Hakol January/Februray 2018

T he L iberal Synagogue E lstree

Hakol

Jan/Feb 2018 Tevet/Shevat/Adar 5778

Lunch Club Special Objects (Pg 6)

Meet Mike & Penny Beral (Pg 10-12)

This year's KT (Pg 14)

RABBI’S WORD – JANUARY 2018

Rabbi Pete Tobias

T

he end of 2017 saw an unprecedented number of bar- and bat-mitzvah ceremonies taking place at The Liberal Synagogue Elstree. In ten weeks, beginning in mid-October, there were just two Saturdays without a 13-year-old promising that he or she would continue with their Jewish studies – or not…

In its early days, Liberal Judaism dispensed with the ceremony of bar-mitzvah. A hundred years ago, thirteen was deemed too young an age for a boy to make an adult commitment to his Jewish heritage. So a new group ceremony of confirmation was introduced, Kabbalat Torah (KT). It signified the conclusion of a young person’s formal Jewish education. Since my arrival here in 2003, over 80 young people at TLSE have taken part in such a ceremony.

Despite the reintroduction of the bar-mitzvah ceremony, and its equivalent bat-mitzvah ceremony for girls, there is an expectation that all children who celebrate becoming bar- or bat-mitzvah will continue to KT. At the conclusion of a bar or bat-mitzvah ceremony, the 13-year-old reads a prayer in front of the open ark. It includes the sentence ‘I give thanks for what I have learned of my Jewish heritage and promise to go on studying it in the years ahead.’ This allows me to say that they have made a promise, in front of the open ark and the congregation, to join the KT group.

Recently however, many of them have omitted the word ‘it’, thus making their declaration a general one about studying, rather than a specific reference to their Jewish heritage. Indeed at one of the many recent ceremonies, the father of the bar-mitzvah actually pointed to the word as his son was reading the prayer and urged him not to say it. But whether they say the word or not, the expectation that young people celebrating becoming bar- or bat-mitzvah will continue on to do KT has in recent years become more of a hope, and a pretty vain one at that.

This year’s Kabbalat Torah group is made up of just two students – the smallest group since 2003. They have taken part in thought-provoking and inspiring studies about how to honour the memories of those who perished in the Holocaust and how to find justice for them. The service they will lead for us on National Holocaust Memorial Day, January 27th, will be a moving one. But, I wonder, how many of those b’nei mitzvah who took over the shul with their families and friends last year, will honour that promise, whether they made it or not, at future KT ceremonies?

2

TABLE OF CONTENTS Rabbi’s Word Council Round-Up Inter Synagogue Quiz January and February Lunch Club Information Special Objects – TLSE Lunch Club Quiz Answers Care and Welfare – A Plea for Help; Condolences & Happy Birthday Wishes Welcome to New Members/Mazel Tov to Meet The Berals October and November Walks and upcoming walks information This year’s KT A Painful Trip to Central Europe TLSE Contact Details

Rabbi Pete Tobias Page 2 Richard Boulton / Lizzie Rabin Page 3 Michael Reibscheid Page 4 Page 5 Michael Shaw; Terry Benson

Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9

Mike & Penny Beral

Page 10 Page 13

Various Deborah Gabbay

Page 14 Page 16 Page 19

COUNCIL ROUND UP Richard Boulton & Lizzie Rabin

I

t’s been a busy couple of months. It’s hard to believe that last time we wrote, it was just after the High Holy Days and as we write this – it is Chanukkah! By the time you read it, it will already be 2018! An extremely happy and healthy year to you all.

Lots has been happening not the least of which was John Fairclough’ s decision to resign as our caretaker to work closer to his home. To ensure the continued smooth running of TLSE and to support Rabbi Pete, Davina Bennett, formerly our Honorary Secretary, has become Operations Manager. Should you wish to contact Davina, her new email address is opsmanager@tlse.org.uk– the caretaker email is now redundant. Davina is well known to many of us at TLSE, and we are confident you will have already seen an amazing change. We still need a caretaker to help out for approximately 12 hours a week, on Friday afternoons/evenings, Saturday and Sunday mornings and other times on request. If you can help, or know someone who might like to do this part-time paid position, please contact Davina as above or Deborah at office@tlse.org.uk.And if you see Davina, don’t forget to congratulate her on her new role.

