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This booklet was produced for Holocaust Memorial Day 2015. The theme that year was 'keep the memory alive'. It was edited by Fiona Frank, working with Liz Neat and Josh Durham. Thanks to all our contributors. Click on the 'pop out' arrow on the top right of the file to read a full size copy.

Lancaster and Morecambe are marking Holocaust Memorial Day 2021 with a week of activities. Here's the poster, below. Everyone is welcome. Full details of all the events and booking links on More Music in Morecambe's website.

We're a small community of Jewish people, people with Jewish heritage and people with an interest in Judaism, open to everyone.  We hold services for the High Holy Days and some other festivals at Lancaster University Jewish Rooms and hold occasional 'Havurah' Jewish cultural events in members' homes.  We're now affiliated to the Jewish Small Communities Network.

Would you like to join our mailing list? Please complete the link here  or email lancslakesjc "at" gmail.com so we know you want us to keep you informed of our activities.

Livingston and the Jewish Community - open meeting Sunday 30 April 2017

Lancaster and Lakes Jewish Community will host an open meeting with a talk and discussion on

"Livingstone and the Jewish Community"

with Jonathan Arkush,

President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews,

At Halton Mill, Mill Lane, Halton LA2 6ND.

Sunday 30 April. 6 p.m.–7.30 p.m.

All welcome

(Gathering from 5.30 p.m. –  bring something vegetarian

if you'd like to join us for the food).

RSVP, Fiona Frank, Secretary, Lancaster and Lakes Jewish Community;

 lancslakesjc@gmail.com, tel 07778 737681

Lancaster and Lakes Jewish Community (in partnership with Lancashire and Cumbria Jewish Community and Lancaster University Jsoc)

invites you to join us for the

Second Seder Night

on Saturday 23 April 2016

at Lancaster University Chaplaincy Centre Jewish Rooms

Starts 7.30 p.m.

(candle lighting at 9.30 p.m.)

Please bring a fishy or vegetarian contribution for the festive meal

(main course or desert)

Bring your own haggadah if you have one

Please RSVP to Fiona Frank, 07778 737681 or email lancslakesjc@gmail.com

The AGM of Lancaster and Lakes Jewish Community will take place on Thursday 25th February 2016 at 1.30  p.m. at the Jewish Rooms, Lancaster University Chaplaincy Centre. There will be refreshments (bagels cream cheese smoked salmon, please let me know if you need a vegan or gluten free option).  

All members and other interested people are welcome.

  

Agenda:

 

- Review of the year - secretary report (Fiona Frank), havura report (Rob Smith), treasurer's report (Adrienne Wallman), chair's report (Naomi Tadmor).

- Elections of officers:

chair, secretary, treasurer, havura coordinator. 

Rob Smith Havura Coordinator can only continue in this post if others come forward to help with the coordination of the havura programme.  We welcome others to stand for any of the posts or to join the committee - please let Fiona Frank know if you're interested in standing for a position or joining the committee.

- Plans for activities and events in 2016.

Please send apologies to Fiona Frank - and for catering purposes please let Fiona know if you're coming (or just turn up, we always over cater!) 

Fiona Frank 

Secretary,

Lancaster and Lakes Jewish Commmunity committee

fionafrank "at" gmail.com

Latest news on Mon 13th April from Lancaster and Lakes Jewish Community - lancslakesjc@gmail.com 

At our AGM in February 2015 we have appointed a new committee: 

Chair Naomi Tadmor
Secretary Fiona Frank
Treasurer Adrienne Wallman
Havura Organiser Robbie Smith
Committee Naomi Jacobs, Ben Niemark. 

A vote of thanks was given to our departing treasurer Rachel Fligelstone and our chair Stanley Henig.  Stanley was thanked for the work that he has done over the last ten years for Lancaster's Jewish communities. It was unanimously agreed that he should be given the post of Honorary Life President, and he was presented with a certificate of long service stating that trees have been planted in Israel in his name. 


