Page 19 - Issue 16

By Matt Levy, HDOZ

So why do we need a symbol on all our merch? Why should
we put a Magen David with a wheat stick in the centre on all
our chultzot? Why is it on all our flyers? It’s our values and
beliefs that unite us, not some old drawing crafted at the
first world veida of Habonim Dror in 1983. Whilst so much
has changed in the last 40-odd years, why is it that our
Semel is still the same?

You might be in Manchester visiting an old friend of yours
from shnat. You might be on a family holiday in South Africa
invited to a shabbat dinner by the Jews you met at the local
holocaust museum during a tour. You might be walking
through your local neighbourhood. You might be at a rally in
the city in the Jewish block. You might be in Jerusalem