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Contents Pesach 5781

Letter from the Editor...... 3 After the Greetings to our Grandchildren and Translation by Mr. Huub Stollman Great Grandchildren 2021...... 4 Submitted by Paula Edery...... 20 A New Song Shtetl Uniontown by Boruch M. Boudilovsky...... 5 By Rabbi Arnie Fine...... 23 Chairman’s Message ’s Achilles’ Heel by Graham Nussbaum...... 6 by Raymond Cannon...... 27 LORD HENRY SACKS – 1948 TO 2020 Sixty Years Ago CHIEF RABBI 1991 TO 2013 By Sheila Levitt...... 28 by Elkan Levy...... 7 Ghetto Money Closure — A True Story by Ian Fine...... 29 by Antonia Maurer Levy...... 9 Yummy in North Netanya Poem...... 9 by The Recipe Team...... 31 Contacting the Shul by Email La Vida en España (living in Spain) – part one A User’s Guide...... 11 by Jackie and Mike Jacobs...... 32 As I PLEASE: Lines From an Ex-editor’s Forehead A Special Dinner by Alan Gold...... 11 by Denis Elkoubi...... 35 NACHAS Anthony Felix z”l...... 37 (Since 5781)...... 12 Rabbi Morowitz and by Rabbi Natan Morowitz...... 38 Knit One, Purl One by Hazel Broch...... 13 Who Would Have Thought by Avril Komornick...... 39 My Work with Bereaved Families by Rev Michael Plaskow MBE ...... 14 The People On The Beach A Book I Love And Treasure by Stuart West...... 40 by Dr Mervyn Leviton...... 15 Community Reports...... 41 Unmasked...... 16 Shiurim on Zoom...... 46 Daf Corner Do You Recognize Him? ...... 46 by Rabbi Ozer (Edward) Feigelman...... 17 Useful Telephone Numbers...... 48 Neshe Chayil...... 18

The YINN Magazine is edited by Sharon Carr. Design by Therese Berkowitz. Photography: Avril Gatoff. Advertising Manager: Ivor Carr. Opinions expressed are those of the writers concerned and are not necessarily those of the editor or of the Young Israel .

YINN Pesach 5781 | 1 Young Israel of North Netanya 39 Shlomo Hamelech, Netanya

Board of Management Honorary Life President: Aubrey Blitz Gabbaim:  Chairman: Graham Nussbaum Feiler Vice Chairman: Alex Stuart Asher Edery Treasurer: Andrew Kaye Andy Kormornick Secretary: TBA Senior Gabbai: David Feiler

Board Sharon Carr Tony Plaskow Janet Elkoubi Eze Silas Alan Gold Vivienne Simenoff (up to Jan 28th ) Andy Kormornick (co-opted) Hilton Share Ivor Lewis Paulette Woolf Ian Marks

We wish all our congregants who are unwell or Would anyone who feels he has not received a indisposed a refuah shlema and we extend our deepest for some time, please accept our sincere apologies and condolences to all who have suffered bereavement. contact David Feiler who will be happy to remedy the Our congregants and their families wish Rabbi Boruch situation. and Esther Boudilovsky, Rabbi Eddie and Frankie Jackson and Rabbi Natan Morowitz and all their fellow congregants .פסח כשר ושמח and their families

About the In time of sorrow, a kind word and a helping hand can services at the Shiva house. The care shown at this time is bring much needed comfort. As a Congregation, we must greatly appreciated and is its own satisfaction. be aware of the help we can give to all persons who are Members should know that the Committee is here to in mourning, be it by attending the funeral, visiting the help with all arrangements at these unfortunate times. mourners while they are sitting Shiva and attending

Contact Numbers: Home Mobile Rabbi Boruch Boudilovsky 054-525 9490 Eze Silas 09-862 8737 054-459 3209 Alan Gold 077-530 1758 050-215 0697 Yitzhak Bakst 09-887 2474 052-741 2228 Phyllis Carr 077 456 3750 052-379 0740

Tehillim Circle Bar & Bat Mitzvah Please join the group of women reciting the Book of Many people still do not know that they are entitled, for the Matzav, the Sick, Shidduchim, and Klal if a full member of the shul, to a for a child Yisrael every Monday at 5:00 pm. or grandchild celebrating their Bar or Bat Mitzvah. Contact Ruth Lyons: 054-475 3637 Please advise Linda Lawrence, in good time, by email at [email protected] or phone 0548 646 466.

2 | YINN Pesach 5781 Letter from the Editor INDEX OF ADVERTISERS

As I am writing this just a few weeks before Purim, I realise that the Galei Hotel...... Inside Back Cover current pandemic started just after Purim last year so at least we have all King Development...... 24-25 so far survived the past year of lockdowns, mask wearing, social distancing Lev Hamatzevot...... 34 and continuous Netflix. That said I feel the year has passed just as quickly Manchester Curtain Company...... 22 as previous years and there really hasn’t been time to get bored. How lucky Mike Electronics...... 47 we have been in congregation YINN to have had a constant offering of zoom Obar Printing...... 10 entertainment, shiurim and religious services from our very talented and Pope-Geri Insurance...... Inside Front Cover dedicated leaders of the community and others who came to the rescue. Kol Shipony Insurance Agency Ltd.... Back Cover Hakavod and many thanks to them. Yochanan Real Estate...... 45 So far as the magazine is concerned, we owe a great debt of thanks to my Yoram Sarusi...... 26 predecessor as Editor, Alan Gold. The magazine in his time reached great Zvi Centre...... 36 heights and I only hope that when times return to normal, we will again reach the same standard. Unfortunately, because of Covid and its effect on local businesses this issue is a compromise but at least we still managed to produce a paper copy. Special thanks to Elkan Levy who has written a fine tribute to Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, a man whose writings will continue to inspire us long into the future; and many other fine articles within, a good balance of serious and lighter articles. Ivor and I wish our contributors and advertisers a Chag Kasher v Sameach. My thanks to our advertising manager Ivor Carr, our designer Therese Berkowitz, our photographer Avril Gattoff, our canvasser for Pesach greetings June Weinberg, proofreader Marlene Knepler, our distribution team and to them and the entire Kehilla we wish a Chag Kasher v Sameach. A The Editors and the Young Israel Community of North Netanya appreciate the support of our Sharon Carr advertisers. Please let them know that you have seen their advertisement in this publication. YINN and the magazine team are not in any way responsible for the performance of our advertisers nor for the accuracy of their advertisements. In particular we do not guarantee the of any establishment advertising in this magazine.

YINN Pesach 5781 | 3 Greetings to our Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren 2021

Enid Abrahams Rosalind Goldstein Rabbi Natan Morowitz Freddy and Freha Apfel Maurice and Jean Golend Martin and Caroline Moser Benny and Nurit Aricha Fraybin Gottlieb Ivor and Elaine Newman Brian and Heather Bank Brian and Ruth Gouldman Sala Newton-Katz Gerald and Diana Barnett Harvey and Natalie Green Graham and Rowena Nussbaum Michael Beach Nathan and Sylvia Haberfeld Michael and Lynette Ordman Lawrence and Sonya Benjamin Tony and Clarice Hanstater Vivienne Oster Joseph and Judy Berger Judah and Loretta Harstein Philip and Jenny Park David and Anita Berke Geraldine Hartog Bernard and Bella Pentol Gillian Berman Robert and Susan Hodes Nelly Perry Stephen and Joyce Berman Mark and Anita Hoffman Michael Plaskow Anthony and Desiree Bernstein Stuart and Marlene Horowitz Mike and Frances Plaskow Aubrey Blitz Rabbi Edward and Frankie Jackson Tony and Stephanie Plaskow Jonathan Blitz Alf Jacobs Geoffrey and Mary Jane Pollack Elaine Bloom Mike and Jackie Jacobs Renee Rabinowitz Yvonne Bortz Cyril and Lydia Karp Sandra Rabinowitz Martin and Gill Boxer Maurice and Judi Kay Jack and Frederica Reiss Zvi and Charlotte Braun Andrew and Geraldine Kaye Claire Richmond Jaques and Hazel Broch Michael and Heidi Kay Norman and Cynthia Roberts David and Miriam Bronner Ruth Keene Dudley and Naomi Rogg Steven and Estelle Brown Russell and Melinda Kett Ruth Rogoff Mitchell and Phillipa Caller Geoffrey and Barbara Keye Stephanie Ronson Raymond and Jeanette Cannon Moshe and Cheryl Kempinski Julian and Slawa Rosenberg Ivor and Sharon Carr Harry and Rosemary Klahr Arthur and Sara Rosenstein Martin and Phyllis Carr Anchel and Bella Klein David and Ita Rubenstein Simon and Sandra Catalove Philip and Maureen Klyne Brenda Rubin Rabbi David and Chanofsky Marlene Knepler Maurice and Myrla Sacofsky Judith Cohen Andrew and Avril Kormornick Beryl Sagal Mervyn and Sandra Cohen Jacques and Monique Korolnyk June Schlesinger Neville and Susan Cohen Ronnie and Ruth Kotton Esther Schneider Mark and Carolyn Collins Sylvia Kovler Philip and Barbara Schwartz Hyam and Sheila Corney Jacky and Shoshy Lax Anthony and Rochelle Selby Anthony and Louise Daulby Brian and Nadia Lebetkin Hilton and Rosalind Share Elhanan and Nina Diesendruck Sender and Zelda Lees Mottle Shaw Jeff and Hilary Dritz Yehoshua and Dina Lehman Joyce Shohet Asher and Paula Edery Erna Lemon Eze and Gillian Silas Denis and Janet Elkoubi Mervyn and Ruth Leviton Charles and Vivienne Simenoff Ed and Joanne Epstein Sheila Levitt Ian and Shelley Sluckis Hillel and Yvette Factor David and Lilian Levy David and Hilda David and Ziona Feiler Elkan Levy Leonard and Yehudit Solomons Elaine Feingold Gerald and Rita Levy Brian Sopher and Susan Rosenberg Daphne Felix Sue Levy Yehuda and Jenny Sosnow Tina Feuer Ivor and Lewis Richard and Helen Stareshefsky Bella Fielding Lily Lindsay David and Sandra Stein Arnie and Chevy Fine Abi and Ellen Litt Lynda Struel Ian and Gillian Fine Stuart and Susan Lustigman Alex and Alexandra Stuart Elaine Fishman Barry and Ruth Lyons Moshe and Rochelle Veeder Jean-Jaques and Simone Franck Ria Maissel Joe and Betty Wahnon Judy Frankel Joe and Leila Manasseh June Weinberg Helen French Michael and June Manning Ferry Weitz Golda Friedler and Sidney Lawrence Anthony and Maureen Marcovitch Stuart and Naomi West Neville and Avril Gatoff Geoff and Rachel Marks and Melanie Wind Basil and Joyce Geller David and Ruth Marriott Rabbi David and Paulette Woolf David and Eileen Gillis Jeffrey Milston Janice Zemmel A David Glass Serge and Patricia Morgensztern Alan and Ruth Gold Neil and Denise Morris

4 | YINN Pesach 5781 A New Song by Rabbi Boruch M. Boudilovsky

The three pilgrim festivals are each a historical miraculous time, on our incredible medical professionals, celebrated with joy and song. On Seder night our celebration exceeds this year we will sing a new song Pesach, however, our song is new. the confines of history. On one celebrating our lives, health, Unlike a traditional and seasonal night we simultaneously celebrate upcoming reunions, and all the song lovingly and nostalgically sung a great historical event, a currently blessings bestowed upon us by the annually, the song of Pesach is a new unfolding miraculous wonder, and redeemer of Israel. and fresh one. Indeed, already when a future promising redemption. Thank you to the editorial team for celebrating their redemption on the Contained within the ancient all their hard work, time, and effort. shores of the Red Sea, our ancestors story of the Exodus, the seeds Their dedication and professionalism sang a new song, ‘Shira Chadasha of all future hopes, aspirations, is evident by the quality of this issue. Shibchu ’’, ‘With a new song, and redemptions are planted. On Finally, on behalf of Esther myself the redeemed people praised’. Ever Pesach, we draw confidence in a and our children, I wish you and your since, every year on Seder night we better future from the story of the families a Chag Kasher VeSameach. A too sing a new song. past. Inspired by the marvels of history and the possibilities of the ונאמר לפניו שירה חדשה future, we celebrate the present as (הגדה של פסח) Therefore, let us recite a new song well. Responding to the fears and before Him. (Passover Haggada) dreams of each particular generation, each Seder night becomes a new ונודה לך שיר חדש על גאלתנו ועל and distinctive redemptive פדות נפשנו experience inspiring a new (הגדה של פסח) Then we shall thank You with a new celebratory song never sang song for our redemption and for the before. deliverance of our souls. (Passover This year, our own Haggada) generational exodus is What can be so new about an palpable. We are exiting ancient text annually recited/sung a pandemic which has recurringly? Clearly, it is not the aggressively weakened us familiar words which are new, but by bereavement, isolation, rather how we experience them. loneliness, and divisiveness. Unlike Chanukah, for instance, With hopes for better times when we sing and praise to mark ahead, and with gratitude to

YINN Pesach 5781 | 5 Chairman’s Message by Graham Nussbaum

These are crazy times, every Yomim Noraim, Succot and Simchat so many halachic considerations is a challenge, nevertheless the inside and outside was small, when planning services for the Yomim services are well organised and those the services were meaningful and Noraim, Succot, and who conduct them do so expertly. special in so many ways. A L’Chaim Purim. During these unpredictable After the Chagim the restrictions was held on Zoom two days after times the Rabbi was willing to applying to attendance at Shul Simchat Torah so all members were think tangentially but above all he services were intensified as the able to participate in honouring was always concerned about how Covid-19 infection rate increased. the Chatanim, Rabbi David Woolf any decision would impact on our When managing the situation and Ronnie Lawrence. Similarly, the members. We really do have a special our number one priority was, and Nashei Chayil, Sala Newton-Katz and Rabbi. continues to be, a strict adherence Joanna Rosenberg were honoured At an EGM in January the to the law thereby keeping our on Tu b’Shvat. Both occasions were Community voted overwhelmingly to members as safe as possible. We are enhanced with entertainment. The share part of YINN’S building with a determined to provide services for Chatanim and Nashei Chayil represent High School which is being our members in the Shul building, all that is good in our Community. pioneered by the Rabbi. After many years as editor of the Shul magazine Alan Gold has retired When managing the situation our number one priority was, and Sharon Carr has taken over this and continues to be, a strict adherence to the law thereby role. Thank you to Alan who was a keeping our members as safe as possible. superb editor and I am sure Sharon will be a worthy successor. A huge thank you to our members when possible, or outside at various Joanna Rosenberg has retired as whose work for the Shul has become sites in the area. No matter the Chairman of the Nashim, a role an integral part of their lives. We are weather conditions our members which she carried out well, thank you so fortunate to have so many talented come to daven. Equally as important Joanna. Betty Wahnon has taken over individuals who are dedicated to the as holding services is keeping in the position and I am sure that she Community. contact with our members, thereby will be equally successful. Creative solutions have become keeping the Community together, Although the Covid-19 restrictions the order of the day but they would and Zoom events certainly help this were eased prior to Purim we still had not have succeeded without the endeavor. The weekly Monday Club challenges to overcome to ensure an team spirit, resilience and excellence and Melave Malka have become “not enjoyable Purim. The Megilla readings of the members of the Executive, to be missed” events and likewise were well organised and having the experience and commitment the Shiurim have many devotees. The a Zoom link to the reading meant of the members of the Board and website is also a cohesive medium every member who wanted to hear the support, understanding and full of communal information. Thank the Megilla was able to do so. The encouragement of you, our members. you to David Glass who retired after Purim Spiel on Zoom was superb and Thank you all so much. many years as the Shul’s webmaster, lifted our spirits as did the Whisky. Rowena and I wish Rabbi Boruch he did an excellent job. Alex Stuart The home delivered Purim breakfast and Esther Boudilovsky, Rabbi Eddie as the new webmaster, has made a organised by the Irgun Nashim went and Frankie Jackson, Rabbi Morowitz dynamic start. down well. and the whole Community, Chag Even though the number of people The Rabbi’s extensive knowledge Kasher V’Sameach. A allowed to attend services on the of Halacha enabled us to cope with

