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So good seeing Table Mountain again! Professor Cyril Karabus, and his wife Jenifer, celebrate his return to Cape Town after nine months of ‘house arrest’ in Abu Dhabi. Karabus was arrested while in transit through Dubai airport for ‘manslaughter’ relating to a locum he did 10 years ago in which a child died of leukaemia. He was acquitted after numerous delays and administrative blunders and finally came home last Friday, vowing never to return. See page 10 – 11.

Bertie Lubner humbled by SAKS: “Where were the ‘The outsider’ asks for Reshef concert: Have you nominated your BGU lifetime achievement ‘real voices’ of SA Jews in understanding from SA Jewry Disrupters’ hearing Jewish achiever yet? award documentary?” postponed Jewish community members Nominate people you consider “You don’t do things in life Rather than being condemned comment on homosexuality. Rabbi The Wits University disciplinary worthy of an award for their (other than earning a living) for for being merely quiescent Alexander: “The Orthodox movement hearing against 11 students who work and achievement. Send recognition. You do them for under apartheid, SA Jewry’s has moved a long way and is still disrupted a piano recital in early nominations for the annual self-interest. Life is about more leadership is falsely declared, in discussing moving further and I’d March, has been postponed, Jewish Achievers Award to than making money. It’s about an SABC documentary from last like to see them being more vocal according to a media statement. nominations@sajewishreport. the smiles on the faces of the year, to have actively supported and open so that people understand The hearing will now take place co.za by June 28. people you help…” that system. that that is happening.” on July 16, 17 and 18. 4 8 6-7 3 11

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Shabbat Times May 24/ 15 Sivan The Torah becomes the source of light May 25 / 16 Sivan Parshat Beha’alotecha The association of Aharon, and Because of the care and atten- came the personal task of each 17:07 17:58 Johannesburg of all later High Priests of Israel, tion that was needed to light the and every High Priest of Israel Parshat Beha’Alotecha 17:31 18:24 Cape Town with the task of the daily lighting candelabra in the Temple, and to to see to it that this light was 16:49 17:40 Durban Rabbi Berel Wein of the menorah/candelabra in the emphasise the holy nature of the kept eternally burning and 17:09 18:01 Bloemfontein Founder and director 17:02 17:55 Port Elizabeth Temple, is significant. task and of the candelabra itself, refreshed daily. of the Destiny 16:54 17:47 East London In our current technologi- caring for it and kindling it was It is interesting to note that Foundation cally advanced era, turning on assigned to the highest priest of the light of the menorah was World News in Brief the lights in a home or a room Israel, Aharon. not seen generally by the pub- the menorah in the Temple daily. is hardly considered to be a He and his successors symbol- lic, as not everyone had access to The Talmud teaches us that Toulouse shooting difficult or especially meaning- ised light. They represented hope, the area of the Temple where the the clothing of the High Priest arrests ful event. The flick of a switch optimism, holiness, purpose and menorah stood. was not to be soiled when he floods the area with light and peace. This physical representa- But, it was seen daily by the appeared in public view. Light- TOULOUSE - French authorities illumination. tion of Aharon’s general role in High Priest himself and the ing the menorah can be a dirty have detained a 25-year-old on sus- However, when light is sourced Jewish society served to remind radiance emanating from the job if one is not careful, as can picion of helping the gunman who from candles, wicks and oil, it all of the purpose of the Temple, menorah inspired him to be the any societal activity, no matter killed three Jewish children and a is a more complicated matter. its laws and rituals and infused constant disseminator of light, how well intentioned it may have rabbi at a Jewish school in Toulouse To produce this type of light the G-dly spirit into Jewish soci- Torah, social justice and tranquil- been at the outset. in southern France in March 2012. requires a modicum of motor ety generally. lity within Jewish society. The process and commandment The man has not been named, skills, patience and great atten- The Torah characterises itself This essential societal task of lighting the menorah served as but a formal investigation is work- tion to detail. Many problems, as light and radiance. The com- naturally entailed the same type a constant reminder to the High ing to determine whether he helped even fatalities, may be caused by mandments are the candles and of precision, persistence and Priest of the important role that the gunman, Mohamed Merah, improperly lighting the can- the kindling, and the Torah - its attention to detail, coupled with he was to always play in the fur- steal the scooter which was used delabra such as the one in the study and its observance - be- loving care and innate skills that therance of Torah and holiness in during the Toulouse shooting. Temple, with its imposing size comes the source of light itself was present when the High Priest Jewish society. (JNS.org) and dimension. for all generations of Jews. It be- serviced the physical lighting of Shabbat shalom. It’s not all doom and gloom for Johannesburg STAFF REPORTER rect billing, which is plaguing the city,” said Johannesburg had just completed the roll-out Cox. of the “Joburg 10 Plus” campaign. This was a Johannesburg has made some great strides in Public transport was improving, albeit on a system where 10 Johannesburg Metro Police the past few years, and despite some negative slow scale; the Rea Vaya bus transport system Department officers were assigned and dedi- aspects, the city is generally running well, which had been implemented in Soweto, the cated to each ward in the city. Anna Cox, The Star editor of Metrowatch, inner city and soon in Auckland Park, was “The 10 officers are guided by the commu- told a meeting of the United Zionist Lunch- proving to be successful. nity who advise them of problems peculiar eon Club last Friday. It had carried an average of 42 000 pas- to their area, such as illegal dumping, illegal “We so often complain about the city, but sengers a day with bus occupancy during peak businesses, buildings and use of property. things generally work. We wake up in the times reaching 95 per cent. They will then tackle these problems and morning, have clean running water which we The Gautrain and its buses had contributed report back on a monthly basis. can drink straight from the taps, our electric- in making the city more accessible to all, she “The scheme has taken off really well ity works, and we drive along well-kept roads Fixing potholes – an ongoing task. said. already in some areas, with a good relation- and highways. Yes, there are potholes and 18 000 potholes in the past year and cleaned “In Rosebank alone, there has been R6,8 ship being established between police and traffic lights that don’t work, but show me a more than 100km of storm-water pipes. billion of investment by the private sector residents,” city where everything is perfect,” she said. Johannesburg has also made great strides because of the Gautrain station.” In general, things were looking positive, In the city, 98 per cent of residents now in becoming a “smart” city with 750km of The city was encouraging densification said Cox. have clean drinking water from a tap. Nine broadband optic fibre rolled out. around the stations, to encourage people to “Yes, the billing crisis is still around and not out of 10 have access to electricity at the flick In this vein, the city is installing smart live closer to transport. likely to disappear soon because of deep-root- of a switch. About 91 per cent benefit from meters in households - a process which will be Health services were performing well under ed problems, but things get repaired fairly sanitation service and regular refuse removal. complete by 2014. the strain with some 3,2 million patients quickly if reported. Minor problems such as “For a Third World city, this is quite an “This means that the city will be able to walking through the doors of the 80 primary potholes, are usually repaired quickly. achievement,” she said. read electricity meters remotely without me- healthcare facilities in Johannesburg in “Yes, there are problems with infrastruc- The city has upgraded more than 9km of ter readers having to visit people’s premises. 2011/12 to receive free diagnosis, treatment, ture in some areas which were not designed water and sewer networks in Fourways, Or- This should help alleviate incorrect meter counselling and care. to take so much development, but these are ange Farm and Alexandra, patched more than readings which are the main cause of incor- She said as far as safety was concerned, surmountable,” she said.

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The Wits University disciplinary hearing pro-bono legal representation. The decision Board of Deputies. The inset shows incom- against 11 students who disrupted a piano of postponement follows two protest rallies ing Wits Vice-Chancellor Adam Habib, who recital in early March, has been postponed, organised in support of Wits University’s addressed the students on behalf of the according to a media statement. Lawyers SRC earlier this month. The second rally, university administration. for the 11, charged for protesting the on May 13 was supported by members of Concerns have been raised that the concert in which Israeli-born pianist Yossi Nehawu and the Workers Solidarity Com- protesters are targeting general Jewish Reshef performed, have successfully argued mittee. organisations such as the SAJBD, which are for the postponement of their disciplinary In the photograph above, protesters not directly related to Israel, and thus are hearing, which will now take place on July display posters calling for the withdrawal targeting SA Jewry directly. 16, 17 and 18. of charges against the 11 students as well They delivered a memorandum to Wits The reasons for the new dates include as general slogans against Israel and Jew- Registrar Kirti Menon, demanding that all the difficulty students faced in obtaining ish organisations, including the SA Jewish charges against the students be dropped. 4 SA JEWISH REPORT News 01 -24 08 – 31June May 2012 2013 Bertie Lubner humbled by BGU lifetime achievement award ROBYN SASSEN tive social change has made a momentous contribution to his native South Africa and in “I have achieved many things,” a visibly moved Israel,” the award was presented in a frame. Bertie Lubner, veteran businessman and Professor Rivka Carmi, president of BGU, philanthropist told the SA Jewish Report this called Lubner “a most remarkable and beloved week, “but this surpasses my life’s most memo- friend of BGU and indeed of humanity.” She rable moments.” He was referring to his receiv- added that Lubner had been a major figure in ing the first ever lifetime achievement award the university and its board of governors since of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in a 1975. lavish ceremony a fortnight ago. “Brought up in a home where the values of “The award was completely unexpected. The caring and giving were taught and treasured, university conferred an honorary doctorate Bertie has over the years supported our stu- on me in 1987. Some BGU council members dents and encouraged them with projects and had visited South Africa. They heard of my prizes to give to the less fortunate and to take

