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friday 31 august 2012 / 13 Elul 5772 volume 16 - number 32 news opinion letters tapestry community columns youth sports Former dentist Louis Yudelman south african headlines Adcock Ingram exhibition. (page 8) jewish report www.sajewishreport.co.za Hundreds of butterflies decorated by Theodor Herzl pupils in Port Elizabeth, will soon flit their way to Houston in the The Theodor Herzl US, part of a poignant commemorative exhibition, the Butterfly Project. The kaleidoscope of more than 1,5 million hand-crafted butterflies will be a breath-taking tribute to the same number of children who died in the Holocaust. Children of mixed denominations worldwide will contribute their two-dimensional creations to the Butterfly Project, butterflies are flying which has been organised by the Holocaust Museum in Houston. Pictured with colourful butterflies, are (behind) Isabella Costa Gamaleri; Ethan Kilbansky; Lathitha Mhlaba; and Teagan Hamer. Front: Theodor Herzl art teacher off to Houston Heather Rijs; Sameera Scharneck; and Hebrew teacher Sheila Liss. SABC removes anti-Semitic Bridal Supplement GOLDSTUCK: AR.Drone: Baritone SAKS: ‘Conscience-stricken image from its website the next big toy? Colin Jews’ guilty of more than In response to complaints from the Ultimately, we’re probably not going to Schachat narcissistic grandstanding SAJBD and the public, the SABC has get away with claiming it is more than back in SA The confident assumption history will removed an offensive image invoking just a toy. But it is. It is the toy that has for Spring repeat itself is over-optimistic, not the anti-Semitic canard in Islam that given other toys a new lease on life. Opera only because the apartheid analogy is Jews are “descendants of pigs and Wi-Fi-controlled devices are popping Gala on baseless, but the international climate monkeys”. It had accompanied a report out of the woodwork everywhere. 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And if so, where ground work and create the opportunity does that leave me and all my plans? for Hashem’s blessings to work. This week in Deuteronomy 22.8 we It’s like the farmer who knows that the 17:38 18:27 Johannesburg PARSHAT KI SEITZEI read: Ki tivne bayit chadash… when you Rabbi Yossi Goldman success of his crop depends on G-d grant- 18:10 19:02 Cape Town build a new house, you must place a guard- ing rain, but the blessing of rain will only rail around your roof so that you will not Sydenham Highlands help after the farmer has tilled, ploughed 17:23 18:14 Durban North Shul 17:43 18:33 Bloemfontein bring blood upon your house should any and planted. man fall from the unenclosed roof.” Remember the story of the shlemiel 17:42 18:33 Port Elizabeth In the olden days, most roofs were flat In short, we believe in the concept of who kept praying to G-d three times daily 17:33 18:25 East London and people would use them as entertain- bashert but we mustn’t live by it. Oth- that He help him win the lottery and solve ment areas. erwise, why go to work? We say in the all his financial problems. Day after day he KASHRUT ALERT The Hebrew wording is Ki yipol hanofel. Bentsching (grace after meals) that G-d is implored the Almighty to grant him his REFORMULATED CLOVER Now, literally, hanofel means, “the one who the feeder and provider for all. So if G-d will personal salvation via the lottery. falls” which the commentators say implies support me why must I shlep off to work? When the lottery was drawn, unfortu- KRUSH FRUIT JUICES ARE that this individual was actually destined to Clearly, this is not the Jewish attitude. nately our shlemiel was not the winner. So NOT KOSHER fall off a roof and lose his life. That’s why it is a commandment of the To- he went back to Shul the next day and cried Clover Krush Fruit Juices have been So the question is: If that person was, in rah to safeguard our health. Likewise, we out to G-d bitterly, “Hashem you let me reformulated and are no longer kosher. fact, pre-ordained to fall, why is it my fault are not to live dangerously by leaving roofs down, I prayed so hard. Why didn’t I win The Beth Din logo has been removed. just because it happened in my house? Why unenclosed or swimming pools unfenced or the lottery?” Existing stock with the Beth Din logo may am I responsible for him acting out his des- our doors unlocked. And a deep, booming voice rang out still be used, the kashrut department of the tiny? One may ask: Is it not an expression of from the Heavens saying: “Because you Union of Orthodox Synagogues advises. Jewish philosophers would answer this faith to leave it all to G-d? To put our trust never bought a ticket, dummy!” question by saying that although we do def- implicitly in Him that He will provide? This concept applies to everything in Community Briefs initely believe in destiny and that whatever That He will protect and guard us from ac- life. As Gary Player said: “The more I prac- happens is part of the Almighty’s vast eter- cidents? tise, the luckier I get.” SOUL WORKOUT TAKES NORWOOD nal plan; nonetheless, every individual has The answer is an emphatic NO. “G-d If you want to be mazel’dig, don’t de- BY STORM an obligation to do his best to prevent trag- helps those who help themselves.” Far from pend on mazel alone. If you want to have Soul Workout recently did a highly successful edy. We must take precautions. Although being an irreligious statement, this is quite nachas from your children, don’t rely on promotional free handout at Dischem in Nor- we believe in miracles we are not permitted consistent with Jewish belief. the luck of the draw that they will marry wood for the Jewish customers, offering its ex- to rely upon them. Elsewhere, the Torah states that the right person. Parents have to plough citing study guide. There is a Yiddish proverb that “the “Hashem, your G-d, shall bless you in all and plant (and pray very hard) for nachas The symbiosis of spiritual and physical well- man destined to drown will drown even that you do.” Meaning that to succeed in to happen. being was the catalyst to create a promotional in a glass of water”. But that doesn’t mean any endeavour, we need G-d’s blessing, but In the words of the Psalmist which we drive at the centre which has many Jewish staff that you have to be the one to put his head He blesses us in all that we do. So, in order say in Shir Ha’maalot (Psalm 126): “He who members. under the tap. to merit His blessing, we must first lay the sows with tears, will reap in joy.” Uthando Centre brings hope to inner city kids STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY stitutional Hill, Braamfontein, last Transvaal Memorial Children’s Hos- SUZANNE BELLING week. pital and owned by the Department Dubbed “A Heart for Children”, of Health, it was identified by Afrika Change came from people who were the Uthando Centre is yet another Tikkun in early 2010. The organisa- “incredibly irritated” with this coun- feather in the cap of upliftment for tion began fundraising in earnest try’s status quo, Afrika Tikkun CEO Afrika Tikkun, this time providing in order to develop what it terms a Marc Lubner told a capacity audi- inhabitants of Johannesburg’s de- “centre of excellence” - this from a ence at the opening of the Afrika caying inner city with basic needs, building that had been unoccupied Tikkun Uthando Centre by Gauteng including childcare, nutrition and for years and had to undergo total MEC for Infrastructure Develop- healthcare. renovation, including removing the ment, Qedani Mahlangu on Con- Located in a section of the old deadly blue asbestos present in the walls. Uthando means “love”, which is what the founders of Afrika Tikkun - the late Chief Rabbi Cyril Harris Miss SA Teen 2011, Celeste Khumalo, “ambassador” for Afrika Tikkun, and and Chairman Bertie Lubner - envis- Manny Mhlanga, general manager of the Uthando Centre, with children from aged, according to Marc Lubner. the centre who provided entertainment at the opening. “When they started this organi- ciaries assisted by the centre to MEC Mahlangu termed the sation, they hoped to provide a place 18 000. centre an “important milestone in where less privileged children would “We are now able to offer the SA history”.

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