Shofar February 2013

February 2013

Shofar

‫שופר‬

the magazine of finchley progressive synagogue

Friendship

From the Editor pat lehner I’m writing this piece a few days after my son’s Bar Mitzvah, surrounded by the usual debris that you find after a big family party, and musing over the events of the last week. Last Shabbat, watching Dylan reading his portion, I suddenly found myself thinking of his older brother’s Bar Mitzvah, and then of all the many others who stood there before him over the last 60 years, and of all those still to come…

And I’m thinking of friendship, and how central it is to our society. After all, our own FPS story starts with a small group of friends hatching a plan for a new shul. For my own part, I’m overwhelmed with a deep sense of gratitude for the friends in my family’s life, who made our recent simcha so special. Friends who helped out, and came along to celebrate and eat and dance. Friends who helped with the Kiddush. Friends, like Ofra, who is simply the most outstanding Hebrew teacher I have ever met. Like Dean, whose music was and is inspirational! And lastly, the wonderful Sarah Aldridge, who offered to edit this edition of Shofar, so I could have a month off, clear the house and put away a thousand balloons, bottles and spare beds.

This month Shofar is edited

by Sarah Aldridge Cover: Friends from FPS Left: Dylan Lehner’s Bar Mitzvah (see page 15) Copy deadline is the 10th of each month. Please email all content to shofar@fps.org

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From the Rabbi rabbi rebecca qassim birk

connections No one likes to work alone. No one likes the ungratifying struggle of creating and building things alone. Synagogues are not meant to be places of lonely individual work. In the film Field of Dreams we learnt: “If you build it, they will come”. But only if they know about it!

Working in partnership is why I chose congregational life and work. Nothing beats a sense of shared investment and projects. Last month we wrote about the synagogue, its role in contemporary life and why people still choose it to be part of their lives. A community is a group of people gathered to share something. And there is nothing more gratifying than building projects and enterprises, classes and clubs together, and the connections we make.

Connections begin with our kids at Ivriah through Rikkud, Youth Group, playing music together at Shabbat Resouled to Book Group and Rosh Chodesh. Café Thursday is successful because of the folk who help Nicky Marzell make a delicious lunch, and offer lifts to each other. Adult Learning is thriving because I now have a partner in Adrian Lister and we are finding new supporters who are involved in Lunch and Learn, Café Ivriah’s animated discussions or the Beit Midrash Thursday classes.

This year, our 60th, is the ideal time to join me, if you don’t already, in sharing projects and ideas. I hope this year we can push ourselves to develop more in the synagogue. A dynamic Nursery group is exploring plans to create a financially independent Jewish nursery, let me

know if you want to make small steps in this area.

I am looking for partners to join me and David Aarons in establishing a well-peopled welfare group. We’d like a group to arrange afternoon teas in people’s homes. We are hoping to expand our Shelter cooking group to offer meals to those unwell, have had a baby or suffered a bereavement. I’m looking for partners in offering creative Family Education programmes, and we will be launching our Grandparents Project at the FPS weekend away in March.

May we continue to be bound by good connections and friendship. I noted that Finchley Synagogue spoke of their soon to be lost Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis as having “built a situation where the community is full of lay people empowered to do more”. May that be said of us during this auspicious year.

HAVDALAH IN YOUR PYJAMAS!!!

Saturday February 2 SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2ND Come & take part in a special [at 4.15PM] FOR ALL AGES 0—12 Family Havdalah with Rabbi COME IN YOUR BEST PYJAMAS! Rebecca & Youth Club!

COME AND TAKE PART IN A SPECIAL FAMILY HAVDALAH WITH RABBI

REBECCA AND YOUTHthemed CLUB! A pyjamas youth club for Years with fights & FIGHTS A PYJAMAS 2—6, THEMED YOUTH CLUB pillow FOR YEARS 2—6 WITH PILLOW AND MIDNIGHT SNACKS TO FOLLOW STRAIGHT AFTERWARDS! midnight snacks to follow straight afterwards! (at 4.15pm) For all ages 0—12 Come in your best pyjamas!

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From the Chair laura lassman

A member recently suggested that Council is not open or accountable to the membership.

While it is tempting to be defensive, on reflection it is better to recognise the perception and address it.

Any member is welcome to observe Council meetings, unless there is a confidential matter, as well as request copies of the Minutes.

