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nited Jewish Campaign UChairperson Alison Katzeff presents Philip Krawitz with the Gerald Kleinman Award for outstanding service to the UJC at the Top Donors event held at The Lookout in March. Philip is currently the Chair of the UJC Board of Trustees and sits on many other communal bodies. He has been volunteering Celebrating the official ribbon cutting for their office opening in Austin, Texas in in Jewish communal January are RapidDeploy co-founder and CEO Steve Raucher, SA Ambassador to organisations for over 35 years. the US Mninwa Johannes Mahlangu, Austin Mayor Steve Adler and RapidDeploy co-founder and CTO Brett Meyerowitz. See pages 24 and 25 for more on the Top Donors event In an emergency, every second counts. Born out of the emergency first responder community in Cape Town, local technology company RapidDeploy has captured the world’s attention with World WIZO turns 100 its vision to reduce response times in an emergency and improve responder safety and situational awareness. n 2012 Cape Town native Brett Meyerowitz, co-Founder and RapidDeploy ICTO, returned from building his career in the UK, where he was the CTO for one of the world’s largest online casinos, to build Africa’s first cloud-native retail bank. In 2013 Brett became a volunteer paramedic for the Community Security Organisation (CSO) in Cape Town. Brett became increasingly frustrated with the poor emergency response times due to either antiquated or nonexistent dispatch systems. Brett developed the RapidDeploy platform to serve the local emergency service community. At the same time that Brett was building his career in the UK, fellow Capetonian Steve Raucher followed a similar path by moving to the UK in 1995, spending the next 20 years of his career in the banking sector; he began in technology, then to the trading floors of UBS in New York and Credit Suisse and ICAP in London. Steve suffered a personal tragedy in 2006 when his older brother, See page 44 for more from BZA WIZO Robert ‘Bobby’ Raucher, drowned off the shores of the Cape Town Peninsula. Upon returning to Cape Town in 2015 for a sabbatical, Steve decided to ‘pay it forward’ and started volunteering at the National Sea Rescue Institute’s Chabad on Campus (NSRI) Station 2 in Bakoven that had recovered his brother’s body almost nine years prior. brings students together Continues on page 5 COVID-19 in our community

OVID-19 is fast-moving and our community needs to be responsive Cand responsible without being alarmist. By the time you read this, any information we would have wanted to share with you in print may be outdated. We have therefore created an information hub on our website, which is being updated as information that affects the Cape Town Jewish community comes to us. Please visit the hub often, to stay abreast of how our community is adjusting to best practice, under both the mandate of the government and suggestion of our communal leadership. Everyone has it in their power to do something to flatten the curve. Do your bit to minimise the effect this has on all South Africans.

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Regular contributors Features Page 3 Lindy with a why Page 5 RapidDeploy saving lives Page 4 Community Noticeboard – Important COVID-19 Page 6 Team Aaron rides the Cycle Tour info on communal events Page 26 From Stress to Success Shabbat Times Gilad Stern on his aunt and the Spanish Flu Page 4 PJ Library Page 34 Mick Waters ultramarathon success United Herzlia Schools Page 38 Contextualising the history and zeitgeist of a Page 8 – 9 SA Cape Jewish Board of Deputies generation Page 10-14 SA Zionist Federation (Cape Council) Page 44 Con Travers’ unbelievable life Page 14 Telfed Jaime shines in the spotlight Page 16 Temple Israel Dan Meyer on stolpersteine Page 17 Limmud Page 46 Make a mom smile this Mothers’ Day Page 18-19 Union of Orthodox Synagogues Page 50 Pesach in a time of COVID-19 Page 20 Cape Town Torah High New Olim arrive to quarantine in Israel Page 21 SA Jewish Museum Page 52 Startup Israel tackles Coronavirus Page 22 Phyllis Jowell Jewish Day School Page 54 Herzlia students at Jewish Lens exhibition Page 23 ORT SA Cape Education Pages 58-59 Young adults ORT Jet Page 24-25 United Jewish Campaign Page 26 Family Announcements Page 27 Mensch Page 28-30 United Herzlia Schools Page 31-33 Cape Jewish Seniors Association Page 34 Union of Jewish Women Melton Page 35 The Herzlia Foundation Page 36 Jacob Gitlin Library Page 37 Mensch Changemaker of the Month Page 38 Que(e)rying my Identity 24 The Eliot Osrin Leadership Institute Page 40 Jewish Community Services Page 42 Anton Katz on the right to health Page 46 Astra Centre Page 44 Bnoth Zion WIZO Page 48-49 Chabad on Campus Page 54 -55 Simcha Snaps Page 56 Chronic Ads Page 57 Sports News 55 34 CJC EDITORIAL BOARD CSO emergency Zapper SnapScan Chairman: Lester Hoffman.Ex-officio: Ben- Banking details: number for security and Zion Surdut. Committee: Julie Berman, Standard Bank — Branch: Thibault Square; medical emergencies Geoff Cohen, Stuart Diamond, Kristy Evans, Branch code: 020 909; Acc no: 070 703 493; Barbara Flax, Rael Kaimowitz, Myra Osrin, Acc name: The Cape Jewish Chronicle Trust; 24 hours Jonathan Silke. Editor: Lindy Diamond, Acc type: Current rjHD_Q3Z Secretary: Tessa Epstein, Layout: Desrae 086 18 911 18 Saacks, Digital coordinator: Lisa Shapiro

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By Lindy Diamond, Editor Cape Jewish Chronicle On Monday 16 March I tried I’m fortunate that I can shop to edit content for the Pesach infrequently (without panic-buying issue with my staff, all of us everything on the shelves) to working remotely; while minimise social contact, because I simultaneously guiding three have enough money to do so. children through day-one of I need to think about those who can’t, their online home schooling. and how I can help them. Can I set There was a moment where I up a weekly online delivery of the had to go take deep breaths basics to help someone else in my outside. Radical change is not community? Can I deliver food myself, for sissies. or support my local food bank? I can choose to keep my children he night before, my eldest enrolled in their extramurals. Even if daughter and I sat and listened T at the beginning, the Facetime, Zoom to the President lay out the protocols or Skype lessons seem glitchy. I am for the coming weeks and as her ensuring that the wheels keep turning, eyes teared up, I realised that I was and every little bit of grease counts. watching a seminal moment in her life story. The language I use, and I can explain to my children that we the attitude I adopt will become a are not staying home because we framework upon which she will hang are afraid of a virus. We are staying her entire experience of COVID-19. home so that we don’t inadvertently I have such power over how my share germs with someone who isn’t children form memories around this as healthy as we are, or who may time and I want to grasp the sliver of have an underlying condition. We silver lining and run with that. are staying home so as to minimise our need for medical testing or Never has my privilege, power and intervention so that someone else responsibility been more apparent. will have it available when they really I may have lost my freedom of need it. We are staying home to movement, but I still have so much. flatten the curve. I have a job that can be done I have a choice; I can focus on my remotely, and my team is motivated family only and show my children that to make this new normal work. But in a crisis we look in, or I can show with my job security and flexibiliy them through our actions that we comes my social responsibility to always have the option to be kind, keep paying those who rely on me to help those who have less than we financially, even if their work cannot do, to lead by example, and in these be done remotely. interesting times, set our narrative as I also have the power to support the story unfolds. those service providers in our community who may be suffering because of social distancing. Please Zissen Pesach, Chag Sameach! try to support the Jewish businesses While our seder tables may be that are under real pressure right smaller this year, let the hearts that now, whenever you can. sit around them be bigger than ever.

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Herzlia and Holy Cross Grade 5 pupils pose with Cape SAJBD director Stuart Diamond and Rabbi Emma Gottlieb. Chairs of BZA WIZO Cape Town branches: Leina Sank, Adele Saven, Shelley In celebration of Tu B’Shevat on proper place to eat lunch outside. If Friedman, Janene Currie (Chairman BZA WIZO), Ros Lewenson, Kim Daitsh (for Kim Monday 10 February, the Cape you pass the school at 10am on any The SA Cape Jewish Board of Deputies has postponed Yom HaShoah Wener), Louise Slavin, Beryl Verblun, Rochelle Bloomberg (for Sue Lipschitz), Ashna South African Jewish Board of weekday, you will see them eating Diamond, Cecily Mendelson, Ettie Buch, Temma Gad, Irene Moss and Michelle lunch on the sidewalk of the dead- Miller. Kneeling: Barbara Schulman and Liz Campbell. Deputies (Cape SAJBD) teamed up with one of Herzlia Primary’s end street between the school and the church. Close to 130 BZA WIZO encouraging talk on improving Grade 5 classes to undertake a members and guests gathered volunteer commitment and numbers. beautification project at Holy Cape SAJBD director Stuart Diamond A guest of the SAZF, Asif is head of at the Marais Road Shul hall Cross RC Primary in District Six. addressed the group of around in early February for the the Carmel Coast Regional Council 100 Grade 5 pupils from the two organisation’s 118th annual on Israel’s Mediterranean coastline. he Cape SAJBD identified a need schools, next to the future playground v’Hagevurah. He drew many parallels between general meeting. Tto plant trees on the grounds explaining how the mix of orange and the challenges faced by both next to the school that principal lemon trees will one day bear fruit that uest speaker from Israel, Asif Israeli and South African volunteer Nomthandazo Zweni hopes to soon they can enjoy, and provide shade GIzak, was a breath of fresh organisations, from the perspective call their playground. At the moment, when they break from classes. air, giving a most interesting and of the younger generation. the pupils of Holy Cross RC have no

Continues on page 15 Continues on page 31 Chaiyenu arrive in Cape Town on their SA tour

In February, Chaiyanu brought Each year, when the groups return to a group of seriously ill Israeli Israel, the doctors treating them remark children aged 6-18 years, who are that the children are filled with hope and undergoing challenging cancer excitement, which helps tremendously treatment back home, to spend an in their treatment and recovery. In the words of a parent, “The Hope Tour to amazing 11 days in South Africa. South Africa is a beautiful dream come All the Cape Jewish Seniors Associations’ Centres are closed. his group, made up of children true, a journey that is life-changing for Twho require daily medical and our special children.” living assistance, some of whom are in In the past year Chaiyanu has touched wheelchairs, brought their tremendous the lives of close to 800 very ill children ruach on their first day in Cape Town to and their families, bringing hope to those a party set up in their honour, sponsored devastated by cancer. by Café Riteve, Gardens Shul, Jacob Gitlin Library, SA Jewish Museum, Cape They have a jam-packed, exciting No outings, twilights, cards or activities. Social workers are available to Town Jewish Community Centre, Cape schedule planned that will be reported Town Holocaust and Genocide Centre on in the April issue of the Chronicle. and King Cake. Find your Jewish Literary Festival Programme inside — see pages 21 – 24 take your call should you need them. Banking details: Standard Bank — Branch: Thibault Square; Branch code: 020 909; Account no: 070 703 493; Account name: The Gardens Community Centre is closed to the public. Café Riteve, SA Jewish Museum, The Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Centre The Cape Jewish Chronicle Trust; Account type: Current and the Jacob Gitlin Library will therefore be closed until further notice. Please email confirmation of payment to [email protected] and kindly Regarding the Gitlin Library, due dates for borrowed materials will quote your communal number, which you can find on your address label. automatically be extended and no late fines will be assessed. The Please also inform us of any change of address. Gardens Shul is also now closed for services. Cheques to: Cape Jewish Chronicle, P O Box 4176, Cape Town 8000, Credit card: We no longer accept credit card payments over the Strict access control to The Highlands House, Glendale, Astra phone. Please visit our office between 9 and 1 on weekdays. (Rosecourt) and Oranjia has been implemented. For further information on specific organisation contact details, visit www.jewishcare.co.za. It’s easy to pay with your phone Giftime is closed until further notice. In lieu of gifts for Pesach, please Zapper SnapScan consider donating to Astra. To do so, email Mandy at [email protected]. For any queries, please email Frankye at [email protected].

