Knit Two Purl Two

Winter Hats for our Soldiers

By Hazel Broch

Yet again I am most grateful to our Shul Magazine where I am able to report on this activity for our soldiers.

We have a small band of dedicated knitters who are most supportive of knitting hats for our soldiers.

To keep you up to date our contact, to whom I post the hats, Channah Koppel in Efrat, has written to tell me she is resigning from her voluntary work of collecting these hats from all over the world. She has been doing this for over 15 years and feels it’s time to pass it over to someone else. She not only receives the hats, but also sews a label into each hat, which reads “Knit for you with love and warmth from the connecting thread”. This label went into tens of thousands of hats. It was actually this label that got me motivated to organise the Knitting Group.

Channah Koppel writes “One of the best parts of this project has been meeting wonderful people like you. I don’t even have the words to thank you all for your efforts, kindness and generosity. Please just know that I appreciate you immensely. Channah Kopel

Well I for one will miss my contact with her. Channah sincerely hopes “someone” will come forward to continue this vital necessity for our soldiers.

Now it is my turn to thank the following people who gave me donations this year to buy the wool: Sharon Carr; Freddie Apfel; Sylvia Krasner; Ivor Lewis; Cecil Bennett, Geoff Rose, David Rubenstein, Mottle Shaw, Yehuda Sosnow, and of course to thank my wonderful knitters.

We will continue to knit and hope some more of you will join our knitters OR donate towards the wool.

With a Knit Two Purl Two Thank You. Shanna Tovah A

the Admissions Tutor to offer a place for the boy, he did not turn up! Shortly before the beginning of term I received a fax from the MK saying “You will receive my wife and daughter when they arrive in Manchester next week”. I don’t know whether they expected me to meet them at the airport, but I decided to do nothing, but I kept thinking that there is no such thing as a free lunch! I then received a phone call from the Israeli Embassy in London, telling me that accommodation had been arranged for them in a glatt kosher Manchester hotel. On the day they arrived they telephoned me from the hotel and said they were coming into the Faculty to see me immediately. The daughter arrived in a mini skirt and a cropped top and I wasn’t surprised when she said that there was no way she was going to stay in that hotel! I managed to sort them out with a hotel in the city centre. I am happy to say that once the mother went back to Israel, the girl valued her independence and never gave me any trouble. A