The AGM provides an annual opportunity for Council to report to the membership, to answer questions and to present proposals for any constitutional changes. We previously wrote Council Notes in Shofar and this has lapsed, so is being remedied here.

The community is small enough for all members to feel connected and large enough for different friendship groups to develop.

The major activity of the moment is changing the organisational structure so that we have fewer large committees and more, smaller working groups. In many ways, the organisation had been based on a model set up when the synagogue was begun in 1953.

Our founder members were all families where, in the main, father went out to a 9-5 job and mother stayed at home. There was plenty of time for the pioneers to meet once the children were in bed.

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In 2013, our demographic is very different with households (the unit of membership) including mixed faith, single parents, and many whose work extends into traditional synagogue time. There are industries dedicated to extra-curricular activity for children and entertainment for adults. We live in a service culture where everyone is viewed as a customer.

FPS can either increase subscriptions to pay for more staff to improve ‘customer service’ or we must restructure to facilitate manageable tasks for volunteers. The Council opted for the latter, and to create focused working groups.

The community is small enough for all members to feel connected and large enough for different friendship groups to develop.

Working on a task or project is an ideal way for members to build relationships and have a stake in the community. Being small, however, much depends on the Rabbi and she needs partners to maintain the provision across a range of activity.

Currently, our three main committees are in the process of delegating their responsibilities to small groups of people who focus on one aspect of synagogue life. The groups and co-ordinators are listed on the back cover of Shofar. There are also ad-hoc groups who may gather for a one-off project. There will be more opportunities for participation in leading projects and, hopefully, a route through to synagogue leadership and the Executive (Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer and Hon Sec) of the future.

We are working on job descriptions for these roles as well so that the responsibilities and expectations are clear and manageable.

FPS 60 Years On

leon pilpel

K

ay Pilpel and I (My Kind of Judaism, December Shofar) were members of Finchley Liberal, as it then was, long before the tennis courts on which it was later built changed hands. We had married in March 1951, when spring weddings ensured a welcome Government tax rebate.

In the summer of 1951 I joined The Times as a junior sub-editor at £14 a week, having previously worked on the Irish Times in Dublin and taken a degree in English and French. We had moved from Kay’s bachelor flat in Highgate to Finchley and she saw to our joining the synagogue.

My elder brother and I had learnt Hebrew

Judging by the many activities, opportunities for young members and new members, nowadays Finchley Progressive looks good. at my mother’s insistence when the family lived opposite what became Eagle Lodge in Golders Green Road, coached by a peripatetic Mr Cohen once a week, but we gave it up after my father sent us to a ‘progressive’ boarding school in Devon. Kay never mastered it, and I am still far from proficient.

Derrick Zimmerman, Life president of FPS, called at our house and enrolled us, assisted by Dick Levy and Jack Mundy, all from the Chandos Tennis Club. Derrick’s name deservedly appears four times on the synagogue’s memorial board.

As Kay wrote, Friday evening services were held in each other’s homes, upstairs at the North Finchley Library, or occasionally in the hall at Christ Church. Rabbi Frank Hellner presided and put in 33 years’ sterling service.

Our daughter Alison was confirmed at Finchley Progressive, as it had become in 1970, and our son three years later.

My grasp of Progressive Judaism was sketchy but I rather reluctantly took on the editorship of Shofar from Sheila King Lassman in 1996, soon after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, and I continued in that position for almost 12 years.

Shul membership was changeable, at its lowest it dropped to 400. A quarter of departures had moved away and nearly a third had died.

Judging by the many activities, opportunities for young members and new members, nowadays Finchley Progressive looks good. A few old survivors still turn up for the Thursday lunches appetisingly (and copiously) prepared by Nicola Marzell and Corinne Oppenheimer in the presence of Lionel Lassman.

Long may it remain so!

The Times circa 1953

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60th Anniversary

wika dorosz

sixtieth update rosh chodesh group

The year of special events celebrating the 60th anniversary kicked off with the January meeting of the Rosh Chodesh Group. We were considering our changing relationships with and within the synagogue over the past decades. Younger and older women – both in years and length of FPS involvement – discussed the growing role of women in our community, sometimes wondering whether our male membership might feel underrepresented and even dominated by the almost exclusively female leadership.

