Hakol March/April 2021 – Adar/Nisan/Iyar 5781

T he L iberal Synagogue E lstree

Hakol

March/April 2021 – Adar/Nisan/Iyar 5781

REMEMBERING ROSITA

TABLE OF CONTENTS Rabbi’s Word

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Meet Rosita Rosenberg

Glimpses of Anglo Jewish History

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Elstree, Borehamwood and Page 13 Bushey Mitzah Day

Holocaust Memorial Day Wednesday 27th June

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Care and Welfare

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Wordsearch

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Gonia’s Recipes

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Editor’s Reviews

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General Information

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Editors Word 2021 Census

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Poem - The Butterfly

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From The Board of Deputies

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RABBI’S WORD – MARCH 2021

Rabbi Pete Tobias

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his issue of Hakol is dedicated to the memory of Rosita Rosenberg z’l, who passed away on Monday 8th February. The Liberal Synagogue Elstree was fortunate to count Rosita as one of its founder members – indeed, she founded and helped to establish many Liberal synagogues in her work for the Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues (ULPS) – but we had the privilege of her membership as well.

My own connection with Rosita goes back to the days before I had even begun to contemplate becoming a Liberal rabbi. The first steps on that journey were at Kadimah, the flagship summer camp of ULPS. It was in the early 1980s, and back in those days, the middle Sunday was Parent’ Day, when all the mums and dads plus the great and good of ULPS came for tea.

They brought sweeties for their kiddies and in the space of a couple of hours, undid several days of patient work by the supervisors trying to cure the homesickness of many campers. I rewrote the words to Allan Sherman’s ‘Camp Granada’ which included the lines: ‘Nice to see you dearest Parent/But you’re really a deterrent/To Kadimah’s entertainment/You can go after my pocket money payment.’

I don’t what Rosita, one of the visiting parents as well as a ULPS bigwig, thought of this scruffy 23-year-old telling her to go away, but I’m pretty sure she was unimpressed with our next encounter at a ULPS Biennial Conference in Bournemouth, where I just turned up without having booked and for which I have still not been invoiced…

Shortly after that, I embarked on my journey to the rabbinate, and subsequent encounters with the lady who would become Executive Director of ULPS a year before I was ordained were of a more professional nature.

Rosita was extremely supportive during my years as a student rabbi and that continued once I had taken up my post at Birmingham Progressive Synagogue. Within a year of my appointment, she had also offered me a part-time post as the convenor of an 18-35 year-old group which we named YMBJ (see if you can work out what the initials stood for…)

Having already interviewed me for that post and, 7 years earlier, when I had applied to the Leo Baeck College, Rosita questioned me once again in 2002 when I sought to become rabbi of this synagogue. It was the beginning of the most fruitful stage of our relationship, when I was able to enjoy and benefit from her wisdom and her vast knowledge of all things related to with Liberal Judaism as well as her humour and kindness.

My arrival in Liberal Judaism in the early 1980s felt like joining a family – a

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family that welcomed me and has supported me for almost four decades now: a connection for which I am truly grateful. And there can be no doubt who was the matriarch of that family. The Liberal Synagogue Elstree has lost a founder member, Liberal Judaism has lost one of its guiding lights and I have lost a friend and a source of support who offered praise and also constructive criticism when necessary. Rosita will be greatly missed, but her memory and her legacy will remain for a long time to come. May her memory be for a blessing.

(YMBJ stood for ‘You Must Be Joking’ because no one believed that a Jewish organisation for that age group would work. It didn’t.)

GLIMPSES OF ANGLO JEWISH HISTORY

Rabbi Alan Mann

The Balfour Declaration

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robably the most existential event in Anglo-Jewish history was the publication of the Balfour Declaration of 2nd November 1917.

In a short letter to Lord Rothschild, the British Foreign Secretary said “…..The British government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people and would use their best endeavours to facilitate this…”

As a child, I was taught that this was a reward to Chaim Weitzmann for his work in the manufacture of cordite at the height of the first world war. Weitzmann at the time was president of the British Zionist Federation and teaching Chemistry at the University of Manchester. This was manifestly untrue because the British Government had been discussing the matter since before the war began when it was obvious that the Ottoman Empire was imploding.

