this iconic Grade II* listed modernist building. Finally, Don Miller, on behalf of the Zeff family, unveiled the plaque. After the Last Post and a minute’s silence, Kaddish was recited by many of the Jewish men who were present. The plaque can be seen on the right- hand side of the entrance. Opposite is 1945 and 1970, and by the many On Thursday 30 March, a large crowd a list of residents with dates and flats, a local Jewish people who came to the assembled at Embassy Court, Brighton, large number of them being Jewish. exhibition who knew these names and to witness the unveiling of a Blue were sometimes relatives of those who Plaque to commemorate the memory Here is the story of that plaque, had lived here. Some of these names, of Captain Edward Zeff, MBE, Croix presented to us by Paul Roberts and such as Major Reginald Bueno de de Guerre, of the Special Operations Sue Milnthorpe: Mesquita, tell of military history and an extensive diaspora. Some like Lou Executive. He lived at No. 94 after the The “Here and When” project was Preager were famous stars of their War. A substantial number of the Jewish started in 2009 by two Embassy day. Many others are more familiar community were present to honour this Court residents, conceptual artist Jewish surnames, such as, Jacobs, immensely brave local Jewish man. Sue Milnthorpe and Embassy Court’s Isaacs and Strawbaum. A number Amongst the organisations represented volunteer archivist, Paul Roberts. were investigated in more detail but were the Brighton & Hove Branches of The idea was to create a display that there are still many mysteries. Some AJEX and the Jewish Historical Society contained the names of all the people of them have been resolved by chance of England, the Sussex Jewish News who had lived at Embassy Court and connections with other researchers. and the Sussex Jewish Representative when they were there. Council. One such connection lead to Edward All the records of Zeff, an exceptionally brave Jewish Embassy Court resident whose blue plaque now adorns were lost in a Embassy Court. warehouse fire in There are a great number of 1987. The data communities represented in the data. was therefore, Sue and Paul are very pleased indeed collected from to be working with Gordon Kay of the electoral registers Jewish History and Brighton Project on researching this fascinating directories and the era of Jewish life in this Brighton result arranged in landmark building. Here and When is a single large table now permanently accessible to the by flat and year. public in the entrance of Embassy It functions as a Court: please come and take a look. site-specific work of art, but it also Photographs ©Tony Mould: My Brighton works as a piece and Hove of raw historical data in which many After Roger Amerena, Chairman of social and personal histories can be the Blue Plaque Panel, welcomed found. Children appear, sometimes everybody, the Mayor of Brighton with their birthdays recorded. Long and Hove, Councillor Pete West, stable relationships can be seen, ending spoke, stressing the fact that Captain perhaps in tragedy and loneliness. What Zeff, being Jewish, had put himself we see in this data depends on who we in particular danger. The Mayor also are. referred to the current evil of anti- semitism and emphasised that it The work first went on display in the had no place in British society. Paul Embassy Court foyer in 2010 and was McCue, Military Historian, described the opened to the public as part of the extraordinary bravery and achievements Brighton Fringe. Sue and Paul were of Edward Zeff. Paul Roberts, on behalf struck by the many Jewish names of the freeholders of Embassy Court, they found especially between around

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Our Cover Picture by Brian Megitt Knesseth Israel Quarter is in need of repair but tells a story; Knesseth Israel was one of the “kolel neighbourhoods” built on behalf of European Ashkenazi immigrants who were being supported by charity funds collected from their countrymen. In 1888 the Central Committee, which oversaw the distribution of charity funds to Ashkenazi families, decided to purchase land and construct housing for its members. The three sections of Knesseth Israel (Aleph, Bet, Gimmel) numbered 160 houses in 1935 and 176 houses by the 1950s. The population increased from 125 families in 1929 to over 200 families in 2010, which was considered “very cramped living conditions”. The streets are narrow and, just like most streets in Jerusalem, provide little space for parked cars and pedestrians. Since its founding, the population of Knesseth Israel has been Haredi. Until