achievements in business, philanthropy and responsible roles in society,” she said. Photo by Dan Machlis/BGU government and they visited Afrika Tikkun “He is a role model par excellence, dedicated BGU’s President Professor Rivka Carmi presents Bertie Lubner with the university’s first-ever and Kibbutz Lubner and the Field Band. This and devoted to us as well as to the underprivi- lifetime achievement award. award was conferred on me for all my diverse leged communities in South Africa, and most levels of involvement locally and similarly in worthy of the honour bestowed upon him.” second president, Joseph Tekoa. He praised based centres of excellence. Israel. They told me they could not give me a Lubner said retrospectively that on the even- BGU’s success in helping to realise Ben-Guri- With his brother Ronnie, he founded the second doctorate. ing he asked himself quietly: “What am I doing on’s dream of making the desert bloom. Field Band Foundation, which supports 42 “As a vice-chairman of the university, I had here? I could not believe the quality of the peo- “This university was created with little; its bands incorporating some 6 000 children. The often taken part in the doctoral ceremonies, ple getting honorary doctorates that night.” success is about the triumph of the human Lubner family also set up Kibbutz Lubner in but was surprised when they told me I could In his acceptance speech, Lubner said he had spirit. In fact, its triumph is a microcosm of 1978, for mentally challenged adults. not wear the academic hood, but also when been inspired by three people: his late father, Israel and Zionism itself.” In 2011, he was among the Jerusalem Post’s I was told that I would be receiving an award Morrie, a prominent self-made entrepreneur Lubner has made philanthropy a key part list of 50 of the world’s most influential Jews. first, before the honorary doctorates. When in Johannesburg; Israel’s first and founding of his life and has inculcated the importance “You have got to learn from life’s lessons,” they played the video footage of about 10 min- prime minister, David Ben-Gurion; and former of giving in his four children. Both in South he added. “You can never say you’re successful utes about my life, I was awestruck. South African President Nelson Mandela. Africa and Israel, he and his family have sup- until you have had two successes: when you did “You don’t do things in life for recognition. “Each in his own way had to pursue a life of ported many worthy causes - especially in it for yourself and your family and when you Life is about more than making money. It’s hard work and sacrifice to succeed in his goals children and adults with special needs. are able to pass it on to others. It’s about being about the smiles on the faces of the people so that he, in turn, could add value to the lives As a philanthropist, in collaboration with part of this world. Also, you do not know what you help…” of millions,” he said. the late Chief Rabbi Cyril Harris, in 1994 he your best role is until you have challenged Describing Lubner as “an exceptional man In 1975, Lubner was invited to be president founded Afrika Tikkun, which looks after yourself. But morality and balance are key to whose belief in the power of effecting innova- of the SA Associates of BGU by the university’s thousands of beneficiaries in six township everything.”

south african World News in Brief State Department notes a continued rise in Jewish Report global anti-Semitism

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Call for Nominations Absa Jewish Achiever Awards 2013

The award caTegories are: • Cell C Lifetime Achievement Award in honour of Helen Suzman • Business Person – Absa Listed Company Award • Business Person – Absa Unlisted Company Award A member of the Jewish community looks at a swastika painted on a headstone in a Jewish • Business Person – Absa Entrepreneur Award cemetery in Herrlisheim, eastern France. • The Community Service Award • The Arts, Science, Sports & Culture Award WASHINGTON - The US State Department’s religious freedoms report describes “a continued • The Chivas Humanitarian Award in honour of global increase in anti-Semitism”. Chief Rabbi Cyril Harris. “Of great concern were expressions of anti-Semitism by government officials, by religious To nominaTe or for more informaTion: leaders, and by the media, particularly in Venezuela, Egypt, and Iran,” the report released on email [email protected] Monday, said. “At times, such statements led to desecration and violence.” or visit www.saJewishreport.co.za It noted the continued “flourishing” of the Passover blood libel as well as Holocaust denial. The closing date for nominations is 28 June 2013 US Secretary of State John Kerry noted the phenomenon in introducing Ira Forman, the new envoy to combat anti-Semitism. “Ira has long been a champion of fair treatment for all, and he has worked extensively to combat intolerance,” Kerry said of Forman, whose background is a longtime campaigner for the Democratic Party in the Jewish community. In its Israel section, the report noted Orthodox Jewish hegemony in civil law as it applies to Jews, as well as restrictions on women’s prayer at the Western Wall. It also noted how religious tensions at times erupt into violence, noting attacks on churches and mosques “in retaliation for government actions to restrict settlement activity in the West Bank and designed to exact a ‘price’ for actions settlers considered contrary to their interests” as well as Muslim attacks on haredi Orthodox Jews. (JTA) 24 – 31 May 2013 News SA JEWISH REPORT 5 ORT SA is at the leading Pogrund gets edge of entrepreneurship Media Award in South Africa The Business Entrepreneurship A judging panel, made up of success- “Our judges and prize sponsors are Division (JET) of ORT SA, recognises ful business people from a various sec- thrilled to be part of such an exciting that 70 per cent of all employees are tors, will be judging the finalists. The initiative”, said Cindy Silberg, Business employed in small businesses in South winners will take home a suite of prizes Mentorship Manager. Africa. which include R75 000 in business The winners will be announced at a ORT JET said in a media release that start-up prizes, an interest-free loan of gala event which will be held in Johan- 2013 Tomkinson Copyright © Matthew through its unique Business Mentor- R100 000 and a support system from nesburg with a special performance by ship Programme, small and start-up the ORT JET Mentorship Programme. Johnny Clegg. businesses could access support, guidance, mentoring and topnotch Benjamin Pogrund (pictured), former deputy editor of the financial and business training. Rand Daily Mail in Johannesburg, now living in Israel, has In addition to this, for the third received the prestigious “International Media Award 2013”. year running, ORT JET has created Pogrund was an anti-apartheid activist in his newspaper a platform for creativity through its time in South Africa. After a stint in London, he immigrated Business Plan Competition, named to Israel and started Yakar, a humanitarian NGO, creating Eureka! This year, the competition’s bridges for interaction between Israelis and Palestinians. He headline sponsor is Liberty. is also co-founder of the Israel-Palestine Journal. Out of 90 entries, the final 10 busi- From Israel Pogrund told Jewish Report: “The award was ness plans are competing for first, for my work in South Africa and in Israel and came as a total second and third places. “This annual surprise. I was especially happy about it because I was cho- competition is an innovative way of sen by my peers, by a panel of journalists from many parts of encouraging creativity and entrepre- the world. neurship,” says Paul Bacher, CEO of “I am proud to have spent most of my life as a journalist. ORT JET. There have been a lot of hard experiences but I have been “What better way to encourage en- blessed and sustained by wonderful friends and have been trepreneurship than to run a competi- surrounded by colleagues who do their jobs with honesty and tion to get the creative juices working? courage. We, at ORT JET believe our range of “During the awards ceremony a roll call was read out of initiatives has the scope and depth to scores of journalists killed during the past year. I thought be able to transform our clients into about the men and women who day after day put their lives successful entrepreneurs and income- Nominees of the Most Improved Business of the Year are Aviva Baran Rothschild; on the line so that we can know the bad and the good of what earners.” Rodney Ntlemo; Valeria Mahlangu; and Julian Klavansky. happens in the world. They deserve recognition and honour.” Generation Sinai – a global success story SHIRA DRUION through the power of Torah, is beautiful to witness and be a part of.” Generation Sinai, the brainchild of Chief “We partnered with schools in 15 Israeli Rabbi Warren Goldstein, is an initiative cities, schools across London and and Mos- which has enjoyed enormous success over cow, Odessa, Melbourne, Sydney, Buenos the last two years since its inception. Aires, San Diego, New Jersey, and all Jewish Every year, on Rosh Chodesh Sivan, all schools in South Africa,” said Rabbi Pogrund. Jewish day schools in South Africa host a The programme centred on the first parent/child learning programme to wel- paragraph of Shema. “The Shema is one of come in the month of the receiving of the the most important and universal texts in Torah over 3 000 years ago. This year, Rabbi Jewish life and is one that all Jews can relate Goldstein, assisted by Rabbi Gideon Pogr- to. We aim for it to be a universal experience und, ensured Generation Sinai went global, which does not preclude anyone, irrespective partnered by more than 100 Jewish day of education or level of observance. schools in 38 cities on six continents. “Jews around the world are separated by “It was such an inspiring day for our oceans and mountains, continents and cli- community and for communities across the mates, language and culture, but we have one continents. The power of Generation Sinai Torah that holds us all together. is the precious bond that is created when “The South African Jewish community parents and children learn Torah together,” can not only take great pride in the fact that said Rabbi Goldstein. Generation Sinai was born here, but also how “The concept of Generation Sinai is simple, we as a community are assuming a leadership yet revolutionary,” said Rabbi Ricky Seeff, role in world Jewry by sharing our program- head of Jewish Life for King David Schools. ming with Jewish communities following our “The bonding of parents and children lead.” Ari and Jordan Jutan study with their grandfather Ron at Yeshiva College

