TLSE Hakol May/June 2023 Iyar/Sivan/Tammuz 5783

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Letter To Editor Page 2

Editor’s Word Page 3

From the Chair Page 4

From the Archives 1995 Page 5-6

The LJ letter Page 7

Female Jewish Scientist Page 8-10

Rosalind Franklin

Purim Page 10-11

Education Hub Page 12

Borehamwood Foodbank

LETTER TO EDITOR

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Imperial War Museum Page 13

Liberal Judaism Matters ... Page 14

Care Team Page 15

Who Does What at TLSE Page 16

Quiz Flyer Page 17

Links with Israel Page 18

General Information Page 19

Answers

Lunch Club Flyer Page 20

It is always a pleasure to see a letter in Hakol from a long standing member like Carole Pomerance and to read of her experiences as a member of the synagogue for many years. The only unfortunate note was her suggestion that something should be got rid of.

She of all people will know that you cannot force anyone these days, particularly younger members, to go to a live service; they have to be made sufficiently attractive for them to want to go. Stopping Zoom does not achieve this but it would prevent the elderly and disabled from being able to take part in services as they can at present.

Zoom has probably been the greatest benefit for the disabled to come out of the recent pandemic. The set-up at TLSE is now first-class thanks to the care and attention of one Trustee in particular, Mike Beral, and I hope it will continue in existence for many years.

Michael Possener

EDITOR’S WORD Terry Benson

Getting our Shul back

EDITOR’S WORD – January 2023 Terry Benson

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MAprincipal aim of the new trustees was to reinvigorate TLSE by encouraging more social and communal activities within the building. It soon became apparent that both before and during the pandemic the Tots & Scholars Nursery have been allowed to occupy more and more of our building so that now there is insufficient space for our rabbi, office and storage of our documentation, archives and furniture. The only space available for any other TLSE weekday activity is the sanctuary. Consequently, the overwhelming wish of the trustees was to regain the space and freedom to encourage and cultivate weekday and weekend activities for all age groups for our members and outside bodies.

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This was only possible if the nursery agreed to reduce its size and space, otherwise we would have to give them notice to quit. Fortunately, they have agreed to significantly reduce the number of children so that they can operate effectively only using the upstairs rooms of the house and the internal open succah area for their outside play activities on a 24/7 basis. Although smaller this also eliminates their requirement to store away all their furniture and equipment from the foyer, the two rear halls and the outside play area on Fridays and to set it all up each Monday morning, as is presently required. Although they will still retain communal use of the kitchen and toilets the entrance foyer during the week will no longer look like a nursery school but a synagogue!

will have the space and opportunity to encourage members to join any number of interest groups. Some potential activities that spring to mind are the following, but I would encourage anyone with any interest in joining any group to contact the office@tlse.org.uk or by phone on 0208 953 889 to register their interest.

Open Day or Drop-In weekends to encourage unaffiliated jews to visit the shul. sports teams; building maintenance; group trips or holidays; brownies; babies Unfortunately, most of the above have disappeared as the original enthusiasts worsening financial outlook we may well even see the return of our popular jumble & bric-a-brac sales. Hard work, but great fun. As the recent turmoil of the older members to become trustees again in order to revitalise TLSE, I ask

This changeover will take effect from 1st September 2023 after which we

Some possible Interest Groups at TLSE include:-

Armchair Keep Fit; Art Appreciation; Board Games eg Scrabble, Chess, Backgammon, Rummikub; Bridge; Book Club; Chair Yoga; Culture; Current Affairs; Dancing eg Ballroom, Israeli etc.; Flower Arranging; Israel; Mother & Toddlers; Outings; Photography; Painting – watercolour, Oil. Acrylic etc, Policy & Current Affairs, Singing For Pleasure, Singles, Sports Teams 5-a-side, Table Tennis, Theatre Group; Travel & Outings; Youth Groups etc.

Terry Benson

hakoleditor@tlse.org.uk

FROM THE CHAIR

Rabbi Gershon Silins joins TLSE as our full time Rabbi

Iam delighted to report that Rabbi Cantor Gershon Silins has agreed to accept the appointment as full time Rabbi of TLSE with effect from 1st April.

Rabbi Gershon has been with us since the beginning of December as our part time, interim Rabbi and in that short period has fully engaged with the Trustees in our commitment to take TLSE forward.

Members of our community who have met with Rabbi Gershon either at services or on other occasions since his initial appointment cannot help but be impressed by his enthusiasm and dedication.

Rabbi Gershon’s role will not purely be to lead our shabbat and other services. As our Rabbi, he will have primary responsibility for both pastoral duties and education for adults and young people.

