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september 2019 • ELUL 5779 – TISHREI 5780 • ISSUE 300 Community Spotlight 2 Brighton & Hove Jewish Welfare Board 3 by Marc Carlton

“No one in our community should have to choose man or woman sitting next to you in synagogue or between ‘heating or eating.” at a Ralli Hall function. There will be no thanks and no recognition of your charitable deed. Only you will We are incredibly lucky to live in a country that operates know that you have directly helped to sustain a fellow a Welfare State. It means that, if and when we fall on member of your community. hard times, the State will provide us with shelter and food to cover our basic needs. There will be no money If you are 65 or over you will soon be receiving your for luxuries and very often people have to choose Annual Fuel Payment from the government. If you between heating their homes or buying enough food to really do not need that extra money please donate that eat. amount to the BHJWB and we will pass it on to an individual or family in greater need. Our account details The Brighton & Hove Jewish Welfare Board (BHJWB) are as follows: was established in 1846 with the aims of alleviating hardship and deprivation and since that time, we have Account name: Brighton & Hove Jewish Welfare Board been providing financial assistance to Jewish people Sort code: 30 91 25 living in Brighton and Hove and throughout Sussex. Account Number: 00079368 The model of our charity is simple. We receive Please give your name as the ‘reference’. donations and legacies from our supporters and give that money directly to those members of our And finally, if you know of anyone in our community community who are in greatest need. We provide a who needs financial assistance please ask them to small amount of money each month to our clients to contact our charity by either calling 07952 479 111 or make sure that, amongst other things, they can both by email to [email protected] All applications are means heat their homes and buy food. tested and will be treated with complete confidentiality. In effect, you would be anonymously supporting the Thank you for your continued support.

Cover: Rosh Hashanah Still Life by Svitlana EDITORIAL BOARD Doris Levinson, Stephanie Megitt, Winston Pickett, Tereshchenko Michael Rich, David Seidel TECHNICAL ADVISOR Brian Megitt SJN brings local news, events, articles, reviews, announcements, people, congregations, ADMINISTRATOR Hazel Coppins communities, contacts and more. Delivered at Administrative Assistant Ivor Sorokin the start of each month, SJN is run entirely by Communal Diary [email protected] volunteers for reporting, editing and circulating each edition. It has become the cornerstone of COVER IMAGE Svitlana Tereshchenko the Jewish community across the region. PRODUCTION/LAYOUT Anand Day

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FEATURES 1 ROSH HASHANAH STILL LIFE Cover image by Svitlana Tereshchenko 2 COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT ON… Brighton & Hove Jewish Welfare Board 4 UNBLOCKING THE TOILET BLOCK Jonathan Conway on the renovations to Meadowview Cemetery 9 NEW YEAR GREETINGS From around the community 12 ZAK REK DA’ATI 10 Thoughts from Godfrey Gould

13 WHITTINGHAME REUNION MARTIN GROSS Yael Breuer meets people from Whittinghame Funeral Director and 16 SUSSEX JEWISH ARTS FESTIVAL Funeral Consultant Highlights from the day to Jewish communities 18 RALLI HALL COMMUNITY NEWS 01273 439792 Activities in your future 07801 599771 REGULARS 4 SUSSEX AND THE CITY Your news and stories from across the county 19 CULTURE History, Our Favourite Things and more 24 WHAT’S ON – september Regular and special events in your community

YOUR COMMUNITY 20 Brighton & Hove Progressive Synagogue 21 Brighton & Hove Reform Synagogue 22 Brighton & Hove Hebrew Congregation 23 Hove Hebrew Congregation

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Your News Engagements We wish a hearty mazel tov to Natalie Wrightman and Births Mike Gilbert on their engagement. Mazel tov to June Jackson on the birth of a great granddaughter in Israel. First grandchild for Graeme Anniversaries and Arella. Mazel tov to Kirsten and Simon Hatchwell on the Special Birthdays celebration of their Diamond Wedding anniversary. Mazel tov to Freddy Lind who is celebrating his 90th birthday. To our dear and loving parents, Lisa & Adam Levene Bnei Mitzvah Congratulations on reaching 30 years of marriage. • Mazel tov to Eleanor & Freddy Lind on the bar With all our love, mitzvah in Israel of their grandson, Itamar Levy. Samuel, Daniel, Joshua & Joel Levene • Mazel tov to Lucy Sugarman on the bat mitzvah in Israel of her granddaughter Miki, daughter of Rachel and Marc. Get Well We wish a refuah sheleimah to all members of our Achievements community who are unwell or in hospital at the present Simon Blomenberg, grandson of Rita Blomenberg and time. son of Jacqueline and Maurice Blomenberg, has been awarded a First Class Honours Degree in Politics with Deaths Business Management from Queen Mary University of We wish Long Life to the family of Alida Steinfeld z’l. London. Your Views Care in the community – at its best Windows on our world What a remarkable local community we are! When Congratulations Michael (Coppins) on a beautiful problems come to call - out of the blue – as they do, August SJN cover. that is when help kicks in. Be it company, phone calls, Lydia and Bernard Swithern flowers, cakes or advice. Suddenly there is a descent of warmth and understanding. How very lucky we are to have such a blessing. It should be called “The ring of roses.” Liz Posner Meadowview Cemetery has an upgrade by Jonathan Conway, Cemetery Director BHHC For a number of years our community had been Ronnie Bloom hands the keys to Jonathan wanting to refurbish the toilet block at the Jewish Conway. Photo taken by cemetery at Meadowview, Brighton. However, due Lee Pattenden to the combination of an ageing community and a lack of funds, this was only an ambition. Until, that including an is, Tony Bloom stood before the community at Ralli accessible toilet. We Hall and said that one of the ways in which the Bloom agreed to wait until Foundation could help would be to upgrade the the spring and then work began, firstly to clear away facilities at Meadowview Cemetery. the overgrown vegetation and then to rebuild the toilets, with the addition of a path and a retaining wall outside. When people visit our cemetery for funerals, stonesettings, or just to visit the graves of their loved I would like to thank the Bloom Foundation for their ones, one of the first things that they may need is a most generous donation of both the toilet block and the working toilet – they now have two. wash handbasins. Thanks particularly to Ronnie Bloom and Lee Pattenden for all their patience. I hope that the Initially, the basins outside the Ohel (prayer hall) were community will appreciate this upgrade to our facilities replaced with a smart marble surround. at Meadowview Cemetery. Then meetings were held and plans were drawn up Jonathan Conway is the Chairman of the Cemetery detailing the improvement of the toilet facilities, Committee at Brighton & Hove Hebrew Congregation.

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The Lunch and Social Club at Ralli Hall by Jacquie Tichauer We were invited to Hyman Fine for their lovely BBQ, and be having a lovely afternoon tea on the 24th November - were very lucky with the weather and, as always, the food what else could you ask for on a cold winter afternoon? was excellent. Many people were disappointed last time as tickets sold out very quickly, so please book early. On 26 July, in conjunction with Helping Hands, we had a lovely Shabbat dinner. This was a very enjoyable evening Forthcoming Attractions: and it was lovely to see so many people enjoying the company and good food. We would like to thank the • Thursday 12 September: Margaret and Mark are giving Ladies who play Bridge for joining us for lunch and then a talk about their recent trip to Israel for playing bridge in the afternoon: we are looking forward • Sunday 15 September: Card afternoon Ralli Hall Lunch to more of them coming in the near future. and Social Club - £10 a ticket Thank you to everyone who has joined our 100 Club, • 1 November - 4 November: Eastbourne weekend which is a great help in keeping the lunch club running. We still have a few places and if you are interested it only • 24 November: Top Hats and Lunch Club afternoon Tea costs £8 a month and we have a draw every quarter. Remember if you are feeling hungry or looking for a wee A double draw was held on Tuesday 6 August and the chat or would like some easy chair exercise, please join winners, Mavis Hirschberg and Marilyn Lennard, received us on a Tuesday and Thursday. And I need your help, as £100 each. I am very short of volunteers on a Tuesday afternoon, so On the first Thursday of the month we are always happy if you have a few hours, from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm, to give to welcome JACS, who join us for lunch followed by a us a hand, this would be amazing. very interesting talk. Please come along on Thursday 12 We wish Alan and Shirley lots of luck and many years of September when we will have our yearly talk from Mark happiness in their new home. and Margaret about their amazing trip to Israel. To contact the Lunch and Social Club at Ralli Hall, please We are very excited to work again with Top Hats, whose telephone Jacqueline on 01273 739999 or email her at singing makes everyone want to join in. This time we will [email protected] [email protected]

Helping Hands looks back on the year Helping Hands has had another busy way, to alleviate the problem of Social Isolation in the and successful year. Our telephone is Community. manned by volunteers who answer calls Our clients and volunteers are amazing and contribute to for assistance from the Community, making Helping Hands such a successful organisation. 01273 747722 including requests for lifts to hospital If you can provide help in any number of ways, large or appointments, opticians, doctors, food shopping, etc. small, occasionally or frequently, or need any assistance, All requests are answered and we do our best to resolve please do not hesitate to contact us. them. Our caring volunteers befriend people by visiting We are currently revamping our website and logo and them in their homes, taking them out, or by providing a look forward to launching it soon, so keep your eyes listening ear. We thank our wonderful group of volunteers open! for their time and effort in making this possible; we could not do it without them. We believe that in the words We wish all the Community Shana Tova. of the late John Lennon, “There are no problems, only solutions”. Our teas are proving as popular as ever, enabling people to meet, socialise, and enjoy delicious food, a fun raffle and entertainment. We would like to thank the Brighton & Hove Reform Synagogue for the use of the AJEX Centre. In July we held our second Friday night Shabbat Supper which was enjoyed by over sixty guests, with the traditional blessings and a delicious meal. Comments were made about how nice it was to celebrate Shabbat with other people. The Helping Hands bus has been out and about over the year, taking people to the Lunch and Social Club, ferrying guests to the teas, as well as being hired privately. We feel that all of the above help, if only in a small

