October 2020
the magazine of finchley progressive synagogue
New Ways for a New Year
From the Editor... A
t the start of the Family Service on Rosh Hashanah I was honoured to be asked to read a quote from Rabbi Laura Geller which discusses the myriad of factors that make up the ‘Book Of Life’, which, on Rosh Hashanah, we ask to be inscribed in. One line stuck out for me: “Much of your book is written every day – by the choices you make.” I think it registered because it wasn’t talking about the concept of ‘free will’ as such, not in the sense of contrasting it with fate, predetermination or God’s plan, but more as the idea that we have the chance to change our own lives for the better. Life’s what you make it, as the song says. And when one door closes, one can open.
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Football fans will know what I mean. This time of year is a chance to write off last season and start again from day one, with the hope that this year - yes THIS year - will be ‘the one’. Of course this particular hope is something we can do nothing about ourselves! But the idea is not too far from the one where you promise yourself to make a new start. Not so much a new year’s resolutions list, more an existential choice to be the person you want to be. And if that sounds a bit woolly, just remember that it’s something we often do subconsciously or unwittingly all the time - when we meet new people, when we write our CV, when we reminisce about our carefree youth. No matter how old you are or how set in your ways you may think (or fear) you are, you’re constantly writing, editing and subbing your own Book of Life.
Ivriah’s Coming Home! Find out more on page 15. Photo credit: Zoe Jacobs
Cover photo: Darren Beach
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From the Rabbi Rafael becomes Bar Mitzvah this month; actually on the first Shabbat of the new cycle of Torah. Parashat Bereshit. It felt auspicious when we chose it. Of course, at that time we had no idea of the conditions to come and that by October 2020 it would be fraught with new challenges. One’s youngest child in a sense always stays the baby of the family, and Rafael reaching this milestone of 13 is a surprise to all of us. Maybe to you too, who remember Rafael when I first arrived at FPS while he often vied for my attention. He could often be found lodged on my hip, a rather tall toddler with long hair. We were taken with the traditional idea of cutting his hair only when he turned three, and made an Ushperin ceremony in the custom of trees being picked only when they have passed their third year. And now he’s coming of age with his family and his community. “Teach us to number our days to acquire a heart of wisdom” the psalmist wrote plaintively. And so we do. These rites of passage in our lives mark our days, remind us of our advancing years and in the case of children how they grow up and
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surprise us in their idiosyncrasies. Rafael does that. I hope you’ll join for the Shabbat service on 17 October via Zoom. You being there will mean so much to him and us as a family. All plans even for a Kiddush or family lunch have had to be stalled so we hope to make the service as joyful as we can. First we pass through Sukkot and Simchat Torah. Ecclesiastes is the scroll that accompanies the festival of Sukkot. Each of these five scrolls hamesh megillot are attached to a different festival. Song of Songs for Passover, Esther for Purim, Ruth for Shavuot and Lamentations for Tisha B’Av. I love the world weariness of Ecclesiastes, in Hebrew Kohelet. It’s comforting and cynical all at once. “Of revelry” I said, “It’s mad! Of merriment, What good is that?” (2:2) “All is futile” (1:2). The writer meant all is fleeting and temporary, it vanishes like smoke. So it does but our task is surely to make the most of it all. And whoever wrote Ecclesiastes grudgingly admits “[there] is a time for weeping and a time for laughing.“ (3:4) And so there is. We need both. And maybe after the High Holy days of 2020, unforgettable surely in every way, we can agree that we need both, and often. So let there be reflective poignant moments, and ones of joy, and let’s share them all.