the 1990s, the majority of the population was elderly, with an estimated 70% of residents classified as seniors in 1996. After that time, demographics shifted, with We celebrate Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day) this year on young couples and families moving in. A citywide survey in 23/24 May. The day itself began when the Chief Rabbinate 2009 reported that Knesseth Israel had a median age of 31. of Israel declared Jerusalem Day a minor religious holiday to thank God for victory in the Six-Day War and for answering The picture at the left is representative of many localities in the 2,000-year-old prayer of “Next Year in Jerusalem”. West Jerusalem. This one was taken in Sharei Chessed. Built in the days of the Turkish Empire, the houses are in streets To put that in perspective, on June 7 1967 - more than 3000 close together but may have been modernised and, in some years after King David sanctified it as the capital of Israel and districts, they have been totally demolished and replaced with the city of the Temple, and nearly 1,900 years after it fell and modern Jerusalem architecture, which aims to retain a taste was torn from us during the destruction of the Second Temple of the old but gives it a very clean and sharp look. - Jerusalem was united, the Israel Defence Forces liberated the Old City of Jerusalem, ending 19 years of Jordanian rule. The picture at the right was taken on Mahane Yehuda, the And once again it was restored as the capital of the Jewish street that runs up one side of the famous market of the homeland. same name. It represents the bustling activity of Jerusalem. On Thursdays and Fridays the street is packed with people The Defence Minister, Moshe Dayan, accompanied by the shopping for Shabbat. There is room to move, just about, but Chief of Staff and senior officers, arrived at the Western in the market itself, the shoppers are crammed in, shoulder to Wall at noon on that day. The Minister made the following shoulder, and move like a sea of humanity from stall to stall. statement: Photographs by Brian Megitt “This morning, the Israel Defence Forces liberated Jerusalem. We have united Jerusalem, the divided capital of Israel. We have returned to the holiest of our Holy Places, never to part from it again. To our Arab neighbours we extend, also at this hour - and with added emphasis at this hour - our hand in peace. And to our Christian and Muslim fellow citizens, we solemnly promise full religious freedom and rights. We did not come to Jerusalem for the sake of other peoples’ Holy Places, and not to interfere with the adherents of other faiths, but in order to safeguard its entirety, and to live there together with others, in unity.” The Israeli Parliament, the Knesset, passed laws to protect holy sites and ensure freedom of worship to all. Since this important day in history, Christians, Muslims and Jews have all been granted full religious and cultural freedom in the holy city. Additionally, Arabs living within Jerusalem’s municipal boundaries are granted Israeli citizenship. The photographs represent a changed face of Jerusalem. The old sign at the entrance to the

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Hilarious Hebrew – The Quiz In last month’s issue we had an article about the new version c. it was widely believed that of Hilarious Hebrew. Yael Breuer has kindly donated 3 copies writing from right to left brought to give away as prizes to the first 3 correct answers we draw good luck and prosperity out of the SJN hat. 3. The renaissance of Hebrew as Here are the questions. a spoken language in the 1. How many letters are there in the Hebrew alphabet? twentieth century was closely a. 24 linked to the national revival of the Jewish people in and of b. 26 Israel. Hebrew was revived c. 22 thanks to the efforts of a small 2. Hebrew is written from right to left, unlike most languages. group of devoted people, Nobody is sure exactly why, but a popular theory claims led by - that - a. Binyamin Ze’ev Hertzl a. writing from right to left was easier for engravers of ancient b. Eliezer Ben Yehuda Hebrew when they were chiselling words onto stone c. Benjamin Netanyahu tablets. These engravers would hold the hammer in their Email your answers to [email protected], or stronger hand (typically their right hand), making it easier to to [email protected], giving us your name and contact details. write from right to left. Answers must be received by 5.00 pm on 15 May 2017. b. a large proportion of the early Hebrews were left handed, Decisions of the judges are final. so writing from right to left was more natural to them Good luck!

