Woodside_park Synagogue

Ladies' Tikkun

Date: Monday, 28 May 2012 (Second day of Shavuot, 7 Sivan, 5772)

Time: 4.30pm PROMPT to 6.00pm

Venue: Home of Esther and Edwin Shuker, 28 Cissbury Ring South, N12

What Judaism has to say about...



Title of TalkSpeaker
Tablets and cheesecakeGila Hackenbroch
HappinessPam Nelkon
Grief EncounterShelley Gilbert
The Song of NatureEsther Shuker
The Big QuestionDeanna Levine
Painting for her lifeSusan Slater
Marriage made in HeavenDanielle Brull

Join us at this hugely popular annual social and educational event with refreshments - and remember to bringalongafriendortwo!

Please stay on after the talks to socialise and enjoy some light refreshments with us.

In loving memory of Marianne & Rev Jack Grant (zl)
In loving memory of George Renton (zl)
In loving memory of Cissy and Ellis Levine and Ian Levine (zl)



To read last year's talks please click on the links below


WIZO
by Yvonne Hay.

A group of very determined women, some of whom were keen suffragettes fighting for the political right of women to vote in Britain, felt that Jewish women should have a distinct and equal role to men in the movement for the return to Zion.

In 1918 a Zionist Commission went on a fact finding mission to Palestine. Rebecca Sieff, Dr Vera Weizmann and Edith Eder had the opportunity to participate in this visit. What they found was a profound shock to them. During and after the First World War, the Jewish population in Palestine had been depleted due to expulsions, disease and famine. Physically and spiritually women were impoverished and suffering - pioneers and city women alike........

To read the whole talk given by Yvonne Hay, CLICK HERE


Words
by Deanna Levine.
In loving memory of her wonderful parents, Cissy & Ellis Levine and very special brother, Ian (zl)

There are some words that can make a real difference. Words of kindness, support and consolation; words that enlighten, enliven and entertain; words that share good news, that uplift, that make the world a better place. From a Jewish perspective words are hugely important; the universe was built with them, and woe betide anyone who makes a habit of misusing them........

To read the whole talk given by Deanna Levine, CLICK HERE


Expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290
by Michelle Stoops.

This afternoon I would like to talk to you about the expultion of the Jews from this country in the 13thC. Most people know that the Jews were ordered to leave England in 1290 and that the reason was due to money lending. Well, these facts are true, but not the whole story. If they were I wouldn't have much to talk about. I want to put the Jews of the time into historical context and show how they fitted into medieval society. I also want to explain that there was another reason that they were expelled and that reason was scandal. But more of that later.......

To read the whole talk given by Michelle Stoops, CLICK HERE


Batia - the Egyptian enigma
by Maxine Zeltser.

My talk today is about Batia, the Egyptian princess who rescued Moshe from the River Nile. I thought that this fits in with Shavuot when we read about another princess, Ruth.

'She is one of the most unexpected heroes of the Hebrew Bible. Without her, Moses might not have lived. The whole story of exodus would have been different. Yet she was not an Israelite. She had nothing to gain, and everything to lose, by her courage. Yet she seems to have had no doubt, experienced no misgivings, made no hesitation. If it was Pharoah who afflicted the children of Israel, it was another member of his own family who saved the decisive vestige of hope: Pharoah's daughter'.........

To read the whole talk given by Maxine Zeltser, CLICK HERE