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Hamerkaz ACT Jewish Community Magazine September 2015 | Elul / Tishrei 5776 המרכז HaMerkaz ACT Jewish Community Magazine September 2015 | Elul / Tishrei 5776 ● Saga of the Burning Bush ● Thessaloniki: a Jewish Presence ● Cantor Michel Laloum ● Honouring Margaret Beadman ● Naomi Leydman’s Bat Mitzvah Issue 531 31 National Circuit, Forrest ACT 2603 | PO Box 3105, Manuka ACT 2603 (02) 6295 1052 | [email protected] www.actjc.org.au When you look into your heart as the New Year approaches, may you discover a renewed commitment to your faith, a new belief in the gifts you have to share and a new connection to the people around you. Rabbi and Rebbetzin Meltzer and Board of the ACT Jewish Community wish you all a Happy and Sweet New Year. Cover: Digital artwork created by Vicki Coleman On this page: Rosh HaShanah Fruit Bowl. Original artwork created by ACTJC member, Judith Eisner. PAGE 2 | Issue 531 HaMerkaz September 2015 | Elul / Tishrei 5776 Contents 05 The Chief Rabbi’s Message Community Conversations 20 Cantor Michel Laloum 08 Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur 28 General Sir John Monash 30 Can a Robot Have a Soul? Service Times 32 International Law and the Right to be Different 11 Union of Progressive Judaism Message Community Reports 21 In Memoriam of David Weisser 37 NCJWA (Canberra Section) Regular 06 From the Editor’s Desk 07 Letters to the Editor ACTJC Lifestyle Groups 09 From the Rabbi’s Desk 48 ACT Jewish Playgroup 48 Grumps R Us Reports 10 President’s Report Calendars & Events 12 Treasurer’s Report 52 Calendar Jewish Holidays and Festivals 12 Building Committee 53 Monthly Calendars - September, October & 13 Orthodox Committee November 13 Progressive Committee 14 Jewish Care Coordinating Committee Special Reports 22 Honouring Margaret Beadman at the AWM 40 Naomi Leydman’s Bat Mitzvah Special Articles 16 The Saga of the Burning Bush 19 Thessaloniki: a Jewish Presence 24 Jewish Refugees and Shanghai Exhibition Food For Thought 15 Rosh Hashanah Symbols 35 Destiny and Fate 36 Tisha B’Av 46 Keeping Kosher 47 Stop Running Jonah The ACT Jewish Community is celebrating its 64th anniversary this year. We are a pluralistic, member-run community consisting of Orthodox and Progressive and Secular Jews. We offer educational, religious, social and practical Assistance and Services for all ages, including a playgroup for very young children, a Sunday School (Cheder) for children and teens, Bar and Bat Mitzvah classes, youth groups, social events for young adults, Hebrew and Talmud classes for adults of all ages, prayer services, arranging kosher food in Canberra including supermarkets, Jewish Care (practical assistance, prison and hospital visits), guest lectures, Shabbat and Jewish festival celebrations, end-of-life support including tahara, and more. We look forward to seeing you at the Centre and at our functions, and welcoming you into our community of friends. Please remember that the views expressed in HaMerkaz by individual authors do not necessarily reflect the views or policy of the ACT Jewish Community. Issue 531 | PAGE 3 Photo: Courtesy of rosieschwartz.com PAGE 4 | Issue 531 Issue 531 | PAGE 5 From the Editor’s Desk We live in a Time of Change YVETTE GOODE n this edition, “The Saga Of the Burning Bush” article gives us the I history of our community’s emblem and we are very lucky that through the hard work of some of our members it still graces our building. We live in a time of change. Since the last edition the ACT Board gained much in this new logo, which speaks to the world of who has adopted a new logo for its official letterhead as significantly we are now. voted on by members, yet we have still retained the Burning Bush emblem as part of who we are in the ACT Jewish Community. The A number of community members attended the recent lecture image of the elongated Burning Bush has always needed some given by Bob Carr at the ANU on his now favourite topic of the additional information and explanation for strangers, and indeed Palestinians. The link to the original notice for the Bob Carr talk is for some newer community members, to fully understand here. http://www.anu.edu.au/events/the-hon-bob-carr-palestine- everything Issy Kingsberg wished his sculpture to represent. The and-middle-east-peace. Prior to the event outside the auditorium, new logo pays tribute to the elements of the Burning the University’s Friends of Palestine had an array of literature, Bush, the Menorah and to the symbolism of the tree, all mostly denigrating Israel, spread over several tables. It tremendously important to us as Jews. This main was biased, to say the least. Carr’s talk was problematic component is housed under a wide arch, with our from a Jewish perspective, where