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Si^EMBER2000 VOL. 26 NO. 3 a Southaflfi'iifi ZIONIST FEDER^ION (ISRAEL) PUBLICATION Si^EMBER2000 VOL. 26 NO. 3 A SOUTHAflfi'iifi ZIONIST FEDER^ION (ISRAEL) PUBLICATION BOOK REVIEWS •War of Words •Riteve: A Jewish Shtetl in Lithuania NUPTIALS, ARRIVALS, AND MORE 46 SOKOLOV (2nd Floor) RAMAT-HASHARON Tel. 03-5488111 Home 09-7446967 F a x 0 3 - 5 4 0 0 0 7 7 Dear Friends, How the time flies!!! Its really hard to believe that another year has passed and the Rosh Hashanah issue of Telfed Magazine is at the press. We've had a great summer, nice weather, plenty of action and are sure that you are all looking forward to what Autumn and Winter will bring in this beautiful, and certainly not boring country of ours. There is still no place like "home" for a great holiday. Carol and I have just returned from six glorious days at a magnificent Game Park near Richard's Bay, called Phinda situated in Zululand. Great accommodation, game drives, bush dinners and no TV, telephones (cellular or otherwise!!!) to drive you crazy. Only the peace and quiet of the African bush. For those of you who have forgotten what the bush is like, I hope that the above will bring back a few memories. To quote from one of the comments in the guest book, "You can keep the rest of the world just give me the African bush." Nu, how about it???? Anyone thinking of that special trip to Africa is invited to call Ilan (Kessel Jr.) who will be happy to plan your trip. Brenda Miller left today for another of those wonderful trips to Russia. We will soon be publishing the new dates for next year. These tours are really a must for all music lovers. Thanks for your support and I wish you and your family a Happy and Peaceful New Year. Best Regards, Terry Kessel Managing Director CONTENTS " G I M M E PA S S I O N ' PEOPLE 7 StirringRemember? stuff from Well, Rod if the Stewards, tune escapes 1980s you, hit! at B U S I N E S S E T H I C S . 16 least you know the feeling. Can't say felt too much evidence of it meeting members of the youth COVER STORY 18 movements in South Africa recently. B O O K N O O K >6 One recalls an earlier time in South Africa where kids in ihe movements were all fired up TELFEDTIDINCS >8 about the ideals of changing the world and par NEW ARRIVALS 34 ticipating in the great adventure of building the Jewish State. Movement activity often took prec BUSINESS BRIEFS .... 36 edence over all else. N O T I C E B O A R D 38 In today's acquisitive age, dominated by com puters and television, can youth movements re NUPTIALS 40 tain the zeal that once drew hundreds of thousands B O O K N O O K 2 47 throughout the Jewish world to their ideals? Troubled by the lack of purpose and direction KEREN TELFED 45 we found, notably among the secular youth move CONDOLENCES 46 ments in South Africa, Telfed set out to explore youth movement activity in Israel. We interviewed CLASSIFIED 47 children of former South Africans [see Cover Story] and discovered that ideology is alive and PRODUCTION well amongst the second and third generations. Editor: Becky Rowe What we need to do is to arrange for our young Correspondents: David Kaplan, Becky Rowe leaders to work with the movements in South Af Editorial Committee Chairman: rica. That is, of course, if we don't decide to send David Kaplan Rod Stewart there on shlichut\ Design and Layout: Becky Rowe Shana Tova, Business Manager; Lena Nulman David Kaplan Editorial Committee: Sharon Bernsiein. Chairman, Telfed Debbie Chitiz, Janiiie Gelley, Hilary Kaplan, Chairman of the Editorial Board Sidney Shapiro, Michelle Wolff Cover and Artwork: David Kaplan South African Zionist Federation (Israel) Advertising: Lena Nulman 19 Schwartz Street, Ra'anana Proofreading: Debbie Chitiz, Marvyn tel.: (09)7446110, fax: (09)7446112 Hatchuel, Harriet Levin, Solly Kaplan email: [email protected]; web: www.telfed.org.il Extra or back copies of Telfed Magazine are available at NIS15 per magazine. Contact Lena. Joint Counselling Services Offices: To advertise in Telfed Magazine, Tel Aviv: 76 Ibn Gvirol Street tel: ()3-696-.5244 fax: 03-696-8696 phone Lena: (09)7446110 e-mail: [email protected], employment; [email protected] The views and tomments expressed in articles in this Jerusalem: 13 Ben Maimon Boulevard publication are not necessarily those of the South African tel:02- 5634822, fax 02-5663193.e-niail;[email protected] Zionist Federation (Israel) or of the Editorial Board. The Karmiel: Merkaz Klita Karmiel organisation is not responsible for the advertisers and the insertions in this magazine. tel:04- 9989940 fax:04-9980939; emai]:[email protected] PLEASE