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February 2017 Welcome to the newborn In This Month’s Highlight View from the Chair ..........................2 February shows south of the river ......2 Knit and Natter ...................................2 From the Rabbi ..................................3 Social Centre News ............................3 Poems by Joanna Seldon ....................3 WIZO Quiz@Home ...........................3 Cheder News ......................................4 Hooray Cheder ...................................4 Learning Programme for Women ......5 The Quiz Night ..................................5 Jewish Book Week .............................5 Social and Personal ............................6 Summer Hype ....................................6 Jodi and Rabbi Jason Holtz pose with their new baby, Asher Irving, The Foodie Club ................................6 shortly after his birth Nightingale Supper Quiz ....................7 Board of Deputies Report ..................7 PURIM IS THE WORD! Memorial Service for Lady Joanna Seldon ................................................7 For all you Grease fans, head on over to Thanks for Donations .........................7 Sadeh ..................................................8 5777 Shushan High (our Sanctuary) on Sunday, Services ..............................................8 26 February - straight after Cheder - to Lionel Blue Memorial Lecture ...........8 audition. Dates for Your Diary .........................9 Advertisements ................................10 Are you a budding Esther or a sly Haman? Then come and join us. Everyone who auditions will be given a part. First rehearsal is also on 26 February, along with 5 March (after Cheder) and Saturday 11 March (after the service) Performance will be on Sunday, 12 March. For more information contact the executive producer and director - - through the Sam Burchill will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah Hayley Preston on Saturday, 11 February (Shabbat synagogue office: 020 8460 5460 Beshallach) February 2017 – Tu B’Shevat February 2017 – Tu Life is full of joy and sadness – View from the Chair February shows of Jewish he life of our community, like all life, may know that after our shul had been interest south of the river Tis full of joy and sadness. I am writing converted from a block of four flats back Promises, Promises this in the middle of January. On Monday, into a place of worship by our founder A stellar creative team (music and 16 January, a baby boy came into this members more than 50 years ago, a young lyrics by Burt Bacharach and Hal world; he is called Asher Irving Holtz, man came to the door. He had with him a David, book by Neil Simon) tell a son for Jodi and our Rabbi Jason Holtz. bag containing tefillin, which he said had the story of Chuck Baxter. He’s Mazal tov to them and their parents, who are belonged to his grandfather. It seems that junior executive at a New York over here from America. What happiness, his grandfather was born a Jew but had insurance company, where his mid- what a blessing. converted to Christianity and later in life he town residence makes him popular Two days later, I received a very had built the chapel at 28 Highland Road, with his bosses - they promise him different piece of news. Zibby Alfred which is our shul. He said that the tefillin phoned to tell us of the death of her mother promotion in order to “entertain” at should belong to us and he handed them his apartment. It gets worse as Chuck Jackie and, although Jackie was elderly and over. Well, I don’t know what happened to frail, it wasn’t a natural death. She died in realises the woman who is his own those tefillin but last week when we hired her home, which had gone up in flames secret crush has been invited over a helpful fellow with a van to take away and it apparently took the fire brigade to his place for a rendezvous by his the old chairs, we used the opportunity about two hours to extinguish them. What manager. to get rid of some junk, including an old an awful thing to happen. Let us hope she 7.30 pm (Mon-Sat), 3 pm (Sat didn’t suffer. filing cabinet. Before he put it on the van, our schlepper checked that all the drawers & some weekdays). £25, £20 With poor health and frailty in recent were empty and, lo and behold, from the concs, Southwark Playhouse, years, Jackie hadn’t been around much SE1 6BD. 020 7407 0234. www. lately, so perhaps you didn’t really know bottom drawer, he pulled out a very old set Until her. For many years, she was a key player of tefillin, one for the head and the other for southwarkplayhouse.co.uk. in the community. She attended services, the arm and a couple of old velvet bags with Saturday 18 February worked as the shul administrator and was the word ‘tefillin’ embroidered on them. She Loves Me involved in everything going on. Jackie The straps are in a rather dilapidated state Sheldon