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Young Israeli Inspires WIZO AGM Audience Celebrating Tu B'shevat CSO CAPE TOWN 24 HOUR SECURITY & MEDICAL WESTERN CAPE EMERGENCIES ONLY 086 18 911 18 CSO needs your help to make a difference as a community organisation. www.csocape.org.za We are grateful for your continuous support VOLUME 37 No 2 MARCH 2020 www.cjc.org.za Young Israeli inspires Celebrating Tu B’Shevat WIZO AGM audience in service to community Herzlia and Holy Cross Grade 5 pupils pose with Cape SAJBD director Stuart Diamond and Rabbi Emma Gottlieb. Chairs of BZA WIZO Cape Town branches: Leina Sank, Adele Saven, Shelley In celebration of Tu B’Shevat on proper place to eat lunch outside. If Friedman, Janene Currie (Chairman BZA WIZO), Ros Lewenson, Kim Daitsh (for Kim Monday 10 February, the Cape you pass the school at 10am on any Wener), Louise Slavin, Beryl Verblun, Rochelle Bloomberg (for Sue Lipschitz), Ashna South African Jewish Board of weekday, you will see them eating Diamond, Cecily Mendelson, Ettie Buch, Temma Gad, Irene Moss and Michelle lunch on the sidewalk of the dead- Miller. Kneeling: Barbara Schulman and Liz Campbell. Deputies (Cape SAJBD) teamed up with one of Herzlia Primary’s end street between the school and the church. Close to 130 BZA WIZO encouraging talk on improving Grade 5 classes to undertake a members and guests gathered volunteer commitment and numbers. beautification project at Holy Cape SAJBD director Stuart Diamond A guest of the SAZF, Asif is head of at the Marais Road Shul hall Cross RC Primary in District Six. addressed the group of around in early February for the the Carmel Coast Regional Council 100 Grade 5 pupils from the two organisation’s 118th annual on Israel’s Mediterranean coastline. he Cape SAJBD identified a need schools, next to the future playground He drew many parallels between general meeting. Tto plant trees on the grounds explaining how the mix of orange and the challenges faced by both next to the school that principal lemon trees will one day bear fruit that uest speaker from Israel, Asif Israeli and South African volunteer Nomthandazo Zweni hopes to soon they can enjoy, and provide shade GIzak, was a breath of fresh organisations, from the perspective call their playground. At the moment, when they break from classes. air, giving a most interesting and of the younger generation. the pupils of Holy Cross RC have no Continues on page 15 Continues on page 31 Chaiyenu arrive in Cape Town on their SA tour In February, Chaiyanu brought Each year, when the groups return to a group of seriously ill Israeli Israel, the doctors treating them remark children aged 6-18 years, who are that the children are filled with hope and undergoing challenging cancer excitement, which helps tremendously treatment back home, to spend an in their treatment and recovery. In the words of a parent, “The Hope Tour to amazing 11 days in South Africa. South Africa is a beautiful dream come his group, made up of children true, a journey that is life-changing for Twho require daily medical and our special children.” living assistance, some of whom are in In the past year Chaiyanu has touched wheelchairs, brought their tremendous the lives of close to 800 very ill children ruach on their first day in Cape Town to and their families, bringing hope to those a party set up in their honour, sponsored devastated by cancer. by Café Riteve, Gardens Shul, Jacob Gitlin Library, SA Jewish Museum, Cape They have a jam-packed, exciting Town Jewish Community Centre, Cape schedule planned that will be reported Town Holocaust and Genocide Centre on in the April issue of the Chronicle. and King Cake. Find your Jewish Literary Festival Programme inside — see pages 21 – 24 2 Cape Jewish Chronicle March 2020 CONTENTS VOLUME 33 No 5 JUNE 2016 VOLUME 37 No 2 MARCH 2020 Regular contributors Features Page 3 Lindy with a why Page 17 Maiyan Karidi on Pumpkin Orange Page 4 Subscriptions Your Jewish Literary Festival Pages 21-24 The Jewish Literary Festival Programme 2020 Programme inside Shabbat times Pages 21 – 24 Page 30 Justin Asher on moving on from tragedy Community Noticeboard Page 31 The Board celebrates Tu B’Shevat in Cape Town Page 5 United Jewish Campaign Page 34 Habonim Dror turns 90 Pages 6-7 Mensch Page 35 Ben Cohen on the ‘Judensau’ Pages 8-10 Cape SA Jewish Board of Deputies Page 40 Environmental developments in Israel Pages 12-14 SA Zionist Federation Page 14 Telfed Page 15 BZA WIZO Page 16 Temple Israel Page 18 Union of Orthodox Synagogues Pages 19, 20, 25 Cape Jewish Seniors Association Page 26 Phyllis Jowell Jewish Day School Page 28 Jacob Gitlin Library Page 29 Anton Katz on affirmative action Page 30 Family Announcements Pages 32-33 United Herzlia Schools 39 Page 34 Maccabi Page 36 Cape Town Torah High Melton Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Centre Page 37 Jewish Community Services Page 38 Nechama 36 40 Page 39 Simcha Page Page 41 Chronic Ads Coffee Time Page 42 Chabad on Campus Page 43 Craig Nudelman on rejection SA Jewish Museum 15 CJC EDITORIAL BOARD CSO emergency Zapper SnapScan 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 Samson Centre 87 Hatfield Str Gardens 8001 PO Box 4176 Cape Town 8000 phone 021 464 6736 email [email protected] Editor Lindy Diamond Cape Jewish Chronicle March 2020 3 Lindy with a why Why goldfish may deserve an apology By Lindy Diamond, Editor Cape Jewish Chronicle You probably won’t read to the to each cultural item. This results in end of my column. “Everyone a more rapid exhaustion of limited knows” our attention spans are attention resources. When comparing getting shorter and “people the global daily top 50 hashtags on don’t read anything anymore”. Twitter, in 2013 a hashtag stayed in the top 50 for an average of 17.5 In our world of fast-paced hours, in 2016 it’s 11.9 hours.” immediacy if it doesn’t grab us straight away, we just keep Anecdotally, I just have to look at my scrolling. TLDR. Too long, own behaviour; choosing series over didn’t read. longer movies, Watching Facebook’s fast growing videos offering, where bout five years ago Microsoft short clips of Jamie Oliver and Asurveyed 2000 participants Graham Norton can suck up my and studied the brain activity of 112 entire afternoon, and my reluctant others using electroencephalograms downloading of TikTok for my eldest (EEGs). Their findings? The average daughter, to which — in a cruel twist human attention span was down from of fate (and much hilarity for her) — I 12 seconds to 8. Putting us 1 second am now addicted. All these short- behind the much-maligned goldfish. burst attention grabbers, instantly forgettable, easily digestible. It The sort of information in this study, wouldn’t seem a stretch to say that of course, is read in much detail by my attention span is shorter than it parents who worry for the attention was and that the next generation are spans of their progeny. As writer even more affected. Oscar Shwartz wryly notes in an article for The Outline, “[Microsoft’s] But then I read every word of an findings came out at a time when article online that runs to 3000 psychologists, concerned parents, words. Or I read a wonderful novel. and Boomer pundits had just gotten Or watch every dramatic minute of over the novelty of having internet Les Misérables. It’s not that we are on phones and were starting to see incapable of concentrating. Perhaps how it was ‘destroying’ our brains. We we choose our willingness to expend were suddenly living in a world where concentration based on the content one had to take trips to the Mojave and it’s perceived value to us.
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