6 | YINN Pesach 5781 LORD JONATHAN HENRY SACKS 1948 TO 2020 CHIEF RABBI 1991 TO 2013 by Elkan Levy

The Chief Rabbinate of England conferences of a non-Jewish the Chief Rabbinate and the United is an institution which is unique nature both in England and abroad Synagogue from the great week of in world Jewry. Every other Chief raised the profile of and cross-communal study known as Rabbinate has been the creation the Jewish community within the Limmud was a serious failing. of the secular power. Even the United Kingdom and outside to His absence from the funeral of existence of two Chief in heights that it had never before Rabbi Hugo Gryn in 1996 produced the State of Israel can be traced attained. No other non-Anglican an unfortunate rift within the directly to the period of Ottoman leader has ever been invited to community. The adoption of an rule. Only in Britain is the Chief address the Lambeth conference, excessively rigid stance in the Rabbinate the creation of the the worldwide gathering of case of a contested admission to Jewish community, developing Anglicans at Canterbury. As the the JFS school led to a Supreme from the pre-eminence of the Rabbi leading non-Christian religious Court judgement that removed the of the Great Synagogue in Duke’s leader it was Jonathan Sacks who requirement that pupils attending Place London. introduced other leaders to the the school should be halachically When Jonathan Sacks became Pope in 2010; Sacks’ account of Jewish. Chief Rabbi in 1991 he succeeded this meeting which took place But a recital of shortcomings Immanuel Jakobovits who had on the day before , within the community pales raised significantly the status of the when he was dressed office. By expressing the approach in black and the Pope of to the great issues in pure white “as if he of the day, Lord Jacobovits had was about to recite Kol developed the Chief Rabbinate to Nidre” appreciated become one of the Great Offices of the incongruity of the State. The Chief Rabbi’s views were occasion! known and appreciated across Sacks’ contract as much of British society, and in a Chief Rabbi gave him certain sense he was the moral six weeks every summer conscience of the nation. in which to write books In an uncertain and secular age, and this produced a it was Jonathan Sacks’ task and stream of major works. Many of when measured against the privilege to provide intellectual his writings on problems in society overall success of what was by and moral leadership. One of his became essential textbooks for any measure a remarkable Chief favourite sayings was “Non- government and are studied for Rabbinate. respect Jews who respect Judaism” their insights into the troubles of continued to be the major and he frequently and forthrightly our age. preoccupation of the community declared Jewish ethics, values and No Chief Rabbinate has been a and the number of Jewish day principles. tale of unbroken success, and there schools proliferated. Judaism His “Credo” column in The were disappointments in the Sacks and Jewish practice became Times, his regular broadcasts Chief Rabbinate. He often deferred considerably more widespread in “Thought for the Day”, his to the ultra-Orthodox although than before, and even areas that frequent invitations to speak at they had respect neither for him in the past seemed closed to Jews major national and international nor for his office. The absence of have opened. To be an identified

YINN Pesach 5781 | 7 Jew has become acceptable across difficult or even impossible for him society. to see how something would play I had been a member of the with ordinary people. selection committee that nominated There were times that were very him as Chief Rabbi but when I stressful. One was a passage in his was acting Minister of Belmont book “The Dignity of Difference” he came for the consecration which was gleefully misinterpreted of a new in October by a group of right-wing Rabbis. 1991. When we arrived at the shul Rather than stand up to them he after the welcoming procession I altered the text for the second was surprised to see that he was edition. acknowledging the influence and wearing a bullet-proof vest, and As part of the fallout from the support of his wife. Elaine was his throughout his tenure as Chief Hugo Gryn affair he agreed to speak rock, the person who organised him Rabbi he remained a high risk at a meeting organised by the Board when necessary, the shelter when target. of Deputies in Gryn’s memory. In a he needed to relax, the smiling naïve attempt to forestall criticism hostess at Hamilton Terrace. He From October 1992 I had the he wrote a letter in “rabbinic once said that when he first saw privilege of knowing him very well, Hebrew” to Rabbi Padwa, head of her she “radiated joy” and he could first as a US Honorary Officer, the ultra-Orthodox community. No never have been the man he was and from 1996 as President of one had been consulted about this without her help and support. the United Synagogue. We would letter and no one knew about it until He also depended heavily speak almost every day and had it was maliciously seized and leaked on Syma Weinberg and Joanna fixed meetings every two weeks to the Jewish Chronicle. Benarroch who ran his office during in Hamilton Terrace. These were However, after I had ceased to be and after his Chief Rabbinate. accompanied with coffee and President I unexpectedly had the One of Sacks’ favourite sayings breakfast croissants, and in order to chance to produce a new edition was “Yiddishkeit demands avoid the rush hour traffic I would of the Singer’s Prayerbook, the Menshlichkeit – to be a Jew you usually join him first at St John’s standard text of Minhag Anglia. have to adhere to the highest Wood Synagogue for . This was the first major rabbinic standards of ethics and morality”. These gatherings were always very work that Sacks had done. This phrase encapsulates as no cordial, and I can remember on Originally he was just going to other the life and achievements of one occasion when the meeting write a commentary, but suddenly Jonathan Henry Sacks. He was a took twice as long as it should have he decided to produce a new Jew of the highest standard and a done, Elaine Sacks saying to us translation. Working with him on mensch of the highest standard. He “that wasn’t a business meeting – this was an intellectual delight, bestrode both the Jewish and the there was too much laughter!” and in due course the fourth secular worlds, and we shall not see A A cartoon of Sacks which hung edition of the Singer’s Prayerbook his like again. in his office showed him having in its unique green cover morphed two heads, one the Cambridge into the Koren-Sacks and intellectual, the other the orthodox ultimately the whole series of Koren rabbi. There were times that the Machzorim. two clashed. He had that incredible No appreciation of Jonathan height of intelligence which made it Sacks would be complete without

8 | YINN Pesach 5781 Closure — A True Story by Antonia Maurer Levy Passover On Yom Ha’Atzmaut my daughter to see the two men, and approaching went on a tiyul, where she met a friend them asked “What is the matter?” My It’s a far, far road from Egypt whose mother had come from Australia father z.l. replied that his wife (mine To our own, our happy land, to visit. Her friend, who was born in and my sister’s mother) had just died From the pyramids of Egypt Belgium like myself and my sister, in hospital and he did not know what Built beneath the tyrant’s hand; Cecile, introduced her mother, Rose to do. Its road so strange and marvelous Gottleib, to my daughter Esther. Rose Rose’s father, a total stranger to these That few can understand. Gottleib asked my daughter her family men, took them both to his house and name. When Esther said “Blitzer”, told my father that he would make all See, the Lord had passed us over Rose’s face turned white and she asked the arrangements for his wife to have a For his sign upon our gate! Esther “What do you know about your Jewish burial. Rose remembers asking He has spared the crushed and driven, grandparents?” Esther explained that how he could do that as there was no He has judged the proud and great. she knew her grandfather but had never Rabbi and her father was a Cohen. He When the hosts of Israel rise to go known her grandmother, who died answered that it was more of a Mitzvah He makes the crooked straight. when her own mother (that’s me) was to bury someone if a suitable person only two years old. Esther explained could not be found. It’s a far, far road to Zion that her mother had no information Can you imagine how I felt when a For the slave afraid to flee; about her own late mother. total stranger coming from Australia tells He must pass through flood Rose proceeded to tell Esther that me that her father buried my mother? and desert, their family was on the same train as I was so emotional, I cried all the way Yet his land he shall not see. we were, but we did not know each home and for many days after that. But the man that knows the sign other. We had all left Belgium for France Following my meeting with Rose, I of when the Germans invaded Belgium. did not remember the city we were in On Pesach eve is free. We had simultaneously arrived in a at the time this occurred, as I was only town called Rodez, still unaware of each two . With Rose’s help I sent an email other. My daughter Esther did not want to the town hall in Rodez with all the This poem is in the public domain. to hear any more without my presence information I had. Written by Jessie E. Sampter (1883-1938), and asked Rose to phone me. I was so After 67 years of having no a Jewish educator, poet, and Zionist pioneer. She was born in and stunned to hear from a total stranger, information about my mother or her immigrated to Palestine in 1919. who implied she knew something passing, I finally received her death about my family, that I arranged to meet certificate, and with it the beginning of with her in Efrat We met and this is closure. what she told me: I am now going to France and we will She was eleven years old when they go to Rodez to try and find my mother’s left Belgium, so she was going to school. grave. One day, whilst on her way home for I am, of course, in touch through lunch, (being from an orthodox family, email, with Rose who has now returned she ate at home) she noticed two men to Australia, was born in Belgium and who she immediately identified as came to Israel to visit, and who, through being Jewish, sitting on a bench looking Hashgacha Pratis, was able to fill in this very distraught. missing void in my life. Upon reaching home she told her For me, it has been like finding a father about the two sad Jews sitting needle in a haystack. on the bench, and insisted that he What I cannot understand is that my goes to see for himself. Her father went father never told us this story. A

YINN Pesach 5781 | 9 10 | YINN Pesach 5781 Contacting the Shul by Email A User’s Guide As I PLEASE: Emailing the Rabbi: If there is any matter on which you wish to consult Lines From an Ex-editor’s Forehead Rabbi Boudilovsky, use this email by Alan Gold address: [email protected] Like so many retirees among make a move. Office: The Office is closed due to our membership (not that I have I was asked by a gentleman the Coronavirus. retired, but that’s another story), hitherto my good friend whether, For general enquiries: I had no intention of “getting in my opinion, he should hand email: [email protected] involved in the shul”. After so over his voluntary chairmanship of or phone: 09 832 1078 and your call many years of board meetings, a committee he had headed over will be redirected. committee meetings, communal many years. I replied that it was dissension and discussion, always good to bring in new talent Magazine: If you have any ideas enough was enough. while maintaining involvement. or want to know if an article you Then I made a tactical error. I “Oh, so that’s what you think of are thinking of writing is suitable sat in the row where I had placed me,” he retorted and marched out or anything else about the myself for many years as a Pesach of my office. I later discovered that magazine simply contact the YINN visitor. I hadn’t realised the he had told my boss that I was magazine editor Sharon Carr on implications of sitting between organising a campaign to get rid of [email protected] the then Chairman of the Shul him. (Gordon Weinberg z”l) and one I leave the editor’s chair without Membership: Thinking of joining of his predecessors, Eze Silas. regrets but with sincere thanks to YINN or maintaining or anything My policy of splendid neutrality all those who have contributed, to do with membership just email came under fire as being neither advertised, and helped distribute. [email protected] and our splendid nor neutral. Broadsides In recent years, after my membership guru Tony Plaskow from the left and the right about amateurish attempts at layout will soon be in touch with help and young people (sic!) taking a share floundered, the look of the YINN advice. of responsibility typified Sabbatical magazine was brought to great conversations. heights first by Anthony Felix z”l Chairman – Graham Nussbaum: I decided that there was only one and latterly by Therese Berkowitz. Sometimes you may want to make way to restore peace with honour, Our two advertising managers, a comment or offer your opinion on and that was to offer something Tony and Ivor, are particular areas within the shul or even give a that would satisfy my critics (who, heroes, not forgetting the Queen compliment. If so, this is the email of course, remained my good of the Pesach Greetings page, address: [email protected] friends) while keeping me off the June Weinberg. The community Board. So I offered to take over the has been kind in their praise and Social & Personal: To advise the shul magazine. moderate in their criticism. I know Shul about your forthcoming Simcha The rest may not be history in the magazine is in excellent hands contact Ruth Lyons our Social the broad sense of the word, but in Sharon, and I wish her well. Secretary at: the fact is that after ten years and If I had to find an epithet to [email protected] twenty editions, I felt that the time pass on to my successor, I would had come and that the magazine crib from the Duke of Wellington Welfare: Please use this email would benefit from the fresh “publish and be damned!”. How address to tell the shul of anyone insight a new editor would bring. appropriate for a shul magazine! A who has just gone into hospital, Long ago, I learned the lesson of anyone who may need travel office holders not knowing when to assistance or help with shopping, etc: [email protected]

YINN Pesach 5781 | 11 מזל טובNACHAS (Since Rosh Hashanah 5781)