One of the members joined about forty years ago, went away for a number of years and then, relatively recently, returned to FPS: what better vantage point to discuss the changes that took place in the meantime. We also talked about changing ‘minhagim’ (customs) at FPS and the right balance between contributing to and receiving from the community.

purim spiel

saturday 23 february Join us for a time travel extravaganza that will have Einstein rewriting his Theory of Relativity. An all-star cast spanning the generations of our community will delight and intrigue you. Fasten your seat belts and be ready to enter the time warp.

5.15pm: Gregger Making and Purim activities including Fancy Dress Parade 6.00pm Megillah in different tongues followed by Spiel and Purim Feast Please bring food for the feast according to your surname: A-J Savoury foods (vegetarian quiches,

salads, dips, crisps, crackers, pita

bread, cut vegetables) J- Q Desserts (pies, cakes, chocolates,

sweets, biscuits, fruit) Q-Z Drinks (lemonade or other fizzy, water, juices, squash)

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60th Anniversary

wika dorosz

planning ahead Many events will be taking place throughout the year and teams of volunteers have been formed to work on specific projects. However, we still need help and what better way to celebrate the anniversary than to participate in the planning. archive and oral history project

We are gathering and sorting memorabilia over the decades and need your photos, videos, press cuttings, stories and artefacts. Please help with the exhibition and let us know if you can contribute to the Oral History Project, so contact Laura at chair@fps.org. We need people to • Film & script • Interview • Be interviewed founders tea in may

Our May tea party will celebrate the founding members who built the congregation.

All current members are invited but we are keen to welcome back relatives of the early members. Lionel Lassman lionel.lassman@gmail.com 020 8445 3284 is interested in photographs, articles or other memorabilia connected with the early days of the synagogue and the founding members, as well as suggestions for guests. generations day in october

Andrea Collett is co-ordinating a day of celebration with something for everyone. If you have ideas, can help make the party something remarkable, have a bouncy castle, chocolate fountain or champagne fountain you can offer, or a willing pair of hands, please contact the office. fund raising for fps@60

Would it be too great a target to aim for £60,000 to mark our sixtieth anniversary?

Council is identifying a wish list and over the next few weeks we will be publishing the full shopping list.

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Beit Tefillah services at fps

shabbat services - february Friday 1 February

Shabbat Resouled Unplugged

Saturday 2 February

Shabbat B’Yachad

Friday 8 February

Kabbalat Shabbat with participation from Kita Vav and Zain

Saturday 9 February

Tziltzelai Shabbat

Friday 15 February

Shabbat Resouled

Saturday 16 February

Shabbat morning service including Yonatan Wade Bar Mitzvah

Friday 22 February

Saturday 23 February

Kabbalat Shabbat Shabbat service including Sam Levy Bar Mitzvah Purim service and spiel

two dinners, one speaker young adults dinner Friday 8 February Young Adults Dinner following Kabbalat Shabbat service. Hosted by Daisy Goodman and Mike Daventry and Student Rabbi Rene Pfertzel. Please bring non-meat dish to share.Speaker: Rabbi Roderick Young - rabbi, writer and broadcaster on An Unusual Jewish Legacy.

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b’nei mitzvah families friday night dinner Friday 8 February Friday Night Dinner for B’nei Mitzvah Families with our guest Rabbi Roderick Young, speaking on Discovering You’re a Jew at 24. Please bring non-meat dishes and desserts to share for pot luck dinner and Kiddush.

Beit Knesset what’s happening at fps breakfast shiur

Version’. For details please see page 11.

Saturday 23 February @ 9.00am with Rabbi Wittenberg

curtain up!

cafe thursday

Thursdays @12.30pm yoga

Mondays @7.oopm Tuesdays @7.30pm Contact Richard on 020 8349 9602 film club

Sunday 3 February @7.30pm, ‘The Browning

Wednesday 13 February @7.30pm For details please see page 11. rosh chodesh

Celebration of the new moon by women gathering for learning and spiritual exploration (over a glass of wine).