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rett and Steve were introduced from Steve in San Antonio saying Africa, having raised over R250m in RapidDeploy wants to democratise Bin 2016. Steve immediately that we were on the right track. The investment as well as solidified their Public Safety, ensuring the imperative identified the significance of validation that the thousands of hours partnership with Microsoft and AT&T. that their tech is both affordable and what Brett had built and joined that we spent building our platform deployable to any dispatch centre The company started gaining respect RapidDeploy to help commercialise was exactly what the world was after. anywhere in the world whether they and recognition within the industry, the platform. He invested to fund There have been a lot of times where have one dispatcher and one vehicle being named Microsoft US Partner the initial growth of research and we felt like we are trailblazing, where or one hundred dispatchers and one of the Year for Government Industry development, joining forces as CEO we have been on the bleeding edge thousand vehicles. 2019. They also signed state-wide to complement Brett as CTO. of technology, where we have had to contracts for California and Kansas Says Steve, “RapidDeploy is a work things out on our own, but it’s Six months later, Steve attended a 9-1-1 agencies and are about to company that was started out of so rewarding when, after those hours conference in Budapest, Hungary, announce several more. necessity by my business partner spent trying to solve a problem, we and met Dr. Brian Fontes, President and friend Brett, who being on the are actually able to really see the RapidDeploy’s journey does not stop of the North American Emergency road as a volunteer paramedic in fruits of our labour.” here. In a short space of time, this Number Association (NENA). 2013 scratched his head and asked booming start-up has grown from Dr. Fontes was astounded that In 2018 RapidDeploy achieved a ‘how is it possible that in South Africa two staff members to 110 employees RapidDeploy had built what he key milestone when they teamed ambulance services don’t know globally, seventy of which work from considered to be lacking from the US up with US telecoms giant AT&T to where their vehicles or responders the Cape Town headquarters in Public Safety Industry. Dr. Fontes provide 9-1-1 technology services are?’. Brett being a man of extreme Century City. They have deployed then invited Steve to present the with its platform. The United States technical ability decided to solve that the RapidDeploy Platform to over platform at the NENA Conference was at that stage generating 95% problem by himself over weekends 35 agencies around the world, with in San Antonio, Texas, in June 2017. of RapidDeploy’s sales, prompting and evenings. When I met Brett in the solution deployed as far afield The rest, as they say, is history. the decision for Steve to move his 2016, we were immediately aligned as Fiji, and to date have processed family and set up headquarters in and agreed to join forces and we Says Brett, “At RapidDeploy, we millions of emergency calls, reducing the United States to service the US now have a company spanning three take our responsibility of making a emergency response times and Public Safety market. continents. Without sounding like difference in public safety seriously. saving lives in the process. too much of a romantic, life is about We don’t stop when we’re tired; we 2019 was a remarkable year for They continue to attract South pursuing your dreams. I believe the stop when it’s done. I want everyone RapidDeploy. Africa’s brightest talent in software most powerful message in life and in at RapidDeploy to be part of building They opened their office in Austin, engineering and development, business is that if your dreams don’t a legacy, to be speaking to their Texas in January and also raised the hiring senior developers from Online scare you, you’re not dreaming big friends, their family, to look them in highest series-A investment out of Gaming and FinTech. Brett and Steve enough.” the eye, and to say, ‘I am making a any South African tech firm in 2019, are committed to helping improve the difference.’ For me, the proudest making RapidDeploy one of the best- quality of Emergency Services for all For more information, visit www. moment was when I received a call funded start-ups ever to come out of the citizens of the world. rapiddeploy.com 6 Cape Jewish Chronicle April 2020 Team Aaron rides Cape Cycle Tour in aid of Aaron Lipschitz

CHAG PESACH SAMEACH!

Try this recipe with your kids... MATZAH TOFFEE TRUFFLES INGREDIENTS: 16 OUNCES KOSHER FOR PASSOVER SEMI-SWEET CHOCOLATE 1 CUP HEAVY CREAM ½ CUP LEFTOVER MATZAH TOFFEE, CHOPPED ½ CUP COCOA POWDER

PREPARATION: COARSELY CHOP THE SEMI-SWEET CHOCOLATE, AND PLACE IN A MEDIUM BOWL.

POUR HEAVY CREAM INTO A SAUCEPAN, AND PLACE OVER MEDIUM HEAT ON THE STOVE. JUST AS THE CREAM BEGINS TO BOIL ALONG THE EDGES, REMOVE FROM HEAT, AND POUR OVER CHOCOLATE. LET SIT FOR 1 MINUTE, AND THEN GENTLY STIR THE CHOCOLATE Joseph Meltzer, Rabbi Pini Hecht, Aaron Lipschitz, Nissim Brett and Yehuda Hecht UNTIL ALL THE CREAM HAS BEEN INCORPORATED. On 8 March a group of eight He still struggles to consume food, COVER THE CREAM AND CHOCOLATE MIXTURE WITH PLASTIC WRAP, AND REFRIGERATE FOR TWO HOURS OR UNTIL FIRM. riders, calling themselves Team and a second diagnosis was found — this explains Aaron’s severe WHILE THE CREAM FIRMS, SET OUT YOUR CHOPPED MATZAH TOFFEE AND COCOA Aaron, completed the Cape POWDER. EACH SHOULD BE IN ITS OWN SEPARATE BOWL. YOU’LL ALSO WANT TO LINE A food allergy. Thus, despite Aaron’s COOKIE SHEET WITH PARCHMENT PAPER FOR THE NEXT STEP. Cycle Tour to raise money for ONCE THE CHOCOLATE MIXTURE HAS COOLED AND FIRMED, REMOVE IT FROM THE beating the odds, he requires a REFRIGERATOR. USE AN ICE CREAM SCOOP OR SPOON TO SCOOP OUT ONE TABLESPOON Aaron Lipschitz’ medical costs. OF THE MIXTURE. USE YOUR HANDS TO FORM LITTLE BALLS AND THEN PLACE THESE ON substantial amount of ongoing YOUR COOKIE SHEET. he group, comprising Rebbetzin medical intervention. ONCE ALL THE BALLS ARE FORMED, ROLL THEM IN EITHER THE TOFFEE OR THE COCOA TSara Wineberg, Rabbi Pini (OR BOTH, IF YOU’RE FEELING MIGHTY). Indeed, once Rebbetzin Sara learnt Hecht, Yehuda Hecht, Elenor Miller, how costly the various immuno- Joseph Meltzer, Nissim Brett, Ronit REFRIGERATE THE TRUFFLES UNTIL YOU’RE READY TO SERVE THEM. THE TRUFFLES CAN therapies and other medical costs STORED IN AN AIRTIGHT CONTAINER IN THE REFRIGERATOR FOR UP TO ONE WEEK. Netter and Terry Deats, accumulated required for Aaron were, she was funds via a Back-a-Buddy page titled inspired to help by raising enough ‘Riding for Aaron’. money to cover medical aid for the Toward the year, which comes to R120 000. Even end of 2019, once the Cycle Tour had passed, Rebbetzin people have continued to donate S a r a and, as of 12 March 2020, the total Wineberg, amount raised by Team Aaron stands who first rode at an amazing R128 555. the Cycle Tour Three of the riders, Yehuda Hecht, last year as a Joseph Meltzer and Nissim Brett, fundraiser for are students at Cape Town Torah a new mikvah, High and have been invaluable to the Rebbetzin came up with team. Rebbetzin Sara notes, “Three Sara Wineberg the idea to of our boys [from CTTH] were really embark on the keen to ride for the cause… they race as a way to contribute to Aaron’s were phenomenal with raising funds ongoing medical care. Indeed, she and enthusiasm. Not only that, they said that her “initial idea was that if really connected with Aaron; they we could cover Aaron’s medical aid made time to be with him, met up for the year, that would be amazing with him and really just enjoyed the — and we did.” whole experience of giving emotional Five-year-old Aaron Lipschitz is the support as well as financial support. only child in the country who has The boys were incredible.” been diagnosed with Interleukin-12 For more information visit the family’s Receptor Defect. This means that, Facebook page, titled ‘Save Aaron’. as a result of the way in which the cells in his immune system interact, he cannot fight infections; there is no cure for such a condition. Additionally, Aaron cannot digest food without becoming very ill and receives sustenance through a MIC- KEY feeding port in his stomach. In 2018, Aaron survived a bone marrow transplant — a risky procedure in that chemotherapy was required to destroy his original immune system. Despite the transplant, his immune system has not redeveloped as well as was hoped, and he needs weekly treatment at the hospital to boost it and to overcome potential infections. Elenor Miller and Terry Deats Cape Jewish Chronicle April 2020 7

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KEEPING IT REAL

Stuart Diamond, Executive Director, Cape SAJBD Who is sitting at the table? “For to be free is not merely to cast off Judaism, says “When we tell our story of freedom I see in our community. This one’s chains, but to live in a way that from slavery, and the exodus from Egypt, we are year, when we open the door for respects and enhances the freedom of reminding ourselves not just of the past, but the Eliyahu I will ask myself “who at others.” Nelson Mandela present too.” the table is not free?” I will look for those who may be battling Jonathan Wittenberg, Senior Rabbi, Masorti n February I was gifted a crocheted yamulka that to have their voice heard in the Judaism, says “The Haggadah, the Passover has a rainbow pattern running around the edge. community, or who can’t talk about their mental I story, is the foundation of Judaism. Our people illness, sexual identity or financial position. It now sits on my desk as a reminder of the is born, not amidst battles and victories, but in responsibility I have to ensure that in our slavery. Through experiencing injustice, cruelty As Cape Town Jews, we have to accept that we all Democratic rainbow nation we must “live in a and the loss of freedom, we learn the importance have a responsibility to bring freedom where there way that respects and enhances the freedoms of justice, truth, compassion and liberty. These is oppression, hurt, fear and pain. So that we all of others.” The Cape Town Jewish community values form the basis of our faith, our ethics and become ambassadors of #noplaceforhate. is not homogenous, it’s diverse and has many the society we strive to create.” valuable voices. This year may we all be blessed to use Pesach as I see these two seders as an opportunity to start the tool to start the conversations that will set us Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said “At Pesach we rectifying some of the most pressing concerns that free. Chag Sameach. are encouraged to grapple with one of the most profound questions to confront human civilisation: What is freedom?” And as we reach the month of April, we as South Africans, and Jews, are Reflections on freedom in 2020 reminded of this important question. GREG FLASH, PREVIOUS BOARD MEMBER: I feel freer than I have probably ever This Pesach, in the context of challenges facing felt in my life and for this, I am very thankful. As a Jew in South Africa, although there is our community and the world, nothing is more antisemitism, it is very limited compared to history. With all the crime and problems we urgent than the ancient Jewish task of pursuing have in our country, we have far less antisemitism than other places in the world. What justice, truth, freedom and dignity for all. concerns me most is that my spouse and my daughters are not free because of the As I sit first night at a communal seder, and second scourge of gender-based violence in our society. In my mind, they are not free — which night at a friend’s, how will I celebrate my freedom; is terrible. The other slavery that restricts much of our population is educational and an act that is defined as the state of being free, economical. For so many, it is near-impossible to improve their lives because of their independent and without restrictions? Pesach is upbringing and family background. I, therefore, believe that for me to be a truly free South more than just a holiday. It is the journey each of us African, it is my obligation to help change this. As Eleanor Roosevelt said: “With freedom is invited to take from slavery to freedom, tracing comes responsibility.” out the route of one of the most powerful human events in our history. VIV ANSTEY, VICE-CHAIRPERSON: Pesach is our family time to share intergenerational conversations about oppression and liberation, discrimination and equality, the relevance Laura Janner-Klausner, Senior Rabbi to Reform of the specific texts in the Haggadah and narratives that resonate today, including those on power, questions and engagement, and retelling our stories, for relevance. The rituals and symbolism of Pesach and the Seder bring the traditions of our past into the now, securing the links in our chain from generation to generation. Freedom cannot be fully understood nor embraced when persecution, hatred and inequality permeates. Our CHAG KASHER human rights are contingent on our obligations and responsibilities to care deeply about each other and the other, as we remember that we were strangers in Egypt. This verse is V'SAMEACH repeated weekly, lest we forget. It is the value of Jewish continuity and learning.

SIMONE SULCAS, BOARD MEMBER: Every Pesach, come what may, we sit down to the Seder and this tradition inextricably binds our family to each other and Jews, past and present. Pesach is our code of conduct. We experienced oppression and then freedom, both spiritually and physically. In the Jewish tradition of Tikkun Olam, we are not only obligated to pursue social justice, but it is incumbent upon us to transmit this pursuit to the next generation. This chag is a warning to every generation that complacency and xsp inaction can threaten our freedoms.

RAEL KAIMOWITZ, CHAIRPERSON: Pesach is a time to reflect and remember that even though we, the Jewish people, had reached the lowest of lows while enslaved in Egypt, it was at that lowest point that Hashem redeemed us and made us into a nation. Whatever situation we may find ourselves in, as individuals, as a family or a community, no matter how helpless or desperate, there is never a time to give up. There is always ON THIS FESTIVAL OF FREEDOM space for growth and connection. The Torah reminds us to treat the ‘other’ with respect AND DIVERSITY and honour. Why? Because you, too, were slaves and strangers in the land of Egypt. Looking the other way while people suffer is not a Jewish value. We do not have to go far back in history to see the calamitous outcome when people lose their freedoms and human rights. We should speak up and act when it happens. The Egypt experience demands it of us.