On the back cover, you can see what fun we had at the practice sessions and Chanukkah Dance and party on the afternoon of Sunday 17th December and we hope to have more great events this year. Do get in touch if you have any ideas!

3

TLSE WINS INTER SYNAGOGUE QUIZ

Michael Reibscheid

T

he annual Inter-Synagogue Quiz took place on Sunday, 12th November hosted by Southgate Synagogue. Our team comprised of Team Captain, Michael Reibscheid, Ann Etkind, Richard Elman, Michael Rebak, Rosita Rosenberg, Leone Samson, Nathaniel Samson and Sue Woolf, won for the second year in a row! We beat Kingston by a single point, after a pretty poor marathon round. We had a poor sports round too, but did well in all the others.

Every single team member made individual contributions that gained us points, and thus contributed to the win. We have won six times in the last eight years!

Bedfordshire came third and will host the event next year.

Here are some of the questions we had to answer. If you have any correct answers, why not consider joining the us next year to help us keep up our record?

Answers on page 7 1. A skulk is a group of which animals?

2. What is next in this sequence: Roger, John, Brian?

3. Who was the sidekick to Xena, warrior Princess?

4. Who lives at 0001 cemetery Lane?

5. What is measured using the gay-lussac scale?

6. Which acid causes the sting from a stinging nettle?

7. Which is the most southern service area on a UK motorway?

The winning team.

The team mulling over a question.

4

6

5

TLSE LUNCH CLUB NOVEMBER

Michael Shaw, Terry Benson

Special Objects

T

uesday 28th November saw a different approach at the lunch club-participants were invited to bring along an item of special significance to them:

Michael Shaw’s Special Camera I am frequently seen at TLSE with a camera around my neck, usually a digital one capable of filling a small card with many photos, convenient and easy to use. I also own a small collection of vintage cameras, Michael with his father’s camera. one of which is amongst my most treasured possessions. It dates from 1938, an Ensign Selfix 20 Model No 1 taking 8 photographs on a roll of film. It belonged to my father and was probably a present from my mother when they married in ’38. Dad used that camera for many years and I still have some of the photos that he took with it; sometimes he even let me use it. Eventually, he bought a more modern camera and this old Ensign was put away until I found it when he moved house. It now sits on a shelf in my study and reminds me of my father and my introduction to a life-long hobby. I close my eyes and hear him say “Hold the camera steady and squeeze the shutter cable”. My digital cameras may come and go but that old camera still works and holds many memories.

June brought her letters from Clement Atlee in response to the birthday cards she used to send to him.

David Blake spoke about his father’s early death in WWII and showed a certificate commemorating his sacrifice

66

Rosita told us about the letter from King George VI she received at the end of WWII.

Sue Woolf brought in a book that belonged to her grandmother.

Harry Hurst showed us his old 78s and played some of the music he listened to as a child.

Nancy Shavick shared the following, written by Terry Benson: Sometime in 1979, I went with Stephen Leigh to visit an old Federation synagogue in Montague Road in Hackney close to where I was brought up. We had heard that the shul had recently closed and was disposing of various items.

We purchased the two large brass Menorah, which had been mounted on the front corners of the raised bimah, the Ner Tamid and the heavily embroidered Ark Curtains. They were delighted to receive our donation and to know that they were going to be reused in a new shul in Borehamwood. They probably did not realise that it was a Liberal shul!

Busy volunteers in the kitchen

We created bases for the menorah from two pieces of mahogany remaining from the building of our Magen David-shaped ark. Eventually, Julius Kosky modified and rewired one menorah as a Chanukkiah. The Ark curtains were remodelled to show the lion of Judah on each of our Ark doors.

