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Keeping in Touch Keeping In Touch THE MAGAZINE FOR JEWISH SENIORS You are in good hands March 2017 No. 122 Tammuz 5777 JewishCare is a Member of the JCA Family of Organisations Contents 4 The Jews of Shanghai 5 Shabbat at the Kottel 6 Neuroplasticity - Redesign My Brain 7 Singapore: A Jewish Story 8 Broken Hill - Past & Present 9 Community Club Network 11 Jokes 12 JewishCare News Welcome to the latest edition of 14 Muslim Care and JewishCare Keeping In Touch magazine Working Together am very proud to be the Editor of Keeping In 15 Herta Muller Keeps Giving ITouch magazine as The Australian Jewish Welfare Society, the organisation that became JewishCare, 16 Book Reviews helped my father’s family when they arrived in 18 Quotes Sydney fleeing from Nazi occupied Vienna in 1939. I grew up on stories about the kindness and 19 World Pensions Latest News support shown to my family and many others by 20 Laughing Matters The Australian Jewish Welfare Society in times of extreme hardship - that tradition of supporting 21 From Generation to Generation communities continues to this day. 22 The Burger Centre: So much more The feedback from the last edition with its new than Bingo and Outings! format was overwhelmingly positive so we will be continuing with it into the future. The magazine 25 This is your chance... will be published three times a year in March, July 26 Mazel Tov Rose Klas and November and if you know someone who would like to receive Keeping In Touch please 27 Secrets to a more Joyful Existence contact JewishCare and they can be added to the 28 Sydney welcomes mailing list. Rabbi Rafi Kaiserblueth I want to acknowledge the generous support I have received from Warren Hurst, Executive 29 The Kindness of Strangers Officer of JewishCare, Anna Berger and the Print35 30 Out & About staff who have helped me put this publication 31 Upcoming Events together - thank you. Most of you will recall the amazing contribution made by Albert Salinas, we thank him for his many years of dedicated service. While Keeping In Touch tends to concentrate on Keeping in Touch is published by JewishCare, information for older members of the community, 3 Saber Street, Woollahra NSW 2025 JewishCare as an organisation supports community Ph 1300 133 660. members of all ages and from all walks of life. If you know of anyone who needs a helping hand The opinions expressed in this publication are please call FirstCall on 1300 133 660. the authors’ own and do not reflect the views of JewishCare. Finally as this is my first edition as Editor Find us on I would welcome your feedback. Editor: Elise Hawthorne Art director: Kerry Nadav, Print35 Design Studio Elise Hawthorne Editor (JewishCareNSW) March 2017 | Keeping in Touch 3 By Dr Ron Weiser AM Past President Zionist Federation of Australia, Hon Life President Zionist Council of NSW had lived very comfortably. In the Shanghai Jewish Ghetto we had to share small living spaces and do without many of our previous known luxuries.” I followed Thomas as he led the way to the home where his grandfather once lived It was an emotional moment for him, his wife Lyla, and their children Tracie, Dion, and Michael. “It was a big thrill to find my grandfather’s house,” Thomas beamed. “I recognized all the rooms even though they were much smaller than I remembered them.” ver twenty years ago my father travelled on Through various diplomatic channels Dvir has Obusiness to Shanghai. If he went back today he been trying to convince the government to allow a would not recognize the place. Shanghai is one of the monument to be built near the area known as the fastest growing cities in the world, where buildings Shanghai Jewish Ghetto where many visitors come. appear to grow another story each night. The Chinese government does not recognize In July 2013, I took a tour with Dvir Bar-Gal, an Judaism. Chabad houses operate from private homes expat Israeli who has been giving tours of Jewish or behind storefronts but in no way are they allowed to Shanghai for the last decade. His in-depth knowledge advertise as a religious centre. of the thousands of Jewish refugees who arrived Perhaps one day this will change. In the fleeing the Holocaust, and where and how they meantime, Dvir will continue to find a place to lived, is fascinating. “Though it does not start here,” build a monument, survivors like Thomas will he first time I was at the Kottel was a sunny What had happened to all my Jewish education? explained Dvir. “It goes back to the 1800’s when many revisit the old Jewish ghetto, and Jewish centres will Wednesday afternoon in 1974. Sephardic Jews came to Shanghai. Some of them