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From the office of the Yom HaShoah V’hagevurah: a history

President of Lithuania Most South African Jews came from Sephardi communities Eastern Europe between 1880 and 1930, and attracted between Around 96% of Jews in Lithuania were with some from Germany in the 1930s 1,000 and 1,800 people. killed during the Holocaust, most of and others from Rhodes Island in the Today, it still attracts whom were killed in the summer of 1941. 1960s. After the Holocaust, only 5% of over 1,000 people, including members Most South African Jewish families are East European Jews, 10% of Rhodes Island descendants of Lithuanian refugees. of Parliament and the Jews and 65% of the Germany Jews (who Cape Town City Council, arlier this year, the Cape SAJBD was hadn’t by then emigrated) remained representatives of the Eapproached by community members with alive. It was an unparalleled tragedy — diplomatic service and concern that a member of Lithuanian parliament, the communities had lost touch forever interfaith bodies. Aruna Gumuliauskas, planned to propose that a with their entire families and places of law be passed denying Lithuanian involvement in Things change. As origin. How to cope with the loss? How to attendance of the the Holocaust and placing responsibility squarely memorialise it? with German and Russian governments. The Cape annual Remembrance Miriam Lichterman SAJBD, members of the Congolese community emembrance is a vital human activity that Day ceremony at and members of the Rwandan community all Rshapes our links to the past, and the ways we Gardens Synagogue wrote letters to the Office of the President of remember define us in the present. We need the dwindled, Yom HaShoah included the laying of Lithuania, strongly opposing the suggestion and past to anchor our identities and to nurture a vision wreaths by armed forces at the War Memorial as highlighting the deaths of our people. of the future. its closing item, honouring the Jewish soldiers who died fighting. At a stage the Cape SAJBD became The Head of Reception, Asta Bogušienė, at the Israel held its first Holocaust Remembrance the sole sponsoring body of this annual event. Due Office of the President of Lithuania wrote back to Day on 28 December 1949, when they buried to controversies over women singing as part of us, as below. ashes and bones of thousands of Jews from the the ceremony, today, the ceremony is observed in Flossenberg Concentration Camp in a Jerusalem Dear Mr Stuart Diamond, two parts. It begins with female voices, and after a cemetery. Two years later, Israel commemorated short break, after which more orthodox people join our letter was received by the Office of the its first officially-organised service. However, it in the second part. YPresident and was taken into consideration. took several years for the country to decide on an official, suitable date. It was only in 1959 that The ceremony is always interesting and thought- In response to your letter, we would like to point out Prime Minister David Ben Gurion finally passed the provoking, always powerful and moving, and we that there is no draft legislation registered by any Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day Law, with would be honoured to have the community come member of the Lithuanian Seimas (parliament) the start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising chosen as out in its thousands this year to join us. Together, concerning the Holocaust denial. the official commemoration date. we remember those Jews who were killed for no reason other than their beliefs. The Lithuanian Seimas has a long record of It took time for Cape Town to adopting legislation commemorating the victims arrange a community event. At of the Holocaust, condemning Nazism and its first, commemorative functions collaborators during World War II. In 2011, the or educational programmes Seimas adopted a law on goodwill compensation were organised by the Sephardi YOM HASHOAH for the immovable property of Jewish religious congregation, by Orthodox communities. Recently (on 28 January this year), congregations, by the Cape SAJBD, by Lithuanian parliamentarians made a statement on Herzlia and by the She’erith Hapletah. V'HAGEVURAH fighting antisemitism and noted that Lithuania did not support any attempts to interpret the historical Cape Town’s was a society of memory of the Holocaust. survivors that started in 1952 when some survivors from Johannesburg Lithuania is a vibrant democracy where a mature on holiday in Muizenberg, bumped debate about the very complex and difficult into Miriam Lichterman on the chapters of our history is ongoing. We are beach. She invited them for tea with confident that throughout the political process other survivors, where Xavier Piatka in the Seimas, any attempt to impose a one- suggested that they start their society sided, radical approach, contradicting long- to promote social and cultural ties standing principles on the Holocaust issues will with each other and provide support be defeated. and assistance. Xavier served President Gitanas Nausėda stated on 23 January as secretary and Nahum Zolin as this year: “The annihilation of the Lithuanian chairman. In 1967, Nahum was key in Jewry in the Shoah is the greatest loss to my having every Cape Town synagogue POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE country and the whole of Europe. To learn this install and light smaller replicas of A commemoration service for the victims lesson means a resolute engagement to fight the six-branched menorah placed as against anti-Semitism, both old and new. It means a Holocaust memorial at Pineland of the Nazi Holocaust will be held at... to educate a tolerant citizen of an open state. It No 1 by She’erith Hapletah. Later, a means to restore justice. It means to assure that stone monument replaced the original such human tragedy will never happen again.” memorial. Sincerely, From 1976, the ceremony became Asta Bogušienė an inclusive communal ceremony Head of Reception organised by the Cape SAJBD and PINELANDS JEWISH CEMETERY 2 Office of the President of the Republic of Lithuania the Union of Orthodox Synagogues. TUESDAY 21 APRIL 2020 12:45 - 14:00 Reception Division It included both the Ashkenazi and

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Next year in Jerusalem VIEW FROM THE CHAIR We will shortly be observing the oppressed, in whatever form that resetting the wrongs wrought against Pesach (literally ‘protection’) oppression may take, and provides us has been repeated in struggles where we remember the hope that with the help of Hashem for freedom all over the world, as Exodus, with the story that the world can become a better place. well as the struggle to overcome the has been passed on from one It provides context for the struggles wicked system of Apartheid in our own country. It has provided hope to generation to another, as if each Jews throughout the millennia that generation has been present It is incumbent on each of us Hashem cares about our precarious during these miracles and to thank, praise, and bless existence and that every year we can personally experienced slavery. Hashem for delivering us reaffirm our hope that we will soon t is incumbent on each of us to from slavery to freedom, be set free from what binds us. Ithank, praise, and bless Hashem from suffering to joy, from Our generation has truly been for delivering us from slavery to subjugation as a people to blessed to see the fulfilment of the freedom, from suffering to joy, redemption as a nation and prophecies and our hopes for the from subjugation as a people to rebirth of the land that Hashem has redemption as a nation and from from mourning to festivities. promised to Abraham. We can truly mourning to festivities. mean it when we say “next year in Jerusalem.” During Pesach we remember that and sacrifices of all suffering peoples pivotal moment when we first and reminded us that Hashem cares Wishing everyone a meaningful Pesach. By Esta Levitas, became a people with a mission and deeply about their plight and their Chairman, SAZF Cape Council a code for life. Pesach reminds us of wish for freedom and justice. both our freedom and the freedom of Esta Levitas, others. It offers a beacon of hope to This context of restorative justice Chairman SAZF Cape Council

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Hof HaCarmel councillor A water-wise future is possible

visits Cape Town Dr. Clive Lipchin, director of the Centre Asif Izak, the head of for Transboundary Israel’s Hof HaCarmel Water Management Regional Council, in Israel gave a most visited South Africa in enlightening talk at February. the University of Cape Town on 13 February. he trip was organised Tin conjunction with he lecture was hosted Habonim Dror Olami and Tby South African the SAZF (Cape Council). Friends of Israel and it The Israeli politician was a great opportunity sought to prioritise a visit to hear about Israel’s to South Africa saying experiences with water he understands the and to understand what pressures of the Boycott, South Africa can learn Benji Shulman, Galya Tregenza and Julie Berman (South Divestment and Sanctions from his country. He African Zionist Federation), Dr. Clive Lipchin and Chris Eden (Bridges for Peace) at the University of Cape Town (BDS) movement and spoke about the shared came with a message of challenges that Israel and in agriculture. He also noted the encouragement for the South Africa face when it comes to environmental and political benefits of local community “You water; both countries are water scarce relying on alternative water resources. aren’t alone — keep going.” and have a high population growth. South Africa relies solely on natural He highlighted that the turning point Whilst in Cape Town water and can learn a great deal for Israel was the acknowledgement Asif visited Parliament from Israel, who used to be in the Asif Izak and Steve Swart MP (ACDP) at that relying on natural water was not with Steve Swart from same position but can now boast a Parliament sustainable and that alternative water the ACDP and attended water surplus. Water is an issue of in real time. resources needed to be established. several meetings including tremendous importance to all South facilitating an online interaction Asif hopes to build bridges and Dr Lipchin elaborated on the non- Africans and Dr Lipchin’s talk outlining between pupils from his region and create new mutually beneficial conventional means of securing Israel’s water progress provided a in Cape Town, allowing them to partnerships between South Africa water in Israel; desalination and the significant and optimistic framework for study and engage with each other and Israel. productive use of treated waste water our country. Internationally acclaimed artist spends time with local students

The International Public Arts mongst these artists was Israeli Through their common Festival, arranged by Baz Art ANir Peled who has achieved love for art and creativity, and held in Salt River from 10-14 international acclaim for his work. this diverse group of February, was a great success and Following on from the Arts Festival, the people discovered all they saw artists from all over the world South African Zionist Federation (Cape had in common and it was Council) arranged for Nir to take part in an enriching experience congregating in Cape Town. a community art project with two local for all who took part. Cape Town schools. www.pilpeled.com/ Nir, who was brought to South Art students showing off their creative Purim masks Africa by the Israeli Embassy, is an artist and graphic designer that has gained worldwide recognition from murals around the world and museum showcases and exhibitions. Around the theme of the upcoming Jewish holiday of Purim, Grade 9 and 10 students from Good Hope Seminary School and Cape Town Torah High came together for an informal afternoon of art, discussion and the opportunity to engage with and learn from Nir. Great fun was had as the art Nir Peled with Good Hope Art teacher students painted and decorated Mrs Ingrid van der Heijden, Galya Tregenza from the SAZF Cape Council Purim masks and listened to Nir share about Israel and his art. Good Hope Seminary and Cape Town Torah High art students having fun with and Danielle Conibear from Cape Town Israeli artist, Nir Peled Torah High Find us SA Zionist Federation - Cape Council @SAZF_Cape @sazfcapecouncil www.sazfcape.co.za 12 Cape Jewish Chronicle April 2020

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Cape Town Aliyah, Masa and Higher Education Expo 2020

The Radisson Blu hotel in Sea Point was buzzing with Israeli accents during the Aliyah, Masa and Higher Education Expo which took place on 19 and 20 February. n educational Aand most helpful time was had by all as representatives from various organisations in Israel opened up a world of possibilities to all the visitors. Lilach Amsalem, Ortal Dary, Michal Bar-Lev, Ilai Wagschal, Sharon Hannah Shiver and Livnat Katz representing MASA Representatives from Glassman banks, government departments such High school students and their parents received a lot of information about as Education, Health and Welfare and Employment, as well as property opportunities to take a gap year in Israel or to study in Israel and details were companies were available to answer questions and provide information to given about various bursaries that are available. anybody interested in making Aliyah. Over two days, more than 250 people came to listen to talks and meet for one People who came to learn about Aliyah could start from the basics and get an on one appointments with the different agencies represented at the Expo. We understanding of the Aliyah process, what their first steps in Israel would be at the Israel Centre invite you to continue the conversation with us. Let us help like, learn about what to expect in Israel and what rights they will have. They you to make the correct decision for yourself. could speak to different municipalities and choose the best place to live, meet Please reach out to us if you require any more information. with property companies to start looking for their new home and talk with Sharon Greenblatt (Aliyah Department) 021 286 2130 employment advisors to gain an understanding of what the job market is like. Michal Ilan (Community and Aliyah Shlicha) 021 286 2131

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Navigating the job search in Israel with Telfed

One of the biggest concerns to source for candidates on prior to Aliyah is finding gainful LinkedIn and to identify potential employment. A new language, candidates from among the an unfamiliar work culture and CVs sent. no network are some of the 8. Find networking events – go out limitations facing our and introduce yourself. new Olim. 9. Prepare your “elevator pitch”, your 5 sentences that say it all — your elfed’s Employment Advisor Yael name, your skills and expertise TStrausz, and Career Counsellor and the job you are looking for. Michal Merten, guide our Olim as they The more specific you are when begin the job hunt in Israel. In 2019, you tell people you are looking for 570 Olim received free employment a job (and do let everyone know) counselling from Telfed. This equated the better your chances. to 1676 counselling sessions; 11 10. Learn Hebrew. percent of these meetings took place prior to Aliyah. Telfed representatives, Yael Strausz and Michal Merten, advising job seekers at the While not a placement agency, Telfed’s employment team is available Michal and Yael share their ‘Ten 2019 Job Fair, Renanim Mall, Ra’anana to advise and guide new and veteran Commandments’ for an effective job at job ads, where would you be tool — a good profile will make Olim who are seeking employment. search in Israel: a good fit? Still not sure — talk recruiters notice you, join groups With a focus on providing jobseekers to us. in your field of expertise and 1. Learn Hebrew with the tools to integrate well blog, share articles and respond 2. Decide on the job you are looking 4. Create a CV (ask us for the Israeli into the job market in Israel, they to others. for — don’t say “I’ll do anything”, template) that is focused on the assist with CV writing, networking, that is probably not entirely true position(s) you are looking for. 6. Use Glassdoor for job posts bridging the cultural gap and finding and doesn’t help you focus on Tweak it each time to fit to the and information on companies suitable mentors. your goal. Set your goal, create specific position. (including salaries and organisa- a strategy. 5. Looking for a job in engineering, tional culture). 3. Thinking of making a change? high tech, biotech, finance or 7. Be sure to use industry related For more information, contact Yael Make a list of your skills and look marketing? LinkedIn is your words as recruiters use those Strausz at [email protected]. Cape Jewish Chronicle April 2020 15

