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This month we celebrate Tu B’shvat airfield. The Germans would have The forest is now a Memorial – The New Year for Trees. The trees had the same storage problem Complex and at the entrance there in the cover photograph, taken in when the Luftwaffe took over the are large horizontal granite slabs the Paneriai / Ponar forest, bear airfield but they only saw the pits bearing the following description: witness to mass murder and, as part of the ‘solution’ to the local “Here, in the Paneriai forest, as you enter the forest, you are “Jewish Problem”. Hitler’s murderers and their immediately aware of a local accomplices massacred strong sense of peace and 100,000 people from July quiet. It is an exceptionally 1941 to July 1944. In order to beautiful place with a conceal the evidence of their heart-breaking history. crimes, the Nazi occupiers We always hope that a had the corpses of the victims New Year will bring peace, burned from December 1943.” health and prosperity, After the declaration of but after the Russians independence of Lithuania left in 1940 and the Nazis in 1990, an additional black moved in, there was no marble slab was added with peace for the Jews of the inscription: “Among those Lithuania. killed in the forest of Paneriai The image shows one of the seven were 70,000 Jewish men, women When standing by the pits, one pits in which the Nazis organised and children.” by one, you become aware of the the murder of virtually the entire solitude of the forest and then an Jewish population of Vilna (Vilnius) increasing cold and sadness as and its surrounding area. The Pits the realisation dawns that one is had been dug originally by the standing where others stood and Russians to store aviation fuel and were murdered. ammunition for a nearby military
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ISSUE 271 | FEBRUARY 2017 4 Sussex and the City 5 Your News New Home Births Good luck in your new home to: Mazel tov to: s %LAINE AND *OHN !BRAHAMS ,ONDON s 6IVIEN AND 2ICHARD (ARRIS -ANCHESTER s $OVID AND -USHKA %FUNE ON THE BIRTH OF THEIR DAUGHTER s ,UCY AND $AVID /PPENHEIMER ON THE BIRTH OF THEIR SON s 2ABBI :ALMAN AND 2EBBETZIN 3HTERNA ,EWIS ON THE BIRTH OF Get Well a daughter, Rivkah Tzirel. We wish a refuah sheleimah to Joe Davis, Shirley Moss, Ivor Sorokin and all who are in hospital or unwell. Special Birthdays Mazel tov to Moss Kimmelman, Ronnie Rosenberg, Peter Vos Deaths and all who have special birthdays this month. We wish Long Life to s 4HE FAMILY OF *ACK 3IMONS ZL Barmitzvah s 4HE FAMILY OF .ORMA 7ARING ZL Mazel tov to Jill and Ivor Richards and family on the barmitzvah of their grandson Eitan Richards. Tombstone Consecrations The memorial stone in loving memory of Jackie Richards will Engagements be consecrated on Sunday, 19 February at 3.00 pm at the Mazel tov to Liz Shaw and Jewish cemetery, Meadowview, Brighton. family on the engagement of her daughter Keren to Yoni Nisner. Field in India by Steve Field Weddings Daniel Field is one of three Sussex players included in the Mazel tov to Laurel and Julian fifteen-man squad to represent England in the Visually Woolfe on the marriage of their Impaired T20 World Cup in India at the end of the month. In granddaughter Elise to James a hectic schedule, England will play nine other countries in Tobias on 6 December 2016. Delhi, Indore, Ahmedabad, Mumbai and Bangalore before the final stages. England have reached the semi-finals in previous Wedding tournaments and hope to go one better this time by Anniversaries upsetting India who are World champions in all formats of the game. Mazel tov to Judy and Bernard Harris on their Diamond Daniel is England’s most capped wicketkeeper having made Wedding Anniversary. his debut in Sri Lanka in 2006. This is his fourth world Cup.
Jenny’s Award Eastbourne Hebrew by Stewart Macintosh Congregation Jenny does voluntary work for Action on Hearing Loss, formerly known as the RNID A Chanukah Barbecue was held for (Royal National Institute for the Deaf). members of the Eastbourne Hebrew Congregation on December 26th. Our hosts, Working in the Resource Room every cooks and chief bottle-washers were the Wednesday, she provides support to people Liebenberg family. After the lighting of the with hearing loss across the City of Brighton Chanukah candles and the spirited singing & Hove. This offers an opportunity for visitors of all the verses of Ma’oz Tzur, a sumptuous to find out about meal was served. products, phones, fire alarms, baby For those readers who may be thinking, monitors etc., that “A barbecue in December, meshuggah!” may help make life easier at home, work or you should know that our hosts have leisure. She also takes the show on the road a magnificent South African barbecue, from time to time. complete with chimney, built into the The Resource Centre is at Community Base, conservatory. Not only were we presented 113 Queens Road, Brighton BN1 3XG. If with delicious food, but we were also kept you want to call in to the Resource Room, very warm. please make an appointment by calling 01273 Our thanks go to this lovely family and we all 840960. look forward to a repeat performance. Jenny says you are very welcome to call in between 10.00 am and 12 noon.
ISSUE 271 | FEBRUARY 2017 4 Sussex and the City 5 Ralli Hall Lunch and Social Club by Jacqueline Tichauer 2016 was a very successful year for the Lunch Club.We Many people say that going to a day centre is only for old were pleased to welcome many more new members who are people. This is not so. We are a Lunch and Social Club and enjoying the activities that we offer. many of our members have made new friends and as a result are enjoying a wonderful social life outside the Club. As one On December 22, we held our pre-Chanukah Party and were of our members wrote: delighted to welcome the ladies who regularly play Bridge in their homes and, at every game, make a donation to our I would like to thank The Lunch and Social Club for my days Lunch Club. Ten years ago this was instigated by Jill Richards with you. Without you I would be sitting at home looking out and over this period a very substantial amount has been of my window all day. Thank you for changing my life. donated to the Lunch Club. To show our appreciation to these lovely ladies we invited them to join us for lunch at our If you would like to enjoy a day at our Lunch Club, you are Chanukah party. more than welcome. In 2017 we are planning many outings and weekends away as well as more interesting activities. Over 100 people sat down to a delicious menu of vegetable Our first event for this year will be our Vintage Afternoon Tea; soup, salt beef, latkes and Pavlova for dessert. Our members something nice to do on a February afternoon. had a wonderful afternoon and enjoyed being entertained by Phil from Eastbourne. Our line dancing was something no- TICKETS NOW ON SALE: On Sunday 26 February we are one should have missed. holding a Vintage Afternoon Tea with entertainment. Tickets are now on sale at £15 and are available from Laura (01273 The month of February could be your lucky month if you are a 722173). member of our 100 Club, as we will be starting our quarterly lucky draw.
