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rjHD_Q3Z VOLUME 36 No 1 FEBRUARY 2019 www.cjc.org.za Friends of UJC 10th Fire threatens Nationwide study anniversary celebration Hermanus Shul of SA’s Jewish On the afternoon of Friday 11 January population set for the Overstrand Municipality was faced with three breakaway fires in Betty’s Bay, 2019 Gansbaai and Karwyderskraal. he Hermanus Shul and Jewish cemetery were 'Religion' is no longer asked in Tin danger of being damaged. David Rade and the South African Census and so his fantastic team at the Shul reacted quickly to communal surveys have become ensure that all the Sifrei Torah and holy books highly valued sources of information were removed. about the Jewish population. As Jews around the Cape entered into Shabbat, he most recent national survey on the prayers were recited in our synagogues for those TJewish population of South Africa was communities affected by the fires. conducted 14 years ago in 2005 and the figures are increasingly outdated. Beverley, Sol and Andrea Kerzner enjoy the event Our prayers were answered when rain subdued the fire and a change of wind averted it from the See pages 6 — 7 for more A new survey of the South African Jewish shul's path. community will be conducted in early 2019 by the Kaplan Centre at the University of Cape Town (KC) and the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR) in London. This is truly a once-in-a-decade opportunity to gather data on a wide range of topics of major interest to Jewish community groups, organisations, and leaders to help them better plan for the future. Continues on page 13 Where is Kovno?

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Artists Cheryl Rumbak and Yda Walt with SAJM director Gavin Morris Temple Israel and the farmers at Fezeka in Gugulethu See pages 20 — 21 for more See page 41 for more

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Contributors Featured articles Page 3 Lindy with a why Page 21 Moldova endorses accepted definition of antisemitism Page 4 Pay your voluntary subscription Page 28 Food is my life — the story of Thelma Koorland Mitchell Shabbat times Page 32 Unity in the face of adversity — how a fire brought a Community noticeboard community together Page 6-7 Friends of the UJC Cape Town Page 36 The inspiring life of a Sea Point GP Page 8 Telfed Page 40 Amos Oz: a writer who defined the essence of Israel Page 9 Eliot Osrin Leadership Institute Page 46 What is the name 'Purim' all about? Campus Impact Network Page 49 Ben Cohen looks at how we teach the Holocaust Page 10-11 Cape SA Jewish Board of Deputies Page 12 Friends of Sheba Medical Centre Community Security Organisation Page 13 Kaplan Centre Page 14-17 SA Zionist Federation (Cape Council) Page 18 Union of Orthodox Synagogues Page 19 Melton Page 20-21 Temple Israel Page 22-23 Sinai Indaba Page 24 Echad Jewish Mindfulness Cemetery Maintenance Board 21 Family Announcements Page 25-27 Cape Jewish Seniors Association Page 30 Nechama Astra Centre Page 31 Jewish Community Services Page 33 Glendale Page 34 Bnoth Zion WIZO Page 36 PJ Library Page 37 The Herzlia Foundation Trust Page 38-39 United Herzlia Schools Page 40 Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Centre 34 Page 41 South African Jewish Museum Page 42 Jacob Gitlin Library Page 43 Anton Katz on the status of embassies as places of refuge Page 44 Chabad on Campus Page 45 Union of Jewish Women Mensch Page 47 Simcha Snaps Page 48 Chronic ads Page 50 Craig Nudelman speaks about praise Page 51 Sport 39

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By Lindy Diamond, Editor Cape Jewish Chronicle My Hebrew name and I I carry her name, because her soul have not always had a good is elevated based on my behaviour. relationship. Meanwhile, its good for me, because having her name inspires me to t was only bestowed upon me follow her good examples, of which Iaround the time of my Bat Mitzvah. there are many. It refers in no way to my English names and the only time I would ever While in Israel this past December, hear it referred to (repeatedly) was in a few people asked me my Hebrew our shul’s list of prayers for people name and more than once I was told who are not well. In my meshuggeneh what a beautiful name I had. Here I mind it had many strikes against it, was comparing my name to all the and I battled to find meaning in why ones I thought were more ‘Jewish’, or it was mine. more ‘Israeli’, and it turns out (as it usually is) that it was all in my mind. I was named after my grandmother, I even met a knowledgeable guide who had been alive when I was around my age at Yad Vashem with born, but was not by the time a her name badge bearing our shared name had to be chosen and so the name, and all these experiences whole thing seemed like an ill-fitting came together to start a positive winter coat. Not something I had to familiarity between my name and I. deal with in everyday sunny life, but not comfortable when I did need it. While on Masada I watched a Rabbi I didn’t want to feel this way about writing Torah scrolls in a little room something so important. I needed designed especially for this purpose. some small sign, some pattern, He heard my accent and guessed I something to attach meaning to, so I was South African, and with a little could love it like I should. more conversation, realised I was Jewish. His face lit up. “What’s your Then last year whilst on a Jewish Hebrew name?” he asked, taking out mindfulness and meditation course a little piece of pearly-white paper. one of the course facilitator’s said I told him, and there on the top of something that ultimately started Masada, my name was written for me the ball rolling for me and my name. in beautiful script. How magnificent it She was speaking about people who looked. had been born into Judaism and NEW YEAR those who hadn’t, but had chosen I then returned home to the news of it for themselves. It switched on a a baby girl born into our community. NEW GOALS light of gratitude in my mind. Without Her second name? My name! Seeing my grandmother’s forethought, my a tiny, perfect human (with very cool mother and I would not be Jews. parents) using the name I had for so And my bashert and I would not have long felt unsure of gave me such a been married by the shul that had sense of relevance and pride and married so many of my ancestors. yiddishkeit. How incredible it is to ask for patterns and signs and receive You see, my maternal grandmother them in spades. had not been born Jewish, and had converted Orthodox and received But last of all and most importantly, her Hebrew name when she and my in shul the other day my mother grandfather were going to be married. mentioned a poetic Hebrew love When I saw having her name as the song she adores, which has my name ultimate way to show gratitude for in the title. I saw my name through her forethought and effort, I saw my her eyes — the name she gave me to name in a better light. I needed to honour her late mother — and finally absorb that it’s an honour for her that my name found a home in me.

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Guests gathered from around the Constantia mountain range. globe on Thursday 27 December for On arrival, pre-arranged private tours of the the 10th anniversary celebration galleries were conducted. Guests mingled dinner of the Friends of the UJC with others from far and wide and enjoyed Cape Town (Friends). Overseas and the ambience at this unique location. Russ Johannesburg-based Patrons and Nerwich’s band provided background Friends attended this wonderful music during dinner and guests were evening. entertained with music by ‘Boogie Boy’ aka Paul Ambach, a Flemish Blues singer he event, which has become a highlight and pianist who created a wonderful after- Tof the summer season in Cape Town, dinner atmosphere. was held at the magnificent Norval Foundation, a centre for art and cultural Guests were treated to gourmet food expression. This art museum combines of the highest calibre, catered by Avron the experience of art with an appreciation Almeleh of Avron’s and Jacques Erasmus for nature, which is depicted by the of Hemelhuijs. unique architecture of the building and the Louis Norval, founder of the Norval outdoor sculpture garden enveloped by the Foundation, welcomed the guests to Cape Bradley Fried and 'Boogie Boy'

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Town and Ciaran Whelan, Executive the financial strength of the Foundation. Director and Global Head of Investec The Foundation is crucial to the Cape Private Bank spoke on behalf of Investec. Town Jewish community, as it serves as a protection mechanism against any future Marco Van Embden, Chairman of the adversity which may befall it. Friends and the David Susman Community Foundation (DSCF) addressed the guests We thank our Patrons, Friends, Donors and shared with them the successful 10 and loyal supporters, and believe that the year journey. The main focus of the annual Friends as well as the DSCF will continue to Friends event is to ensure support for the grow from strength to strength. sustainable future of the Cape Town Jewish We would like to make special mention of community and to celebrate Jewish Life in and thank our generous annual sponsor the Mother City. The proceeds of the Friends Investec, who have supported every event support the David Susman Community since inception 10 years ago. Foundation. These funds, ably managed by Investec, have grown significantly since inception, with dedicated oversight by a For more information on the Friends of the Natie Kirsh, Wendy Fisher and Dennis Goodman Board of Trustees. A number of important UJC Cape Town contact Robyn Slot on Photographs: bequests and legacies have added to [email protected] or call +27 21 464 6700 Guy Lerner

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2018 was an eventful year, both for our maintain the tradition today of the brave SA ‘Israeli’ South Africans and for Telfed. voluntary recruits who trod the same path in 1948, leaving family and familiarity in order to defend our e celebrated the 70th anniversary of the lone Jewish State. Westablishment of the State of Israel, which coincided with Telfed’s 70th birthday. The South Weapons aside, we realise that tomorrow’s future African commitment to Israel was lauded by depends on today’s education. Our Samson SASI President Rivlin himself, who invited Telfed Programme (Southern Africans Studying in Israel) representatives to meet with him at his Jerusalem not only offers a needs-based accommodation residence. He praised 'the true Zionists' who subsidy to foreign South African Jewish students both contribute to strengthening Israel or take the at world-class Israeli universities, but also a ultimate step of making Aliyah. social program that fosters their connection to Israel and a community From the early days spirit of volunteerism. assisting South This is one of three Africans who came to Donating a sandwich wrapping machine to SA Oleh, scholarship tracks Joe Isaacson of Sde Nitzan, who runs a volunteer volunteer in the War offered by Telfed, where centre that provides free sandwiches to soldiers in the of Independence, we processed over 1300 area. Telfed has evolved applications. In March whopping 39% poverty rate (up from 36.6% last to meet the diverse 2018, 531 scholarships year). and changing needs were awarded at a of our olim. What has prestigious ceremony Regardless of the cost of living in Israel, what remained consistent held at the Knesset and makes our international community unique is the is the affection for hosted by Member of people in it, who give of themselves. Close to 300 Israel, with an 89% Parliament Dr. Avraham increase in Aliyah Neguise, Chairman numbers (over of the Committee for the last four years Telfed's SASI students spend a day exploring Tel Aviv with the SASI Committee. Immigration, Absorption alone). In addition and Diaspora Affairs. to being greeted at the airport by a Telfed representative who walks 70th anniversary celebrations took place them through the initial steps and bureaucracy, throughout the country: we took a trip down these new olim received ongoing, tailor-made memory lane with the Herzlia Vocal Ensemble and guidance from Telfed on all aspects of life affecting Khayelitsha Mambazo Choir; we were entertained their absorption (including accommodation and by international baritone and SA import Colin employment). In addition to 350 Southern African Schachat and his son, Gabi, who performed with olim, we also welcomed 150 new immigrants the Ra’anana Symphonette in a charity concert; from Australia (many of whom are former South South Africans reconnected with their 175 year old Africans, who took the long route home). heritage at the ‘Goldene Medina’ Exhibition; and a multigenerational community birthday picnic took We also oversee some 100 lone soldiers, who place at Kibbutz Nir Eliyahu. The ‘Solidarity with the South’ trip provided Machalnik Smoky Simon addresses a group of soldiers at a memorial cereomony on Yom Hazikaron in April an opportunity to 2018. encourage Gaza border communities affected by volunteers throughout the country welcome olim incendiary terrorism and to their neighbourhoods, mentor new arrivals, rocket attacks. manage communal programs, visit lone soldiers On a monthly basis, and assist our elderly, inter alia. Our donors ensure Telfed continued to that our community is cared for and our voluntary provide food cards for communal lay-leaders oversee that Telfed runs to close to 400 South the highest standard, so that South Africans can Africans. Although the establish themselves and proudly make Israel their average rate of poverty home, marking these milestones with us. for O.E.C.D. countries That’s what we call a team effort! is 11%, Israel clocks in at almost double (21%) President Reuven Rivlin welcomes Telfed representatives to his residence in August and olim appear to 2018. have it hardest, with a

Celebrating Telfed's 70th at a community picnic at Kibbutz Nir Eliyahu in October 2018.

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Knowing that at least one of your obtaining their ancestral Lithuanian This is one of the most typical ‘myths’ that parents, grandparents or great- citizenship will be extremely difficult, or is commonly spread among the younger grandparents was from Lithuania – this is even impossible, despite the fact that their generation. Young people are often the only and the essential condition to ancestors came from Lithuania. With this in somewhat embarrassed that they are not successfully initiate the process. mind, most of my potential clients do not fully aware of their ancestral roots – where even attempt a legal consultation. their ancestors came from and when. ‘Myth’ 3: Some sort of cut-off dates are applied to the candidates, so I The intention of publishing this series of Generally, their knowledge is limited to the most likely will not qualify. articles aimed at breaking the ancestral information that someone, such as a This frequently-encountered false belief is Lithuanian citizenship ‘myths’ is to achieve grandparent or great-grandparent, was determined by a straightforward and a few things. Firstly, the intention is to pull from Lithuania. Typically, they are unprofessional evaluation of the Lithuanian into the daylight the most common false persuaded that this amount of information legal regulations. It is true that the most beliefs that may be restricting you from is not enough to effectively start the convenient legal situation occurs when achieving what you are naturally entitled to. process of reinstating their Lithuanian Presented by the Advocate and Partner, one’s ancestor arrived in South Africa Secondly and most importantly, the aim is citizenship – but this is absolutely wrong. Dainius Ambrazaitis, during the period between 1919 and 1940 to encourage you to reconsider your ability IN JURE Law Firm, Vilnius, Lithuania (the later the better). However, I can confirm to apply for Lithuanian ancestral citizenship The prevailing reaction of those clients who responsibly that in many situations, even in a way that is client-friendly, dared to attend a consultation in such I am Dainius Ambrazaitis, Advocate, without meeting this standard criterion with straightforward and professional. situations is sincere and pleasant surprise, Partner and the Head of Citizenship regard to the most convenient arrival time, as they start to see how effectively and Division at IN JURE Law Firm, based in after individually and thoroughly assessing Please note that this series of articles rapidly, even with such a small amount of Vilnius, Lithuania. My involvement in their other circumstances, my clients have provides summaries of the most frequently information, their Lithuanian ancestral Lithuanian citizenship reinstatement cases been able to successfully apply for the asked questions and answers that occur family picture can be restored. started 9 years ago. For the last 4 years, I reinstatement of their Lithuanian citizenship. during my legal consultations. have been intensively assisting applicants

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KEEPING IT REAL District Six Reconciliation Day event