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Consider This Pride Shabbat By Rabbi Emma Gottlieb By Jacqui Benson A few months ago, I was exiting off the M3 and passed On Friday 28 February, over 200 people gathered for the 8th two dogs running toward the highway. I considered annual Pride Shabbat, held at Temple Israel Green Point, for pulling over and trying to stop them, but I had my what some regular attendees have described as the most own dogs with me and couldn’t think quickly enough moving and impactful of these Shabbat services. what to do without risking my own safety or theirs. Not having a phone number for a rescue organisation at hand, I felt I had he erev Shabbat service was infused with meaningful readings by no choice but to keep driving, hoping someone else would see the Tmembers of the LGBTIQA+ community all the way through both the dogs and help them. A day later, I saw on Facebook that a beloved dog service and just prior to the delicious brocha afterwards. Significant had been hit by a car at the entrance to the M3. It looked very much too, was a very moving acknowledgement of the names of activists and members of the broader queer community who had died, many under like one of the two dogs I had seen. As you can tell, I am still thinking very tragic circumstances, in the year since last Pride. The highlight of about that dog, carrying guilt about whether I could have done more. the service was undoubtedly the dvar Torah, delivered by our honoured We can all relate: times when we’ve seen someone harassed and didn’t intervene; guest, Dr Anastacia Tomson, an author, medical doctor, and activist. when we’ve driven past a car stranded on the road, hoping another driver would Her dvar Torah can be read on the Chronicle’s website and is an apt pull over; even leaving litter for someone else to pick up. We have all witnessed a reminder as to why Pride is both relevant and necessary, for us in problem, considered some kind of positive action, and chosen to do nothing instead. today’s world, to create a safe and inclusive space for the LGBTIQA+ This is called the bystander effect, or bystander apathy, a social-psychological community. phenomenon where individuals are less likely to offer help when other people are present. In fact, the more bystanders there are, the less likely it is that one of them will help! Charles Garfield, a professor of psychology explains that, “the bystander is a modern archetype, from the Holocaust to the genocide in Rwanda to the current environmental crisis.” Researchers have spent decades trying to understand bystanders. Often, only subtle differences separate bystanders from those who are morally courageous. Most of us have the potential to be either, as only slight, seemingly insignificant details can push us one way or the other. Research shows that most often, bystanders don’t intervene because they’re misled by the reactions of the people around them who act as if everything is okay. Lateness and the presence of other people are some of the other factors that can turn us all into bystanders. We are in a hurry. Surely someone else will help? Sadly, the characteristics of the victim can also impact our response. Research has shown that people are more likely to help those they perceive to be similar to them, including others from their own racial or ethnic groups. Jewish tradition teaches that even Moses was susceptible to bystander apathy. In my Daf Yomi studies, I recently read a text from Brachot 32a where Rabbi Elazar teaches that after the sin of the Golden Calf, God sent Moses away from Mt Sinai, claiming to no longer need an emissary to the People. The text tells us that, “immediately, Moses’ strength waned and he was powerless to speak (in defense of Israel).” However, once God said to Moses: “Leave Me be, that I may destroy them” (Deut. 9:14), Moses realised: “If God is telling me (this) it must be because it is dependent upon me (to act).” Immediately Moses stood, was strengthened in prayer, and asked God for mercy. The G’mara then relates the tale of a king who became angry at his son and beat him severely. A friend of the king was present but feared to say anything to the king about the excessive beating. Meanwhile, the king said to his son, “Were it not for this friend here, I would have killed you.” When the friend heard this he realised, “It is dependent upon me,” and immediately he stood and rescued him. Altruism does exist. We all know active bystanders, people who witness a problem, recognise it as such, and take it upon themselves to do something. Maybe we’ve even been the ones to step up when needed. It is important to know that just as passive bystanders reinforce a sense that nothing is wrong in a situation, research shows that active bystanders can motivate others to take action with them. Sociologist Samuel Oliner, a Holocaust survivor inspired by the people who helped him escape the Nazis, claims, “there is a predisposition in some people to help whenever the opportunity arises (while) a bystander is less concerned with the outside world, beyond his own immediate community (and) might be less tolerant of differences, thinking ‘Why should I get involved?...They don’t see helping as a Mazaltov to those who celebrated Bnei Mitzvah with us last month choice. But (rescuers) feel no choice but to get involved.” Oliner claims that social responsibility is not only doable, it’s teachable. Anti- bystander education encourages learners to avoid the traps of becoming a bystander. Even just reading and discussing this article with someone else counts! Exploring the subtle pressures that can cause bystander behaviour with someone else helps us all to be better prepared. I may not always be able to pull over safely to help stray dogs, but I now have a phone number saved that I can call. Doing something feels far better than doing nothing — just ask Moses. Elijah Fisher Carly Enstrom Luca Algranti Ben Duncan Daniel Cohen 7 March 7 March 14 March 21 March 28 March Cape Jewish Chronicle April 2020 17 What do Batman, Limmud and Pesach have in common?

The answer to this is Jordan Jewish Museum commissioned leaving Egypt and leaving Ethiopia. a series of Everything’s Relative B. Gorfinkel, AKA Gorf. Or The Passover Haggadah Graphic to be featured in their permanent frog backwards, as he likes to Novel draws on the universal themes collection, making Gorfinkel the remind people. of freedom, memory and faith to first cartoonist in the world to be so immerse every generation in the orf is a comic book creator, honoured in a Jewish museum. timeless celebration of Pesach. newspaper cartoonist and an G But when asked for his CV, he likes animation and multimedia entertain- Now for the Limmud connections, to say, “Born, barmitzvah, Batman!” ment producer. He was an editor at Firstly, the suggestion of working with DC Comics where he managed no Ma nishtanah halailah hazeh mikol Erez Zadok was given to Gorf while less than the Batman franchise. haleilot? Well, this year your seder he was standing in a Limmud supper queue. And the second Limmud Now, geek out on this: In 1999, can certainly be different, as last Novel integrates a new modern connection… Jordan B. Gorfinkel Gorfinkel conceived and directed year Gorf conceived and wrote the English translation alongside the will be a presenter right here in Cape the critically and commercially world’s first Passover Haggadah unabridged traditional Seder service Town at Limmud 2020. (We promise acclaimed Batman: No Man’s Land graphic novel. It is illustrated in text in Hebrew, with sophisticated to have no supper queues!) which was the inspiration for the film colour by Israeli artist Erez Zadok, sequential art that brings our epic a graduate from Bezalel Academy Batman Begins. And Birds of Prey, founding memory to life. He speaks entertainingly and of Arts, Jerusalem. If you are a fan the most successful comic book energetically on a range of topics of Bored Panda or spend time on The text is on the right-hand pages, series starring women since Wonder around the intersection of religion and Instagram, you will be familiar with while the left-hand pages contain the Woman, was also one of his projects. pop culture, e.g, how everything he Erez’s illustrated series about his action-packed frames of the graphic learned about Passover he learned As a cartoonist, he writes and family and his dog, Bundle of Joya, novel telling the Passover tale, moving from Batman, and about Moses and illustrates Everything’s Relative, which went viral last year. between modern and ancient times superheroes, and might even offer a the weekly comic-strip published to show the continued relevance of Jewish cartoon workshop. internationally. In 2007, the Munich The Passover Haggadah Graphic the story. It is accompanied by ‘how to’ instructional cartoons depicting all His Passover Haggadah Graphic the rituals celebrated every year for Novel will be on sale at Limmud, but the last 4000 years or so in Jewish if you can’t wait until August, it can be homes around the world. ordered on Amazon.* Bring it along to A further element that was important Limmud to be signed by Gorf himself! to the duo was including something about every tribe of the Jewish Limmud Cape Town 2020 will take people. For example, the inclusion of place from 21 to 23 August. For more Operation Solomon, the 1991 exodus information visit www.limmud.org.za of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. This is used as a comparison between *Matzah sold separately! 18 Cape Jewish Chronicle April 2020 Cape Jewish Chronicle April 2020 19 20 Cape Jewish Chronicle April 2020 A glimpse into student life at CTTH

CTTH Girls pose outside the beautiful newly dedicated Ethel Greenberg Girls House CTTH Boys enjoy an Adar carnival to welcome in the Jewish month of joy

For Tu B’Shvat, to celebrate Hashem’s nature and our beautiful city, boys enjoy the nearby Company Gardens IDF Hero Major Rami Sherman captivates the students recounting his role in the raid on Entebbe in 1976 that rescued 104 hostages

The CTTH Boys Futsal team play every week at the African Brothers Football Club CTTH Girls took the CSO Body and Mind Course with Rebbetzen Aviva Thurgood to learn self-defence and empowerment

CTTH Girls visit Good Hope High School to join together in a cross-cultural mask painting workshop with Israeli artist, Nir Peled Mrs Sheila Valentini, founding Board Member of CTTH, speaks at Matric Graduation Cape Jewish Chronicle April 2020 21

Paddocks Shopping Centre | TEL: (021) 555 2698 Royal Ascot Trading Hours: Daily 08:00 to 20:30 | Tops Mon to Sat 09:00 to 20:00 Sun 11:00 to 18:00 22 Cape Jewish Chronicle April 2020 SENCO At Phyllis Jowell Jewish Day School BEHIND EVERY CHILD WHO BELIEVES IN THEMSELF IS A SCHOOL THAT BELIEVED IN THEM FIRST.

How does PJJDS do this?

PJJDS provides the services of a dedicated full time Specific Education Needs Coordinator (SENCO).

Which children does the SENCO take an interest in?

The SENCO takes an interest in every child in the school in order to assist each child to perform to their full potential academically.

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How does the SENCO get her information about children who need support?

The SENCO chairs the Learning Team and manages the various role players such as occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists, psychologists from various disciplines, various medical professionals, the school counsellor and relevant teachers.

What does the SENCO do with this information?

This information gives the SENCO a comprehensive picture of each child thus enabling her to identify children who need Learning Support, be it due to learning barriers or the need for extension programmes.

What happens then?

Appropriate support is determined and it is then the SENCO’s responsibility to make the recommendations, implement the support, maintain it and communicate with the relevant role-players. The SENCO maintains open communication with the parents and the child. The profile of each child is shared with both the School Principal and the Campus Rabbi in order for them to have a clear picture of all the children in our care. Cape Jewish Chronicle April 2020 23 SAME NAME - DIFFERENT FOCUS

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ommitted philanthropists - both new and longstanding - filled the ookout on Wednesday the 11th o f C March for the launch of the United Jewish Campaigns (UJC) 2020 community fundraising campaign. Donors re-energised and committed their support to ensure the well-being of our precious community and its 35 beneficiaries.

Philip Krawitz & Raymond Ackerman Anthony & Sara-Lee Jackson Corinne Abel & Johnny Raoul & Eleanor Miller Copelyn The atmosphere was electric with an impressive line up: Robbie "His resounding message: outh Brozin as keynote speaker the “Open Embassy jazz band Africa is a trul special place and we comprising of 4 Herzlian students and the Herzlia Vocal as outh Africans should e enormousl proud." Ensemble led by Ivor Joffe. Community pride and generosity was palpable throughout the room.

Creating spaces for celebration and touch points for donors is critical for the UJC. The 2020 campaign launch focused on the importance of community responsibility celebration and collaboration.

Robbie Brozin founder of Nandos inspired the crowd with his journey the beginnings of Nandos his philosophy of ‘people first and his community involvement and deep belief in South Robbie Brozin - Keynote Speaker Africa. His resounding message: South Africa is a truly special place and we as South Africans should be enormously proud. We often take for granted our uniueness in the world and underestimate our true potential. He referenced his eye- opening time on Constitution Hill and his new-found reverence for the South African Constitution that he reinforces “is the most unbelievable blue print for our country. His journey and philosophy left the crowd with much to think about and an overall feeling of hope and pride in these tumultuous times.

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The Gerald Kleinman award for outstanding service to the UJC was bestowed upon Philip Krawitz. Philip is currently the Chair of the UJC Board of Trustees and sits on many other communal bodies. He has been volunteering in Jewish communal organisations for over 35 years. We wish Philip a huge Mazeltov We feel truly honored at the UJC to have Philips generosity, sound leadership and wise counsel.

