ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION

TALK ON RUFUS ISAACS

Coinciding with the 350th anniversary of the readmission of the Jews into England, Godfrey Gould will be giving a talk to the English-Speaking Union (Brighton & Hove Branch) entitled "From Ship's Boy to Viceroy - the life of Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading". Visitors are welcome for a donation of £3.00. Refreshments are served before the talk.

UK Jewish Film Festival
These are the final dates and times for the UK JFF Films on Tour to Brighton:
We have encountered problems with the Duke of York's Picturehouse and have had to make numerous date changes and finally we regret that we will not be able to screen Metallic Blues as they could not offer us a time for this film. Please check your UK JFF Film Tour Flyer for the full synopsis of each film. We look forward to seeing you all.

UK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL ON TOUR IN BRIGHTON, 2006. At the Duke of York's Cinema, Preston Circus, Brighton. Please contact the Cinema Box Office to pre-purchase tickets: 08707 551228.

12.00 noon Sunday 22nd January WATERMARKS, Dir. Yaron Zilberman, France/Israel/USA 2004. 77 mins. A multi Award Winning Documentary. + short film The Future is Behind You, Dir. Abigail Child, USA 2004. 21 mins
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2.00 pm Sunday 29th January THE SOULKEEPER: THE TRUE STORY OF SABINA SPIELREIN, Dir. Roberto Faenza. Italy/France/UK. 90 Mins. Followed by a discussion and Q. & A. with Cathy Kaplinsky, Jungian Analyst. The discussion will be held as a separate event at Circus Circus

Saturday 4th February 6.15 pm for 6.30 pm You are warmly invited to join us at the Duke of York's Picturehouse for a glass of wine before this film. TURN LEFT AT THE END OF THE WORLD, Dir. Avi Nesher, Israel/France 2004. 108 mins. +short film
The Holocaust Tourist: Whatever Happened to Never Again ? Dir. Jes Benstock, UK, 2005. 10 mins. Winner of the UK JFF Short Film Fund 2005.

Special Event for Schools and Colleges:
9.30 a.m. - 12.00 noon Friday 27th January
UK HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2006: ONE PERSON CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE HIDING FROM HITLER, Dir. Sue Read, UK, 2005. 50 mins. The Director Sue Read will introduce her film and there will be a talk by a Holocaust survivor who features in the film. This is a free educational event designed for school and college students aged 14 +. Sponsored by the AJR. For tickets please Email c.moshenska@sussex.ac.uk or Virginia.bilcliff@brighton-hove.gov.uk

PLEASE NOTE ALTERNATIVE VENUE FOR THE FOLLOWING FILM: 6.45 p.m. Sunday 29th January at the Red Roaster Cafe at the bottom of St. James's Street, Kemp Town, Brighton. KEEP NOT SILENT, Dir. Ilil Alexander, Israel, 2004. 52 mins. The screening will be followed by a discussion and Q. & A. with Naomi Alderman, author of 'Disobedience' and Rabbi Eli Tikvah Sarah of the Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue. £6.00, £4.50 concs. Age 16 and over. Tickets can be purchased on arrival.

A week-long programme of events in Brighton & Hove is being organised round
the national Holocaust Memorial Day in January.

Holocaust Memorial Day is on 27 January and the theme for 2006 is "One person can make a difference." In Brighton & Hove the organisers, including the city council and Sussex and Brighton Universities, are staging
Holocaust Awareness Week.

Events confirmed so far are:
Monday 23rd January 2006 – Hove Town Hall, 7pm
Film screening of Hotel Rwanda with introduction by Rabbi Meyer, who has
been instrumental in a connection between the Brussels Jewry and Rwandan
refugees

Tuesday 24 January – Jubilee Library, 7pm, £5
Silent Witnesses – The Holocaust Remembered
This special commemorative event looks back at the legacy of the Holocaust
through poetry and prose, read by some of our leading actors and actresses.
Part of international Holocaust Week. Line-up to be confirmed.

Tuesday 24 and Thursday 26 January - Whitehawk Primary School, 4.30-6pm,
£1.50 (50p children)
The school's restored air-raid shelter is opened up to the public. Includes
a display of children's artwork about the Holocaust.

Wednesday 25 January - University of Sussex, 2-5pm
Annual Holocaust Memorial event this year looking at the national theme ‘
One person can make a difference’ with a talk from a Holocaust survivor.

Thurs 26 January – Jubilee Library, 7pm, £5
Sue Vice - Holocaust Testaments
In the second of two events commemorating Holocaust Week, Sue Vice – author
of Holocaust Fiction: From William Styron to Binjamin Wilkomirski and
Children Writing the Holocaust – surveys the fictional, critical and
theoretical landscape of some of the most powerful and controversial
Holocaust literature of our time.