New Members Marriage Lawrence Benjamin Steve and Joyce Berman Son Valerie Braun Neville and Susan Cohen Son Mitchell and Phillipa Caller Henry and Jane Dony Granddaughter Edward and Joanna Epstein Rabbi Edward & Miriam Feigelman 2 Grandsons Jean-Jacques and Simone Franck Bella Fielding Granddaughter David Frankel Ian and Gillian Fine Granddaughter Maureen Frankel Angela Jenshil Grandson Michael and Jacqueline Jacobs Barry and Ruth Lyons Granddaughter Martin and Caroline Moser Granddaughter Barmitzvah Bernard and Bella Pentol Granddaughter Enid Abrahams Great Grandson Nelly Perry Grandson David and Miriam Bronner Grandson Rev. Michael Plaskow Grandson Howard and Ruth Cohen Grandson Rochelle and Anthony Selby Granddaughter Hyam and Sheila Corney Grandson Moishe and Rochelle Veeder Granddaughter RabbI Edward & Miriam Feigelman Grandson Alan and Ruth Gold Grandson Special Anniversary Graham and Rowena Nussbaum Grandson Lawrence and Sonya Benjamin 65th Wedding Anniversary Michael and Lynette Ordman Grandson Jaques and Hazel Broch 65th Wedding Anniversary Eze and Gillian Silas Grandson Arthur and Sara Rosenstein 59th Wedding Anniversary Simon and Helen Waingard Great Grandson Simon and Myiam Hazan 50th Wedding Anniversary Isaac and Melanie Wind Grandson Richard and Helen Stareshefsky 50th Wedding Anniversary Joe and Betty Wahnon 50th Wedding Anniversary Batmitzvah Andy and Avril Kormornick 40th Wedding Anniversary Jeff and Hilary Dritz Granddaughter Mark and Cally Collins 30th Wedding Anniversary Rabbi Edward & Miriam Feigelman Granddaughter Daphne Felix Granddaughter Special Birthday Bella Fielding Great Granddaughter Alf Jacobs 97th Birthday Simon and Miriam Hazan Granddaughter Helen Waingard 95th Birthday David Granddaughter Simon Waingard 95th Birthday Sue Levy Granddaughter Stanley Ross 90th Birthday Janette Moore Granddaughter Maurice Sacofsky 90th Birthday Neil and Denise Morris Granddaughter Mike Plaskow 85th Birthday Ronnie and Emma Phillips Granddaughter Stuart West 85th Birthday Steve Berman 80th Birthday Engagement Colin Frankel 80th Birthday Gillian Berman Granddaughter Lilian Levy 80th Birthday Neville and Susan Cohen Son Stuart Plaskow 80th Birthday Bella Fielding Granddaughter David Rubenstein 80th Birthday Yoel and Batsheva First Daughter Martin Carr 75th Birthday Helen French Granddaughter Clarice Hanstater 70th Birthday Devorah Lev Grandson David and Lilian Levy Granddaughter Special Event Ria Massel Grandson Ronnie Lawrence Chatan Bereshit Geoff and Rachel Marks Grandson Rabbi David Woolf Chatan Torah Nelly Perry Grandson Daphne Felix New Home Dudley and Naomi Rogg Grandson Gerald and Rita Levy New Home Maurice and Myrla Sacofsky Granddaughter Arthur and Sara Rosenstein 42 years Anthony and Cynthia Taub Grandson and Valerie Braun Made Aliyah a Granddaughter Edward and Joanna Epstein Made Aliyah Stuart and Naomi West Granddaughter Mike and Jackie Jacobs Made Aliyah Norman and Cynthia Roberts Made Aliyah 12 | YINN Pesach 5781 Birth Enid Abrahams Great Granddaughter Gillian Berman Great Grandson Jaques and Hazel Broch Great Granddaughter Knit One, Rabbi David and Leah Chanofsky Great Grandson Neville and Susan Cohen Granddaughter Purl One Bella Fielding Great Grandson by Hazel Broch Yoel and Batsheva First Grandson Helen French 3 Great Grandchildren Since our Rosh Hashanah magazine, it is David and Eileen Gillis Gr anddaughter and rewarding to know that we now have a small Grandson number of ladies and gentlemen who are happy to Annette Gordon Great Grandson Stuart and Marlene Horowitz Granddaughter knit ‘Hats for our IDF’. Rabbi Eddie and Frankie Jackson Great Granddaughter By Pesach, we will have sent 100 hats to our Alf Jacobs Great Granddaughter contact in Efrat. Channah Koppel then sews inside Andrew and Geraldine Kaye Grandson each hat a label in Hebrew which translates as: Michael and Heidi Kaye Grandson ‘Knitted for you with love and warmth from The Trudi Kaye Great Grandson Connecting Thread’. Ruth Keene Twin Great We were very fortunate that the wool was Granddaughters donated to me to give out to our knitters and we Sender and Zelda Lees Great Grandson thank them so very much. Erna Lemon Great Grandson To our knitters, keep the needles clicking and to Shelia Levitt 2 Great Grandsons and some others reading this, please join us. I have the a Great Granddaughter wool and the pattern. You only need No. 5 needles. Robert and Lesley Levy Grandson Please join us and keep our IDF warm and safe. Barry and Ruth Lyons 3 Great Granddaughters and a Great Grandson Please contact me Hazel Broch on 054-779- Joe and Leila Manasseh Great Granddaughter 2771. I will be pleased to make the arrangements Michael and June Manning Great Granddaughter and you can be ‘The Connecting Thread’. Serge and Patricia Morgensztern Grandson Chag Sameach. A Vivienne Oster Great Granddaughter Bernard and Bella Pentol Great Grandson Nelly Perry Twin Great Grandsons and a Great Granddaughter Rev. Michael Plaskow Gr eat Granddaughter and a Great Grandson Geoffrey and MaryJane Pollack Grandson Renee Rabinowitz 2 Great Granddaughters and a Great Grandson Sandra Rabinowitz Great Grandson Stanley and Irene Ross 2 Great Granddaughters Mottle Shaw Great Grandson Brian Sopher & Susan Rosenberg Grandson Richard and Helen Stareshefsky Great Granddaughter Anthony and Cynthia Taub Great Granddaughter Stuart and Naomi West Great Grandson

YINN Pesach 5781 | 13 My Work with Bereaved Families by Rev Michael Plaskow MBE

Some years ago, accompanied by 50 other people, Phyllis Don’t Tell Me and I returned from an army barracks situated on the Golan Please don’t tell me you know how I feel border, near , where a room was consecrated Unless you have lost your child too, by a charming couple from Netanya in memory of their son. Please don’t tell me my broken heart will heal, This room will benefit soldiers and police and enable them to Because that is just not true. relax and receive refreshments. I thought this was a wonderful Please don’t tell me my son is in a better place, gesture on their part and I know that they were comforted Though it is true, I want him here with me, in the knowledge that their dear son’s memory will be Don’t tell me some day I’ll hear his voice, see his face, perpetuated through the use of this restroom by thousands of Because today I cannot see. soldiers. This brings me on to the subject of bereavement. Don’t tell me it is time to move on In my many years as a chazzan in London, I found Because I cannot, bereavement for a child the most difficult as far as my services Don’t tell me to face the fact he is gone, to the family were concerned. I remember officiating at the Because denial is something I cannot stop. funerals for the victims of road accidents, fires, drownings, an avalanche and illness. To give a hesped (eulogy) at the funeral Don’t tell me to be thankful for the time I had, for a child or young adult, knowing and appreciating the Because I wanted more, trauma that the parents are undergoing at that time was one of Don’t tell me when I am my old self you will be glad, the most difficult undertakings of my ministry. Because I will never be as I was before. I was sent a poem written by the mother of her young son Shane, who disappeared in the mountains of Nicaragua and What you can tell me is that you will be here for me, whose body was subsequently found after 12 days. It was That you will listen when I talk of my child, written in his memory. You can share with me my precious memories, You can even cry with me for a while.

I pray that any person reading this who has lost a child may And please don’t hesitate to say his name, be comforted by the Almighty in the fullness of time.A Because it is something I long to hear every day, Friend, please realise that I can never be the same, But if you stand by me, you may like the new person, I become some day.

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14 | YINN Pesach 5781 A Book I Love And Treasure by Dr Mervyn Leviton

Some 54 years ago a young girl The young man thought about it and bed and rejoiced again that he was named Sandra Feiler gave me a replied, “Naturally the one with the able to observe the second mission. present of a book. The book was dirty face.” The Rabbi replied, “There But during the night the beggar called A Treasury of Jewish Folklore are two possible answers. The one grew worse, and died the next day. first published by Crown Publishers with the clean face looked at the one Shmuli arranged for his funeral and of New York in 1948. To this very day with the dirty face and assumed that accompanied him to the graveside. it remains a real treasure in my own his face was also dirty so he washed That night turning his eyes to heaven personal library. Just as an aside, it. The one with the dirty face looked he said, “Praised be G-d who has Sandra Feiler, now a grandmother at the one with the clean face and made it so easy for a man to merit named Sandy Potashnick, is the assumed that his was the same so he everlasting life in Olam HaBa” sister of our own David Feiler and two didn’t wash it.” During this difficult period of our of her grandchildren are the great “Brilliant” said the young man, lives when daily news is so often grandchildren of Hazel and Jaques “Thank you Rabbi, now I understand filled with gloom and doom, it is Broch. .” “No, you don’t” said the pure medicine when I am able to This book of 740 pages is in fact Rabbi, “A true Talmud scholar would lose myself in A Treasury of Jewish a rich and beautiful encyclopedia of say: if two burglars enter a house Folklore.A Jewish stories and legends reflecting through the same chimney, how can European Jewish life during the past only one have a dirty face?” 200 years. Its many sections are In a section about headed: Holy Men, Human Comedy Olam HaBa, we read of including Stories of Chelm, Rogues Shmuli, a pious man and Sinners, Traditional Types, who asked his Rabbi, Scholars and Teachers, Match- “What must I do to Makers, Legends, The World to Come, merit everlasting life the Ten Lost Tribes, Animal Tales, in Olam HaBa?” The Songs and Dances. This final Music Rabbi replied, “Three section is of special interest as it things you must do: You contains not only the words of dozens must give charity, you of traditional Yiddish songs but also must care for the sick, the printed music to accompany the and bury the dead.” text. On his way home from Here are just a couple of my the Rabbi, Shmuli met favourite stories from this lovely book. a poor beggar in the One day a young man said to his street and invited him Rabbi, “Rabbi, I’ve never understood to his home for a meal what I have to do to really understand and was delighted that and appreciate the purpose of the now he had already Talmud?” The Rabbi replied with a fulfilled the first part story: ‘’If two burglars enter a house of his mission. But by way of the chimney and find unfortunately the beggar themselves in the living room, one felt sick because he had with a dirty face and one with a clean overeaten. So Shmuli face, which one will wash his face?’’ let him sleep in his own

YINN Pesach 5781 | 15 Purim Unmasked How things have changed. Time were a slick, quick-fire sequence was–it seems like a lifetime ago– of enjoyable turns, one clearly when we would have been easing captioned item sliding seamlessly ourselves cosily into the only into the next. And if I may use such unoccupied seats in the George a term, it presented a truly catholic Goddard Hall, ready to chuckle, range of subjects, from cheer, cringe or groan at those long- cartoons to Groucho Marx’s Lydia, familiar golden oldies–gags, corny the tattooed lady. Best of all–you one-liners, sketches, familiar show- could actually watch your favourite biz snippets and well-choreographed bits again and again! chorus-line production numbers– Although the tone was still which regularly featured in our much- predominantly comic with cherished annual Purim Spiel. This pantomime-style sketches a-plenty, year, even though growing numbers (Oh no they weren’t!–Oh yes they of us are now armed with green were!…) there was also an ever- passports, we will have been safely lurking reminder of more sombre gazing at screens from our armchairs. issues. Players, acting solo or at most But as Alan Gold announced in his in twos or threes, were distanced welcoming remarks, “The show must between screens or remained seated. go on”–and what an exhilarating At each initial appearance, players show it turned out to be, with an came on masked and these masks extensive and talented cast bent would be significantly removed on cheering us all up! Right from in front of us. There were so many the Overture, we were once again phrases or concepts that would have reminded of the reliable support had any of us flummoxed this time always provided throughout by our last year. What would we have made valued Musical Director and pianist, of lockdown: corona; or covid? Why Marilyn Benson. Aided and abetted would Haman exultantly display a by Martin Carr, Alan this year brought virus he had invented? Why on earth us a novelty entertainment, offering would Mordecai be referred to as old treats in a new guise. “Professor Astrazeneca Mordecai, Streamed directly into our homes, the man from Moderna”? Why would thanks to the brilliant technical YINN be marketing facemasks–“Get ingenuity of Alex Stuart, this revue on line and buy one today…they worked unexpectedly well–and so combine security with sexiness”? comfortably, with players no longer With amusing numbers galore, entering and exiting, no audience one can merely touch briefly on members coming in late, no more the most gloriously absurd items. scene shifting, no rustling of Tony Plaskow’s fleeting honorary programmes or coughing fits from the membership of The Eagles in his spectator behind you or their knees epic rendering (with unforgettable in the small of your back, no more wig!) of “Hotel California”! Martin problems with the mics. Carr, wearing a truly funny bagpiper’s What we received instead tartan bonnet with a pompom,

16 | YINN Pesach 5781 Daf Corner: Have You Registered? How About Serving On The Assembly Line? by Rabbi Ozer (Edward) Feigelman singing “Morrie put yer mask During the past half year of the Korban Pesach. on”. Bella Fielding’s reproachful current pandemic, we have been We can understand the importance mother nagging her long- encouraged to register weekly for of registering. So what is the suffering son, the ever-busy Alex a seat at the Minyan of Assembly Line all about? When one Stuart, for not ringing her. All our choice. Just imagine registering thinks about Assembly Lines, he may deliciously silly! for the Korban Pesach, the Paschal be thinking how foods are processed And who will ever be able Lamb offering, without a computer in their massive production plants. to forget Avril Kormornick’s or WhatsApp. Just imagine being Perhaps one may think about the hilarious repeat performance assigned to a lamb less than a year Assembly Line of the Industrial Age or from last year’s Ryan MacAir flight old chosen from the “lamb day care” of the automotive industry. What does attendant? This same chummy which had been running around with this have to do with Pesach? Irish chatterbox reappears in a many similar lambs, like children in The Assembly Line is not a relatively “call centre”, working from bed, the Gan. new concept. It dates back to the her phone ringing non-stop while Our Daf Yomi Shiur has recently Talmud, Tractate , chapter she earns lucrative bonuses been learning the details of the 5. Both the and Gemara from her cruise line employers by Korban Pesach. The Talmud in Tractate describe the Assembly Line as ignoring the phone rather than Pesachim (beginning with chapter 5) well as the pageantry, the pomp giving disgruntled callers their tells us that when the Beit Hamikdash and circumstance surrounding the cancellation refunds. stood, the Korban Pesach had specific bringing of the Korban Pesach with The musical number which regulations as to when it could be multitudes of people in the Beit ended the show would have eaten, who could eat it and how it Hamikdash. Most of you who are undoubtedly and resoundingly must be eaten. The Korban Pesach reading this are from the UK and brought the house down, had could only be roasted. It could not be can definitely relate to pomp and there been a live audience. This eaten raw, nor could one break any of circumstance. was a marvellously spirited and its bones. It had to be eaten between To accommodate all the people, Topol-perfect rendering of “If I nightfall and midnight following its the operations of the Temple were Were a Rich Man” delivered in slaughter, and it had to be eaten modified to streamline processing his richly tuneful voice by Rabbi together with Matzah and Maror. of all the Paschal lambs offered. Boruch Boudilovsky. It was Other requirements of the Korban An Assembly Line approach was animated with all the familiar Pesach relate to its Shechitah. The implemented. Ephraim Diamond, in gestures, fists balled, arms and Paschal lamb had to be slaughtered the “Introduction to Mishnayot 5-7” elbows outspread, and he even on Erev Pesach afternoon, even on section of his article “Selection of included Topol’s original ear- Shabbat. Participation in the Paschal Mishnayos Relating to Korban Pesach, piercing screeches and squawks! lamb required complete Seder Night and Korban HaOmer with After so many challenging and kavannah (forethought and planning). Running Commentary” (Sefari) adds: difficult months, it seemed fitting Only those people who registered “In order to prevent overcrowding in that our Rabbi lent his unique with a particular group prior to the the Azarah (Courtyard), the Kohanim talents to enriching the overall Korban being slaughtered could would divide the people into three gaiety and enjoyment of this participate. Just like our Minyan groups, …three groupings of Korbanot memorable Purim Spiel as he registration, there was some leeway with each group consisting of no less brought our fun-filled communal to change groups before the deadline, than thirty people…It was rare that celebration to a close. A the time of Shechitah. Registering to the final, third group would fill the be able to eat a specified lamb was Azarah.” These three groups were like thus crucial to fulfill the Mitzvah of Continued on page 18