In 1917 it was far from clear who would win the war. France was at a standstill after the battles for Verdun, the British were exhausted and unable to sustain an attack and America had only just entered the war but had to build an army from scratch. On the other side Germany was able to transfer two million soldiers from the eastern front to the

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west as Russia was virtually out of the war. Britain did not control the Middle-east, nor was it likely to do so in the near future, yet, with gay abandon, to encourage the Arabs to join in the campaign against the Turks promised them home rule and self determination at the same time as offering a National home for the Jewish people in Palestine.

So, the question is, “Why?” In the first decades of the last century, the British Government was pro-Jewish. Not because they liked Jews, but because they were evangelical Christians with a mystic tinge. They believed that the ingathering of the Jews into their ancestral homeland would bring about the second coming of the Messiah. Also, publically supporting the Zionist cause would endear them to the powerful Jewish lobby in the USA and encourage them to join the war on the Allied side.

It mattered little that at the time, there was little chance of the British being asked to fulfil their promise, if in the short term, it satisfied their aims of having the Americans in the war and, maybe, bring the Messiah.

HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY WEDNESDAY 27TH JANUARY ‘Be the Light in the Darkness.’

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t Albans United Synagogue hosted this year’s commemoration, in conjunction with the St Albans Mayor’s office.

After introductions we watched a short video, ‘Surviving Genocide’, created by James Silverman. In the video we heard short testimonies from a variety of people from all over the world who had been subject to horrendous acts of genocide in their communities.

This was followed by a personal account, ‘Coming Out of Brussels’,

by Francoise Robertson. Ms Robertson was described as a Holocaust survivor, and in normal times she visits schools to describe her experiences. She was a young

EDITOR’S WORD

baby at the start of the war, living with her parents in Brussels. Her account was primarily a description of the five weeks it took her mother to escape from Brussels and finally make it to family in England.

Meanwhile her father was forced to take a much longer journey via France and the Pyrenees before he too was able to arrive in England.

There followed a short address by the Mayor, Councillor Janet Smith, a piano recital, candle lighting and a prayer and closing address by the Rabbi of the United Synagogue.

It is important that HMD is acknowledged in this way by the wider community of St Albans, even in these difficult times.

Tina Shaw.

Susan Paessler

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ast week whilst walking I saw the first bulbs poking their heads through the ground, it made me smile and the thought of Spring and new beginnings came to into my mind.

Having just gone through the annual Holocaust Memorial day with all its sad memories, then the passing of the esteemed Rosita Rosenberg, a leading light in the Liberal Jewish/Progressive movement, coupled with the continuing restrictions of Covid 19, it makes you wonder when we will start to have some good news again.

The coming of Spring with some warmer weather and new life shooting up all around us must give us hope.

We have Pesach to look forward to, which is a reminder of our escape from bondage in Egypt. A festival celebrated with family and friends with a lovely meal and all the usual Pesach recipes (some of which are included in the magazine) although this year it will probably be mainly virtual again, but even so it will bring some happiness into our lives again.

By the time the next edition of Hakol is published on the 1st May, we may also feel a small ray of hope. A large proportion of the population will have been vaccinated against Covid 19 and hopefully the Government will lessen some of the restrictions and a degree of normality return to our lives again.

So wishing you all Chag Pesach Sameach and a happier springtime.

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2021 CENSUS

Jonathan Boyd

TICK THE JEWISH BOX

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t’s a simple task that takes less than a second to complete. All it involves is putting a tick in a box.

But it is one of the most important and consequential things you can do to help contribute to the future of British Jewish life.

The national census takes place once a decade. It is the only research exercise that every household in the country is legally obligated to complete, so each time it occurs, it generates the most complete and detailed set of data on the population imaginable. Conducted in England and Wales by the Office for National Statistics, it provides essential data to support planning in more or less every walk of life: health, education, housing, employment, economics, politics, technology, social inclusion, to name but a few. There is not a single issue happening in Britain today that cannot be better understood in some way by referring to census data.

Twenty years ago, in 2001, the census included a question on religion for the first time. It simply asked: ‘What is your religion?’ and offered several response options: Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Other or None. It was controversial at the time – understanding the increasingly multicultural population of the UK through the lens of religion was becoming more important, but there were concerns that people might find the question too intrusive. In the end an almost talmudic solution was found. It would be included on the census form, but uniquely, among all questions asked, it would be optional to answer.