Havura News from Robbie : 

 Dear All,

I hope you this finds you well and you had a good Pesach/Easter/holidays, however you celebrate.

There are lots of exciting things happening for Lancaster & Lakes Jewish Society and our Havura group in the coming weeks and months.  Here is news of what is planned.

Firstly, a reminder that there will be a 

Shabbat Morning Service, 

Saturday, 18th April.  

Jewiish Rooms, Lancaster University Chaplaincy Centre, 

Service starting at 11.00 a.m.,

 `Bring and Share' dairy/vegetarian kiddush to follow.  

Prayer books for the service provided

Everyone  welcome.  

For further details or to have any questions answered, please contact 

Rabbi Robert Ash (robertash1954 "at" gmail.com) 

or Naomi Tadmor (n.tadmor "at" lancaster.ac.uk

We are planning a exciting programme for our Havura  group  over the next few months, which will include guest speakers, also some different types of events - film screenings, book discussions and family-centred activities.

The first of these will be a

Havurah Film Screening

"The Flat"

Sunday 26th April

5.00 p.m - 8.00 p.m.

`Bring and Share dairy/vegetarian' supper

Everyone Welcome 

"The Flat" is an interesting story of a man who is clearing our his aunt's flat in Tel Aviv after her death, and finds clues and evidence about her life and history that he had never known.

This Havura meeting will begin at 5 pm with sharing our supper and a social time, followed by the film, which will begin showing at 6 pm.

Please let either me or Naomi Tadmor know by SUNDAY 19TH APRIL, if you will be coming to this event.  

This is IMPORTANT, as it is planned to be in Naomi Tadmor's house in central Lancaster; but if there will be too many people to comfortably seat and watch the film, we shall need to book a larger venue to show the film.

Further Events and Dates for Your Diary

Shabbat Morning Services - Saturday 9th May, and in June and July,( exact daates tbc)

Bllintze Making (and eating!) Family Event for Shavuot - Sunday 24th May

Havura Meeting with Guest Speaker, Mostyn Jones - Sunday 28th June

Havura Meeting with Guest Speaker or Book Discussion - Sunday 19th July

There are also plans for more guest speakers, films and book discussions in the Autumn; and we shall arrange services in the Jewish Rooms at Lancaster University for the High Holy Days if people want them.

At present, we are introducing book discussions and film screenings as occasional alternatives to our more traditional Havura meetings with guest speakers.  If you would like to form a reading group and/or film club, apart from the Havura group, let me know and I'll circulate your name and email address to the contact list so other people interested in joining can get in touch with you.

That's all for now, folks.

All good wishes,

Robbie

High Holy Days Services 2014 / 5775 at Lancaster. 

Services for the High Holy Days will take place in the Jewish rooms at the Chaplaincy of Lancaster University. Services will be led by Rabbi Dr Robert Ash using the recently published Machzor of Liberal Judaism.


Erev Rosh Hashanah

Wednesday 24 September 7.00 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah Morning

Thursday 25 September 11.00 a.m.
(please bring vegetarian/fish fare to share for Kiddush after the service).

Yom Kippur fast begins (London time) 6.19 p.m.

Erev Yom Kippur (Kol Nidrei)

Friday 3 October 7.00 p.m.

Yom Kippur Day

Saturday 4 October

Morning Service & Musaf 11.00 a.m.

Afternoon Service 4.00 p.m.

Memorial Service (Yizkor) 5.30 p.m.

Concluding Service (Neilah) 6.00 p.m.

Fast Ends (London time) 7.18 p.m.

For further information or to reserve your own copy of Liberal Judaism’s High Holy Days prayer book Machzor Ruach Chadashah (£18.90):

phone 0777 531 0944 or email robertash1954@gmail.com

For directions or parking information or for information about Lancaster and Lakes Jewish Community email lancslakesjc@gmail.com or tel 07778 737681.