YINN Pesach 5781 | 17 Continued from page 17 three Assembly Line shifts. The owner of a Pascal lamb ( or non-Kohen) slaughtered the Korban. “The blood was then collected by a Kohen in a silver or gold beaker and brought close to the Mizbeach () where it was Neshe Chayil then sprinkled/splashed against its side. The Kohanim would stand נשי חיל in Assembly Line form and would pass to each other the full beaker Look forward, never look back. in 1945, an orphan, mastered until it reached the Mizbeach the English language within six where the final Kohen would pour My Mother Sala months and tried her utmost to fill it on the base of the Mizbeach. After the Eshet Chayil evening on in the precious years of schooling He would then return the empty 27th January, I was asked to write a she had lost. Later, thanks to her beaker to the Kohen in the next few words about my mother. determination and efforts, she row—keeping the flow of blood No easy task! How to be brief, what became a state registered nurse. She circulating through the Azarah.” to say about this elegant Lady, an met my father in Windemere. They The rows of Kohanim with their exceptional Mother who has lived got married in Manchester, moved respective gold or silver beakers such a full life. to London and had three daughters. was indeed a spectacular sight. Then fate stepped in to help me. Together with my father they worked In addition to the colorful gold On my next visit to my Mother’s and hard to send us to the best schools and silver beakers, the pomp before I had a chance to tell her about in London and give us the education and circumstance included the article I was to write, she handed that they had missed! blowing Tekiah and Teruah blasts me a folder: “Look what I’ve found!” In 1990, they made Aliyah and soon from silver trumpets during the passed ז’’ל Ten years ago, when my grandson, after my father Benny slaughtering process. Moreover, Netanel, was 9 years old he was given away. Alone in her new country she “throughout this process the as a school assignment a project to started a new life with the same Leviim sang in a continuous do on the person he admired the strong will she had had when she was loop,” performing as a concert most. All the other little boys in his sixteen. She went to ulpan and choir. class, as one would have imagined, became perfectly proficient in Hebrew Today, during our current had chosen a footballer, a film star, and later remarried. pandemic, we unfortunately need an astronaut. Netanel’s subject was “Savta is positive and generous. to register for services. Even his great Grandmother Sala. His She makes people happy.” though we cannot invite many thoughts are my guidelines. He says For more than twenty years, mummy guests to our Seder as in recent it all. volunteered for ATTAD. She would years, we still possess the Seder “I admire Savta because she is a sing and dance and bring a smile to rituals. However, we lack the survivor. She is brave and determined faces. She used to bake and deliver Korban Pesach with its special and never gives up.” flowers regularly to many people to registry, its Assembly Line in My mother survived the Lodz embellish their Shabbat. Mummy was conjunction with its pageantry ghetto, the death camps and the also an active member of the Irgun and pomp and circumstance. loss of her family before her twelfth Nashim and has always been a great May we all be Zocheh to once birthday. She arrived in England supporter of the Laniado. In 2007 she again experience the offering of the Pesachim in Bayit Shlishi, Bimheira B’yameinu. Miriam joins me in wishing all a Chag Pesach Kasher Vesameach. A

18 | YINN Pesach 5781 נשי חיל and her husband, Yossef, were voted couple of the year to honor them for their fundraising efforts. Sala Newton-Katz Joanna Rosenberg “Savta is special because she takes care of everyone.” devotion, strength and unlimited special luncheons and kiddushim for When my four children came to affection. Her credo has always been all the Yamim Tovim, Melave Malka study here in Israel and then made “look forward, never look back.” This and special evening Shul events. Aliyah more than two decades has enabled Sala to survive. A Joanna accepted the role and ensured ago, they could always count on a Janet Elkoubi the catering was top notch for all delicious Shabbat meal and on their events requested by the Shul. grandmother’s moral support when Joanna Rosenberg Joanna represented the Irgun needed. Every week, Mummy would Joanna, our worthy Eshet Chayil, Nashim on the Shul Board and her literally post a lekeh to my nephew presented at the Tu B’Shvat Zoom contribution at Board meetings were Samuel (now Rabbi Landau) in his event this year was born in Dublin, well received and her work much Yeshiva. As we were still living in Ireland. Her respected family in Dublin appreciated. France, it was Mother who sat in the was known for their involvement and Joanna has now retired from her Hospital in , with my son-in- support to needy charities in Dublin position as Chair, and we thank her law awaiting and accompanying the and beyond. for her dedication and involvement birth of her first great grandson. Such Joanna married Harvey Rosenberg and look forward to her continuing as devotion, such love. Thank G-d she from Belfast and left the Dublin a worthy Team Leader and valuable has had the zechut of embracing many community to take her part in the member of our Irgun Nashim and more great grandchildren. As much as Belfast Jewish Community. They Shul. they have given her naches and joy, made Aliyah and settled in Netanya We also wish to thank her husband so she has never missed a birthday, where Joanna, once again, offered her Harvey for his support to Joanna, and and taken any opportunity to show valuable help to Netanya Emunah, for his own involvement in the Shul. how much she cares for her family. supporting Laniado hospital and May they enjoy good health for many So for all these reasons we can many other worthy causes. Above all, years to come. A understand why Netanel chose to pay she held the position of Chair of YINN Irgun Nashim tribute to his great grandmother. My Irgun Nashim for the past four years. Mother is a real Eshet Chayil. I am so Her leadership skills knew no delighted and grateful to the Board for bounds, tirelessly steering the ship for honoring her this year. She is a true all events—weekly Kiddushim, Seudot role model, an example of courage, S’hlishit, Friday night dinners, and

YINN Pesach 5781 | 19 After Translation by Mr. Huub Stollman / Submitted by Paula Edery

The following article was published was liberated in April. However, that right one: “That is a result of my stay in 2020 by a local Jewish newspaper liberation Myrna did not experience at that address. It was done with a in Holland as one of a series about there. She, and some 2500 fellow knife.” Nelly found out it did not go Holocaust survivors and what prisoners, including her father, were well with Mattie and took the little happened to them after the war. It tells put in one of the infamous death boy into her own house for a while. the story of Mattie Tugendhaft, older trains during the last chaotic days of “It turned out that my parents were brother of Paula Edery, and his wife the war. in hiding one street further away.” Myrna. Mattie: “Myrna was taken away Mattie even saw his parents at Nelly’s from Rotterdam and I went into home once. A dangerous undertaking Happiness After A False Start hiding around that time. We lived and they had to leave Mattie behind Myrna and Mattie Tugendhaft are a in Maastricht in an orthodox family on his own though he obviously beautiful Jewish couple. Both 83, they home. In 1933 my father had wanted to go with them. have been married for 59 years now. already fled to the Netherlands Even at Nelly’s he was not safe. Both marked by war experiences, they from Düsseldorf. In Maastricht he Mattie ended up in Klimmen, with refused to be beaten. The couple is met my mother, a De Liver, whose aunt Mien and uncle Albert: “They still very much alive and enjoying life father was a rabbi there. Hers was a were a couple without children. to the fullest. distinguished family and you have to There I had a great time. After the Their youth did not give them a know that at that time German Jews war they wanted nothing: no money, good start. As a child Myrna lived were very much discriminated against no Yad Vashem-decoration. They in Bergen-Belsen, Mattie was in a by the Dutch. When my mother arrived took me in their family purely out of hiding place, where he was abused. home with a German, all hell broke humaneness. They had their own Coincidence has it that they were loose!” Nevertheless, they married. In vegetable garden, there was enough liberated by the same American. 1937 Mattie was born and two years to eat. Uncle Albert, as I called him, Theirs is an extraordinary story, told later his sister Trinette. People from worked in the coal mines in Heerlen. by two people whose zest for life is the resistance, Nelly Eymael being And the Germans needed coal so he contagious. one of them, insisted that our family was relatively well off. On Fridays he “We have returned in very different should go into hiding. “We were could choose between a bottle of gin ways,” Mattie says. He had been in in serious danger. Once my father, and chocolate. He chose chocolate, various hiding places, while Myrna standing in a queue at the post-office, which I got, of course.” had been transported to Bergen- was even tapped on his shoulder. The Frank Towers, an American officer, Belsen. man behind him said: ‘Man, shouldn’t was one of the military who liberated Myrna: “Our family was taken from you go in hiding?’” So Mattie was South-Limburg in September 1944. our home in Rotterdam in March separated from his parents and little “Suddenly my parents stood in the 1943. After that we spent a year sister, a family in hiding with children garden of aunt Mien and Uncle Albert in Westerbork and then we were was too dangerous. That separation who found it very hard to hand me transported to Bergen-Belsen. Since would last two years. During that over to them, since we had developed my mother was English she and I time in hiding his parents had a third a very strong bond. My parents ended up in a part of the camp, so child, Benny. It was not until after the handled that very well. They created we could possibly be exchanged for war that Benny would be circumcised a kind of interim period.” The family, German prisoners of war. My father and reported to the registry office. now complete with father, mother and was a real Amsterdam man. Every Matty went from one hiding place to their three children, return to their now and then some nationalities in another, all arranged by resistance house in Maastricht, where they had the camp received something from woman Nelly Eymael. lived before they went into hiding, their national Red Cross. We did not. One of those places was in De in the Joseph Hollmanstraat. “Dutch We have never seen them there. You Weerd, near Roermond. “There I Nazi’s had been living there, but they will understand that after that this had a very bad time. I was bullied were thrown out by the neighbours organisation was not very popular enormously, and that has been after the liberation. Much of our with us.” traumatic. Look, you see this funny furniture was still there, even a Frisian Myrna’s mother passed away in ear?” Mattie points at his left ear, longcase clock which had belonged March 1945, just before the camp which indeed is different from his to those Dutch Nazi’s. But my mother

20 | YINN Pesach 5781 had already put that with the garbage. now. Although they I don’t think she was aware of the had been liberated value of that thing,” Mattie giggles. on April 13th, it took For Myrna Reens the war was far until June before from over at that moment. The train they could return to in which she ended up in April 1945, the Netherlands. So with 2500 Jews on board, rumbled she spent a number through Germany for a week. No food, of months in that almost no water. Packed like sardines, German village: “There hundreds of occupants died, until simply wasn’t any the train came to a halt somewhere transport available to in Germany. Soldiers of the American take us home.” But in army opened the doors, one of them June she finally arrived being Frank Towers. They expected to in Valkenburg. “That I find cattle, but in reality they found can still remember.” the survivors of Bergen-Belsen. “Years Meanwhile Mattie’s parents moved from Valkenburg to Rotterdam, later Frank has stayed with us. He had picked up their lives again in the city they originated from. “It then told us about the enormous Maastricht. Mattie’s father became is weird, from the war I remember stench which came from the wagons. active in the community, and a lot, but returning to Rotterdam I He remembered that very well,” Myrna together with Emile Wesly, father of cannot remember” Myrna says. “In says. “The Americans went to the the current chairman of the Limburg Rotterdam we were taken care of mayor of the village where the train Jewish Municipality, Benoit Wesly, in the old Jewish hospital and my had stopped, pointed a gun at his he started a kehila. “My father was father and I then went to see what head and demanded that the villagers there for everybody, including those had become of our house: Savornin take care of us and make room for us who returned from the camps. And my Lohmanlaan 98. Nobody opened the in their homes. Thus my father and I grandparents lived next to the Shul door. Strangers now lived there and ended up with people who were our in Maastricht, my grandmother was they obviously did not want to move. enemies. I still remember eating my mikva woman there. We never got the house back, nor the furniture. I have never been inside again. We then rang the bell at the “The Americans went to the mayor of the village where neighbours, the family Blokzijl. They knew our house was occupied and the train had stopped, pointed a gun at his head and said: ‘Our attic is empty and there is a demanded that the villagers take care of us and make large bed there.’ We moved in there. room for us in their homes. Thus my father and I ended up The neighbours downstairs had a baby and I played for hours with that with people who were our enemies.” baby. I thought it was wonderful.” Myrna and her father lived in with the family Blokzijl until her father met a first egg. The only things I had known Also, stolen furniture from the woman. At a boy-scout evening he in Bergen-Belsen were turnips. Those Jews from Maastricht was stored met a widow who had a son. Before I have never ever eaten again. The there, so high that it reached up to the war her husband had been a thought alone makes me feel sick” the women’s part. For us it was a wholesale dealer in meat, but he had In the German house where Myrna playground. We could jump over that not survived the war. They married in ended up, were dolls: “l thought they furniture as far as the aron hakodesh. 1946: “Lou, the father of rabbi Les were beautiful. I played a lot with Those pieces of furniture were then Vorst, conducted the chuppa.” them, rocking dolls in a dolly pram.” removed by the Americans, so that At the end of 1947 the family Myrna ended up in a hospital for a in September 1944 we were able to Tugendhaft also went to Rotterdam. week, because her body could not celebrate Rosh Hashana.” “My mother’s whole family, De digest all the food that was available In 1945 Myrna and her father Liver, had been gassed except one Continued on page 22