Hebrew wording from the unused sections was eventually deciphered by Carole Dworkin. It spelled: 'Donated by the ladies guild' in English using Hebrew characters!

The Ner Tamid hung above our ark until around 2004 when it and the curtained doors were made redundant by our remodelling of the ark to hold the magnificent new glazed ark doors, with a matching Ner Tamid donated by the Berals. The old Ner Tamid now hangs proudly in the summer house in my garden!

The chanukkiah

INTER SYNAGOGUE QUIZ - THE ANSWERS

W

ell, how did you fare?

These are the answers:

1. Foxes 2. Freddie (Mercury) - the members of Queen 3. Gabrielle 4

The Addams Family

5. Alcohol content of liquids 6. Formic 7. Exeter

Michael with the winning trophy

7

CONDOLENCES TO: Alan Gordenfelt on the recent loss of his sister.

Maisie Marks on the loss of her husband Arnold

CARE & WELFARE -A PLEA FOR HELP!

Carol Hurst

For many years now, your Care and Welfare Committee has comprised of a small group of seven dedicated volunteers.

Our work includes: visiting and befriending, shopping and cooking for ill members, transporting people to shul, hospitals, doctors etc., providing home hospitality on shabbat and festivals, keeping in touch by telephone, attending funerals and shivas, bereavement visiting, assisting families to attend the synagogue seder, advising members of professional helping agencies, as well as other requests for help which we try to cover.

We also set up our very successful monthly Luncheon Club, now in its 12th year, open to all who wish to attend, but mostly for retired and older people, to enjoy an inexpensive 3-course meal, followed by a speaker or entertainer.

We have arranged First Aid Courses in the synagogue, provide wheelchairs available to lend to members, and recently acquired a defibrillator which is located on the shul premises. We keep up-to-date in our training, occasionally attending courses relevant to our work. We have all been trained as bereavement visitors.

However, we need your help. We are not as young as we once were, and in order to give our community the service we would like, an injection of young blood is needed. If you think you would like to be involved, initially by volunteering for example to give lifts, take an elderly member shopping, or just visiting a lonely member we would be delighted to hear from you. If you do have time to help in this way occasionally, you’ll be surprised how rewarding it can be, and you may find that becoming a member of Care and Welfare is something for you.

For more information, and a friendly chat about volunteering please phone me, Carol Hurst, on 020 8950 1862.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO: Tia Boulton, Florence de la Cour, Brayden Fifer, Miles Green, Louis Hochenberg, Zoe Marcus, India Mizelas-Hall, Penny Ram, Violet Saunders, Katie Smullen, Ella Starkowitz

CARE & WELFARE COMMITTEE

8

A-B

BARBARA

020 8953 1369

N-Q

PETER

020 8953 1369

C-F

LEONE

07702 349350

R-S

RITA

020 8953 4439

G-I

CAROL

020 8950 1862

T-Z

JUDY

01582 468100

J-M

ESTELLE

020 8954 9569

NICKY

07788 751275

MAZEL TOV TO :

BAR /BAT MITZVAH Jed Davis

Eva Zur

Miles Green

WELCOME TO NEW MEMBERS

Lynda and Paul Silverman

Marilyn and Barry Levy

Pre-Loved by Me

Enjoy a coffee morning while you shop for pre-loved top-end fashion and designer wear for adults and children!

Sunday 25th January from 10:00am – 1:00pm Elstree Liberal Synagogue, High Street, Elstree, WD6 3EY If you would like to sell some of your own items, contact Jo Cohen prelovedbymexxx@gmail.com Pitch: £20 Table or Clothes Rail: £5 9

MEET MIKE AND PENNY BERAL 1950s - North West London

M

ike was born in 1953 to parents Marion and Bob, living in Cricklewood. Starting at the local private school, he made friends with another Michael (Hart), who lived close by in Willesden. Michael has a younger sister Penny, so we assume that Mike actually met his future wife when her mother Ann wheeled her in the pushchair to the school gate aged two!