At the UJC, we are grateful to our community of donors who keep our beneficiaries thriving and able to offer incredible services to those in our community who need it most. We would like to thank our generous sponsors The Eric & Sheila Samson Foundation, Investec, Dischem, ENS Africa, Mazars, Pick n Pay, Berman Bros, Aroma, Cape Union Mart, Newmark Hotels and Nandos. Huge gratitude goes out to the CS and their dedicated volunteers who keep our community safe. Merle Rubin, once again, outdid herself with the delicious food she provided. Veronica and Flower at Petals - thank you for your unbelievable support and creation of the event

Jonathan & Dianna Yach Herzlia 2020 Vocal Ensemble Paul & Suzanne Berman, Raymond & Wendy Ackerman, Kathy & David Robins We look forward to a successful and healthy 2020, where we will hopefully get to connect with each and every one of you Make sure you continue to #PowerOurCout throughout the year. #ItsUpToUs. Keep following @ujc_cpt on Facebook for updates on beneficiaries, events and our touchpoints throughout the year. Join us on the journey

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www.ujc.org.za UJC Cape Town UJC_cpt 26 Cape Jewish Chronicle April 2020 Family Announcements Brunhilda, who died in 1919 By Gilad Stern CHAG PESACH SAMEACH My dad, Kurt by the notion that Stern, had a some humans, by To my loving mom, Hilary Maraney and loving dad, sister, Brunhilda, their very existence, Abe Gordon and two sweet brothers Benjamin and Anthony, who died from polluted the planet, Happy Passover. Sorry I could not make it. the flu virus in and needed to be My permanent email address is: [email protected] exterminated. Like a In love and light, Sheridan. 1918’s Spanish Flu bug, or a virus. pandemic. The Spanish Flu of CONDOLENCES — THANK YOU hat virus infected 1918 to 1920 was T500 million exacerbated by people, 27% of all World War 1, but people on earth, and HAROLD (HANK) SAACKS it reached remote killed between 50 places such as We would like to thank all of our family and friends most sincerely and 100 million. Let’s isolated Pacific for their kind support shown to us after the passing of our darling say 75 million. The islands and the husband, brother, father and grandfather. flu pandemic was, as Kurt and his mother, Fanny Stern Arctic. In Iran about A special thank you to Rabbi Wineberg and to all the nightingales they used to say, an 15% of the entire who flew down from Johannesburg especially at this difficult time. “act of God”. What can one do about population died. Western Samoa had Tilly, his sister Myra, daughters Tamara and Belinda, a bug, a virus? about 25% of the population dying sons Eric and Robin, and grandchildren. Brunhilda was, or would have been, — amongst men it was one man in my aunt. She was born in Rodheim, three. In New Caledonia not even Germany. She had a brother Erich one person died, because quarantine DOREEN WINGERIN who died in 1928, aged nine, of measures worked so well. 12 000 We would like to thank all our wonderful family, friends and appendicitis. That left my Dad and his people died in Australia. You can see Rabbi Wineburg for their love and support and kindness shown two brothers who survived childhood, on an atlas that Western Samoa and during our beloved mother and sister’s illness and sudden passing. and all died in Africa. They journeyed New Caledonia and Australia are all She will live on forever in our hearts. to a new land, 13 000 kilometres (relatively) close to each other. They Deeply mourned by her children Marion (Stephen), Lorraine from where they were born, and had different outcomes in terms of (Rodney) Ruth (Stephen) and her seven grandchildren. Also far from Adolf Hitler and his eager the Spanish Flu. mourned by her beloved sister Shirley, Hymie and family. accomplices. Their parents followed, My aunt Brunhilda has been on my leaving two children buried in mind lately. She was two years old Germany’s soil. Hitler’s war claimed when she died in February 1919. Her To place a family announcement, email: [email protected] about 75 million lives. Some of my or phone Tessa 021 464 6736 (am) name is a particularly strong one in dad’s relatives and classmates were German and Norse tradition. Yet, at gassed and incinerated in Poland, two years old, weakened no doubt by where they were taken by rail boxcars. the illness, she succumbed to the flu This was not really an ‘act of God’. pandemic that swept the world 100 It was an act of people infatuated years ago. From Stress to Success

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Imagine your future and who you want to be There is no doubt that you have dreamed of your future and retirement, but, now that it is coming near, it is time to put the dreams for retirement re-invention into action and get Anne Whine enjoying a morning at Babelonstoren going on your new life. The sooner you start, the better! Start by getting as specific as possible about what you want out of this stage of life and really visualise all the details. Write it down! Draw a picture or write out your goals. Committing your dreams to print can profoundly impact on your success. Decide on a plan, map out your path to your retirement re-invention and make lists. Work on your plan every day. Stick reminders around the house, do a little research, make a phone call… do anything to make progress. Some ideas for your retirement re-invention Become a career student: Some people are lifelong students, or at least, they’d like to be. If that describes you, you are not alone. A growing number of retirees and people approaching retirement decide on this option. There are many online courses or short Beautiful cards made by our Sea Point members courses which can be followed at colleges or universities. Start a business of your own: Starting your own business in retirement is another trend that’s gaining ground. I guess it is kind of the anti-retirement re-invention. You could Social and Personal capitalise on the skills that you’ve worked hard to acquire over the years, or branch out and try something entirely new. We extend a hearty Mazeltov on the following joyous occasions: Bar/Batmitzvahs The American National Institute on Ageing says that most people, particularly Baby Ella Blumenthal — great grandson Boomers, want to work into retirement. Many people make a gradual transition from full Ann Harris — grandson time to part-time and eventually on to full retirement. Jos and Gwen Kahn — granddaughter Forget work, just relax! Clive and Ethlyn Sussman — granddaughter While a large percentage of people plan to, or want to, work in retirement the realities Marriage can be different, at least right now. They call it an expectation gap. Many people expect Rabbi and Rebbetzin Green — son to retire later. However, in reality a large per-centage of retirees actually did work for Ruth Katzeff — granddaughter no pay at all. If you look forward to never needing a schedule again, know that you are Rabbi and Rebbetzin Popack — son not alone. The trick to leaving the workforce permanently in retirement is having the Birthdays income to support your lifestyle. You will probably live longer than your ancestors, so Irving Freeman you might need more money than you think. According to Yale News, if you believe the Cecily Kaplan positive stereotypes about retirement, you could suffer fewer illnesses, heal better and We extend our sincere condolences to our members who have add more years to your life. lost family members Reina Epstein — brother Volunteer, make family or friends the priority, start a new hobby, travel… Ruth Reitstein — son Retirement is your time and the possibilities are endless. What to do after retirement is Audrey Shantall — husband the question that a great many people face. Retirees do spend more time in leisure and Lillian Sheldon — daughter ‘leisure’ can mean many different things. You can: Ruth Goldman — brother We extend our sincere condolences to the family of our Volunteer: If volunteering interests you, you might want to explore these opportunities. members who have recently passed away • Spend time with grandkids: Recent research indicates that spending time with Family of Selwyn Borkowf grandchildren is good for you. Family of Doreen Wingerin • Start a new hobby: Having a passion in life can help keep you young and vital. Warm welcome to new members • Travel: With good planning you can make your retirement travel dreams come true. Shirley Kaplan, Daphne Leibowitz, Joan Alpert, Leo Turvey Have a retirement plan: No matter how you choose to spend your time in retirement, you need to be sure that you can afford to pay for your life now and well into the future. To get started, you need to take stock of how much money you have and how much you Special events in April will need. If you want to keep the same lifestyle, your expenditures should drop at least some-what. The advice about needing millions in the bank might not apply to you at all. BOOKING ESSENTIAL FOR ALL FUNCTIONS The only way to know for sure is by examining your lifestyle, your expenses, savings, OUTINGS investments and to assess and tinker with your finances to find retirement security. Your S/Suburbs 6 April Dunes Restaurant in Hout Bay financial plan doesn’t have to look like anyone else’s, and your life goals don’t either. 20 April Stark Ayres Garden Centre Your retirement has to be your own, based on your own life goals just right for you. Sea Point 8 April Dunes Restaurant in Hout Bay Continually move forward: Be willing to accept that the path to reinvention can zig-zag 22 April Rhodes Memorial all over the place as long as it is still moving forward towards your goals. Remember that Milnerton 21 April Vineyard Hotel you do have influence over your own life and for this journey you get to make changes 28 April Dunes Restaurant in Hout Bay when you see fit. Reinvention isn’t an event. It is a process that does not end. It may West Coast 7 April Babylonstoren sound like a huge task but it is all about being able to make the necessary adjustments MEN’S SCHMOOZE With Rabbi Richard Newman: to change the direction you want your life to go in. Milnerton 3 April Southern Suburbs 15 April Reinventing yourself through change is a beautiful thing when you get to decide to Sea Point 22 April follow what is truly important to you and to pursue something you are passionate about. TWILIGHT SUPPERS Anyone can succeed once we know what it is that we want to accomplish in our Southern Suburbs 22 April Dave Steward personal reinvention. Sea Point 21 April Heidi Lampert Milnerton 23 April Shawn Levin Diana Sochen Executive Director 32 Cape Jewish Chronicle April 2020 Cape Jewish Seniors Events Calendar MAY 2020

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With compliments With Compliments The Henry Van Embden Kalman, Esther and Family Foundation Michael Maisel Trust 34 Cape Jewish Chronicle April 2020 Mick Waters completes 76km Zip Zap fun for Addo Elephant Trail Run Women of Action Cape Town kids On 7 March, Mick Waters Each year for the past four completed the arduous years the Kesher Group UJW 76km Addo Elephant Trail Cape Town have arranged to Run. This was Mick’s first take three township school ultramarathon for which projects to the Zip Zap Circus. he started training in he Zip Zap Circus is a social October last year. Tcircus that was founded in Cape e began running at 5:30 Town in 1992, to inspire young Hand finished at 19:40, people and help build a new culture completing the trail in 14 hours of peaceful coexistence in South and ten minutes. Mick says, “I Africa. Zip Zap helps kids to ‘dare was quite nervous going into it, to dream’ and learn to make those not from a training perspective dreams a reality. but because I kept checking Each time, the Kesher Group ensures the temperature and, every that 50 children are transported from time I did, it was higher and their schools by Golden Arrow buses. higher. Heat can play a big role The Zip Zap trainers take them in exhaustion and your ability to through various activities for two and complete long distances.” Mick Waters with Lance Wynne and Sheena Wilson-O’Keeffe Photo: Rebel Media Guys half hours of trapeze, rolling, jumping, Temperatures indeed soared, deceiving because every time you tight rope walking, aerial acrobats reaching 46°C, and were the highest come round a corner and think it’s with scarves and ball work. Most ever recorded in the 16 years of the going to start going downhill, it winds of these children have never been event; about 40-50% of participants further round another corner, so that out of their township, and they learn withdrew as a result. Mick tried to get was quite taxing. A lot of that ended many new skills. After their activity as much distance behind him in the up being walked and not run.” the trainers give the children a little early hours of the morning as he could, professional show which they really before the heat made it more difficult. Throughout the race, Mick sweated enjoy with their mouths wide open. “At the first river crossing, I just sat 13.7 litres (which is comparable to They also organise with Spur Group down in the river, took my hat and sweating out 13.7 kg!), drank in excess to give the children a burger, chips poured water over my head and face of 12.5 litres of water and burnt 8000 and neck… It was starting to get so and a juice each after their fun Babes Creche in Dunoon during calories. He ran the last hour and a activity time. their visit on 12 February. hot and my whole body temperature half in the dark with a head torch and started to rise like crazy.” At another was met at the finish line by a friend point, Mick and some fellow runners who immediately handed him a beer. swam in a natural pool until they were He said, “I felt great but it’s a very shivering before continuing to run. emotional thing, finishing something like that … there’s a lot of joy and The race covered varied terrain happiness and you almost want to including cool, forest-type areas, cry because it’s such an emotional steep climbs with no respite from achievement to know that you were the sun, winding escarpments and able to do something like that.” rejuvenating rivers. One of the most challenging parts for Mick In the future, Mick would like to run was heading up the big escarpment 100-mile (160km) challenges but at around 13:00, which some call wants to get more experience of A PESACH MESSAGE FROM MELTON ‘Mordor’ or the 5km ‘Hill from Hell.’ 50 miles (76km) first. He aims to undertake the 40km Jonkershoek Another tough period was the 20km Challenge in May. Mick’s completion “Educate a child according to his way” – means to teach a child to section on top of the escarpment. of the race came a week before his love education, cultivate a true sense of intellectual inquiry and “It was insanely hot up there with son, Daniel Waters’ barmitzvah. experiential curiosity. True education reaches everyone, not by no wind. The escarpment is quite emphasizing a specific path, but by cultivating a continued love and relationship with education itself. “ – Understanding the 4 Children through the Lens of Jewish Education