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Amber Rose 1970-2019 by David and Susan Rose In May this year our darling daughter tragically passed away from a terrible and very rare cancer at the age of 49. Many of you knew her but perhaps did not know about her extraordinary achievements during that time. Amber was born in London and then moved with us, firstly to Tunbridge Wells and then to Hove. She attended Blatchington Mill School and also BHASVIC. Sunday mornings were taken up by going to the Reform Synagogue Hebrew classes. She was also an active and proud member of the Jewish Lads and Girls Brigade. Amber was always interested in acting and drama and whilst at school appeared in a number of Ralli Hall shows. In 1984 she appeared in Hair Flair Magazine as a model for hair styling. She received numerous diplomas for ballet, tap, speech and drama. She also immediately made lifelong friends with Rabbi Tom and appeared on television in a trial of a new show called made many new friends. After a while Amber wrote an Love Me Love Me Not (in which she impersonated Woody article about being Jewish and living in Germany which Allen) and also was cast as a Tara Palmer Tomkinson was published in the Jewish Chronicle. Shortly after this double in the show Dead Ringers playing opposite a she taught English to business people at Volvo before Prince Andrew double. she got a job with Intel, taking responsibility for Internal Communications. After leaving BHASVIC, Amber went with a group of students to Israel for a year. Whilst she was there Wishing to keep her hand in with entertainment, she she received 2 certificates for setting up and running wrote a number of songs with Georg. She sang them acting and drama classes for young children and also whilst he played the guitar. We wished they had released successfully running a major project to help disabled them on the internet and only have a copy of one song children. For the last 3 months of her year in Eretz Yisroel which is amusing and makes fun at the quality of German she trained with the Israeli Army including learning how to television. She began to write a book and left Intel in the handle an Uzi submachine gun. hope that she could complete it. Sadly, that was never to be. After a year in Israel Amber moved to Johannesburg and obtained a temporary job with People Magazine which The Lavoya was held in Germany and over 100 people was owned by Sol Kerzner. She had been working there attended, coming from New Zealand, Australia and the for only 3 weeks when the boss came over to her and UK as well as Germany. Moving testimonies were read by told her that the Production Manager had left and he David, our daughter Luan and Rabbi Tom who, as a close would like her to have the job. Surprised, she took the friend of Amber, was deeply affected by her death. job and successfully ran the magazine for 3 years during Since that time we have received numerous messages, which time she also interviewed many famous people. phone calls and emails of condolence and Amber’s After 3 years she had decided that she wanted a career in Facebook account has been saturated with wonderful journalism and came back to the UK. She studied at City comments. We are very proud of our daughter’s University in London and obtained a degree in Journalism achievements and we have to live with the knowledge and Politics. that we will never see her again. However the tremendous support that we have had from friends and She started working for Harpers Magazine before moving family will help us get through this and we thank you all to Estates Gazette reporting and winning a Young for this support Journalist of the Year award. She was then promoted to Production Manager before moving to the BBC to write for their staff magazine, before transferring to become a Senior Broadcasting Journalist with BBC World Service. Important message Whilst on holiday in Cadiz Spain she met her future HOSPITAL CHAPLAINCY VISITS husband Georg. Georg came over to live and work in London and then they got married. Amber had her first If you are in hospital or know anyone being admitted baby, after which Georg accepted a job in Munich with into hospital, please get in touch with info@ Intel and then Amber had a second baby. Amber and sussexjewishrepresentativecouncil.org or telephone 07789 Georg joined Beth Shalom in Munich where Amber 491279 so that a Jewish chaplain can be contacted to visit.

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Sussex Jewish Golfing Society by Richard Simmons August was our busiest month with two matches against Our August meeting at the links course at Littlehampton, London clubs, one tournament and our August society the only golf course in Sussex that replicates the testing meeting. conditions of the Open Championship, was postponed until 5 September, due to the forecasted heavy rain. Our away matches against Coombe Hill Golf Club in Surrey and Abridge Golf and Country Club in Essex were keenly As our season winds down, September will be a less busy fought as usual and we performed well again playing for month. However, we are looking forward to our meeting on 18 the Tri-Nations trophy in Berkshire. This is our annual September at Nevill Golf Club on the East Sussex and Kent match against Jewish golf societies from South Wales and border at Tunbridge Wells. It’s a course we have not visited Bournemouth, with a team representing the UK and Ireland for many years and it will be a good test of our golfing skills. competing for the first time. The trophy now needs to be re- We expect another large turnout from our members. named. We are looking for new members to join us, both male and We sent a team of six to play in the Association of Jewish female, accomplished golfers or beginners, young or not so Golf Clubs and Societies’ Seniors Golf Tournament held young. at Dyrham Park Golf and Country Club in Hertfordshire, a predominately Jewish club. This is an annual tournament For more information please contact our Hon Secretary contested by Jewish golf clubs and societies and with some Ashley Woolfe at [email protected] very creditable scores, we came third out of seventeen teams. A great achievement for a small golf society.

Hyman Fine House by Natasha Carson and Mark Pady We were delighted to be invited to exhibit our work at the Did you Sussex Jewish Arts Festival at Ralli Hall. We have some know, very talented residents and they have produced a variety of volunteering original pieces. We have made some beautiful mosaics, have doesn’t designed and printed our own cushions and have made cards have to be for all occasions. We have also designed and printed aprons every week? which are put to good use in our cookery club. Several of our We have residents have their art work displayed around the home. The some lovely atmosphere at Ralli Hall was friendly and welcoming and it volunteers was very, very, busy! The standard of work was excellent and who come it was lovely that people took the time to sit and chat with us only on at our stall. high holy We were also days and very pleased others just to be invited to in the school afternoon tea holidays - in Ronnie and there’s a role Wendy Bloom’s for everyone. garden. It was a lovely sunny afternoon and they made us feel completely at home in wonderful Brighton & Hove Jewish Welfare surroundings. Board provides affordable They laid on accommodation in Central Hove a magnificent spread. It currently has a vacancy for a one bedroom unfurnished Resident, Alan flat suitable for a couple. Bass, said The rent includes central heating; constant hot water; use “they were so of garden; television and telephone points. hospitable and provided a sumptuous tea. We are so grateful for such a lovely afternoon and for everything that the family For further information or to request an application form does for us”. please telephone 07716 114012 or If you would like to learn more about volunteering in the email [email protected] home, please contact Natasha or Mark on 01273 688226.

issue 300 | september 2019 NEW YEAR GREETINGS 5780 THE SUSSEX JEWISH NEWS EDITORIAL TEAM THANKS YOU ALL FOR SUPPORTING US DURING THE PAST YEAR AND SENDS 8 WARMEST GREETINGS FOR THE NEW YEAR 9

