SSUSSEUSSExx JJEEwwISIShh nEnEwwSS Whats what’S InSIdE.... CO-OP PETITIOn | PORTRAIT OF ThE ARTIST | ART FOR LIFE’S SAKE | ThE LAMP | whAT’S On | And MORE JULY 2012 • TAMMUZ / AV 5772 • ISSUE 221 2 Pause for thought 3 Never again begins with never forget. During the 1972 message that terrorism can prevail, a message that Summer Games in Munich, members of the Israeli contradicts everything for which Western democratic Olympic team were killed after being taken hostage by principles stand. It is an Olympic Shame that leaves us Black September, a faction of the Palestinian Liberation shaking our heads. Organisation. The late King Hussein of Jordan called it a “savage crime against civilisation”. Yossuf Gutfreund, David Berger, Mark Slavin, Yacov Springer, Ze’ev Friedman, Amitzur Shapira, Eliezer The 2012 Olympic Games will begin on 27 July. The Halfin, Kehat Shorr and Andre Spitzer perished when International Olympic Committee and the organisers of terrorism was allowed to overshadow the world’s the London Games do not intend to mark the fortieth coming together for the love of sport. anniversary of the Munich Massacre, even though it happened at the It remains incumbent upon us Games in the athletes’ DURING SHABBAT SERVICES ON 28 JULY, ALL as a community, and Jewish village or, if you will, on communities across the ‘Olympic soil’. SYNAGOGUES ACROSS SUSSEX SHOULD SAY A country, to remember them SPECIAL PRAYER OF REMEMBRANCE FOR THE particularly when others will The Olympics purport 1972 ISRAELI OLYMPIC VICTIMS not. to represent the best in sport, even when held hostage to political fortune. For this reason, on 28 July - as the 2012 Olympic Maybe it has always been that way. Games begin and during Shabbat services - synagogues across our County – perhaps across all of But the Olympics’ fall from its own idealistic grace truly the UK – should say a special prayer of remembrance began with the 1972 hostage taking. By pretending for the 1972 Israeli Olympic victims. to erase the event, the Games inadvertently send a SJN brings local news, events, articles, reviews, announcements, people, congregations, communitites, ADMINISTRATOR Ivor Sorokin contacts and more. Delivered at the start of each month, SJN is run entirely by volunteers for reporting, Administrative Assistants Gweni Sorokin / Bernard Swithern editing and circulating each edition that has become the cornerstone of the Jewish community across the region. 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ISSUE 221 | JULY 2012 2 Contents 3 Sussex Jewish News FEATURES PO Box 2178 • Hove BN3 3SZ Telephone: 07906 955 404 1 THE THRONE ON THE ROYAL BARGE Cover courtesy of Clive Roffe JP 5 PETITION THE CO-OP The Board of Deputies urges the community to take action against the boycott 9 LIFE FOR ART’S SAKE Ivor Richards on art therapy for those with cancer 10 PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST An interview with Martin Wertheim-Gould 12 A LINK WITH THE PAST Food triggers memory 13 THE LAMP Bernard Swithern receives a gift REGULARS 4 YOUR NEWS Announcements, correspondence and more 5 COMMUNITY LIFE News from across the county 14 CULTURE Sussex Jewish Film Club, the Man Booker International Prize and more 20 WHAT’S ON Regular and special events in your community YOUR COMMUNITY 16 BRIGHTON & HOVE HEBREW CONGREGATION 17 HOVE HEBREW CONGREGATION 18 BRIGHTON & HOVE REFORM SYNAGOGUE 19 BRIGHTON & HOVE PROGRESSIVE SYNAGOGUE Full page (A4 size) £170 Sussex Jewish News (‘SJN’), its Editor and Editorial Board: Half page (A5 size) £100 • are not allied to any synagogue or group and the views expressed by writers are Quarter page (A6 size) £65 not necessarily those of SJN; • accept advertisements in good faith but do not endorse any products or 1/9 page (credit card size) £40 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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ADVERTISING ADVERTISING IN SJN GUIDELINES ISSUE 221 | JULY 2012 4 Your news & views 5 Your news To Daniel Special Birthdays Seligman Edith Baum (90), Trudy Epstein (90), Menashe Harounoff , Vivien (pictured), who has been Harris, Ivan Krolick, Muriel Marcus (100), Ignez Roden, Alida Steinfeld awarded ‘Boy of the Year and Simon Stanford, all of whom are celebrating birthdays this 2012’ in recognition of his month. outstanding commitment to Blatchington Mill Wedding School in his final year, Mazel tov to Eliot Hill and Laura Vogel on their marriage on 12 June. Year 11. Your Mum, Dad, Rachel & Charlotte and Wedding Anniversaries grandparents are so very Mazel tov to Jill and Alan Bass on the celebration of their 55th proud of you. wedding anniversary. Mazel tov to Sharon and Brian Rubin on the celebration of their Ruby Wedding. Deaths We wish Long Life to the families of Shirley Bogan z’l, Donald Curtis Achievements z’l, Albert Shtasel z’l and David Leberman z’l. Mazel tov to: • Shimon Peres who was awarded the US Presidential Medal of Stonesettings Freedom on 13 June 2012. It is the highest civilian award that can The memorial stone in loving memory of Leslie Lewis z’l will be be bestowed in the United States. consecrated at the Jewish cemetery, Meadowview, Bear Road, • Hannah Evans on qualifying for MbChb and being offered a position Brighton on Sunday 22 July at 3.30 pm. at Guy’s Hospital in London. • Jess Wood MBE on her investiture by HRH Prince Charles on 31 May 2012 at Buckingham Palace. The memorial stone in loving memory of David Berman z’l Get Well will be consecrated at the Jewish cemetery, Meadowview, We wish a refuah sheleimah to Sam Barsam, Kathy Bennis and Bear Road, Brighton on Sunday 22 July at 3.00 pm Richard Harris. David the sweet-singing psalmist has again triumphed over Goliath Your views the oafish giant. Jerusalem Quartet, some further Godfrey Gould thoughts Artistic freedom at stake In the 1930s in Nazi Germany some German musicians were bemoaning the ban on the playing of the music by Felix Thanks again for an excellent SJN an interesting, informative read – Mendelssohn. Dr Josef Goebbels advised then that they should play and I loved the colourful photo of Charleston on the cover. the music of a ‘good’ German composer such as Robert Schumann. I am very concerned at the antisemitic attacks and anti-Israeli Dr Goebbels conveniently ‘forgot’ that both composers were almost demonstrations during the Festival. Do we need to get together with exact contemporaries and that Mendelssohn was a good friend all the Jewish communities here to see what can be done to stop this and colleague of Schumann and very helpful and supportive of him, interference with artistic freedom? especially during his recurrent periods of mental ill-health. Shirley Jaffe Perhaps it was thus quite appropriate that the Jerusalem Quartet, with Alexander Melnikov, chose to play two works by Schumann - Piano Quartet Op 47 and the Piano Quintet Op 42 – at their Brighton Festival concert. Our Front Cover The fabulous fabric and upholstery for the thrones on The Royal It was also predictable that the pro-Palestinian lobby should choose Barge, star of the show for the Diamond Jubilee River Pageant, this event to mount protests against Israel and all her ‘evil’ works. were donated by the Worshipful Company of Upholders. In 1834 Schumann founded a personal institution, the ‘Davidsbund’ One of our loyal subscribers, Clive Roffe JP is one of their (the David Club), in which he railed against the artistic philistines of Past Masters, having been installed in 1999 at the Bevis Marks his day. Little could he have known that 178 years later Philistines/ Palestinians would still be attempting to destroy his work. Let it be Synagogue. Coincidentally, Rabbi Silverman was very involved known that this challenge to the music of Robert Schumann was no in the service, which was attended by Lord Peter Levene the then less a mistake than that made by Dr Josef Goebbels on the music of Lord Mayor of London. Felix Mendelssohn. The Roffe family were long-time Hove residents: indeed Clive is The Palestinians are the natural heirs of the Philistines, even to the still a member of Hove Hebrew Congregation. He moved away derivation of their name. They contribute nothing but attempt only some years ago, but Nettie, his mother, who always appreciated to destroy beauty and art and culture.