Together with the Trustees, I look forward to working with Rabbi Gershon to continue to develop TLSE. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions concerning this appointment.

Leigh Renak Chair of Trustees

The Liberal Synagogue Elstree (TLSE) chair@tlse.org.uk

FROM THE ARCHIVES February 2005

OUR BEAUTIFUL ARC DOORS

The Liberal Synagogue Elstree welcomed, amongst its many visitors for the consecration of our new Ark Doors and New Tamid, their designer Roman Halter. Earlier in the year a small working party of synagogue members had pooled their expertise to instal our beautiful new doors. Made from bronze and inlaid with stained glass which is lit from behind, the doors ensure that the Ark is truly the focal point of the synagogue.

All those who were in the working party participated in the service and Rabbi Pete Tobias asked Roman Halter to explain the background to their creation. He said that as a child born in a small Polish village, the synagogue was the centre of the community and everyone took pleasure in its adornment.

When war came he was sent to a concentration camp where he learned to work with metal.

His skill undoubtedly enabled him to survive the Holocaust and he came to England where he trained as an architect. He has now returned to metalwork and has enjoyed once again being able to beautify a synagogue. A kiddush lunch was given by Penny Beral who commissioned the Ner Tamid in memory of her mother, Ann Hart.

A fuller biography of Roman Halter’s life and works follows below.

Roman Halter was born in 1927 in Chodecz, a small village in northern Poland, the seventh and youngest child of a traditional Jewish family. At the outbreak of war, in 1939, at the age of 12, he was deported with his family to the Lodz Ghetto, where, his grandfather made him promise to tell the story of the Holocaust. From Lodz he was sent to Auschwitz, where his skills as a metal worker saved him from extermination, thence to Stutthof and

Dresden; then to a children's home in Theresienstadt, until, the only member of his family to survive, he was finally brought to London in 1945 by the Central British Fund for German Jewry (the CBF) - now World Jewish Relief - one of over 700 child Holocaust survivors. He became one of the group, known as 'the Boys', sent to Windermere in the Lake District, where they were given given psychological and social care. He went on to study architecture, supported by the CBF, and established successful practices in London and Cambridge.

In 1973 he settled in Israel. Harnessing his architectural skills within a design context, he was commissioned in the same year to design and construct the main gate to Yad Vashem, established in 1953 in Jerusalem as the world center for documentation, research, education and commemoration of the Holocaust. On returning to London in 1976, Halter became a full-time artist, painting, sculpting and working in stained glass. He died in London in 2012.

Roman Halter's work has been exhibited in the UK by The Imperial War, Museum, London, Tate Britain, the Redfern Gallery, the London Jewish Cultural Centre and Ben Uri Gallery in 1976, 1979 and most recently, 2014, in an exhibition dedicated to his stained glass practice. His work is in a number of public collections in both the UK and abroad including Beit Shalom, The National Holocaust Centre and Museum, Nottingham; Central Synagogue, London; The Imperial War Museum, London; Lady Sarah Cohen House, Friern Barnet, London; Leo Baeck College, The Sternberg Centre for Judaism, London; The Liberal Synagogue, Elstree; the Ghetto Fighters' Museum, Israel; and Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.

Terry Benson

The Liberal & Reform Communities plan to create a new organisation embracing all of

Liberal Judaism

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Dear Members of Liberal Judaism Council,

On behalf of the Board of National Officers we wish to update you on the recent progress we have made in fulfilling your commitment to closer working relations with Reform Judaism. We are delighted to be announcing exciting plans for the creation of a new entity to include all of Britain’s Progressive Jews. This will bring the UK in line with most other countries, including the United States and Israel, which operate with one united Progressive Jewish movement.

The Movement for Reform Judaism is announcing the appointment of Rabbi Josh Levy as CEO of The Movement for Reform Judaism. He will be working in close partnership with Liberal Judaism’s CEO, Rabbi Charley Baginsky, to lead the creation of this new movement.

Progressive Jews together make up around 30% of those who are affiliated to synagogues in the UK. There are more than 80 Progressive communities reaching all parts of the country. Rabbis for both movements are trained at the Leo Baeck College. Reform and Liberal Judaism share a deep commitment to inclusivity and equality reflected in their ritual practices and liturgies. Together they welcome mixed-faith families and couples, offer weddings and lifecycle events to the LGBTQI+ community and have mechanisms to recognise the Jewish status of those with one Jewish parent irrespective of the gender of the parent.

