TLSE HAKOL March/April 2023 Adar/Nissan/Iyar 5783

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Letter To Editor From Page 2

Carole Pomerance

Rabbi’s Word Page 3/4

Kabbalat Torah Page 4

Graduation Service

From the Archives 1995 Page 5

The First Female Rabbi: Page 6-8

Rabbi Regina Jonas 1902 - 1944

The Perfect Rabbi Page 8

Obituary Jan Nomberg Page 9/10

1932- 2023

TLSE 2023 Quiz Night Page 11

From the Chair Page 12/13

Care Team Page 14

Who Does What at TLSE Page 15

Education Hub Page 16

Shirley Piazza Page 17

22.01.34 - 26.01.23

Liberal Judaism Matters ... Page 18

General Information Page 19

Answers

Lunch Club Flyer Page 20

LETTER TO EDITOR FROM CAROLE POMERANCE

How delighted I was to see so many old and familiar names once more as Trustees of Our Synagogue. Having been a member of the synagogue for many years – my twin boys who are now 53! were barmitzvah there; and I and my late husband joined before that and in the past have celebrated many noisy and fun Simcha’s there.

It seems that the shul still has to rely on our older members to come up trumps. I well remember all the innovative (at the time) activities that were tried in the hope that newer members would be encouraged to join in but with the same sort of support then as now!! So it seems our Shul has gone full circle, so much for progress. Isn’t it about time we got rid of Zooming services, all the technology in the world won’t encourage our younger members to come to a live service unless its High Holy Days or they really HAVE to.

So many congratulations to the New Trustees and our new President Tina Shaw. Keep up the good work it is very much appreciated by at least this long standing member.

Carole Pomerance

Ibegan my rabbinic role here at TLSE in December. I have been welcomed warmly by our leadership, by our congregants, and by our excellent, motivated staff. In these three months, I have seen some of what makes this community so special to its members and so valuable to Liberal Judaism. TLSE is a community that cares about the vulnerable in our own congregation and the world outside. It cares as well about our commitment to provide meaningful Jewish life to our members and those who come through our doors looking for what we offer. Our members are devoted to TLSE, and their commitment to it will bring it forward to serve us for many years to come.

The task that lies before us is to preserve the qualities that make this community special and beloved by its members, to enrich what we have, and to expand and develop all of those things to meet the needs of new generations from within and those that will choose to join us. I have had a few conversations with members who tell me with great pride of their participation in the beginning of this congregation, and in the acquisition and development of our building – as they’ve described it to me, it was a real “hands-on” affair, and the work that they did has given us a physical space for our spiritual aims.

The leadership of TLSE are dedicated and energetic. Our council is creative and enthusiastic.

I have been working closely with the Care Team, and have begun to reach out to those in our community who are ill, frail, or vulnerable.

Looking ahead, I plan to present more opportunities to engage with Jewish life. We will offer a “parashat hashavua” discussion to look more closely at the weekly Torah reading, and a course in “Judaism 101” for people who want to know more about our religion.

We have a responsibility to our environment and to the future generations who will inherit it, and so we plan to join Eco Synagogue, an enterprise which promotes the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment across the Jewish Community in accordance with the principles of the Jewish faith. Eco Synagogue offers workshops, website resources, guest speakers and events. It spans the whole Jewish community with rabbinic leadership from four denominations of Judaism.

It's been said, 90% of life is showing up. So as we develop our community, going forward, you (yes, you!) can help in many ways, but the most important way is showing up. During the pandemic lockdowns, we learned how to participate in Jewish life without leaving our homes and computer screens. But as important as that was (and we’ve learned a lot about how to provide for the on-line community even though we aren’t locked down anymore) there is nothing like being in the room. I ask you first and foremost to show up –come to services in person, enjoy our chavurah suppers and the kiddush, to attend the classes and groups, to join committees and task forces as they develop. And as we roll out new initiatives, come and participate in them. If you aren’t sure they are right for you, try them out.

And we are looking for people to champion and nurture our programs, new and old. We are seeking someone to be the driving force behind our participation in Eco Synagogue. In many synagogues, the energy for that enterprise comes from younger people, who see their future in the choices we make today. If there is someone in your family or in our congregation, or someone who hasn’t yet joined us, whom you think would be a good person to be active in this area, let them know and let me know.

