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March 2016 – January 2017
Pamela Kaplan z”l was dedicated to helping olim. She worked both in the UK and then 40+ years in Israel assisting singles and families from around the English speaking communities. Later in life she aided Ethiopians to settle and find new lives. Over her 50+ working years she was the instigator of many initiatives through her work with The British Embassy, The Zionist Federation,The British Settlers Association, The British Olim Society, The Jewish Agency, Telfed and many other major international organisations.
We will be remembering her life at a concert and memorial evening on 10th March 2016 in Tel Aviv.
If you knew Pamela you will appreciate why we are marking her memory in this way. Please do come and join us.
First Aid Talk/Demonstartion by MDA, followed by tea
Also, presentation of Charity Shield Donation to MDA
A Small Step to the Moon but a Giant Leap in Undertsanding of the Jewish Calendar of its Day – A talk by Barbara Moont
The Earth goes around the sun every year and the moon goes around the earth every month. The Jewish calendar is based on both of these rotations. Around the year 350, Hillel HaNasi started the Jewish calendar of today. His accuracy was not equaled by the Western calendar for another 1000 years.
Barbara will explain the history of the Jewish calendar. She will also talk about the moon landings starting in 1969, when she worked on the Apollo project.
The history, conservation & digitization of the Dead Sea Scrolls, presented by Orit Rosengarten, Assistant to the Director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Project at the Israel Antiquities Authority.