Helping Hands by Jason Lever As another year rolls by, might some of Please don’t be put off by the idea of ‘volunteering’. There you in the Sussex Jewish community are lots of opportunities in Helping Hands and everyone has be pondering your secular New Year a skill that can be utilised. Also, I have always found it to resolutions about doing something new and be a great way of making new friends. In fact, volunteering different in 2017? can yield as many benefits for the volunteers themselves as for those they are helping – it can raise self-esteem Jewish and secular New Years mark and motivation, and one study found that it helped people 01273 747722 a time when we can all celebrate the perform better in their own daily lives. For those volunteering possibility of building a better tomorrow for in later life, it has been shown to decrease depression and ourselves and for others. Of course, in our Jewish tradition, social isolation, as well as boosting quality of life and life we are given the chance to begin again every day, every satisfaction. Research on university campuses found that Shabbat and at many other times throughout the year. The when students were volunteering, they drank much less. transformative power of vows has certainly been taken Eastbourne Hebrew seriously in Judaism for thousands of years. For my part, I write this column on the train to London as a productive use of my morning commute and in 2017, I am Congregation My own resolutions are to use my time more efficiently in going to be augmenting the regular befriending of a lady living order to allow more volunteering; making sure the kitchen is quite near me through the Know My Neighbour project, with cleared up each night, and not to get stressed at slow-moving some extra help and company in between her regular meet- (or even non-existent) Southern Rail trains back from London, ups with another Helping Hands volunteer. by treating delay as an opportunity for more reading, music listening, catching up on my social media streams or to grab Hard sell over! Do just drop us an email at helping-hands@ a schluff! helping-hands.org or ring us on 01273 747722, and we can chat about what roles could fit in with your commitments yet Could you make a 2017 resolution for a new start by make a huge difference to the lives of our clients. volunteering for Helping Hands? It is really not a massive commitment and a little time goes a long way. You may be in semi-retirement or an active retiree with some of your day not fully taken up by golf, grandchildren, shiurim or gardening (in no order of priority). Important message Students, we need you too, and it’s good for your CV. As HOSPITAL CHAPLAINCY VISITS someone who recruits within a large organisation, I look for If you are in hospital or know anyone being admitted into hospital, something extra about a candidate beyond their grades, please get in touch with info@sussexjewishrepresentativecouncil. sporting or music accomplishments. Demonstrations of active org or telephone 07789 491279 so that a Jewish chaplain can be citizenship and responsibility through volunteering count contacted to visit. highly.
ISSUE 271 | FEBRUARY 2017 6 Sussex and the City 7 Ralli Hall by Roger Abrahams The whole family joined me at the lighting of the first I must again emphasise that the Brighton & Hove Jewish candle of the Chanukiah in Palmeira Square, on a dry Community Trust receives no charitable funding and is and mild evening. There was a large crowd present, who reliant on its income from the room lets, plus a small cheered rather louder when the Brighton & Hove Albion amount of income from annual membership of the Trust, Israeli football player was introduced by Rabbi Efune than unchanged yet again at just £27.00 per adult member they did when he introduced the City Mayor. (£50.00 per couple), with those adults in full-time education free of charge and the children, up to the age of Now, on to Ralli Hall, but staying with Chanukah. On eighteen, of paid-up adult members, also free of charge. the Tuesday prior to the first night of Chanukah, Ralli The Membership Renewal Application Forms were sent Hall hosted the Annual Chanukah Lunch put on by the out at the beginning of January along with a covering letter Ralli Hall Lunch and Social Club in the Great Hall. I was from Maxine, plus details of current activities, both Jewish working out of town, so was unable to attend but I was Community and commercial, held at the Centre. later told that no less than 108 lunches were served that day and that the whole event was a great success, with The cost of maintaining and running our magnificent a very tasty Chanukah meal cooked by our indomitable Grade 2 Listed building is, as I am sure you all realise, Chef, Dave (from Hyman Fine House). I was very pleased not insignificant - details of our annual income and to hear that it was so successful and that so many people expenditure are available on the Internet as we are a attended and enjoyed the day. Registered Charity and also from the office to paid-up members. It would be most appreciated if more of the This is what Ralli Hall is all about – Jewish activities taking Jewish Community became members of the Trust, if only place at the Jewish Centre, at a cost far lower than would to support your only independent Centre for the benefit of be the case if the accommodation had to be hired on us all – just phone the office for a Membership Application the open market, due to our policy of funding the Centre Form. mainly by means of room lets, both to the commercial market and also to the local Jewish Community. We In the meantime, I look forward to seeing you at Ralli Hall. would, of course, welcome more Jewish activities at the Centre, so if you wish to discuss your upcoming simchas, meetings or other activities, suitable to be held at Ralli Hall, please do not hesitate to contact Maxine Gordon, our Centre Manager, preferably by phoning on 01273 202254.
Hyman Fine House Last, but not least, thank you to our friends’ volunteers by Natasha Carson, Manager and Pearl Winston, Resident. and the Rabbis who have helped us to celebrate Pearl Winston, a resident at Hyman Fine House, reflects Chanukah. on the wonderful Mitzvah Day performance from the If you feel inspired by Pearl’s words and would like to meet Reform Synagogue Cheder: our residents and learn more about their lives, they would Many, many years ago I went to Habonim every Thursday be really happy to talk to you. One of the ways volunteers evening at the Harley Street Shul in Bow. When the help us is by capturing people’s memories and life stories. Reform Cheder came here and sang on Mitzvah Day it If you would like to learn more about volunteering in the reminded me of those lovely times. Seeing the lovely home, please contact Natasha or Mark on 01273 688226. decorations, meeting the children – it was lovely. They sang the same songs that we used to when we were their age, although, of course, we were much more old fashioned! Things are more modern now. We used to be given a piece of cardboard with a pattern on it to take home and build bricks for Israel – I used to love it. Rushing home from school, quickly eating tea, then going out with my brothers, it was terrific. Seeing children brings back so many happy memories. We find that music is a great way of uniting generations, bringing back memories and creating new ones. Yes, we like the old-time sing-alongs but we also like to try new things. Recently we hosted a Samba Group, a very stylish Classical duo and an afternoon of original performances by students from the Access to Music Brighton Academy.