Stuart Diamond, The film Black Panther ends with the hero Executive Director of the Cape South saying, “In times of crisis, the wise build African Jewish Board of Deputies bridges, but the foolish build barriers.” This is a message that the Cape Council takes So 2019 has seriously, even without a crisis. arrived and with it come s our community represents 0.32% of Cape many potholes ATown’s estimated population of 4.5 million, few that our young are likely to have ever met a Jew outside the TV democracy, screen. This means that every opportunity for us to build bridges by participating in an outside event transitioning into will help break barriers and let the other participants adolescence, will see that we are just like everyone else. No horns. have to navigate. No tails. he first quarter One such event took place on Reconciliation Tof 2019 will Day when Stuart Diamond and Gwynne Robins see fierce electioneering and for us as participated in an interfaith Reconciliation event in Sheikh Ismail Keraan, Gwynne Robins and Lettice Joemath in a community some trepidation for what District Six focusing on reconciliation and restitution. conversation in the restored Moravian Church our future holds. Over the next couple For the past 20 years the Government has stalled on of months, my team and I will ensure the arranging restitution for the 30000 people who had roll-out of election information ending been forcibly removed from their houses during the with a premier Town Hall debate. 1970s by the apartheid regime. After years of delay The Wellington Cemetery desecration the Western Cape High Court in November gave the and response is testament to our ongoing Government’s Department of Rural Development commitment and our No Place for Hate and Land Reform three months to bring back to court campaign will see us holding those in a layout plan for the redevelopment of the area public office to account, and they will be When Gwynne was invited to a planning meeting called on to be champions against hate, for the event, it was as a Jewish representative, as racism and antisemitism. One of our the organisers did not think Jews had ever lived in roles in the Board office is to ensure that District Six. She soon put them right, producing a our community has a space to report, photograph from the Jewish Museum’s District Six and be educated, on how to deal with Exhibition of her great grandparents’ family with her antisemitism. 12-year old grandfather having a meal in their District Six home c.1902. Sheikh Ismail Keraan and Stuart Diamond in the Al Azhar In February the Board will also start mosque a series of engagements with Jewish On Reconciliation Day, about 300 people gathered varsity students via our Campus Impact chasing a mugger who had attacked a teacher from the in the recently restored Moravian Church, filling the nearby Holy Cross Primary School. Dominee Deon Network programme to ensure that during benches and sitting on the floor. After a spirited and their campus lives, as well as weeks like Snyman of the Restitution Foundation led us in reciting noisy introduction by the Moravian brass band, followed a Litany of Restitution and a Muslim lawyer updated Israel Apartheid Week, they have the by a meditation by a member of the African Traditional tools to face the challenges of a modern, us on the slow restitution process and the recent religions, a panel consisting of Sheikh Ismail Keraan, successful court case after so many years. democratic South Africa. Lettice Joemath, wife of the Moravian Bishop and As we head into 2019, I hope that this Gwynne spoke on living in District Both Gwynne and Stuart had family quote by Jonathan Sacks can be carried in Six. The congregation then set out to The revelation that Stuart connections to District Six. Gwynne’s the heart of all our Cape Town community walk to the Anglican St Marks Church and Gwynne had had great grandfather had been the shochut and ran a butcher shop and members as they join with us in being where they were encouraged to share connections with District memories with the people sitting next boarding house. Stuart’s grandmother a bridge-builder between Jews and all Six amazed the audience. people that make up our beautiful city: to them. had a fish and chips shop while another relative had the shop that “Jews should have enough faith not to Stuart and Gwynne were moved at the sold school uniforms. fear, enough strength of mind to fight depth of pain they were exposed to as people poured for the rights of oppressed minorities out their bitter memories of being forcibly evicted from The revelation that Stuart and Gwynne had had wherever we happen to be. They should their homes and moved to the bleak windswept Cape connections with District Six amazed the audience. be at the forefront of fighting poverty Flats. Then onto the Al Azhar Mosque where Stuart How soon people forget. and disease in Africa, and among the spoke and delivered a prayer on behalf of the Jewish Apartheid has erased memories along with houses, leading campaigners for environmental community. leaving a wounded people and, sixty years later, responsibility, they should do so, not to We ended up at the Holy Cross Catholic Church for all that remains are empty derelict desolate land full win friends or the admiration of others, koeksisters and cool drinks where we were welcomed of nostalgia, broken glass, rusty nails and drugged but because that is what a people of God by the priest, nursing a broken ankle, having fallen after gangsters. is supposed to do.”

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800 people volunteer on Mitzvah Day Arthur's Road Shul fire The fire that The global initiative destroyed the ‘Mitzvah Day’ was held Beit Midrash on Sunday, 18 November Morasha 2018 across Southern synagogue late Africa. on Tuesday itzvah Day is an night 4 Minternational movement December 2018, bringing thousands of people brought about together, to give their time, heightened not their money to make a sense difference in the communities of community around them. Local Jewish Community Members taking a part in the NGO, Mensch, was invited neighbourhood beautification project, seen here amongst the by the events UK founders to painting the garden walls of JSC cottages. Cape Jewry. Community in the North West host this day locally. It was a that saw ‘gogos’ from Ikamva ith love and support, members Province, which was entrusted to day of social action that saw families, Labantu spend the afternoon having of the community came out in W the SAJBD for safekeeping when the friends, faith leaders, politicians and fun decorating cupcakes with the the late hours of the night to wipe community closed down many years community groups come together to ‘bobbas’ from Highlands House. down Siddurim rescued from the ago, has been on loan to the Ohr volunteer in local projects and unite blaze by firemen, and were on site “Next year we would like even more Sameach community in Sandton. We behind worthy causes that support again at 6.30am, in the rain, for members of our community and approached Rabbi Kraines who told the most vulnerable in our society. Shacharit morning prayers. Underpinned by the principle of a outside communities to get involved. us that the shul no longer needed mitzvah, there were over 29 mitzvah The goal is that through Mensch Moved by the haunting image of the the Torah and was delighted that it projects activated with 850 volunteers Mitzvah Day people realise it takes Morasha shul destroyed, our national be sent to Beit Midrash Morasha. giving of their time to serve 2500 very little to be a ‘change-maker’, office and its Country Communities We were particularly moved by a people. and that you get back so much more Department wanted to find a way to comment he made, `The Torah is when you ‘do’ for others, rather than assist the community at this difficult from `Licht’enburg (light). Projects ranged from a group of just ‘give’.” Mensch Director Gina time. And so, on Friday 7 December, After we delivered the good news friends donating blood at the Western Flash remarked. a Sefer Torah left their offices in to the Thurgoods, Rabbi Moshe Cape Blood Transfusion blood bank Johannesburg and was carefully It is important for the Board to get Silberhaft went to collect the Torah to a youth interfaith group, together transported on a flight to Cape Town. involved in and promote projects from the Ohr Sameach Shul and with Alderman Deputy Mayor Ian It was delivered safely to Rabbi that builds stronger, more integrated carefully wrapped it and prepared Neilson cooking nourishing vegetable Thurgood before Shabbat. soup for a homeless shelter in Elsies communities, like Mitzvah Day, where it for its journey to Sea Point. A River, to beautification project at people of all backgrounds and beliefs Over the decades the SAJBD representative of the SAJBD flew the Cape Jewish Services homes in have a stake and pride in the place Country Communities Department with it to Cape Town and delivered it Buitenkant Street. that they live. This was an opportunity has overseen the loan or donation to the community in time for Shabbat. to connect our Jewish identity to to congregations of numerous items Our hope is that the `Licht’enburg The SAJBD (Cape Council) arranged activities that have a positive impact from former small town Jewish Torah brings a flicker of hope and the Sunshine for Seniors project on local Western Cape communities. communities chizuk to a community that has around the country. braved real challenges in the past A Sefer Torah from two months. Wellington: no Jew forgotten the Lichtenburg The Country Communities subcommittee Chairperson David King and Cape Board Director Stuart Wupperthal fire relief Diamond met the leadership of the Paarl and Wellington community to inspect the vandalism of the Wellington cemetery. It is of deep concern that 39 out of 50 Jewish graves were targeted. nfortunately, despite the generous offer Uof a R10 000 reward for any information, no witnesses have come forward yet. Eric Berger examines his father's damaged In the meantime, the Cape Board will be gravestone working with these farming communities to: Stuart Diamond for making the trip up • Replace the Vibracrete wall with clear country, and our special appreciation is fencing to ensure that the site is always extended to Mark Kaufman who continues visible to the public to work tirelessly on the ground to oversee • Restore and repair of the damaged graves these repairs and upgrades. • Further engage with local SAPS and We will post updates on our Facebook page: Drakenstein Local Council on antisemitism Stuart Diamond activates community donations for the victims www.facebook.com/cape.jewish.board. education. of Wupperthal fire. Stor-age kindly offered to be a drop off point of.deputies for all donations. Thank you to David King, Eric Berger and

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Israel’s largest and most allow South African students from comprehensive medical different spheres of the medical facility, Sheba Medical sector to intern and to specialize Center, Tel Hashomer, at Sheba Medical Center, assist unveiled its new South disadvantaged communities in South Africa and the rest of the African Friends of Sheba African continent by building Medical Center branch bridges with us and ongoing during the recent Chanukah support for Sheba’s highest holiday. standards of medicine, research, festive event was hosted to innovation and technology, Ahighlight the launch in Cape transforming medicine in Israel Town’s contemporary art gallery, and worldwide.” “WHATIFTHEWORLD” Naomi Hadar, who spent the Cape Town’s Nilly Baruch had an past 17 years as one of the most instrumental hand in organizing influential Jewish organizational this special event, which community leaders in South included participants from the Africa (IUA-UCF), was recently local Jewish community, South named as the new Executive African Parliament members and Director of the South African medical doctors both from South Friends of Sheba Medical Africa and Sheba. Nilly Baruch, Professor Shani, Dr Golan, Mrs Louise Swart and Naomi Hadar Center. The gathering featured guests Gastrointestinal Unit. Professor Shani and Dr. Golan left “It is a privilege to be a part the audience in awe with many of Sheba’s innovative medical from Sheba, including Professor “I’m extremely proud of my Jewish participants seeking ways to be part centre, which provides global Mordechai Shani, Chancellor of the South African roots. Africa is in my of the South Africa Friends of Sheba outreach to communities around the Sheba Fund for Health Services soul and it’s an honour to represent and Research (and former Director initiative. world, including the South African Sheba Medical Center, where we community. As our event in Cape General Emeritus of Sheba Medical work to bring cutting edge care to Yoel Har-Even, Sheba Medical Center), Yoel Har-Even, Sheba Town took place during Chanukah, patients, from IDF soldiers to people Centre’s Chief of Staff added, “We we hope to bring light to the South Medical Centre’s Chief of Staff of all walks of life in Israel and around are looking forward to strengthening and Dr. Talia Golan (nee Feinberg) African Jewish community and the the world,” said Dr. Golan. the relationship between the South African continent as a whole. I am – originally from Pretoria, South African community and Sheba Professor Shani spoke as well, looking forward to helping Sheba Africa and currently the head of Medical Center in Israel. Our goals sharing the stories and unique history make a difference in many people’s Sheba’s Early Phase Clinical Trials include formulating programs that will Program and Medical Oncologist at behind Sheba Medical Center. Both lives,” pronounced Hadar. Cape Jewish Chronicle December February 2019 13 Continues from page 1 Nationwide study of South Africa’s Jewish population set for 2019 Are you an heir? “Investment in Jewish international and national migration, communal life in South Africa health and care needs. Thousands of Jews across Europe invested in pre-state Israel before significantly benefits from The questionnaire is being WW2. They opened bank accounts and bought stocks and real estate. being based on reliable and compiled by JPR and KC and these Many tragically perished at the hands of the Nazis. timely data. organisations will also carry out the Their investments did not. 60 000 of these assets have been located. initial data analyses. The survey will he data from the study will assist be administered online by a major Rightful heirs are being sought, many of whom live in North America. with community planning, service T global polling company. To find out if any of your family members made investments and provision, care needs, Jewish to submit a request for restitution of an asset to its rightful heirs schooling and Mendelsohn says other communal the survey team is visit the following website: programmes that How do we express our taking an innovative strengthen the Jewish identity? What are approach to vibrancy of Jewish our core Jewish values? sampling the Jewish http://www.hashava.info/assetList/#.XDPZ--mQxjp life in the country population and will for the South How is life in South Africa? draw on existing African community Jewish community For more information, contact: to look forward to a databases but will The Department of Holocaust Victims’ Assets sustainable, vibrant and secure future also utilise the power of social media The National Unit for Location and Management of Property we must understand who we are and online communal networks to The Administrator General and Official Receiver today: How do we express our Jewish reach far and wide into the Jewish identity? How do we give? What are population. The survey will be The Ministry of Justice our core Jewish values? How is life completely anonymous and no in South Africa?” says Associate personally identifying information Tel: +972-72-3729940 Professor Adam Mendelsohn, (like names, addresses or contact Email: [email protected] Director of the Kaplan Centre. details) will be collected. 2 HaShlosha St. The study will examine religious See the survey website and Facebook P.O. Box 9040 beliefs, intermarriage, communal page for updates and information Tel Aviv, 6109001 affiliations, social attitudes, Jewish about how to get involved www. education, charitable giving, jcssa2109.co.za and www.facebook. Israel connection to Israel, experience com/jcssa2019 of antisemitism, socioeconomics,

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VIEW FROM THE CHAIR higher than the average of 1.7. Last rate in 2018 was a low 3.7%. In Tourism to Israel in 2018 was an year, 29,600 Jews from around the 2018, the rating agency Standard & all-time record, with 4,1 million world made Aliyah and chose to make Poors raised Israel’s credit rating to tourists visiting the country, marking their future in Israel, a 5% increase on AA-, the highest rating in her history, a 14% increase on the previous 2017 according to the Jewish Agency. and placing the country in the club year. Jerusalem, Israel’s capital city, For comparative purposes, this is of 30 best-rated economies on the became the fastest growing tourist about double the entire Cape Town globe. Figures from the International destination in the world in 2018, Israel in 2018 Jewish population making Aliyah in a Monetary Fund show that in 2018, according to London-based market single year, or alternatively, the entire Israel surpassed Japan in per capita research company Euromonitor By Rowan Polovin, Jewish population in all Muslim and income, and that gaps between rich International. Diplomatically, Israel Chairman, SAZF Cape Council Arab countries combined. and poor were narrowing due to Ultra- improved diplomatic relations Orthodox and Arab citizens joining with several Arab and Muslim- Israels economy is also doing the workforce for the first time. majority countries, including many 2018 was a wonderful year for the exceptionally well. Her economic African states and has achieved Jewish State, with 185,000 births growth is expected to be around 3.7% Israel ranks within the Top 20 nations unprecedented levels of diplomatic and population growth of 2%, for the year. In 2018, tech firms raised in the world on the UN’s Human support around the world. South the highest per capita rate in the $6,47 billion (almost R90 billion) in Development Index and ranks as the Africa is still an outlier in this regard. developed world. 623 venture capital deals, the highest 10th most innovative country in the dollar amount since 2013. Israel still world on the Bloomberg Innovation It is clear that Israel is doing The total population reached leads the globe in the highest venture Index. Israel’s Gross Domestic exceptionally well, and is open for 8,972,000, of which 74.3% comprised capital investment per capita, as well Product (GDP) at $350 billion has business, tourism and diplomatic Jews and 20.9% Arabs. Israel now as maintaining the second highest edged past South Africa, which sits at relations. This is an ongoing miracle enjoys the largest Jewish population number of foreign companies listed $349 billion, according to figures from worthy of joyous celebrations. in the world with one million more on the Nasdaq (second only to China). the International Monetary Fund and Remember these facts the next time Jews living in Israel than the United There was a 77% increase in mergers the World Bank. This is staggering the anti-Semitic boycott movement States and is home to almost half of and acquisitions in 2018, amounting considering her small size, population claims some petty ‘victory’ against the world’s Jews. Israel’s birth rate to a staggering $21,6 billion (almost and lack of natural resources Israel. also leads the developed world with R300 billion). Exports rose 8% to compared to South Africa. 3.1 children per family, significantly over $110 billion. The unemployment

SAZF CAPE COUNCIL rocket attacks, sometimes up to sixteen rockets per day. Arriving in South Africa to attend the Habonim machaneh and see the beauty of our city, was a break from living under the constant threat of terrorism. Israeli teens from Gaza The initiative to bring these teenagers to Cape Town was taken by both border visit Cape Town Habonim Dror and the South African Zionist Federation with the aim By Olivia K, of demonstrating that all Zionist Media and Political Liaison, SAZF Cape Council communities can come together and show solidarity during difficult circumstances. “Young people have the power to talk to each other, and On the 11th of December, thirteen strengthen that bond,” explains one of 10th graders visited Cape Town the Israeli teenagers. from kibbutzim located on the border between Gaza and Israel. The initiative is all about realising the true Zionist ideals of bonding, youth These teenagers are constantly resilience and being able to support exposed to burning tyres and each other like “brothers”. Israeli teens from the Gaza border experience a safari ride at Aquila Game Reserve.