1960s

Marion and Bob followed friends to join the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in St Johns Wood (the LJS). A few years later Ann and Bernard Hart and their family left West London Synagogue for the LJS. Mike and Michael's friendship continued there, and Penny and younger brother Andrew also went to the Religion School.

Another young JLS member, Edward Cross, decided to start a Religion School choir, and Mike was roped in. A later incarnation of the same duo found themselves 25 years ago in the choir at the then Hertsmere Progressive Synagogue (later TLSE).

Mike at 3

At the age of 13 Mike, Michael and other Penny and brother Michael classmates decided that they needed a youth club, and Square One was founded. With the loudest voice at the time (so nothing changes!) Mike got the role of Master of Ceremonies. Two years later Penny's cohort joined Square One. In 1969, Mike and Michael celebrated their Confirmation (today we would call it Kabbalat Torah), and the families celebrated with a joint party together with two other families. All four families remain the closest friends today, through three generations.

Penny in 1960s

1970s

Penny left St Margaret’s in Hampstead and went to Henrietta Barnett for A-levels; this led Penny to go to the Polytechnic of North London to take an HND in Institutional Management.

Whilst at college Penny became a leader at Kadimah Summer Camp for two years, and volunteered for other organisations including the Out and About Club at the LJS. Mike returned home from Bristol University and started work with ICI in Welwyn Garden City, while Penny worked for NatWest Bank.

Now members of the next LJS social group, Phase 2, in 1975 Mike noticed that his good friend Michael has a sister - Penny!

A year later they were engaged and in October 1977 they were married by Rabbis John Rayner and David Goldstein at the LJS, with a members’ choir conducted by Edward Cross. Mike and Penny started their married life in a flat in Archway, but soon moved to a house in Edgware.

10

Engagement At Penny’s 21st

1980s

Mike continues the story: “Not long after we married ICI decided that we should have a sojourn in Lytham St Annes (near Blackpool), where on arrival we contacted the local congregation, Blackpool Reform – visiting Rabbi – Lionel Blue.

We could see in their faces: “Two young adults actually asking to join a Reform congregation – which one of them converted?”

In 1982 we moved back south to Radlett, and we joined HPS. Penny was working as the catering manager at North London Collegiate School but stopped work shortly before Jennifer was born in December 1983.

Mike and Jennifer

Penny and Jennifer

Penny c 1980

Mike c 1980

Three weeks later the headmistress asked if Penny would cater the Governor’s dinner for 12 people. That was the beginning of Penny’s catering business, still going strong to this day - see the advert elsewhere in Hakol! Never one to take it easy, Penny trained as a Citizens Advice advisor and then as a Volunteer Counsellor at Childline.

1990s

As well as volunteering at TLSE, Penny was a National Officer for Liberal Judaism for six years, focused on PR and communications. We co-chaired four biennial Liberal Judaism weekend conferences. Jennifer was Bat Mitzvah and then celebrated KT at TLSE, and the centre of her social life became the LJY Netzer events, especially the Kadimah summer camp. “Kadimah Changes Lives” is never truer than for Jennifer, whose closest friends today are those she met at Kadimah more than 20 years ago.

1996

2000s onwards

In the last 30 years we have each held various roles within HPS and TLSE – at different times we have both been Chair, Penny has worked especially on the Social and Membership Committees, and Mike has taken responsibility for the building, both routine maintenance and large projects. We do lots of these activities together –for example, we were both on the organising group for the 25th Anniversary Ball, and for the complete refurbishment of the Kiddush Hall. For 20 years, Mike has been the membership treasurer, sending out the annual subscriptions and chasing late payers.

11

He also sings with the singing group, especially at High Holydays. It is surprising that Mike still has any friends at all in the congregation! We both work full time, although Mike plans to retire in the next 12 months to spend more time as a trustee for Resource (the free and confidential out-placement service for unemployed members of the Jewish community, and beneficiary of this year’s High Holyday appeal), do more photography and video, music, DIY and travel. Penny is on the shul Council and is very active with Borehamwood Foodbank.