Photo by Ilan Ossendryver 6 SA JEWISH REPORT Opinion and Analysis 01 -24 08 – 31June May 2012 2013 Jewishsouth african Report Community Voices Summing up views The East is not the West on Jewish homosexuality The Karabus saga is over. But it has reminded us of Last Friday was International Homophobia Day, coined in 2004 to the fact that we cannot look at the world only through Western perspectives. commemorate the World Health Organisation’s 1990 decision to remove Our bemusement as to why all the criticism and pro- homosexuality from its list of mental disorders. Today, organisations in more test against the United Arab Emirate’s treatment of Prof Cyril Karabus seemed to have virtually no effect, than 70 countries commemorate this day. The Jewish Report asked leading may be explained partially by the fact that the region professionals in the lay and religious communities if they feel the Jewish ethos in which the UAE exists is not at all Western. Indeed, the mindset and belief system is radically different. It should be accepting toward homosexuality and same-sex marriage. is simply not a democratic system. The fact that Dubai is to Westerners a gigantic shop- Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein, David Bilchitz (professor, Hu- ping mall where one can, among all the glitz and glam- “Torah law prohibits homosexual man Rights and Constitutional our, buy anything at all, does not make it Western. Be- acts. However, Torah law also Law, University of Johannes- hind the façade they don’t play by “our” rules. prohibits any form of verbal or burg; founding member, Jew- In addition, they have so much money and so much physical abuse which may cause ish OutLook:SA Jewish LGBTI oil that they feel they can simply behave as if they emotional or physical harm. Our Alliance): “Same-sex relation- “don’t give a damn”. They can buy whatever they want, Torah requires each one of us ships, just like opposite sex rela- to treat all people with dignity, tionships, are about connection wherever they want. We can console ourselves by say- kindness and respect irrespective between people and love. The ing: “One day they will run out of oil”. For the time of their race, religion or sexual deepest values of Jewish tradi- being, however, they are in the driving seat. orientation. “Beloved is the hu- tion - which include respect for To show up the difference of mindset from that of man being created in G-d’s image” (Pirkei Avot 3:18) is a Tal- human dignity (our being B’tzelem Elokim), equality, justice the West, one only needs to look at what is happening mudic principle that guides us to interact with every human and family - all support recognising the diversity of sexual currently in Syria, another country in the Middle East being in a manner consistent with Judaism’s highest stand- orientation and would require according equal respect to gay/ which at times has seemed to be “almost” Western and ards of derech eretz and sensitivity.” lesbian relationships. That should include sanctifying those which seemed to be stable, yet within a short space of relationships in marriage (Kiddushin or a Brit Ahavah). time has descended into absolute chaos and barbarity Rabbi Moshe Kurtstag (Rosh “Those who only speak the language of prejudice, hatred with chemical weapons purportedly being used and Beth Din, Johannesburg): “Ac- and condemnation against gay/lesbian people, dishonour some 90 000 people - mostly civilians - killed in the cording to Jewish law, a Jewish Jewish tradition and reflect a shallow understanding of its marriage can only take place be- capacity to embrace the full wonder of human diversity. past nine months. tween a man and a woman who Parts of the Jewish community still unfortunately condemn Clearly the Karabus saga had nothing to do with him are permitted to get married. many to the tyranny of the closet; instead, all parts of our being Jewish, even though to South African Jews that Gay relationships are prohibited community should become a beacon of acceptance and em- point is of great interest. The mainstream press was according to the Torah, hence brace us - its gay and lesbian members - as part of its rich, just as interested in the story and Karabus’ Jewishness there is no possibility of a Jewish varied tapestry.” was hardly mentioned and not material to the overall marriage.” picture. Rabbi Greg Alexander, rabbi Has this sad story been a wakeup call? The talk of Cape Town Progressive Jew- among doctors and other professionals in South Africa Kim Berman, executive direc- ish Congregation: “The Jewish today is that many would think twice about going to tor Artist Proof Studio and as- community should be shout- work in the Emirates or other places like Saudi Arabia, sociate professor, Dept of Visual ing, ‘Shalom - welcome!’ from Art, University of Johannesburg, the rooftops. It is prejudice, not even though the money may be good. who has been in a committed re- halachah, that has kept gay and Even the reputation of Emirates Airlines has been lationship with her life-partner lesbian Jews in the community badly tarnished in this - Karabus himself is absolutely Robyn for the past 22 years: “To closet - out of sight so we could scathing about the fact that Emirates let him fly, when address this question, one should pretend that they did not exist. it knew he had a security notice against him – some- ask why this question should “It is time for every rabbi, thing Karabus was blissfully unaware of. even be asked. Why should the leader, organisation or shul to recognise the right of people Karabus is back home next to his beloved Table Jewish ethos not accept human to be as the Creator made them. Whether one is Progressive Mountain, but he has become a catalyst for a serious rights, dignity, equality, freedom of choice? Why should a or Orthodox, there is no contradiction in being gay and be- rethink of what the “East” is really about. Has there Jewish ethos consider the discrimination against the gay and ing frum.” been a smattering of arrogance in the Western mind- lesbian community? Does this question imply that the Jews set which assumes that all the world can be looked at have a standard and ethos of humanity in which dignity and Marc Falconer, headmaster, rights are reserved only for a certain heterosexual portion of King David Linksfield High through Western eyes and expected to play by Western the community? School: “As it happens my rules. The old concept of “fair play” – as we know it - “‘Tikkun olam’ means ‘to heal, repair and transform the personal opinion seems to mesh simply does not apply in the same way. world’. Is that a Jewish ethos? Jews who are racist, homo- rather neatly with the official Perhaps the same wakeup call needs to be applied to phobic or discriminate against others, cannot uphold a Jew- policy of the King David schools. a country like China, even though the religious issue - ish ethos in my opinion.” “I believe that the school such as Sharia law in many Muslim countries - which should be a safe and happy place draws the parameters so strictly in the Middle East, Lael Bethlehem, Johannesburg: for all children. From what I does not apply in China in the same way. “To me it’s simple. Some people understand, homosexuality is Nevertheless, child labourers in sweat shops are pro- are homosexual and that includes not condemned by the school, ducing many of the wonderful Chinese products which Jews. This is not something that and from a personal point of view I would certainly not are flooding the West at bargain basement prices and can be changed, and nor it is a discriminate against anyone and would rather seek to problem, except in the mind. If support pupils who may find their own search for identity are being snapped up by eager Westerners. Jewish institutions choose to difficult or painful.” Meanwhile, in the centre of the Middle East region, exclude gays, they are rejecting Israel exists as a Western-style democracy which in- Jews who are often enthusias- Professor Selma Browde, found- deed does try to play to the rules of Western common tic and valuable members of the er and director of the Hospital Pal- law and due process. community. Things have changed liative Care Team: “As a Jew, I be- But with the neighbours that they have, they have to a lot in the last decade. Most people accept that some Jews lieve the foundation and heart of understand the mindset and the times when healthy are gay and we have rights, including marriage. If gays are ex- Judaism is captured in the phrase political cynicism must be applied. Appealing to West- cluded, it not only tramples on our humanity, it also weakens which appears in the Torah: ‘Love ern style fair play just doesn’t work. the Jewish community. thy neighbour as thyself.’ Twenty-first century technology is another smoke- “I am married, gay, and proud to be an active member of “Hillel, one of the most impor- screen we must see through. Because of globalisation the Jewish community.” tant figures in Jewish history, when asked how he would de- and the pervasiveness of the Internet, social media and Worldwide overview scribe Judaism while standing on so on in countries throughout the world today, we as- one leg, spoke those words. He also said that all the rest is com- sume that our global neighbours are of the same mind- In several countries, including Iran, homosexuality is mentary. Therefore, loving one another means not discriminat- set and worldview and that we are all clones of one big punishable by death. In some 80 countries, it is illegal, ing against those who appear to be different in one way or an- “progressive” community. Obviously we are not. including Malawi, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Uganda. other. In a bizarre sort of way, we have to thank Karabus for “There is no choice in homosexuality: It is genetically deter- the lesson which his ordeal has brought so vividly back In 14 countries, including South Africa, people mined. Science has proved that one is born with one’s sexual cannot be discriminated against based on their sexual into our minds - with a healthy dollop of realism. orientation. Clearly, accepting homosexuality and, therefore, gay orientation and same-sex marriage is fully legal. marriage is following the essence of Judaism: Namely tolerance.” 24 – 31 May 2013 Opinion and Analysis SA JEWISH REPORT 7 ‘The outsider’ asks for understanding from broader community

ing along with the rest of the country.” Shifra Jacobson, who had “a particularly Jewish” commitment ceremony with her female partner in 1994, said she was “so happy” to be at the gathering. “I feel that tonight is the first