To be very clear, no one will be asked to change their synagogue name, their Liberal identity, or change their prayerbook. This is about a greater resourcing of communities. As a unified group, we will be stronger and our voice will be clearer and louder. We will be able to make an even bigger contribution to the wider Jewish community both in the UK and beyond our shores. We do this for not just ourselves, but for our children and future generations. We safeguard Judaism for the future.

Naturally we are committed to keeping you updated on progress, answering any questions that you have, hearing your comments and receiving your input. There will be monthly update meetings which will work in conjunction with additional meetings and discussions with clergy, senior leadership, staff and lay leadership. Council will remain central to all final decision making actions along the journey.

Ruth Seager and Rabbi Charley Baginsky

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FEMALE JEWISH SCIENTISTS No. 3 Terry Benson

Rosalind Franklin

Rosalind Franklin made a crucial contribution to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, but some would say she got a raw deal. Indeed, Franklin is in the shadows of science history, for while her work on DNA was crucial to the discovery of its structure, her contribution to that landmark discovery is little known.

Franklin was born on July 25, 1920, in London, to a wealthy Jewish family who valued education and public service. Rosalind attended St. Paul's School for Girls, which emphasized preparing its graduates for careers, not just for marriage. She had demonstrated an early aptitude for math and science, and an easy facility for other languages At age 18, she enrolled in Newnham Women's College at Cambridge University, where she studied physics and chemistry. Her undergraduate years were partly shaped by World War II; many instructors, especially in the sciences, had been pulled into war work. Some émigré faculty (e.g. biochemist Max Perutz) were detained as aliens. In one letter Franklin noted, "Practically the whole of the Cavendish [Laboratory] have disappeared. Biochemistry was almost entirely run by Germans and may not survive."

After Cambridge she went to work for the British Coal Utilization Research Association where her work on the porosity of coal became her Ph.D. thesis, and later it would allow her to travel the world as a guest speaker. In 1946, Franklin moved to Paris where she perfected her skills in X-ray crystallography, which would become

her life's work. Although she loved the freedom and lifestyle of Paris, she returned after four years to London where she was awarded a three-year Turner and Newall Fellowship to work in John T. Randall's Biophysics Unit at King's College London.

Franklin worked hard and played hard. She was an intrepid traveller and avid hiker with a great love of the outdoors who enjoyed spirited discussions of science and politics. Friends and close colleagues considered Franklin a brilliant scientist and a kindhearted woman. However, she could also be short-tempered and stubborn, and some fellow scientists found working with her to be a challenge. Among them was Maurice Wilkins, the man she was to work with at King's College.

It was in Randall's lab that she crossed paths with Maurice Wilkins. She and Wilkins led separate research groups and had separate projects, although both were concerned with DNA. When Randall gave Franklin

responsibility for her DNA project, no one had worked on it for months. Wilkins was away at the time, and when he returned he misunderstood her role, behaving as though she were a technical assistant. Both scientists were actually peers. His mistake, acknowledged but never overcome, was not surprising given the climate for women at the university then. Only males were allowed in the university dining rooms, and after hours Franklin's colleagues went to men-only pubs.

but after her death Crick said that her contribution had been critical.

Chair: Ruth Seager Liberal Judaism (ULPS) Chief Executive: Rabbi Charley Baginsky Company No. 08281223

Chairs of CoLRaC Registered Charity No. 1151090 Rabbi Rebecca Birk and Rabbi Rene Pfertzel

In the fall of 1956 Franklin was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. For the next 18 months she underwent surgeries and other treatments; she had several periods of remission, during which she continued working in her lab and seeking funding for her research team. She died in London on April 16, 1958.

The misunderstanding resulted in immediate friction between Wilkins and Franklin, and their clashing personalities served to deepen the divide. The two were to work together on finding the structure of DNA, but their conflicts led to them working in relative isolation. While this suited Franklin, Wilkins went looking for company at "the Cavendish" laboratory in Cambridge where his friend Francis Crick was working with James Watson on building a model of the DNA molecule. But Franklin persisted on the DNA project. J. D. Bernal called her X-ray photographs of DNA, "the most beautiful X-ray photographs of any substance ever taken." Between 1951 and 1953 Rosalind Franklin came very close to solving the DNA structure. She was beaten to publication by Crick and Watson in part because of the friction between Wilkins and herself. At one point, Wilkins showed Watson one of Franklin's crystallographic portraits of DNA. When he saw the picture, the solution became apparent to him and Watson and Crick created their famous DNA model. Franklin's contribution was not acknowledged,

Throughout her 16-year career, Franklin published steadily: 19 articles on coals and carbons, 5 on DNA, and 21 on viruses. During her last few years, she received increasing numbers of invitations to speak at conferences all over the world, and it is likely that her virus work would have earned awards and other professional recognition, had she lived to continue it.