YINN Pesach 5781 | 21 Continued from page 21 It was only a year later, when Myrna has told me nothing. I did not dare to nephew of mine, Chaim. The De was in hospital, that he visited her ask my father. And when I did want to Liver family owned a drapery firm in again. Myrna: “My time in Bergen- ask him, my stepmother answered: Rotterdam. We got a license to reopen Belsen left me with very bad feet and I ‘He has nightmares, don’t ask him that business: two shops. One in de had to undergo big operations.” Only anything now.’ Mattie has always kept Hoogstraat and one in the Nieuwe then love blossomed. They married in in contact with his parents-in-hiding, Binnenweg. ‘Koop liever bij De Liver’ 1961, both 23 years old. Once more aunt Mien and uncle Albert. And Nelly (Prefer to buy at De Liver) was a well- Lou Vorst led the chuppa. Eymael married a Jewish man after known slogan in Rotterdam.” Here, So life took its course. Myrna and the war and was now named Nelly too, Mattie’s father devoted himself to Mattie moved to Amstelveen, where Kochman. She is André Rieu’s mother- resume Jewish life. He was a member Mattie starts working at Schiphol. in-law, with whom the Tugendhaft of the Zionist Union, the society of When the owner of the tax-free shops family has a friendly bond. Mattie: the Jewish communal interest; big there went away, the management “My mother never wanted to hear how shidduch parties were organized and asked Mattie if he wanted to take bad my time in de Weert had been, he was one of the founders of the over. Mattie, who had been working she just could not stand it, not till she Maccabi sport club. since he was sixteen­—“studying had died.” And so Myrna and Mattie—they been no option, we could not afford Mattie and Myrna Tugendhaft both played tennis—met one another, that” ­—grabbed his chance. Myrna, had two sons, one of whom lives but it was not love at first sight. who worked at a laboratory, where in America. In the meantime they Mattie: “I had to join the army, I she taught analysts how to make have seven grandchildren and four was one of the first Jewish soldiers preparations, helped with building great-grandchildren. A few days after after the war and I had a great time up the business. “So often we were our conversation Mattie sends me there.” That the wedding had to be already there in the middle of the a picture of a very happy bride and Jewish was an established fact for night. The flights were always bridegroom, with a number of little Mattie’s father. Mattie: “l remember very early in the morning and then children around them, their four great- he once hit me out of a dance in we had to open up an hour before grandchildren. You feel how proud Scheveningen, because I was dancing the flight.” Not much was said about these grandparents are, they are with a non-Jewish girl.” the war anymore. Myrna: “My father beaming with happiness. A

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22 | YINN Pesach 5781 Shtetl Uniontown By Rabbi Arnie Fine

Today the term shtetl brings up the comfortable financially. owners of general stores, bars, a bank picture of a small town in Eastern The Jewish community was owner to name a few. There was a Europe, with a traditional Jewish interesting, then about 300 families. kosher butcher, who also provided community from a century or so ago I am not certain when it was founded a wide range of kosher grocery —Annatevka from . but probably sometime in the early products. In my experience there were and still years of the twentieth century. Many There were two congregations, one are shtetlach (plural of shtetl) all over who settled there made their livings Reform and one that was nominally the world, whose inhabitants work to by peddling in the various coal Conservative, with a few people who maintain Jewish life in small towns, patches, villages where coal mining claimed Orthodoxy. Two synagogue often isolated by distance from Jewish was the reason for their being. These buildings were a few blocks from centres, who struggle to live and communities were dominated by the each other. Each had an afternoon thrive as Jews. The people do not look company store, which maintained religious school. Each had a cemetery, like they are from Annetevka but are certain prices and gave credit and was no less dedicated. I was a rabbi in unforgiving. Remember the song of one of them. the 1950-60’s, “16 tons and what you When I received my semikha in get... I owe my soul to the company 1966, the USA was still very involved store.” It reflected the reality of these in Viêt Nam. Some of my classmates little communities. The peddlers, were conscripted into the Armed many Jewish, were a bit cheaper and Services as chaplains. Those of us they also gave credit which was a bit who were not called up, had the less problematic and perhaps a bit responsibility to become the rabbis of forgiving. While we were there, Jewish small, rather isolated congregations. peddling was still a reality. However, Where Chevy and I, along with they no longer walked with a pack on our then 2-year-old son, settled their back or with horses and wagons was Uniontown in southwestern but drove cars and vans loaded with Pennsylvania, 80 kilometers south of merchandise. In several of the coal Pittsburgh, only about 30 kilometers areas the peddlers opened stores from the University of West Virginia. and went into competition with the This is a region called Appalachia, a company store. These enterprises beautiful, fascinating but problemetic were known as Jew stores and the part of the of America, proprietors were very respected. which is encompassed by several They prospered. Others opened states. It was and probably still is businesses in Uniontown proper. relatively poor. The major industry There were two department stores each had a Hevra Kaddisha. Both in those days was mining soft, with distinctive Jewish names. The maintained regular tefillah and my bituminous coal, which was coked. main street had shops with Jewish shul also had shiva minyanim when When coking happened the sky names. The Jewish population had needed and, of course a kosher turned red from the open flames. At done well economically. When we kitchen. And yes, there were two one time there were 33 millionaire were in Uniontown there were at least newly minted rabbis. There was coal barons in the town. It was in its two pharmacists, several physicians, healthy competition between the transition phase when we arrived, department heads at the local institutions. There was also a Jewish but the Jewish community was quite hospital, dentists, a veterinarian, Continued on page 26

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26 | YINN Pesach 5781 Israel’s Achilles’ Heel “Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.” (House of Commons - 15 June 1874) — Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield 1804-1881 by Raymond Cannon

The failure of the State of Israel to insist and ensure that Dress style and physical appearance are not the arbiters every child, girls and boys, receives a proper education – a of religiosity or virtue and the segregation of the sexes is democratic right – is a crime against humanity, no less. not merely disrespectful but an , it is a denial For tens of thousands of predominantly young boys of female self esteem and worth. Deliberately not listening and men to be denied an opportunity to acquire basic to a woman singing is contemptible; it is the desecration knowledge, which is their birthright, is a stain on Israel’s of a human being who, as religious belief teaches, is also very existence. Religion cannot and must not be used created in the image of G-d. to destroy the fundamental right to be educated and to be informed and have the capacity to exercise personal Parasitical judgment. An even more inexplicable practice, confined to the State of Israel, is the refusal of the “religious” to work Indelible Stigma and earn a living, on the basis that the state (that is tax That hoards of Israeli citizens know absolutely nothing collected from and paid by those who do work) has a duty of basic math, elementary science, their own history or the to provide for the basic needs of those who, by choice, physical world, let alone discovering something about the separate themselves from the society that provides universe, the origins of earth and humans, is an inedible their health care and security. That is a parasitical not a stigma on our nation. To prevent generations enjoying any religious doctrine. culture – music, literature, and the arts – is to rob them of the ability to be inspired by the genius of humankind Deprivation and the opportunity to be discerning human beings able The right of every individual to observe and practice to fulfil their natural curiosity – the engine of acquiring his or her religious belief is an undeniable human right, knowledge. enshrined in the United Nations Charter. But religious If Judaism insistently shuts out these values, it is guilty belief cannot and must not actively promote the of child cruelty which in most democratic societies is a deprivation of another fundamental human right – to be criminal offence. educated. A

Promotion of Ignorance Indoctrinating hoards of young people is not “learning” but a distraction, indeed an escape from reality. It is the promotion of ignorance – like covering up exhibitions of dinosaurs when haredi children visit a Natural Science . Religion should complement, not replace education.

YINN Pesach 5781 | 27 Sixty Years Ago By Sheila Levitt

The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth materials were still in Il was on Tuesday, 2nd June 1953 and short supply, we had Danny and I got married on Sunday, decided to buy a veil 7th June. It rained for the Coronation, between us and share it. but was warm and sunny for us on the Because we were such Sunday. close friends we rather That time of the year Shabbat went liked the idea of sharing out very late and Danny had his something for our friends round to his house and his weddings. When I was Mum made pickled meat sandwiches finally ready, Sheila said for his stag party. I was at home with that she thought that my Mum and Dad and intended to one side of the veil was have an early night, because I thought longer than the other I had done all the things that had to and she proceeded be done. Then the phone rang — it to cut some off — she was Danny saying that they had had then looked again and a phone call from the Communal decided she had cut too much off not be properly married”. The other Rabbi saying that if he was not being and had to take some off the other thing was that we had booked the asked to make the main speech to the side to compensate. By the time she photographer a few weeks before the bride and groom he would not come had done this three or four times the wedding and a few days before the to the wedding. I had the table plan, veil was decidedly shorter. The veil wedding the Shammas of the Shul so I carefully rubbed out his name really was fated for destruction, as told us that his son had started a and rearranged the seating on the half way through the meal my father, business as a wedding photographer top table accordingly. Five minutes who was sitting next to me, managed and asked us to book him. We told later — another phone call to say that to put the arm of his chair through my him that we were very sorry but we maybe he would come after all. So I veil and ripped it. I remember being had already arranged a photographer again got out the rubber and changed thankful that I had not been the first and had even paid a deposit. On the it back. After this happened a third to use the veil! In those days the bride day of the wedding the Shammas and fourth time I had rubbed a hole in did not have an awful lot of say in refused to let our photographer take the table plan. My Mum had gone to choosing the menu for the dinner and any photographs inside the shul. bed with nervous exhaustion and my I remember not eating the first two Our photographer was a bit of a Dad had a glazed look in his eyes. courses as I did not like them (l was prima donna and took umbrage and On the day of the wedding the a very faddy eater). The guests were consequently did not appear at the florist rang to say that as all the beginning to whisper “The bride is too reception, dinner, or dance and to available flowers had been bought nervous to eat”, until the next course our sorrow we have no photographs by the civic authorities to decorate arrived and I suddenly started eating other than the few formal ones taken the town, she could not get the and everyone was very relieved that I outside just after the chuppa. carnations and roses I had ordered for had recovered. We spent the first night in the flat my bouquet, but she had managed Two things I distinctly remember we had rented and next morning left to get some sweet peas from Holland about our wedding — one was when for our honeymoon in Guernsey. I — I was disappointed, but in actual we were under the chuppa and I was had never flown and was somewhat fact the sweet peas were much nicer. given the first glass of — I hated disturbed to see what looked like a In the afternoon my best friend (also wine and just put the glass to my lips toy plane on the tarmac — just the called Sheila) came round to help and pretended to drink it. When I pilot and eight passengers, no air me get dressed. She had married was given the second glass the Rabbi hostess or steward — it was more like five weeks before me and because hissed “Drink it this time or you will a minibus. When we were seated, I

28 | YINN Pesach 5781 Ghetto Money by Ian Fine thought I would explore the pocket in In former days, when I was in the Czech Republic. The majority front of me where they put maps etc a collector and a dealer in of notes that remain from the and the sick bag. Imagine my horror collectables such as stamps, Holocaust period are from one of when I put my hand right into a sick coins, medals, banknotes etc. I those two ghettos. Ghetto money bag which had not been emptied from acquired certain “banknotes” of also existed in, Bielski-Podlaski the previous flight. I looked out of the Jewish interest. They have not seen and Sokolka. All of these ghettos window and was sitting over the wing daylight for probably 50 years were in occupied territories, not and when we took off and the flaps so I decided to research some of Germany proper. began to move I thought something them in particular those relating to The inception process for each was loose and would drop off. Later “banknotes” produced for use in ghetto was different, but the the pilot came out of his cabin for a certain Ghettos. patterns are similar. Often ghetto few minutes and never having heard of Ghetto or camp money was inmates would be charged with automatic pilot, I wondered who was currency issued by the Nazis, or designing the face of the currency, driving the plane. their collaborators, for the exclusive artists specifically selected by In 1953 we still had ration books use by the population incarcerated the Nazi administration. The Nazi and as there had not been an in a work camp or ghetto. The heads of each ghetto ordered the opportunity to change mine to my monetary system created by the creation of the internal monetary married name, we had to present Nazis served as part of a large, system, chose an artist, approved reception at the hotel with ration complex, economic system of theft, the design and arranged the books with two different names and deception and genocide. production of the money. we hoped the other guests at the In terms of parallels between The Lodz ghetto was the first to hotel would not guess we were on our camp and ghetto money, both issue its own currency, on May 15, honeymoon. No one said anything, money systems came about in 1940. The first notes were printed so we thought we had got away with similar ways. Internal money on July 8, 1940, though not all it, until the day we left and some of existed both in occupied territories denominations were issued at the other guests decided to go to the as well as within Germany, and once. These general notes were airport for afternoon tea and see us some regional variation can part of a larger ghetto economy, off. Just as we were saying goodbye be seen that implies that the including the underground to them, they suddenly opened their implementation of this money economy, ration cards for food, bags and threw confetti over us. Has did not take place in a centralized and the special scrip issued to the this custom died out? fashion. Individual camp Council of Elders. Food was still rationed in England commanders decided to put this The Nazi administration ordered and tinned fruit was not yet available. monetary system in place, and the notes to be designed and When we saw it on sale in the competitive careerism encouraged implemented, and charged Guernsey shops we could not resist it the spread of this concept to Chaim Mordechai Rumkowsky, and bought several tins of fruit salad other camps and ghettos across the head of the Ghetto Jewish etc. It never occurred to us that we Europe. A degree of centralization Council, with selecting an artist to would have to pay duty — I think this did emerge over time because do so. Ignacy Gutman designed put me off tinned fruit. camp and ghetto directors usually the notes that would eventually It was very special getting married collaborated on their schemes become the ghetto’s currency, during Coronation Week, as all the and “improvements” to their but he was not the Council’s first streets and buildings were festooned institutions, including the use of choice; artist Wincenty Brauner with flags and flowers and we felt their own currency. was originally selected, but his that our wedding was also being The two best-known examples of designs were rejected for their celebrated. A money being issued in ghettos are bold and subversive content. Lodz in Poland, and Theresienstadt Continued on page 30

YINN Pesach 5781 | 29 Continued from page 29 Pinkus Schwar30was responsible for designing the coins, drawing the banknotes and printing them. At first, Hans Biebow, Nazi head of the Lodz ghetto, only issued bank notes, but it quickly became clear that smaller denominations were necessary to make the money set up, currency was confiscated in the image with a stereotypical Nazi functional. Rumkowsky requested exchange for Quittungen [receipts] portrait of a Jew. (see example) He that the Nazi administration put a that could be exchanged only in the also commanded that Moses’s hand 10-pfennig coin into circulation, and ghetto. be arranged so as to cover the phrase submitted a design for such a coin. Both notes and coins (tokens) “Thou shalt not kill” that appeared on Biebow rejected it outright due to its were produced for use in the Ghetto, the Tablets of the Law. combination of German and Jewish with seven denominations of notes Little is known about the money elements. Rumkowsky was eventually having been produced. The 2 Mark originating from Sokolka or Bielsk- able to get a final design approved note was counterfeited in the Ghetto Podlaski. Sokolka had a .91 mark that was visually distinct from German and was removed from circulation. note, which is believed was used to coins. All were signed by Rumkowsky as Der pay a day’s wages in the ghetto. Its The Lodz Ghetto was the second Aalteste der Juden (the oldest of the Scholars estimate that it was issued largest Jewish Ghetto and in Jews) in Litzmannstadt and printed between 1940 and 1941 by the city September 1939, was renamed on the notes is the word Quittung. treasury, prior to the outbreak of the Litzmannstadt by the Germans to The background depicts connected war on the Russian front in June 1941. honour a WWl General Karl Litzmann Stars of David which also resemble These notes are exceptionally rare, (22 January 1850 – 28 May 1936) a barbed wire fence. A large Magen possibly because few copies were Nazi Party member and state David and a serial number appear issued in the first place and they were politician. When the ghetto was on the “obverse” whilst the reverse only used for a short time. Bielsk- shows a Menorah. Podlaski had its money issued by the Toward the end of the war mayor of the ghetto, for use in Jewish hyperinflation made Lodz coins more stores of the city. They were printed in valuable for use as fuel (coins were 1941, after the invasion of Russia but made of a highly flammable alloy) for little else is known about them. fires than for spending. The process of obtaining ghetto As for the Theresienstadt ghetto, money was fairly regimented. Upon its money came into circulation in deportation to a ghetto, Jews often March 1943. Peter Kien, an inmate had very little time to collect any of Theresienstadt designed the belongings, and even when they notes, but unfortunately his design did, they were not permitted to carry was warped to suit Nazi aims. When much with them. When they arrived Kien submitted his original design, at the ghetto, they were allowed Reinhardt Heydrich rejected it. Though to keep most of their belongings, Heydrich had specifically instructed but valuables and cash would that Moses and the Tablets of the Law be confiscated at the discretion should appear on the Theresienstadt of the supervising official. Once notes, he felt that Moses needed to ghetto money was instituted, the be changed. He ordered that Kien Reichsmarks possessed by incoming redesign the notes, featuring Moses Jews would be exchanged for this with a hooked nose, curly hair and worthless internal currency. For Jews long claw-like fingers, in order to align already living in the ghetto when the