More recently we have enjoyed a lot of amazing holidays; last year to Brazil and more recently a wonderful safari adventure in Africa. We look forward to a lot more travel once Mike retires and Penny learns to do less! Liberal Judaism has been central to our lives, and we On a recent holiday count ourselves very fortunate to have made so many close and lifelong friends through the community. Long may it thrive.

Upcoming Walks Date: Saturday 20th January

Time: 1:45 for 2:00pm

Meet: Sue Woolf’s house for a local walk: 5 Hartfield Close, Elstree, WD6 3JD; everyone invited back to Sue’s afterwards for tea.

Mobile on the day: 07749 726650 Date: Saturday 17th February

Time: 1:45 for 2:00pm

Meet: Nancy Shavick’s house for a local walk: 64 Aldenham Avenue, Radlett, WD7 8HY; everyone invited back to Nancy’s afterwards for tea.

Mobile on the day: 07872 983720

WALKS October Walk Ann Etkind led a fantastic walk of the Radlett Shenley loop on October 28th. We thoroughly enjoyed it with the weather being warm, the sun shone for us and we stayed dry through out! This is a route we have walked many times over our 21 years, and for the first time, we managed not to get lost! The five of us, Ann, Nancy, Tina, Michael and Sue walked the five miles of beautiful countryside, laughing and joking along the way. This route is a particular favourite of mine at this time of year as the autumnal colours come in and the trees start dropping their leaves. A great time had by all.

November Walk The November Shabbat Walk led by Lisa and Leigh took us through Cassiobury Park. We started with lunch at the Cha café, and then took off in the rain to complete the four-mile circuit. We came across the Grand Union Canal Festival, with narrow boat owners selling various craft items. Unfortunately, the weather was so miserable we were the only people passing! We then came across the owl tree, a tree trunk covered in carvings – including one of Pooh Bear’s bottom!

We then popped in to Daisy’s café for tea and cake. Despite the weather we enjoyed our ramble and hope to return in the sunshine.

Nancy Shavick

Ann strides out

Carved Tree

December Walk Michael Shaw The River Fleet, the longest of the 17 that join the Thames that go through London, flows into the Thames at Blackfriars.

Tina Ann Nancy and Sue The December Shabbat walk followed it from Kings cross to its end. After an appropriate serenade at St. Pancras Station the small group set off along Kings Cross Narrow boat Road towards Mount Pleasant, passing the impressive old Court House and Police station. At Burnage Wells, the site of a pleasure garden and house belonging to Nelle Gwynn we turned off. This area was famous for its pure water with Sadlers Well and the old water board offices nearby. We passed Mount Pleasant sorting office and postal museum and Clerken Well, the site of a fresh water spring lending its name to Clerkenwell. At Farringdon Station, the route heads towards Fleet Street the old home of the newspapers.

Blackfriars soon came into view where we were greeted by about 100 Father and Mother Christmases and a few Santas and Reindeer reindeer, the annual Santacon (look it up on Google). As we were not dressed as Santa we decided not to get coffee in the Blackfriar but headed to another café before heading home after an interesting jaunt through London. Nude cyclists, hundreds of Santas – what can I find for my summer river walk?

13

KABBALAT TORAH 2017

T

his year’s KT service will take place on Saturday, 27th January. Here are some thoughts from those who participated, in both the course and/or the the trip to Berlin.

Mike Walton

The aim of the curriculum we have been following is to encourage students to learn lessons from the Holocaust that will give them a greater understanding of their role and responsibility in a democracy and generally in society. Connor’s and Jasper’s interest in the course, their enthusiasm and contributions, made it a very pleasurable and rewarding teaching experience and gives me hope for the future.

Connor Davey

At the Berlin The trip to Berlin was enlightening as we Wall monument went to the places from where our ancestors ancestors had been deported, but we could walk away. It was interesting to see how less than 80 years ago, those who were considered Jewish were hated, tortured and killed simply for holding different beliefs. This hatred, unfortunately, still lives on in small parts of the world today.

