Hakol Mar/Apr 2020 Adar/Nisan/Iyyar 5780

T he L iberal Synagogue E lstree

Hakol Mar/Apr 2020 Adar/Nisan/Iyyar 5780

The TLSE Big Community Weekend 6th – 8th March 2020 Reconnect with old friends | Welcome new community members

Friday 6th March

4:00pm - TOTS’ SERVICE 6:30pm – EREV SHABBAT SERVICE AND SHARING SUPPER

Saturday 7th March

SHABBAT SERVICE & LUNCH 10.15am – Coffee and cake for the early birds 11:00am Service – Featuring the TLSE singing group as well as Rabbi Pete & his guitar 12.30 - 2.30pm Buffet Lunch – Catered lunch for all the community

Sunday 8th March

10:00am - 12.30pm PURIM SPECTACULAR SUNDAY @ TLSE

RABBI’S WORD – MARCH 2020

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Rabbi Pete Tobias

he letter that was sent to all members of the synagogue a couple of weeks ago was originally intended to be my Rabbi’s Word for this month. Clearly a decision was taken to send it to each member or family individually, so it would be a little pointless repeating it here. Which means I have to write something else.

I think I’d like to stay with the theme, however. As I write this, a couple of days have passed since the letter was sent out. I am overwhelmed and humbled by the kind and loving responses of so many of you. Perhaps this is a good opportunity to clarify my thoughts and begin a process of looking back over the last 17 years – I expect that most of what I’m about to write will be repeated in some form in the months to come so please heckle if I begin to repeat myself. Or fire me…

I arrived here from Glasgow in 2003.

It was a homecoming in many ways.

I was rejoining the Liberal movement after an 8-year exile to the Reform. I was taking up a post in a building frighteningly close to the woods through which I had reluctantly tramped as a schoolboy on cross-country runs (and, in later school years, smoked my first cigarettes). And I was able once again to be a season ticket holder at Watford.

I was also able to use the prayerbook I had helped to edit over a decade earlier. As the years progressed and I settled in, I became increasingly involved in Liberal Judaism at a national level: I became chairman of the Rabbinic

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Conference, and of the 2012 Biennial Conference Committee. I had occasional items published in the Guardian and other papers; I featured regularly on BBC Radio 2.

That all peaked around 7 years ago, after which I began to realise that trying to change the world, which was one of the motivations for my becoming a rabbi 35 years earlier, wasn’t actually going to succeed. And, moreover, it wasn’t my job anyway. My job was and is to look after my congregation. I learned that being a rabbi was not about big ideas and taking up worthy causes (though that’s not a bad thing). Primarily it’s about people – helping each other find a way through this difficult and challenging world and providing a safe place to call home and an extended family to share it with. I hope I have been able to provide that for many of you, both in the hardest and most joyful of times.

Just over a year before I started here, my son, then aged 13, began his new life in California. I guess that, now I’ve given up trying to change the world and have tried instead to create a family here at TLSE, I’ve finally learned to understand a bit about what family is. And that’s why, albeit with sadness and no little trepidation, I am taking my leave. I’m devastated to be saying goodbye to my Elstree family.

But be honest: who wouldn’t move their lives 5000 miles just to be part of this conversation with their son and grandson?

TABLE OF CONTENTS Rabbi’s Word

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Adult Education

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Editor’s Word

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Care and Welfare

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Golden Days

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Mental Health Famous Jewish Women

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The Meeters & Greeters

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The KT Service

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Who’s Who

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Aaron has his say

Sundays @ TLSE

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The 1934 Berlin Prayerbook Page 8/9

General Information

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The Jewish Community

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EDITOR’S WORD

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his issue I think it’s a good time to talk about change.

I’ve been editor for a few issues and I am delighted to say that there have been compliments and not brickbats about the change of format.

Change is a tricky topic. The saying that “Change is as good a rest” isn’t universally accepted because to be frank change can be for the better or worse. And renewal is not the same as change. You renew your driving license but you change your car. What does change mean in the context of our daily lives? A good indicator is the slippery use of words that you can associate with the process. You can effect change or be affected by change. You are either the passive receiver of someone else’s activities or you can seize the opportunity of doing different things differently. Or you can change your ways for the better or worse. So

much for the word play. Now I would like to invite readers to tell me how their lives have changed after a particular event.

Change can be slow or fast. You may have had a light bulb moment or the change may have been forced upon you reluctantly and the consequences have been wonderful or catastrophic.

Tell us your story.

MENTAL HEALTH As discussed by our young people on Sunday 2nd February.