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From the Chair It’s
a great pleasure, and quite daunting, to be writing for the first time as Chair. We have just had a most unusual AGM. Despite or maybe because it was on Zoom, it was exceptionally well attended. The AGM doesn’t usually fall at this time of year but it does feel particularly appropriate to be reviewing the year as we approach the High Holy days. The AGM was an opportunity to remember some of the highlights of 2019: our first Boxing Day lunch, Tashlich at the Brook, the KT trip to Amsterdam, the wonderful fund-raising dinner with Ed Balls, balancing the books, an huge number of people joining Rebecca’s Delving into Judaism classes, the largest Ivriah intake in recent years – and so much more! As the Jewish year draws to a close we found ourselves reflecting on the last nine months. It has been marked for many by hardship and loss. For some it has been a period of unparalleled intensity and pressure at work. For many it’s been like a forced Sabbatical year, spent mostly at home, and an opportunity to pause and reflect on our lives. At FPS we adapted quickly to a new life on Zoom. It doesn’t replace face to face meetings or work for everyone but attendance at all events has been higher than ever. We’ve come together in creative new ways to worship, reflect and learn. We’ve experienced a new intimacy and intensity as we celebrate services in our living rooms. We’ve had opportunities to welcome and include family and visitors from around the world and to 4
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celebrate with other synagogues. Our Bar and Bat Mitzvah services have been extraordinary. I’ve never felt prouder of our children - unable to hold their parties or celebrate with extended family and grappling with unfamiliar and often uncooperative technology, they’ve navigated this moment of coming of age with maturity, equanimity and grace. I felt huge appreciation and gratitude at the AGM as we thanked our outgoing President, Chair and Vice-Chair and welcomed newly elected council members. More people than ever have expressed an interest in serving as members of council. Thank you to our staff, volunteers and members for your enthusiasm and dedication, your desire and willingness to participate and contribute, and for everything that you do to sustain FPS as a community. As I write, we face the uncertainty of a new year. The new rule of six starts just as we had our first drive in services in the car park. The children have returned to school, and with Alexander taking GCSEs and Rebekah ‘A’ levels (and Jet trashing the tomato plants in pursuit of fox-cubs who have taken up residence in the garden) I’m acutely aware of the precariousness ahead. There’s much to inspire and much to learn from the past year as we prepare for the year ahead. By the time you read this we will have crossed the threshold. I hope that you have all fasted well. My very good wishes to you all for a Shana Tova.
On Becoming President A
t last year’s AGM our guest speaker, Charlotte Fischer of Citizens UK, promoted Dr Ron Wolfson’s paradigm of ‘Relational Judaism’ which argues that as appreciative as we are of a sanctuary that hosts our life-cycle events synagogues should also, or perhaps instead, focus on building strong, lifetime relationships among all members, no matter what age or background. And so, one year later, with ‘thanks’ to Covid-19, we find ourselves absent from our sanctuary and adapting our congregational relationships to ensure that FPS thrives as it strives to become ‘more than just a building’. Nevertheless, relational Judaism is not entirely new to FPS. When my parents Vera and Henry married and moved to Finchley in 1953, the year the congregation was established, they found a fledgling community without a building yet keen to construct connections and kinship. As non-observant Jewish refugees from Germany, they were seeking a like-minded community within which they could raise a family: a welcoming and warm community, a safe understanding community, a place of positivity where the relationships would invite them to feel human and ‘gemutlich’ again. I grew up in this environment feeling comfortable
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and at home, and so when I ventured towards wider horizons such as Kadimah, ULSPNYC and Israel Tours I knew my Jewish roots were planted
“And so, one year later, with ‘thanks’ to Covid-19, we find ourselves absent from our sanctuary and adapting our congregational relationships to ensure that FPS thrives as it strives to become ‘more than just a building’”. in N12, thereby allowing my Hutton Grove friendships and associations to develop and strengthen over the years and decades. When at this year’s AGM I became president it was a privilege which I shall treasure, but it was also an honour to those who built and maintained this community. For what they stood for, is a part of who we have become. I shall support not only our leadership team in their vision and their action, but also our members in a communal quest to promote lifetime relationships in which all are invited to feel valued and appreciated, whether that be when stepping inside our bricks and mortar or enveloped within our spiritual sanctuary. I wish you all not only “L’shana Tova” (May this be a good year) but also “Hashana Latova” (May this be the year for the good).
