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9 November 2012 / 24 Cheshvan 5773 Volume 16 - Number 40 News Opinion Letters Tapestry Community Columns Youth Sports friday 9 november 2012 / 24 Cheshvan 5773 volume 16 - number 40 news opinion letters tapestry community columns youth sports Robyn Orlin and Sylvia Glasser south african choreograph a full circle. (page 8) jewish report www.sajewishreport.co.za Obama’s 2nd term: More of the same, at least until Iran flares RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON The day after the election looked a lot like the day before A well-earned breather for President Barack Obama, particularly in areas that had attracted the attention of Jewish voters: Tussling with Re- publicans domestically on the economy and healthcare, and dancing gingerly with Israel around the issue of a nuclear Iran. With Obama’s victory over Republican challenger Mitt Romney, the Senate remaining in the hands of Democrats and the US House of Representatives staying Republican, this meant more of the same, said William Daroff, who directs the Washington office of the Jewish Federations of North America. “What’s amazing from a political point of view is that it’s hundreds of millions dollars being spent and it’s still the status quo,” he said. The advantage, Daroff said, was that the sides get back to work, and straight away. “There’s not going to be a delay in everyone feeling out their new roles and figuring out what colour the rug in the Oval Office should be,” he said. Jewish federations and other Jewish social welfare organisations have said their immediate focus will be the “fiscal cliff” - the effort to head off sequestration, the con- gressional mandate to slash the budget across the board at the start of 2013. President Barack Obama at Camp David, on October 21. “The fiscal cliff and specifically sequestration is a major concern,” Daroff said. “Our concern continues to be that as viability of housing for the elderly, according to officials at heading off sequestration in any case, but as a president the nation and our political leaders continue to assess how B’nai B’rith International, which runs a network of homes. with a veto-wielding mandate of four more years, he has to make cuts in spending that those cuts don’t fall dispro- Officials at Jewish federations say the cuts also would curb the leverage to head off deep cuts to programmes that his portionately on vulnerable populations that rely on social the meals and transportation for the elderly they provide top officials have said remain essential, including food as- service agencies that depend on our funding.” with assistance from federal programmes. sistance to the poor and medical entitlements for the poor Cuts of about 8,5 per cent would immediately affect the Obama and Congress would have had to deal with and elderly. To page 3 Hermanus congregant caught DAVIS: Striving for an Israel SAKS: Breaking a lance for the Protest WIZO’s Triennial Conference: with fingers in cookie jar holding to its moral compass Jewish mainstream against Israel should heed views of Rabbi Moshe Silberhaft: “While the A significant responsibility rests on our Taken as a whole, South African Jews the JNF Diaspora communities shul’s former president Jonathan religious leadership to lead towards have not caved in; if anything, their love is refuted Israel needs to invest more in hasbarah Lipman must be lauded for master- the balance between universalism and support for Israel has intensified. step-by- and how its image was projected minding the Hermanus development, and particularism demanded by our We can take heart from this as we steel step internationally. “Information is as the fact that he helped himself to its tradition, no matter the struggle. ourselves for the even greater battles important as ammunition,” said World money is intolerable.” to come. WIZO President Tova Ben Dov. 2 6 7 3 4 Beverly Feinblum - Firzt Rentalz Professional proudly contributes towards the “Friends of the Defenders” project. 011 731 0300 WE KNOW PROPERTY www.firzt.co.za 2 SA JEWISH RREPORTEPORT CommunityNews 901 – 16 - 08 November June 2012 2012 Shabbat Times Nov 9 / 24 Cheshvan Torah shines a light for us in the darkness Nov 10 / 25 Cheshvan Parshat Chayei Sara “Were the Torah not my oc- and 20 years and 7 years”. Why? teach us that she had the 18:12 19:04 Johannesburg cupation I would be lost in my The Ohr Hachaim Hakodesh Divine Spirit rest on her, 18:15 20:00 Cape Town troubles,” said King David. The explains that Sarah’s life can be in some ways greater than 18:07 19:00 Durban Author of the Dvar Moshe points divided into two different stage- of Avraham. 