That year, 266,740 people ticked the ‘Jewish’ box. Because of the optional nature of the question, that figure did not capture the total size of the Jewish

population. But it came close. Other estimates using other techniques indicated that 300,000 Jews lived in the UK at the time, so the census picked up about 90% of the whole. A very similar result – 271,259 people – was obtained when the question was repeated in the next census in 2011.

For most Jews, this is where the conversation about the census ends.

They think that Jewish interest in it begins and ends with knowing how many people ticked the ‘Jewish’ box.

But that impression could not be more wrong.

Close examination of census data allows us to construct an immensely detailed demographic portrait of the Jewish population – its age profile, geographical contours, socioeconomic conditions, health status, living circumstances and much more. And the existence of these data helps every single Jewish organisation in the country to understand exactly what the Jewish population of the UK looks like, how it has changed over time, and how it is likely to evolve in the coming years.

Jewish Care has used the census to help project how many elderly care home places they are going to need to provide going forward. Partnerships for Jewish Schools (PaJeS) has used it to help figure out how many school places to provide. Langdon has used it to provide accurate assessments of how many Jewish children have learning disabilities. World Jewish Relief has used it to determine how to encourage more people to support its vital work overseas.

It’s used to help understand the scale and nature of antisemitism. It’s used to determine intermarriage rates. It’s used to help create low-cost housing for disadvantaged Jewish families. It’s

used in every single credible survey of the Jewish population – every data point you have seen about the proportion of Jews who think x, do y, or believe z (assuming it is credible), draws on census data.

I could go on. In short, every synagogue movement, every Jewish school, every single Jewish charity uses census data in countless ways, even if they don’t realise they are doing so. I know, because I spend much of my professional life sharing it with them, and using it to explain the Jewish population dynamics they need to understand to determine how best to serve our community.

The next census takes place on 21 March. A letter about it will land on your doorstep soon, if it hasn’t

POEM: CHOOSE LOVE

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already. As in 2001 and 2011, it will include an optional question about religion that will include a ‘Jewish’ response option. Please tick it.

Moreover, become an advocate for ticking it. Encourage every single Jew you know to tick it. That very simple task is one of the most important things you can do to help the community and government serve you and your family’s interests for the foreseeable future.

Dr Jonathan Boyd is Executive Director of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, and independent research institute providing data to support Jewish organisations across Europe to help plan for the future. www.jpr.org.uk.

Paula Mariuteac

hoose LOVE, May we who are merely inconvenienced, remember Those lives are at stake.

May we who have no risk factors, remember those most vulnerable.

May we who have the luxury of working from home, remember Those who must choose between preserving their health and making the rent.

May we who have the flexibility to care for our children when their School closes, remember those who have no option.

May we who have to cancel our trips, remember those who have no safe place to go.

May we who are losing our margin money in the tumult of our economic market, remember those who have no margin at all.

May we who settle in for a quarantine, remember those who have no home.

As fear grips our country, let us choose LOVE. During this time when we cannot physically wrap our arms around each other, let us find ways to be the loving embrace of God to our neighbours.

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FROM THE BOARD OF DEPUTIES

PESACH MESSAGE

PRESIDENT MARIE VAN DER ZYL NISSAN 5781

This time last year I wrote in my Pesach message about the pandemic which had suddenly overtaken all of us and which was already taking a heavy toll on the Jewish community. I am very sad that one year later this terrible virus is still claiming lives in our community and affecting the way we live.

Once again, Seder Night will not be the packed, joyous family event we all love. We will, for the second time, be holding intimate events with our closest family and then only if we are lucky enough to live in the same house or bubble. My thoughts are with all of you who are alone at this time or unable to see your nearest and dearest. This past year has taken a toll on all of us but I have seen great acts of generosity and kindness. In some ways, this terrible situation has brought out the best in people – from the small things, like a grandchild baking for her grandparents who are shielding, to those such as Captain Tom, whose fundraising made millions for the NHS, before his sad passing earlier this year.

Now, with millions already vaccinated and infection rates falling, we have a sacred duty to ensure that lives are saved. Every death in our community has been a tragedy for someone’s family. We must ensure that we do everything to save lives.