ABBOUDI Juju and family wish CONN Anne sends love and good FERRIS Benita wishes her dear family everyone a happy New Year and well health to all her family. Shana Tova. and friends a happy, healthy and over the fast. peaceful New Year. Shana Tova. CONWAY Susan together with ABRAHAMS Roger and Irit wish Jonathan and Simon and family wish FEUERSTEIN Jacqui and Raymond “Shana Tova” to all their friends and the whole community a happy, peaceful wish all their family, friends and the relatives. and healthy New Year and well over the SJN team a very happy, healthy and fast. successful 5780. APEL Ralph and Clare wish all their friends in Brighton and Hove a happy COWAN Janet wishes everyone a very FISHER Marilyn wishes all her family New Year and well over fast, those from happy, healthy and peaceful New Year. and friends a happy New Year and well the Shul and those we met at ‘Push’. over the fast. CROOK Ann and Michael and family BARNARD / SEIDEL with all good wish all their relatives and friends FLASHMAN Roz and Michael wish wishes from Rachel, David, Moses and Shana Tova and a happy, healthy and their dear family and friends a very Gabriel. peaceful 5780. happy, healthy and peaceful New Year and well over the fast. BARNETT Sandra wishes family, CROWN/LYONS/ANDERSEN Shana friends and the whole Community a Tova from Jeremy, Saonie, Elizabeth, FREEDMAN Suzanne wishes Shana happy, healthy and peaceful New Year Ghila, Rich, Annalise and Isabella. Tova Happy New Year to all friends in and well over the fast. Wishing everyone a happy, healthy and the community of friends. peaceful 5780. BARSAM Claire and Sam send GABRIEL Bert and Judy send good warmest greetings to their dear family CUDDIS Shan and David wish family wishes to everyone. Shana Tova. and friends and wishes for a healthy, and friends a very happy and healthy happy and peaceful New Year and well New Year and well over the fast. GORDON Barbara and Ian send love over the fast. and best wishes for a happy and healthy DAVIS Angela and Joe wish all their New Year to their beloved family BLOOM Wendy and Ronnie wish their family and friends a happy and healthy in Shoreham and many friends in family and friends a happy and healthy New Year. Worthing. New Year and well over the fast. DAVIS Ruth and Roy wish all their GORDON Joan and family wish all her BOOKER Beryl, John and Maurice friends and family a happy New Year family and friends a happy New Year wish family and friends a happy and and well over the fast. and a good year ahead. healthy New Year and well over the fast. DOCTORS Anthony and Philip Doctors GOULD Godfrey sends his very best would like to wish family, friends and wishes to all family and friends for a BURKE Shirley and Alan would like all congregants a happy New Year and happy, peaceful and healthy New Year. to wish all their relatives and friends a well over the fast. very happy and healthy New Year with GREEN Sheila and Ruth wish everyone our best wishes for the future. DUKE Norina and all the ‘Dukes of in the Community good health and Hove’ wish their friends and family a happiness for the New Year. CARLEBACH Myrna and family wish sweet and healthy New Year and well Shana Tova for good health and peace. over the Fast. GREENWOOD Janice wishes her children, grand-daughters, relatives and CARLTON Sandra & Derek wish all EVANS Evelyn wishes her family and friends a happy, healthy, peaceful and their family and friends a peaceful and all her friends a very happy and healthy rewarding year. happy New Year. New Year. HARRIS Karen, Michael and Oliver CATERING CONNECTIONS Angela FAULL Dian and family wish relatives wish all members of the Community a and Dawn wish the entire community a and friends a happy and healthy New happy, healthy and peaceful New Year. happy and peaceful New Year. Year. Shana Tova. CENTRE FOR GERMAN JEWISH FAULL Maurice and Laura, together HATCHWELL Kirsten, Simon STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY with Matthew and Emily wish family and family wish Rabbi Samuel, OF SUSSEX wishes its friends in the and friends a happy and healthy New the congregants of Hove Hebrew Sussex Jewish community a happy and Year. Congregation and their friends in the peaceful New Year. Community a very happy and peaceful FELSENSTEIN Linda and Raymond New Year and well over the fast. COLLINS Jean wishes her family and wish their family and friends a happy all her friends a happy and peaceful New Year and well over the fast. New Year.

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HELPING HANDS wish all our MAY Irene & Ralph with Miriam and RICH Gillian and Michael wish family wonderful volunteers, clients and the Zoe wish all our SJN friends a happy, and friends a very happy, healthy and whole Community a good and sweet healthy &peaceful 5780. peaceful New Year. Year. Shana Tova Umetukah. Thank you for all your support. MEDIPHARM LTD The Solomon RICHARDS Ivor wishes his family and family wish everyone a happy, healthy friends a happy and peaceful New Year HOLLAND ROAD SHUL The and peaceful New Year. and well over the fast. Chairman together with the Board of Management wish Rabbi Samuel de MEGITT Stephanie and Brian wish all ROLAND Marianne and Bernard would Beck Spitzer, the congregation and their friends in East Sussex a happy, like to wish family and friends a happy, members of the Jewish Community a healthy and peaceful New Year. healthy and peaceful New Year. very happy New Year and well over the MELCHER Joan and David wish ROSE Jack and Elaine wish Shana fast. family and friends a happy and healthy Tova to all together with the little Roses ISAACS Barbara would like to wish New Year. especially the three grandchildren. all her family and friends a happy and MILLER Pearl wishes all the city’s ROSE Susan and David wish all our healthy New Year. Rabbonim, their families and our wider family and friends a very happy, healthy JAY Jean wishes her family and friends Jewish Community a healthy and happy and peaceful New Year. a happy and healthy New Year. New Year and well over the fast. ROSENFIELD Sue and Tony wish their KRAVETZ Sylvia and Arthur wish their MITCHELL Rita wishes her children, family and friends “Shana Tova”. May family in Israel and New York together grandchildren, great grandchildren, you have a year of health, happiness and with their friends at Eastbourne Hebrew relatives and friends a very healthy and peace. Congregation a sweet, healthy and happy New Year and well over the fast. ROSENTHAL Shana Tova and all peaceful New Year. MOSS Pat and Roland wish their dear good wishes for the coming year from LASKY Doreen and Malcolm and their family and friends a happy, healthy and Jessica, together with Miriam, Dave, family would like to wish everyone a peaceful New Year and well over the Esther and Jacob, Sam, Ruth and Tessa. happy and healthy New Year. fast. RUBIN Brian & Sharon wish their LEVENE Lisa and Adam, together with NOAH, LEVEY June and Adrian wish friends and relatives a happy New Year Samuel, Daniel, Joshua and Joel wish the Brighton and Hove Community a and well over the Fast. their family and friends a Happy New peaceful, healthy and happy New Year. RUBIN Hazel and Joe send their best Year and well over the fast. OBERMAN Rochelle and Gerald wish wishes to their family and friends for a LEVER Alan and family wish the family, friends and all the Community a happy and healthy New Year and well Rabbonim and all of the Community a very Happy New Year. over the fast. very happy, healthy and peaceful year. PANTO Rosa & Stuart wish all their RUTHERFORD Sandra, Amanda & Shana Tova! family and friends a healthy and happy Fiona together with Filipa and Julia LEVINSON Doris wishes the New Year. wish their friends a happy and healthy Rabbonim, her family, friends and New Year and well over the fast. PANTOOCK Rosalind wishes her colleagues in the Community a happy friends and relatives, living in the Hove SAMUELS Angela and Steven wish the and healthy New Year. area, good health and happiness in the entire community a happy and healthy LIND Eleanor and Freddy wish the year ahead. New Year. whole community a healthy, happy New PHILLIPS Michael, Penelope and SCHAVERIEN David wishes Year and well over the fast family wish their friends and family a Rabbonim, fellow congregants and LUNCH AND SOCIAL CLUB AT year filled with health, happiness and friends a peaceful Shana Tova. RALLI HALL wish all members, sweet moments. L’Shana Tova! SELIGMAN Melanie and Simon, Dan volunteers and the whole Community a POSNER Liz sends all good wishes for and Liora, Rachel and Charlotte wish all healthy, happy and peaceful New Year. a sweet and healthy New Year to family family and friends a happy and healthy MAGRILL Marilyn wishes Shana Tova and friends. New Year. to all her family and friends and well RENTS Renee and family wishes all SHARPE Beryl and Mef wish our over the fast. friends a very happy New Year. dear children, grandchildren, great MANN Lewis and family would like grandchildren, family and friends a to wish all their friends a happy and happy, healthy and peaceful New Year. healthy New Year.

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SHELTON Fausta wishes everyone in SUSSEX JEWISH REPRESENTATIVE WILKS Sarah and David wish all the Community good health and peace. COUNCIL The President, Chair Team their family, friends and the whole L’Shana Tova. and Executive wish all the community Community a good and sweet New a happy and successful New Year and Year and well over the fast. Shana Tova SILVER Bernice and Arthur wish Jason, well over the Fast. Umetuka. Jeffrey, Roman and all their friends a most happy, healthy and trouble-free SWITHERN Lydia and Bernard wish WINSTONE Sarah’s Catering and Yom Tov and an easy fast. their dear family and friends a happy Jewish Deli would like to wish and healthy New Year. everyone a happy and healthy New Year SILVER Corinne Rachelle wishes and well over the fast. health, happiness, love, laughter and a TAYLOR Ronnie and Linda wish their very sweet year to all her dear family dear family, friends and all the members WOOLFE Laurel and Julian wish their and friends in the Brighton and Hove of the Eastbourne Hebrew Congregation children, grandchildren, Millie and area. a happy and healthy New Year. friends a healthy and happy New Year. SIMONS Philip wishes his family, TOBIN Judith, Ben and family wish ZANARDO Rabbi Andrea, Sara, friends and members, volunteers and Shana Tova Umetuka to all their Sussex Dov, Yair and Hila wish a year full of staff of Ralli Hall and the Ralli Hall friends. sweetness to Brighton and Hove, and to Lunch Club a very Happy New Year. the rest of the world. TORRANCE Tom and Cherry wish SIMONS Ruth wishes all the family and friends in the UK and Israel Community a sweet and healthy New good health, peace and joyful times in Year. 5780. Gmar Hatima Tova. SOROKIN The Sorokin family WALKER Doreen, Bernie, Lesley, send sincere Shana Tova wishes for Steve, Oliver and Ryan wish all their Brighton and Hove health, joy and peace within our local dear family and friends a happy and Jewish Housing community. healthy New Year and well over the Association fast. provides sheltered STANFORD Jeffrey, Lydia, Simon accommodation in and Lisa wish family, friends and the WALLACH Rabbi Charles and Marilyn Central Hove entire community a happy, healthy and wish their relatives and friends a happy, We are currently operating a peaceful New Year. healthy and peaceful New Year. Many thanks to all the people who have waiting list for our comfortable SUGARMAN Lucy wishes her dear enquired about the Rabbi’s health. properties in Central Hove. family, friends and Rabbonim a very LeShana Tova Umetuka. Affordable rent includes – healthy, peaceful and happy New Year central heating, constant hot water, and well over the fast. THE WESSEX JEWISH NEWS use of garden TEAM wish everyone at SJN and the television and telephone points. SUSSEX BRANCH JEWISH community a happy and healthy New HISTORICAL SOCIETY Shana Tova. Year. Please telephone 07716 114012 We look forward to welcoming you to or email [email protected] our next set of lectures. Full details at for an application form https://jhse.org/branches/sussex/