operate secretly. T What had everyone been talking about? are barely remembered, yet they made an important Just after the Yom Kippur war, as a university I left, not quite sure whether I was more cultural impact on the economic development of student, I travelled to Israel on multiple hops taking disappointed in myself or the Kottel. Shanghai. There were also the Russian refugees in the the cheapest flights possible. Then a cousin took me back with him on late 1800’s and early 1900’s fleeing pogroms and the Sydney to Hong Kong to Paris to Teheran to Israel! Friday night. Russian revolution.” Arriving without my suitcase, courtesy of the extra We were there early. The sun was setting. Suddenly Also on my tour was Thomas Weisler from security at Teheran airport as Henry Kissinger was hundreds of yeshiva bochrim could be heard chanting, Melbourne; a Jew who first arrived to Shanghai fleeing coming through on his way to Israel. then appearing, dancing down to the Kottel forecourt. the Holocaust in Europe. Thomas explained how So there I was in Israel, no luggage and millennia Multiple minyanim sprang up, Jews from all over his father took a big risk and travelled to Hamburg, of Jewish history calling to me from down through the globe, with the same but different customs, the Germany, amidst the chaos of war and then somehow the ages to stand before the most holy site in all of same but very different tunes, welcoming the Shabbat. managed to purchase more than thirty tickets for Judaism – the KottelHamaravi. Now we had atmosphere. transport to China. He was eight months old when he I couldn’t wait. Minus suitcase, I hopped a bus left Vienna, “Without tickets you were to remain in to Jerusalem and went to the Kottel where I stood Now I could see the beauty of the Jewish people, Austria and suffer the ultimate consequences. Those excited, anticipating the feelings of elevation and awe the unity and the diversity. who remained, including members of our family, I was sure were about to strike me. And the true meaning of the Kottel hit me. perished,” explained Thomas. “Upon arriving in Nada. Nothing. It was worth the wait. Shanghai, we were shuttled onto a truck and taken to There was almost no-one there at 3 in the afternoon. community shelters. Life was obviously tough coming The longer I stood there in the hot sun, after all that from Europe where many of us arriving Jews flying, the worse I felt. 4 Keeping in Touch | March 2017 March 2017 | Keeping in Touch 5 By Bret Harding the intended task and all three produced different y far and away the most fascinating conversation output messages. Bof my time on this Earth occurred when I had However, here’s the kicker – it didn’t matter. the extraordinary good fortune to have a lengthy chat It was discovered that the human brain received all with Professor Michael Merzenich, Professor Emeritus three different outputs and adapted to successfully Neuroscientist at the University of California, San process the synthesised sound. Francisco. I asked Professor Merzenich whether or not he A little background – knowing I would be talking had an ‘aha!!!’ moment and it turns out there have n 1928, at the age of 16, join his relatives there. He opened a textile shop in the with Professor Merzenich, I took time out to watch the been many; beginning 35 years ago when as a young ISion Ezekiel left Baghdad. famous Change Alley and eventually 3 more children first of three documentaries in the TV series Redesign scientist he first discerned a small element of brain His father had recently died were born. plasticity, to 25 years ago when pet training was used My Brain featuring Todd Sampson; advertising genius and soon after his mother War’s end saw the British in control, with gradual to show how animals – and later humans – could both and regular on the Gruen TV series of shows with moved to Singapore with increasing levels of self-government. Just how well learn and teach these skills followed by many other Will Anderson. The basic premise of the show is that several of her children to join integrated was the Jewish community in Singapore moments of learning between then and now. Todd was tested to benchmark a series of neurological relatives there. Young Sion was demonstrated when, in 1955 David Marshall, a functions, after which he followed Professor Professor Merzenich's book SOFT-WIRED: How soon followed, seeking a Sephardi Jew and leader of the Labour Front, became Merzenich’s lead and exercised his brain in line with the New Science of Brain Plasticity Can Change Your place of greater security and the first Chief Minister of Singapore.
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