This is the most fundamental imperative of Judaism.

Over this year, the way the Board of Deputies operates has changed, with home working for our staff and Zoom for our plenary meetings. Our online BoDCast events have engaged thousands of people from across the country and across the world and our achievements have continued to grow.

We continue to work with all parts of the Jewish community to ensure that they have access to the best available information about the Coronavirus pandemic and make decisions about when to open and when to close facilities. This has included working with the Cabinet Office to get guidance translated into Yiddish for sections of the Charedi community who do not have English as a first language.

We have been working tirelessly to ensure that the Labour Party, under its new

Charedi community who do not have English as a first language.

We have been working tirelessly to ensure that the Labour Party, under its new leader Sir Keir Starmer, acts firmly and decisively to excise the antisemitism which had flourished under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn. On this, good progress has been made but we need to see even more. .

We have also worked hard this year on ensuring that Jews do not face hatred online, by coming up with proposals to ensure that new Online Harms legislation protects us all from abuse social media platforms. Online is the new frontline in the fight against antisemitism – and not just antisemitism, but misogyny, anti-Muslim hatred, homophobia and racism and bigotry against other religions, ethnicities and minority groups. We are working hard to ensure we are better protected. In the meantime, we have acted to stop antisemites selling their poison online by working with Amazon to ensure Holocaust denial works are removed from its platform.

We may be the Board of Deputies of British Jews but some of our most important and successful work has been in support of a group which are neither British nor Jewish. The Chinese Uyghur Muslims are subject to terrible persecution, and I was not the only one to see echoes of the Holocaust in their treatment by the Chinese authorities. I wrote to the Chinese Ambassador following a harrowing interview on the Andrew Marr Show and as an organisation we worked tirelessly to persuade MPs to support the Genocide Amendment to the Trade Bill, which would allow Uyghurs to get around the broken UN system and be able to take their call for justice in a British court.

In a year in which the world mourned the racist murder of George Floyd in the USA, we felt a responsibility to ensure that our community was one in which Black Jews and Jews of Colour do not feel alienated. To this end we set up the Commission on Racial Inclusivity in the Jewish Community with Stephen Bush as Chair. We hope that the recommendations that the Commission makes will make our community a model of inclusivity in the coming years.

Despite the tragedy in the world there have been some beacons of light in the past 12 months. I have seen our community come together like never before. Despite the physical distance, we have been looking after each other and this is has been so necessary and heartwarming. We have also seen remarkable progress in Israel’s relations with its Middle East neighbours. The Abraham Accords were signed between Israel the UAE and Bahrain. We also saw an agreement with Morocco. One of the highlights of my years was lighting the Chanukah candles in an online event with the ambssadors of the UAE and Bahrain – something I never thought I would see.

We have been enduring difficult times. It is my earnest wish that we all stay safe and look forward, as we always do at this time, to better days ahead.

Pesach Sameach to you and your families from everyone at the Board of Deputies

Marie van der Zyl President, Board of Deputies of British Jews

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MEET ROSITA ROSENBERG

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Orthodox, but not terribly observant, keeping kashrut at home and lighting In a year in which the world mourned the racist murder of George Floyd in although the USA, her the Sabbath candles, we felt a responsibility to ensure that our community was one in which Black Jewsas she mother never attended shul and Jews of Colour do not feel alienated. To this end we set up the Commission on didn’t know Hebrew. The family Racial Inclusivity in the Jewish Community with Stephen Bush as Chair. We hope remained in Windsor until 1951, but that the recommendations that the Commission makes will make our community a the buying of kosher meat came to model of inclusivity in the coming years. an end some time before that: Everyone, Jews included, was Despite the tragedy in the world there have been some beacons of lightration. in the past entitled to a bacon The family 12 months. I have seen our community come together like never before. Despite the would swap their bacon ration for physical distance, we have been looking after each other and this is has been so kosher meat, obtained by Rosita’s necessary and heartwarming. We have also seen remarkable progress in Israel’s uncle on his weekly visits to London. relations with its Middle East neighbours. The Abraham Accords were signed He was obliged to take whatever he between Israel the UAE and Bahrain. We also saw an agreement with Morocco. One could get and the quality was of the highlights of my years was lighting the Chanukah candles in an online event questionable. with the ambssadors of the UAE and Bahrain –sometimes something I never thought I would Meanwhile, Rosita’s mother could see. see lovely meat in the butchers’ shops in Windsor and told her husband she was no longer going to buy the expensive, but poor quality, kosher meat!