I want to hear from you. I am often at the synagogue on Tuesdays, and am very happy to meet up there, or nearby for a cup of coffee. Let Jacqueline Bernard (office@tlse.org) in the office know and she can arrange it. You can also email me directly on rabbigershon@tlse.org.

My overriding message to you is that we can do great things together. We have a history – and a present – that we have every reason to be proud of. Let’s work together towards a future that brings us pride as well.

KABBALAT TORAH GRADUATION SERVICE

Our Kabbalat Torah students recently graduated and led a thought provoking service to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

Amy, Avital and Louis have been studying for the last year with their teacher Mike Walton.

An American Family Wedding

Since last writing for “Sheila’s Slot” I have been away in America and Canada; an eleven day voyage of nostalgia and family reunions. Our first stop was Minneapolis where a cousin was getting married. We have kept in touch with most of the family there, many of whom we have visited, or they have stayed for holidays with us. The wedding was OTT, as only American events can be. We stayed at a hotel with the other out of town guests and a hospitality room was put at our disposal from Friday to Sunday. There were drinks, snacks, home made cookies and cakes enough to feed an army.

Saturday evening a pre-nuptial dinner catered for close family and out of town guests so that only one hundred and fifty guests were present as opposed to the five hundred at the wedding. A film was shown for about forty minutes highlighting the couple growing up (an appropriate time for forty winks – after all we were jet-lagged). This was followed by endless speeches from family and friends accompanied by a great deal of emotional crying and all ending with “we love you”. As a break from these activities a family group formed a ‘VonTrapp’ type group and sang of the couple and how they loved each other and us all, of course. Pass the Kleenex. After four or five hours the evening was over and we woke up and went back to the hotel.

The wedding ceremony was held in the second largest synagogue in town which was absolutely magnificent. The entrance hall was as big as our building with a beautiful museum, a Judaica shop fitted out like a miniature Harrods, and a small chapel (itself larger than our synagogue hall). The Ketuba is specially designed and individually hand painted depicting meaningful scenes and was framed and displayed on the Bimah, which fortunately was bigger than the stage of the London Palladium, providing enough room for a cantor, sundry rabbis, the bride & groom, the four parents, all the grandparents, two best men, four bridesmaids and their escorts, the flower girl and boy and maids of honour; all of whom walked up the aisle two at a time, walking slowly in time to the stereophonic music.

The chuppah is especially hand made and embroidered with the names of the family and their particular forte. For example, Manfred (the bride’s grandfather) ‘Religion’; Hannah (bride’s grandmother) ‘Hospitality’. I can’t remember what the word for the bride’s father was, probably ‘Money’. The chuppah was displayed afterwards at the wedding party. The dinner was curiously irreligious with brief Grace Before Meals, but none after the meal and no speeches at all. Not even a Mazel Tov to the couple, and this was a Conservative wedding, which I previously understood was similar to the British Reform. In fact, it made our shul appear religiously fanatic! The party finished at 2pm.

Next morning before departure a brunch was served for about one hundred and fifty people. You must appreciate that diet coke and fat free foods are of prime importance in the USA.

One especially good thought is that due to the incompatibility of US & UK television formats we were not able to view the resultant video in which most of the guests were asked to contribute some loving remarks about the couple and the proceedings. As mentioned, there were around five hundred guests. “Gone With The Wind” eat your heart out!

Regina Jonas became the first woman to be ordained as a rabbi. She was murdered in the Holocaust.

Regina Jonas was born into a strictly religious household in Berlin. Like many women at that time, she intended to make a career as a teacher but after graduating from the local Jewish Girls High School she became disillusioned with the idea of becoming a teacher and instead, she enrolled at the Higher Institute for Jewish Studies and took seminary courses for liberal rabbis and educators for 12 semesters. While not the only woman attending the university, Regina sent ripples through the institution with her stated goal of becoming a rabbi.