Members of national and provincial SA Zionist Federation on a visit to the Habonim machaneh are joined by the Va’ad Poel: Daniel Sussman, Julie Berman, Nicci Raz, Jess Levitt, Adam Edelstein, Eden Plein, Melissa Goldberg, Dean Goldin, Zac Fleishman and Habonim Shaliach Danny Abebe. Israeli teens living on the Gaza border enjoy a day at the Waterfront, Cape Town.

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SAZF CAPE COUNCIL The WUDC is the world’s largest and most renowned debating tournament, which expects more than 900 participants from 170 global universities.

The competition took place from the Israeli debating 27th of December 2018 until the 4th of January 2019, in which the panels teams score again! debated current and international issues. The Israeli teams did By Olivia K, fantastically well with the Hebrew Media and Political Liaison, SAZF Cape Council Jerusalem B (Elaye Karstadt, Roy Schulman) that won the English as a second language (ESL) Final and the The World Universities Debating Tel Aviv team (Sella Nevo and Yoni Championships (WUDC) Cohen-Idov) that won the Masters tournament took place in Cape Final. Town for the first time in 16 years.

Israeli teams win both the ESL Final and Masters Final at the The World Universities Debating Championships.

SA FRIENDS OF ISRAEL event was filled with laughter, fun and dancing to the music of Gabriel Shai. David Lazarus, the Master of Ceremony, introduced our speakers with enthusiasm and charisma. SAZF CAPE COUNCIL three youth movements to wish them luck for their machanot. SA Friends of Israel Rowan Polovin, Chairman of the Friendship (SAFI) SAZF Cape Council, spoke about Members from Habonim Dror, Netzer, the strong bond and relationship Bnei Akiva, SAUJS and Diller Teen Celebration between both communities and how Fellows all attended the dinner. We By Olivia K, Media and Political together we can fight hate speech had a chance to share our wishes Liaison, SAZF Cape Council and antisemitism. Zionist Youth Council with each other and members of the Le’Chaim Habonim Dror mishlachat performed Bishop Paul Saralina also explained a song for us. It has been years since The annual SAFI Friendship how unique and special Israel and the By Lee Lobel, all youth organisations came together event took place on Thursday Head of the Zionist Youth Council Jewish people are to Christianity and to simply spend time with each other 6th December and not even the his people. and have the chance to wish each rain could dampen the spirits of other luck for upcoming machaneh. It our special Friends of Israel. The A wonderful night was had by all. At the end of November, before all was a great night spent together and three machanot began, the Zionist we look forward to more events like Youth Council held a dinner for all this in the New Year.

Fantastic atmosphere as members of the SA Zionist Federation and SA Friends of Israel dance together at the SAFI Friendship Celebration. Clockwise: Chris Eden, Victor Belo, Kevin Sebotker, Patrick Rolleston, Eddie Johnson, Ben Levitas, David Lazarus. Listening to the mischlachat members perform.

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HABONIM DROR Mishlachat leading the children to explore a love of Israel and Zionism as well as to engage with being part of a global Jewish community. Beyond this, we had 14 Israeli teens from Kibbutzim along the Gaza border join us for a holiday from their home Habonim in 2019 environments. These teens engaged By Eden Plein, with the content presented at camp Sganit Mazkir for 2019 and gave great insight and input. It was phenomenal to see Jewish youth from such different backgrounds With over 900 people on our formulating ideas and sharing beautiful campsite this past experiences. We are particularly December; Habonim Machaneh appreciative for spending Shabbatot ’18 HaCholmim was an astounding with Rabbi Silman, Rabbi Greg and success. Rabbi Raanan from Johannesburg.

We are proud of what we achieved Looking ahead, we intend to continue in making the campsite a uniquely providing prestige experiences and comfortable, homely, educational opportunities to Jewish youth in our environment for each and every country and in Israel. Testament to attendee. When one steps onto the this is the passion and excitement Habonim campsite, one cannot help shown by the new chairs, leading but feel a surreal sense of what the movement this year: Daniel the Jewish people are capable of Sussman, Eden Plein, Erin Gordon when united. We do not take that and Dean Goldin; as well as the jam- responsibility lightly and accordingly packed calendar for 2019: spent the month educating on a variety of topics relevant to South • January: Veida and Hanhaggah African Jewish Youth. Each age (steering conferences) group was led through a process of • February: Shnat Hachshara enriching their love of Judaism. They participants leave for Israel and the explored the various aspects involved Kennim open in modern day Zionism and they • March: Mini Machanot in both delved into our responsibility as South cities Africans to our home communities. • April: Pesach Leadership seminar In each age group, we fostered an • May: Habonim visits Durban atmosphere of tolerance, compassion • June: Second Hanhaggah and mutual respect as it is only in • July: Shorashim in Israel, Taglit in such environments that real learning Israel, Winter day camps in South is possible. Both old faces and new, Africa, Bogrim Seminar in South BNEI AKIVA Riding off the high of what was the from here and from far, were able to Africa biggest Bnei Akiva camp in the last experience the Habonim magic. • August: Machaneh 2019 Launch two years, we are ready to take on • September: Poland Tour for senior Cape Town! Machaneh Ivri Anochi What made Machaneh extra special madrichim was a massive success; filled to was the foreign contingent of 50 of • October: Habonim visits Durban the brim with learning, growth, our most loyal friends from all over the • November: preparation for love, fun and achdut. And we are back! world. We had British and Australian Machaneh madrichim and a team of 14 Israeli • December: CAMP! We are looking forward to an By Chanan Suiza, incredible first Shabbat back with a Chairman, Bnei Akiva Cape Town massive Bnei Akiva lunch at the bayit. NETZER Machaneh Adama V’Shamayim! Watch this space for the incredible We learnt how to take our thoughts things we have planned for the year and ideas and actualise them ahead :D into the physical world, from the heavens to the earth.

It was one of our best camps yet and 2019 is here we cannot wait for this year. We know and we are ready you are probably missing all your camp friends’ loads but you’ll be able By Jason Bourne, to see them soon at our 2019 kick-off Rosh Cape Town event, so keep your eyes peeled for details.

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SA Zionist Federation (Cape done in their countries. highly respected businesspersons Congress President, is also Apostolic Council) and Bnoth Zion WIZO in their country. Wee Tiong Howe, Elder/Pastor City Missions Church. members met a high-ranking Jeu and Christine Chan are National founding President of the Society of He is also the Missions leader and delegation from the International Directors for ICEJ in Singapore and Financial Service Professionals in coordinator in Russia, Middle East Christian Embassy Jerusalem to Elder Pastors of the City Mission Singapore and Inaugural Chairman and Asian nations. discuss the incredible work being Church in Singapore. Both are First Asia-Pacific Life Insurance

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By Rabbi Greg Alexander Open most siddurim or for example, Turkish, Hungarian, So is the answer to continue to to get around it. chumashim and you would Indonesian, and Vietnamese) is its default to masculine then? Well, if you Recent attempts be forgiven for seeing G-d pronouns. A flight attendant must pay attention to the first verse that to introduce non- as a male character in a be either he or she. You can’t say, addresses gender in the Torah, you binary language dramatic novel. Besides the “I tried getting the flight attendant’s might be shocked to read that it says, into Hebrew attention, but it didn’t see me,” as [my translation] “And G*d created have really only anthropomorphic descriptions you can in Turkish. In fact, that’s all the human in G-d’s own image, G!d been adopted of G*d having an outstretched you can say in Turkish, in which the created it in G-d’s image; male and in tiny niches in liberal university arm or an eye or a nose, you pronoun o means 'he', 'she', or 'it' and female G*d created them.” (Gen. communities, and it will take a long will also see G!d translated is the only one applicable to such 1:27) Besides my awkward attempts time, if ever, before it becomes as ‘He’. ‘He did this’ and ‘He situations.” Incidentally, Philologos to dodge the pronouns, the most normal. doesn’t know it, but Xhosa and striking conclusion from this verse is heard that’ and ‘we pray to But here’s a thought — maybe the Zulu also only have gender-neutral that human beings were created in Him’. Hold on, how did G-d genderedness of Hebrew is actually pronouns, and as my wife is G!d’s image and they were both male become a man? not the problem but part of the Hungarian, I know that Hungarian and female. In other words, the first solution. You see, if tables and sofas he first problem is translation. works the same way. creature was not male or female but have gender (and they clearly don’t THebrew to English in this case. contained both, or as Rabbi Shmuel In the 60s and 70s the Western — is a table a man?), then perhaps When you translate you have to bar Nachman in B’reishit Rabbah World started to become attuned we can understand Hebrew gender make choices given the language 8.1 put it, “At the time that the Holy to gender in language and English not as a signal of anything except you are translating from and the One of Blessing created Adam, G-d solved some of the gender bias language and how it functions. In one you are translating to. No two created Adam as an Androgynos.” problems through changing terms fact, to return to the examples given languages are identical and every That’s the words of a 2000 year-old like policeman into police officer and in the Philologos article, and take translation is interpretation, requiring midrashic text! the translator to make choices in chairman became chairperson. But things to their extreme, Shad, a how best to render a word or phrase. it’s a bit harder when it comes to And if humans were created in the breast is masculine and Beitzim, The Hebrew descriptions of G*d are pronouns. You don’t want to speak Divine Image, and contained (at testicles are feminine! That leaves masculine and so most translators about a person as an 'it'. It reduces least) both genders, then surely their us to conclude either that Hebrew would render G!d as male in the them to an object. How much more Creator can’t be male! In fact, it is is gender queer, or that gender in translation. Let’s look at how that so would you not want to refer to the somewhat idolatrous to even think of Hebrew is completely arbitrary and works in English. Creator of the Universe as 'It', even G-d as an Old Man with a beard up to be ignored when translating. with a capital ‘I’. Those who are on a cloud somewhere, and yet that What is clear is that a masculine The word G-d itself has no gender gender-sensitive in English resort is the perception that remains today, noun doesn’t make G@d into a in English, because in English most to 'they', as in 'The rabbi lowered whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim. man any more than it makes a table nouns do not automatically have a the Talmud with a smile — they had Rather than G*d creating us in Her into a man. So why does the world gender. There are some that do, like found the answer at last.' Was the image, we have created G-d in ours. continue to do so? The answer is ‘boy’ or ‘girl’, but, compared to other rabbi a man or a woman? In fact, Because of course, those scribes, that it will until we change it. And languages out there, English is pretty 'They' might be a better option for rabbis and priests who wrote our the change starts with you. So when gender-neutral. G!d as the most generic biblical term formative texts were all men. you next find yourself referring to for Him/Her is Elohim, which does As Philologos writes in the online So what do we do about it? We G*d — whether you are davening, happen to be plural! But it would still magazine Mosaic, “On a scale of can point the finger at Hebrew as translating or talking about the deity be confusing to render (for example) 1-to-5, with 1 denoting languages the problem. You see in Hebrew you believe in or don’t believe in — Gen 2.2 as, “And on the seventh that make no gender distinctions at everything has a gender. A table can you stretch yourself to take out day God finished Their work which all and 5 denoting those that make is masculine but a sofa is feminine. the old man with the beard and talk They had made; and They rested on a maximum of them, English might And any adjectives or verbs related about the One and Only Creator of the seventh day from all Their work be ranked as a 2. The only thing to those nouns have to agree in the Universe without reducing G@d which They had made.” that keeps it from being a 1 (as are, gender too. So there really is no way to a male-constructed idol.

Mazaltov to those who celebrated Chanukah lights, we love you so ... Bnei Mitzvah with us last month: More than sixty adults and children congregated at our Wynberg Campus to celebrate the last night of Chanukah. hile some brought their own chanukiyot Wfrom home, provision was made to paint and decorate pieces of wood to transform Brooklyn Daneliwitz Rocky Schlesinger them into Chanukah menorot. Although meant 1 December 8 December for the children a few adults also tried their hand at this arts and crafts activity. Dinner consisted of beef and vegetarian patties that were assembled into burgers by the attendees. Sufganiyot and ices were served for desert. The Chanukah lights were lit as soon as it got dark and Chanukah songs were sung. The sight of so many chanukiyot glowing in Nathan Beswick David French the dark was beautiful to behold. 8th Night of Chanukah 12 January 19 January Cape Jewish Chronicle December February 2019 21 TEMPLE ISRAEL Moldova endorses accepted CAPE TOWN PROGRESSIVE definition of antisemitism JEWISH CONGREGATION JNS.org Mitzvah Day

This year Temple Israel spent Mitzvah Day at Fezeka Community Garden in Gugulethu assisting the farmers by planting seedlings, digging vegetable beds and mixing compost in the nutrition deficient sand. he community garden is one of many urban farms that fall under the auspices of TUmthunzi Farming Community, an organisation that assists independent urban farmers sell their organic, seasonal produce to the public. Fifty congregants enthusiastically dug, planted and turned soil. At the end of the morning we gathered together and listened to the farmers introduce themselves and tell us their personal stories. Many of them turned to farming after having lost their jobs. We were all inspired by their enthusiasm, strength of will and resilience. Moldovan Parliament Building. Credit: Serhiodudnic/Wikimedia Commons Moldova endorsed the widely accepted definition of antisemitism from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance on Friday, in addition to committing the country’s authorities to fight hatred against Jews and others. ccording to the IHRA, “Antisemitism is a certain perception Aof Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.” “Moldova has taken a laudable step in recognising clearly the resurgent cancer of antisemitism and mobilising to effectively combat it,” said American Jewish Committee CEO David Harris, who has visited the country several times. “We commend the Jewish Community of Moldova, an AJC international partner, for working with their government to achieve this important policy decision.” The Umthunzi Farmers Fewer than 4000 Jews reside in Moldova (as of 2012), which was party to pogroms and other persecution against Jews during the 19th and 20th centuries. Last month, the European Union adopted the IHRA definition.