Rosita knew no one when she came back to South London aged 17.

She was working in the Executive Civil Service, where on Friday She was born in London, but the day evenings she attended the fantastic before her 6th birthday, war being social club. Her parents worried imminent, she and her sister were about her secular environment, so evacuated and sent to a couple who they made her join a Jewish Youth were strict Roman Catholics!

Unsurprisingly, they were very unhappy Club. She traipsed around several, which she found unfriendly (the girls there and persuaded their parents to fetch them home again. Ultimately, this were snooty Jewish princesses and led to the family moving to the relatively the boys only interested in showing off their cars), but when a friend took safe area of Windsor, where the her to a group at South London disparate Jews who found themselves story.

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Liberal Synagogue as soon as Rosita walked in she had ‘an epiphany’ they were her kind of people - friendly, welcoming and helpful. She never looked back, making lifelong friends, some of whom are also members of TLSE! Her parents were delighted, even though it was aSinclair Liberal youth club, it was Jewish and that was the important thing.

Rosita joined the shul and soon became very involved. She edited the National Youth magazine, joined the council and by her mid twenties, became secretary then chairman, of the national youth movement.

She remained at home until she married at 27, (at Brixton United Synagogue, both sets of parents saying they would boycott the wedding if it took place at a

Liberal Shul as it wouldn’t be a ‘real marriage’!). She’d met her husband Stanley at a wedding conducted by the great Lily Montagu. Stanley’s job brought them to North West London where they joined Wembley Liberal shul.

Rosita was obliged to leave the Civil Service upon marriage but her reputation in the youth movement led to her being invited to work at ULPS by Greta Hyman, the organising secretary, when the movement expanded in 1964. Rosita worked without a break, (taking a 3-month Sabbatical in 1984, which she spent travelling around the USA researching the Reform Movement) until her retirement in 1997. Part of her job was to establish new congregations (one of which became TLSE) and after her US trip, she put much of what she learned there in place. She became Executive Director of Liberal Judaism (then Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues) when Rabbi Sidney Brichto retired in 1989. Although TLSE was founded in 1969, Rosita and Stanley didn’t join until their daughter Sally came to the Religion School in 1970. Once here though, Stanley was one of the many, including his friend Gerry Dickson, who spent virtually every weekend hard at work with hammers and nails literally building our shul with their bare hands! This did not mean that they never took holidays however, as proved by the photograph

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But having seen the dedication and hard work she has put into Liberal Judaism during the past sixty-odd years, no one else was and it was with huge pride and pleasure that those gathered there gave her a standing ovation as she collected it.

Although she retired almost twenty years ago, Rosita has remained involved in Liberal Judaism in a variety of ways. One of her many roles is to serve on the committee that decides on those who are going to be honoured with awards that are given out at the LJ Biennial to people who have been nominated by their communities as having an extraordinary level of commitment to Liberal Judaism. It was a very surprised Rosita therefore who, right at the end of this year’s awards, was suddenly presented with a Life Time This is not the first time that Rosita has Achievement Award that she knew been taken by surprise at a Biennial. nothing about!

The year she retired, she was actually very involved in the planning of the event. Imagine her astonishment then, when instead of the project she had enthusiastically been expecting on the Saturday evening, they ambushed her with a ‘This Is Your Life” event, of which of course, she was the star! Well done Liberal Judaism for managing to hoodwink someone who was involved at every level, and well done Rosita, for all your hard work and commitment, without which it can truly be said, Liberal Judaism would not be the same today.

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ELSTREE, BOREHAMWOOD AND BUSHEY MITZVAH DAY ELSTREE, BOREHAMWOOD & BUSHEY MITZVAH DAY BRINGS COMMUNITIES TOGETHER TO CELEBRATE DIVERSITY AND PROVIDE FOOD FOR LOCAL PEOPLE

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ocal faith leaders, school children, parents, an anti-hunger charity, a Jewish youth group and supportive members of the public recently came together in a heart-warming display of unity in Elstree & Borehamwood and Bushey’s Mitzvah Day that was based around the themes of “Food Brings us Together” and “Celebrating Diversity”.