ISSUE 271 | FEBRUARY 2017 6 Sussex and the City 7 Who will win the Israel Prize? The Film Club’s next offering will be an Israeli film called ‘Footnote (103 mins). It will be shown at Ralli Hall on Sunday 26 February at the usual time of 7.30 pm (but arrive by 7.15 pm for sign-in). The story is about the rivalry between a father and son, both eccentric professors in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The son has an addictive dependency on the accolades that the establishment provides, while his father is a stubborn brings these two to a final, bitter confrontation. The film is in purist with a fear and profound revulsion for what the Hebrew with English subtitles. establishment stands for, yet beneath his contempt lies a We only ask for a small donation on the door (£4 - £5 desperate thirst for some kind of recognition. The Israel Prize, suggested) but it’s free for students and for members of Ralli Israel’s most prestigious national award, is the jewel that Hall. Two Sisters by Gail Louw It has some great reviews from its run, in LA, at the beginning This is the first play that Gail is actually directing - a great of last year where it was called ‘an exquisite play’ and experience, working with two wonderful actresses; Norma ‘breathtaking’. Cohen and Anne Kavanagh. Two Sisters will be performed at the Rialto Theatre, Brighton The play is set in Israel in 2001, and is loosely based on her on 8 and 9 February at 8.00 pm. For more information or to mother and aunt. It is a joyous and heartwarming account of book tickets, please ring 01273 725230 or visit the theatre the different lives of two siblings who meet up in later life and website at www.rialtotheatre.co.uk/whats-on/theatre-events/ discover a shocking secret. twosisters
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Esther by Jilliana Ranicar-Breese There were about 12 of us, like had both lived in Rome in the 1960s, girlfriend had an emergency needing apostles, gathered round Ilya and however I had been teaching English an English-speaking script girl. Esther’s table, which was laden with for 1,000 lira an hour and getting Esther was invited along and her life typical Ashkenazi food. Memories into hot water through my innocence changed forever. of my Liverpool childhood flooded while she had been working in She met the love of her life: Fausto. back, as a Rachmaninov piano Cine Citta as a script girl and knew He lived in Rome, the centre of concerto played in the background. famous film stars and directors. the glamorous film industry in the The large extended table groaned Esther would talk about her past 1960s. It was La Dolce Vita and life under the weight of dishes of life as if it had happened the other was Fellini-esque! She followed her chopped liver, rollmop herrings, day. Her memory was as clear as heart and Fausto to Rome and left smoked salmon slices, latkes, a bell. And those affairs! Rossano her husband. The rest is unclear. coleslaw, pickled gherkins and dill Brazzi and Peter Finch to name a Something happened between them. cucumbers, chopped egg and Fausto abandoned her but she onion and the inevitable bagels. All loved him so much that she spent followed by brisket falling off the the next 25 years or so living in bone and accompanied by crisp Rome just to be near him. That roast potatoes and red cabbage. was one scenario she would not Washed down by shots of vodka discuss. She just said she told befitting a Russian queen. him something she should never have told him. She destroyed I only knew my hosts and lovely their passionate relationship with therapist Carla, who was originally words. She even knew when from Cape Town. All the other he had died after a long illness, guests I had heard about over the showing me the newspaper 25 years I had known my dear friend obituary she had been sent by a Esther Gravett-Pollicino-Lurje. lifelong friend in Rome. She lived We had all been invited to celebrate frugally on very little but I recall Esther’s life as she had passed that one of her dear friends left away almost a year earlier in March her a small inheritance. 2012, the same week as my ex- How, why and when she came husband’s funeral. It was too much to London in the 1970s is also emotionally after his funeral, to unclear. She had married an go from Brighton to London for Italian homosexual acquaintance the ‘Celebration of Her Life’ with to obtain an Italian passport couple, plus her lifelong friendship readings of her poetry. Ilya, her that would give her the right to with Robert Aldrich, the film director. cousin from Riga, Latvia, had kindly stay in Common Market England. She told me how she consoled Anita sent me the programme, which I Once there, she integrated into the Ekberg on her wedding night to would cherish with its black and Jewish South African ex-patriot Anthony Steele, who had left her to white portrait of Esther as she was community, most having left because go out drinking. Mamma Mia! Her in those days in the 1950s. A beauty of apartheid. Her closest friend was stories of the rich and famous. who could have been a film star. Red O’Shaunessy whom she had I originally met Esther the only time But how had Esther got into the known since her university days in I stalled out at the windy Monday movie world? A young Jewish Cape Town. They met weekly and Covent Garden flea market in girl originally from Moscow who she would always add the adjective London. I was a full-time antique emigrated with her parents to South ‘wonderful’ as she did when referring collectables dealer between London Africa just before the holocaust in to all her friends. war torn Europe. Later she would and Paris. I think it was 1980 and I I met Esther before I met my future marry an artist and sculptor called had just moved back to my flat in husband, Martin Breese. He and Bill Gravett and be an unconventional West Hampstead, seeing if I could Esther got along like a house on fire housewife until they moved first possibly live in the UK again after a because Martin, although a gentile, to Paris and then to the South few years of living in Paris. Esther was Jewish ‘by adoption’. He had of France. They mixed with the used to do the rounds of the flea grown up in Cape Town: his best intellectual crowd and Esther began markets but was hopeless as a friend, Brian Rakow, was Jewish. to write her poems. dealer, never making a profit. She Martin knew the community well either gave the object away as a One day, as they were close to the and loved Jewish humour, having gift or sold it at cost: people took Italian border - San Remo was the also experienced the weekly Friday advantage of her generosity. IN place to be for the movie stars, night ritual. Esther had an amazing Esther and I clicked because we producers and directors - an Italian repertoire of jokes and every week
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would phone me to tell me the latest gemütliche studio flat in Primrose I only ever saw Esther once after we ones. What a memory she had. Hill, London, which had been moved. Ilya and Esther brought her featured on the cover of a Conran to our house- warming party. After We would meet most Fridays after architectural design book. There that the phone calls stopped. Esther she had been ‘under the bridge’ was a wood construction of a study, was no longer the friend I had known at Portobello Road hunting for linking the desk and a ladder to for 25 years or so. That Esther had everything and nothing. It was her reach the bed on the top! The design gone. routine week in and out. Afterwards had won an award in the 1970s. The memory of her still lingers. I keep she would turn up at my house for Her Tuscany coloured walls were the cherished memorial programme her Russian tea served, bien sûr, in adorned with memorabilia from her on my mantelpiece along with other a glass, accompanied by biscuits or past. A multitude of ethnic hanging ephemera and memorabilia from my cake. necklaces were on display but the life. Esther is still with me in spirit and prominent feature was a large framed Esther was une femme sans âge. I think of her fondly. She cannot be sepia photograph of her Russian I gave up asking how old she replaced. There was only one Esther. was because she refused to say. parents frozen in time gazing out at She would always talk about her her visitors. And so we all sat around the table toasting Esther’s good health with wonderful friends. Percy the architect One day I received a formal invitation glasses of vodka and looking up was one name I recall as well as for Esther’s 80th birthday party. Of to the ceiling. I finally met Percy, many others, mainly writers and course I went and finally met Ilya, her Red and the other familiar names. artists, but somehow I never met cousin and his wife Esther. My Esther Everyone knew who I was. Then them. I seemed to be in a special proudly went around announcing she Ilya asked each of us to recall an friendship compartment, excluded had reached the grand old age of 80. ‘Esther’ story. I recalled how she had from the others. Her secret was out! enthused over all her dear friends She had the secret ingredient for A friendship developed with Ilya and calling them all wonderful. Had she, her delicious hamischer borscht Esther over the years but then Martin by chance, said I was wonderful too? soup: ginger! Served with rye bread and I moved to Brighton. A new Yes, everyone chorused. She had! at her long table in her flat. It was a life for us far from noisy, polluted, treat to be invited to her interesting expensive and trendy Notting Hill.