Friday 27 January – Duke of York’s cinema
Schools Workshop
Film screening of ‘Hiding From Hitler’ Over 1.5 million children perished
in the Holocaust, but unbelievably, a few thousand children survived in
hiding. This is their story, followed by a question and answer session with
the Director ,Sue Read, and a Holocaust Survivor,
Schools groups only, by ticket

Saturday 28 January
Brighton and Sussex Medical Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, 9.30am -
12.30pm, free entrance
Morning workshop – ‘Trauma and Memory in the twentieth century’.
Speakers include Lyn Smith author of 'Forgotten voices of the Holocaust' -
based on 25 years of interviewing Holocaust survivors for the archive at
the Imperial War Museum - and Graham Dawson of the University of Brighton
who will speak on 'Making Peace with the Past? Trauma, Memory and Conflict
Resolution in the Irish Troubles.'

23-28 January
Jubilee Library, free
Holocaust Exhibition, including information on the Jewish community, the LGBT community and refugees and asylum-seekers.

Alyson Green and her band will entertain

For an exciting list of events for Chanukah, please log on to
www.LubavitchBrighton.com/chanukah

A gathering to pay tribute to this remarkable woman, descended from one the the most outstanding Jewish families of modern times.

BHPS
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Details of films in this year’s UK Jewish Film Festival can be found on our website at: www.ukjewishfilmfestival.org.uk

As tickets are selling fast we strongly recommend early booking.
Screen on the Hill Box Office: 020 7435 3366

Judy Ironside
Festival Director
UK Jewish Film Festival
11a Jew Street
Brighton BN1 1UT
Tel: +44(0)1273 735522
www.ukjewishfilmfestival.org.uk

Sussex & Brighton jsocs, in association with
sussex islamic society are proud to host a very special event. 2 youth
activists, one israeli, one palestinian will be coming to our campus
with the 'one voice' peace group. They hope to share a message of a
hopeful future with student activists around the world. Please join us
and become part of the solution to the problems in the middle east. more
information about the group is contained below. Whatever your beliefs
about the middle east, please come along and give our guests the
courtesy of hearing 2 opinions as to how we can find a peaceful future.


FORGET WHAT YOU’VE BEEN TOLD


Time and again campuses are filled with literature and speakers on the
Middle East conflict. Pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian professors going
head to head on who’s history is truthful, parents of children killed
through terror or occupation denouncing the ‘other side’. We’ve heard
from the people with the agendas, but what do average Israelis and
average Palestinians think? Do they want peace? Are they able to
compromise? OneVoice, in partnership with Americans for Informed
Democracy and a host of local, national and international student and
professional bodies are coming to answer these questions for you.



The OneVoice Movement is a mass grassroots movement in the Middle East
that empowers voices of moderation to stand up against extremism and to
make themselves heard. The vast majority of Israelis and Palestinians
want peace and are prepared to compromise for it and now they are asking
for your help.

Senior palestinian and israeli youth activists will be speaking on
campus next week, trying to galvanize support for their work in the
Middle East and giving British students the opportunity to be part of
the solution, rather than part of the problem.

ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION

TALK ON RUFUS ISAACS

Coinciding with the 350th anniversary of the readmission of the Jews into England, Godfrey Gould will be giving a talk to the English-Speaking Union (Brighton & Hove Branch) entitled "From Ship's Boy to Viceroy - the life of Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading". The talk will be at the Hove Club, 28 Fourth Avenue, Hove, on Tuesday 10 January 2006 2.00 pm for 2.30 pm. Visitors are welcome for a donation of £3.00. Refreshments are served before the talk.

World Jewish Aid has set up an appeal fund for the victims of the massive earthquake disaster in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.
To donate to the appeal
Phone: 020 7691 1771
Send cheques: World Jewish Aid, FREEPOST 9WC1152)London NW1 2YW

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An event not to be missed - so good last year, that the show sold out two weeks before the event
Contact 01273 709709 for tickets

Ralli Hall Day Centre
SHOWTIME
Fantastic Supper Show featuring songs from previous Ralli Hall Shows
Contact: 775164 or 734797

Brighton Festival of World Sacred Music is a wonderful celebration of music
from different faith traditions across the globe. It takes place 19-23
October 2005 and features a number of Jewish musicians including:

The Burning Bush (Saturday 22 October, 7.30pm. St George's Church, Kemp
Town)
Lou Beckerman (Thursday 20 October, 7.30 pm, St Nicholas Church, Dyke Road,
Brighton
Rohan Kriwaczek (Friday 21 October, 7.30 pm, St George's Church, Kemp Town)

You can find more details about all these events at

For New Year and High Holyday services, please contact the synagogues
Brighton & Hove Hebrew Congregation - shul@bhhc.fsnet.co.uk
Hove Hebrew Congregation - hovehebcon@aol.com
Brighton & Hove Reform Synagogue - office@bh-rs.org
Brighton & Hove Progressive Synagogue - bhps@freenetname.co.uk
Eastbourne Hebrew Congregation - 22 Susans Road
Eastbourne Progressive Synagogue - epjc@ulps.org
Hastings & District Jewish Society -01424 439250
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR READERS, SUBSCRIBERS AND SURFERS

Fantastic musical spectacular show in aid of The Martlets Hospice
Hurry and get your tickets - last year they were sold out four weeks before the show

606 JAZZ CLUB
90 LOTS ROAD, CHELSEA
MUSIC CHARGE £7
Doors open 7.30 pm Performance 8 - 10.30 pm
ALYSON GREEN PERFORMING WITH HER TRIO, AND ALSO SPECIAL GUEST - SAXOPHONIST - ALAN BARNES