Photo: Moira Schneider Photo: time there’s been a public acknowledgement by members of the community that there are Jew- ish gay people.” Speaking to Jewish Report afterwards, Rabbi Greg Alexander of the Cape Town Progressive Jewish Congregation, under whose auspices the event was held, said his concern was about any person or group that was “marginalised” by Ju- daism, specifically those motivated by prejudice, “and this is one of them”. He said one aim of the meeting was to discuss possibilities of group activities such as Shabbos dinners, movie nights, involvement in the Gay Pride movement and challenging the broader Jewish community to be more inclusive and querying the biblical texts around the issue. “There are Orthodox rabbis who are being a Andrea Kuti; Melanie Judge; Shifra Jacobson; and Gina Flash at the gathering of LGBTI Jews and friends at the Table Bay Hotel. lot more proactive in getting the message out. MOIRA SCHNEIDER - the memorial prayer for the dead - he says the Point, he felt he should inform the lay leaders Even in South Africa there are Orthodox rab- CAPE TOWN rabbi ignored him. “He never once put his arm of the school that he was living with a same-sex bis, for example Rabbi (Ramon) Widmonte in around me and asked how I was doing. I told the partner. “We’re not worried about what your Johannesburg, who have been a little bit more Is the Jewish community generally accepting ‘gabbai’ (president) I was leaving the shul.” particular lifestyle is, we’re concerned with your outspoken and welcoming. of the outsider, particularly those with differ- When the rabbi approached him saying he be- role as an educator,” they told him. “Broadly speaking, the Orthodox movement ent sexual identities? Yes and no, according to lieved he had a problem, Victor did not hesitate Some of the parents, however, would use has moved a long way and is still discussing participants at a gathering of LGBTI Jews and in telling him exactly how he felt. “Do you know his orientation, saying, “You don’t really know moving further and I’d like to see them being friends held at the Table Bay Hotel last week. how many funerals I do?” was the response. about children. I phoned the chairman of the more vocal and open so that people understand The acronym refers collectively to lesbian, gay, His good experience concerned the Chevra school who supported me at every turn and that that is happening.” bisexual, transgender and intersex individuals. Kadisha. At the time of his partner’s death, he supported me 100 per cent,” he said. Li Boiskin, chairman of SAJBD’s Cape Harry Victor had both a good and a bad expe- was asked whether he would like a single or a Dan Brotman said it was interesting to see Council, said the Board respected the fact that rience to relate. A member of a prominent shul double grave. It emerged that the Jewish doctor how the Jewish community was embracing gay the community was diverse and invited those in this city for close on 70 years - he is about to had written on the death certificate, “Treat as a people. “I had a lot of letters from lay leaders present to become involved in its representative celebrate his second barmitzvah - Victor lost his married couple”. and the professional leadership when I got institution. “You have the right to nominate same-sex partner of 48 years some six years ago. When Richard Freedman was about to be ap- engaged (to his male partner),” he recalled. people to stand for this body so that your opin- During the time that he was saying “kaddish” pointed principal of Weizmann Primary in Sea “I hope that the Jewish community is evolv- ions can be heard,” she said.

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Moreover, the bulk of his traparliamentary activists (too numerous to even responsible for al- film was devoted to the voices of those similarly attempt a short-list, although Lionel Bernstein, on the fringes. Ruth First and Joe Slovo most readily come to Dura shooting. The result portrayed a community that was mind). BARBARIC YAWP tortured, traumatised, confused, guilt-ridden and Journalists include Benjamin Pogrund and JERUSALEM - An Israeli David Saks divided. Religion was something other Jews did, Anton Harber, novelists, Nadine Gordimer and government review of the death of not the “rational humanists” that were chosen to playwrights and producers, Barney Simon. 12-year-old Muhammad al-Dura Last year the SABC screened a series of documen- convey to the rest of South Africa what it meant to It is a bizarre, as well as cruel and surely during the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000, taries, entitled “Imagined Homeland”, on different be Jewish. unfair irony that this remarkable plethora of has officially debunked a French South African faith and/or ethnic communities. Whereas the other communities dealt with, Jews who were involved in the anti-apartheid television report suggesting he was Those communities featured included the Greeks, depicted their South African past in terms of the struggle is often used not to reflect credit on killed by direct IDF fire. Indians, Italians and you know who. immigrant experience - a success story in which the Jewish community as a whole, but as a way The report, presented to Prime As was predictable, the Italian film lingered greenhorns were able to forge a new life and of denouncing those Jews who did not act in the Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on fondly on images of pretty young women pre- identity in a new land - Jews were depicted either same way. Sunday, further concluded it was paring pasta in the bosom of the famiglia amid beating their breasts over their collective failure to The result is to depict Jews as being somehow highly likely the boy survived the strains of La donna e mobile and the Indian doccie oppose apartheid, or having contemptuous fingers uniquely guilty of exploiting and oppressing incident unscathed and may still featured plenty on curry and Hindu prayer rituals, pointed at them by those individuals who did. the black majority, even though of all the white be alive. The boy’s father urged an while delving into the deeper South African Indian Israel comes across as a kind of guilty secret, sub-groups, they had a genuine excuse in light of international inquest. saga of immigration, persecution and liberation. with those who dissent from the Zionistic view their traumatic recent past to keep their collective The incident took place on The Greek film also focused mainly on food, being ostracised. The whole is largely flavoured by heads below the parapet. September 30, 2000 - the early family and language and religion. Popping up depictions of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism. Recent developments have shown that this kind days of the Al-Aqsa Intifada - when throughout was the great anti-apartheid advocate, It is quite understandable that Greek South of finger-pointing can be taken beyond simply Jamal al-Dura and his 12-year-old George Bizos, who spoke about being Greek in Africans should be proud of George Bizos, and judging mainstream Jewry for what happened in son Muhammad were filmed by a the context of being a good, justice-seeking South that this should have featured in the documentary the past to actively denigrating its leadership in France 2 news crew taking cover African. on them. However, apart from Bizos (and perhaps the present. behind a concrete barrier after they All in all, it was the usual feel-good, travel-bro- two or three more minor figures) how many Now, rather than being condemned for being were caught in a crossfire between chure stuff, deadly dull in my view but certainly Greeks, in truth, were involved in anti-apartheid merely quiescent under apartheid, its leadership Israeli soldiers and Palestinian inoffensive and at bottom motivated by the film- activism? is falsely declared to have actively supported that police forces in Netzarim Junction, makers’ strong sense of pride in their respective Despite this, neither the Greeks nor the Italians system. in the Gaza Strip. identities. indulge in self-flagellating apologies for their Most recently, the SAJBD was said by the Young France 2 reported the boy was And the Jewish programme? This took the form apartheid-era record in their respective pro- Communist League of SA to have had “a long his- killed by direct fire from a nearby of a first-person exploration of what it meant to be grammes. tory of supporting apartheid in South Africa and IDF post. The Israeli government Jewish in the context of the South African histori- While the Greek community has Bizos, Jewish lobbying against attempts to end it”. review, however, examined raw cal and contemporary experience. 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STORY AND PHOTOGRAPH BY active members of the Claremont impressive, Ja.” MOIRA SCHNEIDER Hebrew Congregation, having On Shabbat morning, he “ben- CAPE TOWN joined when the family first came sched gomel”, the blessing said to Cape Town in 1949, making by an individual after surviving Professor Cyril Karabus does not him one of its longest-standing a life-threatening situation, an know whether his captors knew members. His father, in fact, emotional moment, enhanced by he was Jewish, but feels that it served as chairman of the Clare- the presence of his son and son- didn’t make “any damned differ- mont Hebrew School. in-law. His joyous arrival greeted ence” to his ordeal. “This is just by hundreds at Cape Town Inter- the way (things are there) - non- ‘I will never, ever fly national Airport the previous day, Emiratis are second class citizens. also had a Jewish flavour when Emirates again and I will be “If anything happens, if you he was blessed by Rabbi Asher have a motor accident and they writing to all the medical Deren, chairman of the Rabbinical drive into you, don’t bother to journals in the world about Association of the Western Cape, fight them because you’re the one this and advise people not and a troupe of Cape minstrels who’s going to suffer, not them. to fly Emirates.’ sang Hava Nagila, Heivenu Sha- They are superior, that’s all.” lom Aleichem and Welcome to The retired paediatric oncolo- So it was not unexpected that Cape Town. gist was speaking to Jewish Re- he, along with his Cape Town attorney Michael Bagraim, would port on his return from the Unit- ‘I think a boycott would ed Arab Emirates (UAE) where he make the shul one of his first has been held for the past nine stops after his return to the coun- have been more effective months on charges of fraud and try last Friday. because they (UAE) take manslaughter in connection with Arriving just before the Ma’ariv no notice of any protests in the death of a three-year-old can- service, he was overwhelmed the world because it’s not cer patient he treated while doing when the congregation, having reported.’ a locum there in 2002. Karabus spotted him trying to make an was in transit through Dubai unobtrusive entry, broke into a Also there were the children on his way back from attending hearty rendition of Heivenu Sha- from the Phyllis Jowell Jewish his son’s wedding in Canada last lom Aleichem. Day School, singing and dancing. August, when he was arrested at The quietly-spoken professor While the conditions in the the airport. Unbeknown to him, describes it as “the big hello”, Islamic UAE were not exactly he had been tried and convicted saying it was “really quite amaz- conducive to Jewish festival in absentia in 2003 and there was ing, nice to see everybody, people observance, Karabus did the best a warrant out for his arrest. I hadn’t been in touch with for he could. “I must say I did go off Karabus’ parents were very many, many months. It was very bread for the week of Pesach. Welcome home! The medical fraternity celebrates Prof Karabus’ safe return to South Africa