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It’s that time of year again. The time when we come together as a 24 FEB 2019 CTICC 2 community to be inspired, uplifted and united. Over the past eight years we have heard thoughts and ideas from some of the most phenomenal Book now sinai-indaba.co.za minds in the world – and this Sinai Indaba, they’re back. Seats limited 24 Cape Jewish Chronicle February 2019 Family Announcements BIRTH RAFAEL JOSEPH VAN EMBDEN Jacques and Lior are overjoyed to announce the arrival of baby Rafael on 24 November 2018. Grandson for Marco and Gwen, Yossi and Zahava. Mom, Rafael and Dad are all healthy and happy, thank you to all our friends and family for your kind and loving wishes. RECUPERATION — THANK YOU

JACKIE SACHAR I would like to express my sincere thanks to my family and friends for their unfailing and wonderful support and kindness during my recent illness and for their ongoing encouragement as I continue to recover. Special mention must be made of the incredible support I received from Rabbi Matthew Liebenberg and my shul friends, not only at Claremont/Wynberg, but all over the world, who davened for my refuah sheleimah. My heartfelt thanks and gratitude goes to Hashem who heard and answered our prayers. The care and concern from all, not only for me, but also for Maureen, Michael, Jonathan and their families is greatly appreciated. CONDOLENCES — THANK YOU feminine

NEVILLE RAOUL CODRON We are overwhelmed by the outpouring of community love and comfort, support and condolences shown to us on the passing of our dear husband, father and sabah. We wish to offer our deepest gratitude and appreciation to family and friends, Rabbi Kalman Green and the Constantia Shul community, and the Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital team. Neville’s bravery, fortitude and positivity was an inspiration to us. “May we celebrate in each other’s joy and happiness and always be available in each other’s sorrow in order to lighten the burden.” Sophie, Marc, Natalie, Rael, Aviva, Scott and grandchildren.

PETER SHIFFER We are overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and support on the passing of our beloved husband, father, brother and grandfather. Our gratitude to Rabbis Liebenberg and Hecht. The abundance of meals, visits and warmth shown is a tribute to his wonderful legacy. Peter will be in our hearts forever. Bridget, Greg and Brad, Tracy, Romy and Kim, Linda and Steven and the grandchildren.

MAURICE SILBERT We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to Rabbi Wineberg, family, friends and patients, for their warmth, love and support after our beloved husband, father and grandfather passed away. You have all been a great source of comfort. Marlene, Jo, Beth, Patti and family.

ALAN TUCKER We, the family of the late Alan Tucker, wish to thank Rabbi and Zeesy Deren of Chabad of the West Coast, Rabbi Bernstein of Milnerton Hebrew Congregation and all our family, friends and organisations for the tremendous support when we lost our beloved husband, father, son and brother Ilana, Talia and Jordan. Freda, Helene and Barbara

To place a family announcement, email: [email protected] or phone Tessa 021 464 6736 (am) Cape Jewish Chronicle December February 2019 25 Secrets of ageing well Out and about with members

We experience ageing not as a slow, steady process, but in moments of shocking awareness — at the death of a parent, the birth of a grandchild, or the arrival of our first grey hairs. lthough the physical signs of ageing are only part of the story, our reaction Ato them is often the strongest evidence of our denial. Whatever our age, we need to consider why we’re afraid of getting older, and learn to embrace each milestone along the way. One needs to find wisdom, inspiration and ideas about how to proceed to the next stage of life with optimism, energy and confidence. Sharon Stone was seen on the cover of a magazine, aged 50 — bare breasted and wearing a leather corset with high heels declaring “I’m 50 — so what !” In real life, what woman of her age really has such a perfect face and body? In our society everyone wants to live longer, but can’t stand their bodies showing signs of aging but it isn’t easy to get away from the fantasy of growing old youthfully. Aside from offending our vanity, our slightly rounder middle and silvering hair serve as painful reminders that we’re not as useful West Coast Members enjoying a birthday morning in society’s exacting terms as we once used to be. It’s a rare woman who does nothing to hide, or at least to soften, the ravages of time, whether to avoid being sidelined at work, to hold on to her powers of seduction, or simply SOCIAL AND PERSONAL to feel more comfortable in her skin. We extend a hearty mazaltov on Sarah Daitsch 80 Often, the insidious and unrealistic notion that it’s possible to preserve the following happy occasions: Ralph Sher 80 youth indefinitely — if only we try hard enough — clashes cruelly with our We extend our sincere experience, both of growing older and of watching our parents and partners Births condolences to those who have age. Those of us watching loved ones growing old whilst suffering from Phyllis Friedlander – Great lost family members: diseases such as Alzheimer’s no longer recognising people while physically granddaughter being fine knows that growing old like that isn’t really living. Arthur Joffe — Brother Solly Gutman — Grandson Motti Lewis — Mother Ageing means different things to men and women and indeed, it can also Mavis Horwitz — Great grandson Henry Nieuwenhuizen – Wife mean different things from one generation to the next. If menopause is a key Charlotte Schachat – Great Neville Sher — Wife stage in a woman’s life, career has traditionally been the main benchmark Grandson Malcolm Stuppel — Daughter by which men measure their lives — ageing can be a difficult experience for Lilian Sheldon — Great grandson Freda Tucker — Son them, particularly if it stops them being able to work. It is extremely difficult to Barmitzvah Charles Myers — Brother let go of a career even if one suggests that the person might enjoy free time. Eunice and Harold Mofsowitz We welcome New Members to the — Grandson Never say never — don’t limit yourself and never give up on dreams. Don’t CJSA family: Engagement compare yourself to anyone and be gentle on yourself. Nowadays later life Mary Brandon, Maxleigh Derman, Victor and Maxine Boyd — Daughter increasingly is seen as a time of reinvention, rather than only of rest and Dale Mathews, Cynthia Sack, Thelma and Alec Cohen relaxation. All over the world more people want flexibility as they age; periods Angela Troward — Granddaughter of work alternating with periods of education and leisure. People want to take We congratulate the following Marriage control of their lives and continue to be active and productive in their own CJSA members who belong to Ronnie and Rose Stein — son unique ways. Bnoth Zion on their years of Ellen Sternberg — Grandson selfless service:- In a world where everything, including the way we age — is changing Anniversary 70 years Miriam Lichterman, Ettie increasingly quickly, the desire for a greater sense of control is stronger Selwyn and Liz Kantor 54 years Buch than ever. It is difficult to imagine what sort of person we will be when we Michael and Averil Myers 50 years 65 years Bella Silverman are old, but it is worth considering what this process has to offer; a better Birthdays 60 years Lily Kesler, Polly Sacks, understanding of ourselves, the permission to ‘let go’ (whether emotional Jeanette East 90 Charlotte Schachat, Doreen baggage or impossible standards) and the opportunity to focus our energy Bess Kawalsky Wingerin on projects that we really care about. Rather than fighting a losing battle to Ruth Mink 87 50 years Riva Mersky stop the passage of time, or withdrawing and becoming bitter, we need to Shirley Elvey 80 40 years Ethne Abromowitz, seek an active acceptance and fresh awareness of ourselves. Berenice Katz, Gail Kirsch At about 40. Our perception of our bodies, our image and our sexuality changes. It is the age where we start to think about the way our parents were when we were adolescents, and the ideas our mothers passed on to us Special Events and Outings — booking essential about what it means to be a woman. This process allows us to question our fears and desires — do we want to age the same way our parents did? Can Twilight Suppers: Bookings essential we allow ourselves to live differently, to be ourselves rather than becoming the projection of what our parents wanted us to be? This focus on ourselves Sea Point 12 February 17:30 Adv Steven Powell on anticorruption efforts offers an important opportunity to resolve inner conflicts. in South Africa R60 Milnerton 14 February 18:30 Charl Viljoen, City of Cape Town Liaison And so, an inability to look within, or to accept our changing bodies, to Officer R70 become a missed opportunity to rewrite the terms of our lives. Ultimately, fixating on the physical can have a detrimental effect on our mental and Outings: emotional wellbeing. Clinging to an illusion of physical youth often leads to Southern Suburbs 11 February Water Taxi in the docks. Booking essential reliance on the approval of others to validate that illusion. Women’s sense of R75 beauty is then too dependent on external sources, rather than on an internal Milnerton 5 February Outing to De Fayebosch Olive and Lavender Farm experience. in Melkbos R40 Difficult as it may be, learning to depend less on external sources can be an Sea Point 6 February Glenenny Glass Museum R40 exhilarating and liberating experience. Rather than viewing age merely as West Coast 19 February Water Taxi in the docks R75 including transport a loss to be mourned or an obstacle to be overcome, it is possible to see it when booking online as a journey of discovery. The key to optimum ageing lies in managing the Men’s Schmooze dynamics between gains and losses. In ageing— our spiritual forces expand. A life of the heart and mind takes over as the physical force ebbs away — the Milnerton 8 February 10:30 Rodney Mazinter The Lie That Won’t Die. bonus being is that we gain as we lose. Wynberg 20 February 10:00 Richard Mendelsohn Jews and Muslims Sea Point 22 February 10:30 Rabbi Richard Newman Diana Sochen Executive Director 26 Cape Jewish Chronicle February 2019 Cape Jewish Seniors Events Calendar MARCH 2019

Friday 1 Please note that the annual subscription for membership to CJSA is now due. We are looking for audiobooks in CD format for those who can no longer Sea Point 9:30 Shopping with We do not send out invoices so this serves as notification to pay your Malcolm R20 read printed books. Milnerton 10:30 Men’s Schmooze 2019 membership. Rabbi Richard If you have any to donate to CJSA, it would really be appreciated. Newman R10 R130

Monday 4 Tuesday 5 Wednesday 6 Thursday 7 Friday 8 Sea Point 10:00 A morning with Reach for a Dream R10 GOUDINI GOUDINI GOUDINI GOUDINI 2:00 Bridge R10 Sea Point 10:00 Talking Point with Colin R10 Sea Point 9:30 Craft morning with Yvette and Jeannette R20 Sea Point 10:00 Yiddish mit Veronica R10 Sea Point 9:30 Shopping with 2:00 Reminiscing afternoon R10 10:00 Ageless Grace with Joycelyn R25 1:45 Bridge and Kalooki R10 2:00 Bridge and Kalooki R10 Malcolm R20 Milnerton 10:00 David Slingsby on the construction of the 2:00 Yoga with Leina Sank R10 Milnerton 10:00 Art Classes with Karen Cohen R25 Milnerton 9:30 Kalooki R10 Boomslang Canopy at Kirstenbosch R10 Milnerton 10:00 Movie In Between: Three young Palestinian women, sharing a flat 2:00 Ageless Grace with Cathy Hudson R20 S/Suburbs 10:30 Birthday Pop In Pop In with Rolene Miller speaking 2:00 Music Appreciation with Doreen Kantor R10 in Tel Aviv, are torn between tradition and modernity R10 S/Suburbs 10:15 Ageless Grace with Yvonne R20 on the book Womandla Woman Power Confirmed R10 S/Suburbs 9:30 Outing Tour of the CTICC building R20 Tea for 1:30 Mosaics with Sonia Norrie R30 10:00 Bnoth Meeting 1:00 Bridge and Kalooki R10 own account 1:45 Line Dancing with Cathy Hudson R10 West Coast 11:30 Irving Freeman speaks on the reappearance of 9:30 DVD Series A place to call Home R10 S/Suburbs 9:30 Social Bridge R5 New members welcome Jewish culture in music including popular modern music 10:00 Scrabble R10 10:00 Kalooki R10 R10 2:00 Yiddish mit Rita R10 2:00 Knitting Group. All welcome R10 WELCOME to Monday 11 Tuesday 12 Wednesday13 Thursday 14 Friday 15 YIDDISHLAND Sea Point 10:00 Irving Freeman speaks on the reappearance Sea Point 10:00 Talking Point with Colin R10 Sea Point 9:30 Outing to Big Bay R40 Tea for own account Sea Point 10:00 Yiddish mit Veronica R10 Sea Point 9:30 Shopping with of Jewish culture in music R10 10:00 Ageless Grace with Joycelyn R20 1:45 Bridge and Kalooki R10 2:00 Bridge and Kalooki R10 Malcolm R20 2:00 Bridge R10 2:00 Yoga with Leina R10 Milnerton 10:00 Ageless Grace with Cathy Hudson R20 Milnerton 9:30 Kalooki R10 OT AZEY – The annual 2:00 Reminiscing with Hazel R10 10:00 Birthday Pop In: Rolene Miller speaking on the book Womandla 12:00 Art Classes with Karen Cohen R25 S/Suburbs 10:30 Irving Freeman speaks on the reappearance of Shabbat supper at Milnerton 10:00 Craft with Sonia Norrie R20 Woman Power S/Suburbs 10:00 Ageless Grace with Yvonne R20 Jewish culture in music including popular modern music Marais Rd Shul. ‘Yiddishe Mikvey’ is 12:15 Milnerton Committee Meeting R10 1:30 Mosaics with Sonia Norrie R:30 17:30 Twilight supper with Judith Cohen, human rights R10 Booking essential. now offered twice a S/Suburbs 9:15 Outing to Big Bay R40 Tea for own account 1:45 Line dancing with Hannah Seinik consultant speaking on Jewish Women’s Renaissance 1:00 Kalooki R10 Members R60 9:30 DVD Series A place to call Home R10 5:30 Twilight Supper Broken Windows An excellent presentation by City Topic R60 West Coast 10:30 Broken Windows An excellent presentation by City Non-members R180 year. PURIM 2019 — a of Cape Town Community Safety Liaison Officer Charl Viljoen R70 of Cape Town Community Safety Liaison Officer Charl new and fun addition to S/Suburbs 9:30 Social Bridge R10 New members welcome Viljoen R10 10:00 Kalooki R10 the August course. 2:00 Knitting Group All welcome R10 Muizenberg 10:30 NSRI a representative speaks on the work done to protect our coasts and swimmers R10 20-22 March 2019 Monday 18 Tuesday 19 Wednesday 20 Thursday 21 Friday 22 24 March special Sea Point 10:00 Birthday Pop in Rochelle Maisels speaks on Sea Point 10:00 Talking Point with Roni R10 Sea Point 9:15 An outing to Suikerbossie R30 Tea for own account Sea Point 9:30 Shopping with her book R10 10:00 Ageless Grace with Joycelyn R25 1:45 Bridge and Kalooki R10 Malcolm R20 programme for the 2:00 Bridge R10 2:00 Yoga Classes R10 Milnerton 10:00 Ageless Grace with Cathy Hudson R20 PUBLIC HOLIDAY working class 2:00 Reminiscing with Hazel R10 2:00 Mosaics with Yvette R30 12:00 Art Classes with Karen Cohen R25 OFFICE CLOSED Milnerton 10:00 Irving Freeman speaks on the reappearance Milnerton 9:15 Movie In Between: Three young Palestinian women, sharing a flat S/Suburbs 10:15 Ageless Grace with Yvonne R15 of Jewish culture in music R10 in Tel Aviv, are torn between tradition and modernity R10 Three day course R 475 3:00 Shiur with Rabbi Bernstein R10:00 1:30 Mosaics with Sonia Norrie R:30 One day course R180 S/Suburbs 9:30 DVD Series A place to call Home R10 1:45 Line dancing with Hannah Seinik 9:30 Outing to Casa Labia Cultural Centre and S/Suburbs 9:30 Social Bridge R10 New members welcome Café Tea for own account R30 10:00 Kalooki R10 2:00 Knitting Group All welcome R10 West Coast 9:30 Outing to Bishopsford Bonsai Nursery R50 Tea for own account Sunday 24 Monday 25 Tuesday 26 Wednesday 27 Thursday 28 Friday 29 Sea Point 10:00 Pop in: Enjoy a reality TV morning with Sea Point 10:00 Talking Point with Marcia R10 Sea Point 10:00 Craft with Judi R30 Sea Point 10:00 Yiddish mit Veronica R10 Sea Point 9:30 Shopping with Ot Azey Hymie Liebman R10 10:00 Ageless Grace with Joycelyn R25 1:45 Bridge and Kalooki R10 11:15 Exercises with Mariamne R10 Malcolm R20 2:00 Bridge R10 2:00 Yoga Classes with Leina R10 Milnerton 10:00 Ageless Grace with Cathy R10 1:45 Bridge and Kalooki R10 10:30 Men’s Schmooze 2:00 Reminiscing with Hazel R10 Milnerton 10:00 Outing to Suikerbossie Restaurant Tea for own account R30 12:00 Art Classes with Karen Cohen R25 Milnerton 18:30 Twilight Supper An evening with Dr Tzili Tiny Jones R10 Milnerton 10:00 Pop In A morning with Helen Pam, children’s 1:00 Kalooki R10 S/Suburbs 10:15 Ageless Grace with Yvonne R20 Reisenberger R60 Sunday 31 author R10 1:45 Line dancing with Hannah Seinik 10:00 Men’s Schmooze Group A morning with Rodney S/Suburbs 10:30 Broken Windows An excellent presentation by S/Suburbs 9:30 Outing to Bishopsford Bonsai Nursery R50 S/Suburbs 9:30 Social Bridge R10 New members welcome Mazinter speaking on The Lie That Will Not Die R10 City of Cape Town Community Safety Liaison Officer Milnerton Fundraiser Tea for own account 10:00 Kalooki R10 Charl Viljoen R10 2:00 Knitting Group. 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Friday 1 Please note that the annual subscription for membership to CJSA is now due. We are looking for audiobooks in CD format for those who can no longer Sea Point 9:30 Shopping with We do not send out invoices so this serves as notification to pay your Malcolm R20 read printed books. Milnerton 10:30 Men’s Schmooze 2019 membership. Rabbi Richard If you have any to donate to CJSA, it would really be appreciated. Newman R10 R130

