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Chai Vekayam Chai Vekayam The Neve Shalom Synagogue Chai Members Newsletter April 2017 Dear Chai members; We had a lovely Hakafot ceremony in Simchat Torah and Sukkot was celebrated in On behalf of the Board of Directors of the our beautiful Sukkah, attached to the Neve Shalom Synagogue and the Jewish synagogue. community in Suriname, I wish you and your families a Happy and kosher Passover!! Before we head into this holiday, I’ll update you on the more recent ones: High Holidays in Suriname b We are grateful that Rabbi Shimon Moch again led our High Holidays in 2016. Rabbi Shimon is a long time friend of our The 2016 Sukkot service at the Neve Shalom community, since the days when he was the synagogue, Paramaribo Suriname Rabbi of the Hebrew Congregation of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. We also celebrated Hanukah with our tradition of lighting the candles every night in many Menorahs. Rabbi Shimon Moch led the 2016 High Holidays service at the Neve Shalom Synagogue, Paramaribo Suriname Sharon Valpoort from Amsterdam, Holland and her two young daughters Hava and Sarai are visiting her family; Juliette Emanuels who lives in Jerusalem, Israel with her three daughters and their families, decided to celebrate her 90th Birthday among her family and friends who still live in Suriname. She boarded the plane from Tel Aviv to Amsterdam and then to Paramaribo all by herself and is currently having a wonderful time. She’ll be back in Israel for Passover. We wish Juliette many more years of good health and happiness! The 2016 Hanukah celebration Unfortunately, this year Purim fell on a long weekend holiday in Suriname and we had to cancel our traditional community Purim party as many young families were out of town. Visiting Suriname In the last few months, we were blessed with the visits of Chai members and Ex members of the community who emigrated over the years to Israel. Baruch Lionarons from Jerusalem, Israel Pearl Lipton and Henry Silver from was also visiting his family and friends in Toronto, Canada had a wonderful visit in Suriname. Baruch, an economist, made Aliya Paramaribo, the Jewish Savannah to Israel over 30 years ago and lives with his (Jodensavanne) and in Kabalebo, a small wife and three daughters and son in resort deep in the Surinamese jungle; Jerusalem. Baruch was kind enough to put into writing a summary of his visit: The schedule of services was tweaked to allow for services on two consecutive weeks and it was my great pleasure to lead shaharit with Chairman Jules Donk on Theba. On short notice we did shirat ha-yam, for many years not heard during regular services. There are few sights in Paramaribo that give Parashat Toldot with its unexpected a returning former member of the Jewish blessings fit the occasion and I felt very community more pleasure than the stately privileged to call up for an aliya Shem Donk beauty of Neve Shalom. Every time I return a recent bar mitzvah followed by Julian it fills me with pleasure and pride. Last Franker, whose bar mitzvah in Jerusalem I December I was again, albeit for a short attended. Both these youngsters are scions of time, just like any other member of the “stonfutus”, families that are pillars of the Community and as I approached the community. This I see as a sign of hope. synagogue a strong sense of beauty and pride welled up. The following two weeks I spent I must confess that since Beracha ve- time in conversations with old friends, Shalom, the sister Portuguese synagogue members of the Board and heard how under located just two blocks away which ceased difficult circumstances the Community keeps to function as such, I have not had the together, enjoys an outstanding reputation in courage to go inside anxious not to have old Suriname’s social fabric and is the spiritual memories superseded by its new function as home for its members and friends in the an office. The exterior has lost none of its society at large. Earlier in the year Rabbi luster and gravitas and is a true landmark on Moch spent some time there and made Paramaribo’s main street. As a resident of commendable efforts to increase the number Jerusalem I enjoy the privilege to be able to of events, including outreach activities and go regularly to Beracha ve-Shalom, that is its get members involved. On the other hand, interior, now superbly restored and on the sudden death of long standing acting permanent display in the Street of the cantor, my friend and former pupil Jack Van Synagogues in the Israel Museum. For a Niel was a great loss. Most of his duties have native son this is a source of supreme pride. been taken over by other members and in time, hopefully, a younger person can be Lilly Duym relates that no week goes by prepared to continue. I had hoped to