Rosh Chodesh Adar: Monday 11 February Jewish women in literature Rosh Chodesh Nissan: Tuesday 12 March Lillith and Eve

people congratulations and mazal tov:

birth

Trish and Alan Banes on the birth of their grandson, Brodie Joseph Nightingale Banes, son of Robert and Katherine b’nei mitzvah

Yonatan Wade and family on his Bar Mitzvah Sam Levy and family on his Bar Mitzvah birthday

Joan and Henry Bennett celebrate their 90th birthdays conversion

Michael Daventry on completing his conversion and on his admission ceremony in January marriage

Alan Freeman and Anna Eisen, stepdaughter of David Eisen who married in January Sam Lassman Watts, son of Laura and grandson of Sheila and Lionel, and Roberta Robino who will be married in February

wedding anniversaries

Valerie and Howard Joseph on their Ruby Anniversary, hosting Kiddush on 2 February; Joan and Howard Shopper on their Golden Wedding, hosting Kiddush on 9 February; Linda and Leon Gevertz on their recent Ruby Anniversary Many members are celebrating important life milestones by hosting and accepting a mitzvah at a Shabbat service. If you have a celebration you would like to share with the community please contact the office a warm welcome to new members

Alison Pilpel Ariel and Deepti Armon with Maya and Amit Brian Spencer Hershon and Ruth Hershon winners of 50/50 january draw were:

1st 2nd 3rd

Jordan Helfman £20 John Norman £10 Paul Lichtenstern £5

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Beit Midrash learning at fps Thursday evenings from 7.30pm | The Sermons and Intellectual Legacy of Rabbi John Rayner z’l, with Liberal rabbis and others that knew him well, Hebrew & Delving into Judaism: A Course to Refresh and Illuminate Judaism. | £5 donation/session For more information, contact Adrian Lister adrianlister@blueyonder.co.uk

february 21

february 14

february 7

7.30pm Hebrew Beginners & Intermediate

8.30pm Delving: Lifecycle Birth & Coming of Age

Rayner - Integrity is not Cheap: Remaining a Minority with Rabbi Pete Tobias Hebrew Beginners & Intermediate

Delving: Marriage & the Chuppah in Jewish Tradition: New Ways of Partnership

Rayner: Swimming Against the Stream: Vision for Liberal Judaism.

Has it stood the Test of Time? with Rabbi Rebecca Qassim Birk Hebrew Beginners & Intermediate

Delving: Purim & the Power of Remembering the universal and particular

Rayner: Whose God is it Anyway? Rabbi John Rayner’s Love of the Universal with Rabbi Lea Muhlstein

28 February half term

8.30pm

march 21

march 14

march 7

7.30pm

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Hebrew Beginners & Intermediate

Delving: Liberal Jewish Theology and Recollections

Rayner - Radical or Rooted: His Relationship with Jewish Tradition & History with Rabbi James Baaden & Rabbi Rebecca Qassim Birk Hebrew Beginners & Intermediate

Delving: Death & Mourning in Jewish Tradition and the rhythm of customs

Rayner: The Acerbic Correspondent with Rabbi Andrew Goldstein Hebrew Beginners & Intermediate

Delving: Seizing the Seder and understanding the power of Pesach

Rayner: The Wider World and Us: ‘Jews and Non-Jews’ with Rabbi Danny Rich

Arts at FPS curtain up!

book club

This is the monthly theatre group that meet to discuss an agreed play. Recently Curtain Up! enjoyed a visit from a stage production manager, illustrating what goes on behind the scenes to make a play work.

The Book Club in February are reading The Europeans, by Henry James and in March: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.

This book was first published in 1953, 60 years ago, and the Book Club’s contribution to the 60th anniversary. Meetings are held in people’s homes, 7.30pm on the second Wednesday of each month. Contact sheilakl@waitrose.com if you’d like to join.

In January the group read a play, Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, rather than visit the theatre. FPS’s Curtain Up! would be delighted to have new people to join this interesting and informal group. Contact Elaine.borish@btinternet.co.uk for more information.

Also in Beit Midrash... cafe ivriah Shabbat mornings from 9.30am An informal, lively discussion over coffee, for Ivriah parents and others

lunch & learn Wednesdays 12.30pm-2.00pm Hot learning topics with tea and cake bring a sandwich!

the screen on the grove 3 February | The Browning Version Terence Rattigan’s film version of his superb play, The Browning Version. Unlike the original play which was just one act in length, Rattigan re-wrote the script and added additional material to turn it into a full-length film. All those who saw the recent production in the West End will want to see how well Rattigan adapted the original 3 March | Roman Holiday Kicking off Screen on the Grove’s 1953 season, Roman Holiday stars the academy awardwinners Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck. This is a perfect example of the kind of romantic film that only Hollywood could do so well.