Jerusalem MARTIN GROSS by Kitty K. Arscott Funeral Director and Speak to me of Jerusalem, the place Funeral Consultant I want to be! to Jewish communities The white stone, purple-shadowed Alleyways I so long to see. 01273 439792 Speak to me of sites of old their history which enthrals, 07801 599771 the ancient Digs, Suliman’s city walls.
Speak to me of Jerusalem the way it’s risen once more, the people past and present who fought for it in war. Despite all adversity, you’ve triumphed against Your pain, O Jerusalem, Shalom! Soon the day will come When I embrace you once again… Kitty K. Arscott is a local author who has recently written a novel, Dare to Love, which is available from Amazon.co.uk and completelynovel.com
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And Then They Came for Me is a unique experience…a multimedia play that combines videotaped interviews with Holocaust survivors Eva Schloss and Ed Silverberg, with live actors recreating scenes from their lives as teenagers during WW ll.
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Part oral history, part drama action, part remembrance, this play brings to life what happened after The Diary of Anne Frank ends. The ensemble-driven play breaks new ground and has been acclaimed by audiences and critics in world-wide productions.
‘After the war, people said it would never happen again, and people didn’t want to talk about it—it was something that happened, let’s forget about it, now we live in a different life. What happened in Bosnia and what’s happening in many other places…we’re still doing the same thing and again the world just looks on.’ --Eva Schloss TICKET £5 including refreshments. For Ticket Sales please call TICKET HOTLINE on 01273-557755
ISSUE 271 | FEBRUARY 2017 Culture 11 Jewish Book Week he 2017 Jewish Book Week Festival Azriel Bermant’s Dan Cruickshank: will be held from 25 February until 5 Margaret Thatcher Spitalfields: The TMarch at Kings Place, 90 York Way, and the Middle History of a Nation London N1 9AG. The organisers hope that East presents a in a Handful of this festival will challenge our views on fresh analysis of Streets looks at history, religion, genetic inheritance and Britain’s role in religious strife, civil the economy. They claim that boundaries the Middle East, conflict, waves of have been crossed to bring us “a based on recently immigration, the rise multitude of voices examining the world’s declassified papers. and fall of industry, political, social, and cultural fault lines”. Bermant questions great prosperity and claims that the grinding poverty. To provide an insight into the festival, Prime Minister The handful of we would suggest that you obtain a sought to counter streets that constitute modern Spitalfields full catalogue of the events and times the Foreign Office’s Middle East policy, have witnessed all this and more. In a from the jewishbookweek.com web site. and maintains that Thatcher was in close fascinating evocation of one of London’s However, to give our readers an idea agreement with the Whitehall bureaucracy most distinctive districts, Dan Cruickshank of the range of books and topics being on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Thatcher is tells the story of the people who have discussed we have extracted details of a revealed to be at odds with Reagan’s lived there from Roman times right up to few of the 68 events that are spread out administration over key issues and a new the present, describing the transformation over the eight days. angle is offered on the debate surrounding of the Spitalfields he first encountered in Anne Sebba’s the legacy of the Balfour Declaration and the 1970s – a war-damaged collection compelling the British Mandate in Palestine. Azriel of semi-derelict houses – to the vibrant new book, Les will be in conversation with journalist and community it is today. In conversation with Parisiennes: How editor Stephen Pollard. author Rachel Lichtenstein. the Women of Paris Maureen Lipman is a magnet on stage, In his thought-provoking new work, Lived, Loved and drawing all eyes to The Left’s Jewish Died in the 1940s, her. A woman of Problem: Jeremy investigates the many gifts, Maureen Corbyn, Israel and lives of women also has an active Anti-Semitism, in this most professional life Dave Rich offers a feminine of cities off-stage as both judicious analysis of during years of writer and journalist, the Left’s increasingly fear, courage, and with her controversial deprivation, secrets entertaining new ‘Jewish problem’. and, finally, renewal and retribution. Her book of caricatures He examines the fascinating cast includes Americans, of the famous, It’s widening gulf Nazis, writers, painters, journalists, a Jungle Out There, between British Jews couturiers, spies, collaborators, mothers she demonstrates and the anti-Israel left and, based on and mistresses. her inventive artistic skills. She talks to fresh academic research, demonstrates In enthralling detail Sebba explores the broadcaster Sue MacGregor. that while the election of Jeremy Corbyn aftershock of WW2. How did women who may have thrown a harsher spotlight Michael Rosen’s new book is The survived to see the Liberation of Paris on the crisis, it is by no means a recent Disappearance of come to terms with their actions and phenomenon. In conversation with Émile Zola: Love, those of others? Although politics lies journalist Nick Cohen. Literature and the at its heart, Les Parisiennes is the first Dreyfus Case. It is Avner Offer: Burn Mark: A Photographic in-depth account of the everyday lives of the evening of 18 Memoir of the Six Day War is an women and young girls. July 1898 and the extraordinary work, assembled in 1968 by Ariane Bois is one of France’s leading world-renowned Avner Offer, Oxford Professor of Economic journalists. She novelist Émile History and a former soldier in the Six- talks about France Zola is on the run. Day War. It is published for the first time. and her latest novel, His crime? Taking Evoking the intimacy of a small unit in the award-winning on the highest wartime, with its moral dilemmas and life Le gardien de nos powers in the and death experiences, the photographs frères, a story of land with his open bear witness to some of the most highly two brave young letter “J’accuse” charged moments of the war. A selection heroes who fight – and losing. In this little-known story of his pictures won the first prize in an to save Jewish of Zola’s forced flight into exile, writer exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in children in WW2 and broadcaster Michael Rosen traces 1968. Professor Offer is in conversation Paris. She will be Zola’s footsteps from the Gare du Nord to with author and journalist Matti Friedman. in conversation with London, examining the significance of this Jonathan Fenby, year, thereby offering an intriguing insight author of The into the mind, loves, politics and works of History of Modern France. the great French writer.