Lancaster and Lakes Jewish Community lives!

We have had an approach from Rabbi Robert Ash who is now living in Preston who is interested in conducting High Holy Day services in Lancaster University Jewish rooms - so please get in touch (lancslakesjc@gmail.com) if you're interested in participating in these services.

We continue to serve all local Jewish people, those with Jewish heritage, Jewish family and/or an interest in Judaism.
We use the Jewish rooms at Lancaster University and sometimes meet in members' homes for monthly Havura meetings.

Contact us at lancslakesjc@gmail.com - and/or you can contact us through the University Jewish Society email jsoc@lancs.ac.uk.

If you have any concerns about any matters relating to Jewish life in Lancaster, please get in touch!

 

Jewish life in Lancaster

Jewish life in Lancaster

The committee of Lancaster and Lakes Jewish Community exists to serve all local Jewish people, those with Jewish heritage, Jewish family, and an interest in Judaism.

It's a small community but we're still active. We use the Jewish rooms at Lancaster University and sometimes meet in members' homes.

Contact us through the University jsoc, jsoc@lancaster.ac.uk and we'll add you to our mailing list and do whatever we can to help! 

Jewish life in Lancaster

The committee of Lancaster and Lakes Jewish Community exists to serve all local Jewish people, those with Jewish heritage, Jewish family, and an interest in Judaism.

It's a small community but we're still active. We use the Jewish rooms at Lancaster University and sometimes meet in members' homes.

FRIDAY 7th OCTOBER 2011

a Kol Nidre (erev Yom Kippur) service preceded by a pre-fast meal at Lancaster University Chaplaincy Centre Jewish Rooms.

During the autumn we will be running bagel brunches, evening outings, and all kinds of things - based around the university and the city.

Contact jsoc@lancaster.ac.uk for all info and to book in for the meal and/or service.

Fiona Frank

Secretary, Lancaster and Lakes Jewish Community

Klezmer Night 11th December 2010

Klezmer Music, Dance and Story-Telling
Sat 11th December 2010


An evening Klezmer dance with a Yiddish story-teller

at
The Gregson Community and Arts Centre, Moorgate, Moor Lane, Lancaster LA1 3PR


7.30 p.m. - 11.00 p.m. Klezmer dance, with the Klatsch, callers
Judith Plowman and Sue Cooper, with interval entertainment from
spell-binding Yiddish storyteller Shonaleigh - official consort to the
Story-Teller Laureate.

£7.50/£5.00 (lower price for Gregson members, concessions, and people
attending in the afternoon)





6.30 p.m. A FREE showing of the short film 'Hannah Frank, The Spark
Divine' - by Sarah Thomas, film maker who was based at Lancaster until
recently. Hannah Frank, 1908-2008, was a Glasgow artist whose eerie
black and white prints are showing in the Gregson bar during
December. Order a meal from the Gregson's varied menu and eat it in
the hall as you watch the film.


Organised by Lancaster and Lakes Jewish Community and the WEA Folk to
Folk class.
For further information email Fiona Frank at lancslakesjc@gmail.com
or Sian Phillips on Siande_lier@hotmail.com or phone 07778 737681.

Get your tickets in advance for the evening dance from the Gregson on
01524 849959 or just turn up.

Lancaster and Lakes JC News November 2009

In this edition:
reportback on our Klezmer dance, Havura on 15th November at Pine Lake Resort, Carnforth, and Chanukah Party on Wednesday 16th December [**SORRY - NOT 15TH DECEMBER AS IN THE EMAIL!**] at the Gregson, Malcolm Weisman visiting Lancaster at lunchtime on Thursday 12th November. A possible Student Friday night meal - to be confirmed very soon - and the Northern Reform Weekend Comes To Our Area - and we can drop in! Read on.
best wishes,
Fiona Frank,
Secretary, Lancaster and Lakes Jewish Community.
tel 07778 737681 email lancslakesjc@googlemail.com

JOHN STOESSL.
First, we are very sorry to hear of the death of John Stoessl. A holocaust survivor, he escaped from Austria shortly before the outbreak of war. He has spoken locally about his experiences of coming here on the Kindertransport. Our commiserations to his sister Sue.