As part of the day, a special video was streamed live in which messages of peace and friendship were shared by local faith leaders from its Christian, Jewish, Hari Krishna and Muslim communities, together with the coordinators of local charity Gratitude.3 It also featured drawings from local school children, at Yavneh Primary School and Yavneh College running on a loop, welcoming the Muslim community to their new Mosque in Maxwell Road, Borehamwood. The video has received a fantastic response on social media and can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/GuF27ar7te8

Contact: Dan Ozarow Elstree, Borehamwood & Bushey Project Coordinator E: mitzvahdayborehamwood2020 @gmail.com T: 07944 052 859 9th February 2021

Meanwhile, over at Hartspring Lane Community Centre, Bushey, regular volunteers were joined by those from Jewish youth group FZY and Muslim community leaders to participate in a lively food distribution session, performing Mitzvot and good deeds for the wider community. With volunteers kitted out in bright green Mitzvah Day T-shirts and black caps, facemasks and Do you have an article, letter respecting social distancing, the of photos that you would like charitable activity was permissible under government lockdown to share? guidelines as essential for combating food poverty and loneliness. As part Contact the editor on of the week’s activities, Gratitude also Hakoleditor@tlse.org.uk ran a kosher food bank at Yavneh College. Photos can be viewed here: or 0741 527 7581 https://photos.app.goo.gl/o7vePY2iYp CzeSxn6 13

GET WELL TO: Rita and Alan Gordonfelt.

Karen Davidson.

Sally Lander.

In addition to all our other members suffering from the effects of Covid and other illness, we wish them well.

CONDOLENCES TO: Sallie Rosenberg and the family of Rosita Rosenberg.

Joan, Kate, Andrea and Matt Shopper on the death of Howard.

The family of Sylvia Abrahams who died at the age of 98.

Michael Possener on the death of this wife Maureen.

MAZAL TOV TO: Claire Oliver and Paul Price on the birth of Sheldon.

Congratulations to Harvey Adams on completion of 3000 piece jigsaw.

Congratulations to Rabbi Tanya Sakhnovich who will be taking up her post at TLSE on 1st September 2021.

HERE TO HELP:

Harvey Adams and his 3000 piece jigsaw.

Please get in touch if you think we can help in any way - and we’re happy to give you a call from time to time just to keep in touch.....

Maureen Adams 07961 075657

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GONIA'S RECIPES Carrots and sweet potato in ginger An excellent side dish to add variety to your Pesach table. It is very easy and quick to prepare, 100% vegan and gives a different flavouring to the common ingredients.

Serves: 4-6 Prep time: 5 min Cool time: 15 mins

Ingredients: 1 Tbsp vegetable oil 1 small onion, chopped finely 1.5'' fresh ginger, grated or finely minced 3 garlic cloves, grated or finely minced 3 large carrots, peeled and cut into bitesize chunks 1 medium sweet potato, peeled and cut into bitesize chunks 2 Tbsp flaked almonds 1 tsp ground cinnamon 1-2 tsp ras el hanout 3 Tbsp water or vegetable stock juice of 1/2 lemon salt and black pepper a handful of fresh parsley or coriander leaf, chopped

Method.

1. Heat the oil in a heavy-bottomed pan.

Add onion, ginger and garlic and saute for about 1-2 mins. Add the sweet potato and carrots and mix well to cover the carrots in flavouring ingredients. Let it brown for about 5 mins.

2. Add cinnamon and ras el hanout, mix well and add the water (or stock). Pop the lid on and cook for another 10 mins or until the carrots soften. Season with salt and pepper, add the lemon juice. Mix in the parsley or coriander leaf.

3. Serve immediately and enjoy!

Do you have a favourite recipe, that you would like to share?

Contact the editor on Hakoleditor@tlse.org.uk or 0741 527 7581

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Pesach lemon cheesecake with almond crust

Ingredients: Lemon curd: 120 g caster sugar 125 ml lemon juice zest of 2 lemons 3 large eggs 55 g butter pinch of salt

The very special Pesach cheesecake - that is sooo good you can make all year long! This recipe is using lemon curd and adds lots of freshness but do experiment with raspberry curd or cherries that can compliment the cheesecake well. You can also swap the crumb for the biscuit one after Pesach.