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Tu B’Shvat by Rabbi Hershel Rader The fifteenth of Shvat is known as the New Year for Furthermore, the roots must keep pace with the body: if Trees. Originally this was the beginning of the year for the trunk and leaves of a tree grow and spread without tithing produce of the tree. Just as we have a Tax Year a proportional increase in its roots, the tree will collapse commencing on the sixth of April so, in the times of under its own weight. On the other hand, a profusion of the Temple when a tenth of all produce was given to roots makes for a healthier, stronger tree, even if it has the Levite, the fifteenth of Shvat saw the beginning of a a small trunk and few branches, leaves and fruit. If the new ‘tithing year’ for fruits. In more recent times people roots are sound, the tree will rejuvenate itself if its body mark this day by eating fruit and planting trees. is damaged or its branches cut off. The Torah tells us that ‘man is a tree of the field’ Faith is the least glamorous of our spiritual faculties. (Deuteronomy 20:19) Characterised by a simple conviction and commitment to one’s Creator, it lacks the sophistication of the The tree’s primary components are: the roots, which intellect, the vivid colour of the emotions or the sense anchor it to the ground and supply it with water and of satisfaction that comes from deed. Faith is buried other nutrients; the trunk, branches and leaves which underground, its true extent concealed from others comprise its body; and the fruit, which contains the and, sometimes, even from ourselves. seeds by which the tree reproduces itself. Yet our faith, our supra-rational commitment to G-d, The spiritual life of man also includes roots, a body and is the foundation of our entire tree. From it stems the fruit. The roots represent faith, our source of nurture trunk of our understanding, from which branch out and perseverance. The trunk, branches and leaves our feelings, motivations and deeds. It was this faith are the body of our spiritual lives - our intellectual, that made Abraham the first Jew, what makes us his emotional and practical achievements. The fruit is our descendants and what we must pass on to our children power of spiritual procreation - the power to influence to ensure the continuation of our people. others, to plant a seed in a fellow human being and see it sprout, grow and bear fruit.
Roots and Body The roots are the least glamorous of the tree’s parts – yet they are also the most crucial. Buried underground, virtually invisible, they possess neither the majesty of the tree’s body, the colour of its leaves or the tastiness of its fruit. But without roots, a tree cannot survive.
THE LUNCH & SOCIAL CLUB Vintage Tea & Entertainer At Ralli Hall 81 Denmark Villas Hove SUNDAY 26th February 2017
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Rabbi Lionel Blue, z’’l, 1930-2016 by Rabbi Dr Andrea Zanardo Like many Jews throughout the He listened to our questions and always managed to speak world, I am saddened because to our hearts, addressing the frustrations of enthusiastic of the departure of Rabbi Lionel students when dealing with real life, and the bit of madness Blue. Rabbi Blue had a special which is so peculiar to Jewish institutions. connection with our city and with Lionel Blue was a great Rabbi and a great listener. He was our shul. In his student years, he the soft spoken, gentle voice we used to listen to on Radio 4; used to visit and lead services in and whom we all miss. And, of course, the author of inspiring, Brighton for the small group of and ironic, books about Judaism. Rabbi Lionel Blue was also founders of the then Brighton and a brave pioneer of interfaith activity. Among many things, he Hove New Synagogue, now Reform. was very active in the yearly interfaith encounters which were Over the last few weeks, many Jewish personalities, writers held in Germany. Started as Jewish-Christian, they became and journalists and Rabbis have been sharing stories and (because of his pressures) Jewish-Christian-Muslim. There, anecdotes from his life or told by him. But I have never been a Rabbinical students, pastors in training, and Muslim young good storyteller, and I don’t have many stories to share. leaders convene from all over Europe, and spend a week I had the honour and the privilege of being one of Lionel together, hosting each other to their services. Blue’s students, during my first year at Leo Baeck College. Each year a different, and difficult, topic such as (in my years) Ours had been one of his last classes, as he was near to violence, or the role of women, is analysed and debated. retirement. I learned so much from him. In fact, I find myself Most of the discussions are conducted in small groups, and quoting almost on a daily basis. I often repeat to myself, and real and lasting friendship have been born across the religious to Jews from different denominations, that Judaism should divide. be a spiritual home, not a prison, “as my teacher Rabbi Lionel Throughout my year of Rabbinical studies, Sara and I have Blue used to say” (and I dare to add, that the Halacha should been involved in the Jewish-Christian-Muslim Interfaith week. be the map of such a home). Meeting with Lionel Blue was very similar to the interfaith When I am asked about God, I often replied that, “My teacher encounters on which he was so keen. At its start, these were Rabbi Lionel Blue taught us that God is neither a Father nor a light-hearted experience, full of irony and wit. Afterwards, a Mother. In this time and age, it is difficult to imagine God as we always realised the deep impact it had on us, and looked a parent. It is more appropriate to think of God as probably forward to coming back to them. an imaginary friend, like the one he had as a child, whom he Much like the story of the Chassid who travels for weeks, and used to call Fred”. lives next to his Rebbe, only to learn how the Rebbe ties his I came to Leo Baek College full of passion for Judaism. Rabbi shoelace. I have learned much more from this extraordinary Lionel Blue had taught me and other students, to love the Rabbi of our time. May his memory be a blessing. Jewish people, including those local customs, minhagim and particularities (such as wishing “long life” in moments of sadness) that I had not been in touch with previously. I cannot even explain how such a transformation happened. This was certainly not because of learning in the academic way. There were no assignments, essays, or evaluations in Rabbi Blue’s classes. We talked to him and, mainly, we listened to him.
