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NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 2007

COUNCIL

NOTICE
Members and Friends of PJC are welcome to attend PJC Council meetings in an "observer" capacity. If you would like to do so then please have a word with any Council officer before the date of the particular meeting. Very occasionally Council will want to take an item "below the line", in which case you would be asked to absent yourself for the duration of that item.

Meeting:

• The PJCEA Council met on December 4th, at the home of Miriam Barnett

Matters Arising:

- Ideas Day Review
- Skills Audit
- 2008 Dates
- Rabbi Annual Review
- Marriage Secretary

Services:

• Closing Up the OMH
• Month-end Services: No service on December 28th. (Rachel not coming up for December 28/29).
• Next month-end service: Saturday, January 26th at 11.15 am at the OMH.

Education:

• Children's Film Show in conjunction with the NHC cheder: in hand
• Re the Schools Box: It had been agreed to purchase a school box for the PJC for loan to whomsoever needs it.
• Mid-month Cheder: Saturday, December 15th 9.30 am in the Peill Room. Byron reported that he and Annie were to take the mid-month sessions jointly. The sessions were to be extended by half an hour ie 9.30-11. There was a need to maintain some continuity between mid-month and month-end sessions.
• Month-end cheder on Saturday, December 29th cancelled. (Rachel not coming up for December 28/29)
• Mid-month Hebrew: Saturday, January 12th at 9.30 am in the OMH Vestry.
• Month-end Hebrew on December 29th cancelled (Rachel not coming up for December 28/29 weekend)
• EWJ on December 29th cancelled (Rachel not coming up for Decem-ber 28/29 weekend)

Membership:

• The Membership Secretary's report was received
• Contact Group: Inaugural meeting in hand

Treasurer:

• The Hon Treasurer's report was received
• Community tanakhs, congregational copies now in the OMH

Social/Events:

• Re the PJC Party held on Saturday, November 10th: This was deemed to be a great success. Council thanked Deborah and Nick for all their efforts
• Joan Goodman Lecture: Wednesday, December 5th at 7.30 pm at the Norwich Synagogue. Simon Goldhill: Jerusalem and the Cotswolds – why does Jerusalem look the way it does?
• NHC Hanukkah Party Sunday, December 9th 4.00 pm at the Earlham Road Synagogue, to include a "high tea". Entrance £5 per adult. Children free.
• Jewish Book Club was to take place on Tuesday January 15th at 7.30 pm at the home of Maureen and Barry Leveton (The book: Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson)
• The following other events were noted:
  - ECAPS weekend 2007: 7/8/9 December

NEWSLETTER/PR:

• Recent Posts to the PJC Website
  - Link to Ein Bustan added (Jewish-Arab Education Projects in Israel)
  - LJ Biennial Weekend 4-6 April 2008
  - Link to The Center for Jewish-Arab Economic Development (CJAED) in Israel
  - WUPJ Who is a Rabbi?
  - Board of Deputies Bulletin Board November 2007
  - LJ e-Bulletin Online 9th November 2007
  - Party Time at Jessopp Road
  - Party Time at Jessopp Road — More Photos
  - LJ e-Bulletin 16th November 2007
  - LJ e-Bulletin 22nd November 2007
  - Jewish Book Club
  - Nursing at Shaare Zedek
  - Leo Baeck College Development Assistant
  - LJ e-Bulletin 30th November 2007
  - LJ Biennial Weekend 4-6 April 2008 (2)
  - WUPJ European Region News December 2007
  - Hanukkah Greetings from Rabbi Danny Rich
• Newsletter copy date Thursday, December 6th

AOB:

• The following correspondence was received:
  - WJR Reach Out Newsletter Issue 1/Winter 2007: to be placed on the notice board
  - Fairtrade Fortnight 2008 – Anyone interested in picking this up. Handed to Deborah
  - Friends of Progressive Judaism Leo Baeck Junior High School Hanukkah Appeal
  - LJY-Netzer Mini Veidah, Nov 30th - Dec 2nd: to be placed on the notice board
  - LJY-Netzer Plagim Shabbaton Nov 30th - Dec 1st: to be placed on the notice board
  - LJY- Netzer Summer Tours to Israel and Europe: to be placed on the notice board

Next Meeting:

• Thursday, January 10th at Deborah's.