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FPS People’s Page people Emma Abrahamson with Oliver and Benjamin
their 58th and Sheila and Lionel King Lassman their 67th
mazal tov to
condolences to
Elliott Karstadt and Yael Tischler on their engagement Rafael Qassim celebrating his bar mitzvah on 17 October
The family of Sybil Marcus-Kanner who died in September
welcome to new members
happy birthday to
the following members who celebrate milestone birthdays in October: Charlie Dalton, Berthe Manning, Vera Myer, Brenda Ross, Ruth Hillmore, Jim Darby, Bob Kingston, Simone Lee, Sharon Michael, Susanna Rosenberg happy anniversary to
Danielle and Michael Brandon-Rocks as well as Susanna and Dan Rosenberg celebrating their 15th wedding anniversaries, Susan and Martin Biggins their 30th, Shirley and Michael Gerson
thanks to
Josie Kinchin and John Rubinstein, Paul Stone, Leo Mindel and Jon Fiber for helping get FPS ‘camera ready’ for HHD services and to Gabi Highman, Dean Staker and Franklyn Gellnick for their musicianship Valerie Joseph and Josie Kinchin for coordinating HHD mitzvot and hosting HHD Zoom services Cynthia, niece of the late Harry and Betty Cohen, for passing on their legacy to FPS which contributed to the costs of additional speakers and microphones for live streaming services
joining the board
I am delighted to have been appointed to join the synagogue board. I believe we have a unique, creative and forward-thinking community of which we can be very proud. Although I have been a member of FPS all my life, it has been some time since I supported the synagogue in any formal capacity. Now that my children are a little older, I have a bit more time to devote to other areas of my life that are important to me. I am happy to support
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in any way I can, with my particular passions being in the area of education, Tefillah and the importance of supporting the more vulnerable members of our community. I look forward to making a positive contribution to the board and to working in an effective way with both our new chair Tamara, and our always inspirational Rabbi Rebecca. Paula Kinchin Smith
Beit Tefillah
services at fps
services- october / tishrei leading into cheshvan
services – june / sivan leading into tamuz At the time of writing, FPS services are being held via Zoom video conferencing, links to which are included in FPS emails, with some limited services in the synagogue which must be pre-booked. Sukkot and Simchat Torah Services are below in bold type. Friday 2 October
6.30pm Erev Sukkot Service
Saturday 3 October
11.00am Sukkot Service
Friday 9 October
6.30pm Erev Simchat Torah Service
Saturday 10 October
11.00pm Simchat Torah Service
Friday 16 October
6.30pm Shabbat Resouled
Saturday 17 October 11.00am Shabbat Service celebrating Rafael Qassim Bar Mitzvah Friday 23 October
6.30pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service
Saturday 24 October
11.00am Shabbat Service
Friday 30 October
6.30pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service
Saturday 31 October
11.00am Shabbat Service
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Beit Knesset
community events, all welcome!
At the time of writing, all FPS activities are being held via Zoom video conferencing. Links to access will be included in FPS emails. bridge group
Closed currently rosh chodesh
Tuesday 20 October at 8.00pm Monthly celebration of the New Moon by women who enjoy meeting, sharing and learning. To mark Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan, Susan Cohen, a historian with special interest in medical services, will give a talk on the role of nurses during World War I. book club
Wednesday 14 October @ 8.00pm Book Club meetings are held on the second Wednesday of each month. Contact Sheila King Lassman skinglassman@gmail.com or Edgar Jacobsberg e.jacobsberg@gmail.com delving into judaism
Wednesdays @ 7.00pm. Adult class with Rabbi Rebecca exploring the building blocks of Judaism plus Hebrew classes. 7 October: 14 October: 21 October: 28 October:
Endings and Beginnings High Holy Day Cycle: Taking Stock Half term – class paused Judaism’s relationship to the Universal. Noah vs Abraham
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Thursdays @ 1.00pm An hour’s learning with Rabbi Rebecca – with or without your own lunch. 1 October: 33:12-23 8 October: 15 October: 22 October: 29 October:
Let me Know your Ways: Exodus Ends and Beginnings Bereshit and Cain and Abel Half term – class paused Noach vs Abraham and ideas of Universality with Lech Lecha
pilates
Our excellent instructor Tali Swart teaches several classes a week on Zoom, all levels, and one live class. For schedule and payment information: taliswort@btconnect.com cafe
Sunday @ 10.00am: All welcome to join for a friendly chat and topical discussion (bring your own coffee!). Suggestions for discussion topics welcome, to Adrian: adulteducation@fps.org
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Cable Street Remembered T
he East End of London has always had a fascination for Jews. This was the destination for many fleeing from the pogroms in Russia and Poland from the 1850s onwards, and fleeing from fascism and antisemitism all over Europe from the 1920s onwards. Tours of the area are made throughout the year, usually from Aldgate to Stepney Green. Many of you will have had relatives from the area with amusing stories from the East End. I was born in Stepney and my formative years were the 1940s and 1950s; school, working, a
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member of Oxford & St. Georges youth club, taking part in their shows, and going “up West”. But the real East End was my parents’ time, with a profusion of synagogues, Yiddish theatres, markets, restaurants, political organisations and above all employment. This is the setting of our event, October 1936, when the rise of fascism in Europe and in the UK was having an impact on all sections of the population, and particularly on the Jewish community.