Learning Hebrew across the Community by Jason Lever Every Tuesday evening since January, an intrepid band of Our fabulous teacher is Yael Breuer and SJN readers will have around 16 of us have congregated in the boardroom of the seen the last issue stating that her revised ‘Hilarious Hebrew’ Reform Synagogue to learn ‘Hebrew from Scratch’. book is now out. We go at a steady pace and the two At least, that’s hours of learning everyday words, Ivrit script and practising what it says on conversation flies by, aided of course by interludes of festival the front page food and drink brought in by Yael to assist with us visualising of our 523 page our new vocabulary. During Tu B’Shevat this has been very Hebrew University helpful for learning all the names of the Seder fruits and most published textbook. recently the key in advance of Pesach. And we are a It’s a great leveller to learn modern Hebrew, with some very mixed, but starting from scratch and several of us who are regular mutually supportive service leaders in different Shuls having a little head start to group from across be able to say, ‘I want a hummus sandwich and tea with no the community’s sugar’ or ‘Lima is in Peru but I have not been there’ (we’re Shuls and beyond, learning lots of countries and capitals of the world in Hebrew, including non- so that is good for quizzes!) Jewish fellow The good news is, that while many of us do plan to stay students from the on for the next level of the Ulpan, there are some places Sussex Friends of available for the next stage of fifteen sessions that will start Israel fold. on 9 May (Tuesday nights again) at the Reform Synagogue We’re coming to the and will run right through, bar Shavuot week, to mid-August. end of the first 15 New people will be very welcome, although they should be weeks of this Ulpan able to read Hebrew at the level of “beginners +” (i.e. not total style course and everyone’s made great progress. We can beginners). If in doubt, Yael can speak with you and check. order a grapefruit salad and glass of red wine, from a table we asked for on the outside restaurant terrace. We regularly ask We are delighted that the World Zionist Organisation has each other whether we live b’Hove or b’Brighton, and know secured funds to offer this block of 15 Hebrew sessions at who has two dogs at home and are fluent in confirming that a very subsidised fee of under £7 per hour (£105 in total for ‘there is no elephant in my house.’ All useful phrases you’ll the 15 session course; payable in three instalments of £35 if agree! preferred). Our hard work is always accompanied by moments of fun, Please do contact the organisers and hosts at the Brighton especially when Juliette is practising a dialogue as a daughter & Hove Reform Synagogue office to secure your place – see talking to her mother, played by Bryan (her husband), when BHRS page in this issue. his actual mother (Shirley) is sitting next to him! Confused, you will be....

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A Seder in Bergen-Belsen by Rabbi Hershel Rader It was Erev Pesach, 1944. The entire Jewish community Rabbi Davids, along with his son Elijah, died shortly before of Rotterdam - men, women, and children - had just the liberation of Bergen-Belsen by the allied forces. His been transferred from Westerbork, a deportation camp wife Erika and their daughters, along with approximately in Holland, to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 2,800 others, were evacuated by train from the camp. Germany. During the two-week journey to nowhere, 570 died and were buried in a mass grave somewhere along the way. Conditions in Westerbork had been harsh, but continued Those who survived the trip were abandoned by the Nazis religious observance had to a remarkable extent near the East German village of Troebits. preserved the Jews’ dignity and their will to live. Under the leadership of the loved and revered Torah scholar Rabbi In 1947, Erika emigrated with her daughters to the land Aharon (Bernard) Davids, some semblance of communal of Israel, taking with her a copy of the prayer that her cohesiveness and optimism