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Norrice 020 8455 8126 News & Views from Hampstead Garden Suburb Synagogue Leader Pesach 5781/2021 swxc PesachThe 5781/2021 1 Norrice 020 8455 8126 www.hgss.org.uk News & Views from Hampstead Garden Suburb Synagogue Leader Pesach 5781/2021 Purim Unmasked his year we enjoyed lively Purim cele- brations from the comfort of our own homes. We were able to relax and enjoy spectacular live entertainment by the amazing band, Neshama, led by one of Tour own, Jonny Shine. We were able to dance along to hits from the 60s to the 80s featuring, particularly, the Beatles – well, not quite the words we are used to thanks to lyrics from Adam Bass and Simon Maurice as well as the usual Purim suspects, Claire Rosen, Simon Durkin, David Mass with a star role from Rabbi Friedman await the return of partying so that they can celebrate who put on the annual themed Purim Spiel. Celebrants in style. were invited to compete for best Purim costume. We received messages from Chazan Avromi and Announced by judges Hilary Halter and David both Rabbis with a special song, Imagine, performed Galuan, the winners, Naomi & Andrew Newman were by Rabbi Friedman. Our community enjoyed this live, rewarded with a basket of fruit from Leon’s. musical event with many conveying their thanks for During the Purim Unmasked event, the beaming at least some feeling of the joy of Purim, and here’s faces of 26 bar/batmitzvah boys and girls were to hoping for a live celebration next year in the Max broadcast to celebrate with simcha music whilst we Weinbaum Hall. Seniors’ Tea n Monday afternoon, 22 February, Norrice Seniors Oenjoyed a delicious Purim-themed tea which had been delivered in advance, while listening to a talk entitled The Petticoat Lane Foxtrot by Alan Dein, who recounted stories of ‘Yiddishe Jazz’ in London’s East End during the 1920’s to 50’s. Organised by Ann Goldstein and Rabbi Guttentag, this was a wonderful opportunity to enjoy the sounds of the wonderful big bands of the time which had been preserved by Levy’s record shop in Petticoat Lane. 2 Pesach 5781/2021 Pesach 5781/2021 3 “You will see, you will see, how good it will be next year” The Chief Rabbi’s Pesach Message, Pesach 5781/2021 hy, at every Seder, do we enthusiastically INDEPENDENCE. sing, “leshana haba’ah biyrushalayim” – next the fact that we could not celebrate DIGNITY. CHOICE. Wyear in Jerusalem? Although we have made Pesach with extended friends and family as we usually the same declaration every year, it has never come do. It was agonising for so many, particularly those “ My diagnosis of MS was true – at least not in the messianic sense in which it who were vulnerable or lonely. We took comfort in our like a hammer blow but is intended – so why not simply say “In the future, we belief that this was a ‘one-off’ and next year would be will be in Jerusalem”? different. How then should we respond in the face of I am happier now living Any study of Jewish history is a study of hope, often yet another Pesach when so many are separated from here than I’ve ever been. despite apparently impossible odds. It is therefore fitting their loved ones, having not yet banished Coronavirus Especially in current that the epic story of the inception of the Israelites as a from our midst? times, there is nowhere nation, the Exodus from Egypt, stands among the greatest Let us approach this Pesach with the same degree illustrations of optimism and forbearance of all time. of hope and optimism as ever. Real progress is being else I would want to be.” It was a truly extraordinary miracle. The chasm in made and we are blessed by the extraordinary miracle Neil, Jewish Blind & Disabled resident status between the Egyptian overlords and the Hebrew that is the vaccine. Britain and Israel have led the world slaves could hardly have been greater. The most in administering its roll out and, Be’ezrat Hashem, we sophisticated and powerful civilisation on the planet will soon return to a more regular rhythm of life. controlled and persecuted a tiny nation of slaves, I am inspired by the beautiful words of Ehud who were denied every basic human dignity and any Manor, the Israeli songwriter, who wrote his famous capacity for resistance. song ‘Bashana Haba’a’, at a time when the State of What hope was there for salvation? On what basis Israel seemed to be surviving from one war to the next: could the people summon the strength to go on despite “Od tireh, od tireh, kama tov yihye, bashana, bashana everything? The answer is that they knew of the promise haba’a” – “You will see, you will see, how good it will that Hashem had made to their ancestor, Abraham, that be next year!” they would be strangers in a land where they would be Valerie and I extend to you all our warmest and best oppressed and enslaved, but He would ultimately wishes for a healthy, fulfilling and kosher Pesach. redeem them and they would return home to the Promised