Great (Jewish) choirs in Concert 3 July
This coming weekend the Jewish Music Institute will be putting on inspiring concerts of
massed choirs directed by the charismatic Stephen Glass at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. JMI
is offering you the opportunity to hear the afternoon concert (4pm) for only £5. Just
phone the box office on 08703 800 400 and say you want the 'JMI £5 offer'. If you would
also like to attend the evening concert there is an additional special offer - £2 off list
prices. If you want to attend both concerts quote the 'JMI Choirs Offer' for details of
the concerts and other jmi events - please see Website www.jmi.org.uk

The choirs involved individually and en masse are:

Zemel Choir
London's premiere Jewish mixed voice choir with a wide ranging repertoire
embracing all aspects of traditional Jewish culture. Regularly performs in
all the major venues in the UK and overseas.

Alyth Choral Society.
Usually accompanied by orchestra the Choral Society concentrates on the
classical choral repertoire that is appropriate for a Jewish choir including
many world premieres of works by British Jewish composers

2 for 1 on tickets priced £25 to the LSO concert on Wednesday 22 June 2005 to anyone quoting ‘Korngold 2 for 1’ when calling the Barbican Box Office on 020 7638 8891 (9am-8pm, daily, bkg fee), alternatively there will be no booking fee if purchasing tickets at the Advanced Box Office or on the night.

London Symphony and on Wed 22 June we have the Korngold Violin Concerto performed at the Barbican Centre. We would like to offer jewishsussex.com web visitors/newsletter subscribers the opportunity to purchase 2 tickets for the price of 1 on top priced seats.

Concert details:

Wed 22 Jun 2005 7.30pm
Barbican Hall, London

KORNGOLD Violin Concerto
WALTON Symphony No 1

André Previn conductor
Anne-Sophie Mutter violin

SERIES OF EVENTS TO CELEBRATE 70 YEARS OF THE BRIGHTON & HOVE PROGRESSIVE SYNAGOGUE

10/6/5 Chana Moshenska Diaspora cultures in eastern Europe - Germans and Jews NO CHARGE.SERVICE STARTS AT 8, ONEG STARTS AT 8.45.* PLEASE BRING CAKE TO SHARE. By the early twentieth century German and Jewish communities spread across central and eastern Europe, living side by side. How did these communities develop and interact? Why do we know so little about the German diaspora? Chana teaches History and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, and also does outreach work in schools and colleges on the Holocaust and refugee issues.

8/7/5 Doris Levinson ‘Musings’NO CHARGE.SERVICE STARTS AT 8, ONEG STARTS AT 8.45.* PLEASE BRING CAKE TO SHARE. Doris has been editor of the Sussex Jewish News for over 11 years and is now Chair of the Brighton & Hove Jewish Representative Council so she ‘knows a little bit of what goes on in the local community!’

12/8/5 Sara Samson Inclusion and Arts ManagementNO CHARGE.SERVICE STARTS AT 8, ONEG STARTS AT 8.45.* PLEASE BRING CAKE TO SHARE. Sara is experienced in setting up arts’ projects, especially ones which foster inclusion. She can give you a good idea of what’s ‘out there’ and how arts can be socially aware.

21/8/5 Adam Godley Everything you ever wanted to know about the business of acting but were afraid to askChaired by:Stan BakerNO CHARGE.STARTS AT 3.* PLEASE BRING CAKE TO SHARE. An actor for over 30 years, Adam has appeared in The West End, at The National Theatre and The RSC. He has appeared in numerous television productions and his recent films include ‘Love Actually’, the soon to be released ‘Nanny McPhee’ with Emma Thompson and Colin Firth, and Tim Burton's ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ with Johnny Depp. Adam promises to try and answer anything you would care to ask about acting and show-business - from how he learns his lines, to what happened when he witnessed Hyacinth Bucket meet the Queen Mother backstage after a performance of ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’.

9/9/5 Paul Oestreicher Religion: blessing or curse? My own journeyNO CHARGE.SERVICE STARTS AT 8, ONEG STARTS AT 8.45.* PLEASE BRING CAKE TO SHARE. At the age of 7, Paul fled with his refugee parents from Germany to New Zealand. He studied politics and theology in NZ, Germany and the UK. He was a BBC producer in the 60s, then East Europe Secretary of the British Council of Churches. Is a former chairman of Amnesty International UK, and Vice President of CND. Until retirement, he was Director of the Centre for International Reconciliation at Coventry Cathedral. Is an Anglican Priest and Quaker (and the Quaker chaplain at the University of Sussex).
14/10/5 Date and talk details TBC
11/11/5 Date and talk details TBC

9/12/5 Rabbi Elizabeth Tikvah Sarah Together with:Reverend Cynthia Parks MAKING A DIFFERENCE - The Reverend Cynthia Parks of Dorset Gardens Methodist Church and Rabbi Elizabeth Tikvah Sarah of Brighton & Hove Progressive Synagogue in conversation about being women in ministry, the difference gender makes, and the ways they are each making a difference to their communities.