30 | YINN Pesach 5781 Yummy In North Netanya We had fun producing the book, but we could not have done it without the wonderful help of Anthony Felix z”l. His commitment, ghetto money went into circulation, experience, advice and patience were limitless. He willingly helped they were required to exchange their us and he ensured we were able to achieve our goal. We certainly marks for it. could not have produced such a well-received book without him. Once imprisoned in the ghetto, We were all so excited to receive the finished product. often Jews would get assigned to a As sponsorship virtually covered the cost of printing, after selling job, such as producing textiles or 276 copies we were able to donate just under 19,000 NIS to leather goods. The wages for this Willing Hands and 2,000 NIS to YINN to buy seforim for the Ladies work were a pittance, not nearly Gallery. appropriate compensation, but it We would like to thank everyone who supported the Recipe was the only way to legitimately book, either by contributing recipes, buying a book/books or both. earn money in the ghetto (though We would also like to thank Andrew Kaye for adding the Recipe some people participated in Book finances to his work as YINN Treasurer. the underground economy). There are still a few copies for sale which can be purchased by Unfortunately, even this small sending an e-mail to [email protected] amount of money did not truly The Recipe Team permit ghetto residents to support Avril, Daphne, Diane, Janette, Rowena and Susan themselves. The money was hardly usable even inside the quarantined ghetto economy, as food was rationed with separate cards, and other consumer merchandise such as clothing or shoes were often unreasonably expensive. In fact, it was not uncommon that the shops that had items available for sale were simply facades, designed to give the appearance of civilization and normalcy, without legitimate goods for sale. Even if the shops did really have items for sale, items stolen from Jewish homes or incoming residents, they were marked up at such ludicrous prices that no ghetto resident could ever hope to afford them. Still, this money was a crucial component of survival in the ghetto. Though food was rarely available for purchase outside of ration cards, the amount of food a person could get with a ration card still left him in starvation. The opportunity to purchase any additional food could save a life, and if one managed to find a coat or pair of shoes for sale that was affordable, it could mean the difference between life and death in the winter. A

YINN Pesach 5781 | 31 La Vida en España (living in Spain) – part one by Jackie and Mike Jacobs

“Why did you go to Spain?” is the anyone there. But just before Rosh creating a Shul cum community centre question most commonly asked us, Hashana we read in the Jewish but realised that (a) there were no usually followed by “Why not Israel?” Chronicle about services being suitable premises available and (b) it The answers to both questions are organised for Ashkenazim in the was not what the people there wanted the same. We had visited both Israel Marbella area with an email address and therefore they would not fund it. and Southern Spain; we knew and for information. We had both been on Those who wanted to belong to a Shul liked both, but I (Mike) had studied the Board of Wembley Shul and we already did, i.e Marbella Synagogue. Spanish at school and although I was wanted to find out, and get involved We held monthly Friday night no longer fluent, I was confident that with, what sort of Jewish life, if any, services, followed by a kidddush I could pick it up again, whereas I do there was on the Costa. We knew and social, initially in Gerry’s house, not speak Ivrit, and property prices there was a Shul in Marbella, of then in various places including the in Spain were much cheaper than in which more later, but it was primarily Municipality’s Council meeting room Israel. So when it came to looking for Sephardi and also 47 kilometres which they kindly let us use at no a holiday apartment, the Costa del Sol away from our flat. We contacted the cost. was the logical choice. address given and explained that we As most of the Jewish people My job was becoming more and were moving to Spain, and the reply living on the Costa del Sol had been more stressful (working for a Jewish came back that we should contact a members of Reform, Masorti or organisation, need I say more?) and gentleman called Gerry Crest, with Liberal we had to make the journey to and from work was his email. To cut a long story short, our Services suitable to their needs getting more difficult, with more and we arranged to meet with Gerry at or they would simply not take part. more traffic on the roads. And of a Shabbat service organised by the We did end up teaching most people course, the English climate in winter then rabbi of Marbella in a Kabbalat Shabbat songs. is dreary and cold. We would go to hotel. We also held many social events, Spain as often as possible, at least I found out that Gerry, who had including pool parties, afternoon three times a year. The apartment was been President of his Shul in the UK teas, Jewish comedy evenings and in a beautiful area called Duquesa, for many years, had been in Spain for music evenings, which were always about 25 minutes’ walk from the 15 years and had previously created a very well attended. With a mailing list marina and beach, about half an local Jewish Community but it had not of more than 300 names, about half hour drive from Gibraltar, and 15 lasted. Jackie and I got together with of whom had holiday homes in Spain, kilometres from Estepona; every Gerry and his wife, Sharon, and we we had no problems selling out the time we went it was so peaceful and started by arranging a tea in a hotel in events. Funds raised were given to relaxing. Inevitably, the day came Estepona. We had no idea how many local charities, particularly a cancer when I said “I’m fed up with London, people would come. Gerry mentioned hospice. I want to live in Spain”. Jackie was it to a few people he knew and we I mentioned Marbella Synagogue. not so keen but she knew how much I put a small advert in a local English This was founded in 1978 by the wanted to go and she agreed. And so, newspaper. To our surprise, people Ohayon family, who came from after six months, in October 2007 we were queuing round the block to get Morocco. They bought the land, which moved from London to live in Spain. in. Around 200 people came, and they at that time was cheap because there Jackie: I couldn’t speak Spanish all said the same thing: “we didn’t was very little in the area, and they and the last thing I wanted to do was know there were other Jewish people built a synagogue with a house above leave my friends and family in the UK here.” Fortunately, we had prepared and adjoining, where they lived. They and start to build a new life in Spain. questionnaires to take contact also built houses nearby for other Friends asked us what we would do information of those attending. family members. In Franco’s time – in our retirement and wouldn’t we That was the beginning of the he was Dictator from 1939 to 1975 be bored? I asked myself the same Estepona Jewish Community (EJC). – no Synagogues were allowed to be questions. We spent a lot of time investigating built. This was the first synagogue We went to Spain not knowing the possibility and feasibility of in Andalucia (the southern region of

32 | YINN Pesach 5781 Spain) since the expulsion in 1492. It was followed by synagogues in Torremolinos and Malaga. The founder, Simon Ohayon, kept chickens, which he would shecht and sell to members of the Shul. There was no kosher meat available elsewhere in Andalucia for many years. However, kosher meat was founded by a Moroccan family, who on the night, saying that he didn’t available in Gibraltar, a good hour’s still ran it, the main language of the want so and so to light, he wanted drive from Marbella. Sephardi members of the community a particular person to light instead The current president said there was French. There were some who of the one already chosen. And this is a membership of 300 families. spoke only Spanish and of course was after I had sent him the list. He You didn’t see them on Shabbat, the Ashkenazi “Anglos” who spoke was a very successful businessman an average attendance would be English. We tried to balance the from Morocco, honoured by the King 30-40. But when there was an event languages, eg two readings in each of Morocco, who was used to getting involving free food and drink, they language, but translations of all his own way. It was a case of the came out of the woodwork! There was readings, including accompaniments unstoppable force meeting the almost a , for children to attend. to projected photographs and films, immoveable object. Somehow, we At first, the President of the Jewish had to be available on the tables in managed to compromise without Community of Marbella, (JCM) and the other two languages. I used to run causing any broiguses, but not good also some of its members, viewed us, the English wordings through Google for the nerves! the Estepona Jewish Community (EJC), translate, send the Google French and The events were always well with suspicion thinking that we were Spanish versions with the original attended by the Ashkenazi out to steal its members. However, English to some kindly volunteers members of the Shul and of the we were able to put their minds at who would correct the translations Estepona Community but what was rest by illustrating that most of our then copy the translated papers to put disappointing was that very few ‘members’ came from the Estepona out at the beginning of the evening. Sephardi attended. There were some to the Gibraltar border area, not from Since we never knew how many who originated from France and had the ‘catchment’ area of the Shul, people would attend, we usually lost family in the Shoah, and they and also by actively encouraging our ended up with many left over. came, but I suppose many from ‘members’ to formally join the JCM, The readings in French and Spanish French North Africa and Spain simply which some did. Gerry and I worked were done by native speakers of did not relate to the Shoah. with the JCM, particularly with regard those languages but, although they Unlike in the UK and USA, the to Holocaust Memorial Day, Yom had agreed in advance to read, I was Marbella Shul was not really a Hashoa and Yom Ha’atzmaut. For never sure until I saw them arrive that community centre. In the early years six consecutive years we presented they would come. On at least two of the Shul a Shoah survivor called a different programme at the occasions they didn’t and I had to find Leon Kanner, married into the Ohayon synagogue to commemorate these last minute replacements. family and became president of the days. I decided on a different theme At the end of the presentation, shul, and he created a community for the presentation each year and six candles were lit, each by two centre where people would meet for then researched to find audio/visual people. I had arranged this with social events and play cards etc. But material. Sometimes the event was them in advance so I knew that perhaps because of the large area readings from survivors’ testimonies. they would attend and they knew covered by the membership, and also The preparation for these events took which candle to light. This should because of the language difference, several months. have been straightforward, but the the Sephardim and Ashkenazim Because the Synagogue had been president would intervene every time Continued on page 34

YINN Pesach 5781 | 33 Continued from page 33 Andalucia. The King sent his special the service. seldom met, apart from specific advisor, who was Jewish, to confer the We wanted an Ashkenazi style shul. events at the shul itself, and even honour. Many members of the shul, Jackie had always wanted to live in then the two groups kept themselves including us, went to Seville for the Israel, she put up with Spain for my separate. ceremony. sake but now it was my turn to respect The shul relied heavily on donations The president could be her wishes. from wealthy members but there was obstreperous, stubborn and Jackie: In 2019 we came to Israel certainly no fund raising committee, sometimes upset people but there is for the first time in seven years and I so one year, two friends, John Singer no doubt he did a huge amount for realised that I really wanted to make and Stephen Smith, and I decided to the shul. Until his arrival the shul did Aliyah and come “home”. I was also organise a fund raising event. John not have a Rabbi, and services were beginning to feel that in Spain I was knew a chazan from Leeds, David led by knowledgeable lay members losing my Jewish identity. Everything Apfel, a name familiar to many of of the community. He personally paid was going fine and then coronavirus you, and arranged for him and his for a member of the Ohayon family to hit. I decided that it would not stop us wife to come and perform at the Shul. study and obtain semicha in Israel to and we would make Aliyah even with The sold-out evening was hugely be the rabbi of the shul. the restrictions of coronavirus. Since successful and raised 3,000 euros Apart from helping me to organise coming here, despite enduring bidud (NIS 12,000) for the shul. the monthly EJC services, Jackie was and two lockdowns, I feel I have come Jackie and some other female also asked to tutor a boy and girl “home”. Spain was an interlude members of the shul were responsible from an English family who were to make us aware of our ultimate for the catering. due to be at the destination. In Spain it took me three I mentioned that the president Westminster Independent Synagogue. years to settle. In Israel it took me had been honoured by the King of This involved leading the service> three minutes. Morocco. That took place whilst we So apart from teaching them some And so we exchanged Bienvenido were there, in Seville, the capital of Jewish knowledge, she taught them for Boruch Haba. A

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34 | YINN Pesach 5781 A Special Dinner by Denis Elkoubi

The event and the details I am it had embarrassed his wife who protocol. going to relate remained confidential was wondering how to receive the So, we had to get acquainted with for a very long time, and until today, President of France at home! Who it, and here I am with my father in the I am not authorized to give you the was going to prepare the meal, we courtyard of the Elysée Palace where secret reasons for this very special couldn’t serve him Gelfilte Fish or we have an appointment with the and certainly unique meeting in the couscous, how should the guests Chief of Protocol. We are told how the history of France! be seated? In short, all the material guests should be seated, who is to In 1981, two elections brought questions a good Bale Booste asks the right of the President, who is to two exceptional men to the head of when men dream and think about the left, who should be served first, their respective communities. France politics. what the President eats, what wine he elected François Mitterrand President, As a faithful friend, my father likes, how long a meal should last etc. while the Jewish Consistorial Community elected Rabbi Sirat, Chief Rabbi of France. While it was traditional for the President to welcome the Chief Rabbi of France to the Elysee Palace, along with other French religious dignitaries, the relationship between the two public figures had never exceeded the strict rules of the separation of the Church and State. Although I am not allowed to reveal the background story, I can tell you that the Chief Rabbi requested an interview with President Mitterrand. As the President’s agenda was very busy, a carefully timed interview was granted to Chief Rabbi Sirat, but the warmth of the discussion greatly overwhelmed him and encouraged the Chief Rabbi to extend an invitation that had never before been made in French history. The Chief Rabbi invited the President to visit him in his home for a private dinner. Very soon after, left to right: President François Mitterrand, Chief Rabbi Sirat and my father the Elysee Palace fixed the date that happened to be Hoshana Rabba. The reassured the Chief Rabbi and told With all these details we are ready opportunity could not be missed and him, “Don’t worry, I’ll take care of to organize the luncheon. But of the Chief Rabbi immediately agreed. everything.” course, the community leaders want There, I must say that my parents France is a Republic; if the protocol to be part of it. The Chief Rabbi lives and we were very close to the Chief attached to a monarchy like England in a beautiful Haussmanian building, Rabbi and his wife Nicole. So, is foreign to republican customs, the but the apartment cannot compete very naturally the Chief Rabbi told fact remains that a dinner with the with the Elysée banquet hall. my father that the President had President must take place according Places are limited and to satisfy accepted his invitation, but that to rules which obey the Elysean Continued on page 37

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36 | YINN Pesach 5781 Anthony Felix z”l

The news of Anthony’s death, the “Yummy in North Netanya” after a long and painful illness cookbook, published last year. He endured with courage and was also a leading light in the Purim determination, is a sad blow to the Shpiel for many years. community. Anthony played more He was perhaps most proud of his than an active part in shul life. service as Baal Tekiah each Rosh He was a member of the Board of Hashanah and was meticulous in Management and occupied a key his adherence to the dinim (laws) role as Chairman of a revived and involved. An enthusiastic member dynamic Charity Committee. of the Daf Yomi shiur, Anthony Anthony generously gave his organized the Siyum in January We extend our deepest time and professional skills to 2020, which marked the end of one sympathies to Daphne and his dramatically impact this magazine’s seven-year cycle and the start of the children Tanya (Cardash) and design over several editions apart new. Very appropriately, Anthony Martyn and their families. May his from being a regular contributor. was honoured with the position of memory be a blessing. A This talent was also demonstrated Chatan Bereshit at Simchat Torah in his layout and artwork for 2018. A.R.G.