had been sustained. Upon husband had composed. She died in a Herzliya nursing arrival at Bergen-Belsen, however, daily existence took home in1997. a sudden, overwhelmingly drastic turn for the worse, as Each year, her family and its descendants read the prayer most of the things that make a human being feel human aloud on the Seder night, to hear again how Rabbi Davids were taken away. In what for us - some 60 years later - has asked for God’s help, beseeching a shattered people to do become a familiar yet impossible-to-imagine scenario, the unthinkable and live, not die, by them. families were divided, people starved, the absurdly hard labour broke body and soul, and disease was spreading Some years ago I hosted a Melave Malka for my fast. community in London. The guest speaker was the renowned microbiologist Professor Velvl Green, at that time Matzah for the Seder was, of course, unavailable. director of the Lord Jacobovits Centre for Medical Ethics in Rabbi Davids, then in his early forties - whose wife and Israel. Professor Green had had little religious upbringing three children had been separated from him upon arrival in and came to observance in middle age. One member of the the camp - yearned to keep the spirit of his family and flock audience asked him what had brought about his personal alive, even as their physical strength ebbed. Yet under such ‘religious renaissance’. He answered that it was after a visit calamitous circumstances, refraining from eating Chametz to Auschwitz that his wife turned to him and said ‘we are would surely bring on illness and death for an unknown all that’s left’. It was then that they decided to keep Kosher number of Jews. What should be done during the week of which led to many other Mitzvos. Passover with their small daily rations of bread? We are the ones that are left. We are privileged to have He conferred with other rabbinical authorities in the been granted the gift of life; so let us make sure that we do camp, and after anguished and lengthy discussion of this indeed ‘live by them’. dilemma, they agreed upon a course of action. The above was taken from Rabbi Hershel Rader’s On the 14th of Nisan, the Seder night, Rabbi Davids sat at address at the Holocaust Memorial Service in West Hove the head of the long table in the male barracks, conducting Synagogue on 23 April 2017. the ceremony not from a Haggadah - for of course there was none - but from memory. When he reached the blessing, “...Who has sanctified us by His commandments and commanded us to eat matzah...” he lifted up his voice Brighton and Hove Jewish and clearly recited the following prayer, as later translated Housing Association into English by Prof. Harold Fisch: Will shortly have a vacancy in Central Hove for a Heavenly Father, it is manifest and known to You that we one bedroom flat. desire to carry out your will in regard to the commandment Affordable rent includes: of eating matzah, and strictly refraining from chametz on central heating and constant hot water, use of garden. the Festival of Pesach. But we are sick at heart at being prevented in this by reason of the oppression and mortal Please telephone 07716 114012 or email: bahjha@ danger in which we find ourselves. We stand ready to gmail.com for an application form. perform Your commandments of which it is said, “You shall do them and live by them,” (Vayikra 18:5) that is to say, you shall live by them and not die by them. And accordingly we heed Your warning, as it is written: “Take heed to thyself and keep thy soul alive.” (Devarim 4:9) Therefore we Important message beseech You that You will keep us in life and establish us HOSPITAL CHAPLAINCY VISITS and redeem us speedily from our servitude so that we may in time come to perform Your statutes and carry out Your If you are in hospital or know anyone being admitted will with a perfect heart. Amen. into hospital, please get in touch with info@ sussexjewishrepresentativecouncil.org or telephone 07789 He then reached for a piece of bread and took a bite, 491279 so that a Jewish chaplain can be contacted to visit. thereby urging his brethren to do likewise.

