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SHABBAT CHANUKKAH!

SHABBAT CHANUKKAH

Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue

6 Lansdowne Road, BN3 1FF

8 December 2018

PROGRAMME:

10:00 AM Coffee, tea and biscuits

10:30 AM Shabbat Chanukkah Service

12:30 PM Kiddush, Chavurah (shared) lunch and LATKES!

1:30 to 3:00 PM

CHILDREN’S PROGRAMME OF CHANUKKAH FUN!

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER: DR TONY KLUG*

IS THERE A PLAUSIBLE ALTERNATIVE

TO THE TWO-STATE SOLUTION?

3 PM to 3:30 PM Coffee, tea and DOUGHNUTS!

3:30 to 4:30 PM Havdalah, Chanukkah candle-lighting and Songs

*Dr Tony Klug is a Special Advisor on the Middle East to the Oxford Research Group and a Consultant to the Palestine Strategy Group and the Israel Strategic Forum. He has written extensively about Israeli-Palestinian issues since the early 1970s when he first proposed the two-state idea. His doctoral thesis, written after spending prolonged periods in the 1970s travelling through Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt, interviewing scores of people at every level, was on the Israeli occupation of the West Bank between the wars of 1967 and 1973. He has also written four Fabian pamphlets: ‘Middle East conflict: a tale of two peoples’ (1973), the first publication in the UK to call for two states; ‘Middle East impasse: the only way out’ (1977); ‘How peace broke out in the Middle East: a short history of the future’ (2007); ‘Visions of the Endgame: a strategy to bring the Israeli-Palestinian conflict swiftly to an end’ (2009).Tony worked for many years as a senior official at Amnesty International, where he headed the International Development programme. In the distant past, he was President of the University of Birmingham Students’ Union and Deputy President of the NUS, where he had the principal responsibility for international affairs. Tony has a close affinity with both peoples and is currently writing a book on his 50 years of engagement with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Kristallnacht Commemoration 9th & 10th November 2018

Friday 9 November – Members and friends of BHPS only.

  • A commemorative service led by Rabbi Elli is scheduled for 7pm to 8pm in the presence of members of the BeitHaChidush Liberal Congregation of Amsterdam and their Rabbi, and other invited guests followed by Kiddush and a Chavurah supper in the foyer.
  • Dr David Juenger, DAAD Lecturer in Modern European History and Deputy Director for the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex will give an illustrated talk: “The crucial year 1938. Nazi German aggression, the Jewish refugee crisis and the failure of international diplomacy” Scheduled time 8.30pm to 9.30pm.
  • The evening will end with the unveiling downstairs of our drawings of Rose Canaan and Hans Levy in, in order to honour both survivors of that period and esteemed members of our congregation.
  • Close 10.00pm

SATURDAY 10th NOVEMBER – OPEN TO ALL

The Jewish community of Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue will mark the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht at a special commemorative event open to the general public on Saturday 10th November starting from 10.30am and continuing throughout the day.

(NON MEMBERS OF BHPS TO REGISTER ON EVENTBRITE)

10.00 AM – 10.30 AM

Coffee, tea and biscuits

10.30 AM -12.30 PM

Shabbat morning service led by Rabbi Elli with commemoration of Kristallnacht also with participation of BeitHaChidush Congregation, Amsterdam.

12.30 – 1.30

Kiddush and Chavurah lunch.

1.30 – 2.00

Margarete Mendelsohn and eyewitness of Kristallnacht will be speaking & reading from her book.

2.00 – 2.15

Screening of a 15-minute documentary on Kristallnacht with eye-witness accounts.

2.20-4.10

Screening of ‘Denial’ (1 hr 50 mins). A 2016 film portraying how David Irving, a Holocaust denier sued university Professor Deborah Lipstadt for libel.

4.15 – 4.45

Tea

4.45 – 5.00

Havdalah

5.00 PM

CLOSE

NB: No admission on the door to non members of BHPS without prior registration on Eventbrite and accompanying photo ID.

JEWISH OR JEW-ISH? OR SIMPLY CURIOUS…..

Open Day Saturday 13th October 10.30am – 15.45pm

  • Have you dropped out of the Jewish community?
  • Would you like to reconnect with your Jewish roots?
  • Do you feel marginalised?  Are you unaffiliated?  Single?
  • Have a non-Jewish and/or same-sex partner?
  • Like to meet Jews who are:
  •  Open to outsiders. Progressive
  • Accepting of all Jews – including the children of Jewish fathers
  • Committed to full gender equality
  • Proud of their Jewish heritage
  • Engaged in the contemporary world
  • Welcoming to LGBT+ people and those who have a non-Jewish partner

Register in advance by booking on Eventbrite. Please bring your ticket and some photo ID with you on the day.

FESTIVAL OF SHAVUOT ALL-NIGHT CHEESE-CAKE & STUDY MARATHON Led by Rabbi Elli

FESTIVAL OF SHAVUOT ALL-NIGHT CHEESE-CAKE & STUDY MARATHON

Led by Rabbi Elli

In aid of THOUSAND 4£1000 – A local charity that houses Refugees

When: Saturday 19th – Sunday 20th May 2018

Where: BHPS, 6 Lansdowne Road, BN3 1FF

Start: 9 PM (last entry: 10 PM)

Finish: 5 AM on the beach opp. Lansdowne Place

(Erev – Evening – Service, 8 PM, Shacharit – Morning – Service, 5 AM)

ALL-NIGHT CHEESE-CAKE, COFFEE AND SANDWICHES!

PRECEDED BY RAINBOW PILGRIMS POP-UP EXHIBITION ON LGBTQI REFUGEES & MIGRANTS, 6-8 PM (PLEASE BOOK THROUGH EVENTBRITE)

PLACES LIMITED! To book & for Sponsorship Form contact:

info@bhps-online.org 01273 737223

PROGRAMME

6 PM Rainbow Pilgrims Pop-Up Exhibition about LGBTQI refugees and migrants + Reception.

8 PM Erev (Evening) Shavuot service

9 PM All-night Study Marathon on the theme of Refugees in aid of Thousand 4£1000 begins, with the opening sessions led by guest speakers:

9-10 PM Presentation by Shaan Knan, Coordinator of the Rainbow Pilgrims project, including a short film about the project

10-11 PM Presentation by Mahmut Gunaydin, Director of the Turkish-Muslim ‘Dialogue Society’

11 PM-Midnight Panel of speakers from local Refugees charities, including Thousand 4 £1000, Sanctuary on Sea, Brighton Migrant Solidarity, Migrant English Project and LG Migrant Solidarity

Midnight-1AM Dr Gerhard Wolf, Senior Lecturer in History, Sussex University, on the German Jewish refugee experience

During the night, in addition to studying texts surveying the Jewish experience of migration and flight, engaging in creative activities related to the theme of refugees, and pausing for a period of Mindfulness Meditation, we will also be screening two films: ‘Nina’s Children’ by Nina Grunfeld about what happened to a group of Viennese Jewish children who went to a Summer Camp in Oslo in 1938, and ‘We Ask Not What Thou Art’ by Kevin Reynolds about the Space For All Estate Agency Art Project

5 AM Shavuot Shacharit (Morning) service on the beach.

Participants will be free to leave at any time during the night.

For security reasons, no one will be able to enter the shul after 10 PM.

If you would like to volunteer to help organise the event, please email Rabbi Elli: rabbiellibhps@gmail.com

If you would like to participate in the Study Marathon, please email the shul office

for a Sponsorship Form: info@bhps-online.org

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