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VOLUME 34 No 6 JULY 2017 www.cjc.org.za Celebrating Yom Yerushalayim Disaster relief from Cape Town SAUJS’ Jemma Waksman and Joshua Berkman chat to community members at the Point Mall Ambassador Arthur Lenk with the Israeli mishlachat and youth movements. in Sea Point Cape Town’s jubilee celebration of Yom Yerushalayim was hosted by the The SA Jewish Board of Deputies is working together with the Garden SA Zionist Federation Cape Town and the Union of Orthodox Synagogues, Route Jewish Association to assist in whatever way they can to bring and kicked off with an emotional Mincha / Ma’ariv service at the Sephardi relief to the victims of the Knysna fires. shul. n Cape Town, they are working with Bnoth Zion WIZO, the SA Zionist he evening continued in the Weizmann School Hall where chairman of the IFederation and the SA Union of Jewish Students to collect non-perishable TSAZF Cape Council Rowan Polovin, spoke about Jerusalem as the eternal food, clothing and toiletries to distribute to communities hardest hit. As of and undivided capital city for the Jewish People and Israeli Ambassador 12 June, over R100 000 has been raised but people have also donated to South Africa, Arthur Lenk, explained about how the Jewish people are other necessary resources for victims of the Knysna fires and Cape storm. connected to Jerusalem in so many different ways. Stan Ziman, who was Head of Communications for the Cape Board, Liza-Jane Saban said, “This present at the event, was honored for his bravery in volunteering in 1967, is a disaster of epic proportions, and as representatives of the Cape Jewish together with many other South Africans who volunteered to travel to Israel community, we are able to access and mobilise community organisations and and assist wherever possible. Rabbi Doron Kline, CEO of Telfed, was the members to assist and offer relief to the region. We have been able to channel keynote speaker for the evening and gave a heartfelt account of how the war the kind offers and generous donations from the community to the relevant had been miraculously won and how the ultimate victory of the recapture of relief organisations on the ground up the Garden Route. We know of three Jerusalem was achieved. Jewish families living in Plett who have lost their entire homes through the For pictures see page 12 fire. Our outreach efforts extend to them as well as the greater community. Our hearts go out to everyone affected by the fires, and we also extend our sincerest gratitude to men and women of the Emergency Services who have Herzlia committee 2017/2018 efficiently and bravely served these communities.” Following her yellow brick road Dancing down the of this 1938 musical yellow brick road, in has meant that many her first lead role on actresses since have Artscape’s stage, is slipped into Dorothy’s twenty-one year old ruby slippers reassuring audiences that ‘there’s Martine Kawalsky no place like home’. as Dorothy Gale. The Wizard of Oz’s message of optimism omewhere Over in bleak times make it Sthe Rainbow a fortuitous choice for endures as one of the Martine Kawalsky this year’s Gilbert and greatest movie songs Sullivan musical. of all time and remains synonymous The Herzlia AGM took place on Wednesday 24 May. The new committee was voted in with with Judy Garland. The popularity Continues on page 36 Natalie Barnett elected as Chair. Back Row: Jos Horwitz (Principal Herzlia Constantia), Mark Todes (Immediate Past Chair), Gidon Novick, Geoff Cohen (Director Education), Warren Kaimowitz, Ari Zelezniak, Anton Krupenia (Principal Herzlia Weizmann), Mike Ford (Principal Highlands Primary) Front Row: David Ginsberg (Director Finance and Administration), Bradley Carrol, Stuart Please find your Rosh Hashana greeting form inside this issue of the Cape Diamond, Martine Vogelman, Desiree Hutchison, Tanya Golan, Natalie Barnett (Chair), Jewish Chronicle. For your convenience you can now pay via Zapper or Daniel Kurgan (Vice Chair), Warren Kilborn (Treasurer), Samuel Seeff, Marc Falconer (Principal High School) SnapScan and email your wording to us. Easy! Absent: Lizbe Botes (Principal Middle School), Franki Cohen and Glenda Kruss-van den Heever 2 Cape Jewish Chronicle July 2017 CONTENTS VOLUMEVOLUME 3334 NoNo 56 JUNEJULY 20172016 Contributors Featured articles Page 3 Lindy with a why Page 5 Martine Kawalsky; Following her Yellow Brick Road Page 4 Community noticeboard Page 6 Q&A with Brett Utian Shabbat times Page 10 Ben Cohen; Our friends in the Gulf Subscription notice Page 15 Yom Yerushalayim; 50 facts Page 6 Mensch Page 32 Israel’s transport systems Page 8-9 SA Cape Jewish Board of Deputies Page 36 Jessica Kotlowitz; Saving the planet, one step at a time Page 12-13 SA Zionist Federation Page 41 14 things you didn’t know about Gal Gadot Page 14 Youth page Page 42 Helping Grieving Parents Page 16 -17 Temple Israel Page 43 Anton Katz; To remove a President Page 18 Union of Orthodox Synagogues Page 19 Telfed Page 20 Family Announcements Union of Jewish Women Bnoth Zion WIZO Page 21-23 Cape Jewish Seniors Page 24 Glendale Melton Page 25 Cape Town Holocaust Centre Jewish Community Services 16 Page 26 Limmud Page 27 South African Jewish Museum Page 28-30 United Herzlia Schools Page 31 The Herzlia Foundation Trust Page 34 Jacob Gitlin Library Page 35 Phyllis Jowell School Page 38-39 Simcha Snaps Page 40-41 Chronic Ads Page 42 Coffee Time Page 43 Diller 21 39 29 24 PLEASE NOTE The Cape Jewish Chronicle’s CJC EDITORIAL BOARD CSO emergency number for Chairman: Lester Hoffman. 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FINANCIAL You should always obtain independent expert advice prior to making any financial investment, commercial or other decisions. Do not enter into any transactions of the above nature, based partly or wholly on the content of any advertisements or articles published in the Cape Jewish Chronicle. Cape Jewish Chronicle July 2017 3 Lindy with a why Why you can’t look on the bright side of someone else’s trauma People often ask me how I come To be clear; I up with ideas for my columns. am not conflating colonialism and the Holocaust, dream about having a file on my and Mbali wasn’t either. We are Idesktop filled with sketched out connecting two cases in which ideas, cut-and-pastes of interesting trauma is minimised in an attempt to articles and voice notes from those see a non-existent, insensitive, bright moments when genius strikes side. Just don’t do it. whilst showering, driving or making I decided to ask my daughters smoothies. I could dip into the file what I should write about this month. once a month and find something Perhaps something out of the mouths brilliant at my fingertips. of babes would result in me finishing This file does not exist. Instead, this month’s issue. Over the last week at the eleventh hour an idea pops they have worried about the drought, into my head and refuses to leave. storms, fires — and how these things It sometimes pops in at 1am and I affect people. Their minds have been spend the rest of the night mentally filled with worries and overheard composing the column, come to work stories of loss. All three unequivocally and it practically writes itself. Other stressed that I should write about times it’s elusive and very frustrating beauty. Happiness. “Something and — let me tell you — mildly lovely, and also nature.” I could add terrifying as deadline looms. pictures, one suggested helpfully. A few days ago an acquaintance This does remind me, that as dark wrote a post on Facebook that gave as times get — and they have been me pause for thought. It spoke to the dark of late — people generally want idea of unintentionally minimising to be happy. We want to live optimistic someone’s grief or loss by saying that lives and we don’t want to be reacting ‘everything happens for a reason’ or from a place of fear and anger.