To coincide with Mental Health Shabbat weekend we talked about things that make us happy and we baked “Feel good” cookies which we shared at break. We also talked about things that made us cross or worried and each time we thought of something we shook a Fizzy drink bottle. We then discussed what would happen if we opened the bottle and how keeping feelings inside can make us explode like the shaken bottle. We decided it is better to share your worries 4

FAMOUS JEWISH WOMEN

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t Albans Jewish Women’s Forum’s January talk was given

by Janet Berenson, about famous Jewish women. At the start we were asked to name who we would put forward and over 50% named Golda Meir, with others selecting celebrities such as Maureen Lipman and Vanessa Feltz. My choice was Julia Neuberger. The actual women chosen were from a variety of backgrounds First the scientist Rosalind Franklin, who was born in England in 1920 into a wealthy Jewish family. She was educated privately and went on to study chemistry at Cambridge. As a women she was not initially allowed to receive her degree but in 1951 she became a research associate at King’s College London, where she discovered the double helix theory of DNA. The credit for this discovery was largely attributed to Crick & Watson and her contribution was only acknowledged after her early death in 1958.

The second famous woman selected was Anni Albers, a German born American textile and print artist whose work has been exhibited widely in the Western world, including at the Tate. Born in 1899, she developed her skills in Germany until the threat from the Nazis led her to relocate to USA in 1933. Her striking designs were regarded as modern in their day, blurring the lines between the traditional craft of weaving and art. She continued working into old age and died in 1994.

The third woman selected was also born in Germany in 1897. Dr Lenore Goldschmidt studied English, German and History at Heidelberg University where, unlike her English

counterpart, she was able to receive her degree, and became a teacher. In 1931 she travelled to England to improve her English and worked at St Christopher’s Letchworth, the Quaker school. She returned to teach in Germany until she lost her position under the Nazi regime in 1933, whereupon she opened a private school for Jewish children until the situation became untenable in 1939, when she and eighty students moved to Folkstone where she opened another school.

Finally, we heard about Bessie Moses, an American born in 1893.

She qualified as an obstetrician and gynecologist in 1922 and began to advocate birth control in 1927. This was pioneering work at a time when women were not expected to be able to take control of their reproduction, and she continued to advocate for this until her death in 1965.

It is not possible to know how much these women were influenced by their Jewish backgrounds but, like soLeonorec many others before and after them, the difficulties of being in a minority situation, both as a woman and as a Jewess, may well have had a significant part to play in their strive for success.

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THE KT SERVICE – SATURDAY 25TH JANUARY 2020

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he KT Group had spent its year studying the history of the Weimar Republic and so they decided to focus on that for their graduation service. It was a time of political turmoil and the group had noticed some similarities (thankfully only some!) between events in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s and the political chaos in this country that accompanied their studies during the year.

One aspect of the service was, therefore, a study of the politics of the Weimar Republic. As part of their presentation, each of the four members of the KT Group took on the role of representing and campaigning for a particular political party.

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Isabella spoke about the Socialist Party of Germany (SPD), Adam for the Communist Party. Eva took on

the task of putting forward the arguments of the Schleswig-Holstein and Saxony Peasants’ party, while it fell to Josh to explain how the National Socialist Party managed to persuade people that it was the best way for Germany to escape from the chaos of the Weimar Republic.

These political statements were knitted together with other aspects of the history of that period and co-ordinated by Mike Walton.

The other aspect of the service was that it was based on the prayerbook of the Berlin Jewish Community that was published in 1934. Elements of that prayerbook were included in the service itself, with many of the readings translated into English by Rabbi Pete. You can read a separate article about the Berlin Prayerbook elsewhere in Hakol.

All those present at a service where the seating was radically different to emphasise the distinction between the political and the religious world in Berlin at that time were impressed and moved by what was a fitting observation of National Holocaust Memorial Shabbat.

Following the service, there was a special Kiddush, with a cake and a

presentation.

NEXT PLEASE! The 2020 KT Group has already started: the new members of the group made a visit to the Anne Frank exhibition while it was on display at St Albans Cathedral.

L to R Tia Boulton, Zoe Marcus, Jess Davis, Emily Sinclair, Jack Wingate, Olly Nathan, Dominic de Jonge.

AARON HAS HIS SAY It’s been a busy few weeks again at Religion School but I haven’t been there for all of it due to the horrible weather at the moment stopping us making the journey down each week.

Jacqueline has kept us feeling warm though – one week lots of us were under the weather so she let us bake cookies to make us all feel better – even her!

