Dance Show enables freezers to be bought for Krakow Community

Thursday, 29th November 2007

The annual College Dance Show was a spectacular evening, featuring over 100 dancers from Years 7-11, with dances in a variety of genres from musicals such as Grease, Bombay Dreams and High School Musical as well as dances to well known songs by Michael Jackson. Pupils have been rehearsing their routines since the beginning of the Succot Term with professional dance coach Louise Leach.

As a result of the generosity shown by main sponsor, ?Hair on Broadway?, parents and local businesses, the College has raised £2000 to purchase commercial freezers for a new kosher shop in Krakow, which will enable them to sell frozen kosher vegetarian food bringing daily benefit to the Jewish community

In a little under two weeks Immanuel College Year 12 students will go to Poland. There, they will learn about the richness of Jewish life that was destroyed in the fires of the Holocaust, and will do what they can to assist in the rebirth of Jewish life.

Students will spend four days in Krakow, where Jews lived and thrived for over 600 years. In 1939 there were 60,000 Jews....today there are about sixty who are active in some way in the community. However, that number is growing; under the guidance of inspirational Jewish Leadership, Jews are discovering their roots and identity, and this tiny community has the potential to grow in quantity and quality.

Rabbi Eliezer Gurary the Chabad representative in Krakow is one such Inspirational leader. His projects include a communal centre and this new kosher shop: the first kosher shop in Krakow for 65 years. The shop is not a commercial enterprise; it offers products at the same cost as their non-kosher equivalent. Although tiny by London standards, it is already having an enormous effect on strengthening Jewish identity. Kosher food is hardly exists in Poland. Vegetarian food hardly exists in Poland. Kosher Vegetarian Food ? does not exist at all. It is unanimously felt that access to Kosher Vegetarian products will enable Jews to take on a Kosher lifestyle.

Year 12 students will be attending the official opening of the shop in Krakow during their visit.