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February 2015 In This Month’s Highlight View from the Chair ..........................3 Limmud 2014 .....................................3 Cheder News ......................................4 Social Centre News ............................4 Trip to Eastern Europe .......................5 Talmud Study Classes ........................5 MRJ Book Launch .............................6 The BeaTles of Shushan ....................6 Jewish Book Week 2015 ....................6 Social and Personal ............................7 Highlight online .................................7 jeneration on campus .........................7 The Full Limmud ...............................8 The Civic Service, marking the end of the Synagogue’s Golden Jubilee LBC Lehrhaus ....................................8 celebrations was held on Saturday, 24 January, Shabbat Bo. Standing Introduction to Judaism ......................8 at the centre of the photograph with our Chairman Joanna Koenigsberg are the Mayor and Mayoress of Bromley, Councillor Julian Benington Book Study Session ...........................9 and Mrs Benington. Also present were Bob Neill M.P., Robert Weiner, Services ..............................................9 Chairman of MRJ and his wife, Chief Superintendent Chris Hafford, Riding4Reform ..................................9 Commander of the Bromley Division, members of the local clergy, Rabbis UJIA Legacy Mission ........................9 Tony Hammond and David and Helen Freeman, and Joe and Marilyn Dates for Your Diary .......................10 Burchell from Catford and Bromley Synagogue. Synagogue Contacts .........................11 Advertisements ................................12 Tu B’Shvat Shabbat Service Saturday 7 February at 10:30 am 999 Club This Tu B’Shvat, the Cheder will host the Shabbat Service on needs your donations! Saturday 7 February, to be followed by a special bring and share Kids’ and adults’ clothes, food. GREEN Kiddush. Please bring them to shul and earn We would love bakers and other kindly souls to help bring any of a thank you from these Tu B’Shvat treats to the Kiddush: people who don’t Tu B’Shvat 5775 B’Shvat Tu A fruit with an outer shell or peel that cannot be eaten: nuts, • have as much in life pomegranates, kiwi, banana as we do and need a • A fruit with seeds inside: apples, olives, peaches, pears, plums, prunes, dates helping hand. • A fruit with seeds inside and an outer sheet or peel that cannot be eaten: oranges, tangerines, grapefruit • A fruit that is completely edible: raisins, figs, strawberries, carob • You may also bring a food made from wheat: bread, cake or biscuits To find out more please email [email protected] or [email protected] Join a visit to Jewish Prague - see page 5 of Highlight February 2015 – BROMLEY REFORM SYNAGOGUE A constituent of the Movement for Reform Judaism 28, Highland Road, BROMLEY, Kent, BR1 4AD Telephone: 020 8460 5460 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.bromleyshul.org.uk (Office - 9.30 am to 12.30 pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays) Minister: Rabbi Jason Holtz 07454 021 892 Synagogue Administrator: Mrs Janet Burlem HONORARY OFFICERS President: David Barnett Vice-Presidents: Desirée Barnett Zena Goodman Sally Rosebery Norman Goldberg Ivor Lask, MBE Bob Symonds Ronnie Goldberg Dianne Mathews David Zerihan Executive Officers Chairman: Joanna Koenigsberg 020 8309 1061 [email protected] Vice-Chairmen: Toby Allin 01892 528053 [email protected] Matthew de Lange 020 8858 6206 [email protected] Secretary: Lesley Freeman 01689 818731 [email protected] Treasurer: Sandra Hurley 07770 661 898 [email protected] Senior Warden: Larry Shall 01732 873361 [email protected] IN CASE OF EMERGENCY (in the event of a bereavement) Contact Mrs Janet Posner: 020 8650 7521 (Mobile: 07841 373 309) or Stephen Weil: 020 8299 4141 (Mobile: 07764 475209) Editor: Bob Symonds: 020 8402 2197; [email protected] Opinions expressed in “Highlight” are not necessarily the official policy of the Synagogue Tell the Community This cut-out slip is a regular feature in Highlight to enable you to inform the community of any appropriate event - birth, marriage, engagement, illness, bereavement, birthday celebration, examination success etc. Please complete and return to the Editor c/o the Synagogue office. We would like you to know that ............................................................................................ .......................................................................................................................................... .......................................................................................................................................... Name .................................................................................. Tel. No. ................................. Copy date for March Highlight: Sunday 15 February 2 Not all plans run smoothly – View from the Chair hen she Rabbi Laura actually arrived with her made us think again and again about our Wheard that suitcase, not to stay with us in Bromley, security. Shabbat services seem to be Rabbi Jason Holtz but to travel to Paris that same afternoon. largely covered, but the safety of Cheder was going on Her goal was both to offer support to children on Sundays is giving cause for holiday, Rabbi her French counterparts and, in addi- concern. In order to enable Cheder par- Laura Janner- tion, with a British Muslim colleague, to ents to fulfil their security duties more Klausner kindly demonstrate that our faiths are in no way confidently, there will soon (watch for offered to take ‘natural enemies’ but human beings who February dates) be one or two courses the service on the can work together amicably. I hope we covering the basics. Please look out for Shabbat. Quickly will soon hear how her trip went. them, and try to attend. The safety of our realising that this The discussion about the work of the children must be of prime importance was an excellent opportunity to hear Movement did take place. Rabbi Laura and cannot just be left to someone else to more about the Movement for Reform emphasised that the administration has maintain. Judaism, plans were made to invite been slimmed down in recent years Do you remember the Kol Nidre members to listen to Rabbi Laura during and the focus changed so that the staff appeal? I am really pleased to be able or after a bring-and-share lunch. do a great deal of traveling, rather than to share with you that we raised around Not all plans are destined to run waiting at the Sternberg Centre for £3,000 for each of our charities. I would smoothly, though. The outrages in Paris members to approach them. For Jews like to thank you all for your generos- certainly altered our Shabbat plans. In in a slightly “far-flung” location this ity, of course, but more moving are the the first instance, Rabbi Laura dispensed is good news! It was also heartening thanks of the 999 Club and from WIZO with the sermon she had prepared and to hear that children and young people on behalf of the Phoebe Welcome Leon instead offered us an opportunity to from Beit Or were benefiting from Day Centre. They described our cheques share our thoughts and emotions about involvement with the Movement’s as “a wonderful gift” and “a welcome what had happened. Our conclusion, programmes. I would recommend surprise” respectively. The contributions if you can call it one, was that we are anyone wanting to learn more about the from Beit Or will help make a differ- appreciative of the features of an enlight- work of the movement to have a look at ence, I am sure, so thanks once again. ened democratic system which enables its website (www.reformjudaism.org. Joanna Koenigsberg, Chairman us to feel safe most of the time and that uk). [email protected] these events only make us value it more. The horrible events in France have Limmud 2014 - A giant Jewish learning convention went to Limmud for the first time a pointed to Gaza as an example. Israel, with similar Biblical I year ago and was really happy to go he said, completely withdrew from Gaza texts. In particular, again this year. For those of you who and a year later Hamas was in power. he focused on stories have never been, it’s a giant Jewish This past summer was just one example that dealt with the learning convention lasting for the better of Hamas instigating another round of subject of evil. Evil part of week that attracts nearly 2,600 conflict since that time. So, Ari claimed, was always a difficult people. All sorts of Jews attend: secular, there is absolutely no proof or evidence problem for monothe- Orthodox, Reform, Masorti, British, that giving up land will lead to peace, ists, because if there Israeli, American, European, you name calm or security. However, Ari also is one God that created everything, one it. Nearly every waking hour (and even critiqued the Israeli right for thinking that must ask, “Did God create evil?” Dr some non-waking hours), there is a it is in anyway desirable or defensible to Hoffman looked at Biblical texts, such as whole variety of things going on, from rule over the Palestinians indefinitely. the expulsion from the Garden of Eden, music to discussion to lecture to food to The Israeli right, he also said, is moving which blames human nature and tempta- shopping, to debate, and this year, a New from a secular, conservative movement tion, and extra-Biblical texts, such as the Year’s Eve Party. that aimed to be pragmatic to one that is Book of Enoch, which talks about
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