The safe home-coming of Prof Cyril Karabus, after his nine-month ordeal in the United Arab Emirates, on fraud and manslaughter charges which were later rejected by an Abu Dhabi court, has elicited much jubilation among the medical fraternity.

Dr Philip Matley Prof, we are pleased to have you back home. From all at Dr Matley and Partners Surgical Practice.

Dr Solly Burgin We are happy that your ordeal has come to the end. Wish you many happy years. Best regards.

Dr Mossie Silbert and his wife Marlene Welcome home, Cyril. We wish you good health and much joy with your family. This message comes from Mossie Silbert, a member of your medical fraternity, and from Marlene Silbert who has the pleasure of working with your son-in-law, Gavin at the South African Jewish Museum.

Dr Peter Baker and his wife Marleen We were appalled at the treatment you received at the hands of the Emirates authorities and the regrettable role that the airline appeared to have played. Good to have you back at last and may you enjoy good health and a speedy recovery from your ordeal.

Dr Theo Kopenhager Dear Prof, it was wonderful to see your smiling face and hear your strong voice at your home-coming reception. From the evil done to you has come much good. Strangers met and rallied to your cause. The world was made aware that natural law and human rights are fragile concepts that require constant protection. Look how many people who have never ever met you, fought in every way possible to bring you home. Thank goodness our fears were not realised and that with you as the standard-bearer we can do the same for others in the same predicament. I honour you, sir, and your strength and fortitude. 24 – 31 May 2013 News SA JEWISH REPORT 11 Mountain again at close range...

“Yom Kippur I was in jail, I didn’t eat who were just members of various medical in at Toronto,” yet they cleared him to agined it was some sort of traffic offence,” then. That was the easiest Fast I ever did,” societies and stuff, including one from the board the plane. “They were complicit in Bagraim laughs. “I said: ‘Don’t worry, I’ll he laughs. Bangladesh Community of Science! I tried having me arrested, so they’re not a bloody sort it out and we’ll get him back here in There were “quite often” times when he to answer most of them.” airline, they’re a police force,” he says a few days.’ I slightly underestimated the thought the situation would never end. Karabus refers to the South African Medi- angrily.“They also made me pay another situation. I got embroiled in it and gave “It just went on… you went to court and cal Association’s call for a medical boycott R1 000 to fly back home because I changed up nine months of my life - in the last six nothing happened, or you weren’t told what of the United Arab Emirates at the World the ticket,” he says with indignation. “I will months I’ve done absolutely nothing else happened. Medical Association Congress in Bali in never, ever fly Emirates again and I will be from seven in the morning until seven at April, but this was “watered down” to rather writing to all the medical journals in the night. It’s been a long haul - and the law just discourage their members from work- world about this and advise people not to wasn’t helping.” ing in the Emirates. fly Emirates.” ‘Yom Kippur I was in jail, I “I think a boycott would have been more After his release on bail from his two- ‘I got embroiled in it and gave didn’t eat then. That was effective because they (UAE) take no notice month incarceration, Karabus was not up nine months of my life - in of any protests in the world because it’s not allowed to leave the country and stayed in the easiest Fast I ever did.’ the last six months I’ve done reported. Abu Dhabi for seven months with Dr Elwin “Calling for a boycott, I think, would have Buchel - former head of gastroenterology absolutely nothing else from made a difference because they’re very de- at Pretoria University - an arrangement seven in the morning until seven “You had to read in the newspaper the pendent on foreign labour - something like facilitated by their mutual friend, the late at night.’ next day what had transpired, but they only 85 per cent of the population of the Emir- Professor Solly Marks. “He got Elwin to translated very small amounts of the court ates are non-Emiratis. There’s a helluva lot come and pick me up,” Karabus recalls with Bagraim has provided his services free discussion. The judge, a Moroccan, never of overseas medical people there.” gratitude. of charge. He paid tribute to businessman said a word to me.” Driving the campaign for his release Dr Iqbal Surve, who had been a medical I suggest that the professor’s saga had throughout was Michael Bagraim, who student of Karabus in the 1980s, whose the effect of uniting South Africans more I suggest that the made sure that Karabus’ ordeal remained contacts in the UAE were the ones that than any politician could have done, as we professor’s saga had the front and centre stage in the public con- finally “bore fruit”. experienced his many highs and lows with effect of uniting South sciousness. A labour lawyer, Bagraim does For Karabus, to return home after nine him on a continuous basis. Could he ever Africans more than any not usually take on criminal cases such long months was, needless to say, “fantas- have imagined that he would be a house- politician could have done. as this. This one however was close to his tic. To come down and see Table Mountain, hold name? heart. Signal Hill, Lion’s Head from the plane, was “No, not really,” he ponders. “It’s a helluva “I got a phone call at three in the morning just tremendous.” way to go about being one, but (the sup- In something of an understatement, it from the family on August 18 (last year),” Karabus kept a diary while he was there port) was quite impressive, I must say. emerges, Karabus says he is “not happy” he recalls. “I’ve been their family attorney and said he “might” write a book on his “The amount of support I had from all with Emirates Airlines. “They were liars and for years and Cyril also happens to be (wife) experience. But for the moment he is just over the world also was just fantastic,” he thieves. Patsy’s cousin and an incredibly good, close content “trying to find my feet again - I adds. “I got letters from a lot of people that “They knew that there was a problem friend of mine. I had no choice. don’t even remember where things are in knew me, but also from many, many people with my visa (for Dubai) when we checked “I didn’t know what was going on - I im- the house!” Have you nominated your Jewish achiever yet?

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activism through art. Photograph by Robyn Sassen be shutting our mouths, but more This week two key collaborators importantly, their own eyes. What - and veteran visual artists in they are doing is ridiculous. Art Israel - who met through Rega, is opposite to the values they are and have given Rega’s philosophy espousing. momentum throughout Israel, “But our ways are soft. We are Israeli David Wakstein and Druze not warriors in the conventional Asad Azi, were invited by Tararam, sense; in our work, there is no the Israel Embassy’s cultural arm, border between art and politics. to show work at the Stephan Welz But, unlike them, we can change Gallery in Sandton. lives and minds. “We came together to paint “Our position in the Middle together and ask naïve and East is very important for the very important questions,” said Asad Azi and David Wakstein measure their work preparatory to hanging it in the gallery, late last week. development of our own aesthetic. Wakstein. “We exhibited work “Many Arab men and women are all over, at big city museums and in their demographics.” In South Africa for the first change.” coming to study art in a Western small galleries. Since then our Their art stations are about time, Wakstein and Azi express The threat of protest looms over framework. They are freaked out dialogue has continued. teaching art, as much as they are curiosity in the legacy left in this exhibition, given the recent by the different aesthetic values: “Rega was very prolific. Life and about dialogue. “Financially, we apartheid’s wake. “We have to bout of anti-Israel violent protest I was too, as a young artist, but conflict in Israel were backdrop are alone,” he adds. “We don’t learn. Our roots, our symbols on the part of BDS supporters, it has been important to me to to our work. We have established enjoy government support. But and our differences, but also and the disruption of a piano understand the different qualities several ‘art stations’ in areas from that doesn’t matter to us. What our connections are what bind recital by Israeli-born pianist Yossi in my art and to grow from being Ramle and Nazareth to Oramim we are doing is sensitive, it is us; we aim to touch the heart of Reshef just over two months ago, a painter from the East trying to and Ofaqim. Mostly, our young sophisticated and it is not for the problems through our work. at Wits university. paint in a Western style, into just artists are half Arabs, half women profit. Our art is a mirror.” Our art is not for healing but for The two visiting artists are a painter.” Show with an underlying theme of faux sweetness