Screenings start at 7.30pm, recommended donation £5 includes refreshments. Films already shown may be borrowed for £2.50.

Contact Wika vdorosz@gmail.com.

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FPS Away Weekend josie kinchin from south to north

In just a few weeks’ time, on Friday 1 March, a large, very mixed group from our FPS community will be trundling up the M1 for the ‘Away Weekend’: a group of babies, children, teens and adults from 18 to over eighty. Some could be described as regular worshippers, maybe even observant, some rarely step foot inside the synagogue and consider themselves atheist. We have to ask ourselves why are we going? We’ll all find out the answer by Sunday afternoon. The weekend theme is loosely based around story-telling, from biblical to personal but in conversations I’ve had about the weekend, the theme isn’t foremost on their minds. Everyone is looking forward to spending the weekend together at a beautiful country hotel, getting away from work and stress, maybe taking a couple of hours out on Shabbat afternoon to visit the local area or just chilling FPS weekends away of the past, with more hair

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out with each other, in or out of the bar. Take a look at the photos of past weekends to see if you can recognise the faces?

It would be great to see you at Hothorpe Hall this year and there are still a few spaces for the weekend. If finances are a problem, please speak privately to Rabbi Rebecca or to Alex Kinchin-Smith who is leading the team. We’re really looking forward to seeing you there.

If you are interested in coming along please contact the office, or Josie at jkinchin@yahoo.co.uk or Alex on kinchinsmith@yahoo.co.uk for an application form.

FPS Communal Seder 2013 sam & david conroy

I am now 9 years old and this year will be my fourth communal Seder at FPS which I am really looking forward to.

When I think of FPS Communal Seder all sorts of things come to my mind. It’s great fun and very exciting, and I see lots of my friends and their families. We tell the story together in the Haggadah of Moses and how the children of Israel left Egypt quickly. Along the way there are lots of questions and if you answer one correctly you get a sweet or chocolate.

Everyone takes part in the reading of the Haggadah.

There is a meal which is always lovely food that we eat together and of course lots of matzo.

I really like Communal Seder as my Dad and I enjoy it together with everyone at FPS - it is very enjoyable for the whole group as we all celebrate Passover as a community, the way

it should be marked. I am looking forward to Seder, and hope many more people come this year and enjoy it as much as I do.

Sam Conroy (9) with help from David Conroy (44) fps Communal Seder 2013

Tuesday 26 March Starting At 6.00pm (Second Night Passover) This is a very popular event and numbers are restricted so book early to avoid disappointment Members:

Non-Members:

£15 Adults

£18 Adults

£10 Children under 12

£10 COME AND HAVE YOUR SAY ABOUT THE12 Children under SYNAGOGUE AND TALK

ABOUT YOUon For seder tickets please contact theWHAT office WANT FOR YOUNG admin@fps.org PEOPLE AT FPS

MARCH 9TH 4PM SCHOOL YEARS 4 AND UP

COME AND HAVE YOUR SAY ABOUT THE SYNAGOGUE AND TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AT FPS

YOUTH COUNCIL WANTS YOU! come and have your say about the synagogue and talk about what you want for young people at fps

MARCH 9TH 4PM SCHOOL YEARS 4 AND UP

march 9, 4.00pm school years 4 and up

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q&a with hannah kingston What do you do at FPS? I teach at Ivriah, the class of 10 & 11 year olds. I’m also involved in the Kabbalat Torah Programme. I help with the Rikkud dance group and was previously in the Shabbat Resouled band.

What is Rikkud? Are you a dancer?

Rikkud is an Israeli dance group for children over 6. I was involved with Rikkud at our previous shul and helped set it up when we moved to FPS. It is run for the youth by the youth. Now at 22, I am there to advise and help the little ones with their routines. Rikkud is currently looking for new recruits.

Does Rikkud ever perform their dances?

Recently Rikkud performed at West London Synagogue for Chanukah, during One World Week and at the East Barnet Festival.

I understand you are now training to be a rabbi, what led to this?

I’ve always been involved with the progressive Jewish community. While working at Accenture

in my gap year I decided I’d prefer to work in the Jewish world. Later, while at Kutz Camp in New York, I met lots of young inspirational rabbis who could relate to me as a young person. I realised that it was something I could do too.

Did you then go on to study something related?

I was already signed up to study Geography at Birmingham. I was open to the idea that I might still make my career about volcanos and weather, but no – it is still rabbinic studies for me. I’m now in my first year at Leo Baeck College.