he selected tiny pieces community name beneath. As it presents, the new logo of information and then employed them to prove his new- has features the Burning Bush did not have and its size found belief in the “dignity of the Palestinians” and and shape makes it more suitable for letterheads and compared this to the “Israel Lobby” where the other official correspondence. In this edition, “The Saga connotations were not pleasant. The link for the actual Of the Burning Bush” article gives us the history of our Bob Carr talk is here. https://soundcloud.com/ community’s emblem and we are very lucky that through experience_anu/bob-carr-01 the hard work of some of our members it still graces our The manipulation of events did nothing to advance the building. cause of peace between Israel and the Palestinians, yet Whenever there is change not everyone will be pleased the mostly enthusiastic audience seemed willing to hang but as we live in a free society, members can always on his every word. When asked a penetrating question by voice their opinions, maybe to their friends at first but Kim Rubenstein-Sturgess, which he could not answer, his also in correspondence to the Board, where all tone and manner became markedly different. Both Robert correspondence is freely discussed at monthly meetings. The Cussel and I independently wrote to Mr Carr but as yet we have matter of the logo has been thoroughly discussed at Board level for received no reply. The ECAJ website published an outstanding most of this year. As we move forward with our ambitious building repudiation of this lecture. The link for the ECAJ critique can be for the future project, it is important that we are seen as being found here http://www.ecaj.org.au/2015/critique-of-carr-speech- modern in outlook and receptive to change. In the eyes of at-anu-14th-july-2015/. Kim Rubenstein-Sturgess wrote an potential donors we have to be seen as building for that which is excellent opinion piece for The Canberra Times, plus there were yet to come, in a dynamic, developing community, otherwise there also letters to the Editor in The Canberra Times for the following is no point in making a significant investment in a few days. There is much work to be done, in stagnant community, which we are most definitely combating this creeping new anti-Semitism not. We are growing in many important ways! masquerading as anti-Zionism and also in letting the world know about the high quality innovations that As a member of the Board I have spoken to many are the hallmark of the modern State of Israel. people about their feelings with regard to some of these changes and have published a letter to the In this edition of HaMerkaz there is a full report on editor from Vicki Lehrer, which follows this the special ACT event, “Jewish Refugees and editorial. After much thought the way I see it is Shanghai”, where Peter Witting was the keynote that the Burning Bush sculpture historically for many years was the speaker; Angie Glance has written the introduction. In an motif for our community, will always be emblematic of the ACT interview with Veronica Leydman she explains what a huge effort Jewish Community and will continue to be used in this symbolic by so many people went in to making her daughter Naomi’s Bat manner; however, the new logo with our name will become the Mitzvah such a success, plus there is much more associated with official logo for letterheads and other correspondence. In time I this remarkable event. Please read the wonderful piece by Fiona hope that all those who were not in favour of change can see that Sweet-Formiatti about “The Jews of Thessaloniki” after her recent we have not lost anything in this process, but rather that we have trip to Greece. The final item in the Special Events Section showcases our wonderful living treasure, Margaret Beadman OAM, PAGE 6 | Issue 531 who was honoured by The Australian War Memorial for her Cantor Michel Laloum. Finally there is a report on this most excellent service this past quarter of a century. special collection of little people, Playgroup, by Gabrielle Werksman. There is also a new feature, 'Food for Thought', in which various aspects affecting Jewish life and learning are discussed. These As we approach Rosh HaShanah it is time for all of us to review essays and articles are interspersed throughout this edition. our lives and to think about what we might have done better. We need to cleanse ourselves morally and spiritually and to do this In the Community Section, Judith Wimborne provides an account we need to look deeply into our hearts. For many of us the of the Historical Society event featuring the personal writings of intense sound of the shofar is like a wake-up call.
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