Franklin's scientific achievements, both in coal chemistry and virus structure research were considerable. Her peers in those fields acknowledged this during her life and after her death. But it is her role in the discovery of DNA structure that has garnered the most public attention. Crick, Watson, and Wilkins shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their work on the structure of DNA. None gave Franklin credit for her contributions at that time.

Franklin's work on DNA may have remained a quiet footnote in that story had Watson not caricatured her in his 1968 memoir, The Double Helix, as a bad-tempered, arrogant bluestocking who jealously guarded her data from colleagues, even

though she was not competent to interpret it. His book proved very popular, even though many of those featured in the story--including Crick, Wilkins, and Linus Pauling--protested Watson's treatment of Franklin, as did many reviewers. In 1975, Franklin's friend Anne Sayre published a biography in angry rebuttal to Watson's account, and Franklin's role in the discovery became better known. Numerous articles and several documentaries have attempted to highlight her part in "the race for the double helix," often casting her as a feminist martyr, cheated of a Nobel prize both by misogynist colleagues and by her early death. However, as her second biographer, Brenda Maddox, has noted, this too is caricature, and unfairly obscures both a brilliant scientific career and

PURIM

Afascinating, entertaining and musical version of a Beatles themed Purim Schpiel was recently presented to an appreciative audience at TLSE. Narrated by Rabbi Gershon, with all the words of the Esther story sung to a variety of Beatles tunes including ‘Yellow Submarine’, ‘Twist and Shout’,

Franklin herself.

A debate about the amount of credit due to Franklin continues. What is clear is that she did have a meaningful role in learning the structure of DNA and that she was a scientist of the first rank. Franklin later moved to J. D. Bernal's lab at Birkbeck College where she did some of the best and most important work of her life, including very fruitful work on the tobacco mosaic virus. She also began work on the polio virus and she traveled the world talking about coal and virus structure. However, just as her career was peaking, it was cut tragically short when in the summer of 1956, Rosalind Franklin became ill with cancer. She died less than two years later.

‘When I’m 64’, ‘Help’, ‘Oh-Blad-Di’, ‘Yesterday’ and ending with ‘He Loves You’.

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EDUCATION HUB Jacqueline Bernard

Last term at The Hub we celebrated Tu Bishevat by planting in the TLSE flower beds, which bloomed with Daffodils. We celebrated Purim by baking Hanantaschen and Pesach by making Matza, in under 18 minutes, which became Matza pizza and learning the Ma Nishtana.

We also studied Shabbat and made our own Judaica from clay.

The Hub is for children from Year 1 please contact Jacqueline office@tlse.org.uk to find out more.

Hello Nancy Shavick,

I would like to thank you for your generous donation on behalf of The Liberal Synagogue Elstree for £100.00 and for the food donation today.

In 2021 we helped feed 10,252 people at our Foodbank. This number was 9,739 in 2022 and we also provide a huge support through our fuel voucher scheme, amongst numerous other worthwhile initiatives. As a result of our vital work in the local Community we are honoured to have been awarded the Elstree and Borehamwood Mayoral Charity of the Year 2022/23.

The cost of living crisis is causing a lot of strain amongst many in our community, but we are there to help and without your generous support, we would not be able to provide the services that we offer.

So, on behalf of everyone associated with the Borehamwood Foodbank, thank you once again, we are extremely grateful.

Best wishes,

Meghna Dalmia Treasurer

BOREHAMWOOD FOODBANK

THE IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM LONDON: Michael Shaw THE HOLOCAUST EXHIBITION

Recently on the “Yesterday” channel I watched a programme about The Imperial War Museum in both London and Duxford with the main focus on London and the forthcoming Holocaust Exhibition. I was struck by the scale envisaged, the reverence with which even the preparation was accorded and the nature of exhibits including part of a railway carriage with original woodwork involving considerable conservation to retain the paintwork.

Finding a day when there was nothing else in my diary I set of to the Elephant and Castle and the museum. After a brief walk around some of the exhibits I set off to the Holocaust Exhibition. At the entrance there is a clear sign stating that this is not for children under the age of 14 and having seen the displays I fully understand why that notice is there.

This is a large exhibition that pulls no punches, as you walk around the full horror of the events unfolds in detail. The main thrust initially is about people and their lives in Germany, happy and often prosperous, living in harmony with neighbours. Many of the men featured served with distinction in the army during WW1 and were proud of their action but eventually to no avail. The rise of Nazi Germany with outright anti – Semitism is charted carefully and in detail, the aggression towards Roma and others is also featured in detail. Gradually the story unfolds in detail with the emphasis throughout on people with some artefacts, both Nazi German as well as Jewish, on

display. There are photographs of people and accounts of escapes and the Kinder Transport.