Monday 4 Tuesday 5 Wednesday 6 Thursday 7 Friday 8 Sea Point 10:00 A morning with Reach for a Dream R10 GOUDINI GOUDINI GOUDINI GOUDINI 2:00 Bridge R10 Sea Point 10:00 Talking Point with Colin R10 Sea Point 9:30 Craft morning with Yvette and Jeannette R20 Sea Point 10:00 Yiddish mit Veronica R10 Sea Point 9:30 Shopping with 2:00 Reminiscing afternoon R10 10:00 Ageless Grace with Joycelyn R25 1:45 Bridge and Kalooki R10 2:00 Bridge and Kalooki R10 Malcolm R20 Milnerton 10:00 David Slingsby on the construction of the 2:00 Yoga with Leina Sank R10 Milnerton 10:00 Art Classes with Karen Cohen R25 Milnerton 9:30 Kalooki R10 Boomslang Canopy at Kirstenbosch R10 Milnerton 10:00 Movie In Between: Three young Palestinian women, sharing a flat 2:00 Ageless Grace with Cathy Hudson R20 S/Suburbs 10:30 Birthday Pop In Pop In with Rolene Miller speaking 2:00 Music Appreciation with Doreen Kantor R10 in Tel Aviv, are torn between tradition and modernity R10 S/Suburbs 10:15 Ageless Grace with Yvonne R20 on the book Womandla Woman Power Confirmed R10 S/Suburbs 9:30 Outing Tour of the CTICC building R20 Tea for 1:30 Mosaics with Sonia Norrie R30 10:00 Bnoth Meeting 1:00 Bridge and Kalooki R10 own account 1:45 Line Dancing with Cathy Hudson R10 West Coast 11:30 Irving Freeman speaks on the reappearance of 9:30 DVD Series A place to call Home R10 S/Suburbs 9:30 Social Bridge R5 New members welcome Jewish culture in music including popular modern music 10:00 Scrabble R10 10:00 Kalooki R10 R10 2:00 Yiddish mit Rita R10 2:00 Knitting Group. All welcome R10 WELCOME to Monday 11 Tuesday 12 Wednesday13 Thursday 14 Friday 15 YIDDISHLAND Sea Point 10:00 Irving Freeman speaks on the reappearance Sea Point 10:00 Talking Point with Colin R10 Sea Point 9:30 Outing to Big Bay R40 Tea for own account Sea Point 10:00 Yiddish mit Veronica R10 Sea Point 9:30 Shopping with of Jewish culture in music R10 10:00 Ageless Grace with Joycelyn R20 1:45 Bridge and Kalooki R10 2:00 Bridge and Kalooki R10 Malcolm R20 2:00 Bridge R10 2:00 Yoga with Leina R10 Milnerton 10:00 Ageless Grace with Cathy Hudson R20 Milnerton 9:30 Kalooki R10 OT AZEY – The annual 2:00 Reminiscing with Hazel R10 10:00 Birthday Pop In: Rolene Miller speaking on the book Womandla 12:00 Art Classes with Karen Cohen R25 S/Suburbs 10:30 Irving Freeman speaks on the reappearance of Shabbat supper at Milnerton 10:00 Craft with Sonia Norrie R20 Woman Power S/Suburbs 10:00 Ageless Grace with Yvonne R20 Jewish culture in music including popular modern music Marais Rd Shul. ‘Yiddishe Mikvey’ is 12:15 Milnerton Committee Meeting R10 1:30 Mosaics with Sonia Norrie R:30 17:30 Twilight supper with Judith Cohen, human rights R10 Booking essential. now offered twice a S/Suburbs 9:15 Outing to Big Bay R40 Tea for own account 1:45 Line dancing with Hannah Seinik consultant speaking on Jewish Women’s Renaissance 1:00 Kalooki R10 Members R60 9:30 DVD Series A place to call Home R10 5:30 Twilight Supper Broken Windows An excellent presentation by City Topic R60 West Coast 10:30 Broken Windows An excellent presentation by City Non-members R180 year. PURIM 2019 — a of Cape Town Community Safety Liaison Officer Charl Viljoen R70 of Cape Town Community Safety Liaison Officer Charl new and fun addition to S/Suburbs 9:30 Social Bridge R10 New members welcome Viljoen R10 10:00 Kalooki R10 the August course. 2:00 Knitting Group All welcome R10 Muizenberg 10:30 NSRI a representative speaks on the work done to protect our coasts and swimmers R10 20-22 March 2019 Monday 18 Tuesday 19 Wednesday 20 Thursday 21 Friday 22 24 March special Sea Point 10:00 Birthday Pop in Rochelle Maisels speaks on Sea Point 10:00 Talking Point with Roni R10 Sea Point 9:15 An outing to Suikerbossie R30 Tea for own account Sea Point 9:30 Shopping with her book R10 10:00 Ageless Grace with Joycelyn R25 1:45 Bridge and Kalooki R10 Malcolm R20 programme for the 2:00 Bridge R10 2:00 Yoga Classes R10 Milnerton 10:00 Ageless Grace with Cathy Hudson R20 PUBLIC HOLIDAY working class 2:00 Reminiscing with Hazel R10 2:00 Mosaics with Yvette R30 12:00 Art Classes with Karen Cohen R25 OFFICE CLOSED Milnerton 10:00 Irving Freeman speaks on the reappearance Milnerton 9:15 Movie In Between: Three young Palestinian women, sharing a flat S/Suburbs 10:15 Ageless Grace with Yvonne R15 of Jewish culture in music R10 in Tel Aviv, are torn between tradition and modernity R10 Three day course R 475 3:00 Shiur with Rabbi Bernstein R10:00 1:30 Mosaics with Sonia Norrie R:30 One day course R180 S/Suburbs 9:30 DVD Series A place to call Home R10 1:45 Line dancing with Hannah Seinik 9:30 Outing to Casa Labia Cultural Centre and S/Suburbs 9:30 Social Bridge R10 New members welcome Café Tea for own account R30 10:00 Kalooki R10 2:00 Knitting Group All welcome R10 West Coast 9:30 Outing to Bishopsford Bonsai Nursery R50 Tea for own account Sunday 24 Monday 25 Tuesday 26 Wednesday 27 Thursday 28 Friday 29 Sea Point 10:00 Pop in: Enjoy a reality TV morning with Sea Point 10:00 Talking Point with Marcia R10 Sea Point 10:00 Craft with Judi R30 Sea Point 10:00 Yiddish mit Veronica R10 Sea Point 9:30 Shopping with Hymie Liebman R10 10:00 Ageless Grace with Joycelyn R25 1:45 Bridge and Kalooki R10 11:15 Exercises with Mariamne R10 Malcolm R20 2:00 Bridge R10 2:00 Yoga Classes with Leina R10 Milnerton 10:00 Ageless Grace with Cathy R10 1:45 Bridge and Kalooki R10 10:30 Men’s Schmooze 2:00 Reminiscing with Hazel R10 Milnerton 10:00 Outing to Suikerbossie Restaurant Tea for own account R30 12:00 Art Classes with Karen Cohen R25 Milnerton 18:30 Twilight Supper An evening with Dr Tzili Tiny Jones R10 Milnerton 10:00 Pop In A morning with Helen Pam, children’s 1:00 Kalooki R10 S/Suburbs 10:15 Ageless Grace with Yvonne R20 Reisenberger R60 author R10 1:45 Line dancing with Hannah Seinik 10:00 Men’s Schmooze Group A morning with Rodney S/Suburbs 10:30 Broken Windows An excellent presentation by S/Suburbs 9:30 Outing to Bishopsford Bonsai Nursery R50 S/Suburbs 9:30 Social Bridge R10 New members welcome Mazinter speaking on The Lie That Will Not Die R10 City of Cape Town Community Safety Liaison Officer Tea for own account 10:00 Kalooki R10 Charl Viljoen R10 2:00 Knitting Group. 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With compliments With Compliments The Henry Van Embden Kalman, Esther and Family Foundation Michael Maisel Trust 28 Cape Jewish Chronicle February 2019 Food is my life — the story of Thelma Koorland Mitchell

By Vivienne Koorland and Tamar Garb.

Thelma Koorland was a household name Growing up in Jewish Cape Town it was impossible in Cape Town and beyond. not to have heard of her. Or of the rivalry between Robert Krafchick and Thelma Koorland Caterers, here are few Jewish families whose lives and who between them had carved up all the Tsimchas were untouched by her. She was barmitzvahs and weddings in the city. “Are you Thelma Koorland Caterers, and she facilitated having Krafchick or Koorland for your ‘affair’” was and celebrated family milestones with thousands the routine question before any function of note. If of people over four decades. Hers was a dramatic you chose Koorland, fortune smiled upon you, for and unusual life: in 1943 she was smuggled out along with her famed Danish herring and chopped of the Warsaw ghetto and shipped to South Africa liver, her Spanish chicken and her sweet-glazed- for adoption, where she lived at pineapple-cherry-and-clove Oranjia Jewish Orphanage. She hot brisket, came a person of was a quintessential Capetonian, But the real genesis of such intensity and talent, such as well as a Polish Jewish her 45-year catering elegance and energy, that you orphaned survivor. career was at boarding were inevitably swept away and For many, her legendary school where she did a enthralled. reputation preceded her. The thriving trade feeding Talmy was born in Łódz, Poland, generally accepted story of how her peers their uneaten on February 8, 1936, only child of Talmy became a caterer is that food, transmogrified into Dr. Asia Rudzka Szymsonova, a when she made lavish birthday paediatrician, and Dr. Salomon parties for her children, word delicious egg mayonnaise Szymson, a medical doctor and spread. Soon she was teaching and delectable grated engineer. Both perished in the cooking and catering for other cheese sandwiches Warsaw ghetto in 1943. She was children and their parents. But toasted between saved by her uncle Henryk Rudzki, the real genesis of her 45-year two irons. remaining hidden in Poland until catering career was at boarding 1946 before he sent her to Paris Talmy in May 2000, in the Warsaw market, with school where she did a thriving tiny bagels and her beloved ‘real’ cornflowers and to her uncle Bernard Simson, favourite lily of the valley, upon her arrival there for trade feeding her peers their Aunt Riva and cousin Monique. the first time since leaving Poland in 1948. uneaten food, transmogrified into delicious Talmy knew little of her life before Paris. A chance egg mayonnaise and delectable grated cheese encounter there 67 years later between Monique industrial chemist. sandwiches toasted between two irons. In 1963, and a Polish Jewish woman who, astonishingly, With Thelma Koorland Caterers, Talmy created the mother of three launched her business from 43 had been hidden for three years with Talmy, an empire, a charismatic general staffed with an DeVilliers Street in District Six. revealed these facts: Natalia Lerska- array of waitresses, waiters, drivers and kitchen Kowalski was 19 when Henryk delivered staff, whom she cajoled, yelled at, praised and seven-year-old Talmy, transported in a fed, but most of all laughed with and loved. cart, emaciated and covered in lice Exhausted, after parties with sore feet and red and coal, on the day Asia was killed hands, all felt the relief of a mission accomplished in the ghetto. Talmy got out under the and the warm glow of a job well done. But Talmy coat of a labourer. In hiding, Talmy would be exhilarated at the end of it, diamonds Szymson was called Zosia Szkatulska, sparkling, gold chains clanking, rouged lips and masking a world of pain, and the first beautiful eyes intact, basking in the admiration and of six name changes achievement of the night. marking the trajectory of Talmy’s life. She’d But in 1977, her catering premises known starvation and Although she experienced surrounded by rubble after the rickets, and with each irreparable loss, having destruction of District Six, Talmy displacement spoke had everything taken took Thelma Koorland Caterers less, or not at all. In from her as a child, she to London. For 25 years, her her 18 months with home in North London became made up for what was command centre for Thelma the Simsons, even her stolen from her – a Polish mother-tongue Koorland Exclusive Catering. Talmy with her mother Asia and uncle Henryk at their summer childhood, a family, a She and Victor divorced in 1981; dacha in Glowno, Poland, 1937 was forbidden. Her cousin recalled that language, a home. he died in 1995. In 1985 Talmy she came alive only in married Alex Mitchell, a buyer in front of a plate of food, the East End rag trade. He died often throwing her in September 2018. arms around it for fear of it being taken She threw into all her activities extraordinary away. Because they couldn’t keep her, commitment and creativity, loving and giving Talmy was shipped to South Africa on 1 without holding back. Who could ever forget May 1948, to be adopted by her great- her cooking for family and friends, her stuffed aunt Rachel Gilinsky. monkey, her cheese blintzes, or just her sheer In Cape Town, her life as we knew it energy and ability to love life and seize it with both began. Now Thelma Gilinsky, Talmy was hands. Her capacity for friendship was enormous, sent to the Huguenot Girls High School her kindness and generosity were boundless. in Wellington. There she demonstrated Although she experienced irreparable loss, having that fabled energy, brilliance and had everything taken from her as a child, she made resourcefulness, knitting rapid-fire up for what was stolen from her – a childhood, a for her classmates to supplement family, a language, a home. Her capacious warmth her meagre pocket money, tackling and luminous intensity made the world a better English and winning the History prize place. Talmy (left) in a redacted copy from Reconstruction, May, 1948, each year. Not expected to matriculate taken in the Paris office of O.S.E. (Oeuvre Secours aux Enfants), a in Afrikaans, she left at Standard 8, Thelma Koorland Mitchell was born in Łódz on 8 relief organisation that placed European Jewish wartime orphans avoiding burdening her adoptive family. February 1936 and died in London on 16 October with living relatives all over the world. It shows the first two Jewish In 1955, she married Victor Koorland, an 2018 orphans receiving their air tickets to South Africa. Cape Jewish Chronicle December February 2019 29