Prep time for curd: 5 mins Cook time: 5-10 mins (you can make ahead) Prep time for cheesecake: 20 mins Cook time: 1 hr Rest time: 8 hrs

Method cont.

2. Heat the oven to 180*C and line the 9'' round springform pan with aluminium foil and then parchment paper.

3. To make the crust: mix all the ingredients together well. Tip the mixture into the pan Almond crust: and using the back of the spoon press the 85 g almond meal crumbs evenly to the bottom and sides of the 75 g matzo meal tin. Bake for about 10 mins or until it starts to 65 g light brown sugar brown. Take out of the oven and turn the 90 g butter, melted heat down to 150*C. pinch of salt If you don't have an almond meal - roast the same quantity of almonds and place in a food Cheesecake: processor with all the dry ingredients. Pulse 685 g full-fat cream cheese until ground. Then add the butter and mix.

155 g caster sugar 4. To make the cheesecake: Beat cream 60 ml honey cheese and sugar on medium speed for 3 large eggs about 1 min. Add honey, zest, vanilla paste 180 ml sour cream and eggs - 1 at a time and beat until well combined. Then add sour cream (or Greek (or Greek yoghurt) yoghurt). Do not overbeat (to avoid the zest of 1 lemon 1 tsp vanilla paste (or extract) cheesecake cracking)!

5. Spoon half the cheesecake mixture and add half the lemon curd in blobs on top.

Method 1. Start by preparing the lemon Cover with the rest of cheesecake mixture and spoon the remaining curd on top. Marble curd: whisk all the ingredients together and place on low heat. the cake using the chopstick or the back of the knife.

Keep whisking for about 5-6 6. Bake for 50-60 mins - or until edges start to mins - or until the mixture thickens and whisk holds marks. puff. Do not overbake as again, it may cause Sieve and cool. Remember that the cheesecake crack. Turn off the oven and prop the oven door open with a wooden the curd will thicken while spoon for 1 hr. Take out the oven and allow to cooling. You can prepare this step in advance and keep in the cool to room temperature. Cover and place in the fridge. Let it set for 8 hrs. fridge.

7. Enjoy!

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t the end of last month our thoughts turned to the Holocaust as it was the annual remembrance day. This was done in many ways both by religious services and in the media etc. I thought I would just mention 3 different things I personally read or saw which I would like to review and you might find of interest.

ON TELEVISION “ROSE” The first was the amazing play written by Martin Sherman and first performed in 1999 in Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre by Maureen Lipman. She has recently re-recorded this and it is currently showing on Sky Arts and can be seen on catch-up. Brilliantly acted she brought both humour and sadness to the role. If you haven’t seen this do try and watch and bring your box of tissues!

TO READ “A HOLOCAUST MASSACRE” This book by Professor Wendy Lower published by Zeus at £20. I obviously have heard of the massacres by shooting of thousands of Jews in the Ukraine, but had not realised how extensive it was and how involved the Ukrainian border guards, police and local collaborators were.

Professor Lower who is a Holocaust historian and expert was approached by 2 journalists in Prague who had discovered in the security files of the old communist regime in Czechoslovakia previous unpublished photographs of these massacres. She decided to do more research and eventually found the names of the victims in the photographs. Recently reviewed in

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depth in Saturday’s Mail I think it is one to definitely read.

ON YOU TUBE AND TO READ I recently watched a very moving talk

by John Wood Zoomed through Finchley Reform Synagogue, about his father Lt. Col. Leonard Berney, who was the first British officer to arrive at the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.Lt. Col Berney wrote a book about his experiences in 2015 and subsequently gave many lectures around the World and was included in documentaries.

He was also a witness at the Belsen war crimes trials in 1945 where the Beast of Belsen, Joseph Kramer was tried and found guilty and then hung.

Interestingly, Berney was himself born a Jew but was an atheist and non-practising. He passed away in 2016.

This sparked an interest and I then went onto You Tube and there is actual film footage of the liberation.

The book is still available on Amazon at £6.99.

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