18:20 19:18 Bloemfontein PARSHAT CHAYEI SARAH 18:05 19:31 Port Elizabeth out that King David did not say the first 100 years and the last 27 And the Talmud lays Rabbi Yonatan Landau, 18:15 19:18 East London that were the Torah not my oc- years. down a rule, that one can Ohr Somayach Savoy cupation, I would have troubles, Until the age of 90, Sarah had only have Divine Spirit inferring that with the Torah I to bear the pain and untold an- rest on him when in a state of the challenge and became one Do you want to don’t have troubles, but rather guish of childlessness. Then even happiness. Therefore says the of the greatest examples of true that with the Torah I’m not lost after Hashem blessed her with a Netziv, she must have been regu- living for all time. reach the in my troubles. long-awaited son, her maidser- larly in a state of joy! The message is clear: We South African Difficulties are part and parcel vant Hagar’s son Yishmael tries I once heard of a court case in choose how to respond to any of daily existence, but the Torah to damage and hurt Yitzchak. America of a child who sued his situation; we can accept the chal- Jewish community? shines a light for us in the dark- Only after Yishmael was sent parents for doing a bad job! This lenge or we can wrap ourselves ness. It is our guide and direc- out of the house, when Sarah had mentality of blaming others for in a quicksand of accusation and Advertise in the tion. already reached her 100th birth- one’s issues, is unfortunately a blame. In this week’s parsha, Sarah, day, was she able to rest easier. trend in today’s society. Hashem should bless us all SA Jewish Report the Matriarch dies at the age of How would we be if we had The Torah, though, teaches with the strength and courage to 127. had to endure the difficulties just the opposite. Sarah didn’t battle all difficulties that come for great results. The Torah, though, strangely that Sarah went through? Not wallow or launch an attack on our way and become truly suc- refers to her age as “100 years exactly dancing! Yet our rabbis anyone else, but instead rose to cessful servants of Hashem. Senior Hermanus congregant caught with his fingers in the cookie jar OWN CORRESPONDENT kan in the Torah] duplicated here, but not by bringing mon- For many years, the Hermanus etary offerings, but by personal Jewish community in the west- involvement and regular attend- ern Cape was celebrated like a ance to activities in this new jewel in the crown of SA Jewry. synagogue.” Celebrants in happier times: Ann Harris; Rabbi Moshe Silberhaft; Dylan Single, the first barmitzvah boy in the The years 2008 was key in its The shul opened in time for relaunched Hermanus Shul; with the then shul president, Jonathan Lipman, in October 2008. (File photo) life, in which its own new shul Rosh Hashanah 2008; Chief was built and in which “like a Rabbi Warren Goldstein offici- ing more than just a shul for our An audit by Horwarth Zel- under duress. phoenix” the community rose ated in the consecration with community”. ler Karro at Rabbi Silberhaft’s Rabbi Silberhaft commented: from demographic distress and Rabbi Sillberhaft. The ceremony Said Ann Harris at the time: request, revealed Lipman “While Lipman must be lauded dysfunction in the 1970s to one included the unveiling of the “I’ve watched the partnership had made R900 000 worth of for masterminding the whole growing “in defiance of country- Ten Commandments, a plaque between these two gentlemen transfers to other accounts and Hermanus development, the fact wide trends”. This week it was dedicated to the memory of the [Rabbi Silberhaft and Lipman], had treated the congregation’s that he helped himself is intoler- rocked by scandal. late Chief Rabbi Cyril Harris, based on tolerance, respect and money market account like “a able. As soon as the community In 2007, the congregation who settled in Hermanus with understanding. It has kept the personal kitty”. became aware of the situation, sold its 75-year-old shul in the his wife Ann shortly after his Hermanus Hebrew Congregation Lipman also sold the old all authority was immediately town centre and purchased an- retirement in 2004. Sadly he within the fold of the UOS.” Ann shul for R7,5million and alleg- removed from Lipman and a other property in the Eastwood passed away shortly thereafter. Harris declined to comment. edly pocketed R500 000 from new, fiscally disciplined commit- neighbourhood, with the plan But Ann continues to be an It was with disbelief that the deal. Confronted with the tee was constituted. to erect a smaller community active and contributing commu- the community last week stood evidence by Rabbi Silberhaft, “The Board of Deputies will centre, which would comprise a nity member.
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