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Zeh Rak Da-ati 10 by Godfrey R Gould I have recently been speaking to sundry Insurance In those days we didn’t complain about what we didn’t Companies regarding the renewal of my Home and have, because we didn’t know that we didn’t have it. Contents insurance. I was responding to questions Our world is so different today, though not always for from one young lady about the distance of my home the better. Little babies have to fly abroad, despite from the nearest river or the sea, and the likelihood of their distress when taking off and landing, because flooding. My responses regarding the sea caused some their parents have to have foreign holidays. And when excitement. As the young lady lived in Birmingham, they get a little older, they have to be provided with she told me how much she would like to live so close the wherewithal to keep them content and quiet. As to the sea and how wonderful it must be for me, just a former teacher I’m not so sure that education has a street away from the beach. I had to tell her that my improved all that much. Certainly, I would not wish to ‘beach’ days were a thing of the past and it was a few be a teacher today but if I were, I’m certain I would be years since I trod on our shingle foreshore. But in my a much better teacher than I was all those years ago. younger days, days spent on the beach were a joy. By Generally, transport has changed but again not always the same token, neighbouring gardens are now alive for the better. Trains are faster and more frequent, but with the noisy excitement of children playing on their so are rail replacement buses (frequency thereof). There swings, trampolines and other equipment which are the are far more motorways and dual carriageways but with essentials of modern living for the young. many more vehicles and traffic jams. And you can fly relatively cheaply all over the world, but with so much Our days spent on the beautiful sands at Whitley Bay waiting time involved before and after the actual flight in Northumberland were full of excitement, but our time. The one area in which there is a real tangible activities quite simple. We built fortresses in the sand, improvement is in health care and life expectancy. And dammed streams which came from overflows, and that despite the many complaints about health care in enjoyed the sea itself. When it was really rough we this country. would stand with our backs to the breaking waves trying to adjust to that spot where a huge wave would But life generally seems to have become so much hit us in the back. The trick was not to be knocked more complicated. We, who have now reached the over by the breaking wave. Health and Safety would be coda of our lives, coped with living without all the help horrified. And not merely that. Nearby were two small and agencies on which the young seem now to be so valleys with rivulets flowing through them. The smaller, dependent. How, I wonder, did we manage quite so Briardene Burn, ran through the local Golf Course and well? was little more than a stream. Nevertheless, the water had cut well into the surface leaving plenty of variety for adventure and excitement. It required a short cycle ride to reach the Seaton Burn, much more a river, having its source over 10 miles away north of Newcastle, but its variety affording even more worthwhile visits. Lines of trees sheltered the valley from a road to the south and Voluntary Support Agencies fields to the north. Our pleasures were simple but so • Ralli Hall Lunch & Social Club (Day Centre) rewarding. 01273 739999 [email protected] Of course, we didn’t have ‘proper’ holidays abroad • Norwood/Tikvah, Rachel Mazzier House 01273 564021 or even to a hotel in England. But in 1943 and • Hyman Fine House 01273 688226 1944 we stayed for a week on a farm at Appleby in • Helping Hands 01273 747722 helping-hands@helping-hands. Westmoreland. Even there we found our adventure org playground. In a broad bend of the River Eden there were three small islands and a larger one. They were • Brighton & Hove Jewish Welfare Board 07952 479111 or near an accessible river bank and somebody had [email protected]; website: www.bhjwb.org fortunately dumped several concrete blocks just there • Brighton & Hove Jewish Housing Association. bahjha@ so we could get on to these islands without getting googlemail.com our feet too wet. Yet again we had found our own • Welfare at Brighton & Hove Progressive Synagogue/L’chaim adventure area, our time there requiring no bother project to adults. After the war my friend, Jeremy, moved to 01273 737223 Penrith in Cumberland with his family and so just a • Welfare Officer at Brighton & Hove Reform. (Sue Rosenfield) short bus ride away. With the hire of a rowing boat 01273 735343 for the day we now had the whole of Ullswater at our disposal. Such was the simplicity of a childhood then, • Brighton & Hove Jewish Community Foundation at Ralli Hall. much of it during war conditions. Tel: 01273 202254 or [email protected]

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The Whittingehame College Reunion by Yael Breuer It is a rare but wonderful feeling to enter trust Save a Child’s Heart and even the place on a regular basis. Despite the a place full of unfamiliar faces, yet to be organiser of Minyanim and Kosher food existence of two other Jewish schools made to feel welcome and immediately catering at jewellery shows in America. in the town, Carmel House and Aryeh at home. The atmosphere at the recent “The respect that we were given and House, Whittingehame College pupils Whittingehame College reunion at the expected to give back while at the had little contact with the other schools Metropole hotel in Brighton was so school taught us to keep our word, to but formed a strong, family-like unit. warm and friendly that it was almost share and care for others. I came to tangible. Wittingehame College with not one word of English, but came out of there enriched for life.” Jack, who, together with his best friend at school, Eli Harari, the Israeli founder and chairman of ‘SanDisk’, a world leader in chip manufacturing, spent hours sitting next to each other drawing SST (Super Sonic L-R Ernest Sinyor, Jack Abraham, Masoud Transport) Gilardy Fellow pupil Ernest Sinyor, was sent Over 100 ‘boys’ who had attended the to the school at the age of 11 from Jewish boarding school, established in Egypt, where his family originated, and 1931 at The Drive, Hove, later moving subsequently extended to 1,000-strong to Surrenden Road in Brighton and descendants, most of whom now live expanding to Handcross before closing in Israel. Despite admitting to having in 1967, arrived from all over the world been on the mischievous side at for a weekend of socialising and school and in trouble with the school reminiscing with fellow pupils who had authorities on a regular basis, Ernest studied at the school in the late 50s and feels that the time at Whittingehame 60s. College was important for his moral and cultural development. “I acquired Jack Abraham, who attended the appreciation of my heritage, as well school for four years from 1958, says as understanding the importance of that the years at Whittingehame College respect”, he says. “My two brothers and moulded his and his friends’ characters I left Egypt in 1955 to study in England and personalities and instilled “Powerful as my father felt that education in Egypt life values, teaching us - students from was becoming restrictive under the five continents with diverse languages L- R Jack Abraham, Dubi Shiff nationalism at the time. While at school, and cultures - to be responsible and planes and dreaming of being involved between 1955 and 1962, we went to accountable for our own actions. We in the aerospace industry and space Egypt only once a year for vacations or formed strong brotherly friendships exploration. “Eli and I are still good occasions, but otherwise the college that have lasted and continue to this friends and have attended all of each was home.” day, which explains why 110 of us others’ Semachot. Eli’s talk at the came back to Brighton for a reunion reunion about his work, struggles and Ernest’s first encounter with 52 years after the closure of the eventual success was inspirational”, he antisemitism took place in Brighton, school”. Jack’s family moved from says proudly. when three local boys shouted racial Afghanistan to Israel in 1954, where he abuse at him and his friends while lived for four years under the auspices Many of the pupils remember the walking in the street. The incident left of “Youth Aliyah” before being sent to headmaster and founder, Jacob ‘Jake’ the young Ernest puzzled and angered Whittingehame College at the age of 15. Halévy, as a strong disciplinarian, about the reasons for such unprovoked Jack, President of “Jack Abraham - The autocratic but also influential and a fair hatred, and then, within a month, he Precious Collection”, has been actively man, and his acting head, Eldon Smith, witnessed a similar incident, this time involved throughout the years in various as the “glue”, the “catalyst” that served from the opposite direction. “We had community, industry and charitable to unite the pupils and was a constant some Muslim pupils at the school, causes and projects, including being presence in their lives. Mr Smith was, whose parents sent them there due to the founder and President of the Afghan in fact, instrumental in establishing the their dietary halal requirements which Synagogue in New York, the charitable first reunions that have since taken were met by the kosher food served