NOTE: The date on the right corner of your mailing label indicates the date of your last payment for Telfed Magazine. If no date appears, we have not yet received payment from you. 1 PEOPLE M A N O F T U R N S T W E N T Y A TWO-DAY CELEBRATION OF A SOUTH AFRICAN STORY IN THE GALILEE drunk with idealism and ft 1 stoned with a commit ment to achieve an ide alised lifestyle in the Is raeli countryside." D a v i d K a p l a n , Twothe days summer of festivitieson a picturesque during chairman of Telfed, re hillock in the Central Galilee, called his first exposure marked the twentieth anniversary of to Manof as a rocky hill one of Telfed's proudest achieve Some founding members in an early top on a visit in 1978, ments in the area of settlement. Manof industry, l-r: Joey Kaplan, before building opera Manof, founded by South Africans, Marcia Hofflnand, Sidney Kaplan. tions had begun and is today a community of 128 fami Sandra Kaplan, Skip Treisinan. while the founding lies of which 26 are South African. families were living in In the early days, the lingua franca of Manof was Karmicl. "I came with my brother Sidney, to exclusively English, with Afrikaans as a second gether with Les Amdur, and we stood, possibly, language. Today, Hebrew abounds. on the very spot where I am speaking now. An evening of .song, dance, videos and "It is hard to imagine there was nothing here speeches, to an audience of over five hundred, at the time. A perfect rustic scene was disturbed captured the history and achievements of the when a young Arab shepherd, leading his flock, Manof saga. Alan Caplan, one of the founders, began shouting and gesticulating at us. Les trans spoke of how, "one of the children made the ob lated, 'Go away, you don't belong here.' Well, servation that, 'you guys niust've been either twenty-two years later, looking around at what drunk or stoned to come and live on a barren you have achieved, it is evident that, no less than Well, ladies and gentlemen, we were. But the rocks that have been here from time imme being conservative South Africans, we were morial, you do belong here. However, in this age Harold Jankelowitz Insurances y 2 Keren Hayesod St. Ra'anana 43305 Tel; 09-7440387, 09-7420456 Fax: 09-7440293 The Professional Name in Insurance For The Kind of Service You Expect Services in all branches of Insurance CAR. HOUSE, BUSINESS, TRAVEL, LONG TERM HEALTH CARE, LIFE INSURANCE We are as near to you as your telephone 1 PEOPLE of peace and reconciliation, I look true sign of forward to the day when that same o u r s u c c e s s a s shepherd would be amongst the a community guests at a Manof anniversary, is that not only showing that we all belong here." h a v e a l m o s t The homes on Manof are a far all our original cry from the originalpondoks. To f a m i l i e s r e day there are double story villas mained, but with magnificient gardens, over many of our flowing with a splendid array of colour. Stroll children are among the new families building ing between the homes, one walks on stone paths, homes." She proudly rattles off some of the names under natural green arches to gaze out toward the - "Friedberg, Kaplan, Amdur, Opwald, Maisel Mediterranean, past the cities of Haifa and Acco. and Perel." Manof is proud of its industrial zone which In the midst of the expansive lawns is a huge creates employment not only for many of its resi boulder. Manofniks will tell you that they left the dents, but also for inhabitants of the Segev Re rock to remind them of the physical obstacles they gion. Galileo, a hi-tech company whose shares faced in clearing the land and building homes. are traded on NASDAQ, Soflex-Isralens, a con The founding families were not youngsters when tact lens manufacturer. Romalite, manufacturer they arrived. They were established profession of aromatic candles and Manof Carpentry are als or business people, who left magnificent some of the firms that have put Manof on the homes to come to a solitary mountaintop. Per map. haps the rock can also remind us of the character Lauren Swerdlow. one of the organisers of of the South Africans who transformed this out the twentieth anniversary festivities, beams, "A crop into a "little bit of paradise." d R E E N E R PA S T U R E S R O Z G E L C E R I S AWA R D E D TOP ENVIRONMENTAL HONOUR Minister of the Environment, presented the Swelteringsaw Prime JulyMinis Shield of Honour to groups and individuals who t e r E h u d B a r a k t a k e have made outstanding contributions to improv the time between sum ing Israel's environment and qual mit meetings and try ity of life.
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