Recently students from the Leo Baeck Youth Orchestra from Haifa, Israel visited Southgate Progressive Synagogue to perform. Below is their message to us;
We, the members of the Leo Baeck Education Centre Youth Orchestra, which to send our heartfelt thanks to the Jewish communities of London and Birmingham for hosting us so warmly and generously. We greatly enjoyed performing in all the communities and meeting the wonderful people who arrived to listen to us. Our delight at presenting our everyday lives and experiences in Israel through the music that we so love was even increased by our audience's enjoyment and familiarity with the pieces (and laughter from our jokes).
We were deeply touched and contented to observe that music can connect people from all over the world, even in difficult, conflicted times such as these. The community members' interest and curiosity regarding our personal lives, voluntary work at school, and musical experiences, and their willingness to expose us to their own Jewish lives, showed us that we were Israeli teens truly have a supporting community of well-wishing people all over the world. Thank you for sharing Purim with us (it was hard being away from home on this special holiday), thank you for feeding us (we are always hungry) and simply - thank you for everything.
We sincerely hope that relationships between Leo Baeck and the British Jewish communities, be they long-lived or just budding, will continue to flower, perhaps leading us to visit and entertain you once again.
Neta Barlam and Eitan Gronich
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