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And in South friendly Africa you don’t have to be a care than a year we have managed to see worker to experience it. a thousand clients and attract highly If you are sensitive to the inequalities capable and dedicated professional think my father of our society and its concomitant volunteers and students. Most I enjoyed reflecting suffering, it’s likely you may feel a importantly we’ve had a shared vision back on his long little overwhelmed and burnt out. and set of values as partners in this and interesting life, nudged along by an Sometimes we can yo-yo from endeavour. If not for this, something attentive and expert annoyance to anger and then to that is supposed to be ‘good’ would narrative shaper. The our lovely Jewish guilt, and yet still be draining. The partnership with finished book is a struggle with wanting to help others Lance Katz of the SACAP Foundation great family read and and do the right thing. I know this is of the best type possible. His a wonderful memoir.’ space well. I’ve been in it most of clarity of purpose and growth mind- Lisa Chait with – Glen Heneck Harold Heneck's Life Story my life, including periods of burnout set encourages us all. We were also when I questioned the relationship fortunate to find Shifra Jacobson to between doing seemingly meaningful co-ordinate the entire C-Hub. With her h wow, goodness gracious me activities (translate that to ‘helping years of experience within the mental this is wonderful. I'm looking others’) and pleasurable ones as health space in South Africa, and her atO my Life Story book hot off the banal as going for a walk. Fortunately, genuine dedication to the wellbeing press. Good heavens it's amazing! there is much more awareness today of clients and volunteers, she has Do other people know what you of how we all need to include self- created a place where we can all do Lisa? – care activities into our daily lives thrive. This works as a source of joy Anne Jacobs (95) such as eating healthily, seeing because true work of this nature lies in friends and doing some exercise. I recognising how we are all benefiting work with humanitarian workers and from our interaction with others. We Cecil & Jo Jowell even these self-sacrificing frontliners can be humble about our role in the filming in Springbok are accepting these as truths. And relationship, and not put unrealistic yet, there is still a high burnout rate expectations on ourselves to solve ur beautiful film captures amongst this population. other people’s problems. Rather, what Omy father’s story and we can do is facilitate the work of our our family history in the most While Victor Frankl teaches that clients in helping them recognise their moving and riveting of ways. 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By Jacqui Benson If you asked queer people if and our associations with them, Alfred Douglas. It quickly became words matter, or if the labels have come to mean. We do this to be the term used to refer to same-sex have ever mattered, most able to embrace ourselves and find sexual relations, and anyone with will give you a resounding the words we are most comfortable same-sex attractions. Hurled as an YES. When it comes down to describe ourselves with. This is a insult, in much the same way the ‘queer’, still holds a lot of pain, as they good entry point for discussing why phrase “that’s so gay” is now used, to it, words matter when we experienced it as a form of abuse, ‘Querying my Identity’ is so critical. intending to put down something that and, we need to be aware of what are grappling with who we is seen to be effeminate or camp effect our words have on others. I was recently approached by the are, from the viewpoint of — feeding off stereotypes about a parent of a friend, and asked to heart, mind and body, as we person’s (usually male) sexuality and In the words of Rabbi Shimon ben please explain why I, and others define our sexual orientation, mannerisms. Elazar: A person should always be our gender identity and our use the word ‘Queer’, as opposed to careful in the way he formulates his gay, lesbian, LGBTIQA+, etc. ‘Queer’ Reclaiming the word began with the gender expression. responses. (Talmud Megillah 25b) makes them distinctly uncomfortable. Stonewall Riots of 1969, the start A truly wise person considers the efining ourselves is loaded with Appreciating the candour and of the current Pride movement… effects words might have on others. nuances, mostly foisted on us sensitivity with which they raised Activists coined the slogan “We’re D From that view, consider this: it’s not by family, culture, society and even their concerns, I was happy to oblige. here. We’re queer. Get used to it.” as a deliberate strategy, to nullify our own feelings about words we need country. Often we are forced to The word ‘Queer’ has had different the very word used against them. In to consider, but rather the feelings of grapple with words that hold highly meanings at times throughout history the late 1980s Queer Nation used the other person, and the words they negative connotations, loaded with and in different places. Originally, it in a way that allowed people the choose to identify themselves with stereotypes, and misconceptions, from the 16th century, it referred to use of a neutral word to describe that is more important. which can leave long lasting trauma. strangeness or difference in English- themselves, and as a positive form As Jews we know this all too well. speaking countries. References Info sourced from Queer: a graphic of self-identity. As a non-binary Just think of ‘Blood Libel’ and what are found in Arthur Conan Doyle’s history by MJ Barker, J. Scheele, word, many have found it as a way to might immediately come to mind are Sherlock Holmes stories, and there Aish.com & www.tolerance.org pictures that were used to portray define themselves without having to was an American phrase ‘queer Want to hear more ? Please like the Jews being vampirish, trying to take be more explicit about their gender. as a three dollar bill’ — referring to Facebook page Jewish LGBTIQA the blood of Christians, particularly something that was odd or even Today, given the alphabet soup of the and their Allies and connect with me. children. It took centuries to eradicate suspicious. LGBTIQA+ spectrum, something that Jacqui Benson is an activist, speaker, the impact of that story from our is also rather fluid, many of us, use it It appears the first recorded use social entrepreneur, who thinks we collective conscience. as an umbrella term to refer to anyone as a derogatory word, specifically can all play a role in making the world who does not identify themselves as Today in advocacy work by the abusing homosexuals, was found a place for all people to live in peace heterosexual or cis-gender. We do LGBTIQA+ community, time is spent in an 1894 letter by the Marquess – we just need to work together on however recognise that for some, on having to unlearn, as we question of Queensberry, accusing Oscar this one. who we really are and what words, Wilde of having an affair with his son, Contextualising the history and zeitgeist of a generation

By Jeremy Gordin

South African born nanny, Mpande Gumedi. He Does Not Die a Death of Shame Jack Hoffmann If you’re looking for spine-chilling mystery, syrupy romance, He has joined the ANC Jack Hoffmannblatant sex or gratuitous violence, read no further. If you’re interested in an enthralling chronicle of two young men, one white, one black, in apartheid South Africa, then He Does Not Die underground, trained in has writtenthis is a book for you. Their destinieswhat’s become inexorably in- tertwined in their pursuit of what is right. Zak Ginsberg is shaped by his parents’ sad histories. Aware- a Death of Shame the USSR, and returned generallyness of the Second Worldreferred War, his Jewishness and the status to of the black population slowly infiltrate his consciousness. to SA to plant bombs. Mpande Gumede has spent an idyllic childhood in rustic Zu- as a ‘coming-of-age’luland. At high school, he realises for the first time, that he is a second-class citizen.

Zak studies the art of saving lives. Mpande pursues the craft story.of destroying lives. Both are drawn into the anti-apartheid The book contextualises, struggle. The one acts because his ancestors were victims, the other because he himself is a victim.

Can they survive the challenges ahead? traces and lays out the t’s a meticulously written history and zeitgeist of a novel, respectful of its I generation — the children characters, readers and of immigrant Lithuanian history, its tone serious, Jack Hoffmann Jews, born in SA in the and its pace unhurried. 1940s, 50s and even 60s. The protagonist is Zak It does the same for a Ginsberg, whom we first encounter black generation also born in those as a young boy, growing up in the years. And this contextualisation, at least in the case of Zak, also Who shows up at the Seder? South Africa of the 50s and 60s. When he tries to help the son of the encompasses the Holocaust in Everyone is present. The wise, the wicked, the simple, and Lithuania, while SA’s political even the one who does not know how to ask the questions. domestic servant who cared for him Everyone is involved in the Seder’s proceedings. and whom he loved as a little boy, history is interwoven throughout the Zak is arrested and brutally tortured narrative. What we learn is that everybody counts! by the security branch. So, the Besides the book’s meticulous When the fi ve rabbis are sitting in Bnei Brak telling and interpreting person on whose ‘psychological and texture — the reader feels its the story of the Exodus, each has something different to add. It is moral growth’ we are focusing is Zak. characters’ experiences and the the whole of their interpretations taken together that heightens our But Hoffmann has cast a large net. understanding of the text, and what binds a Seder together. grain of their lives, He Does Not Die a Death of Shame is extraordinarily Wishing the Cape Town Jewish Community Chag Pesach Sameach First, we come to understand Zak through his family; a Lithuanian compassionate, because it succeeds (Litvak) father who has come to South at entering and showing everyone’s Africa to look for employment, and his lives without being judgmental. larger Litvak family who do not escape [email protected] the Holocaust that sweeps across (021) 461-0776 the Old Country. Second, Zak’s The book is available online at Amazon journey through life is mirrored by the as well as at local book sellers and journey of the son of Zak’s childhood the SA Jewish Museum Shop.

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By Anton Katz A key aspect of being a happy the introduction of a national health is obliged to provide funding and that HIV/AIDS and successful human is health. service, the unfortunate events in the resources necessary to comply with was one of many public health care system (consider its constitutional obligation. illnesses that hysical, mental, social, emotional the Life Esidimeni scandal, which required attention. The Constitutional Court emphasized Pand spiritual health all impact on involved the deaths of 143 psychiatric The courts referred to the huge that we live in a society in which the value and quality of our existence patients in Gauteng), and possible problems confronting government there are great disparities in access as a person. The Constitutional epidemics or even pandemics (HIV- as a result of the pandemic. And to resources. Millions of people live Court has acknowledged that health AIDS, SARS, Ebola, the Coronavirus, besides the pandemic, the state in deplorable conditions in great care rights must be considered not COVID-19 all come to mind), it is faced huge demands in relation to poverty. There is a huge levels of only individual human autonomy worth considering relevant health access to education, land, housing, unemployment, inadequate social but also human interdependence. In related court decisions. health care, food, water and social security; and many do not have other words in the context of health security. The Court reiterated that Mr Soobramoney, was a 41-year-old access to clean water or to adequate “no man or woman is an island.” If the government is obliged to take diabetic with ischaemic heart disease health services. These conditions my neighbour is sick that affects my reasonable measures within its who had suffered a stroke. His existed in 1996 when the Constitution neighbourhood and me. (Covid-19) available resources to achieve the kidneys failed and he was in the final was adopted. A commitment to A healthy life depends upon social ongoing realisation of those rights. stages of chronic renal failure. His life address them, and to transform interaction and interdependence: the In the light of SA’s history this was could have been prolonged by means South African society where human quality of air, water, and sanitation and is extraordinarily difficult. But of regular renal dialysis. The state dignity, freedom and equality are an which the state maintains for the it is an obligation imposed on the hospital in Addington, Kwazulu Natal aspiration is necessary. For as long public good; the quality of a person’s government by the Constitution. caring relationships, which are rejected his claim to dialysis. It did as these conditions continue to exist highly correlated to health. Health is not have sufficient resources to treat that aspiration will have a hollow ring. The Courts effectively found that all such patients. Mr Soobramoney the national government had not affected by the quality of health care The Court held that if section approached the courts alleging that reasonably addressed the need given officially by medical institutions 27(3) were to be interpreted as Mr his constitutional rights had been to reduce the risk of HIV-positive and provided informally by family, Soobramoney would have it, it would violated by the state. His claim was mothers transmitting the disease to friends, and the community. make it substantially more difficult, that patients who suffer from terminal their babies at birth. In evaluating if not impossible, for the state to The Constitution states everyone illnesses and require treatment such the government’s policy, the Court fulfil its primary obligation to provide has the right to access to health as renal dialysis to prolong their lives emphasized that the lives of many health care services to “everyone.” It care services. And also in section enjoy the right set out in section 27(3) new-born babies might be saved by would mean prioritising the treatment 27(3) that “no one may be refused to be provided with such treatment the administration of nevirapine to of terminal illnesses over other forms emergency medical treatment.” by the state. He argued that the state mother and child at the time of birth. of medical care and would reduce the Bearing in mind the debates around The government was ordered without resources available to the state for delay to, amongst other things, preventative health care and medical remove all restrictions that prevented treatment for those with sicknesses nevirapine from being made available which are not life threatening. And at public hospitals and clinics. The so, Mr Soobramoney lost his case government complied with the court and died shortly after judgment by order and many lives were saved. the Court. It seems all humans around the world In another ground breaking matter in are going to increasingly rely on 2002 the transmission of HIV from government’s support and protection. mother- to- child at birth was in issue. During the Spanish Flu of 1918 there THE ALL NEW TOYOTA COROLLA The HIV/AIDS pandemic in South were no air flights and mobility of Africa was described as “an humans was restricted to land and incomprehensible calamity” and sea routes. In the Coronavirus world “the most important challenge facing of 2020 modern air travel and ease South Africa since the birth of our of movement means radically more N O W A V A I L A B L E new democracy” and government’s interaction between different groups fight against “this scourge” as “a of people within countries and across top priority”. It “has claimed millions national borders. Governments all of lives, inflicting pain and grief, of the world have no option but to causing fear and uncertainty, and work together to find solutions to threatening the economy. The all developing health challenges. In government, as part of array of the Coronavirus setting, restrictions responses to the pandemic, devised of rights, such as quarantines and a programme to deal with mother- a ban on movements in and out of to-child transmission of HIV at birth South Africa and within its borders and identified nevirapine as the drug clearly constitutes a limitation of for this purpose. But the government rights. In South Africa the law and the programme imposed serious Constitution guides, demands and restrictions on the availability of constrains the width and depth of the nevirapine in the public health sector. government’s conduct in the health An NGO, the Treatment Action sector. The balancing of all human Campaign, brought a challenge to rights implicated by health crises for the validity of those impediments to all people in the world is tough and obtaining nevirapine. requires wise and informed counsel. The courts had to determine whether the measures taken to prevent Anton Katz SC, a senior counsel mother-to-child transmission of HIV practicing at the Cape Bar, was were reasonable. The Court accepted a member (2011-2018) of the UN that throughout South Africa health Human Rights Council working group services were overextended, and on mercenaries. Cape Jewish Chronicle April 2020 43

