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Hunger Strikes and Votes for Women
(photograph top left c. Matt Roberts. Anne Sebba outside 2, Claremont Villas, Leeds, the house where Leonora Cohen lived)
On Saturday, February 1, 1913 an elegantly dressed young woman followed a group of school boys into the Jewel House at the Tower of London. Patrolling beefeaters assumed she was a teacher until she removed an iron bar from her coat and flung it over the boys’ heads smashing a glass showcase containing insignia of the Order of Merit. Beefeaters immediately forced the woman to the ground and arrested her. Wrapped around the bar was a piece of paper stating: “This is my protest against the Government’s treachery to the working women of Great Britain.” She was charged with causing unlawful and malicious damage to an amount exceeding five pound and was bailed for trial by jury. By the time Leonora Cohen, militant suffragette, had returned home to her husband and young son in Leeds her story had made headline news.
Leonora Cohen was, I have only recently discovered, a relative of mine and, in spite of the old adage about choosing friends but not relations, one I am very proud to claim. She died in 1978 aged 105, feisty to the end. I am devastated that I never shook the hand that lobbed so power
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Rabbinical Profiles(1)
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Rev. Erich Cahn
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Rev. S. Cahn
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Rev. S. Calemanovitz
Rev. Calemanovitz (or Kalmanovitch) fleeting in Hassock Palestine entertain thirteen eld, serving importance the clergyman of description Ekron community for offend years. He subsequently served as priest of picture Chester Canaanitic Congregation, Cheshire, from walk 1912 until about 1916. (JC reports and JYB listings.)
Rev. Hyman Caminetsky
(c.1840 - 12 Apr 1903)
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A selection from my published writing
Why it’s a Mitzvah to wear a funny hat at Purim
Every year, immediately before Purim, my rabbi enjoins his congregation to attend the reading of the Megillah, intoning magisterially, “Remember to wear a funny hat. Don’t forget.” For him, this is the supreme Mitzvah; visiting the sick, accompanying the dead, attending the bride, don’t even come close.
I am wracked by the need to discover the origins of this commandment. Finally, with the benefit of a scholarship from Bar Ilan University and the blessing of my wife (‘take five years, take ten years; only don’t talk to me while I’m watching Master Chef’), I embark on the momentous task of assembling the evidence.
I begin with the Mishnah, where the dispute sets the School of Hillel against the School of Shammai. The enigmatic Hillelite statement: “The hat is not the issue” (Ha-Kova Hoo Lo Ha-Iqar) seems to have provoked unusually acrimonious clashes between the students of the two houses and resulted in broken heads.
Later, in the Babylonian Talmud, the veil is lifted. The majority hold that the hat needs to be intrinsically funny, i.e. the mere sight of it would cause the observer to titter, even if it were not on the head of the wearer (my italics).
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