REPORTBACK

We had a great Klezmer night last week but we had less people there than last year. We need your help! Next year, what would persuade you to bring a party of ten people including lots of kids to the Klezmer dance night? It's free for kids and a really good and fun night out for every generation! (which is more than you can say for lots of nights out these days). Please email your ideas to lancslakesjc@googlemail.com

Ros Hawley, clarinet player for the evening, also ran a Klezmer music workshop during the afternoon which was attended by a dozen local musicians on a variety of instruments - fiddle, accordion, clarinet, concertina, whistle, and cello. Ros teaches each year at the celebrated London 'KlezFest' - which three or four Lancaster musicians have attended recently.

We had a collection during the evening for the Mike Kahan Klezmer Bursary fund. Mike, who played at our first Klezmer night, was murdered the day before his 40th birthday last summer while buying bagels for his family in Manchester. The bursary fund will help fund a scholarship for a musician to attend 'Klezfest'. We raised over £100.00 towards this scholarship. Eleanor Levin, Lancaster-based accordion player, was a recipient of this award last year, and the fund coordinators are committed to continuing support for northern musicians.

And welcome to new mailing list members who came on board after seeing the articles in the Lancaster Guardian and Virtual Lancaster.

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DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

Friday 30th October - PROVISIONAL - join Lancaster Jewish students for a Friday night meal in the Chaplaincy centre at the University. Should be confirmed by tomorrow (Wedneday 28th). If you're interested or want to go on their mailing list email Aaron at jsoc@lancaster.ac.uk and he'll send out a confirmation.

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HAVURAH
Sunday 15th November. This is national 'Mitzvah Day' - so, think of someone who needs a hand and go and help them out! It's also the date of our next Havurah:
Hosted by Linda Martin at her Holiday Chalet, Pine Lake, Carnforth, 4pm for 4.30pm. Linda will run a session on ‘Healthy Jewish Cookery’ – and send us all away with recipes.

Please bring vegetarian (or fishy – not shellfish) food to share.

See directions and RSVP instructions below. And email lancslakesjc@googlemail.com if you’d like a lift.

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CHANUKAH PARTY

Fiona and Susannah's Do-It-Yourself Chanukah Party. Wednesday 16th December, **[NOT 15TH DEC as in the email]** 5.30 for 6 p.m., The Gregson, Moor Lane, Lancaster. Come to the Gregson - Bring a chanukiah (8-prong candlestick) and some kids (two legged mischief-makers) if you have them. We'll provide the candles and there'll be spare chanukiot and spare kids if you don't have your own. The idea is to order food at the Gregson, come into the hall, light the candles, and eat our meals together as a big family while the candles twinkle in the background.

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Any ideas for future topics or volunteers for hosting, please contact us.


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OTHER THINGS GOING ON:

Events at Lancaster University Chaplaincy Centre

The Lancaster University Chaplaincy Centre is 40 years old this term. To celebrate, a series of talks (30mins each) have been arranged on Thursday lunchtimes at 1pm and the details are below. The Chaplaincy Coffee Shop will be open from 11am and serving a soup lunch on those days.
You are all very welcome.

Lancaster University Chaplaincy Centre
40th anniversary seminar series: Faith in the University: Past, Present and Future
Thursdays at 1:00pm, Anglican and Free Church Chapel, the Chaplaincy Centre, Lancaster University

The whole programme can be seen on http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/chap_cen/page38aa.html

Malcolm Weisman, Jewish Chaplain and the Chief Rabbi's Minister for Small Communities, will be speaking on Nov 12th, on Multi-faith Chaplaincies: Lancaster and elsewhere. He will be recording a ‘Thought for the Day’ for BBC Radio Cumbria later that day.