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Jaguar Cape Town Cnr Christiaan Barnard & Hertzog Boulevard 021 413 9810 capetown.jaguar.co.za 30 Cape Jewish Chronicle February 2019 A Q&A with Nechama A meeting of old acquaintances from 60 years ago We at Nechama have been asked some very interesting During November 2018 Erica questions, many of which we’d like to share with you. Duzzy O’Riordon visited Coffee Time with her friend, Molly What is the Nechama - Workshops Kretzmar. Organisation? • Public Lectures and Group hen introduced to Director We are a volunteer-based community Lectures, i.e. Workshops for WMerle Furman, Erica told Merle organisation providing comfort and Organisations, Jewish and that her late parents, Mr and Mrs support to members of the Cape non-Jewish Duzzy, had worked as houseparents Town Jewish community who have • Training Groups: at Oranjia Children’s Home in the experienced a bereavement. We - Personal Growth and Self 1960s, and she lived there with her assist them in adjusting to their Development Courses parents. Charles Brand, Erica Duzzy O’Riordon, changed circumstances, the ‘new Jean Brand and Neville Wolpert - Communication and She remembered some of the norm’. in the stamp room for 46 years. Counselling Skills Courses children and asked Merle if, by any Erica remembers trying to teach him Why special bereavement - Bereavement Counselling chance, she knew Neville Wolpert. to read as a little boy. On seeing counselling? Skills Course Indeed, Merle knows him very well! Erica, he (understandably) did not - Outreach and training for Merle has been involved with the Although bereavement is a sorrowful recognise her but when he heard her other organisations, e.g. St centre for the past 43 years and and sometimes tragic experience, name, he immediately remembered Neville was a worker at Astra during receiving counselling with specific Lukes Hospice her, her parents and her brother and the 70s and 80s. emphasis on the emotion of grief and - Rabbis and Rebbetzins asked after all of them. the dynamics around it assists us to Course He is also a resident at Rosecourt, The following week Erica and Molly accept our loss and realise that the one of Astra’s Group Homes and returned to Coffee Time to meet up future does await us. How is Nechama different from currently works on the open labour with Neville Wolpert. Nola Gerdis Lifeline? market. Erica then asked about Why Jewish bereavement (from Glendale) brought Jean Brand Lifeline is a generic organisation siblings Charles and Jeanie Brand. counselling? to see her as well. The interaction dealing with a broad variety of life Charles, who works at the Centre, between Erica and Neville was Judaism holds time-honoured issues. Nechama specialises in came from his workroom to Coffee remarkable, with memories, good practices that prepare us to receive Jewish bereavement and palliative Time to meet Erica. consolation, (burial, shiva, shloshim, care counselling only. and not so good, being recalled with kaddish). Trained counsellors of The reunion was an event of a absolute clarity and accuracy. lifetime. Erica sobbed when she similar backgrounds to the bereaved What’s the procedure for getting Erica recalled how, as a little girl saw and met Charles, now 64 years can often relate to these and other help? living in Oranjia, she used to rush old, having last seen him as a little Jewish milestones, like Yom Tovim or We receive a monthly list of Jewish home from school to play with little boy! He has worked at the Centre Yahrtzeits. In this way the counsellor bereavements in Cape Town from Neville, who she loved SO much. can assist the client through the grief. the Chevra Kadisha, (UOS) and the However, the counsellors do not Progressive Hebrew Congregation. A ‘cool’ art studio provide spiritual counselling. Each bereaved person then receives a call of condolence with an offer he art studio/dining room at Astra project was undertaken last What kind of training is involved? to receive counselling. If there are Treceived a much-needed air Ayear for Succot. Each student Extensive training of each individual additional family members who conditioning unit, kindly donated by contributed and their work was is involved. require an outreach call or counselling Corevest. The donation was initiated mounted on two large boards — • A personal growth group they can receive this on request. by artist Pam Wertheim, who gives thanks to Audiolens — to decorate • A communication and counselling the weekly art classes to the workers. the succah at Coffee Time. After a bereavement, we respect skills course the Shiva week. There are usually • A bereavement training families around the bereaved to counselling skills course support them at this time. Also, there • Aside from this we have a Jewish are practicalities to deal with. This bereavement module can be when a well-meaning friend Although this process is a very and family member call Nechama, enriching one for the individual it but it is still too early for the bereaved does not automatically make them a to accept counselling, as the loss is counsellor. A candidate would then too overwhelming. have to be approved by a selection The bereaved who accept our committee. The process could take a services are counselled for an period of up to two years. average of six sessions with • Additional monthly supervision additional sessions to be negotiated The art group with their Succot project groups facilitated by a psychologist between counsellor and client. • Attending in service-training and Chanukah What guarantee do I have for workshops on various topics. privacy and confidentiality? he annual TChanukah Party, What exactly do we offer the Confidentiality is a priority. By kindly sponsored by public? necessity our counsellors receive Saville and Shelly The range of services Include: ongoing supervision for the nature of Furman, was one • A telephone outreach service to the work they do, but names are never of the highlights of the recently bereaved families used in these sessions. Everyone the year. Ivor Joffe’s who works for Nechama is bound by • Individual one-on-one counselling marvellous music a confidentiality agreement. by trained, skilled and supervised contributed to the counsellors What is the cost involved? joyful atmosphere • Palliative Care Counselling and Greg Gelb’s There is no cost for the client, magical moves • Support Groups however, being a volunteer had everyone - General Monthly Loss Group organisation we are very dependant enthralled. The - Bereaved Widow/Widower on donations from both the family party ended with Support Group and the broader community. We are Ivor lighting the a registered PBO. - Seminars Pam Wertheim chanukiah. Ivor Joffe Cape Jewish Chronicle December February 2019 31 32 Cape Jewish Chronicle February 2019 Unity in the face of adversity: how a fire brought the community together

By Tali Feinberg It was a year that began with Thurgood. In the space of a month, Cohen at the event. over R5 million was raised towards a drought and ended with a He added that he this goal and other costs. fire. Flames filled the night sky, knew Rabbi Sam roof beams collapsed in on Morasha was assisted in every way Thurgood has been themselves, and seven Sifrei by many Cape Town congregations, deeply touched Torah scrolls burned in the especially the Sephardi Hebrew by the incredible inferno when a devastating Congregation, and it was hosted in letters of support blaze ripped through Beit the Herzlia Weizmann School Hall. and solidarity that Midrash Morasha (Arthurs They never missed a service, there he received from Road Shul) on 4 December. was always a minyan, children’s Jewish, Christian and programmes ran on track and the Muslim communities f anything, 2018 demonstrated that Channukah carnival went off without – demonstrating Iwe are at the mercy of the elements, a hitch. that the unity that but also that our community is strong emerged from this Volunteers cleaned and catalogued and unified enough to work together tragedy extended books that had been saved from to rebuild in the face of disaster. to all the people of the flames, food and funds flooded Cape Town. The response to Morasha fire was in, videos and messages of support the ultimate example of the Cape filled Facebook and circulated around Indeed, it was Rabbi Town Jewish community’s cohesion the city. The firefighters who battled Sam Thurgood and Rabbi Sam and Rebbitzin Aviva Thurgood that is renowned the world over. Even the blaze were warmly hosted over his wife, Rebbetzin with their daughter Shalva, looking on as Rabbi Avi Shlomo writes a new Torah scroll — that night, it was the community who Shabbat, and many people fasted in Aviva, who remained a gift from the Jewish children of Cape Town came out in the dark, helping in any mourning for the lost Sifrei Torah. the calm in the centre Photo by Greg Gelb way they could. Indeed, replacing of the precious Cape Board Chairman Rael Torah scrolls was the top priority. Kaimowitz describes arriving at the The Green and Sea Point Hebrew scene as traumatic. “There was a Congregation (Marais Road Shul) sense of disbelief and helplessness loaned the Ichikowitz Family Tefillin as community members gathered Bank Torah, known as ‘Kevin’s outside. The spontaneous prayers, Torah’, indefinitely for Morasha’s use. tehilim and communal singing A Sefer Torah from the Lichtenburg together with a deep sense of community in the North West mourning was incredibly powerful. Province was also delivered to Cape It highlighted, in such a real and Town in time for Shabbat. This Torah tangible way what a special was entrusted to the South African community we have,” he said. Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) “It is so essential, as has been for safekeeping when the community demonstrated, that all South closed down many years ago, has Africans stand together to overcome been on loan to the Ohr Sameach challenges when they arise,” he community in Sandton. United added. “The appropriate response by Herzlia Schools started the process Jews throughout the ages is to shine of writing a new Sefer Torah as a gift a light during times of darkness. How from the Jewish children of Cape much more so during the eight days Town. Less than a week after the fire of Channukah? The fact that the shul it hosted a ‘unity assembly’ for all did not skip a beat and conducted its learners from Herzlia, Phyllis Jowell Shacharit service in the courtyard of the shul, the morning after the fire Shacharit service in the courtyard Pre-Primary, Cape Town Torah High was the third night of Chanukah, the the very next morning is testament and the Sinai Academy. of the storm. Their quiet and stoic candles are never left out. Assessors to the resilience and power of our strength was the leadership that the A thousand children came together have found that it was most probably community.” community needed at such a time of to watch sofer Rabbi Avi Shlomo caused by an electrical fault in the crisis. From video updates to taking As dawn broke, community members inscribe the first pasuk, and each roof of the building, which is over 100 the time to talk to the media, they from across the spectrum converged child was able to contribute R18 years old. ensured that everyone was always in the Beit Midrash Morasha towards a letter of the new Torah. informed and involved. “The reason they say this, was that courtyard, with Torah scrolls brought Those who could not be there joined if you look at the epicentre of the in from the Shul of the West Coast the emotional event via a live video There were many miracles — no one fire, it was in the roof, and the Aron across the peninsula. While they link up. This Torah will be completed was in the shul at the time of the fire, Kodesh,” he explains. “We can rule prayed, they were drenched with a in Israel over the coming year. there were no injuries or loss of life, out anything like foul play, but we strange summer rain — a belated gift and many parts of the shul complex “It is a tribute to our Cape Town still remain in this sad situation of after the devastating drought. remained untouched, including Cape community that in times of adversity, spiritually homeless. And yet as I Town’s only mikveh. It was there that Morasha committed we rally together to assist and offer have said, our community is blessed to writing a new Torah – “a shul whatever help can be given,” said What caused the fire? Rabbi with strength and courage, and we should not be without a Torah for UHS Director of Education Geoff Thurgood assured that although it are moving forward.” one minute,” said its rabbi, Sam

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In a truly heartwarming ceremony, Cape devoted 40 years and more to the empowerment Town community leaders and members, and upliftment of thousands of women and children family and guests gathered in late November through fundraising events here in South Africa. last year to honour a group of extraordinary Rabbi Benschlouch of Sephardi Hebrew Congregation women, some of whom have given up to gave an inspiring and thoughtful Dvah Torah address, seven decades of unbroken service to the and a wonderful musical interlude was presented by BZA WIZO organisation. young Israeli shlichim — Dashi Chusid (Habonim), Avia and Lavi Woolf (Bnei Akiva) and Batia Ashkenazi he WIZO Rebecca Sieff Awards were held (Sephardi Shul). Tat the Sephardi Shul hall in Sea Point, with Israeli Ambassador Lior Keinan as the keynote Also honoured at the ceremony was the late Ada speaker. Lior gave an interesting and informative Kahn, who until last year held the positions of Vice address, highlighting Israel’s many groundbreaking Chairman, then Chairman of Gesher branch for over accomplishments in the fields of medicine, technology, 24 years. A loving tribute to Ada was delivered by Yda Ambassador Lior Keinan, Moonyeen Castle, water conservation and farming. Tollman. Adrienne Judes with Bertha Barenblatt, Rene Kleinman, Miriam Lichterman and Ettie Buch Adrienne Judes, Chairman of WIZO Cape Town said Roslyn Novos was given her 40-year Rebecca Sieff (70 years’ service) it was an honour to recognise those members who award posthumously, which was received by her son have walked in the footsteps of Rebecca Sieff, and David.