To this end, Jonas wrote a thesis. Her topic was "Can a Woman Be a Rabbi According to Halachic Sources?" Her conclusion, based on Biblical, Talmudic, and rabbinical sources, was that she should be ordained. The Talmud professor responsible for ordinations, Eduard Baneth, accepted Jonas' thesis; however, his sudden death squashed any hope Jonas may have had in receiving an official ordination. Jonas then applied to Rabbi Leo Baeck, spiritual leader of German Jewry, who had taught her at the seminary. Baeck, while acknowledging Jonas as a "thinking and agile preacher", refused to make her title official, because the ordination of a female rabbi would have caused massive intra-Jewish communal problems with the Orthodox rabbinate in Germany.

For nearly five years, Jonas taught religious studies in a series of both

public and Jewish schools, and also gave a series of 'unofficial' sermons. Her lectures on religious and historical topics for various Jewish institutions often included questions about the importance of women in Judaism. This eventually caught the attention of the Liberal Rabbi Max Dienemann, who was head of the Liberal Rabbis' Association in Offenbach am Main. Despite protest from both inside and outside the Liberal Rabbis' Association, on 27 December 1935, Regina Jonas received her semicha and was ordained.

Because of Nazi persecution, many rabbis emigrated leaving many small communities without rabbinical support. Jonas, possibly out of consideration for her elderly widowed mother, stayed in Nazi Germany. However, the Jewish situation under the Nazi regime quickly degraded. Even if there had been a synagogue willing to host her, the duress of Nazi persecution made it impossible for Jonas to hold services in a proper house of worship. Despite this, she continued her rabbinical work, as well as teaching and holding impromptu services.

On 5 November 1942, the Gestapo arrested her and she was deported to Theresienstadt. While interned, she continued her work as a rabbi. Regina Jonas worked in the Theresienstadt camp for two years and records of some 23 sermons written by Jonas survive. During her internment, Jonas was also a member of a group that organised concerts, lectures and other activities to distract internees from events around them.

Upon passing the June 1944 Red Cross inspection, a number of summer months passed at relative ease, until mid-October 1944 when almost all of the Jewish Council, including Jonas, were deported to Auschwitz where she was murdered either one day or two months later. She was 42 years old.

Of the 520 or so who lectured in Theresienstadt, including Leo Baeck, no one ever mentioned her name or work.

Following the ordination of Rabbi Sally Priesand in 1972, the American Israelite reported in July 1973 that the only other known Jewish woman to receive ordination was Regina Jonas of Berlin. Also mentioned was that Jonas's thesis was entitled "Can a Woman Become a Rabbi?".

Pnina Navè Levinson, a student of Jonas, mentions her story in a 1981 paper and subsequently, in a 1986 paper, Levinson notes that Jonas' story was never mentioned by notable individuals who were in Theresienstadt at the same time as Jonas. Regina Jonas is also discussed briefly in a 1984 paper by Robert Gordis who notes Jonas was an early example of the ordination of a woman as rabbi.

Regina Jonas's literary work was rediscovered in 1991 by Dr. Katharina von Kellenbach, a researcher and lecturer at St. Mary's College of Maryland, who had been born in Germany. In 1991 she traveled to Germany to research material for a paper on the attitude of the religious establishment (Protestant and Jewish) to women seeking ordination in 1930s Germany. She found an envelope

containing the only two existing photos of Regina Jonas, as well as Jonas' rabbinical diploma, teaching certificate, seminary dissertation and other personal documents in an archive in East Berlin. It was newly available because of the fall of the Soviet Union and the opening of eastern Germany and other archives. It is largely due to von Kellenbach's discovery that Regina Jonas is now widely known.]

Though there had been some women before Jonas who made significant contributions to Jewish thought, Jonas remains the first woman in Jewish history to have become a rabbi.

A large portrait of Regina Jonas was in Hackescher Market in Berlin, as part of a citywide exhibition titled “Diversity Destroyed: Berlin

1933–1938–1945,” to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the National Socialists’ rise to power in 1933 and the 75th anniversary of the November pogrom, or Kristallnacht, in 1938.

2013 saw the premiere of the documentary Regina, a British, Hungarian, and German co-production. The film concerns Jonas's struggle to be ordained and her romance with Hamburg rabbi Josef Norden.

In 2014, a memorial plaque to Regina Jonas was unveiled at the former Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt in the Czech Republic, where she had been deported and worked for two years. There is a short documentary about the trip when this plaque was unveiled, entitled ‘In The Footsteps of Regina Jonas’.

