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Hooray Cheder PTA Fundraising Auction As part of the Chanukah Fair we are aiming to raise funds for the Cheder. This year we are holding an auction hopefully with some fantastic items. So if you can donate an item, a skill, vouchers, a promise of babysitting, gardening, a pilates John and Janet Posner (3rd and 4th from left in the back row) surrounded class or any such service, please by members of their extended family following the kiddush celebrating their let me know so we can include it golden wedding anniversary on 31 August, at which they were presented with in the auction. a golden rose by synagogue Chair, Michelle Brooks Evans. Please email Michelle at chair@ bromleyshul.org.uk Sukkot - In This Month’s Highlight סוכת Come and dwell in a tabernacle at View from the Chair ..........................2 Bromley Shul! Being Jewish Today ..........................2 We will celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) on Sunday, 13 and Monday, 14 October. Creative Workshop ............................2 The Sukkah will be decorated* on Sunday morning and SE10 and Beyond ..............................2 services will be held on Cheder News ......................................3 ● Sunday, 13 October at 6.30 pm. Social Centre News ............................3 ● Monday, 14 October at 10.30 am. Bromley WIZO Eretz .........................3 Come and celebrate and fulfil the commandment to dwell in a tent for a spell. Shake a lulav, sniff an etrog and learn about Meet the Kallot ..................................4 their significance, Simchat Torah celebration .................4 After the services, weather permitting, we will be in the The Book Group ................................5 Sukkah. You have to eat something at least the size of an olive Visit to Cheshunt................................5 in the Sukkah to fulfil the commandment. After the service ....................5 on Sunday there will be hot drinks and nibbles for adults and The Torah and the Earth children can bring a picnic. On Monday, bread and cheese Social and Personal ............................6 snacks will be available. So come and join in! High Holyday Greetings ....................6 * We will be decorating the Sukkah on Sunday morning, Remembering Lionel Cohen .......... 7-8 13 October during Cheder. Please bring greenery and Services ..............................................8 unripe fruit and veg. Greenery etc. can be left in advance or brought along on the morning, but no prickly or thorny CCJ Meeting, 5 November ................8 branches please! Education Dates .................................8 Go to page 5 for details of our very special Dates for Your Diary .........................9 celebration for Simchat Torah 5780. October 2019 - Tishri/Cheshvan 5780 Advertisements ................................10 Autumnal October - View from the Chair Calling everyone interested in s the seasons change and autumn have an obligation to improve the world for crafts and being creative! draws in I think about how the A future generations we should encourage our We are hoping to start a seasonal calendar is a reflection of the families and communities to reduce their spiritual calendar. The environmental waste and make smart consumer choices. Creative Workshop conditions of the world are landmarks Recently I was introduced to the “Eco to be held in the Shul, for the spiritual growth we should be Synagogue”, a ground breaking cross- approximately six-weekly. experiencing during that season. Specific communal initiative to enable synagogues times of the year are predisposed to hardship Sessions could be in the mornings to become more environmentally and other times are associated to renewal 10-12 am, or afternoons – 2-4 pm, sustainable. They operate an online survey, and joy. We might refer to this as “spiritual dictated to a degree by parking which assesses synagogues’ activities, weather”. The Hebrew word for time is restrictions. We would welcome for example, how energy efficient their zman, which means “prepared”. You could your views on this point. buildings are, how they recycle, and say that each moment in time is already what energy providers they use. They Are you interested in learning prepared and predestined for a specific also encourage ecological principles to something new? No experience type of growth. In addition the Hebrew be reinforced in teaching and in other necessary. Or do you have a skill word for year is shana, which means to opportunities within the cycle of the Jewish you would like to share? repeat. So every year contains the same year, especially how members themselves basic elements of the previous year, but We have come up with some can become more environmentally with new opportunities for growth. possible topics: responsible. I would encourage you all to Creative writing, poetry or play Is there