Continued from page 35 everyone, we bring in tables and chairs from a famous caterer and move the furniture. Then the menu is prepared with the most select kosher caterer in Paris. The big day is coming. The press has not been informed; no one except we and the guests knew about this event, no pictures were taken, only our private pictures illustrating this article were taken. We lived in the same street as the Chief Rabbi, just opposite. The official cars are coming. Shopkeepers are beginning to suspect that a personality is coming to our street. Some people know us well, and Janet, my wife, will quietly tell them who we’re expecting. With the President’s visit taking Left to right: Mrs Sirat, Chief Rabbi Sirat, My Father, Hoshana Rabbah 1982 place on the day of Hoshana Raba, the Chief Rabbi introduces him to laws and customs to the President the history of the country. the ritual of “farewell to the Succah” who is very attentive. (We will learn Alas, President Mitterrand’s policy by inviting him to his small Succah. much later, that already extremely ill, towards Israel was subsequently Among the guests are the leaders of he was haunted by death and sought ambiguous, and in the end, the the main Jewish institutions in France, all spiritual answers to his concerns). revelation of his relationship with and the President’s advisor, Jacques This event had no direct Bousquet, former Chief of police Attali. The meal then takes place consequences other than the during the Vel d’Hiv roundup in according to the protocol that has establishment of cordial relations July 42, significantly tarnished his been recommended to us. During the between the two men and the reputation. A meal the Chief Rabbi explains Jewish symbolic value of a unique meeting in

YINN Pesach 5781 | 37 Rabbi Morowitz and Laniado Hospital by Rabbi Natan Morowitz

Many friends asked how I and my contact me family came to Israel and particularly until I came Laniado Hospital, which in 1978 was home entirely unknown in New York where between we lived. 7.00 and The story began on a Thursday 8.00 p.m. morning in November when my wife that evening. everything and running to bensch received a phone call I told her we could not refuse the shabbat. Her first words were “I made ע”ה Rachail from a long time friend, Sydney opportunity of being blessed with the it – I can’t believe Hashem was with asking her if she could opening of a Nursing School for me to accomplish all I did in order to ז”ל Greenwald fly to Israel the coming Moetzi registered nurses in Israel and that leave moetzi Shabbat, even getting Shabbat to make a presentation to she should fly out on the Moetzi flight tickets.” the Department of Health regarding Shabbat. She flew that moetzi shabbat the opening of a Nursing School. However there were problems – we and made the presentation to the It would appear, that the still didn’t know if the offer was good Department of Health who had been was teaching on the adamantly opposed to opening a ע”ה had opened and she ,זצ”ל Klausenberg a hospital and wanted to have a Friday and her work ethic didn’t allow Nursing School in a hospital which Nursing School. He truly believed that her to take the time off. However she only had five small departments, the essence of concerned hospital agreed even though it meant leaving an Emergency Room, Cardiac health care was in the hands of the me with five children aged 7 to 16 for Department, Internal Medicine, nurses as they were the ones who two weeks. Not an enviable situation. Maternity and Dialysis. All with limited treated, watched over and cared for Remember this was a Friday when services. Therefore the Department of the patients. He felt this was even Shabbat came in at 4.30. That Friday Health could not understand how the was teaching in the hospital could even think of opening ע”ה more so than the physicians who, Rachail although absolutely necessary for Bronx, an hour’s journey from our a Nursing School and provide the diagnosis and treatment, were only home. She had to get permission students with hospital experience. In with the patients briefly. from the University for a two week this they were right. explained that the ע”ה We had planned for many years to vacation, find substitute teachers as Then Rachail make Aliyah but there was always well as obtain the material for the hospital was prepared to spend a good reason to put it off and our presentation to the Department of money to send the students to dream never materialised, Health for the Nursing School. Then at different hospitals for experience and had been chosen to the last moment she discovered that open a school for their academic ע”ה My wife make this presentation because they her passport was out of date and she programme. had hoped she would become the had to go to Rockefeller Center in They found it hard to refuse the ע”ה first directoress of the School as she midtown New York to get an hospital based on Rachali’s had a double masters degree, in emergency passport. From there she presentation and her academic Education and Nursing. had to get home in time for Shabbat. background – few nurses had a This was an hour’s journey if one was double masters – and they could not ע”ה wanted Rachail זצ”ל The Rebbe because she was orthodox and it lucky! impune her background especially as would serve as a good example to the I still remember standing at the she was teaching nursing at a students. At this time she was kitchen window holding a match in my University, and the hospital’s teaching nursing in the University of hand looking for my wife as candle commitment for the students to New York. lighting time fast approached. receive the best practical training as was excited and Suddenly I was elated to see the car well as academic learning as any large ,ע”ה Rachail .hospital ע”ה because this was the time before park in the drive and Rachail was offered and took ע”ה mobile phones she wasn’t able to running into the house dropping Rachail

38 | YINN Pesach 5781 Who Would Have Thought by Avril Komornick the position as the first directoress of After a very strange year the hospital’s first Nursing School to There is so much to say train registered nurses. As we have had a lot to fear In order to attract my wife I was also guaranteed a position in Kiryat Sanz Last March we had our first lockdown so we made Aliyah the following July And everyone stayed in with our five children. We did as we were told to do The position I was offered was to And if we went out far, we knew it was a work with the Institutions in Sanz, in particular with their Home for Problem For Pesach we were still inside Children. But we managed without our family as rules were still in place Frankly, that job was a difficult one Please stay inside were the rules back then as my personality was not that of a Please please stay in your own space Chasid and I looked for a way to get job satisfaction and still be affiliated Not for too long more we thought with Sanz as it was very convenient But little did we know for me and I was able to be near my The virus didn’t go anywhere family all the time to help with their But then we didn’t have anywhere to go absorption. I looked around Kiryat Sanz and By July things began to open saw an abandoned building with But our family from afar we could not see three walls up but which hadn’t been Travel by air was abandoned worked on for years. And even was abandoned by sea I was told that the Rebbe of Sanz had hoped to build, what at that By Rosh Hashana things were really no better זצ”ל time was called A Chronic Disease And another lockdown was in store Facility, but at that time with no And people were getting so upset success as he had many other And cried we really can’t take much more priorities such as the hospital and his yeshivot. Even though the lockdown is still here I took it upon myself to assume the We can see light at the very end task of building this Chronic Disease Because the Vaccine is being given out so fast Facility – it was not easy since I The whole world will quickly mend knew no one in Netanya and had no connections. However the Al-mighty It may take another month or two was with me and I was blessed to find For us to be free once more friends who would help me with this And then we can get back to normal task. And at least be able to knock on our friends’ door I was primarily successful in building the Home and it was later For travel the skies will open soon transferred under the auspices of And we will see our kids once more Laniado Hospital and that’s how I It will make it more amazing came to work there. My first dream When they can come knocking on our door. A had come to fruition. A

YINN Pesach 5781 | 39 1945, when a reconnaissance group arrived in Munich. At this juncture this unit was no longer part of the British Army. These soldiers had effectively gone AWOL, adopting a set The People On The Beach of orders that went against Whitehall A Book Review policy, namely, to help survivors escape Europe for Palestine. Rabbi by Stuart West Klausner became a key conduit in the survivors’ illegal immigration On a summer’s night in 1946, of the Brigade realised the extent of to Palestine. One example of his over 1,000 European Jews waited the horrors of the Holocaust, and so ingenuity was when he “borrowed” silently on an Italian beach to board they disregarded army commands a fleet of six-by-six army trucks that a secret ship. They had survived and set out to help the survivors in travelled from Munich to Prague, Auschwitz and other concentration eastern Europe. It was the Jewish where the survivors they brought were camps, as well as having endured Brigade who facilitated their travel sorted according to their wishes, and death marches. Hidden in forests, to Italy. Seventy-thousand Jewish those who wanted to go to Palestine some had been partisans, fighting refugees crossed the Alps into Italy, were handed over to the Jewish the Nazis. Now, as passengers on the the vast majority determined to get to Brigade. One fellow chaplain wrote of Josiah Wedgwood, they were about Palestine, even if it meant making the Rabbi Klausner as having “done more to take on the Royal Navy and run the journey on a dangerously crowded, for the thousands of Jews in Munich British blockade of Palestine. illegal immigrant ship. and in the surrounding camps than From Eastern Europe to Israel, all the agencies combined and then via Germany and Italy, Rosie some more”. Whitehouse, the author of The People The journey of the Wedgwood took on the Beach — Journeys to Freedom eight days, sailing from the Italian After the Holocaust, followed in the port of Vado to the port of Haifa in footsteps of those secret passengers, Palestine. The ship was a former uncovering their extraordinary Canadian corvette that had in World stories, some told for the first time. War II hunted down German U boats In reading the book, you will find out during the Battle of the Atlantic, and who those people on the beach were, had been bought by a secret Jewish and where and what they had come underground organisation in New from, as well as how they survived. It York. Designed for a crew of 50, on is also pertinent to know why, after this voyage of rescue it had a crew of being liberated, so many Jews still 30 plus well over 1,250 passengers felt unsafe in Europe. A journalist on board, crammed into every crevice. specializing in Jewish life after Luckily, the weather was good the Holocaust, Rosie Whitehouse, throughout the journey, but had it travelled far in search of answers. been otherwise, the ship would have The journey of the survivors began been a death-trap, having only 168 in Eastern Europe, where the Jewish life jackets and two motor launches, partisan and poet, Abba Kovner, In order to understand what made each with a maximum capacity of 25 who had witnessed the murder of these people leave Europe, Rosie people. Many of the passengers were the Jews of Vilnius, concluded that Whitehouse visited the places that seasick, and this was compounded there was no future for his people they had left behind to discover what by the lack of ventilation and very in their traditional homelands. had happened there and to find out primitive sanitary facilities below Consequently, his partisan group how they were remembered. deck. If this was not enough, they started to plan an escape route to One of the champions of the also had to run the British naval Palestine. In the process they linked survivors was US Army chaplain blockade as they approached Haifa. up with a unit of the British army, Rabbi Klausner, who Nonetheless, they were all united the Jewish Brigade, who had been was helping survivors in one of in their anger at Britain’s refusal recruited in Palestine and had fought Bavaria’s American-run DP camps to recognise their plight. After the their way north through Italy. With in 1945. He had his first meeting passengers disembarked, they were the end of the war in Europe the men with the Jewish Brigade on 26 June put on buses and taken to the Atlit

40 | YINN Pesach 5781 detention centre, 20 km south of Haifa. What greeted these Holocaust survivors was a large camp with a perimeter fence patrolled by soldiers with dogs. On arrival men and women were separated — as was the case in the Nazi concentration camps — and were sprayed with DDT. They were told to undress and enter the showers Community Reports — a horrific reminder of what had happened to those about to enter the A Word From The Gabbai able to cover all the baalei tefilla gas chambers. Not surprisingly, many Who would have thought a and baalei tokea roles using our own of the survivors at Atlit expressed year ago that we would still be in members although in the end we did their horror at being taken to “a this highly unconventional state? benefit from some outside help. British concentration camp”! Probably a sentiment shared by all Since then we have had to adjust British policy at the time had been our members. As I write these lines to varying capacity regulations as to arrest any illegal immigrants, and there is now talk of finally relaxing the government zig-zagged around take them to Atlit, letting the Jewish the rules slightly for Purim and and attempted to be all things to all Agency in effect choose when to even for weekly Shabbat services. people. Capsulot, inside, outside, release them by insisting that those Most of us are now equipped with maximum of 19, then 10, now 5 freed had to be given visas from the our green passports, all dressed inside and 10 outside, We have quota. However, after the incident up and nowhere to go. Let us hope seen it all and each time the rules with the Wedgwood the policy that this year we will not again be in change we have been exemplary in changed. Future illegal immigrants the awful position of requiring our the way in which we have complied. were no longer taken to Atlit, but were widows and widowers to make Seder This has meant occasionally having deported to camps in Cyprus, only to ask some men to stand down gaining their freedom and the ability on their own. My feeling is that we have adapted remarkably well to not and stay at home shabbat morning. to make Aliyah once the State of Israel It has also meant that for the past was established. being able to daven inside the shul couple of months women have been As luck would have it, the author building but spending Seder night virtually excluded from attending discovered the names, ages and alone has to be one of the worst services with a minyan. We currently countries of birth of the people on experiences of our religious lives. are holding four outdoor minyanim the beach, recorded in the British Looking back these past six at various times on Shabbat morning detention centre at Atlit. She copied months the toughest job faced by for which spaces are allocated based down the names of over 1,300 people the gabbaim was the arrangements on prior reservations. Thanks to our listed in the former camp’s archive, we had to make for the Yamim deputized gabbaim Neville Gatoff all of whom sailed on the Wedgwood, Noraim. The surveys showed 140 and Alan Gold plus Ronnie Lawrence, whose names are listed at the back of members wanted to participate Dr Yehoshua Lehman and Elie Berlin the book. in the Yamin Noraim services yet who often lein twice every Shabbat Rosie Whitehouse gives a full and each service was strictly limited we manage to almost accommodate detailed account of what happened in size. Coupled with the Halachic to the Holocaust survivors on the constraints on completing Shacharit everyone. However, the pressure is Wedgwood, giving many detailed by 10:30 am meant that we mounting as most of our members descriptions of the lives of various had to implement some highly have now had their two vaccinations individuals and their experiences. unusual measures to satisfy all the and are starting to emerge from their She is to be praised for bringing requirements, Our Rabbi came up year-long self-enforced hibernation. to our attention so many personal with some innovative scheduling There is a practical limit on the accounts, and in effect memorializing ideas which many of you will recall number of outdoors services we can them as part of the history of the featured five distinct services and a hold but since it looks like the rules Holocaust. Additionally, we have the three hour break between Shacharit will be somewhat relaxed hopefully opportunity of building on that legacy and Musaf so as to squeeze we should be able to cope with the of memory by visiting Atlit, as well as everything in halachically. In the increased demand. our local museum, Beit Hagdudim end it all worked out and everyone In addition to making davening (the Battalions Museum) in who wanted to daven with a minyan arrangements I have been busy . A was able to do so. We were almost continued on page 42