Regina Jonas in a photograph presumed to have been taken after 1939. Her stamp on the back of the photograph bears the compulsory name of "Sara," which all Jewish women had to bear after 1939 and reads "Rabbi Regina Sara Jonas." Courtesy of Stiftung "Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum Judaicum," Berlin

THE PERFECT RABBI

(Plagiarised from Leeds Reform, translated from a Dutch newspaper, in turn translated from an Australian paper)

With apologies to feminists and female Rabbis Results of a computer survey show that the perfect Rabbi delivers a sermon of precisely fifteen minutes. He attacks sin, but makes sure no-one is upset.

He works from 8am to midnight, earns £100 per week, is smartly dressed, buys good books, drives a good car, gives £100 per week to charity, is 40 years old and has 30 year’s experience.

The Rabbi has a passionate desire to work with the youth and gives most attention to the older members of the community. He is always smiling, has a constant feeling for humour which helps him to remain serious in the role.

He visits daily fifteen families in the community plus prisoners and invalids in hospital. He spends his whole time trying to attract members from amongst the uncommitted Jews, and he is always in the office whenever needed.

If your Rabbi does not match these specifications, send this letter to six other communities who also lack a perfect Rabbi. Pack up your Rabbi and send him to the community at the top of the list. Within a week you will receive 1,643 Rabbis, of which one at least must be perfect.

Believe in this letter! One congregation broke the chain and received its old Rabbi back again within three months.

Iwas asked to phone Jan, a member of TLSE at the start of covid and enjoyed many conversations with him about a life stretching from Moscow to the peaceful Hertfordshire town of Buntingford. His grandson Josh Gray wrote the following eulogy.

Jan/Grandad was a wonderful man and had an impact on everyone he met, even one of his carers, who he affectionately called dragon, burst into tears upon the news of his death having only known him for 6 weeks. In the following days the outpouring of messages of support and memories from everyone showed how much he was loved. For him he looked at life as a bonus, a boy who shouldn’t have made it out of Europe in 1939. He was happy knowing that in his own words he’d “done alright”, considering he’d had such a start; he did more than alright.

Born in 1932 in Moscow to Helga Nomberg, he spent his early childhood in a Siberian camp only eventually being released because of his mother’s Polish passport. His father, a man he never knew, was a German politician cum journalist cum freedom fighter, exiled by both the Nazis and the Russians and killed due to his anti-fascist views. After escaping Siberia to Poland and on to

Austria he boarded the last train from Vienna to England, 3 days before war began.

Upon arrival to the UK, as most war time children, he was sent to boarding school. He loved that school and even at the very end was still in touch with friends he made there. He was a good student and was always learning more about everything he wanted to do. This ability to learn probably explains the array of jobs he had throughout his life. Both handy and entrepreneurial, he was an electrician and a steeplejack before eventually joining his mother in London in the “rag trade”. He would talk about making deals from off cuttings and working up to running his own factory. There, he designed and made dresses, including his darling wife’s wedding dress ‘just like Princess Margaret’s’ before finally selling children’s clothes across London markets.

He met his beloved Estelle at a dance at the Astoria in London in the 50’s. I don’t think he could have predicted then that he would have met his match, a woman fierce enough to bring in line this central London lothario, with his heat lamp tan and his partying wrestler friends. They would spend the rest of their lives together, building a loving family around them and moving out of London to settle down in Buntingford. There, the house was open, and anyone who walked in was offered a full meal, a cup of tea, squash, coffee, cake, whatever you liked.

For Grandad, Buntingford meant space and space meant gardening, eventually growing to three

greenhouse and three allotments, and a garage and a bedroom all covered with plants seeding, growing, and ripening He had a full blown eco system that blossomed all year round with flowers for every occasion and enough fruit and veg to feed all the children coming round to eat them out of house and home.

In his later years the garden would become his source of pride, every plant carefully curated and maintained over the years and the work never stopped he was always out there even as his eyes and strength started to wane. His final addition a Rose Garden dedicated to his late wife given pride of place at the front of the house with colored roses picked by all the family.

He always wanted what was best for his family and almost stubbornly lived long enough to make sure everyone that he had spent his whole life looking after was happy and would

be fine once he was gone. Whether that was a wedding, tossing his stick aside to twist in the center of the dancefloor or ensuring your first house was up to snuff, or supporting you in your adventures abroad or throughout school. He went the extra mile to look after everyone he loved.