Reform Judaism Northern Weekend.

Weekend celebrating Chanukah as Reform Jews, Abbots Hall Hotel Grange over Sands, 11th-13th December organized by the movement for Reform Judaism. For details email Mike.Frankl@reformjudaism.org.uk . They will do a day rate of £30 a day for non-residential attendees – or if anyone just wants to attend the service, they’d be happy to accommodate us free but please email names for security reasons. The DRAFT programme is below – it looks fab!

DIRECTIONS TO PINE LAKE RESORT for the November Havura:

Pine Lake Resort lies to the north of Carnforth, at the roundabout junction of the A6 and the dual-carriageway from the M6 (Junction 35).

Directions:

From the South:-

Take the A.6 north. After passing through Carnforth continue north, crossing over a roundabout (lorry services) to a further large roundabout where the Motorway J35 slip road emerges from the right. Indicate to turn right, and once on the roundabout indicate immediately left, and turn left into the Pine Lake Resort.

Alternatively

Take the M6 north. Exit at J35. Turn left onto dual carriageway towards Carnforth/A6. At roundabout indicate right, and turn as though to return up the opposite side of dual carriageway. Once past the A6 (ie 180^o turn) indicate left, and turn left into the Pine Lake Resort.

From the North:-

Take the A6 south towards Kendal. Just beyond the roundabout junction with the Burton in Kendal road continue past the turn off to Borwick approx 1 mile to a large roundabout, signposted to the M6 left. Turn left at this roundabout and immediately sharp left again into Pine Lake Resort.

Alternatively

Take the M6 south. Exit at J35. Turn left onto dual carriageway towards Carnforth/A6. At roundabout indicate right, and turn as though to return up the opposite side of dual carriageway. Once past the A6 (ie 180^o turn) indicate left, and turn left into the Pine Lake Resort.

Please telephone Linda Martin 07801 382584 prior to arrival for Chalet number as this will not be allocated until the previous day.

EVENTS AT THE MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR JEWISH STUDIES

The first CJS seminar of the academic year will be given on Thursday 29 October by Dr. Hannah Holtschneider (University of Edinburgh) on “Now you see it, now you don't: Representations of Jewishness in the Jewish Museum Berlin”. This will take place from 4.00pm to 5.30pm in room A112 of the Samuel Alexander building.

Dr Holtschneider has provided the following abstract: “The central question occupying this paper is the representation of Jewish history and Jewish identifications in historical exhibitions. The permanent exhibition in the Jewish Museum Berlin (JMB) provides a case study for an exploration of the visual devices used to portray specific versions of Jewish history and historiography. Entitled ‘2000 Years of German Jewish History’ the permanent exhibition in the JMB charts the development of Jewish life in German lands from antiquity to the present. The exhibition’s title suggests permanence and continuity, while the architecture of the museum building, the preface to the exhibition and its conclusion point to the instability of notions of ‘German Jewish’ history. This paper examines how the exhibition links the adjectives ‘Jewish’ and ‘German’, leading to an exploration of the attributes communicating the ‘Jewishness’ of Jews in the exhibition, including reflection on the religious dimensions of Jewish life.”

Future CJS Seminars

The seminar programme for the rest of this semester has now been confirmed and details can be found at http://www.mucjs.org/rs10.htm. Details on next semester’s seminars will be available in due course.

United in Opposing the BNP Panel Discussion 18 November 2009

Presented by The Joseph Interfaith Foundation in association with

The Muslim Jewish Forum Greater Manchester

United in Opposing the BNP: Is a rational co-operation between Muslim and Jewish students in opposing the BNP more productive than separate confrontation?