and Harnick, famously and John’s children, Zibby and Nathan, but the boxes are fine. Of course, I had to the creative team behind Fiddler on grew up in the shul and were teachers in explain to him what they are and that the the Roof, wrote this musical take on the Cheder. Our hearts go out to them, not letter ‘shin’ inscribed in the leather covering Parfumerie, a play by Hungarian only because of the loss of their mother but the boxes stands for ‘the Almighty’. Of Jewish playwright Miklos Laszlo. for the tragic way she died. Such are our course, I can’t be sure they are those original The tale of Amalia and Georg, unpredictable lives. Jackie will be greatly tefillin but I do wonder... and while I’m who work as clerks in Maraczek’s missed. not at all superstitious, perhaps it’s time I Parfumerie and have another life as The birth of baby Asher and the passing started to lay tefillin? of Jackie so closely in time makes me romantic pen pals with their secret Well, we have some important events admirers, also inspired romantic think of the Hebrew word ‘tam’. It means coming up. Purim starts with reading the movies The Shop Around the Corner innocent, unspoilt, uncorrupted. Judaism megillah on Saturday evening, 11 March tells us that a new-born child is ‘tam’. The and You’ve Got Mail. and there will be a spiel and a party for all fourth child, who is too young to ask the ages on Sunday 12. No less important but 8 pm (Tue-Sat), 3.30 pm (Thu, question in the Seder Haggadah at Pesach is perhaps not quite so much fun, we have Sat & Sun only). £35-£53 (top ‘tam’. There is also no greater compliment price includes a meal deal). Menier that one can have inscribed on a tombstone our Annual General Meeting at 8.00 pm Chocolate Factory, SE1 1RU. 020 than to describe the deceased as ‘tam’ – a on Tuesday, 14 March. I know AGMs person who went through life and remained aren’t very exciting but they are important 7378 1713. uncorrupted. – the shul wouldn’t exist without people www.menierchocolatefactory.com. Now, I would like to thank everyone committed to taking on responsibility Until Saturday 4 March who donated the cost of a chair or two for the for its management. Please do consider becoming a Board member; nominations Garden Room. The old ones were looking Knit and Natter really tatty, with ripped covers. They’ve need to be submitted to our Hon. Secretary, gone and have been replaced by excellent Anna Sedenu, through the shul office by Tuesday, 21 February, new ones which stack neatly. Thanks to Tuesday, 21 February. Even if you’re not 10.30 am-12 noon your generosity we have managed to buy ready to volunteer for the Board, please at Pauline’s home. 60, which should be sufficient for most come along to the meeting and do think We do need knitters, as events and dispose of the old ones; even about joining one of our vital committees we have many requests, our treasurer is happy because we haven’t such as Religion and Ritual, Education, so please do come and help. had to dig into the budget. Thanks so much. Caring Community. Comms, Hooray Contact: Pauline Jeffree, through Actually, there’s a slightly intriguing Cheder, Security or whatever. the synagogue office 020 8460 5460 story about disposal of the old chairs. You John Posner, Chairman Highlight, February 2017 - Shevat/Adar 5777 2 Tu Bishvat – The New Year for Trees by Rabbi Jason Holtz Social Centre News he new year for trees, Tu B’Shevat, not let the first month be Sivan, the Dianne Mathews writes: Tthe fifteenth day of the Hebrew month of Shavuot? It’s a bit like having On 28 December we had our usual month of Shevat, will begin on the the trees’ new year not beginning in meeting and, as it was during Chanukah, evening of 10 February. Perhaps spring, perhaps, but coming towards the we included potato latkes and lokschen February seems an odd time for the end of winter. We start our counting pudding in our meal. Although our trees’ new year. Spring is still some time before anything noticeable changes, not numbers were a little low, those who away and most trees look particularly at the start of the changes. were there thoroughly enjoyed it. We also had the pleasure of Jodi and Rabbi bare. Speaking of spring, why not wait The lesson is that, built into our until then for Tu B’Shevat? Jason Holtz’s company to light the calendar and way of taking time, we Chanukah candles. Actually, it makes perfect sense to expect, hope, and even pray for renewal have it in wintertime. After all, a day and rebirth. It’s nice to celebrate that Trudi Sealey is working hard to starts in either the evening (per the renewal and rebirth when it happens book a full programme of speakers and Jewish calendar) or the middle of the and we do that, too, with our various entertainment for 2017, so we’d really night (per the Gregorian calendar), not festivals, but it is also important that our love to see you all.
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