It was Tu B’sh’vat another week where we looked at the importance of trees and planted tomato and parsley seeds – hopefully the parsley seeds will be used for our Sedar in a few weeks.

All the while we’ve been learning Hebrew too with Sharon – I can count to 10 now in Hebrew too!

Do come and join us – we’re here most Sundays in term time. Check out the weekly email for the times and dates!

See you next time, Aaron

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THE 1934 BERLIN PRAYERBOOK Rabbi Pete acquired this little piece of history as a reminder of the days before the Holocaust.

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hose who have heard me talk about the history and development of Reform Judaism in Germany will know that one of the means by which it can be traced is the succession of prayerbooks that were produced during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Reform liturgy had a number of characteristics. One of them was its determination to remove from the prayerbook any expressions of theological belief with which it disagreed. Another was the removal of repetitions. A third was the desire to make services more pleasing to and easily understood by German congregants and to respect the fact that many of them had busy lives.

Consequently, each successive version of the prayerbook that was produced, seemed to be shorter and contain less Hebrew than its predecessor.

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A peculiar feature of Judaism in Germany was that each ‘Land’ or region was only allowed to have one official Jewish community, usually

based in the major city of each region. So, for example, Berlin was one Jewish community that dictated the practice of Judaism in the whole area. Another was Frankfurt, another Hamburg and so on. So all these communities were almost ‘in competition’ with each other to produce the most radical prayerbook. And the competition seemed mostly to revolve around who could produce the shortest prayerbook.

If that was the case, then the 1934 Berlin prayerbook won hands down.

It contains a Sabbath service (for a Sunday!), services for Pesach, Shavu’ot and Sukkot, erev Rosh ha-Shanah and separate morning services for both days, Erev Yom Kippur, Yom Kippur morning and evening, a Chanukkah service and a Confirmation service. And all of this in just 64 pages!

A few years ago, I was writing a piece about Reform Jewish liturgy and I made reference to the 1934 Berlin prayerbook, which I’d heard about in my liturgy class at Leo Baeck College some 20 years earlier, in the late 1980s. I figured I ought to check and see if my memory was correct. So I googled it.

Not only did I find that it was, I also found a copy of the prayerbook for sale in an obscure American bookseller! It was £100, but I didn’t hesitate to purchase it.

So the prayerbook that was the basis of January’s KT service is one that I actually own. It has an illegible name on the inside cover. The book was hardly used – presumably its owner escaped from Berlin less than 5 years after the book was published – and who knows what was his or her fate after that? So here are some pictures of a prayerbook that contains many services for different occasions in its 64 pages, that opens from left to right and has only a few lines of Hebrew. A real collectors’ item – and it was honoured at the Kabbalat Torah service in January.

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THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN ENGLAND A Brief Account In Three Parts Part 1 – First We’re In And Then We’re Out.

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illiam the Conqueror arrived in England in 1066 with his entourage of barons and hangers on. But it was not only the Norman French who came in his wake. With an eye on good business the Jews followed him to the very edge of the world – England. But it was a precarious move. In a feudal system where taxation was not a smooth process and warrior Kings waged wars with a permanent cash flow problem the Jewish immigration was more a reluctant admission than a wholehearted welcome. Their position was always on a knife edge. Their job was to lend money to the crown and nobles because church law at the time forbade Christians from receiving interest on loans. They were also made wards of the kin giving him absolute power over them. Alas this meant that while they were protected (no doubt out of financial necessity rather than affection) it made them vulnerable to the whims of the absolute monarch. This gave them the freedom of the king’s highways while heavy taxation made them a major funding stream for the crusades. On the plus side it also meant that they paid handsomely towards the construction of several of our most beautiful cathedrals including Westminster Abbey. No doubt they understood the irony of this enforced generosity particularly when, as happened under king john, the level of taxation was such that they could not pay and John routinely locked them up and confiscated their property. Of all the kings under whom the Jews suffered John was perhaps the worst.

Perpetually intimidated by the barons, he allowed these noble thugs to take whatever Jewish possessions they

fancied.

The residence of the Jews in medieval England was not a long term prospect. In a depressingly familiar scenario by the end of the twelfth century Jews were wearing badges and riots were erupting around them. One resulted in the community committing mass suicide despite sheltering in York Castle. The myths that arose surrounding Jewish rituals were particularly pernicious.

The blood libel story told of the sacrifice of a Christian child and the use of the blood in the Pesach service. The Jewish position worsened over the thirteenth century and massacres became all too common as antisemitism increased. The underlying cause of this violence was again a result of the financial position of the Jews.