Ambassador Lior Keinan, Naomi Rose, Judy Ambassador Lior Keinan, Moonyeen Ambassador Lior Keinan, Nurek, Bernice Maron, Gail Kirsch, Moonyeen Castle, Issa Werb, Ada Sher, Linda Saban, Ambassador Lior Keinan, Moonyeen Castle, Moonyeen Castle with Castle, Adrienne Judes with Berenice Katz, Ida Adrienne Judes with Riva Merskey, Isa Adrienne Judes with Doreen Wingerin, Polly Bella Silverman (65 Jacobson, Arina Bach and Ethne Abramowitz Herring, Irene Gootkin, Marcelle Almeleh Sacks, Lily Kessler, Ada Fuchs, Charlotte years’ service) (40 years’ service) (50 years’ service) Schachat (60 years’ service) Cape Jewish Chronicle December February 2019 35

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By Solly Benatar and Milton Shain Maurice Silbert graduated in super-specialist colleagues. as medicine rapidly of Uber to visit his evolved and became patients — this despite Medicine at UCT in 1954. Mo was well known for his astute more sophisticated, his declining physical diagnostic skills and for his warm fter internship at Grey’s Hospital was very demanding. prowess. humanistic approach to caring Aand some locums he entered His stamina to for patients. Prof Frank Forman, Mo’s awards included family practice and had a long and cope inspired his an uncle, was one of his heroes the 1968 Louis Leipoldt productive partnership with Sid Kiel. colleagues and whose exemplary clinical acumen Medal from the South Mossie, or Mo was one of the doyens students, and he inspired and motivated him. He was African Medical Journal, of family practice in Cape Town. He sustained strong links also clinically and morally inspired for his work on a research featured prominently in the lives and with his patients and by the examples set by the late project entitled ‘The health of thousands of people and his the community which Golda Selzer, Bill Hoffenberg and Cape Morbidity Survey death leaves a void for all who knew he served so well Frances Ames. His and its Significance in and loved him. for many decades. special interests Training for General Mo’s interest in, and His life as an His life as an outstanding were in the doctor- Practice’, the 1983 dedication to his patients included outstanding doctor doctor could be recounted patient relationship, Hans Snyckers Memorial Medal for paying his final respects to them by could be recounted as a complex series medical and ‘Dedicated and Distinguished Service as a complex series attending their funerals. of overlapping and psycho-social in Medicine in South Africa’ and a of overlapping problems in the A characteristic feature of medical ‘Distinguished Family Practitioner and intersecting intersecting narratives elderly, the family practice in Cape Town from the Medal,’ established in 1998 within narratives spanning spanning a 60-year unique doctor’s role in 1960s to the 1990s was the close the University of Cape Town and a 60-year unique era of medicine. caring for the interaction between doctors in the Groote Schur Hospital Department era of medicine. terminally ill, and the academic hospitals associated with of Medicine, for consistent long- Unprecedented need to recognise UCT and those in private practice. standing commitment to family advances in our knowledge of health the manifestations of ‘masked Mo was one of a cadre of about a practice teaching. and disease and in the diagnostic and depression,’ on which topics he wrote dozen dedicated family doctors, who Maurice Silbert the man, was a living therapeutic modalities available for thoughtful articles. He was a founding willing took on part-time teaching example of the best of Jewish values: application in all fields of medicine, member of St Luke’s Hospice and the and clinical work in the UCT medical He walked humbly with his God. He radically changed health care. Cape Jewish Seniors’ Association. school. He was also actively loved his family and was devoted These advances posed the greatest involved in the promotion of General The intertwining of his intellectual to Marlene, Jo, Patti and Beth — to challenges to family doctors who, in Practice as a discipline within the commitment to keeping up with his sons-in-laws and grandchildren, addition to caring for their patients undergraduate curriculum and he advances in medicine and maintaining and to his late brother Frank. He was directly, also had to be capable of played a significant role in developing high standards, combined with long proud of them all. engaging in thoughtful and sensitive Family Practice as a specialty, hours of work and dedication to bridging relationships with an within what was then the College of He was also an intrepid letter excellent interpersonal relationships, expanding number of specialist and Medicine of South Africa. Many UCT writer to the press and a regular medical students had the pleasure correspondent to the ‘Word of Mouth’ and privilege of rotating through his programme on SABC on Sunday practice where they witnessed and mornings. were inspired by care very different Never one to dwell on his own from what they were exposed to in achievements, Mossie relished the the hospital environment. success of those around him. But The values and qualities that he success was not always measured brought to bear in his work and to by conventional yardsticks. Success his life in general included, sincerity, for Mossie meant living a decent life; integrity, humility, compassion, success was helping and caring for empathy, courage and fortitude, others. His values radiated from his all combined with dedication to angelic features. Mossie taught us all. excellence and a passion for He taught us humility; he taught us developing and understanding honesty and he taught us to respect. human relationships and their role in Common decency - underlined by health and disease. He often quoted care for all - and I mean all. Sir William Osler saying, ‘The good He was proud of his family and physician treats the disease: the the wonderful work they did. Their great physician treats the patient who efforts will continue with the younger has the disease.’ generations. He was happy to know If one had to define the ideal General this. It was his job to begin the task, Practitioner, it would be Dr Mossie not to complete it. Silbert. He cared for his patients in As a student cheerleader at UCT a legendary way. Always ready to Mossie revealed a zest for life that listen; he would do unsolicited follow- never left him. He had the finest ups and visits — even, I might add, to sense of humour on the Atlantic Sea non-patients. Mo was able to speak Board where he lived for so many from the experience of a patient decades. who showed much courage and acceptance of his own illnesses. The He was a great practical joker. His example he set and his impact on the antics were unsurpassable. Once, lives of the many patients for whom he during a house call, he stood on his cared, will long be remembered with head next to the patient’s bed before respect, admiration and affection. asking her how she felt. ‘Not so well, Who can forget the 7am call to ask Doctor’, she replied. ‘Everything is how one was feeling? House calls upside down’. only stopped when Mossie was no Maurice Silbert was born on 21 longer safe at the wheel. Yet, even October 1930 and passed away on 5 then, he planned to take advantage December 2018. Cape Jewish Chronicle December February 2019 37 38 Cape Jewish Chronicle February 2019 Cape Jewish Chronicle December February 2019 39 40 Cape Jewish Chronicle February 2019 A writer who defined the essence of Israel

By Tali Feinberg To many people, Amos Oz was the father of contemporary Israeli literature, and an integral part of the story of the Jewish State. An iconic writer, novelist, educator and activist he passed away suddenly on 28 December at the age of 79. orn Amos Klausner in 1939, he was the only child of a Bcouple who fled Europe and settled in Jerusalem. He wrote that his parents “dreamed in Yiddish, conversed in Russian and Polish, read books in German and English but taught him only one language: Hebrew.” It was this language that would define his life’s work, for it was from Hebrew that his characters, stories and seminal essays would emerge. He even invented new Hebrew words, and when his work was translated, it maintained an essential Hebrew character. Oz witnessed the birth of the Jewish State in 1948, when he was just 8 years old, which he describes in his memoir A Tale of Love and Darkness: “My father said to me on the night of 29th November 1947, me riding on his shoulders among the rings of dancers and merrymakers... Just you look my boy, take a very good look son, take it all in, because you won’t forget this night til your dying day.” Oz endured the suicide of his mother at the age of 12. Two years later he rebelled against his conservative family and went to live on Kibbutz Hulda, where he worked the land and began to write. It was there that he changed his surname from Klausner to Oz, meaning ‘strength’ in Hebrew. And it was there that he was buried last month, demonstrating how profoundly the kibbutz had impacted his life. His first book, When the Jackals Howl, is set in this space, and it brings the tiny details and despairs of kibbutz life out into the light. Dozens of novels followed — each one mesmerising, luminescent and Israeli in its essence. Over the next five decades, his books would be translated into 45 languages, and he received dozens of awards and accolades. A Tale of Love and Darkness was Oz’s greatest work, said fellow Israeli novelist David Grossman. “It’s not only his autobiography, but in a way the biography of Israel even before it was created.” As a witness to the life, development and growth of the Jewish State, Oz was both one of its strongest supporters, and critics. Like a parent raising an unruly toddler or a teenager testing the boundaries, Oz critiqued Israel from a place of love, wanting his homeland become the best version of itself, and hoping that it would reach its full potential. While cynics and doomsayers cried the ‘death-knell’ of the two-state solution, Oz held on even firmer to that vision. Until the end, he always believed Israel should live up to its mandate as ‘a light unto the nations.’ And as the conflict grew ever more complex, Oz explained it in the simplest of terms, providing a glimmer of hope to even the most jaded observers. “The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not a Wild West movie,” he wrote in 2003. “It is not a struggle between good and evil, rather it is a tragedy in the ancient and most precise sense of the word: a clash between right and right, a clash between one very powerful, deep and convincing claim and another no less convincing, no less powerful, no less humane claim.” He added that this could end like a Shakespearean tragedy, when the stage is littered with dead bodies but some kind of justice prevails, or with everyone unhappy, and making compromises — but alive. He always advocated for the latter. Israeli president Reuven Rivlin, called Oz ‘our greatest writer’ and ‘a giant of the spirit’, while others have described him as a prophet, a king and a saint. But in the end he was an ordinary man capturing the lives of everyday Israelis. He saw this as sacred work, because he explained that putting yourself in the shoes of ‘the other’ means you are forced to understand him. He believed that writing and literature were a vital way of bringing people together and healing societies. It is tragic that this man of peace never saw an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but at the same time, his wise words, distilled on the page, are a guide that can be followed. Throughout his life, he implored the leadership on both sides to make courageous decisions. As he wrote, “the patient is ready for the operation — it is the doctors that are too afraid to do the surgery.” To honour his legacy, we should ensure that Israel is truly at peace, and use words to find our way there. Cape Jewish Chronicle December February 2019 41 Opening of Where is Kovno? exhibition On 5 December the SAJM’s buildings, and an audio interview invitation to write their own thoughts Old Synagogue filled up with the late David Goldblatt and his for display on a hanging board. The with a crowd attending wife Lily. exhibition will be on display at the at the SAJM until the end of February the opening of our current The two artists spoke at the opening 2018. temporary exhibition Where in moving terms about their journey is Kovno? Created by artists back to Lithuania to research and On Sunday 10 February at 10am Cheryl Rumbak and Yda create the installation that tells the there will be a walkabout of the Walt with a soundscape story of the genocide of Lithuanian exhibition, led by the artists. Please by composer Philip Miller, Jewry, and heightens awareness of email events@sajewishmuseum. this interactive exhibition continued genocides in the world co.za if you would like to attend this memorialises the genocide today. walkabout. of the Jews from the once- The audience listened thriving Lithuanian city of as the artists related Kaunas/Kovno. their discovery of the sheer enormity of the large percentage of the population loss from Amuseum floor space has towns and villages and the been utilised for this multi-media present-day desolation of exhibition. Based on historical buildings used by Jewish evidence, it includes a gallery communities. “What space completely clad in the happened in Lithuania 1940 Lithuanian phone book, can and does happen Guests engaging with the various aspects of textile maps, suspended linocut the Where is Kovno? exhibition anywhere. We constantly need to challenge antisemitism, racism and xenophobia wherever they occur, and not allow these forces to strip away our intrinsic humanity.” Where is Kovno? uses objects, textiles, linocuts, photographs, audio and movies to give viewers an interactive experience, The exhibition includes a unique ‘mobile’ of which is extended by an remaining Jewish communal buildings in Kovno

Yid Dish performance in the Old Shul

On 23 December the band Yid Dish, fronted by singer Caely-Jo Levy, gave a rousing performance of old and new songs with a Yiddish flavour. The concert-goers were treated to a delicious buffet dinner at Café Riteve followed by the performance by Yid Dish in the historical Old Shul. The theme of the evening was bringing the old world into the new and this was exactly what they did! Songs such as ‘Rumania’ and ‘Ofyn Pripetshik’ were interspersed with contemporary hits such as Leonard Cohen’s ‘Dance Me to the End of Love’. The audience responded to the show with thunderous applause, ending the evening on a high note. ‘Like’ the SA Jewish Museum Facebook page to make sure you do not miss out on other exciting events taking place at the SAJM. 42 Cape Jewish Chronicle February 2019 JACOB GITLIN LIBRARY

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Together with her husband William Friedman, filled with gossip, sex and scandal about the studio greats they exposed smuggling rings during Prohibition and decoded during the time of the Blacklists. Yiddish permeates the messages sent between Nazi spies thereby cracking their pages as Sigal puts the Jewish into Hollywood. An intimate, Enigma machine. Through the prism of Smith’s life, Fagone revealing book during the time of cinematic legends. unveils how they helped shape modern intelligence.

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By Anton Katz and Sarah Pudifin Jones What does international 3. The premises of the mission, their Turkish authorities have actively These developing law say about the status of furnishings and other property investigated the disappearance of Mr situations embassies as places of refuge? thereon and the means of Khashoggi and claim to have audio continue to test Are they part of the territory transport of the mission shall be and video evidence which shows that understanding of the receiving state or rather immune from search, requisition, Mr Khashoggi was killed by a team of of the principle attachment or execution. Saudi agents in the consulate. How of ‘inviolability’ part of the sending state? And Turkey came into possession of such and the notion This Vienna Convention does what are the consequences of footage is of interest. that embassies not entrench a principle of extra- the conclusion? and consulates are sacrosanct and territoriality Both the consulate immune from scrutiny by or interest amal Khashoggi’s disappearance, regarding embassy and the residence These developing to the receiving state. Jand possible torture and murder premises. of the Saudi took place in the Saudi consulate in Diplomatic situations continue to consul have been In a world of increasing tensions and Istanbul, Turkey on 2 October 2018. premises are not test understanding of the searched, and distrust between nations, we foresee Julian Assange has since 2012 been regarded as part of principle of ‘inviolability’ Turkish prosecutors less willingness by the international resident in the Ecuadorian Embassy the sending state’s have taken community to turn a blind eye to in London, United Kingdom. territory. statements from the what occurs on diplomatic premises consulate’s locally employed staff. and increasing challenges to the In December 2015 the United Thus the Saudi consulate in Turkey Indications are that Turkey does not boundaries of the principle of Nations Working Group on Arbitrary is part of the territory of the Turkish consider Article 22 a complete bar to inviolability. Detention opined that Mr Assange’s State., and Ecuador’s embassy in its investigation, and Turkey is intent deprivation of liberty was arbitrary London is not part of the territory on establishing the truth of what Mr Anton Katz SC and Ms Sarah and a violation of international law. of Ecuador, but part of the United happened within the Saudi consulate Pudifin Jones are practising Most recently Mr Assange has Kingdom. Acts occurring within those on 2 October 2018. And If Turkey advocates in Cape Town and instructed his legal team to sue the diplomatic premises take place on the determines that a crime occurred on Durban. Mr Katz was a member of government of Ecuador for violating territory of the receiving state (i.e. the its territory what could it do? Would the United Nations Working Group on his fundamental rights by threatening state within whose an extradition request be viable? And mercenaries (2011 -2018). to remove his geographic borders if a court agrees with Mr Assange’s protection (and the embassy is This article first appeared on The Mr Khashoggi’s alleged complaint how could it enforce any his pet cat) and situated), not on Daily Maverick on 9 November 2018 order? summarily cut off murder in the Saudi that of the sending and is republished with permission. his interaction with consulate in Turkey state. the outside world raises questions over But embassy through limited the extent to which internet access. premises are Turkish authorities enjoy ‘inviolable’. They The principles of jurisdiction to investigate. may not be entered diplomatic immunity by authorities are among the of the receiving oldest in international law. All states MEET THE NEW state, except with requisite consent. have an interest in the exchange Persons within embassies are and protection of diplomats, and the protected. Thus, six years later, Mr rules of diplomatic protection are well Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, settled and strictly observed. remains in the Ecuadorian embassy, To enable a diplomatic mission to unable to leave without being carry out its functions freely, Article arrested by the British police (since 22 of the Vienna Convention on international law does not recognise a SPRINT Diplomatic Relations (1963) states: right of safe passage out of a country of refuge to an asylum seeker). 1. The premises of the mission shall be inviolable. The agents of the Mr Assange’s safety arises not from receiving state may not enter the fact that the Embassy is an extra- them, except with the consent of territorial extension of the territory of the head of the mission. Ecuador, but because of the principle of inviolability. 2. The receiving state is under a special duty to take all appropriate Mr Khashoggi’s alleged murder in steps to protect the premises of the Saudi consulate in Turkey raises the mission against any intrusion questions over the extent to which or damage and to prevent any Turkish authorities enjoy jurisdiction disturbance of the peace of the to investigate. mission or impairment of its Despite the principle of inviolability, dignity.