He will be greatly missed especially by those closest to him, his daughters Janine and Julie, their husbands Marc and Dan and his three grandchildren, myself, Zach, and Sienna.

A few days ago, he asked what we would put on his headstone. We discussed a few options, and he came up with ‘I had a good life’, which I think sums him up. Positive, courageous, comforting, and grateful for everything life gave him. He is now back with his beloved Estelle; the kettle is on, and the flowers are blooming.

Has anyone read any Jewish themed or related books they would like to review for the magazine, either ction or non- ction? Are there any members interested in forming a Book Club, physical or virtual.

If so please contact Hakoleditor@tlse.org.uk or 020 8953 2912

FROM THE CHAIR

Firstly let me introduce myself for anyone who doesn’t know me. My family and I have been members of TLSE for some 34 years. I grew up as a member of the Settlement Synagogue in the East End, my father and I both having been lifelong members of the connected Oxford and St Georges youth club. I have previously served on the council of TLSE (then HPS) as treasurer for a number of years. Lisa is heavily involved with helping organise and run the shul monthly Lunch Club. Our son Daniel is involved with the choir and is regularly seen at the Organ for HHD and other services (he’s the one sitting at the keyboard playing it, not the one often found under the Organ effecting ongoing repairs!). Adam until recently was regularly helping with tech on shabbat services (he’s now somewhere in south east Asia, part way through a sabbatical world tour), and Rachel has regularly played as flautist at services. Daniel and Rachel are also part of the “Friday Night Rock Service” band. Our family also run the regular Joely Bear Blood donor days in memory of our son Joel.

I have been chair of TLSE since the AGM in August 2022 where a (almost) totally new board of Trustees was elected. It would be very easy for me to use this column to dig over old ground as to what got us to the position we found ourselves in last August, but dwelling on the past will achieve nothing. The sad fact is that we lost the services of Rabbi Tanya and we now must plan for a future without her.

I have said before that the old saying that every cloud has a silver lining is most certainly true of our situation. As a direct consequence of our inherited problems, I am now chairing a board of Trustees somewhat uniquely (in the history of TLSE) positioned to take us forward. Uniquely because for the first time in my memory we have a full complement of Trustees (12) all with specific responsibilities.

So what are the core principles we by which we are taking TLSE into 2023? My summation of these are as follows:

Openness / transparency

o All discussions at Trustee meetings are minuted and available for all TLSE members to inspect online. (This by necessity must occasionally involve redacting any highly sensitive or HR related matters).

o All Trustee meetings are open to any members of TLSE to attend and observe

Trustee responsibilities.

o Every Trustee has an important role to play

o We have done away with any concept of an executive that effectively runs the shul. Previously a small group of Trustees effectively ran all day to day decisions and reported to a monthly Trustee meeting. That has been changed. All Trustees have an ongoing role for decision making within their portfolio of responsibility.

My target is, with the board of Trustees, to re-energise TLSE into the close knit community Lisa and I first encountered all those years ago. One of our first actions was to secure the services of Rabbi Gershon and I believe we are very lucky to have been introduced to him. Anyone who has been to any services with him cannot help but appreciate the enthusiasm he brings to TLSE.

The monthly Chavurah suppers have been re-started and have proved a great success. These are typically on the first Friday of each month, so please try to join us wherever possible.

If you check our facebook pages you will be able to appreciate the impact that Lauren Good has had in bringing our social media presence up to date. Next up is a revamped website due for release imminently.

For the future, I have been working with Rabbi Gershon and our Trustees on our medium and long term, and we have a number of initiatives that we are planning to drive us forward. One that is close to me is that we will be pursuing a green, Eco policy. We are looking at joining Eco Synagogue, and the short term challenge for me is to find an “Eco Champion” from within TLSE to drive this initiative forward.

We are planning occasional Whine and Cheese gatherings for the community to come together and voice opinions of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of TLSE. (Apologies, I love the old Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns!)