The laws on money lending changed and the Jews had Christian competition. The kings didn’t need to protect his Hebrew money tree any more as he could borrow funds elsewhere. Once more it was negotiations with the barons which spelt the end of the Jewish presence in England. Edward I, Hammer of the Scots, was running low on the funding of his campaign against his Celtic neighbours. He went to his barons and did a deal which suited the two sides admirably. The barons still owed money to the Jewish financiers which they were loath to repay. In return for a massive grant of £150,000 (equal to a million pounds in today’s money). Edward agreed to come down heavily on the Jews. The barons were delighted as they would no longer be liable for their debts to the Jews. The punitive

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laws were tightened and the Jewish community found themselves facing a bleak future. They had been banned ! from owning property or lending money, the one thing they had been allowed to do. They were stripped of their assets at death, so that their children could not inherit. They were no longer useful so the king was no ! longer interested in their welfare. With their one legal employment opportunity gone some reverted to !

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shady practices such as shaving the edges off silver coinage for which 293 were hung in an appalling mass execution.

This was clearly the beginning of the end for the Jews in England and in 1290 Edward I expelled them. The community fled to Europe. It was ! almost 400 years before they were officially allowed to return with an invitation from Oliver Cromwell.

That will be in the next Hakol. !

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Adult Education (Talking About Judaism)

What do we do?

Currently a Kabbalat Torah course In the future?

Anything you want to know about Judaism What have we studied?

Ancient history, Where did we come from Spanish Inquisition Talmud And much more When do we meet?

Usually alternate Tuesday mornings Also some Sunday mornings All by mutual arrangement Questions and questioning are encouraged This is a Liberal Synagogue Come and find out what Liberal Judaism is really about How we are different Why we are different How can Liberal Judaism Help future generations !

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CONDOLENCES TO: Harold Charles on the death of Frances The Gleason family on the death of Nicky

MAZAL TOV TO: Molly Berger for her bat-mitzvah ceremony on March 21st.

Elaine & Russell Greenberg on the birth of their second grandchild, Zachary

GET WELL SOON TO: Peter Belkin, Trevor Gilbert and Blake Lewis who have had recent (or ongoing) hospital stays.

NEWS FROM TLSE CARE TEAM The TLSE Care team keeps in touch with any members that need our help, whether they are ill, recently bereaved, lonely or going through difficult times.

We are also very conscious that not all disabilities are visible, so if you feel you could use our help, in any way, please get in touch.

Where we can't help we will signpost to other agencies who can. We connect families going through similar experiences. We work closely with Rabbi Pete (who can’t make all the pastoral calls and visits himself), and across the whole of the TLSE family, because families of all ages may need our support.

If you would be willing to join our team of volunteers, to make occasional phone calls, visits or shopping trips we would love to hear from you. If you are interested in getting training in specific skills, for example bereavement support, or are able to give us relevant specialist skills, you will be even more welcome.

If you would like any support from the team or know another member that would, please contact us through the TLSE office.

BURIAL In cases of bereavement, please contact our Burial Officer, Joan Shopper on 01582 792959 13

GOLDEN DAYS IN THE EAST END This piece was written some time ago by the late Frances Charles and was read out at her Shiva. Her husband offers it as a remembrance and a celebration

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was looking through some old books the other day which suddenly brought back a flood of childhood memories. This may interest some readers or may be a bore to others, depending on how old they are. I have reached the age which Frenchmen call “middle age”.

The author Ralph L. Finn, was a childhood friend of my late father, and it was finding his books with personal dedications to my on the fly-leaves, and an early A.A. Milne edition of Winnie the Pooh with original drawings in by E.H. Shepherd, given to me by a much loved teacher from my first East End school, that has made me think so much of the past.

My parents met at the Bernhard Baron Settlement and my father was very active in the dramatic and sporting activities. As he was a keen amateur photographer who did his own developing I have many photos of Sir Basil and Lady Rose Henriques taken at camping holidays, with me as a babe in arms and later as a toddler.

Those were the days when children did out have “nannas” and “poppas” but real “boobas and Zeidas”. They didn’t have money to lavish expensive toys and clothes on their many grandchildren but they had such a lot of time to talk and love their children. My maternal grandparents came from Romania so that side of the family were very blonde and my father’s parents came from Russia. My late mother was the youngest of thirteen, seven children not surviving childhood, and my father was the youngest of

five. All my mother’s brothers served in the First World War, as did my father’s father and older brother, who was in the Air Force.

When I was about three we moved into the top part of the house of my maternal grandparents. This was in Wintron Street, off Commercial Road, and a few minutes to Watney Street Market. The house was a three up, three rooms down type, with an outside loo and no running hot water.