Bulletin Board – February 2017 &RIDAY Kuddle Up Toddler Group, 10.30 am Saturday 4 Book Club – Kibbutz by Joseph Birchall, 9.15 am 2nd Bar Mitzvah for Ivor Sorokin, 10.30 am Sunday 5 Community Tea, 2.30 pm Friday 10 Kuddle Up Toddler Group Tu B’shvat Party, 10.30 am Saturday 11 Tu B’shvat Rabbi’s Shiur – Rules & Legends of Tu B’shvat, 9.00 am Shabbat Doroteinu, 10.30 am Lamed session – Tu B’shvat Seder followed by Havdalah, 3.30 am Sunday 12 Cheder Half Term Friday 17 Shabbat Kolot, 6.30 pm Saturday 18 Shabbaton, 10.30 am Sunday 19 Cheder Half Term BHRS Quiz Night and Supper, 6.30 pm Saturday 25 Rabbi’s Shiur – Rules & Legends of Purim, 9.00 am Shoot the Rabbi – Q&A Session, 10.30 am Ta Sh’ma – morning discussion group 14-18yrs, 10.30 am Sunday 26 Cheder Chavurah Lunch, 12.00 pm Tuesday 28 Rosh Chodesh
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Just Words “Who is there that can tell me who I am?” (King Lear) by Dr. J. Rubin “Will you write something for the SJN?” The question calls and diverse identities – not just one fixed identity. And of for an answer, a response and for the ability to respond course, skin colour, race, and religion lead to dangerous responsibly. identity classifications and when taken to extremes, these identities produce horrific events, which occur almost daily Words like just, response and identity, have a diversity world-wide. of meeting and consequence. A number of people in the ‘News’ are currently being called to account to official You may identify me as old, but let me tell you, I used to be inquiries to take responsibility for alleged wrongdoing and young. My identity has indeed changed several times; ‘Didn’t corrupt practices. Their words and their role or identity are you used to be Dr. Rubin?’ Hazel used to be known as ‘Dr. being exposed, with dramatic intensity, to the public gaze. Rubin’s wife’, but soon I became known as ‘Hazel’s husband’. Words, thoughts, concepts and ideas may lead to horrific I was born in South Africa, not Scotland as some of you events, such as those have seen in Norway some years ago imagine. Both my parents were born in Lithuania, so we are of by a single deluded man with a fantasised identity and a Litvak origin. I find identity labels are abhorrent. What matters colossal, violent destiny. People are found in many places; is what kind of person you are. Kind or unkind? in Parliament, in the police and in business and media organisations, relatively few in number, but they make the We are responsible and accountable for the words we ‘News’ in the invasion of personal privacy known as ‘hacking’ choose. We are free to choose, but from that choice there is or cutting into mobile phones and computers. More obviously, no escape. By understanding words like just, responsibility leaders of nations like Syria may think they are all powerful, and identity, we learn what matters in life. Just words have a or even The Almighty, whereas they are just, or only, mortal. wealth of meaning. They are not just, fair and equitable. (First published in the magazine of Hove Hebrew ‘Who do I think I am?’ This is the question Shakespeare’s Congregation 5772 - September 2011) King Lear asks as he becomes old and frail and can no longer fulfil the role expected; his identity has changed. People retire from their paid job as a plumber, nurse, civil servant or whatever, but they continue with their unpaid hobbies or interests as a gardener, golfer, artist etc.. They have changing
The Comfort of Strangers by Dr. Joe Rubin Little did I think that my occasional contribution to the We all know individual life is finite. Inevitably there is Holland Road Shul publications, would lead to an invitation to irreversible failure of vital function and death. But life goes on write for the SJN. and the relatives and friends wish the bereaved ‘Long Life’. A personal ‘event’ some years ago may be worth recall. Understanding, consolation, and sympathy help us cope Experience, is not what happens to you; it is what you do with with our vulnerability and mortal existence. Experience, what happens. What befell me, happens to others. awareness, of the misfortune of others, and what can happen to us, should add to the common pool of kindness and Sudden black-out, collapse, loss of conscious - I required an goodwill. electric shock for my old heart to restore its function. To cut the story short, I tell anyone enquiring about my health that I cope with Aids. Yes, aids - an aid to hear with, an aid to walk, and a pacemaker to regulate my heart. And I take the pills. Voluntary Support Agencies s 2ALLI (ALL ,UNCH 3OCIAL #LUB $AY #ENTRE We, all of us, depend on the care, on the concern of others 01273 739999 [email protected] when required. We need the comfort of strangers. Because s .ORWOOD4IKVAH 2ACHEL -AZZIER (OUSE paramedics were quickly available and soon hospital staff, a cardiac surgeon and many others, I am still here. s (YMAN &INE (OUSE s (ELPING (ANDS HELPING HANDS HELPING HANDSORG Nothing is more precious than life. With good fortune there s "RIGHTON (OVE *EWISH 7ELFARE "OARD OR are good people at hand to help, to comfort and to care for [email protected]; website: www.bhjwb.org others. “To Love Thy Neighbour As Thyself” is the Golden s "RIGHTON (OVE *EWISH (OUSING !SSOCIATION BAHJHA GOOGLEMAILCOM Rule of almost all religions and many creeds. If only it applied universally there would be no human conflict and no war! Very s 7ELFARE AT "RIGHTON (OVE 0ROGRESSIVE 3YNAGOGUE,CHAIM PROJECT sadly, hostility to others is most often encountered. 737223 s 7ELFARE /FlCER AT "RIGHTON (OVE 2EFORM 3UE 2OSENlELD Nevertheless, the precept, the instruction to help others and s *EWISH #OMMUNITY #ENTRE AT 2ALLI (ALL 6ARIOUS COMMUNAL ACTIVITIES to have help ourselves in need, is the paramount condition for 01273 202254 or [email protected] human survival and continuity.