a spiritual message in autumn look them up and see what changes you reading and the falling of leaves? Why do leaves could make at home. transform into beautiful colours just before Drawing, painting, glass or What a success “The Big BRS Quiz they loosen from the tree and float to the china decorating 2019” was last month. Thank you to all ground? Well, this is the time of year who came along to support this enjoyable Jewellery making when Jews are meant to be introspective evening and congratulations to the winning Knitting, crochet, embroidery and evaluate the state of their life. This team “The Rabble” headed up by Joe Millis Music, singing time and these actions can be difficult for and Rosanne Posner. I would like to thank some. I like to imagine that God does not We would very much like to Lisa Williams and the Social Group for want us to be spiritually downtrodden, so hear from you and, subject to arranging and running the evening and a we are sent the magnificent autumn leaves. response, are planning to hold give special thanks to Lisa, who was the The leaves fall and the tree remains bare an introductory meeting after the quiz mistress for the evening. It is really to show that we must start to build new High Holydays. Refreshments quite exciting to see new initiatives like the and better deeds in the coming year and Social Group, Book Club, Cheder Klezmer will, of course, be served. so the process is repeated year after year. Band and Cheder parents Whatsapp group Please contact Pauline, Ann As I write these words all I can think of take off. is the Disney film “The Lion King” and or Barbara through the Mufasa holding the Simba and the song Autumnal best wishes, synagogue: 020 8460 5460 “The Circle of Life”! Michelle Brooks Evans, Chair The news often carries stories about environmental issues and disasters that Being Jewish Today SE10 and Beyond have arisen out of climate change. Jewish a new book by Rabbi Professor The rescheduled evening with tradition teaches us to care for our planet Tony Bayfield CBE Damien Egan, Mayor of Lewisham, in order to preserve the world that God ‘Being Jewish Today – Confronting the will be on Wednesday, 16 October created. We are taught to preserve our Real Issues’ is a new book by former at 7 pm at the Shul. natural resources and generate new one Head and President of Reform Judaism, He will be talking about politics for future generations. We are faced with Rabbi Professor Tony Bayfield CBE. and antisemitism within the Labour many challenges to resource development The book gives an account of both the Party and sharing his experiences and our daily habits. To try and address this journey of a particular British Jew and and thoughts on the subject. All are requires us to learn how to live within the the journey of millions of women and ecological limits of the earth so that we will men through today’s perplexing and invited, members, non-members, not compromise the ecological or economic difficult world. locals to SE10 and, of course, security of those that come after us. The book can be purchased online beyond! The Torah commands, “ Justice, justice (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ Please contact Michelle for further shall you pursue” (Deuteronomy 16:20) and being-jewish-today-9781472962089/) details. so our energy policy must be fair and just. with a special discount of 30% - enter Michelle Brooks Evans Countries responsible for climate change the code BJT2019 to apply the reduced [email protected] should awaken to their responsibility for price. Tel. 020 8460 5460 finding a solution to the problem. As we It is also available as an ebook. 2 Copy date for November Highlight: Monday 14 October 2019 Cheder News Social Centre News Hello, Parents and Friends of Cheder, he Social Centre wishes everyone here’s our Cheder News: Ta very healthy and happy new year 1) A big thank you to Amanda Penn and sends a reminder that the second and Sonia Hyams of our Cheder PTA Wednesday in October (9 October) is Yom Hooray Cheder, who organised the Kippur so there will not be a meeting on Welcome Coffee Morning for our that day. parents on the first day of term. And Once again it was a real pleasure to thanks to Vicki Ashmore, Janvier welcome David and Tom’s musical Palmer and everyone else who entertainment at our last meeting. Their is helping to organise our Later programme is always so varied and Cheder dinner on Erev Rosh interesting - we always leave wanting to Hashana on 29 September. hear more. If there’s an obscure piece of 2) A massive thank you also goes out music you’d like to learn more about or to Rachael Ashmore, Sonia Hyams, hear again David is the person to ask. He’d band will also be playing for your Amanda Penn and Sue Bowyer for be delighted to help. They’ll both be here entertainment. organising our High Holiday chil- again on 13 November, so mark the date dren’s services this year.