Show: ‘Sentimental Value’, Liz Loubser Gallery, 11 Cecilia Avenue, Risidale, (011) 782-4051 Until: May 31

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A soldier, bodily phrased in a state of combat, with his arms asunder and helmeted head focused, is a cliché Photos courtesy Liz Loubser rendered so by hundreds of years of toy culture and his height of maybe 3cm. These miniature people were cast in tin, later in plastic, and made available en masse for little boys the world over, by the squadron. Jeweller Geraldine Fenn takes them some steps further, alongside a simple Lego brick and a pair of shoes made for a Barbie doll, in her impeccable, Geraldine Fenn’s Gold Lego Brick, Gold Barbie Shoe and darkly edged wearable art. Gold Soldier. 9ct yellow gold. Both Fenn and Gina Waldman, Wits-trained artists, It’s pretty. The closer you look, however, the more you haven’t been on the gallery circuit for some years; their understand how she’s turning all these über kitsch coins finely tuned essays on the culture of kitsch, lined with upside-down and inside out. Sometimes, she’s eviscerating commercialism, fantasy and cliché are easy on the eye, them. Ultimately she’s yielding a body of work which is sharp on the context. It’s also work that’s imminently fresh and fanciful, but stripped of its veneers. haveable. There’s an underlying theme of faux sweetness in this Waldman works with an array of collage elements, whole show, professionally exhibited and niftily hung, drawing from 1950s children’s illustrated books and as it is, in this relatively new gallery which specialises in comics, but also filled with beads, bobbles and do-dads, jewellery design. glitter, butterfly wings, fake pearls and gimlets. In one series of work by both Fenn and Waldman, All the kind of stuff that the nursery rhymes define as there’s a foray into teardrops which is deliciously sarcastic, what little girls love. The more successful of these pieces bordering on the hilariously melodramatic images of are the frenetically busy ones, which play, wisely and tears or tear-stained women that artists associated with wittily, with perceptions of the cute, the feminine and the European surrealism used and quoted in their work. precious in a manner neither destructive nor discursive, The impact here is beautiful and outrageous but nor sterilely self-indulgent and conceptual, but rather reflexive on a society that in spite of how developed it almost complicit in its superficial gentleness. might have become in the corridors of universities, retains its conservative understanding of gender roles and cultural imperatives, at home. Fenn contemplates and disembowels the notion of preciousness in our society with a firm hand and a sophisticated jeweller’s loupe. Her one Barbie shoe, cast in 9 ct yellow gold - or in sterling silver and manifesting as a pair of earrings or a pendant on a chain - speaks of a culture of fun, underlined by the solemnity of money which corrupts and exposes it and renders it all a little rotten with sweetness. It’s all about value. And things close to the heart, or what society deems the heart. 14 SA JEWISH REPORT World News in Brief Community Columns 01 12- 08 – 19 June April 2012 2013

A column of the SA Jewish Board of Deputies determination and a clear vision.” Wineman said that when Thatcher entered Parliament representing Holocaust survivor Rena Quint – Finchley in north London, “a very Jewish constituency”, her relationship with inspiration to all South Africans local Jewish institutions blossomed and Over the past week, invited to speak to women prisoners on behalf continued throughout her career as prime Yom Hashoah of the Department of Correctional Services. minister. During her campaign, she fought ceremonies were held By her example, she is able to show that no against a golf course in the district that under the auspices matter how low we fall, or are made to fall by banned having Jews as members. of the Board in all others, we have the capacity to pick ourselves Thatcher was a founding member of the the main Jewish up afterwards and rise to undreamed of Anglo-Israel Friendship League of Finchley population centres. heights. and a member of the Conservative Friends In addition, and While we must never forget the past, of Israel, according to Tablet. possibly for the we should not allow it to engender a sense 16 SA JEWISH REPORT Community Columns 22 February 01 - 08 – 1 June March 2012 2013 Wineman said Thatcher counted a first time ever, a of hopelessness. Rather, we must use the number of Jews among her closest advisers ceremony A column was held of the lessonsSA Jewish learned Board to build of something Deputies positive, and confidants, and at one point nearly in Grahamstown as be it working towards creating a more just a quarter of her Cabinet was of Jewish part of a visit by a and compassionate society, rebuilding what origins. TheyGiving included Nigel Lawson, is the24 –most 31 May 2013 rewardingdelegation from the has been form destroyed or simplyof Communityin thetaking way one Columns SA JEWISH REPORT 13 Malcolm Rifkind, Keith Joseph and Leon Board, SAZF and SAUJS interacts with other people. Brittan, according to the JewishOn Chronicle. 7 Adar - ZayinAbove BoardBoard has workedto meet closely with the on staffmatters of ing a contributionA column of removed the SA from Jewish any Boarddesire ofcauses, Deputies can certainly inspire us, but ensur- “She also greatly admired the Adarlate Chief - as has becomeMary common Kluk interestand students on a number of Rhodes of occasions ‘Labelling of controversy’ personal gain, finally is characteristic laid to rest of all ing that it is maintained is a challenge for Rabbi Dr Immanuel Jakobovits,traditional whom she on this,NationalPost-Shavuot Chairmanin the past. University and otherreflections Shortly beforeforms going of voluntary to print, communalwe were service. every new generation. elevated to the House of Lords,”the Wineman yahrtzeit of e largelymembers unsung heroesof the local and heroinesdelighted toEvents learn that like the Zayin long-running Adar are important e real reward of serving the community said. “She was unquestionably aMoshe great Rabbeinu,community. the who render Thesuch meaning dedicated for andthe honourableevery“labelling aspect becausecontroversy” of daily theyliving, hadrecognise with been a view brought and to honour to awas those a substantial ultimately Jewish presencelies in the at emotionalthe satisfactionCyril Karabus comes home at last elevating both themselves and the society of annual Gandhi Walk in Lenasia, where Board The story of Dr Cyril Karabus has gripped the Former British PM statesman of the later 20th century,Chevrah and Kadisha Thisin year’sservice keynote in the Jewishspeaker, sphere people Renaof Jewish ofQuint, the welfare, satisfactory have who conclusion. dedicate so much time and e ort to the and enhanced sense of self-worth that one recently concluded which they are a part. and other community members were part Jewish world over the past nine months. The one who was a friend to the JewishJohannesburg people heldspoke at thetheir Johannesburg counterparts and in Durban all spheres of JewishThe finalcommunity. decision by the Cabinet regarding receives through going beyond the bounda- Shavuot festival can It is a source of constant inspiration to me of an inspiring bonding experience with day after Shavuot, he at last returned home, and Israel.” a special functionceremonies to communal and afterwards activity. addressed the how productsVolunteers from Jewish may settlements not do what in they do be- ries of one’s own personal needs to be of Margaret Thatcher, aptly be summed to witness at first hand just how much our thousands of fellow-South Africans of all to a rapturous welcome by the Cape Town Thatcher reportedly had no patiencehonour forthose whocommunity in Caperough Town. my involvement Like all Holocaust with the Dur-the West Bankcause should they crave be identified, recognition, is very but this does assistance to others. 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Whatever kind of assistance is needed, is anywhere else in the world.” Vivian Wineman, president of the Board that is the Horrorsfoundation of War-torn of peace Eastern and human Europe monOur all numbers our resources could have Arcadia.reward with good behaviour and good results. Please feel free to communicate with me on certain to be in there somewhere, through that single May our partnership continue to thrive! of Deputies of British Jews, told JTA that dignity.” in 1921, taken to South Africa”. beento examine bigger, the but complexities there were no from matric every students angle. at Sadly,Unlike dad welfare, has passed education away. West is not Park the tookChev’s [email protected] entrance, at that one address. [email protected] Thatcher “was always extremely supportive In a [email protected] statement, Representative ArcadiaThen welast do year our very best to help. carearea of allof arrangementsexpertise. Education and covered becomes the a welfare and admiring of the ethos of the British Nancy Pelosi082-423-05560. (Democrat California), I want to share just one story with you. burial costs. This column is paid for by the ChevrahThis Kadisha column is paid for by the Chevrah Kadisha Jewish community. This close relationship the minority leader in the US House Once upon a time the parents of three We have finally managed A column to persuade of WIZO mom South Africa began when her family took in a young of Representatives, noted that the day children were involved in a serious car acci- to join our protected employment programme Austrian Jewish refugee from Nazism in marked the Hebrew calendar’s anniversary Originaldent. The father was left a paraplegicgates and his ofwhich will Bulawayo bolster her self-esteem and provide the late 1930s.” of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. wife suffered severe emotionalAttending trauma and her with MOR a productive elementis like to her day. coming home “There are people, there are ideas. “This day is a reminder of all who had cemeterydepression. Neither was ableAs to thework.rededicated newly-elected presidentThis story of isWIZO far from SA I over, but it is our child abuse to preparing women for roles in com- Occasionally those two come together the courage to fight back; who refused DAVIDIt’s our SAKS policy to try to solicitlook support forward from to sharing nowhope numbers my that thoughts we under can and provide100, aspira- but the the children congrega with- merce and politics; from breaking the glass ceiling to create vision. Lady Thatcher was an to allow the inhumanity of the Nazis to family members, but in this case,tions as for in our many movement tionemotional holds in 2013. regular and educationalShabbate leadership and support Yomtov thatser- will in the IDF to nurturing the heritage of women exceptional leader, a colleague in the deprive them of their own humanity,” she Bulawayo’sothers, no-one Jewry could came assist. together Maintainingof just WIZO before SA attendedvices.enable the There WIZO them, are MOR inmore time, (Meetingthan to emerge1 200 graves confident, in the from distant lands... we heard it all. international arena and a friend for me said. Shavuottheir medical for a rededication aid was a priority. ceremonyof Representatives) for the well-maintained inproductive Israel in Januarymembers cemetery, and of oursomewere community. dating back We listened to personal stories and met the personally,” Israeli President Shimon Peres “It is a reminder of the defiant spirit JewishThen cemetery’s a holistic original approach gates. proudlywas applied, acknowledged well Certainlyover for our a century. quick this responsestoryteller to prefers happy people who counsel and o er constructive path- said in a statement. “She served as an of the survivors, whose strength and involvingA plaque ourin memory financial of pastservices, andthe present Pillarshealthcare of Defence Rabbiendings. Emergency Moshe Silberhaft,Appeal last spiritual year. leader ways through seemingly impossible situations. inspiration for other leaders, as the first perseverance still inspire us today. It is membersprofessionals of the and city’s social Chevrah workers Kadisha whoe spontaneous was teamed of and theMay Africangenerous our partnershipJewish donations Congress, continueof our focused to thrive!on We met teenage girls who have found refuge in female prime minister of Great Britain she a reminder of the righteous among the unveiled.up to assess Afterwards, the family’s the gathering livingchaverot arrangements moved to thison fund the willeternalFeel provide free nature to psychological contact of the Jewishme on peoplefeedback@ in his one of WIZO’s shelters and who have given up a broke new ground. She showed how far a nations who risked their own lives to toand the determine Jewish aged how home, best Savyon to meetcounselling Lodge, their to needs. programmes, address.thechev.org.za dealing The inscription with post-trau- on the cemetery gates life of crime and violence on the streets in order person can go with strength of character, protect the lives of their neighbours.” (JTA) celebrate the 90th birthday of Harrymatic Shmeiz stress for- ourThis- Beit children, column Olam youth,- meantis paid sta “House for and by theof their Eternity”, Chevrah and Kadisha to become productive members of society... and er, who immigrated to the thenfamilies Southern in the day-carealluded centres, to the commitment schools and WIZOthe Jewish people we bought their beautiful hand-crafted jewellery Rhodesia from Eastern Europe youthas a youth clubs, and a ectedshow by to the maintaining bombing. their traditions. Despite which they now proudly sell. is today the congregation’s lay reader.In addition, in thoseits small areas size where the Bulawayo WIZO facilities community contin- Attending the MOR is like coming home, so From a peak of over 3 500, theare community at high risk, allocationsued to epitomise are being this made unfaltering to se- dedication. many familiar faces, topics to discuss, interchange NJWED01412.indd 14 2013/04/10 4:49 PM cure and upgrade the bomb shelters. e concern of ideas on fundraising and activities and solu- and support of our chaverot for Israel’s human WIZO tions to problems facing the WIZO federations. needs, are greatly appreciated by World WIZO. South Africa e enthusiasm is tangible but the magnet that We thank you for caring and for making the Tamar Lazarus brings us together is our desire to help and we di erence and as each facility is secured with the President invite you to join us and become part of some-

