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(MARCH - APRIL 2000) Celebrating Purim The festival of lots was celebrated by Shelanu Jewish Circle with great enthusiasm. Shyna Scarf, Volunteer from the American Joint Distribution Committee attended and participated during the function Pesach Seder 2000 A community Pesach Seder was organized on the second day of Pesach on April 20th, 2000 at the Synagogue. Aliza Hakimian, Volunteer from AJDC and Rizpah Corley , editor of KOL INDIA attended the function. Shelanu Jewish Circle thanks all the volunteers for the invaluable help provided towards the function Let's talk in Hebrew
Good Bye and Best Wishes Shelanu Jewish Circle wishes Good By to Ms. Betty Shore from Canada. Shelanu Jewish Circle sincerely thanks and appreciates the dedicated and devoted voluntary community service rendered by Ms. Betty Shore to the Jewish Community of Ahmedabad, from October 1999 to February 2000. She regularly conducted Hebrew language and Prayer classes for the children and adults. In the children's class, the teaching of songs, dance, skit and adapted T-rah discussions and concepts, generated a lot of interactions between the teacher, taught and made the class very lively. The discussions she led on T-rah for adults very ably and successfully brought out the importance of Jewish creed and deed. The classes proved to be very interesting, thought provoking and illuminating. Shelanu Jewish Circle Thanks
Do you know? What is the significance of the no. 40 in Jewish history? For e.g. 40 years in desert, 40 days spent by Prophet Moses on Mount Sinai, 40 days from Selichot to Yom Kippur. Send in your ideas on or before 30th May, 2000 Calendar
Chmielnitzki Massacres (1648-1649) The Chmielnitzki massacres of 1648-1649 were led by BOG DAN Chmielnitzki, Ukraine Cossack who led a successful revolt against Polish rule over his country. Only a few people today know about it. There was a Nazi like war against the Jews three centuries before the Holocaust. Like Hitler, he hated all Jews indiscriminately. The Cossack troops murdered over 100,000 Jews at a time when world Jewry probably numbered no more than a million and a half. If you have a weak stomach don't read it. There are grave reservations about including such a horrifying passage, but it is feared that this tragic episode in the Jewish history is in danger of being forgotten. "Some of them (the Jews) had their skins flayed off them and their flesh was flung to the dogs, the hands and feet of others were cut off and they were flung onto the roadways where carts ran over them and they were trodden under foot by horse.... and many were buried alive. Children were slaughtered in their mother bosoms and many children were torn apart like fish. They ripped up the bellies of pregnant women, took out the unborn children and flung them in their faces. They tore open the bellies of some of them and placed a living cat within the belly and left them alive thus, first cutting off their hands so that they should not be able to take the living cat out of the belly.... and there was never an unnatural death in the world that they did not inflict upon them." Many Jews who were not murdered during the massacres were sold as slaves, usually to Constantinople's slave markets. Extracted by Mr. Joshua Dighorkar from "Jewish Literacy" written by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
Dear Readers: We hope that you have liked reading the Shelanu Jewish Circle's Newsletter. This letter is a bi-monthly newsletter of the "Shelanu Jewish Circle" of the Magen Abraham Synagogue, Ahmedabad. It gives information about the recent festivals, their celebrations at the synagogue. Communications of various programmes for the Jewish Community and also gives knowledge of the Jewish religion. If you have any suggestions you may feel free to send them across to us, and we shall be more than happy to incorporate them in our Newsletter. |