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at Whittingehame College. One of lesson. “It is possible to live, get on Those interested in a more in-depth the Jewish students directed a racist and work successfully with a variety of look at the history of the school can comment at one of the Muslim boys, people, even if they are different from download an online book, Jake’s but the other Jewish pupils wouldn’t you, which is something we humans Legacy by Eric Shanes, which tolerate it and actually punished the must remember”, he says. chronicles the history of the College boy who had made the comment. In and significant events in the years of its some way these two incidents formed existence. According to the book, the my uncompromising dislike for racial first pupils - two Londoners and the son hatred as well as understanding the of the founder - enrolled following an importance of respecting minorities.” advertisement in the Jewish Chronicle in 1931. One of those pupils, the late Felix Graduating from McGill university Gordon, wrote, “Whittingehame College with a degree in Electrical Engineering began organic life at 1.30 pm on 10 and an MBA from Concordia in 1983, September 1931, when its founder working in the family textile business for and Headmaster met the contingent of ten years and then at General Electric new boys at the Brighton Line, Victoria as well as an ESPM Consultant and Station, London. The ‘contingent’ managing a project on the Three Gorges comprised two boys, Bernard Kempner, Dam in China, the memory of these aged 12, and Felix Gordon, aged 10. past incidents is still powerfully present How could two children, munching bars in Ernest’s mind. “I will not tolerate any David Khafi and Jacob A of chocolate provided by this strange form of racism and have made sure The school had a large intake from and wonderful man, know that this was throughout my working life and as a a historic journey?” manager of people, that any member of the Middle East in the 1950s and a the working teams would feel free and number of pupils came from Israel. confident to report on racial incidents Businessman Yaakov A states that the of any kind, and I would deal with it three years he spent at the College immediately. Respect of our heritage enabled him to “Meet children from and of diversity is, I think, the most around the world and ‘discover’ a important aspect of behaviour which, if different type of Judaism. For me it followed, makes us thrive.” was a melting pot that made me look differently at the world around me. I also Masoud Gilardy, who came to the remember the staff and especially the school from Tehran and studied there Deputy Head as very committed and from 1957- ‘63, arrived at the reunion involved”, he says. from Germany, where he deals with precious stones. Gilardy stresses that Co-organiser of the reunion, Dubi Schiff, he “Loved every minute of it. Even who is another Israeli who lives in Tel though I had to start from scratch when Aviv and runs property and events/ arriving at the school, I cherished the hospitality companies, says that opportunity to be there, taking part in Whittingehame College was a “Great the various activities on offer, making school. I enjoyed every minute of it strong friendships and progress”. and the atmosphere at the school was Before embarking on his career, Gilardy simply great”. Simon Hatchwell joined the family business of carpets To help the ‘boys’ stay in touch, Not just ‘boys’, but a representative of and rugs, and has a twinkle in the eye the Whittingehame club has a the teaching staff was present at the when he makes the analogy between website,www.whittingehame.com, recent reunion. Hebrew and Jewish the treatment of rugs and the human maintained by Louis Mandel, born in History teacher Simon Hatchwell, who spirit - “A good rug ages well and in Germany and now residing in Montreal. still resides in Brighton (we went for tea fact becomes better the more it is Mandel, who attended the school from at his house), remembers the school trodden on. My years at Whittingehame 1959-1966 says that Whittingehame and the pupils with great affection. “It College, with the various challenges I was a home away from home for many gives me great pleasure to know that so faced, prepared me for life in a similar of us. “Most came at a young age, our many of the pupils have done so well way: hardships and occasionally being formative years, away from our parents, in their lives and careers and are still trodden on can also prepare you for to a foreign country with different in contact with one another”, he said. a life of achievement and eventual habits and customs. It was truly an “I taught most of these boys their Bar prosperity.” international scene, with groups of Mitzvah portions and was very touched boys coming from far off lands, such as at the reunion when some told me that I David Khafi, who was born in Herat in helped enhance their Jewish identity”. Afghanistan and whose family moved Turkey, Persia, Israel and Europe, the to India through Persia in 1949-50, Americas and Asian continents. Most of Also present was Judy March, the enrolled at the school between 1957 our members are now scattered around daughter of another teacher, Stanley and 1962, and claims that learning the world. These reunions take us back Franks. Judy, who returned to Brighton to live in harmony and share daily in time, almost an unreal feeling, like five years ago after 35 years in the USA, experiences successfully with people entering the twilight zone. I’ve called our was delighted to be invited and to meet from different backgrounds and members the ‘boys’. It’s amazing how a so many of the pupils at the reunion. ethnicities taught him an important bunch of 70 and 80 year olds can revert to their childhood pranks.”

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“My father taught English, French, My grandfather, History and football from 1949 until the Harry Jacobs, school closed in 1967. I was born in owned the Embassy 1951 and from my earliest memories, Cinema in Hove I followed Daddy around the school in and my father was awe. Often the older boys would pick the manager in me up and carry me around on their the evenings and shoulders. weekends. As I grew up, I used to spot some of the boys from school sneaking around the cinema and in the coffee bars in town. Daddy always plugged me for info on the boys but he never the boy, “You can come with me”, and reported them! The memories he took him home to our family for the that were shared by the boys at evening. It had a profound effect on that the reunion were priceless. One guy and it is part of the close feeling ‘boy’ told me a story of when that all the students had for each other he was in detention and he was and many of the staff. A special feeling very angry. My father walked of family and camaraderie. These men Judy March, daughter of Stanley Franks at past and saw him and asked will go anywhere and do anything for the reunion with friends what happened. Then he told each other,” she says.

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Sussex Jewish Arts Festival by Gary Weston, Ralli Hall Committee Member and SJAF Event Organiser On the hot and sunny afternoon of Sunday July 28th the very cultural event… Brighton and Hove needs more community first Sussex Jewish Arts Festival, organised and hosted by events like this”. He urged us to make the SJAF an annual Ralli Hall, successfully launched at their Jewish Community event and invited Ralli Hall to contact his office so that the Centre in Hove. City Council could provide support where possible. Working closely with the Jewish Arts Society based at Ralli Later in the afternoon, Brighton & Hove Mayoress, Alexandra Hall, over 50 local Jewish artists, designers, craftspeople, Phillips, also arrived to tour the Festival. Accompanied by photographers, sculptors, fashion and textile designers, Maxine Gordon, the Mayoress enthusiastically met everyone jewellery makers and child artists joined together for one of and spent much time exploring the work on show. The young the biggest Jewish arts and cultural events to be held outside child artists were especially excited to be at their very first London. Something indeed for us be proud of. art show and to meet the young Town Mayoress. You can Visitors arrived in the Main Hall to an impressive display of art then imagine their double excitement when the Mayoress from such local artisans as Norman Pearl, Michael Flashman, requested a ‘selfie’ with them. Doris Levinson, Beryl Sharpe, Natalie Wrightman, Sydney Levine, Evelyn Evans, Joe Davis, Ann Crook, Henrietta Hempling and Rochelle Oberman, including sculptures and the JAS archive albums. Nick Beck exhibited paintings and sculpture loaned by Evelyn Davis. Guests were also treated to amazing sculpture, art and figurines from the very talented Marilyn Panto and John Price. The Magrill Lounge was filled to capacity with people looking at the exhibits and displays coming from every corner and age group of our local community - children’s art and crafts from Montessori Torah Nursery and Parents 4 Cheder with the very talented Chet Peer. There was creativity from the residents of Hyman Fine House, displays from the Lunch and Social Club, Sussex Jewish News, Sussex Jewish Film Club and Friends of Ralli Hall. The Café Lounge was transformed into a photography gallery with fabulous displays from our sprightly Sidney Lipman and Brian Megitt, which included a special display of the photos used in his Sussex Jewish News covers. James Dollow displayed his photography in the Magrill Lounge. Featured artists were Martin Gould, Orna Pascal Schneerson, Amanda Rosenstein Davidson and photographer Sophie Sheinwald. If you haven’t seen the simply wonderful art, Martin Gould received the Sussex Jewish Arts Festival Artist design, colours and photography of Martin, Orna, Amanda of 2019 award for his contribution and devotion to art in the and Sophie, please search for their websites and/or try to visit community. Everyone was delighted for Martin to win this one of their local shows. award and it was plain to see the love and admiration for him Also present were talented local artists Ronnie Bloom, Felicia from so many. Quick, Kitty Arscott, Josie Dowek and Zoe Morrison. As you With over 200 visitors and 50 exhibitors attending, Ralli Hall viewed the SJAF, it became apparent just how many talented, soon became a bustling environment with a real buzz about creative and inspiring people we have in our community. the place. There was a wonderful soundtrack and backdrop Brighton certainly is a magnet for artists. of people meeting, laughing, just being together. A great Joining us from London was Contemporary Judaica which community atmosphere permeated the event. One person brought high quality and impressive art, crafts, jewellery and said, “This is what a community centre is all about. I haven’t Judaica from Israel, USA and the UK. There was clearly a seen anything like this at Ralli Hall for a long time”. This was lot of interest with many people carrying CJ bags! Director, clearly a special day for our local Jewish community. There Danya Kay said, “We loved meeting the Sussex Jewish was a lovely happy spirit with everyone coming together community and look forward to becoming a Judaica supplier showing their support by their overwhelming attendance. to them with a special community discount and special offers Special thanks are due to Centre Manager, Maxine Gordon newsletter”. and her amazing team - Jacquie, Jon and Tony - as well as The Deputy Town Mayor, Alan Robins, also a member of the their valued volunteers, for hosting such a wonderful festival. Arts and Creative Industries Commission, officially opened Thanks of course always go to the CST team for ensuring the Festival at 2pm. Maxine Gordon, Ralli Hall Centre security and giving us their valuable time to help keep us Manager, escorted him on a tour of the arts and crafts on safe. show and introduced him to everyone. Rochelle Oberman Look out for an announcement of next year’s Sussex Jewish (Jewish Arts Society Chairman) was proud to show him the Arts Festival and if you want to get involved, book your place variety of art from her society. When asked for feedback, he and exhibit your art, craft and photography, simply email us at responded, “This is simply brilliant. Such a wonderful vibrant, [email protected]