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By Dan Meyer Twenty-four delegates In July last year, I stood outside from all over South Africa, my grandfather’s old home including eight members and watched an artist make from Cape Town, had the him part of one of the world’s privilege of attending World largest memorials. WIZO’s 100th anniversary EGM (Enlarged General ’m about the same age Erwin Meyer Meeting) in Tel Aviv, in Iwas when he walked out of that door January. for the last time having been robbed of everything he owned and forced s well as visiting the three into exile. In 1935, my grandfather Adaycare centres, five Neve was forced to leave Germany as WIZO houses of safety, Beit the Nazi government began to pass Halochem and other projects increasingly restrictive laws against supported by WIZO SA, the Jewish people, ultimately leaving delegation joined 1000 chaverot the 26-year-old and his family to from around the world to celebrate forfeit their stake in the successful WIZO’s centenary at a spectacular Thalheimer timber business for a Dan, Michael and David Meyer gala opening featuring some of the best speakers and entertainers pittance of its real value in exchange Stolperstein, or ‘stumbling stones’ from around the globe. As World for an exit visa that would see him outside the former homes of Jewish WIZO Honorary President Tova board a ship from Southampton to people who were forced to escape the Ben Dov put it, “Before me I see an Cape Town. persecution of the Third Reich. The ocean of love, faces of tikkun olam. stones have been laid in colaboration In his book, Legalisiertes Undrecht, WIZO looks forward to many more WIZO chair Tamar Lazarus presents with the German Department of Moonyeen Castle with her brooch and Cristoph Franke writes of the “lega- years to come doing what matters Culture, who see the initiative as a certificate signifying that, as outgoing lised theft” of the Thalheimer timber most for the benefit of Israeli means towards reconciliation. There President of WIZO, she is now an Honorary business that my great grandfather society.” Member of World WIZO. started. “An economic adviser to the are over 70 000 gold Stolperstein German administration bought the plates across the streets of Europe, Thalheimer company at a price of 1.6 making Demnig’s tribute the world’s Million Reichsmark. The estimated largest de-centralised monument in CJC’s Jaime shines in the spotlight value of the company was four Million the world. Jaime Uranovsky was awarded Reichsmark.” He explains that the “The stones should also serve the reduced figure paid for the company purpose of remembering your family. Best Actress for her portrayal was seized at a customs branch in It works best with young people. of Rita in Educating Rita at the Hanover a year after my grandfather They can picture a real family union, Annual CATA Awards in Cape left Germany, and all the Jewish in a city, right on this spot or maybe Town in March. representatives were arrested. around the corner. All those people aime lived, ate and slept Rita in Eighty-four years later I find myself went to school, maybe even the Jher five-month preparation for standing on a grey street in the school I went to. They can think to this role where she perfected the suburbs of the industrial city of themselves, ‘maybe this person was Liverpudlian accent and magically Hanover, outside a block of flats that my age when they were murdered’.” transformed Rita on stage from a stands out from the rest because said Demnig. nervous, unconfident and unhappy it doesn’t share their characteristic I joined my uncle, Michael Meyer person into a radiant, dynamic and facade of post-war architecture. and my cousin David for a ceremony confident woman. The magical Erwin Meyer lived here with his outside the house, attended by chemistry between Rita and her mother, father, and sister, and it was the District Mayor of Hanover and professor played by Nic Plummer of his last German address before he members of the press and community. FMR was apparent and these two was effectively exiled. Within minutes, Demnig had cut a performers gave their very best, so German artist Gunter Demnig slice of pavement away and forever much so that Nic won Best Actor and majoring in English and Psychology realised the poignance of sites like immortalised the home in history with the play won the prestigious award of and then went on to do her Honours this in the 90s, and began placing the words “Erwin Meyer lived here”. Best Production. in English Literature passing cum laude. She was also a recipient of During Middle and High School, The Golden Key Award. Whilst at Jaime took on musical roles in UCT, she went into community theatre Oliver! and Annie, where she played where she had side roles in plays, one Miss Hannigan (the often inebriated Kosher Le Pesach Gifts being Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. On display in our shop. employee of the orphanage) with Place your order early!!!!! aplomb. She took Drama as an Jaime did two seasons of Valentine elective in high school and wrote, Love Songs Soirees with a group of acted in and directed many of her own singers performing at the Masque *Baby gifts *Birthday/ plays, winning the Drama award every Theatre. She then auditioned for *Engagement/ anniversary year at prizegiving and receiving a Jane in Jane Eyre and landed the wedding *All the festivals distinction in matric for both practical role, as well as the main female role in and theory. A keen singer, she joined The Full Monty, a fun musical. Jaime the Herzlia Vocal Ensemble and also received Best Actress nominations Wishing our sang at many Eisteddfods where for both. When Jaime was contacted community Pesach she received Honours and Diploma. by a director to read and audition for Kasher v’Sameach Her highest achievement was Educating Rita. She couldn’t resist winning the top Eisteddfod award in the challenge. the Folk category for Yerushalayim WE DELIVER Jaime writes for the Cape Jewish Shel Zahav. CLOSED UNTILEmail: [email protected] FURTHER www.giftime.org.za NOTICE Chronicle. She is also the sub-editor Phone: 021 465-6500 / 021 462 1967 After matric Jaime went to UCT of the UCT Student Law magazine. completing a Bachelor of Arts, She is currently studying Law at UCT. Cape Jewish Chronicle April 2020 45

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Each Office Independently Owned and Operated 46 Cape Jewish Chronicle April 2020 Help us make 10 000 Moms smile A sad farewell this Mothers’ Day Fiona van der Walt passed Ten years ago, Lynne Cumings away very sadly and was listening to Kfm and unexpectedly in February. heard a suggestion that those he was a dedicated and devoted members of the community Ssupervisor at Astra for 17 years. who had lost their own The products of her talents (most mothers should take a cake to notably the baby patchwork an old-age home on Mothers’ floormats, cot duvets and ‘Bag of Day as a way to celebrate other Plagues’) are enjoyed in homes mothers still living. across the globe. She was also responsible for the beautiful designs his inspired Lynne to do just of certain items in some of Cape that: in memory of her mother, T “It became a really big thing from that Town’s Jewish institutions. Staff and Barbara Rodkin, she delivered a milk day onwards,” she reminisces. workers at the Centre are deeply tart to Sea Point Place on Mothers’ saddened by this enormous loss Day. She felt good after performing A couple of years later, as the initiative and the role she played in their daily this mitzvah, but, for her, it was not grew, Lynne was approached by Nicki lives. Her creativity and the skills she enough. Lynne explains “I thought Wingerin, who had heard about the taught the workers at Astra will live about it, and I vowed from then project and wanted to get involved. on forever. onwards it was going to become Since then, Nicki and Lynne have something that would grow.” And run Make a Mom Smile together and grow it did: this year, Lynne’s venture, the venture has reached new heights now called ‘Make a Mom Smile’, is — even after Tsogo Sun’s annual aiming to deliver 10 000 cupcakes to contribution ceased once Jeff left the moms all over Cape Town for its tenth company. In fact, the annual project Mothers’ Day on 10 May. How did the has grown so much, that the pair ran project get here? out of CPOA homes and have started providing cupcakes to private and In 2012, a year after Lynne delivered government related old age homes. a cake to Sea Point Place, she was They are always on the lookout for not only donating in memory of her more homes to be included. own mother but in memory of Felicity Mtongana, her domestic worker of 20 One way to get involved is to bake years, who was a second mother to and donate as many cupcakes as you her son and who died suddenly that can. Lynne notes, “The cupcakes that year. With support from family and come in range from your every-day friends, and after receiving donations bakers, with cupcakes just spread from Checkers, Pick ‘n Pay and with icing, to the home industries that Spar in Sea Point, Lynne donated go all out.” Those who wish to bake 100 cakes to local old aged homes should contact the organisers as on Mothers’ Day. But she wanted to soon as possible stating the number make an even bigger difference. of cupcakes they will be contributing. They can then take their cupcakes The following year, Ryan O’Connor to designated central drop-offs in interviewed Lynne on Kfm. The Claremont or the Northern Suburbs message was to remember your mom on Thursday 7 May, after which a if yours had passed on, or to honour driver collects and delivers them to her if she was still alive by delivering Nicki and Lynne, who painstakingly a cake to an old age home. “That count cupcakes and distribute them radio insert changed my life,” says among old age homes. In 2019, “MAKE A MOM SMILE” Lynne. The next day, she received 8000+ cupcakes were delivered to a phone call to say that Tsogo Sun, 48 homes as far out as Somerset as represented by Jeff Rosenberg, West and Bredasdorp. would be baking and donating the total number of cakes required by For Lynne and Nicki, this is all about the Cape Peninsula Organisation the mitzvah of tzedakah. “We’re CUPCAKE APPEAL for the Aged (CPOA) — the umbrella pushing to get children involved Est. 2011 organisation under which many Cape because it becomes reciprocal… Town-based retirement homes fall. It’s a circle: the children honouring Just like that, Lynne’s reach had and remembering grandparents, us increased from one cake in 2011 to remembering our mothers — we’re Our “Make a mom smile” Mothers Day appeal is in its 10th year 100 cakes in 2012 to 1500 in 2013. all paying it forward.” Please generously support us again in honouring your mom’s memory, celebrating her life now or simply by helping to make a mom smile on May the 10th 2020

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The things that matter Entebbe eye-witness We had the unique honour By Nissen Goldman of hearing from IDF major We are so blessed as Jews to have a calendar Rami Sherman who was that is structured in a way that draws our one of the soldiers who attention to the things that really matter. lead the Raid on Entebbe We have a festival coming up this month, otherwise known as Pesach — The Season of our Liberation — Operation Yonatan (after which asks of us to look inside and question Yoni Netanyahu who was if we are truly free! killed that night). ow many people would typically get round to having is team saved over 100 Hthis conversation with themselves. With my attention HJewish hostages who were being pulled in a million and one different directions I taken captive by terrorists who don’t know that I would just stop and think about freedom. hijacked an AirFrance plan and I’m taking a moment to be grateful for that. redirected it to Entebbe, Uganda. The story is a message of “Kol Lance Myerson, Liam Talberg, Jordyn Fitzpatrick, Hannah Paris, For the liberation our laws bring by elevating us above Yisrael Arevim Zeh lazeh”. All Zoe Chadowitz, Julia Ganbarg, Rami Sherman, Gary Isaacs, Zoey the mundane. For our tradition of introspection. For my Lieberman, Daniel Levenstein, Aaron Sherman, Joe Rosenberg, of Israel is responsible for one Grant Norrie, Rabbi Nissen, Zac Rubin and Hayden Norrie parents and theirs, going all the way back to Egypt — another. It was not Israel’s legal who passed our people’s story down to me. And to G-d responsibility but France’s. All in all, the talk gave us renewed strength for taking us out of that ‘Land of Limitations’ (Mitzrayim) and pride in belonging to the Jewish people. and for giving us true freedom — the freedom to be a Zac Rubin, a second year Engineering Student, It was certainly the greatest hostage rescue in servant to nothing and no one but the Master of all. Let said he was particularly moved by the story of history. Or as Rami said, some people said it us employ this gift of freedom and leave everything else the non-Jewish pilot and his crew who decided was luck, but we knew it was the Hand of God. behind. Let us use these days of Pesach to listen to the to stay with their Jewish passengers after call of our souls that just want to break-free from the being given the option to leave with the other Thank you to SAUJS for partnering with us to shackles of any foreign masters that aren’t serving us. non-Jewish passengers who were released. make the event possible. Stellies Yids Welcome Braai

2020 is by far the biggest year we’ve ever seen for Stellenbosch Jewish students, we estimate the number of yids are up to 50! o we brought everyone together Sfor a Welcome Braai, generously sponsored by the Shul. 34 students attended and we meet weekly on a Tuesday in the Shul Hall for a lunchtime shiur.