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One Potato by Myrna Carlebach There is a general corner shop with a large frontage run by her. As she walked on she put her hand in her coat pocket, a family of Kurds. The fruit and vegetable display outside and without turning around took out one beautiful new on the pavement is a pleasure for the eye and I frequently potato and put it back on top of some carrots and walked stand alongside and take in the array of colours and on without turning around. shapes and imagine where they had been grown and who I was astounded and shocked. One new potato. I wanted had harvested them, for us in far away London. Best of to rush ahead and buy it for her, but in that instant several all, for me with my African background, are the real large passers-by stopped to look and I hesitated and it was pawpaws, not the silly little papayas one can buy in the too late. My husband had taught me that the Din says supermarket. embarrassing anyone in public is the same as drawing Although I rarely buy any of the groceries and never blood. I wasn’t close enough to do it quietly and so I let anything from the delicatessen display, I love to wander her go. I felt bad all day and since – if all she needed was around the shop taking in the smells and aromas that one new potato… remind me of the many Dukas in Nairobi, where everything I have told this story to several friends, some have said, used to be in large sacks on the floor and you had to dig Of course you should have bought it for her, and perhaps in with a shovel to get how much rice or sultanas or nuts more, but others have said, if she needs food she should that you wanted. go to a food bank. Last visit to the shop I decided on a pawpaw and as I What would you have done? approached I was greeted by one of the young men from the family who was adding some more vegetables to the display. He is usually soft spoken but this time I suddenly heard his voice shouting, “Lady, put that back. You don’t want to take anything without paying”. I looked ahead and there was an elderly, thin and sort of bowed woman wearing an old coat that looked too big for

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Remembering Yehuda Amichai, z”l by Rabbi Elli Tikvah Sarah During May, we mark the anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel on 14 May 1948, corresponding to 5 Events@BHPS Iyyar 5708. It was also in May – on 3 May 1924 – that one of Israel’s greatest poets was born: Yehuda Amichai. Like Exhibition - Reflections of the Divine many of his contemporaries, he was not born in Israel. Artwork inspired by Jewish, Islamic, Daoist and Christian sacred And, like them, he changed his name. Yehuda Amichai art traditions. came into the world in Wurzburg, Germany, as Ludwig BHPS is committed to interfaith and multicultural dialogue. As Pfeuffer. Fortunately, his immediate family made Aliyah in part of the , BHPS is presenting an art exhibition 1936, so they did not endure the full horrors of the Sho’ah. of multimedia works, inspired by Jewish, Islamic, Daoist Indeed, as a young man, Yehuda Amichai joined the and Christian traditions. All the art represents contemporary Palmach, specifically, the Haganah, and then served as a expressions of the sacred using traditional methods and soldier in the British Army during the Second World War. materials brought to life through the artists’ unique perspectives Later he fought in the 1948 Israeli War of Independence, in of the divine. the Sinai campaign of 1956, and in the 1973 Yom Kippur Opening hours: 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th May 2017 11-5pm War. A true son of Israel, he was proud to declare with his Talks by the artists: each Sunday at 3.30pm, artists will talk about chosen name, Amichai: ‘my people lives’. their work Yehuda Amichai was also true to his gift as a poet, Refreshments: Tea, coffee, soft drinks and cakes will be available expressing the complexity of life in all its shades and throughout the day dimensions. Passionately patriotic, he eschewed an ‘us’ Artists and ‘them’ binary vision, and his poems express his deep Andrew Franks, (ceramics, wood carving and miniatures inspired humanity. This Yom Ha-Atzma’ut, as we celebrate Israel, by Islamic sacred art traditions). Sandra Hill, (small paintings let us take some moments to reflect on the tragedy of the inspired by Daoism). Tracy Wideman, (Christian icons). Jess on-going conflict with the Palestinians by seeing it through Wood, (Jewish paintings and ‘icons’). the eyes of one of Israel’s most distinguished poets. Here are two poems I would recommend: Open Wednesdays BHPS is open every Wednesday from 11.00 am – 4.00 pm for An Arab shepherd is searching for his goat on Mount Zion social activities. These include scrabble, chess, bridge, exercise An Arab shepherd is searching for his goat on Mount classes, computer training, access to the library knitting and Zion / and on the opposite hill I am searching for my little weaving. boy. / An Arab shepherd and a Jewish father / both in Please bring a packed lunch (vegetarian or permitted fish). Hot their temporary failure. / Our two voices met above / the drinks are available. Ring the office for further details if you would Sultan’s Pool in the valley between us. / Neither of us like to join us. wants the boy or the goat / to get caught in the wheels / of the “Chad Gadya” machine. / Afterward we found them Friday Night Onagim among the bushes, / and our voices came back inside us / laughing and crying. / Searching for a goat or for a child Erev Shabbat Service 7.30 pm followed by a talk has always been / the beginning of a new religion in these May 12 Gio Guillen ‘Jewish Baking’ with samples mountains. Access to Hebrew and Exploring Classes Jerusalem Exploring Judaism – Saturday 2.15 – 3.45pm (please note no On a roof in the Old City / laundry hanging in the late classes on 6 May). afternoon sunlight: / the white sheet of a woman who is my enemy, / the towel of a man who is my enemy, / to Unit 5: From Life to Death wipe off the sweat of his brow. / In the sky of the Old City / • 13 May Birth a kite. / At the other end of the string, / a child / I can’t see • 20 May Bar/Bat Mitzvah & Kabbalat Torah / because of the wall. / We have put up many flags, / they • 27 May Shavuot have put up many flags. / to make us think that they’re • 3 June Kiddushin: Marriage happy. / to make them think that we’re happy. • 10 June Divorce Yehuda Amichai was invited by the then Prime Minister • 17 June Death & Mourning Yitzhak Rabin to read from one of his poems at the • 24 June Choosing Judaism and Mixed Faith Partnerships and ceremony at which Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Families Yasser Arafat became joint recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo in 1994. Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by For full details of all BHPS activities see our website. an Israeli fanatic the following year (4 November 1995). Yehuda Amichai died of cancer at the age of 76 on 22 BHPS is fully wheelchair accessible September 2000. Zichrono livrachah – May his memory be for a blessing.