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issue 300 | september 2019 Ralli Hall Community 18 01273 202254 19 News [email protected] Chairman’s Welcome by Roger Abrahams I am very happy with the new format for Ralli Hall There are a number of other community events and Community News, thanks to Maxine Gordon and Gary activities in the offing and I will repeat our commitment Weston. In future, much of the day-to-day information that B&HJCF at Ralli Hall will endeavour to provide about Ralli Hall will be included in the Manager’s accommodation for such events without cost to Message, leaving me to report mainly on other matters. the recipients, apart from extra caretaking and the Irit and I celebrated our Wedding Anniversary that provision of security. weekend, and were therefore unable to attend the We are currently busy updating the lower ground magnificent Ralli Hall Jewish Arts Festival 2019, held floor accommodation so as to help us to increase in collaboration with the Sussex Jewish Arts Society. our income and to allow us to offer our core Apparently over 200 people attended and over 50 accommodation to the community, as mentioned exhibitors took part, filling the Great Hall, the Magrill above. We are fortunate that the size, layout and Lounge and the Café/Lounge too. This community condition of the building and its construction, is helping activity took a great deal of organisation and work, in these enterprises. thanks mainly to the above two, with the help of a It is now not long until this year’s High Holy Days, so I number of enthusiastic volunteers, especially Rochelle should like to wish all of my readers Shana Tovah and Oberman, the Chair of the Jewish Arts Society, as well Well over the Fast. as the other members of Ralli Hall staff and I hope that See you at Ralli Hall. it will be the first of many more such festivals. Manager’s Message by Maxine Gordon Wow, what a busy time we’re having! We’ve just got our We will be starting breath back from organising our first, very successful the evening at 6.30 Sussex Jewish Arts Festival, but I’ll let you enjoy pm with Wursht and reading about that in the featured article elsewhere in Scrambled Eggs, this edition. Chips, Beans and In the meantime, I’m delighted to tell you about our Challah, or you can next event which will be the Jewish Film Club on just come and enjoy Sunday 6 October, featuring a great film released in the film at 7.30 pm 2018. Can You Ever Forgive Me? is based on a true with refreshments story and stars Melissa McCarthy who was nominated provided. for this role as Best Actress at the Academy Awards. Friends of Ralli Hall: The film was also featured at a recent Jewish Film Film free/Food £11, Festival, and tells the story of Lee Israel, an author who Non-Members: Film can barely pay her bills in 1990s New York. Desperate £5.00/Food £11.00. for money, she hatches a scheme to forge letters Please call or email by famous writers and sells them to bookstores and our office for more collectors. However, the dealers start to catch on and information, or to Lee recruits a dubious friend (Richard E Grant) to help book your food and her continue her trickery and deceit. tickets!

Quiz Night - Sunday 17 November Taking control as Quiz Master will be our very own or feel free to bring your own snacks or wine if you Steve Walker, who promises to give us a varied, fancy a glass. (Vegetarian or Kosher please). challenging and interesting quiz that everyone can Tickets must be booked in advance by calling or enjoy. You don’t have to be Einstein, but he’s sure to emailing the Ralli Hall Office: stretch your grey matter at some point. Friends of Ralli Hall £5.00 pp or Starting at 7.15 pm, teams are a maximum of 8 or Non-Members £7.50 pp we’re happy to make up a table for you if needed. Tea, coffee, soft drinks and cakes will be available Parking only £2.25 at Hove Station

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Jewish Historical Society Programme 2019-2020 by Michael Crook The Sussex branch of the Jewish Historical Society of On 28 January 2020 Rabbi Hershel Rader of Brighton & England (JHSE) is pleased to announce its programme Hove Hebrew Congregation will speak on Weights and of talks from October 2019 to May 2020. Details Measures in Biblical Times. are shown below, and we hope that the varied and On 25 February Professor Suzanne Kord of the School interesting subjects will have wide appeal. of European Languages, Culture and Society at UCL Our first speaker for the new session on 29 October, Dr will speak on The Court of Public Opinion: Jews in Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti, Lecturer in Italian Studies Court and Press Coverage in Austria before the First v. at UCL, will talk about the dilemmas of Jews in Italy in Second World War. the 19th Century. During Jewish History Month we will be holding a joint From 10 November to 12 November, we have been event with the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at able to secure a special exhibition at Ralli Hall. The The Keep. Date and details will follow in due course. Jews of South East England covers 13 Jewish Finally, on 5 May Vivi Lacks, a translation fellow at the communities including Brighton & Hove, as well as Yiddish Book Centre and Associate Research Fellow at Dover, Canterbury, Guildford and Bletchley Park and Birkbeck College, London will speak on Whitechapel has been made available to us by Oxford Chabad Noise: Politics, Sex and Religion in London’s East End with support from the Sussex Jewish Representative 1884-1914. Council and Ralli Hall. The exhibition will be open from 11.00am to 3.00pm on Sunday 10 and Tuesday 12, and Please join us at Ralli Hall on the Tuesdays shown from 12.00 noon to 4.00 pm on Monday 11. Entry is above. Meetings begin at 7.45 pm sharp, and we free, no booking required. aim to end with light refreshments about 9.00 pm. Meetings are free to JHSE members and students, we Our speakers resume on 26 November with Lola make a charge of £5.00 for non-members. For further Fraser, the London Administrator for British Jews in information, please contact me on 01273 776539, or at The First World War – We Were There, who will speak [email protected] on a further aspect of World War 1 history, the story of Jewish Nurses.

Our Favourite Things by Wendy Lovegrove Top Hat Productions Musically speaking the final programme was a great has just done its meld of pop, classical, folk and Motown. Indeed, fourth show, Our something for everyone. For those of you who didn’t Favourite Things. make it to the show in June, we hope you’ll think of The idea was to coming in November and we are sure there will be put on a simple plenty of songs you’ll love. cabaret production in which the cast got to choose a number they had always wanted to sing plus a few chorus numbers and all this with a super bagel supper provided by The Lunch and Social Club. It was a win- win situation, we all got to sing something we loved and helped to support the Lunch Club, which provides so much for the community. Ralli Hall has been very supportive of our endeavours and we are happy to bring people in through the Community Centre doors and hope they walk out with a lighter step. The show seemed to go down really well and we were so sorry we only gave one performance that we have decided to give a repeat show on the 24th November 2019 but this time with a cream tea. Exciting times.

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Elul – The Month of Preparation by Rabbi Elli Tikvah Sarah This year, the month of September corresponds exactly with for us to examine our deeds of the past year and resolve the Hebrew month of Elul that precedes the yamim nora’im to restore our relationships. By the time Rosh Ha-Shanah – the ‘days of awe’. Traditionally, Elul is the time when we arrives, there is so little time to make amends – just ten days prepare ourselves for the aseret y’mei t’shuvah, the ‘ten days in all. How much more sensible to begin the process in Elul. of return’ that begin on Rosh Ha-Shanah and conclude on There is an interesting difference between Sephardi and Yom Kippur. Ashkenazi practice in this regard. In the Sephardi tradition, it What does it mean, to prepare ourselves? There are four is customary to recite prayers for s’lichot, ‘forgiveness’, and synagogues in Brighton and Hove, and in each one, rabbis blow the shofar (ram’s horn) at the end of shacharit (morning will be writing their sermons, lay readers will be practising the prayer) from Rosh Chodesh (the new moon of) Elul until the prayers and choirs will be rehearsing the wonderful melodies eve of Rosh Ha-Shanah. In the Ashkenazi tradition, s’lichot that accompany us on the most sacred journey of the Jewish prayers and the blowing of the shofar begin from midnight on year. the Saturday prior to Rosh Ha-Shanah – unless there are, as this year, less than four days between Saturday night and the In S.Y. Agnon’s marvellous anthology, Days of Awe, we New Year, in which case, the ritual is put back a week. find this story (Schocken Books, New York, 1965, p. 38): ‘A tale is told of one who sat in study before the zaddik Rabbi Most Jews in Britain are Ashkenazi, and all four synagogues Mordecai of Nadvorna, of blessed memory [19th cent.], and in Brighton and Hove follow the Ashkenazi tradition. But let’s before Rosh Ha-Shanah came to obtain permission to be not wait until the Saturday night of 21 September to begin our dismissed. That zaddik said to him, “Why are you hurrying?” journey of t’shuvah, ‘return’. As we read in another gem from Said he to him, “I am a Reader, and I must look into the S.Y. Agnon’s anthology (p.25) – taken from the Maharil (‘Our festival prayer book, and put my prayers in order.” Said the Teacher, the Rabbi Ya’akov Levi’ Moelin, c. 1365-1427): “All zaddik to him, “The prayer book is the same as it was last the month of Elul before eating and sleeping let every person year. But it would be better for you to look into your deeds, look into their soul, and search their deeds, that they may and put yourself in order”.’ make confession”. This tale reminds us of the purpose of the yamim nora’im and L’shanah tovah! the unique opportunity that the month of the Elul provides