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Drive-In Service
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aving not been to shul for six months it was wonderful to be there together with our Dad for a Friday night service. It really felt special and lovely having Rabbi Rebecca and Dean lead the service so beautifully. There were many highlights that will always stay with us! Being able to sing along very loudly in our cars and seeing friends and familiar faces after such a long time was so uplifting. It was a treat to be at FPS again. The novelty of being in our cars gave the service a new perspective. We are of course used to all our rituals, but we have to change with the times, that’s why we call ourselves progressive! Standing up and sitting down of course was not an option but that was okay. I got a bit confused when it was time for ‘lecha dodi’ as we normally turn to greet the sabbath bride, so decided to use the indicator instead!
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Obviously, this style of service is evolving and there are refinements that can be made to enhance the experience. For example, the sound needs to be loud enough at all times. Also the cars that are not being used could be parked away from where the service is taking place. This will give those attending in their cars a less restricted view. Luckily the FPS car park is big and wide, and we have adequate space and so we hope that more drive-in services will take place! It will also be great to explore the possibility of congregants bringing their own kiddush to make the blessings together in a socially distanced manner or perhaps having individually packaged ones handed out. The Kabbalat Shabbat service is always such a great start to the weekend and it was lovely after the drive-in service to go home and share Friday night dinner together as a family. Thank you so much for organising this – we hope we will be able to attend many more carpark services in the future!
Reclaiming My Working Class Heritage W
hat story does your accent tell? Many of us can recall the movie My Fair Lady where the character Professor Higgins, a phonetician, claimed he could ‘place’ a man by listening to an accent and thus reveal his humble roots or confirm an aristocratic upbringing. If he had analysed my accent I wonder whether he’d have seen past the layers of elocution lessons provided by my aspiring parents? Would he have heard traces of my working class heritage? According to my own daughters, he would. My girls marvel at moments when they can hear past all the ‘Rain in Spain’ exercises I did as a lass. They say, I sound like my parents. To be honest, there’s not much phonetic digging the Prof would have to do. My father proudly boasts that I was the first person in his family to go to university. He was brought up to believe he could not become an actor but must learn a trade. He was advised to resist the temptation to buy a home rather than rent one, as property is “a millstone around your neck.” My parents are well-read, cultured folk who believe in education; the hallmarks of an Ashkenazi working-class Jewish story, where the desire to improve the lot of the next generation is a life’s work. Like Eliza Doolittle, I tried to pass in a fiercely competitive middle class society as ‘one of us’ but consistently felt like ‘one of them’. Conversely when I opened my mouth at a local Jewish youth club, I gained a reputation as being ‘posh’. I didn’t belong there either. You’ll be glad to know that later on I found kindred spirits through Progressive Jewish Students. On my university Theatre Studies degree I gravitated to agitprop, studying radical theatre forms that strove to cut through bourgeois ideas of high culture. I found other feminist sisters
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interested in Hélène Cixous and the Guerrilla Girls. I reconnected with my Yiddish working class roots through Arnold Wesker’s Chicken Soup with Barley and Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming. I began researching the Yiddish Theatre and found a homecoming of my own.
“My girls marvel at moments when they can hear past all the ‘Rain in Spain’ exercises I did as a lass. They say, I sound like my parents.” It was with real pleasure that I accepted the invitation to take part in our very own, FPS, digital version of Chicken Soup. As part of my journey of reconnecting I am writing a historical novel. Putting the finishing touches to a story that reflects and I hope pays tribute to my heritage. I have taken my paternal grandmother’s maiden name as a pseudonym. My grandmother was a woman who would slice through social gatherings with her no nonsense question, “So, where are you from?” Answers like “Finchley” or “Golders Green” were followed more forcefully with, “I mean where are you really from?” Like Professor Higgins, Nana could unmask the most convincing ‘imposter’. Taking my grandmother’s name is a way of expressing the complexity of my identity. To paraphrase the legendary Walt Whitman and more recently Bob Dylan, we contain multitudes, don’t we?