I believe that one of our biggest challenges is community involvement. Without sounding too much like the famous Uncle Sam WW1 US persona, “We Need You!” Our real challenge is to get you, the community, to want to be involved. TLSE should not just be a place for a small group of energised and enthused Trustees to make monthly decisions. We need the community to be energised and enthused, to find something within TLSE to be involved with and engage with, and for TLSE to become again the active, enthusiastic and involved community I joined some 30+ years ago.

In conclusion, the new Trustees have made huge progress in a very short period of time, but there is a great deal more to do. Please feel free to email me with your opinions (chair@TLSE.org.uk) but also please be prepared to voice your opinions and get involved!

TEAM TEAM

CARE TEAM MESSAGE:

The Care Team is busy as usual and I'm pleased to say we've been able to help some members through difficult times such as bereavement or by just providing a friendly ear to listen for those wanting to chat! We also help to collect prescriptions and give lifts for local medical appointments etc.

Some problems aren't so easy to resolve, but we try hard and have been able to offer advice and support with moving a loved one into a care home and checking up on familiar faces who perhaps have not been seen for a while in Shul ....

We are always happy to help with transport to Lunch Club and it's very nice to see people there and have a catch up over a delicious lunch ! We're working with Jacqueline and the Hub to create Pesach cards for members in our care and hope too that we will see you at the Communal Seder.

We send our sincere condolences to the families of Shirley Piazza, Jan Nomberg and Kenneth Wright who sadly have recently passed away......

We would like to send Get Well wishes to Sally Lander, Dorothy Eden, Alan Stoller, and to anyone else suffering pain and illness at this time.....we wish you well.

Happy Birthday wishes are extended to the following as they celebrate very special birthdays during the next few weeks

Harvey Adams �� Mike Beral �� Susan Brady �� Susan Flaum �� Mark Kram

Allan Newman �� Adam Renak �� Tina Shaw �� Amanda Sherwin ����

MAZELTOV to Stacey and Mark and Jenny and Martyn on the happy occasion of their respective weddings

Please let us know if we can help you, Maureen Adams.

Estelle Leigh 07961 075657 07754 654297

BURIAL

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

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EDUCATION HUB Jacqueline Bernard

The Hub have been learning all about Shabbat this term. The students have learnt the blessings and have made challah and challah covers. They have also done some art based on our beautiful shabbat The Hub runs every Sunday morning in term time. It is for students from Y1 to KT. We would love them to join the Hub. Please contact Jacqueline for more details. office@tlse.org.uk

This week the students at the Hub baked Challah. The results were amazing and the feedback received was that the challah tasted delicious and that the shul smelt wonderful. The students also made their own challah covers.

Students with their Shabbat blessings

Shirley Piazza was a founder member of our congregation joining in 1970. Her husband Ugo, formerly a chef, although not Jewish, was an active participant in many of the shul’s services and social activities, especially our early fund raising events.

Shirley was bubbly, vivacious and an exuberant dancer. Always the first to take the floor at our annual dinner dances, barn dances and friend’s parties. Once her exhausted dance partners retired for a rest, Shirley would continue delighting the onlookers with her irrepressible solo dancing.

Shirley was also an active commentator on shul activities. Always ready to send comments, complaints as well as praise to the synagogue chairman and in letters to the Hakol editor; which I can readily confirm having been the target of Shirley’s missives in both capacities.

In recent years Shirley has been Ugo’s carer, as he has suffered from both degenerating eyesight and deafness. On behalf of all Shirley’s friends at TLSE we send our condolences to Ugo, daughter Gabby and her family. Shirley’s funeral was made

particularly memorable by Rabbi Gershon’s exquisite singing of Shirley’s favourite song, Judy Garland’s ‘Over The Rainbow’. A unique farewell to remind us of Shirley’s love of music. The photo shows Shirley, on the bimah at the shul’s 25th Anniversary Founders service in 1994

GENERAL INFORMATION

GENERAL INFORMATION

Elstree High Street, Elstree, Hertfordshire WD6 3EY

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

www.tlse.org.uk

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 March 23 as Editor on holiday Apr 1-15 but submissions will be accepted at any time and early submission is appreciated.

hakoleditor@tlse.org.uk

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LUNCH CLUB

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

Venue: The Synagogue Time: 1pm

TLSE members: £5

Tuesday 28 March

Non -Members: £6

Tuesday 25 April

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

Pam Fox, author and historian