Events@BHPS Brighton & Hove Interfaith Contact Group From 3 Sept 2019 the monthly interfaith prayer meeting which Erev Rosh Ha’Shanah takes place on the first Tuesday of the month at 7.30 pm will be Sunday 29 September, 7.30 pm held at BHPS. All welcome, of any faith or none. Please note there will be no meeting in October. Rosh Ha’Shanah The Tree of Life: Celebrating Together Monday 30 September 10.30 am, Family Service 2.00 pm, 3.30 pm Sunday 8 September, 2 – 6pm at BHPS Tashlich on the beach opposite Lansdowne Place Free entry, all welcome. Please register in advance via members@ interfaithcontactgroup.com Shabbat Shuvah Saturday 5 October 10.30 am, Czech Scroll Memorial Service In response to recent terrorist assaults against Jewish, Muslim and Christian communities, the Brighton & Hove Interfaith Contact Kol Nidrei Group is bringing together community groups across Brighton Tuesday 8 October 7.30 pm and Hove to express solidarity with synagogues, mosques and churches across the world that have been attacked during the past Yom Kippur year and to explore the positive images associated with the Tree of Wednesday 9 October Services 10.30 am – 7.07 pm Followed by Life in different faith traditions. BreakFast (£15) The afternoon will include commemoration of all those killed in terrorist attacks. We will also celebrate the work of many within our Erev Sukkot own community who work tirelessly to help people thrive together. Sunday 13 October (ask at office for venue) – Wednesday 16 October noon, during Open Sunday 15 September 12 pm Robert Rinder Sukkot Lunch Wednesday TV judge, Strictly contestant and barrister, Robert Rinder is coming to speak at BHPS on Fame, Fortune & Fans. £15 for members and Erev Simchat Torah – Sunday 20 October 6.30 pm BHPS friends / £20 for non-members. Includes brunch, tea and cake. Tickets from Sarah Winstone on 07841 488620 or sarah. Non Member tickets £60, available from the office. [email protected] Exploring Judaism – led by Rabbi Elli Tikvah Sarah Autumn Festival Services led by Rabbi Elli Tikvah Sarah Classes recommence on 7 September and cover the Autumn Festivals. Classes are held on Shabbat from 2.15-3.45pm, after Slichot the Access to Hebrew class (1-2pm). All are very welcome to our Saturday 21 September, 8.00 pm Havdalah and refreshments. events, but if you are not a member or friend of our synagogue Study session ‘T’Shuvah & T’fillah & Tz’dakah’ Repentance & please let us know you are coming on [email protected] or Prayer & Righteous Deeds – what’s the connection?, 9.00 pm, 01273 737223. 10.30 pm Service.

issue 300 | september 2019 BHRS Rabbi Dr Andrea Zanardo Brighton & Hove Reform Synagogue, Palmeira Avenue, Hove BN3 3GE 20 Tel: 01273 735343 Email: [email protected] www.bh-rs.org www.facebook.com/BrightonReform 21 BrightonReform

The Sound of the Shofar by Rabbi Dr Andrea Zanardo Have you ever tried to blow the Shofar? The first time is tricky. If The Revelation on Sinai, the destruction of the Temple, the it is a short one, Sephardi, you blow with all the air you have in beginning of the Messianic Age are all moments of Jewish history your lungs, and what you hear is just like a gust of wind. It if is a that we remember every day in our prayers. long one, Ashkenazi, you hear a vibrating rumour, but certainly not the deep moving sound we are accustomed to. The trick is The Shofar has an impact on the life of individual Jews as well on you need to ‘blow a raspberry’, like a child does when mocking the Jewish people collectively. friends or parents! Like each year, while Rosh Hashanah approaches, and we look When I visit schools to explain Judaism and its rituals, I often forward to hearing the sound of the Shofar once again, we think take a Shofar. I start by’ blowing a raspberry’, and then I place of what we have achieved in the previous months and how the Shofar on my lips. When the sound of the Shofar begins to can we do better, from a spiritual point of view. The process be heard the expressions on the faces of the children, turn from of teshuvah, when it is properly done, can have an effect on amusement to awe. ourselves but also on our Jewish community, on the Jewish collective. It is indeed a remarkable transformation. The most childish and irreverent buzz becomes a deep and inspiring sound. Those Jews who have gone through the process of teshuvah, who have become more committed members of our community The Shofar inspires awe. It invites you to the teshuvah, to focus and more loyal to our heritage, have a transformative impact on on our moral standards and our failures to live according to them. the whole Jewish people and certainly on the Jewish community where they live. In Ancient Israel the Shofar was a battle cry; the call to soldiers to be ready for military action. Nowadays, the sound of the May we all have the strength to achieve such a wonderful Shofar demands from us similar attention and concentration, but transformation. May the sound of the Shofar this year mark not in the military sense. Rather than fighting external enemies, the beginning of a time of unity and reciprocal support for all who are generally easy to identify, today we fight against our the members of our community. Otherwise... it will be just be a complacency and spiritual laziness. It is a battle that demands raspberry! a level of sincerity and humility; that is difficult to achieve. The sound of the Shofar resonates in us, touches us very deeply and motivates us to this difficult effort. The Rabbis teach that every seminal moment of Jewish history is accompanied by the sound of the Shofar. The Revelation on Sinai, when the Torah was given to Moses and to the people of Israel, was accompanied by the sound of the Shofar. The sound of many Shofars was heard during the destruction of the Temple, while the last troops were trying to defend Jerusalem. Mystical thinkers teach that the advent of the Messianic Age will be heralded by the sound of the Shofar.

Bulletin Board – September Tuesdays & Thursdays Ulpan, 7.00pm Fridays Kuddle Up Shabbat Toddler Group, 10.30 am Erev Shabbat service, 6.30 pm Saturdays Shabbat morning service, 10.30 am Sundays Cheder, 9.50 am Events Sunday 8 Cheder new term (not Kitah Gan), 9.50 am Sunday 15 Kitah Gan new term, 9.50 am Sunday 22 Selichot Service, 6.30 pm Sunday 29 Erev Rosh Hashanah Service, 6.30 pm Monday 30 Rosh Hashanah Service, 10.00 am Tashlich - meet at Shul, 5.00 pm 2nd night Rosh Hashanah Service - followed by Seder, 6.30 pm

issue 300 | september 2019 BHHC Rabbi Hershel Rader Brighton & Hove Hebrew Congregation, 31 New Church Road, Hove BN3 3AD 22 Tel: 01273 888855 Email: [email protected] www.bhhc-shul.org 23

Here Comes the Judge by Rabbi Hershel Rader A civilised society requires a system of justice and ‘righteous resolution to ‘do better’ in the future. But here’s the rub. How judges’ to rule on matters of law. One of the Seven Noachide truthful and accurate is our own self judgement? Are we able Laws that apply to all human beings is to set up a system to look at ourselves objectively and repent with true sincerity, of justice. The first Sidra of this month is called Shoftim or does our ‘self-love’ bribe us and distort our vision? – Judges - and deals with the appointment of judges for There is, in fact, a significant difference between earthly the Israelites. The judges are told ‘do not take bribes, for judges of flesh and blood and the Heavenly Judge. If a the bribe blinds the eyes of the wise’. Even the wisest of defendant is found guilty in the earthly court, then there’s us are not immune to bribery. This doesn’t mean that the really not much room for clemency on the part of the judge. judge who receives a bribe makes a conscious decision The law is the law and must take its course. The accused may to reward the briber, thinking to himself ‘well, he has given shed rivers of tears, but no human judge can be certain if his me something…. I will do something for him in return’. No, remorse is genuine. His feelings of regret are touching but it’s much more subtle. He regards the bribe as a gift and of limited legal consequence. After all, a human judge may it induces a subconscious feeling of goodwill towards the only make a decision based on ‘what the eye can see’. The benefactor. The perspective of the judge becomes distorted misdeed was seen to have been committed. The remorse; and, unknowingly, he favours the person who has been so who knows? Perhaps the defendant is a good actor! But the good to him. Hence the Torah’s words ‘blinds the eyes of the Supreme Judge does know whether the accused genuinely wise’; the wise judge does not see what he is doing. regrets his actions or is merely putting on an act. Therefore, ‘Love is blind’ goes the saying. We do not notice the failings He alone is able to forgive. That is why in the heavenly and shortcomings of those we love, once again, our vision judgment of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Teshuva becomes distorted. This is part of the reason that one may (repentance) is effective. The flip side of this is that we not sit in judgement over a relative; the judgement could can’t fool the Heavenly Judge, He knows what we are really easily be biased and if it isn’t, people will suspect that it is. thinking and feeling. At the end of the month we will gather in Shul for Rosh As we approach the New Year, this is our greatest challenge; Hashanah - the Day of Judgement – a time when G-d sits to truly know ourselves and translate that self-knowledge into in judgement over us and, even if we haven’t been so good an honest resolve for good in the coming year - a resolve that over the past year, is ready to accept our repentance and the true and Incorruptible Judge is unable to ignore.