necessary structures, we will keep you informed. Photo supplied thing so much bigger and more rewarding than Each year the attendees at the MOR are exposed to a just ourselves. So, become a member, join a group, attend battery of facts and  gures and highly-rated opinions on a meeting of like-minded people, get involved in an event, subjects of interest as part of a global movement to improve enjoy the camaraderie and make friends. the status of women in every sphere of their lives in Israel. Become a WIZO woman and change your life and that of From the spiralling cost of living to honour killings; from women in need in Israel. Anglican Father Francis Day; Harry Shmeizer; Rabbi Moshe Silberhaft; Hylton Solomon; Brian Sher; This column is paid for by the WIZO South Africa Raymond Roth; and Cantor Eric Wiener in front of the gates and memorial stone.

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Netanyahu government is shaming Jews who advocate Palestinian Putting KabbalaH in TRUE perspective dialogue In a recent letter to Jewish Report, Yossi the Ukraine, Hungary and Romania, totalling In the Jewish Report of May 10, Dennis and collective rights as enshrined in various Bogacz argued that the Holocaust, which we millions of people, far in excess of our six Kahlberg asks us: What do we want to stop UN Charters and the South African Bill of refer to as the Shoah, could never have been million Jews. the JNF from doing? Rights. part of G-d’s plan. The populations in Central and Western In a nutshell, Mr Kahlberg, the answer is As such we support the demand that Israel Martin Zagnoev disputes this and, Europe may not have been aware of the provided on page 13 of the very same Jewish cease its armed occupation and annexation inter alia, draws attention to a Kabbalistic extremes of what has been termed “The Final Report issue: “ A Knesset committee has of the West Bank and East Jerusalem and explanation “that someone who has done Solution”. Those in Eastern Europe witnessed advanced a plan to resettle 30 000 Bedouin... its siege on Gaza, and cease its current wrong in a previous life might be given it in all its horror. Most preferred to be The Association of Civil Rights in Israel denial of basic human rights to those under another chance in a future incarnation”. bystanders, many participated in the murder said it would “cause the displacement and occupation. It is interesting that this idea is similar to of their Jewish neighbours. How many forced eviction of dozens of villages and Moreover discrimination against non- the Hindu/Buddhist belief of karma, which disapproved? tens of thousands of Bedouin residents, Jewish citizens of Israel such as the Bedouin, states that a person in this life has to atone If karma was at work in the Shoah and dispossessing them of their property and must come to an end. Because of these for sins committed in a previous one. thereby “purified” six million guilty souls, historical rights to their lands, destroying injustices, it is widely acknowledged that Zagnoev explains: “Perhaps G-d gathered then it was not a very cost-effective method. the social fabric of their communities and the Netanyahu government is leading together the souls of six million sinners from How many millions of souls drew the guilt of sealing the fate of thousands of families into Israel deeper and deeper into isolation and throughout history and enabled them to be karma on to themselves in assisting in this poverty and unemployment. shaming Jews who advocate dialogue and ‘purified’ in this way…” (My italics.) “purification” process? Did Hitler rank with “All of this while the government responsible morally founded action. The Shoah involved the slaughter of six the angels in carrying out G-d’s plan? simultaneously promotes the establishment In general, non-violent protest against million Jews including one and a half million And if it was not G-d’s plan, then where of new Jewish communities, some of which these Israeli policies is essential so as to show children. was G-d? are even planned to be built on the fresh solidarity with those Israelis and Palestinians It was enabled by the German population, ruins of Bedouin villages.” who share universal concerns for justice and which today numbers some 78 million, and Don Krausz The JNF is integrally involved in this peace and to confront the Zionist movement the populations of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Killarney, Johannesburg campaign which has already seen the with the current reality. bulldozing of many such villages. The Such acts of solidarity clearly do not Karabus ordeal should be a warning light for all Westerners initiative is also known as “greening of the include support for terrorism of any kind - Negev” to which, we as South African Jews whether committed by Hamas, Hezbollah, Professor Cyril Karabus , according to a themselves are primary abusers of women, have been invited by the JNF to contribute. the Israeli government or Jewish religious/ Sunday newspaper was “totally bloody children and other human rights. And in this we find a potted history of nationalist settlers on the West Bank. shocked” when told by a customs official (in Their intolerance features among their own; dozens of pre-1948 Palestinian villages. Lastly, we do not believe that the Jewish the United Arab Emirates on his way through Sunnis and Shi’ites are constantly at war with With regard to your other comments, space community should be deprived of freedom of to South Africa) that they were detaining him one another. will not allow a comprehensive response, but association and assembly and do not support because of a murder charge. They are unable to live in peace with let us reiterate that Stop the JNF does not actions that imperil or deny that. His arrest and detention should serve themselves. How on earth can anyone expect call for the destruction of the State of Israel. as a warning to all Westerners (including them to behave any differently towards What we call for is a negotiated settlement Allan Horwitz Jews) who travel to these Arab and Muslim Westerners (and Jews)? with Palestinians that respects individual Media spokesman, Stop the JNF countries for whatever reason. Any person, particularly Jewish, who goes It is well-documented that these countries to an Arab country must realise that they are intolerant of virtually all Western customs, may be subjected to dreadful abuse and even including religion, alcohol, sex and the like. perhaps a life threatening situation. These Arab and Muslim countries also practise racism and despite their accusations Nathan Cheiman against Israel of human rights abuses, they Northcliff, Johannesburg