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By Ben Cohen for JNS.org Imagine that you are a Jewish We were there to study and discuss powers did so little to stop it. During remains doctor in a Nazi concentration many aspects of the Holocaust — our group’s exchange with Avner a truly camp. from 'choiceless choices' to archive Shalev, the chair of Yad Vashem foundational management to Holocaust art — but who pioneered its renewal over the moment of bout 100 of your fellow inmates we did so from a starting point that the last two decades, he related the our era and Asuffer from diabetes, and you way we teach younger generations story of guiding President George the source of only have a limited supply of insulin, about the Nazi attempt to destroy the W. Bush around the institute’s many of the with no guarantee of more on the Jews of Europe and North Africa is impressive museum. When they international way. Do you give each patient the changing radically. reached the exhibit about President institutions same amount regardless of individual Franklin D. Roosevelt’s response that, for Holocaust survivors have all reached need, knowing that all of them will to the Holocaust, Bush turned to good or ill, advanced ages, meaning that there likely die within a month? Or do you his then national security advisor, manage international relations today. won’t be any in-person testimonies to reserve your supply for those with a Condoleezza Rice, and asked: “Why Look back and you will see that the listen to within a few years (even if we greater chance of survival, meaning didn’t FDR bomb the camps? He Holocaust changed a good deal are left with their accounts captured that those with severe diabetes will should have.” more than we realise — for example, on video, holograms or other forms die much sooner as a result? how we look at art and music, or our of visual reproduction.) Since 1945, But that burning question has been relationship with technology and our Or imagine that you are the Greek countless other genocides have superseded by an even more vexing agonizing about inclusiveness in Jewish teenager from Salonika wreaked havoc in the Balkans, one: Why should we seek to educate our society. As we prepare in 2019 who’s picked up enough German much of Africa, Asia and the Middle about the Holocaust in a world where to mark the 80th anniversary of the from polishing the boots of the Nazi East, while a few of those that the phrase 'Never Again' sounds outbreak of World War II, expect officers occupying your city that occurred before — the Herero nation farcical to many people? There are much more reflection on all that. when you are eventually deported slaughtered by German colonists many answers, and to my mind, there to Auschwitz, your linguistic abilities in southern Africa, the Armenians are three key ones. Thirdly, if we are to teach our children land you a low-level clerical job, annihilated by Turkey — to this day the basic facts of the Holocaust, they First, there are still some survivors of instead of a spot in the gas chamber. remain under-recognised. Is the can be boiled down like this: Six the Holocaust. I think specifically of In the camp administrative office, Holocaust, it is often asked, any million Jews died because they were a man named Albert de Leeuw and you have access to the index-card more important than these other dehumanised for being Jews. Many 150 other former child laborers in the system that assigns each prisoner demonstrations of inhumanity in the of them resisted, in a variety of ways. Amsterdam ghetto, who have still to a different slave- world? And far too many were faced with the not received proper compensation labor brigade 'choiceless choices' that symbolise And there’s more, from the German government, — most of which the reality of the Holocaust. if you decide to help your much more. In and who continue fighting for that involves punishing friend, then you have to physical work countries like recognition in the twilight of their Ben Cohen writes a weekly column in the freezing switch his card out with Lithuania and lives. To abandon them now would for JNS on Jewish affairs and Middle outdoors, with the that of another person Ukraine, wartime be shameful. Eastern politics. His writings have collaborators with been published in Commentary, risk of frostbite, from the same brigade, Second, however much people the Nazis are now the New York Post, Haaretz, The pneumonia, and then that person believe politics has changed with the being lionised as Wall Street Journal and many other beatings or even rise of populism on left and right in spends his or her days anti-Communist publications. execution for facing snow, ice and death the last several years, the Holocaust those deemed by heroes. The Israeli the guards to be from starvation... government walks slacking off. along an undignified diplomatic tightrope One of your fellow prisoners, who with these states, having to balance HEBREW MONUMENTS is near death, begs you to sneak present-day bilateral relations with his card into the box of a different guardianship of the Holocaust’s CANTOR IAN CAMISSAR brigade, one with lighter duties. As truths. Elsewhere, some Holocaust- long as your Nazi overlords don’t commemoration activities are so TOMBSTONES OF DISTINCTION catch you, it’s in your power to do that. fixated with a universalist approach But if you decide to help your friend, that basic facts about the Jewish GRANITE, MARBLE, BOULDERS, REPAIRS then you have to switch his card out character of the genocide — like with that of another person from the the young diarist Anne Frank having same brigade, and then that person been Jewish, and being deported spends his or her days facing snow, because she was Jewish — are INCLUDED IN THE PRICE ice and death from starvation. What buried in a bid to be 'meaningful' to do you do? And, come to think of it, “everyone.” IS GOLD ON THE MAGEN how on earth did you end up in this position? Meanwhile, in Western Europe and DAVID AND SURNAME the United States, social protest  The above documented examples movements, like the 'Yellow Vests' are what many Holocaust scholars in France and the Women’s March WE CAN ALSO PROVIDE and educators like to describe as in America, have been penetrated 'choiceless choices' — appalling by Holocaust-deniers, antisemitic A CERAMIC OVAL moral dilemmas faced by a conspiracy-mongers and advocates PICTURE TO PLACE ON people that were systematically of Israel’s elimination. And that’s dehumanised by the Nazi regime, not to mention those who don’t deny THE TOMBSTONE and who knew that they faced death the Holocaust, but who do delight in at any second. They formed part invoking the Nazis as a metaphor of an intense, enriching four days for Israeli policies towards the that I spent with a small group of Palestinians or go the whole hog by CANTOR CAMISSAR 072 679 5533 other writers and journalists at Yad — check out the French 'comedian' Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust Dieudonné M’bala M’bala — making HELENE CAMISSAR 082 551 3344 commemoration museum, memorial fun of it in front of receptive crowds and institute that was established in in theaters. EMAIL : [email protected] 1953 through a law passed by the Knesset. In the recent past, perhaps the key WEBSITE: WWW.HEBREWMONUMENTS .CO.ZA Holocaust debate was why the Allied 50 Cape Jewish Chronicle February 2019 Using my Nudel I’m gonna praise you

By Craig Nudelman We’re currently experiencing the student/teacher life with a ‘threenager’. Our relationship, with little Jessie has become quite the power to mete the balabusta in our home, out praise for good and with it comes certain work and behavior. Yet, I want my challenges. students to acknowledge the time o we’ve created a star chart and effort that I put into my lesson YOUR ANCESTRAL LINK TO Sfor her. At first it was just for plans, my marking and my teaching the potty, but it later developed style. Last year one of my students LITHUANIA AND POLAND into things like for waking up at an came up to me after every lesson and appropriate time so that her mommy thanked me. It was, in a way, like a and daddy could get enough sleep. drug. I needed that fix of a student’s THE GATEWAY TO YOUR FUTURE When she does something that may approval and couldn’t wait to have cross certain lines, we can take a star her thank me for that day’s class. away. Now Jessie knows that when Tim Hodges, who wrote an article she does something that is good, she Your ancestors who were born in Lithuania and Poland in Gallup titled, Why Appreciating gets praised via her star chart. Teachers is More Important Than immigrated to South Africa to start a new life and thus broaden Validity and motivation are key You Think, agrees that we need to be their horizons. They overcame hardships and settled in their in facilitating our reasons to do valued for what we do. In a survey he new land, adapting to a new culture and learning a new something. We all have goals, and cites, only 29% of people responded often the motivation comes from positively to the statement: “In the language. within. Self-motivation is an amazing last seven days, I have received In so doing, they have GIFTED you, the chance of receiving quality which is extremely beneficial, recognition or praise for doing good work.” He suggests that the positive citizenship of the country of their birth. The Lithuanian and whether you’re a toddler or a more mature individual. However, when effects of regular recognition and Polish Governments are restoring citizenship, thus giving you we continue to do something positive praise for teachers results in: higher the opportunity to broaden your horizons in the same way as without any recognition, apathy and productivity; better engagement; demotivation can occur. they are more likely to stay at that your ancestors did, and to enable you to live, work and study particular school; and more likely to in any country of the European Union Victor Lipman, writing for Psychology receive higher satisfaction scores Today, states that the powerful from students and parents”. yet effortless task of praise is We at Kin-search offer you: underutilised. He explains that there However, some people are reluctant are four reasons why praise, which to use the word ‘praise’, especially with regards to children. On the  is so effortless, can be so rewarding Consultation regarding your eligibility for an organisation. The first is that website positivediscipline.com, the  Retrieval of the relevant documents from the archives in it costs practically nothing. The writer suggests that praise only Lithuania and Poland that prove your eligibility second is that it requires very little allows external feedback, which makes the student or child become  effort. The most simple words, “Good Guidance and consulting regarding relevant supporting job”, “nice work”, “well done on that dependent on that. Receiving an documents project you’ve completed”, take very overdose of superficial positive  Review of supporting documents from South Africa and little time and require no managerial feedback can foster inertia in children energy and time. The third and and decrease their motivation to elsewhere fourth are as clear cut: Praise makes achieve their best. Instead, we  Legal consultation throughout the process employers feel good, and when they should encourage students, since  feel good, they are more productive. this teaches internal validation. Here Comprehensive preparation of the application package the student can be stirred into being  Submission of the application on your behalf Tom Rath and David O. Clifton, in motivated to achieve to their fullest How Full is your Bucket?, discuss  Liaison with the relevant Government Departments and potential. However, the article does productivity and engagement in acknowledge that children desire updates. the workplace. They use stats from praise, and much like being addicted the US Department of Labour, to to sugar, they need that rush of show that the number-one reason validation. As a researcher, specializing in Lithuanian, Polish and South people leave their jobs is because African research and cooperating with leading firms in both they “do not feel appreciated”. Not There are so many questions we Lithuania and Poland who specialize citizenship restoration, only that, but there are also physical have to ask ourselves. How can we implications for employees who work to our optimal level without our together we will prepare your application to the exact are not happy at work. They use a employers, teachers or parents saying specifications demanded by the Migration Departments in study by British psychologist and that we’re amazing? How do we ensure that our peers or employees Poland and Lithuania. With over a decade of success, with psychotherapist George Fieldman, who states that “(p)eople who work feel happy and stimulated? And how clients in South Africa, the UK, Australia and the US and Israel, with bosses they’ve really hated do we teach the youth of today to be we look forward to sharing our knowledge and expertise with constantly for years would probably self-motivated? be quite vulnerable to heart disease you. There’s clearly a delicate balance because of the elevation of blood between positive validation and pressure in the long-term.” shallow praise, the maintenance Contact me: Rose Lerer Cohen PhD. However, I don’t only want praise of which can have major effects on from those in positions senior to productivity, personal development [email protected] mine. As a teacher, I also crave and levels of happiness. I hope that and view my website at www.kin-search.com validation from my students. It’s a in 2019 you can find that balance. really interesting phenomenon. I am, Wishing you all a productive and ostensibly, the dominant individual in positive new year. Cape Jewish Chronicle December February 2019 51 SPORT Maccabi SA Futsal players represent South Africa at u20 World Cup

Maccabi SA Futsal players team. I am extremely proud of their learnt a lot. Glad to have been given Aaron Isserow (17 yrs) and accomplishment’’, said Cohen. the opportunity to represent my country at such a high level event” Jordan Arelisky (16 yrs) recently In the group stage of the u20 represented South Africa at World Cup, South Africa were Maccabi SA Chairman Cliff Garrun the AMF Futsal u20 World Cup drawn in Group B, along with hosts commented: ‘’Mazeltov to Aaron which took place in Valledupar, Colombia, India and Australia. and Jordan on being selected for Colombia from 17-27 November Group A featured Argentina, Spain, the national team and performing 2018. Morocco and Bolivia, while Group C well at the u20 World Cup. It is an included Paraguay, Brazil, Italy and outstanding achievement and we he Herzlia pupils who play in USA. are very proud of them. Futsal has the Cape Town Metropolitan grown from strength to strength in T South Africa convincingly beat Futsal League, both successfully both Cape Town and Johannesburg Australia (5-2) and India 7-2 (including captained the Maccabi SA u16 team under Ronen’s leadership, and we a goal by Isserow), losing to hosts that won the bronze medal at the look forward to a very competitive Colombia (1-4). SA progressed to 2017 Maccabiah in Israel. They have EMG 2019 where we are entering four the Quarter Finals as runners up of also been selected for the Maccabi teams’’. SA U18 squad taking part in the Group B, where they faced Spain. The European Maccabi Games (EMG) in match was tightly contested, with SA For ongoing information on EMG Budapest in July 2019. coming back from 1-4 down with five 2019, follow Maccabi SA on minutes left on the clock, to draw 4-4. Facebook, Twitter and maccabi.co.za The South African Futsal Federation SA went ahead 5-4, then conceded Jordan Arelisky and Aaron Isserow (SAFF) announced the u20 team a goal for 5-5. After four more goals, following trials which were held in the full time score was 7-7. In some Durban and Cape Town. Aaron and further nail biting action in extra time, Jordan’s hard work and many hours Spain scored in the final minute, of training paid off with their call-up to winning the game 8-7. The u20 World the national side, where they were a Cup final between (Argentina) was few years younger than their u20 team won by (Spain). Congratulations! mates. Ronen Cohen, Maccabi SA Futsal Convenor and the boys’ coach, On their return to South Africa, along with coach Reon Siyaya, is Arelisky and Isserow were very proud very proud of their selection. “These of how well South Africa performed two young boys have been playing overall. futsal for the past eight years with Aaron: “I felt so proud to be able to Maccabi SA, putting in a tremendous represent my country in the recent amount of work both on and off the u20 Futsal World Cup in Columbia. court, showing us all what you put in, We learnt so much over there and is what you get out, resulting in being loved the entire experience.” selected for the national u20 Futsal Jordan: “Unforgettable experience u20 Futsal World Cup team Down the tunnel at Cape Town Stadium

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