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Around the Zodiac Wheel - Iyar and Taurus by Rabbi Dr Andrea Zanardo After Pesach, as we know, the Omer begins. In Biblical times of precise detail! And in this slow process of building, we can the grain harvest was marked by bringing to the Temple in see the same principle of the Omer: after Pesach, the liberation, Jerusalem, an Omer, a measure, of barley each day until comes the time to build ourselves, to develop our personality, Shavuot. After the destruction of the Temple, the tradition to build our own life and to connect with other people. of counting was maintained. The Omer provides a link from The Sefer Yetzirah associates the month of Iyar and the zodiac Pesach to Shavuot, from the Liberation from Egypt to the sign of Taurus to the letter vav. This is the letter of human Revelation, and the Giving of the Law on Sinai. It is a passage relations, because it literally sticks itself to other words, and in from freedom to responsibility; a passage that requires time. this way connects people and things. It’s a process of maturation, the slow development of our personality. The Omer is also a mournful period, because when we grow and mature, we also deal with sad moments, and sometimes Bulletin Board – May 2017 we see parts of ourselves that perish. But first and foremost, it Tuesday 2 Yom Ha’atzmaut is a time for maturation and growth. Probably for these reasons, Saturday 6 Bat Mitzvah of Samala Bernstein, 10.30 am the author of Sefer Yetzirah saw a connection between the Ta Sh’ma discussion group 14 -18yrs, 10.30 am month of Iyar and the Taurus, which - at a popular level - has Sunday 7 Stone setting of Marian Gottlieb, 12.00 noon a reputation for being patient and careful, not to hasten too Saturday 13 Book Club, 9.15 am quickly to any conclusion. Sunday 14 Lag B’Omer This may be true, or not. For the Sefer Lamed Session, 5.30 pm Yetzirah, the stars have no influence on Saturday 20 Rabbi’s Shiur - Rules & Legends of Shavuot, 9.00 am human psychology. However, it is certainly Shabbat Doroteinu, 10.30 am intriguing to notice that, when Moses Sunday 21 Jazz Tea, 2.30 pm blesses all the tribes of Israel, the tribe of (for tickets call the Shul office) Josef is compared to a “firstling bull”, a Tuesday 23 Tea & Torah, 4.00 pm bekhor shor (Deuteronomy 33:17), which Thursday 25 Rosh Chodesh, 7.30 pm is the symbol of Taurus. Indeed, Josef led Friday 26 Shabbat Kolot, 6.30 pm a fascinating life; from being at a very low Saturday 27 Bat Mitzvah of Ellah Sasson, 10.30 am point, when his brothers threw him into Tuesday 30 Erev Shavuot followed by Lamed Session, 6.30 pm a pit, on to being a slave, then an officer, Wednesday 31 Shavuot then an advisor, and then finally a minister. It is almost unique in the Torah that Josef’s Shavuot Morning Service, 10.30 am amazing career is exposed with a timeline (The diary is subject to change)

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