Expression of Jewish faith answers Bogacz’S misgivings

I agree with Yossi Bogacz, who in a letter to in a live, active, benevolent, understanding, Jewish Report commented on the sadness jealous G-d, who exclaims: ‘’I will be with you, of our 4 000-year history - the tragedy and My people.” atrocities and suffering of our people; that Then again, we proclaim to the world: the Jewish nation that has done so much “Though He slay Me, yet will I trust in Him.” for the world, should be even now hated and This is the last word of Jewish nationalism. persecuted. Words expressed over and over by many Also, why the governments of the world Jewish and non-Jewish philosophers. To sum should behave in this strange manner I cannot it all up: “The beginning of wisdom is the fear even (begin to) understand. It is foolish as of the L-rd.” Thanks for allowing me to express well as wrong - “for the Jews have stood by my faith. the graves of all our oppressors in turn”. But to answer his arguments: The reason for Richard Altschuler our unique greatness, why we were chosen as Cheltondale, receivers of the Torah, is our indomitable faith Johannesburg

Jews should avoid any Arab country like the plague

Be warned! The horrific episode that Prof Will we never learn? They do not deserve Cyril Karabus has suffered for nine months in the use of our talents, knowledge, intellect, the United Arab Emirates, should serve as a etc. lesson to us Yidden. In fact, world Jewry ought to have no In my opinion, if you are anything of a dealings with the Arab people, whether it be professional, you should never take up any business, humanitarian, co-operation., etc temporary or permanent work in any Arab To my mind this is the only way as ordinary country, In fact one should never travel on citizens, to deal with them. Perhaps then the any airplane flying through Arab land. message will penetrate their thick skulls. To make my point clear - have nothing to do with these evil people. This should also Maurice Skikne apply to business. Johannesburg

FOR THE RECORD: Marice Gerson’s “Overnight brisket”recipe

In our recent Shavuot recipes feature, an error occurred in the text of Marice Gerson’s “Overnight brisket”recipe . The correct temperature for cooking the brisket should read “around 100 to 120 degrees, in other words low; It is 175 to 200 Fahrenheit and not Celsius as the recipe stated. We regret the error. 15 SA JEWISH REPORT Classifieds 24 – 31 May 2013

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Yes, the recent the tragic and shameful existence of agunot, executive committee, delegations in New York, Geneva, Vienna and elections in Israel have resulted in the largest women trapped in an unwanted or non-existent including the Interna- Paris. number of female MKs serving in the Knesset, marriage because their husbands refuse to give tional Council of Jewish ICJW is also represented at the Council of but that number is 27. Certainly not 50 per cent them a get or bill of divorcement. Women (ICJW). Europe, the European Women’s Lobby, the and therefore not even close to equality. Women cannot be appointed as rabbini- At the WJC Plenary International Council of Women, the World Several female ministers are holding impor- cal court judges (dayanim) and the statutory Assembly in Budapest Jewish Congress, and many other international tant portfolios, but the Cabinet is clearly male Commission to Appoint Dayanim is currently on May 7, the ICJW was and regional organisations. dominated and decision making at the highest unable to function because for the first time in one of three interna- We are well into the 21st century and Jewish levels of government is controlled by them. almost two decades not even one woman has tional Jewish organisa- women are not only the majority of the Jewish Economic equality, as recently shown in sev- been appointed or elected to the Commission. Margot Segal tions elected to the WJC people, they are highly educated, articulate and eral studies, does not exist. Women earn more Women’s organisations petitioned the Su- National President executive committee. well-organised. So why haven’t they achieved than 30 per cent less than men, even when they preme Court to rectify this situation and the ICJW was elected with equality? The ICJW, of which the Union of hold executive positions. This inequality exists case is pending. Legislation has been pro- 191 out of a possible 253 votes, together with Jewish Women of South Africa is an af- despite the fact that in Israel women are more posed which would guarantee three places World ORT and WIZO. filiate, held a demonstration at the Knes- highly educated than men. on the 10 member commission to women ICJW will be represented at the WJC by Sara set last Sunday, entitled “Jewish Women Somehow, the academic achievement of Jew- and add another position which would be Winkowski from Montevideo, Uruguay. She Worldwide Demand Equality”. ish women does not translate into economic held for a woman. Even if this legislation has served twice as vice-president on the WJC Dressed in white and carrying placards with equality. While this economic inequality is should be passed, which is doubtful, women Executive Committee and has held many senior the flags of over 20 countries, women from the found in the public as well as private sectors, would still be in the minority on the Com- positions in international Jewish and non-Jew- US, UK, Israel, France, Switzerland, Belgium, it is particularly existent in Jewish communal mission. Yes, despite a great deal of progress ish organisations, including president of ICJW Australia, South Africa, Canada, Columbia, Uru- organisations worldwide. Jewish women are in the last 50 years, Jewish women have not from 2002 - 2006. guay and Croatia, stood silently, but powerfully. rarely hired as CEOs of major Jewish organisa- yet achieved full equality. We should all be The ICJW gives a voice to Jewish women They reminded us that despite the re- tions, and when they do break through that joining effort to achieve this goal. around the world. Established in 1912, ICJW is markable progress made by women in the glass ceiling, they are paid less than their male an umbrella organisation representing Jewish “feminist revolution” of the past 50 years, colleagues. This column is paid for by the UJW 16 SA JEWISH REPORT Sport 24 – 31 May 2013 An honour for Herschel Gutman and a farewell to Sir Alex Ferguson His efforts were rewarded when he was the “Outstanding Contribution” category. named Coach of the Year at the recent What I did find interesting in the state- European Coach Awards for 2013. ment from the ICC was who currently Gutman earned the award for leading holds the position of director of cricket the coach development programme in at Guernsey Cricket Board – Nic Pothas, ROCKING THE BOAT Israel. He is an ECB Level 3 Performance who was a wicketkeeper/batsman for the Jack Milner Coach and ECB Tutor /Assessor and has Highveld Strikers but when the position established a night cricket league which became available in the national team, When one thinks back to the origins runs successfully across Israel with over Pothas was overlooked in favour of Mark of cricket, one cannot help regressing 10 teams participating for the league Boucher. to the days of the British Empire. Even title. When it became apparent that there today, when one considers the countries Gutman is also leading a successful was no future for him in South Africa, who dominate in the sport, they all are coach and player development pro- Pothas moved to the UK. prominent members of the British Com- gramme within Israel. Perlman and Gutman also play a mas- monwealth. In a statement Perlman heaped praise sive role in the Maccabiah and South South Africa may have broken away on Gutman: “Herschel has been our African teams have established a magnifi- from the Commonwealth in 1961, as a NCDO for nearly four years and his una- cent record in that sport. One hopes this result of its apartheid policies, but joined bated enthusiasm, dedication and love year’s teams will be equally successful. again after the 1994 democratic election. for the game, is evident wherever he goes. Moving on to an entirely different sub- Israel managed to shun the British in- Whether it be at the schools in the nets ject I saw a quote from Sir Alex Ferguson, fluence post-1948, but so many countries or on the field, Herschel will always be going back to 2002. “I will be leaving Israel’s Herschel Gutman was named cricket connected to the Commonwealth having there with a 100 per cent effort. Manchester United at the end of the sea- “Coach of the Year” at the recent European some sort of influence on their sport- “He has instigated and introduced many son and that is it.” However, he stayed on Coach Awards ing interests, there had to be a place for new forms of the game to Israeli cricket, and at the announcement to confirm his decision and I have a lot of sympathy for cricket. but more so the way he puts everything decision Sir Alex then said: “I’m pleased David Moys who might find it difficult Very much like tennis, in which Ian across to the players is a sight to behold. to be staying - but once this contract is up to stamp his authority on the team with Froman led the way, cricket in Israel has With Herschel at the helm of cricket de- (2005), that will be it. I have no intention Ferguson hovering in the shadows. a predominantly South African influence velopment in Israel, we can expect much of staying on at the club in any capacity One can understand the Manches- and flavour, courtesy of two Capetonians. success for Israeli cricket in the future.” whatsoever.” ter United board wanting to make the Leading the way is Stanley Perlman, cur- Gutman will be invited to attend ICC Then, in 2007, he said: “I still have a lot Ferguson-Moys transition as smooth as rent chairman of the Israeli Cricket Asso- European Presidents’ Day which will be of passion. I’m still happy. But I’m 66 now possible, but perhaps it is time to accept ciation, and ably assisting him is Herschel hosted on finals day at the ICC European - maybe three years more, then I’ll finish.” that after 26 years, the time has come to Gutman, who played for the Israeli team, Division 1 Championship. This year he finally called it quits, with move on. then became a player/coach for a while Israel received another accolade when the news that he will be staying on in the After all, it had to happen sometime. If and is now coaching in Israel. George Sheader was named runner-up in boardroom. That could be a questionable not this year, then when?

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