As I moved through the rooms so the photographs began to change and gradually towards the end some of the images were graphic and upsetting, this is an exhibition that does not attempt to hide the truth nor shock it just presents the facts. What horrified me was the casual attitude of at least one German soldier who photographed the murder of women and children in detail.

The final room contains another message “that some may find the film being shown upsetting”. It is one I have seen before, the repatriation of Belson with the emaciated man searching through a blanket and others, many of whom died before they could be helped. The film also includes German Soldiers, both male and female, being made not only to see the results of their actions but also prepare graves for the dead. Finally the trials were covered along with the return to their homeland for the survivors bringing the exhibition to the end.

I left the exhibition drained of emotion; it brought to life the horrors of the Holocaust and the events that led to it happening. Focussing on people emphasises the horror of those events and perhaps the ease with which people were manipulated to turn against those they lived and worked alongside. Would I recommend the exhibition, yes I would. It is probably the most detailed respectful and careful exhibition on the subject I have ever seen; I am glad I went but it is not a visit I will repeat.

TEAM TEAM

CARE TEAM MESSAGE:

We are so very pleased that Rabbi Gershon is our new rabbi and feel he is a very welcome addition to TLSE. It's great for the Care Team and we have been working closely with him.. We value his wisdom and caring attitude and feel the Care Team will go from strength to strength under his guidance.

Please contact us if you feel we can help you and remember that Caring is Sharing or Share to Care as the saying goes - we are all good listeners and want to make a difference where we can.

We wish a good recovery to everyone in the community who may be suffering at this time and in particular to Rita and Alan Gordonfelt, Lewis and Jacqueline Shurlin, Ruth Herman, Alan Stollar, Ann Lewin, Sharon Tabesh and hope they Feel better soon.

Our sympathy and condolences to the family of Lee Hyams and we wish Long Life to Debra.

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We enjoy helping with Lunch Club and it's a pleasure to see people eating delicious home cooked lunches and enjoying interesting speakers. We are happy to help with transport - just let the Office know when you're booking your place!

We hope everyone enjoyed Pesach especially if you came to the .communal Seder and helped Rabbi Gershon to celebrate his first Seder with us. It won't be long until we're eating cheesecake for Shavuot !!!!

Hoping to see you soon and look forward to meeting up when we can. Fondly

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BURIAL

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

WHO DOES WHAT AT TLSE

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LINKS WITH ISRAEL Terry Benson

Iwas pleased to represent TLSE at a recent ceremony to mark the signing of a Town Twinning Agreement between Elstree & Borehamwood and the Israeli town of Shoham. Three representatives of Shoham Town Council were present at the signing which took place in the Civic Centre in Borehamwood. It was unusual and emotional to hear the Hatikvah played in the Hertsmere Council Chamber beneath the Israeli flag. The photo shows the actual signing by the town Mayor Councillor Sandra Parnell and the Mayor of Shoham, Eitan Petigro, a former Israeli fighter pilot.

Founded in 1993, Shoham is a dynamic, thriving young town located halfway between Tel Aviv & Jerusalem. The twin town relationship is a social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural, social and commercial ties.

The concept of the twinning was a cross party effort by the Conservative Sandra Parnell and the Labour councillor Jeremy Newmark who serve as chair and vice chair of Elstree and Borehamwood town council international affairs committee.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Elstree High Street, Elstree, Hertfordshire WD6 3EY

Phone: 020 8953 8889 Email: office@tlse.org.uk

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Edited by Terry Benson

Would all those involved in arranging functions services or meetings please contact the office on 0208 953 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.

If you need to talk to Jacqueline Bernard in the office, please note that she is mostly working from at home so it is better to email her at office@tlse.org.uk and she will respond.

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 9th June but submissions will be accepted at any time and early submission is appreciated.

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TLSE TRUSTEES AND PRESIDENTS

Enjoy a great lunch! Make new friends! Be entertained!

Venue: The Synagogue Time: 1pm

TLSE members: £5

Tuesday 30 May

Tuesday 27 June

Non -Members: £6

If you are coming, please contact Jacqueline by Thursday prior to Lunch

Email: office@tlse.org.uk Mobile: 07888 600801 Tel: 020 8953 8889

Kindly leave names and numbers of all attendees on the answerphone. Please advise of any dietary requirements