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Allegiance/ Identity/ Solidarity by Rabbi Samuel de Beck Spitzer With the onset of the ‘High Holy Days’ this month, We make Havdalah once a week at the termination beginning with the Festival of Rosh Hashanah and the of the Sabbath, which reinforces a deeply rooted ever-approaching Brexit next month, Jews all over the separatist ideology; we have Rosh Chodesh once UK will hopefully be asking themselves certain pertinent a month which immediately singles us out as an questions. exclusive nation within the first phrase of its specific, silent and pensive Musaf prayer. And of course, this These days of awe are available to us for a generous month we have Rosh Hashanah which is synonymous dose of sincere reflection, correction and new with the horn of a ram, the Shofar. May I emphatically resolution. I am sure that you have all heard the point out that the Shofar is not simply a cultural classical rhetoric year-in-year-out. I will therefore save condiment as some would superficially like to portray, you from the sermonic auto-pilot monologue. What but a direct reference to the ‘Binding of Isaac’ when a does come to the surface and must surely be pondered ram was substituted to be sacrificed in his place. It has are serious questions of loyalty, attachment and unique meaning to the Children of Jacob (Isaac’s son) affiliation. and its haunting summons functions throughout our On reading well-researched historical accounts of religion, from the proclamation of the Jubilee year (The British Jewry and the Rabbinate (may I recommend Yovel) to the very Biblical Mitzvah (Commandment) of ‘Chief Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler, The Forgotten hearing the Shofar on Rosh Hashanah when we are all Founder’ by Derek Taylor), it becomes abundantly clear obliged to hear a minimum of thirty blasts. that the English Jew is something of a misnomer, let Moreover, dual loyalties, or even duplicit loyalty, is alone anomaly. For British Jewry stems predominantly an accusation that has often been levelled against if not exclusively, from either Ashkenazi European roots Jews by our detractors since time immemorial. They or Sephardic heritage of Spanish/Portuguese descent perniciously claim that Jews are fundamentally and or more recently, Middle Eastern or North African systematically disloyal to their country of domicile origin. None of these categories lend themselves because they harbour a deeply rooted commitment easily, without concerted effort, to smooth integration to and solidarity for the Land of their forefathers, i.e. within what was once-upon-a-time considered to be their homeland, Israel. Irrespective of ones’ personal English civility. The English Jew, who was the perfect opinions regarding the policies of the modern State Englishman in public, yet the swaying and bobbing Jew of Israel, it would be far-stretched to find a Jew who in Synagogue on the Sabbath, was something of a new feels detached from the strip of Land sworn to their invention in Victorian England. forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Some might Today, with the growing integration of diverse agree with this sentiment but most Jews and non-Jews nationalities and race within our society, many of these alike, would be most offended by this and consider it demarcations no longer exist and perhaps we are blatantly racist. better off for it (although I am aware that there are those On Rabbinical reflection, are we not called upon to who argue otherwise). However, what is abundantly create a little piece of heaven on earth, to usher-in and apparent with Brexit looming (and this is not necessarily urge-on the golden Messianic era that is promised to novel or profound, but important all-the-same), is the us by our Prophets of yore, with a slice of universal necessity for open and frank debate on the legitimacy brotherhood to add? Is it truly all about the fluctuation for creating a separate Island devoid of its commitment of Sterling, the dip in markets and the devaluation of to mainland Europe. Does this lead to integration? property that grabs our interest in Brexit, or is there Do we want multi-cultural integration and are these something much larger and pervasively sinister at sentiments reciprocal? play which leads to division, suspicion and ultimately, Leaving the pure economics aside, does separatism hatred of the other. Judaism does not shy away from lead to an enhancement of the human spirit that is difference and at times most definitely celebrates common to all mankind? Rosh Hashanah is, after all, separation, but not at the expense of nationalistic a New Year for all of humanity, not just the Jewish bigotry or racial isolation, which I feel might just creep nation. I have met several highly intelligent and socially in to our lot as a society if we sleep our way through aware Jewish people who have struggled with these this season. overlapping and often contradictory identities for all Sincerely wishing you a Shana Tova Um’Tuka, full of of their adult lives. This is at least how they perceive it soulful illumination and joy for 5780. to be and may or may not resonate with some of our readers.

issue 300 | september 2019 IMPORTANT What’s on: September 2019 INFORMATION Website: www.sussexjewishrepresentativecouncil.org For visitors using a satellite navigation system Email: [email protected] in their vehicle. SJN Email: [email protected] JEWISH CEMETERY, MEADOWVIEW, or [email protected] BRIGHTON 24 The post code for this cemetery is BN2 4DE 24 COMMUNITY EVENTS – IMPORTANT REMINDER: JEWISH CEMETERY, OLD SHOREHAM Contact the Communal Diary before planning your events. RD, HOVE Email: [email protected] The post code for this cemetery is BN3 7EF.

Regular Activities Shabbat Shalom – BRIGHTON TIMES Please check with the organisations to be sure of the events In Light candles Out Havdalah taking place. Fri 6 7.18 pm Sat 7 8.24 pm Fri 13 7.02 pm Sat 14 8.07 pm Mondays „ Shiur for the Actively Retired with Rabbi Efune 4.00 pm – 5.00 pm at Fri 20 6.46 pm Sat 21 7.51 pm „ 11 Hove Manor, Hove Street, Hove. Tel: 07885 538 681 Fri 27 6.30 pm Sat 28 7.35 pm „„ Talmud for the Thinking Man with Rabbi Efune. 8.15 pm – 9.15 pm at Chabad House, Upper Drive, Hove 01273 321919 SPECIAL DATES „„ Torah & Tea with Penina Efune. Weekly Discovery and Discussion Group Sunday 29 Erev Rosh Hashanah - light candles 6.26 pm based on Jewish texts focusing on the personal meaning and relevance to Monday 30 First Day Rosh Hashanah, Tashlich, - light candles our lives. 8.00 pm at Chabad House, Upper Drive, Hove. Tel or Text 07834 after 7.30 pm 669181 Tuesdays Events in september „„ Something to Say? - Discussion Group with Rabbi Samuel, every other Tuesday, Hove Hebrew Congregation, 79 Holland Road, Hove 10.30 Sunday 1 am Tel: 01273 732035 „„ Middle Street Synagogue Open 2.00 – 4.00 pm free entry - suggested donation £2.00. Exhibitions: Middle Street Synagogue: Harif - ‘The „„ Lunch and Social Club at Ralli Hall 10.30 am - 4.30 pm Tel: Jews of the Middle East at Middle Street’. Orna Schneerson Pascal Jacqueline 01273 739999 Weekly Ralli Hall recent paintings „„ Mummy and ME Music with Penina Efune at Montessori Nursery from 11.30 am to 1.00 pm. Enjoy a stimulating environment with your baby/ Thursday 5 toddler, some meaningful discussion, music and movement „„ Sussex Jewish Golfing Society at Littlehampton Golf course (postponed from August). For more information please contact our Hon Secretary „„ Painting with Rochelle (JAS) Studio at Ralli Hall, 2.00 - 4.00 pm. Tel: Ashley Woolfe at: [email protected] 07811 601106

„ Chutzpah Choir Yiddish singing in 4 parts with Polina Shepherd. 11.00 Friday 6 „ am – 1.00 pm weekly. For Hove venue contact [email protected] „„ Sussex Jewish News – Submission deadline for the October/November or tel. Betty on 01273 474795 2019 issue. Send your articles, thoughts, photos and announcements to [email protected] or [email protected] „„ Israeli Dancing 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm Ralli Hall. Email: nicolahyman@ talktalk.net or [email protected] Thursday 12 Wednesdays „„ Lunch & Social Club at Ralli Hall Margaret and Mark are giving a talk about their recent trip to Israel „„ Eastbourne Liberal Jewish Community (affiliated to Liberal Judaism) Coffee morning, 11.00 am, first Wednesday of each month, Hydro Hotel, Sunday 15 Eastbourne. Information: www.eljc.org.uk or phone 01323 725650 „„ Lunch & Social Club at Ralli Hall Card Afternoon and Tea 2.30 – 5.30 pm. Ralli Hall, Denmark Villas, Hove £10 pp Thursdays

Sunday 15 at 12.00 pm „„ Lunch and Social Club at Ralli Hall 10.30 am - 4.30 pm Weekly. Tel: Jacqueline 01273 739999 RH „„ TV judge, Strictly contestant and barrister, Robert Rinder will speak at Brighton & Hove Progressive Synagogue (BHPS) on Fame, Fortune „„ JACS members are invited on the first Thursday of every month to the & Fans. £15 for BHPS members and BHPS friends / £20 for non- L&SC@RH. Tel: Jacqueline 01273 739999 members. The talk is preceded by brunch- and followed by tea and „ Bridge at Ralli Hall 11.00 am cake. Info & Tickets available from [email protected] or „ https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/robert-rinder-talk-and-brunch-tickets- „„ Weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Efune - men and ladies welcome - 65412517601?aff=ebdshpsearchautocomplete 8.15- 9.15 pm at Chabad House. 01273 321919 Fridays „„ Middle Street Synagogue Heritage Open Day - Open 2.00 – 4.00 pm. Free entry – suggested donation £2.00 „„ Kuddle Up Shabbat parent & child playgroup with Sara Zanardo and her guitar (during term time) Wednesday 18 „ at Montessori Nursery 12 noon – 1.00 pm ALL „„ Sussex Jewish Golfing Society at Nevill Golf Course, near Tunbridge „ Free Happy Hour Wells. For more information please contact our Hon Secretary Ashley WELCOME. Come and celebrate, see, taste, hear and feel the joy of Woolfe at [email protected] Shabbat. Tel: 01273 328675 „„ Middle Street Synagogue Vidal Sassoon: The Movie (PG) - film event. „„ Eastbourne Liberal Jewish Community (affiliated to Liberal Judaism). £12 on the door or £10 in advance through Eventbrite.co.uk Service at 6.30 pm, fourth Friday of each month, at CTK Hall, Eastbourne, „„ Middle Street Synagogue Exhibitions: Harif - ‘The Jews of the Middle BN23 6HS. Information: www.eljc.org.uk or phone 01323 725650 East at Middle Street’. Orna Schneerson Pascal recent paintings Saturdays Sunday 22 „„ Eastbourne Hebrew Congregation Shabbat services at 22 Susans „„ Middle Street Synagogue Heritage Open Day - Open 2.00 – 4.00 pm. Road, Eastbourne, 10.00 am. Contact 01323 484135 or 07739 082538 Free entry – suggested donation £2.00 „„ Eastbourne Liberal Jewish Community (affiliated to Liberal Judaism). Service at 12.30 pm, second Saturday of each month, at CTK Hall, Please note that our next issue will be October/November Eastbourne, BN23 6HS. Information: www.eljc.org.uk or phone 01323 2019. 725650 The deadline for your announcements, news, views, articles, photos, adverts, etc., is 6 September 2019.

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