CSO CAPE TOWN 24 HOUR SECURITY & MEDICAL WESTERN CAPE EMERGENCIES ONLY 086 18 911 18 CSO needs your help to make a difference as a community organisation. www.csocape.org.za We are grateful for your continuous support VOLUME 37 No 5 JUNE 2020 www.cjc.org.za From photojournalist WIZO Century City branch launches feeding to fundraiser scheme in Milnerton If you’ve come WIZO recently Cohen, as well as across footage of a announced the launch Vaughan Butler, packed locked down Cape of a feeding scheme over 1000 items into 100 Town circulating by its Century City parcels, each filled to the social media in the branch, which is brim with food staples, hygiene products, fresh last few weeks, you working to assist in vegetables and bread. may have been the region of 1000 watching Chad people living in “Sue is working closely Nathan’s content. the Joe Slovo Park, with CAN’s Janine McEvoy to ensure that had, better known Phoenix, Summer Greens and Brooklyn the food parcels actually Cas Ginger with a reach the families who Gopro on Instagram areas, via the need them. This is the and Facebook, is Milnerton Community WIZO way, and although also the owner and Action Network (CAN). our primary focus is to founder of Wild Ginga, he initiative supports raise funds for our WIZO a content creation vulnerable families Sue Lipschitz packing food parcels projects in Israel, we will agency that tells T who find themselves in always reach out when stories through social dire circumstances due to the impact of the there is such an enormous need locally, as media. Since the beginning of South Africa’s lockdown, Chad COVID-19 lockdown. there is right now,” added Currie. has also acted as one of the Cape Jewish Chronicle’s two official photojournalists, documenting this unprecedented Janene Currie, Chairman of BZA WIZO The food is purchased via the in-house store time through videos and photographs. What Chad saw during Cape Town, said the feeding scheme is the at Oasis Retirement Resort using funds that the first two weeks inspired him to start an initiative titled brainchild of Sue Lipschitz, Chairman of are donated either in a lump sum, or weekly. Raising Hope. WIZO’s Century City branch. In the first week For more information contact of May, Sue, with the help of two branch The day before lockdown commenced, Chad, a self-taught [email protected]. members Rochelle Bloomberg and Daphne photographer and cinematographer since 2013, was looking for a legal way to capture the city on film and, to his delight, obtained the media pass he had been seeking and began documenting for the CJC. Chad recounts, “The editor said, Protecting the protectors during COVID-19 ‘Chad, you have our blessing; be safe, stay out of trouble and we can’t wait to see your work.’ I feel blessed to be able to Over the last few weeks, a group If you’re a carer looking after an old person document a time like this… I knew it was going to be history of GPs based around the Atlantic or an doctor doing emergency calls. [We in the making.” Seaboard and the CBD have come want to] provide the doctors with instruments and protective gear to be able to help in the For Chad, the most memorable part of capturing the lockdown together to form Masks for Medics. care of patients in our communities.” on film was seeing the way in which communities rallied to he project was first envisioned by help and care for those who so desperately need assistance. Dr Anthony Smith, who is now joined The idea first came about in anticipation of Indeed, he experienced, first-hand, the efforts of individuals T by fellow healthcare professionals, Sonia the surge of cases that is expected in the such as Lucinda Evans, who is feeding 5500 people in the Hough, Sarahan Brophy, Lauren Lee, Julie next few months. Dr Smith explains, “We Cape Flats through Breadline Africa; David Froman who is Ettelin and Natalia Novikova. were given the advantage of time to organise providing food to Imizamo Yethu residents via Courage Africa; by virtue of the pretty hard lockdown. And we and Danny Diliberto of the ever-growing Ladles of Love. It was Masks for Medics wants to provide Personal saw from experiences overseas the degree through observing these acts that Chad was inspired to begin Protective Equipment (PPE) to healthcare to which patients struggled and hospitals his own initiative, Raising Hope. workers across Cape Town and beyond were overwhelmed. — so that they can continue to provide After taking images and videos of Cape Town’s usually- efficient and safe care to patients during the “Out of that came the understanding that bustling-but-now-empty city streets during the early days Coronavirus pandemic. The group of doctors hospitals were probably going to procure of lockdown, he began entering areas where the country’s aims to cover Cape Town and it’s surrounds PPE and various other items which would inequality is the most visible. Chad explains, “I went to go and including the Cape Flats, Khayelitsha and be used for monitoring patients and that they document what was happening in Culemborg, at the homeless other areas within a thirty to forty-minute would be looking after doctors in ICU wards. shelter there, and I went into Khayelitsha. I started going into drive of the CBD. But who was going to look after the people out the more volatile areas. What about the less fortunate people? in the community, whether they be doctors, I started documenting that. And that’s when I saw how South Anthony Smith explains that this project is care workers, palliative care workers, wound Africa, and especially the Western Cape, was going to have about “protecting the protectors. There’s no sisters, emergency personnel or carers for such a problem. I wanted to document it and hear their stories.” discrimination between health-care workers. old people in old aged homes?” Continues on page 6 Continues on page 6 2 Cape Jewish Chronicle June 2020 CONTENTS VOLUME 33 No 5 JUNE 2016 VOLUME 37 No 5 JUNE 2020 Regular contributors Features Page 3 Lindy with a why Page 1 WIZO launches feeding scheme Page 4 Community Noticeboard Page 1 and 6 From photojournalist to fundraiser Online information hubs Page 1 and 6 Protecting the protectors Subscriptions Shabbat times Page 6 Telfed Page 7 The Community Coronavirus Helpline Page 8-9 Cape SA Jewish Board of Deputies Page 10-11 Cape SAJBD 2020 Elections Page 12-15 SA Zionist Federation (Cape Council) 26 9 Page 16 Temple Israel Page 17 Jewish Community Services Page 18 Union of Orthodox Synagogues Page 19 Anton Katz on COVID-19 and the law Page 20-21 United Herzlia Schools Page 22 Jacob Gitlin Library Page 23 Mensch Cape Town Torah High Page 24 Family Announcements 12 Daniel Rabinowitz on connecting to a therapist online Page 25 Cape Jewish Seniors Association Page 26 Simcha Page Page 27 Craig Nudelman on teaching without technology Maccabi Page 28 Chronic Ads Patrons Panel 23 CJC EDITORIAL BOARD CSO emergency Zapper SnapScan Chairman: Lester Hoffman. 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