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Tu Bishvat: A Call To Environmental Responsibility by Rabbi Elli Tikvah Sarah Tu Bishvat, the fifteenth day of the month of Sh’vat, set aside in the Mishnah (Rosh Ha-Shanah 1:1) as the New Year for Events@BHPS Trees, falls this year on Shabbat, 10th/11th of February. In addition to planting trees, it has become customary to hold a Lectures and Lunches Tu Bishvat Seder, which centres on eating the seven species Join us for Sundays with a diference. Lectures by associated with the land of Israel – wheat, barley, grape, fig, experts in their felds, followed by lunch. Tickets cost £20 pomegranates, olive (oil), and date (honey) (Deuteronomy and include welcome drink, lecture and lunch. 8:8) – and/or fifteen different fruits, in honour of the date. The BHPS Seder will be held on February 11th (1-2.30 pm), so do 26 February - Sydney Anglo, FBA – Great Pianists of the contact the office if you’d like to attend. 20th Century Professor Anglo, Emeritus Professor in the History of In recent years, Tu Bishvat has also become an opportunity Ideas, University of Swansea, has written many books on to acknowledge our responsibility for the environment. There early-modern intellectual history and is now completing a are different ways we can do this, including re-committing history of 20th-century piano playing. His talk will explore ourselves to recycling and reducing our carbon footprint. the difficulties of the subject and will offer examples of Inspired by the Confession recited on Yom Kippur, two recordings. The great teacher Leschetizky (1830-1915) used veteran Israeli rabbis – Rabbi Mordechai Rotem and Rabbi to ask prospective pupils: “Were you a child prodigy? Are you Yehoram Mazor – who served the Israel Movement for of Slavic descent? Are you a Jew?” How pertinent were these Progressive Judaism (IMPG) composed an Environmental questions and have they remained so? Confession, which they wrote as a Hebrew acrostic. I invite you to recite it this Tu Bishvat. 30 April - Barry Hyman-The story of Marks and Spencer 1984-1965 s 7E HAVE WRAPPED 9OUR WORLD IN FOG SMOKE AND SOOT Barry Hyman is the retired Head of Media and Public s 7E HAVE WASTED THE NATURAL RESERVES WE RECEIVED BY WAY OF Relations at M&S. a deposit. Time s 7E HAVE STOLEN THE VISTAS OF THE SKIES WITH UGLY Sessions begin at 11.30 am with a welcome drink on arrival. construction. The lecture will begin at noon. Lunch will be served from s 7E HAVE DECIMATED THE POPULATION OF WILD ANIMALS THROUGH 1.00 pm. Lunch includes wine or a soft drink, followed by our negligence. coffee. Vegetarian, permitted fish or other special dietary s 7E HAVE BROKEN THE COVENANT OF BALANCE BETWEEN HUMAN requirements. Tickets must be purchased at least two weeks and nature. in advance from Event Brite at www.eventbrite.co.uk and s 7E HAVE ABANDONED THE TASK OF ENSURING THAT OUR CHILDREN searching for the event or by ringing the office 01273 737223. enjoy a decent environment. Tickets must be shown at the door. BHPS is fully wheelchair s 7E HAVE POLLUTED LAND AIR AND WATER accessible. s 7E HAVE PERFORATED THE OZONE LAYER THAT EMBRACES OUR Open Wednesdays world. s 7E HAVE SULLIED WATER SOURCES WITH OUR REFUSE BHPS is open every Wednesday from 11 am – 4 pm for social s 7E HAVE CREATED MOUNTAINS OF GARBAGE IN OUR YARDS AND IN activities. These include scrabble, chess, bridge, exercise classes, computer training, access to the library knitting the desert. and weaving. Please bring a packed lunch (vegetarian or s 7E HAVE CUT DOWN ETERNAL FORESTS FOR SHORT TERM PROlT permitted fish). Hot drinks are available. Ring the office for s 7E HAVE DIRTIED NATURAL SITES AND LANDSCAPES BEACHES further details if you would like to join us. paths, and peaks. s 7E HAVE MORTGAGED THE FUTURE OF 9OUR WORLD THROUGH OUR Friday Night Onagim apathy and lack of vision. Erev Shabbat Service 7.30 pm followed by a talk. s 7E HAVE SELlSHLY EXPLOITED THE VERY LAST GIFTS OF NATURE Forthcoming topics include: s 7E HAVE ENDANGERED THE WORLDS EXISTENCE BY NUCLEAR 10 February Josie Spiegel on Jewish traces in contemporary weapons. Dutch s 7E HAVE UPROOTED BIRDS FROM THEIR NESTING PLACES AND migration routes. 10 March Mahmut Gunaydin, Director of the Brighton Branch s 7E HAVE SLASHED THROUGH MOUNTAIN SLOPES WITH QUARRIES of the Dialogue Society, on the society’s work. Please see s 7E HAVE SORROWED 9OU AND 9OUR #REATION WITH OUR LACK OF www.dialoguesociety.org responsibility. Access to Hebrew and Exploring Judaism Classes s 7E HAVE PICKED WILDmOWERS THAT HAVE NOW BECOME EXTINCT s 7E HAVE TRAMPLED HAUGHTILY OVER lELDS AND CROPS Access to Hebrew class. – Saturday 1.00-2.00 pm s 7E HAVE BURNED FOREST TREES ON THE ALTAR OF OUR HATRED Exploring Judaism – Saturday 2.15 – 3.45pm s 7E HAVE INDUSTRIALIZED 9OUR WORLD AT THE EXPENSE OF THE 4 February Kippah, Tallit & T’fillin quality of air and water. 11 February Tu Bishvat Seder s &OR ALL THESE 'OD OF PARDON 0ARDON US &ORGIVE US !TONE for us. 18 February M’zuzah, Kashrut & Jewish Particularity s 7E HAVE EXPLOITED 9OUR TREASURES AND WE HAVE BEEN FOUND 25 February The Calendar & the cycle of the months unworthy. For full details of all BHPS activities see our website. From confession to action: May Tu Bishvat inspire us to repair the world. Tu Bishvat Samei’ach!