Will Geography be useful in any way to you, as a rabbi?

There is a great link with Judaism and the environment, healing the environment in the way of Tikkun Olam. I will hopefully do my thesis on Judaism and the environment.

It sets you out a bit from other rabbis, and other geography students?

Well yes, although there is Rabbi Colin Eimer from Southgate & District Reform who also studied geography.

So what is your USP then?

I’d like to become the all singing, dancing, weather-forecasting rabbi of the future.

Interview: Sarah Aldridge

The FPS Israeli Dance Group Rikkud

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my bar mitzvah by dylan lehner I had my Bar Mitzvah on the 5 January. This was a very special experience for me, and many of my relatives came from all over the world.

My portion dealt with one of the defining moments of our Torah, the encounter of Moses and the burning bush. Here God gives Moses the mission to lead his people out of Egypt, away from slavery to the Promised Land. But Moses is reluctant to accept this mission because he doesn’t feel he is the right person.

He says to God “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” This links to my Haftarah portion: Jeremiah is also reluctant to do God’s bidding.

Moses and Jeremiah are two completely different people, and they live in different times. But they both do not feel ready or right to do the job. These two famous prophets both began as reluctant men who weren’t sure if they were ready for these amazing missions.

They only really became ready by stepping up and taking on these challenges.

In a way that made me feel a bit like what this Bar Mitzvah has been like for me. There was so much to learn and I wasn’t sure if I could do it and now suddenly I’m here, although I’m still not quite sure if I’m ready. When I talked about this with my parents and with Ofra, my Hebrew teacher, we thought it was quite nice that these men felt the same way. They were not ready. Who am I, they ask themselves, to do this task and to think that I can do it?

My mum and Ofra said “That’s the point, in the big moments of your life you don’t feel ready”. Maybe you don’t feel ready when you

start a job, get married or have children. My mum said to me “you don’t ever feel ready for those things”. What makes you ready is being there, stepping up, doing it even though you don’t feel ready for it. It’s when you close your eyes and step off, that’s when it begins.

In a way this portion is like a manual. God chose Moses because he saw the miracle of the burning bush, and was curious about it.

He went to find out like a scientist would. First comes curiosity then comes courage. So when there’s a miracle: go and investigate, don’t be reckless but don’t ignore it or be scared.

When life presents you with an opportunity, take it and step up to it, even if you’re not feeling ready, you need to put in the work, but it will only pay off if you take the opportunity.

Al’s Little Singers Music and movement classes for 0-3 year olds

Come early for chat and play!

Thursdays, 10am FPS, 54 Hutton Grove, N12 Admission, £5 (including tea/coffee)

Off-street parking!

Contact Al on 07968 869 388 or alexandraclyons@gmail.com

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Contacts fps who’s who finchley progressive synagogue

synagogue committees & groups:

54 Hutton Grove N12 8DR www.fps.org 020 8446 4063

Beit Tefillah, Contact, Education, Membership, Events Plus, Babies & Toddlers, B’nei Mitzvah, Hospitality Group, Security.

Charity Number: 1071040

We are represented on the Board of Deputies and Liberal Judaism. For further information, please call the office.

Rabbi: Rebecca Qassim Birk rabbi@fps.org / 07939 227480 Emeritus Rabbi: Dr Frank Hellner Synagogue Manager: Pauline Gusack pauline@fps.org Community Manager: Angela Wharton angela@fps.org executive

Chair: Laura Lassman chair@fps.org / 07957 545 569

shofar editor

Pat Lehner shofar@fps.org Editorial assistant Sarah Aldridge

FPS is a constituent of Liberal Judaism 21 Maple Street W1T 4BE 020 7580 1663 LJY Netzer (youth dept) 020 7631 0584

Vice-Chair: Joan Shopper & David Aarons 01582 792 959 Treasurer: Richard Kravetz 020 8349 9602 Honorary Secretary: David Pelham 020 8445 8111

ashley page insurance brokers Commerce House 2a Litchfield Grove London N3 2TN Tel. 020 8349 5100

janet tresman mediator & collaborative family law solicitor consultant now at hoffman-bokaei.co.uk

Lithos House 307 Finchley Road London NW3 6EH Tel. 020 7433 2380 jlt@hoffman-bokaei.co.uk

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