meet without someone, often from abroad, coming more of the young members, graduates of the to her with a genealogical query. I was lucky Birthright programme, but even in limited to be there when such a query regarding the conversations I sensed that the sweet Sarruco family required a quick visit to embrace of a gentle open society like Jodensavanne and I was invited to join as Suriname, in many ways comes at the “general counsel”. The site holds you in a expense of an under-association with the historical grip and makes one feel proud and community. More young members will have strangely empowered imagining a flowering to come forward and take responsibility as Jewish settlement in the middle of a South Jewish presence and a Jewish community American rainforest. The obvious potential simply cannot be taken for granted. for more people to come and experience Jodensavanne, for more archeological work, with ideas, contacts and contributions of all for reconstructing some structures, for kinds. rediscovering and retelling the stories is there. None of this will happen by itself and Baruch Lionarons standing there taking it in as a tourist I was January 2017 even more aware of the continuous effort Jerusalem done to be able to experience Jodensavanne, now on the tentative list for the status of World Heritage Site. Remembering Mordechai Arbell z”l The three cemeteries in Paramaribo are in Every time one would meet Mordechai very good condition, the oldest one looks Arbell he enthusiastically started the better than in decades and so are the records. conversation with a new historical fact about Walking between the rows one cannot be the La Nacion, the Spanish and Portuguese untouched by evocative inscriptions, the odd Nation in the Caribbean: a document statue or the outstanding masonry that stumbled across in a lesser known archive or withstood the centuries. I also don’t a connection he discovered between events. remember having ever visited family graves And the families, yes those double barreled without the bother of stragglers or vandals Iberian names, many of them having left the (now nowhere to be seen) or having to fold generations ago, were for him like a navigate piles of rubbish. This too is the magnet. He would run into members of result of hard work by devoted individuals them, often in high places, in Jamaica, and lots of money. Panama, Belize, and France. Invariably they would whisper some fascinating family Too soon the last day of my visit arrived and secret or show him an heirloom testimony of I took leave of Lilly in her little office, the their Jewish roots. gardener and watchman, familiar faces of decades, the majestic sight of Neve Shalom The Jewish Nation in the Caribbean captured surrounded by imposing trees, the new his heart whilst serving as Israel’s monument in memory of those killed in the ambassador to Panama. Born in Bulgaria but Shoah and gravestones bearing names of raised in Israel, still only a teenager he was illustrious families, no longer appearing as trained as a pilot in the young Israel Defense members. Forces, fighting in the War of Independence. After active army duty and university studies Against all the odds the community lives. he entered the Foreign Service and thereafter How it will develop is not apparent. History morphed into senior manager in an and imposing monuments are not sufficient international business conglomerate. But, as for a vibrant Jewish life. People, dedicated testified to by his son at a memorial in committed Jewish people are what will make Jerusalem last autumn, La Nacion was his the community. Chai has become an passion. Without formal academic training as important platform for help and support and a historian, he was nevertheless equal to the I appeal to all to stay involved and come up academics. And what a special place Suriname had in his heart. His frequent visits in the 1980’s and even more frequent Gibraltar Camp was originally built by the contacts with members of the community British in 1940 to house civilians from the made him many friends in Paramaribo. island of Gibraltar. The British decided to Forgotten Jewish settlements were use the colony for military purposes to discovered, with some measure of conjecture protect the strategically-located isthmus from it is said, in Pomeroon and in French German invasion. Guyana. The camp was intended for 6,000 people, but only about 1,800 people from Gibraltar He visited Jodensavanne in a time when that ended up arriving. When the Jewish was quite an undertaking and counseled the community heard about the extra capacity in community’s leaders with whom he the camp, they began to lobby the British to established and maintained close personal let in the Jewish refugees from Europe.
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