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REGULAR ACTIVITIES SHABBAT SHALOM – BRIGHTON TIMES Mondays In Light Candles Out Havdalah ¢ Lunch & Learn with Rabbi Efune 12.30 - 1.30 pm at the Brighton Fri 3 4.38 pm Sat 4 5.50 pm Hillel Centre, 66/67 Middle Street, Brighton. Tel: 01273 321919 Fri 10 4.51 pm Sat 11 6.01 pm ¢ Afternoon Club with tea 1.30 pm. Ralli Hall Tel: Reba 01444 Fri 17 5.03 pm Sat 18 6.13 pm 484839 Fri 24 5.15 pm Sat 25 6.24 pm ¢ Rubber and Duplicate Bridge 1.30 pm - 4.30 pm £4.00 + £1.00 transport Ralli Hall. Tel: Reba 01444 484839 NOTABLE DATES ¢ Contemporary Basic Talmud with Rabbi Efune. Men only. 8.15 Saturday 11 Tu B’Shevat / New Year for Trees pm at Chabad House 01273 321919 ¢ Torah & Tea with Penina Efune. Personalising Prayer – an in-depth EVENTS IN FEBRUARY look at the Morning Prayers and their relevance and meaning for our lives. Enjoy herbal teas and delicious snacks. All ladies welcome. Sunday 5 8.00 pm at Chabad House 01273 321919 ¢ Helping Hands Community Tea 2.30 – 4.30 pm AJEX Centre, Eaton Road, Hove ¢ SARID (Association of Jewish Refugees) meets every 3rd Monday of the month at 10.45 am, Ralli Hall. £1.50 Tel: 0208 385 Monday 6 3070 or email [email protected] ¢ Sussex Jewish News – Submission deadline for the March 2017 issue. Send your articles, thoughts, photos and announcements to sjneditor@ Tuesdays sussexjewishnews.com or [email protected] ¢ Ralli Hall Lunch and Social Club 10.30 am - 4.30 pm Wednesday 8 4EL *ACQUELINE 7EEKLY 2ALLI (ALL ¢ Holocaust Memorial Day - at the University of Sussex, 13.15 – 18.00. ¢ Painting with Rochelle (JAS) Studio at Ralli Hall, 2.00 – 4.00 pm. This event open to all, however booking is essential as seating is Tel: 07811 601106 limited. Book your place now for this event: http://www.sussex. ¢ Chutzpah Choir Yiddish singing in 4 parts with Polina Shepherd. ac.uk/cgjs/hmd AM n PM WEEKLY &OR (OVE VENUE CONTACT ¢ Two Sisters’ new play by Gail Louw at Rialto Theatre, Dyke Road, [email protected] or ring Betty on 01273 474795 Brighton 8.00pm Phone 01273 72523 or go online at www. rialtotheatre.co.uk/whats-on/theatre-events/two-sisters ¢ Israeli Dancing 7.45 pm - 9.45 pm Ralli Hall. Tel: Jacky 01273 688538 Thursday 9 ¢ JACS members are invited to the Ralli Hall Lunch & Social Club. Tel: Wednesdays Jacqueline 01273 739999 ¢ Eastbourne Liberal Jewish Congregation afternoon tea at the ¢ Two Sisters’ new play by Gail Louw at Rialto Theatre, Dyke Road, #AVENDISH (OTEL 'RAND 0ARADE %ASTBOURNE AT PM n ON THE lRST Brighton 8.00pm Phone 01273 72523 or go online at www. 7EDNESDAY OF EVERY MONTH rialtotheatre.co.uk/whats-on/theatre-events/two-sisters ¢ Comedian Ashley Baker - new tour, Meshuga Frum, comes to the Thursdays Komedia Theatre, Gardner Street, Brighton. Tickets £20 Phone0845 ¢ Mummy and Me Goes Sensory (0-2 yrs) at Montessori Nursery 293 8480 from 11.30 am to 1.00 pm. Enjoy a stimulating and engaging Monday 20 environment, healthy snacks, meaningful discussions and music ¢ SARID (Association of Jewish Refugees) David Barnett ‘The Story of time! Joseph Nathan’ at 10.45 am Ralli Hall, Denmark Villas, Hove (£1.50). ¢ Ralli Hall Lunch and Social Club AM PM 7EEKLY Tel: 0208 385 3070 or email [email protected] Tel: Jacqueline 01273 739999 RH
Sunday 26 ¢ JACS MEMBERS ARE INVITED ON THE lRST 4HURSDAY OF EVERY MONTH TO ¢ Vintage Tea and entertainer at Ralli Hall, Denmark Villas, Hove 2.45 – the RHL&SC Tel: Jacqueline 01273 739999 RH 4.45 pm ¢ Bridge at Ralli Hall 11.00 am ¢ presents ‘Footnote’ at Ralli Hall, 7.00 pm for Sussex Jewish Film Club ¢ Weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Efune - men and ladies welcome 7.30 pm. Drinks available - 8.15 - 9.15 pm at Chabad House. 01273 321919 Tuesday 28 Fridays ¢ Jewish Historical Society of England - Sussex Branch. with guest speaker Dr Rosa Vidal Doval on From Solomon ha-Levi to Pablo de ¢ Kuddle Up Shabbat parent & child playgroup with Sara Zanardo Santa Maria (c. 1350-1435), Ralli Hall, Denmark Villas, Hove 7.45 pm. and her guitar 10.00 am – 11.30 am AJEX Centre Members free, non/members £4.00. Contact: amcrook321@gmail. ¢ Eastbourne Liberal Jewish Congregation service on the 4th com or ring 01273 776539 or [email protected] or ring &RIDAY OF EACH MONTH 7263 (YDE 2OAD %ASTBOURNE PM 01273 419415 Saturdays IMPORTANT INFORMATION ¢ Eastbourne Hebrew Congregation Shabbat services at 22 For visitors using a satellite navigation system in their vehicle. Susans Road, Eastbourne, 10.00 am. Contact 01323 484135 or 07739 082538 JEWISH CEMETERY, MEADOWVIEW, BRIGHTON The post code for this cemetery is BN2 4DE ¢ Eastbourne Liberal Jewish Congregation afternoon services 2.30 - 5.00 pm, CTK Church Hall, Langney Roundabout, Eastbourne JEWISH CEMETERY, OLD SHOREHAM ROAD, HOVE The post code for this cemetery is BN3 7EF.
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