A WISH FOR HEALTH,
HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY
IN THE COMING YEAR

The 60 seat "shul" called HaaVa
veHaHava (Love and Friendship) has
services Saturday at 8 a.m., 5 p.m.,
6:30 p.m. and on Monday and
Thrusday mornings with Talmud
Torah on Sunday morning at 9 a.m.
And yes, there is a minyan on most
days. The High Holidays' services are
-onducted by Rabbi Ben David who
comes from Sydney, Australia, and
usually at these holidays the congrega-
tion hall is full.

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Love, Friendship
Synagogue.

Keeping kosher doesn't seem to be a
problem. Food comes from France as
\does the matzah. The products are
old through the synagogue and at a
local super market in Papeete. The 30
Jewish families aren't all devout. There -
isn't a Hebrew school, but there is the
-occasional
bar mitzvah; Jewish wed-
.
dings, however, are nonexistent. To
date, Papeete doesn't have a Jewish
cemetery; the six original Jewish set-
tlers buried that city are always men-
tioned at Rosh Hashonah and Yom
Kippur.
Most of the Jewish population is
involved with commerce and in the
professions of medicine, law and
r" accountancy.
The history of the Jews in Papeete
goes back to 1796. The first Jews came
from Europe and North Africa. This
immigration started with the arrival of
-captain James Cook who had on board
his ship, a certain "Monsieur Jew," who
when seeing this beautiful part of the
world, decided to stay in Papeete.
-Names like Levy, Cowan and Salmon,
(originally Jews, are descendants of an
English banking family. There's a refer-
ence that a daughter married into an
old royal Pomare family.
The Association Cultuelle des
Israelites et Sympathisants de Polynesie
started in 1982. The synagogue was
constructed in 1993 and has a party
room, studio apartment for the visit-
ing rabbi and a mikvah. The "I'Aron
Hakodech" of course, faces east and
there are three Torahs, one given by
the Egyptian Jewish community living
in Paris.
This unexpected episode turned out
be one of the most interesting expe-
riences in a part of the world where
almost everything is exciting and cer-
tainly beautiful, both true about
HaaVa veHaHava Synagogue. ❑

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