What I found truly amazing was the sheer contrast of Listening to beauty and horror at the Wansee house where the Wansee information at Wansee conference took place. This is where the final solution to the Jewish ‘problem’ was brought about.

Jasper Jobling

An eye-opening experience into my Jewish background and culture. It allowed me to connect with my Jewish identity through things written by Jews at the time. It was a truly emotional experience, especially when listening to the stories of the Jews from that time.

Zak Daniel-Esner

The KT trip to Berlin definitely taught me an awful lot, both Zak, Connor historically and religiously. I particularly felt a connection to the and Jasper Jewish museum, specifically the Holocaust room and the information centre below the stone memorial. It's crazy to think that all it took was one man to start an entire war. My great-grandparents got married at 18 and left Vienna because of the Holocaust and I know that it took them two years to get to England. Although I sadly did not get to meet my great-grandparents, my family talk about them often and it made me very sad to see from the memorials and museums, just how much they went through, especially as they were only a few years older than I am now. There's so much history in Berlin and I would definitely go again. Thanks Pete and Mike for a great two days.

14

Liora Daniel

Joining in on the KT trip was a very exciting but also daunting thing to be able to experience. I've heard and read so many stories about people's experience in Germany during WWII. It felt good to visit and learn about their past and our history, but it was also a very sad, yet eye-opening experience. I have learnt so much about our forebears and what they had to go through just for our religion to live on and for our freedom.

At the Holocaust Memorial Museum

Rabbi Pete talks about the deportations

Having family that had to go through this and were able to tell their stories is a miracle and through every activity we did in Berlin, I went in with an open mind but also with thoughts of them, imagining what they experienced. I now have a huge sense of appreciation for what they had to go through.

Rabbi Pete Points out Something at the Holocaust Menorial Museum

15

A PAINFUL TRIP TO CENTRAL EUROPE

Deborah Gabbay

A

t the end of October, Rabbi Pete and I took a trip to Central Europe, taking in Lviv, Krakow, Vienna and Budapest. It was a much-needed break after the hard slog of all the Autumn Jewish festivals, although we knew it would not be very relaxing, as we were packing so much in, including at my suggestion, Auschwitz-Birkenau – guaranteed to be anything but a bundle of laughs.

Pete was excited to be taking me to Lviv, which is in the Southern part of Ukraine.

He has written an as-yet unpublished novel about the murder of the first Progressive Rabbi there in 1848 and knows the city relatively well. As were the other cities on our itinerary, Lviv was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the end of WWI, and shares with them the fabulous architecture and in the case of Budapest, faded grandeur. But in spite of the beauty, the overwhelming feeling I had was one of Golden Rose Restaurant melancholy, because the other thing that all these cities have in common, is that prior to WWII, they all had thriving Jewish populations, and in Lviv in particular, there is almost no trace of a civilisation that had been there for hundreds of years previously.

And apart from a couple of badly maintained memorials, no sign of any regret at the enormous loss to humanity of all those lost souls. On the contrary, a restaurant, misleadingly named after the ruined synagogue site nearby, gaily painted and appearing to be Jewish, in fact perpetuates anti-Semitic stereotypes, with the waiters wearing fake peyot, claiming to be named Moishe, and no prices on the menu, because after all, Jews are hagglers. We did not patronise it.

Remaining wall of Golden Rose synagogue

Memorial to the lost Jews of Lviv

We visited the sites of the main synagogue, known as the Golden Rose, and the Progressive Temple. One wall of the former still stands and there is a plaque commemorating its destruction. Adjacent to it is a small memorial, apparently constructed since Pete last visited four years ago: slabs of granite with words of survivors, engraved on them in four languages.

16

Standing in the area where the Progressive Temple used to be, I suddenly noticed another plaque commemorating it, hardly visible and easily missed.