YINN Pesach 5781 | 41 arranging the speakers for the weekly Monday Club Born on Thursday morning prior to Melave Malkas. We have asked a The entertainment industry has a Pesach. combination of members and outside history of impromptu programming I would like to thank our Daf Yomi guests to speak on a variety of topics becoming established events, with group for their diligence and sharp of their choice and judging by the replacement or removal unthinkable. questions. They keep me on my toes. constant participation numbers When the Virtual Monday Club was I also wish to thank Eze Silas who we are managing to retain the launched in April 2020, I considered has substituted for me on occasion. audience’s attention . It just shows it a temporary phenomenon, filling Unfortunately we have recently under pressure you can actually perhaps six or seven weeks until experienced the passing of three hold shul events without offering normalcy returns. So much for individuals: Phyllis Plaskow A”H, wife the customary light refreshments. predictions. of Emeritus Daf Yomi Maggid Shiur, Rabbi Ed Feigelman and I produced The past six months have of course Rev. Michael Plaskow; Anthony Felix a couple of light chazanut concerts produced highlights. Our scoop of Z”L, a mainstay member of the Shiur on Zoom including one partially persuading Dudu Fisher to be the whose active input and devotion is dedicated to the late Chazan Johnny castaway on Desert Island Discs was sorely missed; and Benji Steinbock Gluck in the presence of his widow perhaps the most noteworthy but the Z”L, who provided daily slides for and family. I also work closely with strength of the Club is that whatever is our WhatsApp since the beginning of the Rabbi and shul volunteers in being “served up” attracts a minimum the current Daf Yomi cycle. May their managing their Zoom requirements. of 40 “loggers-on” – be it a talk, a families be comforted and experience In order to keep our membership quiz, or a nostalgia hour. Praise the only Chaim Aruchim in the future involved and informed we make Lord for You Tube and for the patience Miriam joins me in wishing all a extensive use of WhatsApp and and ingenuity of David Feiler. Chag Pesach Kasher Vesameach. e-mail for dissemination of vital shul The programme is planned three Rabbi Ozer (Edward) Feigelman, notifications of events. That way even months in advance to mitigate Daf Yomi Maggid Shiur our overseas members who would against last minute problems and normally spend a few months each can be viewed on the Shul website. year in Netanya, are able to be kept My intention is to carry on as long as Irgun Nashim Report up-to-date and to participate in shul there are people out there who feel It is now a year since the Covid 19 activities by Zoom. that their Monday afternoon is made pandemic turned our lives upside We have made a change in the way special by their Club participation. down. members are informed about their Chag Pesach Sameach It has been a very difficult year for all forthcoming family Yahrzeits. The of us. We have had no Kiddushim, no shut-downs caused by Covid-19 have Alan Gold Seudah Shlishit or other functions to forced us to minimize the amount of keep us busy. paper that gets delivered by hand so Daf Yomi Report instead of printed Yahrzeit notices Thanks to the Zoom team we enjoy The Daf Yomi Shiur, Baruch Hashem, the weekly Melave Malka and the we now distribute these once a has continued virtually throughout month by e-mail. Members without Monday Club sessions. the COVID-19 pandemic via Zoom. For Purim we enjoyed a Purim e-mail are identified and receive a About 10 hardy folks attend the Brunch delivered to our doors. personal telephone call from Eze Shiur daily (Sunday-Friday, 8:30- However, I am sure we are all Silas reminding them of the date. The 9:30 am), roughly the same number looking forward to going back to our intention is eventually to migrate this who attended in person prior to the normal lives. process to the Shul’s new Web site. pandemic. We have gained a few I want to take this opportunity to As always I extend my grateful students online to replace those thank Joanna for all her hard work over thanks to Asher Edery for all his who opted to continue learning the past years and wish her and Harvey assistance as well as to those who Daf on their own. Even though we do lots of happiness and health for many have helped manage our parallel not serve coffee and biscuits, Zoom years to come. services: Hilton Share, Graham gives us the opportunity to display On behalf of the Irgun Nashim I Nussbaum, Neville Gatoff and Alan the Talmudic text as well as charts, would like to wish you all a Chag Gold. Finally, appreciation to all our diagrams and pictures (used mainly members for their forbearance and for Eruvin). Since the last issue of the Kasher Ve’Sameach. flexibility in contending with this YINN magazine, we have completed Keep well, Keep safe and in good year’s extraordinary circumstances. Eruvin and will IY”H be completing health. David Feiler Pesachim at the Siyum for the First Betty Wahnon, Chairman

42 | YINN Pesach 5781 Report of Tarbut Cultural Committee I am peased to report that we had a very successful season last autumn/ winter. Notwithstanding the limitations caused by Covid-19, which restricted the usual gatherings in the Shul hall for lectures and refreshments, we were able to present 7 lectures and even a party event through Zoom. However, this meant of course that those who attended had to provide their own refreshments! We are gratified by the compliments under Brian’s leadership. informally touch on grammar aspects received from the large audiences at Eze Silas – Chairman of the dialogues as we exercise them. each event on the choice of speakers (at the time of writing) The Intermediate class has tried and their subjects. different approaches over the past I am very sad to mention the passing two years in order to find an effective YINN Ulpan and Ivrit of Anthony Felix, a valued member pedagogic approach. For a while we Parsha Group who made a substatial contribution to tried reading interviews taken from the the work of the committee and who for The YINN Ulpan groups made a BeSheva newspaper since a transcript many years produced the promotional successful transition from live classes of a live interview will usually employ material and flyers for our events. in the shul to the now ubiquitous simpler language than normative My thanks go to my other colleagues Zoom environment. Along the way we journalism. However, as the mix of on the committee–Mervyn Leviton, lost one or two regular participants participants changed over time it Mary Jane Pollack and Brian Sopher– who did not feel comfortable became apparent that even interviews who were of great assistance in interacting with others via Zoom but were too much of a challenge. Now bringing together the programme. we also gained a few who do not live we are translating and building our I am grateful to Therese Berkowitz in Netanya, but hey, these days, it own scripts relating to common for the expertise with which she makes no matter where you live as situations that we often find ourselves designed the flyers for all the lectures long as the time zone is convenient! confronting such as the doctor’s of the last season and for the We meet weekly on Tuesday office, conversing with a shiputznik, Hanukkah party. mornings. In each session the the Post Office or the bank. The script Thanks to Alex Suart, for his Elementary class reads a page or is used as a trigger mechanism to recording of part of the Hanukkah two from an Ulpan text book, the develop further ad-hoc dialog. These event. new words are written on the shared sessions also share the Zoom white Particular thanks go to David Feiler, Zoom white board for all to see and board to record new words or phrases our Zoom Gabbai, for his technical then we make an attempt to exercise which are then summarized and assistance and time, given so these words plus those from previous e-mailed to participants before the willingly, in presentimg all the events sessions by forming short questions following week’s class. on Zoom and recording them for the and answers. After each session The Ivrit Parsha Group is now in benefit of those who were unable to the new words on the board and its 8th year of continuous operation. be present at any session. their translations are summarized It too has morphed to a Zoom-only After 10 years in the chair and 1 and distributed by e-mail so that medium. This group is aimed at year previous to those as joint chair, participants can revise them at their students whose Hebrew level is I am passing the baton to Brian leisure. We then briefly review them considerably higher than post-ulpan. Sopher to lead the committee. I am again the following week before Each week in advance I distribute one happy to remain on the committee, moving ahead in the book. This or two Divrei Torah on the Parsha or of which I have been a member for approach is important because our on a forthcoming chag and then at many years before taking on the students sometimes complain of age- the meeting, also held on Tuesdays, office of chairman, to make whatever related memory retention difficulties. we carefully review each article. We contribution I can. Looking forward to Therefore, frequent review aids in go around the “Zoom room” as each the programme for the next season solidifying their vocabulary. We also continued on page 44

YINN Pesach 5781 | 43 member of the class is invited to at 7:30 pm, the YINN Gemara B’Iyun generously with 25,397 NIS of which read a few lines out loud to the group shiur explores the gemara in depth, much has already been distributed. and then together we explain and tackling the issues and questions Members have been notified that broaden the idea being presented, raised in the Gemara. In October, the there is a balance available for without translating it. Questions that shiur held its first seyum haperek distribution and applications are arise can be answered by anyone who with the conclusion of the third perek awaited. chooses to do so. The whole session of Moed Katan which deals with The Committee observes strict takes on the format of a chaburah, the development of our halachot confidentiality and we involve a a mutual study group, not a formal of Aveilut, mourning. Our Morah professional social worker to advise class. English is only used when D’Atrah, Rabbi Baruch Boudilovsky us when appropriate. We do not use absolutely necessary to explain a led the seyum and told us how any of the donations received for nuance. The source material we use learning the gemara b’iyun gives us administrative costs or publicity. We is generally derived from the writings the opportunity for us to grow as Jews act with utmost transparency and of contemporary Torah scholars who and as a community. We have started employ diligent checks to ensure write in a modern Israeli Hebrew style learning the fifth perek in masechet that donations are used lawfully and using a minimum of Aramaic phrases. berachot which focuses on our properly. However, as a linguistic challenge, from a halachic point of view. We have Our activity depends considerably we sometimes do use Divrei Torah learned the 8 principles of on the funds donated in response written by Rashei Yeshiva and others that Chana, the mother of Shemu’el to the appeal. The 2020 who employ a more classical Rabbinic the prophet, has taught us; we have appeal brought in 39,992, half of style. looked at why we daven three times a which has already been distributed If anyone feels they would like day; why the silent is silent- to individuals, local and other to join an ulpan class or the Ivrit ish and what is kavanah in prayer and worthy organisations. The balance is Parsha Group please e-mail me at how do you attain and maintain it. available for distribution during the [email protected] The only prerequisite for the shiur is a year as required. curiosity and a desire to learn. Money received at Purim and Pesach David Feiler are all used to meet immediate All of the YINN Zoom shiurim are needs as dictated by Halacha. This recorded and available to all via the year we introduced an innovation YINN Zoom Shiurim YINN website. of distributing cards by e-mail in Covid has actually given us many Rabbi David Woolf fulfilment of the mitzva of Matanot opportunities. The restrictions on the L’evyonim and with the intention to number of people allowed to gather in Charity Committee replace Mishloach Manot. In a short one place, have given us more time to space of time we sent out almost focus on our spiritual growth, on our We are purposely a committee 200 cards for donations received. davening and on our learning. It has of 3 people, in order to maintain The donations received this year also allowed many more people to be confidentially – the Rabbi and 2 lay in response to our Purim appeal able to participate in YINN’s weekly members - Joe Wahnon and myself. amounted to 30,331 which Zoom shiurim. Going forward it is hoped that next far exceeded what we have received Be’urei Tephila - Every Tuesday year a lady will take the place of one of in previous years. All of this was evening at 7:30 pm, the Be’urei the lay members. distributed on the day according to Tephila (explaining the meaning of our Members of the Committee meet halacha. prayers) explores the meaning of our as required, and are in touch with We hope that the Congregation will daily prayers. We look for approaches one another constantly between continue to generously support the to understand our tephilot and ways meetings, to deal with the needs work of the Committee. You can be to make them more relevant and of the community and of charitable assured that your contributions will be meaningful to our lives. Everyone who organisations in Israel. carefully utilised. is interested in growing in their Avodat This year we made a special appeal If members know of cases of general HaShem is invited to join us. for those affected by the Corona need, and in particular relating Gemara B’Iyun - On Thursday nights virus. The Congregation responded to Covid-19, or wish to talk with

44 | YINN Pesach 5781 members of the Committee about its We have carried out our duty of needs a copy, information or further work, would they please contact one assisting mourners by arranging explanation they may contact me or of us. funerals and stone settings and any member of the committee. Eze Silas - Chairman by arranging minyanim for these I would like to express my thanks to occasions. Kol Hacavod to all our Rabbi Boudilovsky for his assistance gentlemen members who turned up at in our work. Thanks also to my Chevra Kadisha funerals and stone settings to make colleagues, Alan Gold, Yitzhak Bakst We are sorry to mention that since up a minyan. and Phyllis Carr who are always ready our last report, in the Rosh Hashanah By use of technology we have been to assist when required. magazine 2020, one of our members able to connect people to funerals I hope that the Congregation will succumbed to the Corona infection. It and shivas. My thanks to Alex Stuart have little need of whatever services has been extremely hard for the family who has relayed funerals by Zoom, we can provide while Corona is with of that member, and for the families and to David Feiler who has arranged us, but all should know that each of of other members who have passed shiva visiting by Zoom, thereby us is willing and ready to assist in away in the last 6 months, to cope giving mourners the comfort of being any way that we can whenever called with their loss and additionally not to connected to those who are unable at upon. be surrounded by family and friends this time to condole personally. We wish all the members of the at levayot or be comforted as usual in The booklet of procedure and Congregation a Pesach Kasher and their homes. Services at home have customs for Burial in Netanya, Sameach while remaining safe and not taken place. Apart from providing prepared and distributed some 4 healthy. the mourners’ meal when requested, years ago, is still of assistance at the we have been unable, as in the past, sad time of the loss of a loved one. If Eze Silas - Chairman to provide meals for those people anyone, in particular new members sitting shiva. who may not know of our service,

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• We have the advantage of being able to compare premiums from all Insurance Companies for the most advantageous rates and conditions to suit the needs for Home and Car owners, including special rates for low mileage drivers.

• Our Home Owners Insurance can include War/Terrorism Cover and Terrorism Cover for Buildings. Also damage to contents after a burst pipe event and special cover for dati’im. We also insure Hearing Aids: all risks in Israel and overseas.

• We offer private Diagnosis and Ambulatory Coverage including M.R.I., C.T. and ultrasound which does not depend on age or health conditions, thereby avoiding long waiting times.

• Our Travel Insurance covers all conditions and travellers until 120 years old with Medassis 24/7 emergency service.

STOP PRESS: Travel Insurance now includes cover for Covid-19 until 80. Tourist Insurance including Covid-19 US$3 per day until 75.

CalI Anthony Marcovitch [email protected] 054-4231386 for caring and personal service at all times

Shipony wishes all of our clients Chag Kasher v’Sameach, a year of health, peace and prosperity

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