I remember the wonderful food my Boobas would cook in their cosy kitchens, without the luxury of today’s age. Knish’s, borscht, tzimmas, home-made lokshen, etc. and them magical Seider nights when all the aunts and uncles would come with all my cousins.

Most mornings I would creep downstairs to listen to my Zeida;’s wonderful voice as he dovenned, and laid tefillen. On some evenings, I would sit on his lap admiring his large silky mustache, as he sang a hearty rendering of “My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean.”

This was the era of two visits a week to the ”Pictures”. We were near the Palaseum and a short train ride to the Troxy. I had nightmares after being taken to see “Things to Come” and I remember how lovely Merle Oberon was and Charles Laughton’s famous scene as Henry VIII when he belched as he threw chicken bones over his shoulder. No performance was complete without the organ recital medleys which people so enjoyed and it was fascinating to see the organ disappear into the pit.

My cousin’s grandparents had a delicatessen shop nearby and I

remember entertaining them amongst the huge barrels of lovely smelling pickled cucumbers and herrings. I would attempt impersonations of Shirley Temple of course, as did most of the children of that age, but I could also do Mae West doing her “come and up and see me sometime” and my cousin and I would do Flanagan and Allen’s “Hometown”.

On summer days I was push-chaired to a large park where my father and friends played tennis. The sun always seemed to shine as I played in the long grass. Everyone in the street sat outside their front doors.

There was never any traffic so we children played safely. There was hopscotch, and had multi-coloured marbles, and cigarette card picture games. I had the only toy motor car in the road. It seemed enormous – bright red and all the kids had turns on it. I would sometimes try to pedal along with four standing passengers.

The adults in the street had a revolting habit of eating thin white lozenge shaped nuts. I think they were called “Polish Nuts” and spitting the empty shells onto the pavements, and when my husband and I visited Israel in 1965, we were amazed to see happening and down the main street of Natanya one Saturday night.

During winter I loved going shopping with my mother to the Market – it was more fun in the dark with gaily lit stalls, there was one stall which allowed swaps of American comics if they were kept in good condition.

You gave back two plus 1 penny and got another in return. Some of the characters remembered included Dick Tracey, Superman (still going strong) Tarzan, the Captain and the

Kids, Tillie the Toiler plus her cut-outs, Popeye, Mandrake the Magician. A man went round selling hot potatoes in their jackets from a glowing brazier. We sometimes went shopping to a big store called Wickhams (I believe it was demolished by a landmine during the War) where they used pulley contraptions to give you change.

Shortly after starting school I contracted diphtheria and was rushed off to Homerton Isolation Hospital for six weeks. I remember being very upset as my parents were not allowed to visit me.

Because I was not on the danger list I became “engaged” to a doctor during my latter stay at the hospital, and he played bagatelle with me on his daily round.

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WHO’S WHO - TLSE STAFF

Rabbi Pete Tobias Rabbinic leader / teacher / published author Educator - Judaism and the History of the Jewish faith Offers pastoral care all members And anything else we may need from Rabbi Pete

Jacqueline Bernard Office Manager / Administrator Sunday morning @ TLSE

Davina Bennett Operations Manager Assists with the practical daily running of the synagogue liaises with nursery

Stacey Greenberg Caretaker Ensures the Synagogue set up is ready for services and events.

Assists in kiddush setup / tidy up and lunch club

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

by Ruth Herman E Please Note: The office is usually occupied every day except Saturday but the hours are varied. Every effort will be made to respond to you within 2 hours.

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WE ARE A MIXED GROUP OF MEMBERS WHO ENJOY SINGING WE REHEARSE THE SECOND SATURDAY OF THE MONTH HIGH HOLY DAY SERVICES ARE THE MAIN FOCUS OF THE GROUP WE ALSO SING FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS IF REQUESTED NO AUDITIONS ARE REQUIRED TO JOIN YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE ABLE TO READ MUSIC ALTHOUGH IT HELPS!!

EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO COME ALONG AND JOIN US

We have had many compliments from members of the Congregation who appreciate our contribution and say we make a difference to their enjoyment of the service.

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SUNDAY @TLSE Sunday 8th March 10am -12:30pm JOIN US FOR PURIM FAMILY FUN. Parents and children come in your best fancy dress!

Find out more about Purim. Who do you think was the hero?

Bake some delicious hamantashen Listen to the Megillah Make your own greggor to drown out’s Haman’s name.

Sing some Purim songs!

Check out your Purim Hebrew!

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THEN

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GET YOUR FANCY DRESS ON!!!