A panel discussion:

Gemma Lieberman: Barrister at Kings Chambers, Manchester

Joshua Dresner: Undergraduate at Manchester University, member of the

Joseph Interfaith Foundation Student Group

Cllr Afzal Khan CBE

Hisham Omara: Student at Manchester University

Date: Wednesday 18th November 2009

Venue: Manchester University, University Place (near

Samuel Alexander) 3.204, Building 37 on the campus map

(http://www.manchester.ac.uk/medialibrary/maps/campusmap.pdf)

Time: 2:30-4:00pm

For further information, please contact:

muslimjewish@googlemail.com

info@josephinterfaithfoundation.org

DRAFT programme for REFORM NORTHERN WEEKEND (see contact details, above).

Friday		Leader
1700-1815	Registration
1820	Light Chanukiah	Cantor Zöe Jacobs
1830	Kabbalat Shabbat	Rabbi Brian Fox
	D’var Torah	Rabbi Shoshana Shoshana Boyd-Gelfand, Executive Director of the Movement for Reform Judaism
1930	Dinner	Jonathan Lewis
2030	Part 1 Tower of Bagel	Shonaleigh, traditional story teller
2110-2130	Dessert
2135-2215	Part 2 Tower of Bagel	Shonaleigh
Saturday
0800-0900	Breakfast
0930	Shacharit	Student Rabbi Andrea Zanardo Cantor Zöe Jacobs
1100	Tea and biscuits
1120-1230	Presentation (title to be confirmed)	Rabbi Shoshana Shoshana Boyd-Gelfand
1245	Lunch preceded by Kiddush
1345	Free time
1550	Havdalah	Youth
1600-1630	Chanukiah lighting	Cantor Zöe Jacobs
1630-1745	Workshops
	Details to be confirmed	Cantor Zöe Jacobs
	The Coat Tales of our Ancestors: There's a Jewish proverb that says 'Why did God create people? Because He loves a good story.' We make sense of our lives as a narrative so this workshop will be about personal narrative, mythical narrative and bringing the two together for teaching purposes and personal development.	Shonaleigh
	On sociology of assimilation –details to be confirmed	Jon Boyd
1800	Dinner
2000	The Sounds of Israel Old and New: Join Ruti to sing songs that you already love and learn some new ones you will come to love	Ruti Worrall
2130	Israeli Dancing	Julia Castle
Sunday
0800-0900	Breakfast
0900-0945	Study and songs	Cantor Zöe Jacobs
0900-0945	Northern Movement for Reform Judaism Update	Rabbi Shoshana Shoshana Boyd-Gelfand
0945-1100	Workshops
	Fasts, Feasts, Facts & Fantasies: What do we REALLY think about non-Biblical observances?	Rabbi Ian Morris
	Weaving the web of Jewish life: How to enrich the fabric of your family’s Jewish week. A session exploring enjoyable ways to introduce blessing, story, song and games into a demanding life. We will focus on Early and Primary Years and begin with activities for Chanukah. You will go home with a bag full of creative ideas and resources to share. (Please bring a list of your favourite toppings for a latke)	Ann Angel and Anna Dyson
	Shining a Light: using creative writing to illuminate your relationship with Judaism.	Sherry Ashworth, novelist
1100-1130	Packing & coffee
1130-1230	Bringing the Light Home (Title to be confirmed )	Rabbi Shoshana Shoshana Boyd-Gelfand Cantor Zöe Jacobs
1230	Lunch and Close	Jonathan Lewis

USE YOUR VOTE ON 4th JUNE

Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party (BNP) is standing for election to the European Parliament in the North West region, which includes our district. Because of the way the voting system works, if there is a low turnout there is a strong chance he will get in and get thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money to promote the BNP's racist, anti-semitic, anti-Islam and anti-immigrant policies. If loads of people vote for other parties, he won't get in. Make sure you vote on June 4th - for ANY of the other parties except the BNP - and get all your friends to vote too.
For indepth analysis of the BNP's racist policies, have a look at Lancaster Unity's blog http://lancasteruaf.blogspot.com/ And email ketlan@gmx.net to go on Lancaster Unity's mailing list and get news about the next leafletting campaigns.