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The Beatles of Shushan in This Month’S Highlight Live Performance View from the Chair What does Kashrut mean to you? Something my grandmother did, but meaningless to me personally An important part of being Jewish No pork Separation of milk and meat No shellfish Animals should be slaughtered without stunning I keep it at home, but not when I eat out...... What does the Bible say about it? What do the Rabbis of the Talmud say about it? Express your views and listen to those of others. Maybe even change your views?! Ivor and Hilda Lask (second and third left) celebrated their diamond I hope to see you on Thursday, 12 wedding with a festive kiddush after the Shabbat morning service on March for a sicha (discussion), start- 28 December. Here they are photographed with their children Laura ing with a cup of tea/coffee at 7.30 pm, and Hugh, son-in-law and daughter-in law Michael and Shane, and finishing no later than 9.30 pm. granddaughters Emma and Molly. John Posner [email protected] The Beatles of Shushan In This Month’s Highlight Live performance View from the Chair ..........................3 There is no Haman ... ........................3 at Bromley Reform Synagogue Cheder News ......................................4 Sunday, 8 March Social Centre News ............................4 SE10 and Beyond ...............................4 Refreshments at 10 am CCJ .....................................................4 seating at 10:30 am Remembering Lila and Shoshana ......5 Statement from Rabbi Laura Help wanted! Auditions open to all adults and Janner-Klausner .................................5 Talmud Study Classes ........................5 Purim 5775 children, regardless of experience or ability Civic Service Sermon ........................6 level, to join the Fab Four Social and Personal ............................7 Knit and Natter ...................................7 Traditional Megillah Connections Rio 2015 ........................8 Reading, with Fancy Dress Recipe for Hamantaschen ..................8 Services ..............................................9 parade and Hamantaschen, Riding4Reform ..................................9 on Erev Purim, Bet Debora .........................................9 Dates for Your Diary .......................10 Wednesday, 4 March Synagogue Contacts .........................11 7.30 pm. Advertisements ................................12 March 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 April Highlight: Sunday 15 March 2 We’re a little famous – View from the Chair ’ve discov- year it takes place on Tuesday 17 March were in the Cheder, I remember the Iered we’re a at 8:00 pm. frantic fruit chopping for the customary little famous: It just so happens that this year a Seder which celebrated the birthday of when we had our sizeable group of Board members have the trees. This year Vicki and the Rabbi Civic Service on decided to step down for a variety of (assisted by many others) orchestrated a 24 January, the reasons, so a new group have stepped child- and family-friendly service, which Bromley MP Bob forward to become Board members – but involved many of the Cheder children. Neill came and they need to be elected to serve. The There was lots of music, involving the later wrote about voting is the duty of each synagogue congregation in singing. it on his website. member – please come to the meeting to I enjoyed it, as it was so lovely to He seems to have enjoyed himself and to hear about what’s been happening over hear the confident Hebrew and presenta- appreciate the fact that we are outward the past year, to thank past members for tion styles of our Cheder children. The looking and try to reach out to the whole all their hard work, and to elect the new songs were cheerful and uplifting, and Bromley community. He posted the ones. the chopped fruit still featured, as the group picture of all the dignitaries. I I enjoy it when the shul tries some- Kiddush! Each year I try and remember think my eyes are closed in the picture, thing new. In Fiddler on the Roof, great the different classifications of the fruit but everyone else looks lovely! importance is placed on “tradition!”, (edible outside not inside/edible inside Being a Board member means attending but there’s room within that tradition to not outside) and every year I forget! meetings throughout the year, and listening explore new ways of doing things. The Please remember to attend the AGM! I to many details about the running of your complete unrolling of a Torah scroll at look forward to seeing you there. shul. Being a shul member, there is only Simchat Torah is one such innovation Joanna Koenigsberg, Chairman one big meeting you need to remember to and this year we did something differ- [email protected] attend – the Annual General Meeting. This ent for Tu B’Shvat. When my children There is no Haman, but there are plenty of Mordecais and Esthers 2014 was not an easy year for Jewish faced was because Haman was in power incident and it was communities across Europe and, after and no one, save the Jews, seemed to not fatal. That is the murders in Paris and Copenhagen, care that he was bent on genocide. Only serious, but with sta- 2015 is not off to a good start. Here in when Esther, whose very name means tistics like that, I still the United Kingdom, the Community “hidden,” reveals not only her identity, worry more about Security Trust recorded over 1,100 anti- but the fact that she cares, does the getting hit by a car Semitic incidents. This is twice as many danger begin to pass. There are many, in a traffic accident. as 2013. It’s a frightening trend. Some many things that are different between I do not mean to people are going so far as to wonder now and Esther’s time. For one, we minimise everything that has happened, what the future of Jewish life in Europe have no Haman. Haman is not the vil- just the opposite. Much of what helps me is going to look like. We also have to lain because he dislikes Jews. He is the to be reassured is that others, particularly remember that this isn’t just political villain because he had the power to act government leaders, do not minimise it talk or something that affects a com- on his anti-Semitism. There is no one in either. And, oddly enough, that is why I munity in abstract ways. Real people are Europe with that much power that has still feel perfectly comfortable and safe affected. For some families that have an anti-Semitic agenda. Sure, there are living in London. We will and we should been touched by violence, things will some politicians — too many — who take precautions, but those precautions never be the same. People are under- harbour anti-Semitic views. Yet these must enable us to live and not stop us standably concerned about this rise in politicians are very small in number and from living as we should. Life not only anti-Semitism. I am concerned also. But have little, if any, real power. Rather, can go on, but it must. Jewish life is too I am not panicking. our government leaders are not only important. This month we celebrate Purim. As not Haman, they are a lot less like King Rabbi Jason Holtz much as it is a holiday where we do Ahasuerus, who is largely indiffer- [email protected] our best not to take anything seri- ent, and more like Mordecai or Esther, ously, there is actually a serious mes- people who care and are doing some- Torah Text Study Group sage behind it. In the Biblical Book of thing. This is true even in France, which This very popular Monday evening study Esther, the Jewish people face the worst is perhaps struggling more than any group, led by John Posner, will meet on possible fate from Haman. Only Queen European nation with anti-Semitism. 9 and 23 March. Esther, placed in a position close to the In the United Kingdom, 2014 was the It runs from 7.30 to king, perhaps by chance or perhaps by worst year on record (going back several 9.30 pm and there is Providence, was able to influence the decades). Yet having said that, there was no obligation to attend outcome. The great danger that the Jews only one extremely violent anti-Semitic every session - just drop in when you can.
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