From the President's Chair
January - February 2012
Lately I feel like an absentee Hon President with a large carbon footprint. I have been in Bangladesh operating on patients with ear disorders who need microsurgery and then after a brief return to Norfolk,
our family travelled to Melbourne for my niece Georgina’s Bat Mitzvah and a family celebration for my father’s 90th birthday.
I am happy to report he is very well but some of his regular tennis partners are not as agile as previously!
It was a pleasure also to renew acquaintance with Rabbi Jonathan Keren Black of the Leo Baeck Synagogue in Melbourne who some of you will have met when he visited our Shul one Shabbat in the summer.
The Congregation was saddened by the loss of Hy Kurzner shortly after the loss of Moise Silbert and also of Sandra Java reported in last month’s newsletter.
It was fascinating to learn more about the life of Hy from the many reports that appeared in the press and from the excellent eulogies at his funeral. I think our small Congregation feels the loss collectively rather more acutely than in some of the larger metropolitan Congregations.
Now we can now look forward to 2012. This is an Olympics year and although some of our Congregation would not dispute the fact that they are perhaps past their sporting peak, comfort can be taken from the spiritual peaks available each Shabbat throughout the year.
Peter Prinsley