Student Life During Covid-19 s
“ o, according to these new rules,” says Archie, scrolling through his phone, “first time offenders are fined £100. Split five ways that’s not too bad. ” The five in question are me, Archie and our three other flatmates. We are sitting at the kitchen table discussing the pros and cons of throwing a flat-warming party. We’re all second year students at Edinburgh University and desperately want to celebrate the start of the new term with some drinking and dancing in our flat. Unfortunately for us, there’s a pandemic afoot and a big second wave of Covid-19 looking likely. Even more unfortunately yesterday saw Scotland announce a ban on all social gatherings of more than six people from two households to try and halt said second wave. It feels like the final straw: we can’t go clubbing, we can’t have a drink in a pub without booking hours in advance, and now there’s no partying either. “It’s not worth the risk, guys. Remember those students in Nottingham? Their party was shut down by the cops and then they were fined £10k. And we’ve already had noise complaints from that mardy middle-aged couple in the flat above. They’d love to shop us.” says Lara, the most sensible of our group, sighing. Eventually, we compromise on a middleaged dinner party, secretly ushering friends up the stairwell in an attempt to avoid prying eyes, fines and even, we’ve heard, police raids. Truly, we have gone through the looking glass.
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“At least you can save money and knuckle down to your studies, I guess” proffers my mum, trying to be helpful, when I moan on the phone. If only. Yes, I no longer open my bank statement and see pounds frittered away on Lidl’s own-brand G&T cans, black Barry M nail varnish or ‘Going Out’ dresses from Lazy Oaf. On the other hand, I haven’t been able to work for the past seven months and I’m getting more skint by the day. And with little sign of the high street’s resurrection any time soon, a till job at Cash for Gold looks like my only employment option. And there’ll be plenty of other students queuing up for it too. Studying? Ha! Who can honestly say they get excited at the prospect of online learning? After spending all summer indoors I’m not exactly looking forward to watching lectures and tutorials via Zoom in my bedroom – and paying thousands for the privilege, to boot. Of course things could be worse. The exam algorithm fiasco in August reminded me how lucky I am to have a university place when so many equally and more able people had theirs snatched away from them by a crude system that favoured privileged postcodes and biased teachers. But it is still true that this cursed pandemic has sucked the joy out of university life. These are supposed to be exciting, carefree, whirlwind years. At the moment it feels everything’s on pause and all we can do is sit around until someone presses play.
Rosh Hashanah 2020 with a Difference
While we were not able to be all together in the synagagogue, over 200 households called in to the Zoom services as we brought in the New Year with a wonderful community feeling.
hannah grossmith-dwek bacp child/adolescent counsellor I am an experienced, accredited counsellor offering support for young people and their families. Based in East Finchley Please contact me on: Tel: 07855601335 Email: Hannah@gdwek.com Website: www.hgd-counselling.com
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back to school
We hear from two young members about their new beginnings this year. Cordelia Kahn, Year 7 Hi. I’m Cordelia and I am in Year Seven at the Wren Academy in Finchley. This is my first year at secondary school and I have only been in school for a few weeks, however, I have made a lot of friends. The first few days were nerve-wracking, especially having to keep to coronavirus measures. It was extremely hard to socially-distance because there are so many more people than there were at primary school and I am still not that used to it. Having to wear a mask when transitioning between classrooms has been difficult because we don’t really do it in day to day life and the teachers get a bit impatient when you forget. In addition, it takes ages to get lunch because the lunch queue needs to be socially-distanced. This means that there is not much time for lunch. It is hard to start at a new school. You may not fit in at first, however, you never know, it could be the best change that has ever happened to you. Starting fresh may not ever seem that appealing to you, although it is all worth it in the end. So, I may not get to all my lessons on time or do all the homework perfectly. Even so, I can still try hard as this new year begins. Up to this point, Year Seven has been lots of fun and I hope it has been the same for everyone else in the same position.