Plaque commemorating the site of the progressive temple in Lviv before it was destroyed

That site and the one where the ghetto had been, were poorly maintained and clearly of little importance to the city’s population today.

In Krakow, a lovely city, we visited the excellent museum dedicated to the Nazi occupation of 1939-45, located in the former Schindler factory. There was acknowledgement here of the suffering of both the Polish and Jewish populations.

Auschwitz-Birkenau was painful, but both of us were impressed with our guide, who made no bones about the fact that the vast majority of those murdered there were Jews. But clearly, some visitors just don’t get it – I am still angry with myself for not remonstrating with a group of students who took a selfie of themselves, posed on the railway track halfway between the iconic entrance and the gas chambers, grinning inanely. Idiots.

The controversial monument

The Temple in Lviv before it was destroyed

Site of the Progressive Temple Lviv

Site of the Lviv Ghetto

17

17

Our guide in Vienna also acknowledged the fate of the Jews, expressing regret, but the most impressive place in those terms was the guide in Budapest, which was also in some ways the most shocking, because the Hungarian Jewish population was liquidated over a six-week period in April – June 1944. Nevertheless, there remains in Budapest, a small, but active Jewish community, as there is also in Krakow and Vienna.

Weeping willow commemorating the 5000 victims buried nearby

The controversial monument

Empty chairs

And in Budapest too, there are synagogues (one of which is the second largest in the world) and memorials and acknowledgement of the loss, but more importantly, protest: A controversial official monument, erected surreptitiously overnight in July 2014, ignores Hungary’s own active Nazi party and enthusiastic collaboration with the Germans. But survivors, their descendants and supportive non-Jews have erected another memorial in front of it,with personal objects, photos, documents and pebbles and every day, between 17:30 and 18:30, there are speeches, songs and discussion. So although I felt overwhelmingly sad, I also have some hope that there is a willingness and desire on the part of some, if not yet all, of the formerly Jewish areas of Central Europe, to both acknowledge what happened and ensure it never happens again.

Mass graves next to the synagogue in Budapest

18

The magnificent synagogue in Budapest

GENERAL INFORMATION Elstree High Street Elstree, Hertfordshire WD6 3EY Phone: 020 8953 8889 Email: office@tlse.org.uk www.tlse.org.uk Edited by Deborah Gabbay

T L S E

Please note: Deborah is generally in the office on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 10:00am – 4:00pm.

Would all those involved in arranging functions, services or meetings please contact the office on 020 8953 8889 or office@tlse.org.uk so that they can be scheduled in the Synagogue diary. This ensures that any physical set-ups in the Synagogue are arranged and that meetings do not conflict.

Whilst every effort is made to ensure that details printed in Hakol are correct, no responsibility can be accepted for information misprinted or incorrectly given to the Editor. Please let the Editor know of any errors or corrections. The Editor reserves the right to edit material submitted for publication.

The deadline for submissions to the next edition of Hakol is Friday 9th February but submissions will be accepted at any time and early submission is appreciated.

COUNCIL MEMBERS’ CONTACT LIST CO-CHAIRMAN Lizzie Rabin 07974 229607 lizzie.rabin2702@gmail.com

CO-CHAIRMAN Richard Boulton 07801 921218 rboulton@gmail.com

HONORARY TREASURER Harvey Adams 07760 666002 frinton43@outlook.com

HONORARY PRESIDENT Monique Blake 020 8953 4251 monique.david@ntlworld.com

Penny Beral 07979 800616 penny@pennyberal.co.uk

Jacqueline Bernard 07885 176417 goonergirly@live.co.uk

Peter Rabin Joanne Jones 020 8958 7783 07958 300247 joanne.jones2304@gmail.com peterrabin@talktalk.net Designed & Printed by

DESIGN

PRINT

WEB

Alan Gordonfelt 020 8950 6048 ritalan@hotmail.co.uk David Swarc 07767 788596 davidswarc@aol.com

020 8449 6688 www.brunswickpress.co.uk 19

TLSE CHANUKKAH DANCE and PARTY