Land. Despite everything, they chose hope over despair. They chose to believe that salvation would eventually come. ENABLED This places Pesach 5781 into valuable context for us. This time last year, we were coming to terms with In this issue. Keeping the NHS nourished – Fabienne Viner-Luzzato SuburbLink – fighting local food poverty .........................4 and friends step up to the plate (plus recipes) ..........22 Pesach Message from Rabbi & Rabbanit Friedman ..........5 The Nefesh Network –Samantha Rose reports ...............24 Our Youth under lockdown .............................................5 The Aleph Centre at Chanukah .....................................24 HGSS Online – a round up of virtual events ....................6 The New Bar Mitzvah Programme ................................25 If you or anyone you From the Chair – James Kaufmann’s Pesach message .......7 Latest news from Kerem School ....................................26 know could benefit from Dr Leora Harverd speaks with Simone Halfin .................8 The Bat Mitzvah Programme under lockdown ...............26 Filling the Gap – Andrew Freedman interviews Hans Eysenck, Norrice Lea and the Jewish Question – living in a JBD apartment David Wolfson on his elevation to the Peerage .........10 a fascinating insight by Steve Miller ..........................27 or to support us, visit Kiddushim for those who care – Debbie Kagan reports .11 Feminism and Religion in the Three Abrahamic Faiths Volunteer Awards – HGSS members recognised ............12 report by Esther Tager ...............................................29 www.jbd.org or Mental Health Awareness by Katherine Isaacs ...............13 Passing on the Torch 2021 by Frances Martin ................30 From where I sit by Backbencher (Stephen Kirsch, 2002) ....31 Registered Charity No. 259480 call 020 8371 6611 Aliya Lite – David Lew writes from Israel .......................15 Being Jewish is a problem . What problem? Members Remembered .................................................32 Shimon Cohen on his travels in the Gulf States .........16 Freedom from lonelines this Pesach (from Jewish Care) .34 My experience with Project ImpACT by Sophia Lipton .17 SIMCHAS ! – Celebrating New Arrivals, Bar Mitzvah, ..35-37 Tzedakah at HGSS – Jewish Child’s Day & Migdal Ohr ...18 Bat Mitzvah, Engagements, Weddings, Anniversaries etc Purim Celebrations ..................................................20-21 Step Up Camps update and Purim Finale .......................38 4 Pesach 5781/2021 Pesach 5781/2021 5 . reaching out to the rest of the SuburbLink community to fight local food poverty Is it time to return to Shul? or the past three years, the SuburbLink has been their lives. This volunteering, on a weekly basis, for FEAST, a charity is exceptionally ask Rabbi & Rabbanit Friedman Faiming to feed vulnerable residents with nutritious and important during fresh meals, often using supermarket surplus ingredients. As the winter months e’ve just left Egypt, but the danger is not over like we’re doing nothing. Some of us are really engaged Sadiq Khan has declared London in a state of emergency, when temperat- yet. Standing on edge of the Red Sea, the with virtual shul activities. We’re zooming this and Egyptians are fast approaching from the rear. facebooking that. the number of people in need of their food parcels has risen ures have dropped W exponentially. Unfortunately, during this lockdown, we have below zero degrees Terrified, we turn to Moshe in despair. Moshe raises his But even still, we’re in the same place we were a year been unable to cook in the kitchen of Conway House where Our efforts are eyes Heavenward and God responds, “Why do you cry ago. It’s a place of uncertainty and inertia. The problem we normally volunteer. helping to tackle out to me? Tell the Children of Israel they should travel with our temporary solutions, however, is that, unlike our In order to combat food poverty at this time of emergency, London’s struggles against poverty by ensuring that everyone forth!” ancestors, there’s little pressure to get us out of our living we launched ‘Cook-In to Help Out for FEAST’. This incredible is provided with a warm and nutritious meal. We cannot Moshe conveys the Almighty’s message, but it makes rooms. But there comes a time when we must take the initiative involves asking volunteers to thank everyone in our community enough for their time no sense. How do we travel? The sea is raging before us. We look to our leader but no guidance is forthcoming. Nachshon plunge. The Almighty says, “Travel forth!” contribute about five to ten meals via and dedication, helping this project to be so successful. We But then, one man, Nachshon ben Aminadav takes a leap How do we know that He is calling us to proceed into our sign-up sheet. Every Thursday we are continuing the scheme until the end of March, at which of faith.
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