SuSuSSEXSSEX jEjEwwISIShh NNEEwwSS Whats what’S INSIdE.... MAGIC IN NEw yORK | FESTIVAl REVIEwS | SuSSEX dAy lIMMud | whAT’S ON | ANd MORE july 2011 | SIVAN / TAMMuZ 5771 | £2 • ISSuE 210 2 Pause for thought 3 Sussex Day Limmud is now over and, once again, one wonders how they view themselves. proved to be very successful, providing a superb educational event covering a wide range of Jewish Perhaps it has something to do with our perceived topics, showing the variety of interests of the anti-Semitism which, in Britain, has always been more presenters and the audiences. But who or what were implicit and less malevolent than elsewhere in Europe. our audiences? – British Jews or Jewish Brits? Except in the United States, nowhere are Jews better organised as a community. Nowhere are they more It’s an interesting question – who are they, who are we integrated; nowhere is their contribution to public life and how do we more telling. Yet, for all see ourselves? “JEWISH IS BEAUTIFUL” MAY GO DOWN that, British Jews are timid. “Jewish is beautiful” may Let’s look at WELL IN NEW YORK, BUT NOT YET IN go down well in New York, some prominent but not yet in London. British Jews LONDON Britain’s tolerance and whose names appear regularly in the media. Take, reticence seem to have made British Jews all the more for example, Simon Schama, Alan Sugar, Phillip wary of letting their Jewishness show. Green, Isaiah Berlin, Jonathan Sacks, John Frieda, Anthony Julius, David Baddiel, the Grade Family, Lord It would be interesting to hear from our readers on this Weidenfeld, Lionel Blue, Sheila van Damm, people we really interesting topic. So please, all you who do read see and hear about daily. Do we know them merely as the editorial and feel that you have something to say, famous people or do we define them as British Jews or please do so by writing to us with your thoughts and Jewish Britons? 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ISSUE 210 | JULY 2011 2 Contents 3 Sussex Jewish News PO Box 2178 FEATURES Hove BN3 3SZ 1 SUSSEX DAY LIMMUD IN PICTURES Telephone: 07906 955 404 All photos on the cover and pages 10 and 11 e-mail [email protected] by Sophie Sheinwald 8 FOUR DAYS OF MAGIC IN NEW YORK Hans Levy reports on his trip 8 THE MIKVAH Penina Efune on the old and her hopes for the new 9 MY JEWISH ROOTS Suchitra Chatterjee on her mother’s family 10 SUSSEX DAY LIMMUD 2011 12 A FLUFFY TALE AND THE DASH 13 THE HEBREW CLUB REGULARS 4 YOUR NEWS & VIEWS 5 COMMUNITY LIFE News from across the county 14 CULTURE SJFC, Festival reviews and more Norman Grant 20 WHAT’S ON of Gary Green Memorials Regular and special events in your community The Approved Mason for the B & H Reform Community and all Jewish Cemeteries Countrywide Renovations and Additional Inscriptions YOUR COMMUNITY Home Visits by Appointment 16 BRIGHTON & HOVE REFORM SYNAGOGUE Brochure on request 01273 885874 17 BRIGHTON & HOVE HEBREW CONGREGATION mobile: 0776 951 5045 [email protected] 18 HOVE HEBREW CONGREGATION 19 BRIGHTON & HOVE PROGRESSIVE SYNAGOGUE Full page (A4 size) £160 Sussex Jewish News (‘SJN’), its Editor and Editorial Board: Half page (A5 size) £90 • are not allied to any synagogue or group and the views expressed by writers are Quarter page (A6 size) £50 not necessarily those of SJN; • accept advertisements in good faith but do not endorse any products or 1/9 page (credit card size) £35 services and do not accept liability for any aspect of any advertisements; and Personal: £4 per line • welcome readers’ contributions but reserve the right to edit, cut, decline or submit the content to others for comment. 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Angela, and all the family and will always be in our thoughts. May she rest in peace. Special birthdays • Willie Albert (100), Jack Alexander, Stan Baker, Joe Blume, Sally Crook (nee Jackson) z’l Cheryl Brook, Gordon Franks, Godfrey Gould, Susan Liz Posner and the members of the Brighton & Hove Youth Aliyah Committee deeply mourn the loss of Sally Crook, Jacobson, Derek Jay, Gary Levene, Michael Linde, Cyril a founder member, staunch worker and supporter for many Selby, Zev Solomon and Roberta Spink. decades. She will be greatly missed. Sincerest condolences and Long Life to Angela and Michael and their families at this sad time. Thank you Joe and Julia Benjamin would like to thank their dear relatives Barry Lennard z’l and friends for the many cards and expressions of good wishes Beloved son of Gloria, brother to Derek, father to Paul, Daniel received on the occasion of Joe’s 100th birthday. and Sarah-Jane died peacefully on 23rd May 2011.He bore his illness with great courage and dignity, never losing his wonderful sense of humour. He was deeply loved and will be greatly missed. Achievement • Lexi Pickett for being offered a place at the National Youth Barry Lennard z’l Theatre this summer. Gloria, Derek, Paul, Daniel and Sarah-Jane would like to thank their dear family and many friends for all the support and many Engagements kindnesses shown during their recent sad bereavement. • Mazel tov to Rose Ani and to Jill and Alan Bass on the engagement of their grandson Aaron Bass to Naomi Shaw. Sally Crook - a full life by Michael Crook Weddings Sarah Buskovitch, as she was officially known, was born in Bethnal • Mazel tov to Sue Rea and family on the marriage of Louise Green on 30 November 1918, only a few days after the end of the Great War. Her parents, Ben and Polly were immigrants from to David Goodman of Leeds. Lithuania and Roumania, and both worked in the fashion business. Her father was a ladies tailor, eventually having premises in the West End, and her mother ran a milliners, quite unusual for a lady to have a business in those days. A golden mazel tov Sister Jean arrived six years later, and after a while the family moved away from the East End, to Shepherd’s Bush. Ben and the family were naturalised in 1926, and changed the family name to Jackson. The family used to take holidays at a boarding house in Eastbourne, but soon after little brother Stanley arrived in 1931, they moved from London to Brighton, with its much larger Jewish community. As a teenager, Sally started attending Maccabi, and there met Harry about 1936. She became a war bride on 30th October 1940 at Middle Sandra and Derek Street, and lived in Imperial Arcade whilst Harry served on searchlight Carlton at their batteries across Southern England. Golden Wedding Michael arrived in 1947, and Angela in 1951. Sally devoted her time celebration. to her family, and to her support for Youth Aliyah, where she had (photo by Lisa been a founder member of the local group, which continues today. Levene). She and Harry played a very full role in the local community, both being active in many charitable and other activities. After Harry died in 1986, she continued to work for Youth Aliyah, even insisting on Get Well having their meetings in her flat in later years so that she could offer We wish a refuah sheleimah to Michael Linde. her advice to the younger members. Sally inherited an appreciation of music from her mother, and introduced Michael and Angela to this, and to the theatre.
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