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Annabel Levy, Reception I am 5 years old and have started Reception. I love the playdough and I like to show my teacher Rosie how I can do gymnastics on the climbing frame in the playground. Also I like to do PE in the gym but we haven’t done that yet. I love listening to stories. I have some friends in my class who were also in my nursery class and I have some new friends too. I can play with my friends who are in the other Reception class outside but not inside. There are children from lots of different countries including Israel, Poland and France. I am the oldest in the class. I was a bit nervous to start Reception but excited too – a bit of both feelings. Because of the virus we have to use hand gel when we go into the classroom. I am looking forward to having school dinners from next week. I have not had them before. I hope there are chips and ketchup and chocolate or yoghurt for pudding. I really like school.
rafael qassim bar mitzvah 17 october
My name is Rafael Qassim and my Bar Mitzvah will be on 17 October. My Parasha is Bereshit chapter 4 and is all about Cain and Abel and their offerings to God. And I am proud to say it contains the first murder in Biblical history. I chose it because I do understand sibling rivalry quite well, although I don’t think I will be murdering Dora or Ruben anytime soon. I will be the last Bar Mitzvah in my family so I am expecting a few tears to be shed on the day. Although I will be back at school, the ivriah’s coming home!
There is something undeniably joyful about being in our building together. You may argue that it’s not beautiful. You may argue that it’s a bit run down. But it is ours. While adults have to wait a little longer to congregate in the synagogue, our Ivriah groups have come back – albeit with new classrooms, social distancing and restricted movement around the building. It was so lovely to welcome each class, to natter in a way Zoom doesn’t offer, to hear
synagogue will not yet be open for normal business so this will be a strange Bar Mitzvah. But I’ve watched my classmates Joe, Danny, Rebecca and Pharell do a brilliant job despite the unusual conditions. I have chosen for my Tzedakah project the charity CHICKS which provides holidays for children who don’t get to be in the countryside and live a tough inner city life. I wanted to find a charity that helps children that are not as privileged as I am. My Mum and I will be covering 63 km together by either running, swimming or cycling. (13yrs + 50yrs). We will share our sponsorship page if you fancy supporting CHICKS. www.justgiving.com/fundraising/rafaelqassim about strange summers and to meet new faces. And I think the kids enjoyed it too, being back with friends, seeing their teachers and learning together. There was enormous and detailed planning in the lead up to the classes coming back. Huge thanks to our fantastic teachers and assistants, accompanied by Tamara – our new Chair – and Sam – our head of Education. It was a day I won’t forget. I think children crave two things: normality and fun. While the building offered normality, fun came in unexpected places. It turns out our automated hand sanitiser dispensers provided enormous entertainment. Hands were sanitised and re-sanitised as the sensors were tested in creative ways. Someone cautioned ‘but they’re wasting gel!’. My response was that they were having fun and keeping very, very clean. Win win! Zoe Jacobs
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Contacts
fps website: www.fps.org
54 Hutton Grove N12 8DR 020 8446 4063 www.fps.org facebook.com/finchleyprog
Vice Presidents: Cathy Burnstone, Renzo Fantoni, Josie Kinchin, Alex KinchinSmith, Laura Lassman, Lionel King Lassman, John Lewis, Andrea Rappoport, Joan Shopper
Rabbi Rebecca Birk – rabbi@fps.org
contacts
finchley progressive synagogue
Emeritus Rabbi: Dr Frank Hellner Community Development Manager: Zoe Jacobs – zoe@fps.org Musicians in Residence: Franklyn Gellnick, Dean Staker Synagogue Manager: Pauline Gusack pauline@fps.org executive 2020
Board of Deputies Reps: Janet Tresman, Stanley Volk Beit Midrash (Adult Education): Adrian Lister adrian@fps.org Beit Tefillah (Rites & Practices): Valerie Joseph valerie@fps.org Keep In Touch Team (contacting members): reached via Pauline in FPS office
Chair: Tamara Joseph, chair@fps.org
Website Editor: Philip Karstadt fpswebsite@fps.org
Treasurer: Chris Nash, treasurer@fps.org
Shofar Editor: Darren Beach, shofar@fps.org
Honorary Secretary: Ann Pelham, honsec@fps.org
Shofar Team: Sarah Rosen-Webb, Deb Hermer
board members
Beverley Kafka Roy Balint-Kurti Paula Kinchin-Smith Sam King Phillip Raphael
FPS Office: administrator@fps.org The Finchley Progressive Synagogue is a company limited by guarantee (Company No 9365956) and a registered charity (Charity No 1167285) whose registered office is 54 Hutton Grove, Finchley, London N12 8DR
President: Paul Silver-Myer Life Presidents: Sheila King Lassman, Alan Banes
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