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2020 Community Launch This year, over 200 students from universities all over the city for assisting us, as well as to our sponsors. What a beautiful evening it was joined the Chabad on Campus Student Family. with 120 mostly first and second year students who got to connect. e continued our annual tradition of having the Community Launch on We had a blast with our very own DJ Sam Codron. Have you ever danced to Wa boat. It’s a great way for people to meet each other and build new horas in the middle of the ocean? If you time travel back to first year varsity, friendships in this new phase of life. A big thank you to The Mirage management you can join us in 2021 ;)

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By Deborah Fineblum for JNS By Rabbi Rachel Barenblat I’ve been reading a lot of posts and articles about why we should be stocking our pantries and medicine cabinets against the possibility of illness, quarantine, and/ or disrupted supply chains. The most compelling piece I’ve read thus far is one in Scientific American by Zeynep Tufekci. he argues that being prepared is our civic duty Sand is something we can do as a favour to those who cannot prepare. “We should prepare,” she writes, “so that we can help lessen the risk for everyone.” The empty arrival hall at Ben-Gurion International Airport on 11 March 2020. Photo by Flash90. One suggestion that a lot of people are making is: stock up on dried The first few weeks after making aliyah are typically a flurry of foods, and on the things that members of your household like to eat. This activity, with the newly minted Israeli dashing from government way if you become ill (or if there is a quarantine, or if you are staying home offices to banks to setting up utilities to schools to register the kids, to avoid infection or to reduce strain on grocery workers who may be ill, or if supply chains are disrupted because of widespread illness) you’ll not to mention finding a terrific falafel stand. have what you need. My kid’s favourite foods include bagels, pasta, and ut what if instead of all that, upon arrival you were transported to your new toaster waffles. Oh, and granola bars. And buttered English muffins. Bhome and instructed to stay there for two weeks? Everyone moving to Israel And on the Jewish calendar we’re five weeks away from Pesach, when after 4 March (the Jewish Agency puts the number at 163) needs to stay in it’s customary to remove all of the leaven from one’s home. So should I quarantine; in Hebrew, bedood — for two weeks before they can venture out and be trying to “eat down” all the hametz in my home in the coming month to explore their new home. make it easier to clean for Pesach in the ways that I want to do? Or should “On the list of stressors, moving is right up there,” says Jerusalem-based social I be picking up an extra box of pasta, an extra box of blueberry Eggos, worker Aliza Shapiro, who often works with immigrant teens and who made and an extra box of shells and cheese every time I go to the grocery aliyah herself from Cleveland in 2010. “And when you’re moving to a place where store, so that we’re well-prepared in the event that we need to stay home? everything is new to you: the language, the culture, the grocery stores, quarantine I can argue that Jewishly I have a civic obligation to do what is best for adds another layer of stress on top of the rest.” the most vulnerable in the general population (that’s the thrust of Torah’s “I didn’t realise how hard quarantine would be,” says David Bassous who made repeated injunction to care for the widow, the orphan, and the stranger). aliyah last week from Highland Park, New Jersey. The hardest part? Not being That may mean making sure I have two weeks’ worth of shelf-stable food able to go outside or see the kids or grandchildren who live in Israel. (His wife on hand, and stocking up on the things my kid will actually eat – because Clara came two weeks earlier before quarantine was mandated, so is able to run as Tufekci argues, preparing is “one of the most pro-social, altruistic errands and bring in food etc.). “I figured that Israel is one of the safest places to things you can do in response to potential disruptions of this kind.” be right now because of its proactive policy — one of the strictest in the world,” I can also argue that Jewishly I have a religious obligation to remove he says. “but I was still shocked when I landed and witnessed Ben-Gurion hametz for Pesach: that’s a practice I’ve taken on in recent years and it Airport deserted.” Still, says Bassous, he’s “so happy to be home after a 2 500- matters to me both practically and spiritually. So I’m laying in a store of year exile.” His own journey has spanned his Calcutta birthplace, England and the wheat-filled foods my kid likes to eat... and during Pesach, I will move Jerusalem as a student before moving to Canada, and from there to the United them to the extra freezer in the garage so that they are not in my home States and now, at age 61, to Israel. proper, and I will “sell” them to a non-Jewish friend, and will declare them And like Bassous, most of the folks on the Nefesh B’Nefesh aliyah list have temporarily not mine. It’s a legal fiction, but this year a very useful one. soldiered on with their plans to make Israel their new home, Coronavirus or no Intellectually I know that selling my hametz means there’s no problem Coronavirus, quarantine or no quarantine. “It makes sense,” says Rabbi David here. But emotionally I’m finding this jarring. It feels truly strange to be Aaron, author of The Secret Life of God, among others and dean of Isralight who stocking up now on foods that in any other year I would be trying to moved to Israel from Toronto at 18. “Once you’ve made the decision to come consume and not replace. One way to understand Pesach is as a spiritual and live your life’s dream in Eretz Yisrael, this isn’t going to stop you. It’s the call to leave familiar constriction and go, even if we don’t feel ready. greatness of these people and this land that shows itself at a time like this.” Buying extra stuff to have on hand is the opposite of “drop everything The silver lining: Crises tend to bring to the fore the time-honoured Israeli and go” – though the “not feeling ready” part still holds. tradition of welcoming the newcomer, whether it’s dropping off dinner, a tip on the It feels weird to be buying extra hametz when Pesach is little more than best dentist in town or helping out with the kids. (In addition, the Jewish Agency a month away. But I accept Tufekci’s argument that preparing for the and other groups are making sure that quarantined new olim don’t go without possibility of staying home (if I can afford a few extra groceries every necessities). “It’s one of the qualities that makes Israel so special,” says Shapiro. time I shop, which I can) is my civic obligation, and I think it’s a Jewish At 44, Yehoshua Zepeda is a media producer, photographer, sculptor and writer. obligation as well. I’m willing to live with some cognitive dissonance in And, as of last week, he’s also an Israeli. During his 12 years in New York City, order to fulfill that obligation, even as I also prepare to fulfill a different “on the busy Manhattan treadmill running my own video-production business, obligation that will temporarily make some of these foods not-mine. I realised I’d lost touch with my spiritual centre,” he says. He had just returned Tradition says we left Egypt as a mixed multitude; it wasn’t just we who from a two-month stay in Israel. “And I got back to New York and felt like it was no fled Pharaoh. An illness that spreads like this one is a powerful reminder longer my home, like I’d left the core of me back in Jerusalem.” Last winter, after that we are always a “mixed multitude.” As a society, we are only as completing graduate studies in documentary filmmaking in California, Zepeda healthy as those who are most at-risk. Preparing now is what I can do to began making arrangements for his move. He never expected, however, to arrive lessen the strain on the system later, and thereby to help those who may at the same time that the Coronavirus was sweeping across the globe. “But even be harder-hit than I expect to be... even if that means I’ll be schlepping an when I heard about it, I figured I’d much rather be quarantined in Jerusalem than extra few boxes of pasta into and out of storage this year. in Los Angeles. It’s a small price to pay.” Nefesh B’Nefesh, which facilitates the aliyah process for those from North America and the United Kingdom, is opening a hotline (1-866-4-ALIYAH in the Rabbi Rachel Barenblat, named in 2016 by The Forward as one of United States) for arriving olim to help them navigate their somewhat restricted America’s Most Inspiring Rabbis, was ordained by ALEPH: Alliance for early aliyah process. “These new olim, more than ever, represent the strong Jewish Renewal as a rabbi in 2011 and as a mashpi’ah ruchanit (spiritual future of the State of Israel,” says co-founder and executive director Rabbi director) in 2012. Yehoshua Fass. “They are determined to fulfill their dreams of helping to build This article first appeared on her blog, The Velveteen Rabbi the Jewish nation.” Cape Jewish Chronicle April 2020 51 For all your storage solutions & more...

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By Abigail Klein Leichman for Israel21C

A handwashing machine and Originally built to help busy people facemasks that claim to kill maintain contact with elders and Coronavirus. Contact-free children at home, Temi was named monitoring of hospitalised one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Best COVID-19 patients. Proactive Inventions of 2019 and won a Best of CES Asia award. Recently policies to prevent the spread added features empower Temi to do of the virus. A possible vaccine tasks such as taking temperatures on the horizon. These are and carrying food to patients among the many ways Israel is under quarantine. responding with characteristic swift ingenuity to the raging Sheba held a webinar to share its Coronavirus care experience with Coronavirus pandemic. hospitals in the United States. ven before anyone knew Zimlichman says he hopes that the ECoronavirus would reach the huge amount of patient data being Middle East, Israeli humanitarians generated on Sheba’s isolation unit sprang into action. Several eventually will allow for predicting organisations shipped protective Magen David Adom workers at a special emergency Call Center in Kiryat Ono, which Coronavirus-exposed patients gear to China and IsraAID offered 26 February. Photo by Flash90 will develop the COVID-19 disease remote stress-management courses 1 million Bio-Block masks. Labs in exposed people from the Diamond and which will be more severe. for Chinese healthcare workers. China and Singapore are testing Princess cruise ship in Japan (in In contrast to the unexpected About 100 Israeli physicians Sonovia’s fabric. February), we reached out to the application of Israeli technologies telemedicine startups we work with volunteered to lead video Q&A And the MIGAL Galilee Research to the Coronavirus crisis, the in ARC to see if they wanted to test sessions with quarantined COVID-19 Institute quickly began reformulating Israeli government had long ago their technologies,” Zimlichman patients in China through Israeli a vaccine it’s been developing laid the foundation of its uniquely tells ISRAEL21c. nonprofit Innonation. On the against poultry Coronavirus over aggressive policy to prevent technology front, Israelis startups the past four years. Though it was The first ones were TytoCare, Datos, widespread infection. immediately began brainstorming widely reported that MIGAL’s human Uniper Care and EarlySense. “Israel has been preparing for how their inventions, some intended vaccine could be ready within 90 this kind of event for at least two for different purposes entirely, could days, an institute spokesperson tells TytoCare’s remote examination decades with the establishment of help in the current crisis. ISRAEL21c that it’s the prototype of device enabled Sheba doctors an epidemiological response and such a vaccine that may be ready to assess Israelis on the cruise Soapy introduced an antiviral soap intervention team,” says Prof. Nadav quickly. The prototype would have ship suspected of having the virus for its automatic handwashing Davidovitch, director of the School to be licensed to another company before they even disembarked. microstations already used in many of Public Health at Ben-Gurion for human trials. If such trials The Datos automated remote care countries. Testing done before the platform enabled Sheba’s first-of- University of the Negev. Coronavirus outbreak proved that a satisfy regulatory requirements, then manufacturing would begin in its-kind Coronavirus telemedicine “We have a very strong system special plant-based ingredient, also program. Medical staff can monitor made in Israel, combined with the a regulation-compliant facility. The for lab testing, a strong surveillance whole process could take at least a and supervise quarantined or mildly machine’s capabilities, kills a virus system for influenza outbreaks year or two. ill patients, avoiding unnecessary more resistant than corona. and a strong public health system hospital trips and exposure. Uniper well trained to do epidemiological Whether MIGAL’s vaccine candidate CoughSync, developed at lets quarantined patients participate ultimately succeeds or fails, the investigations. Since we have national Jerusalem’s Alyn paediatric and in classes and social activities via effort is emblematic of Israel’s can- health insurance, we have excellent adolescent rehabilitation hospital an interactive video-communication do attitude to crisis management. electronic records and integration to help children unable to cough platform designed for homebound It’s just one of many solutions for between clinic and community,” for themselves, is awaiting elderly people. EarlySense is an Coronavirus care being piloted here. Davidovitch tells ISRAEL21c. approval from China as a tool for under-the-mattress, no-contact treating COVID-19 patients with Israeli COVID-19 patients are sensor system that monitors and Israel’s Magen David Adom national pneumonia and for reducing risks to hospitalised in isolation at Chaim analyzes patients’ breathing patterns emergency response network has healthcare providers. Sheba Medical Center at Tel for subtle changes and potential partnered with the Health Ministry in Hashomer, Ramat Gan. Sheba, signs of respiratory infection. setting up a hotline that allows callers Antimicrobial fabrics developed at to have video conversations with the largest medical centre in the Sheba is also using BioBeat’s Sonovia and Argaman — potentially doctors, nurses and medics. MDA Middle East, houses the ARC wireless, noninvasive stickers, for hospital linens or chemotherapy sends healthcare personnel to test Innovation Center directed by Dr. FDA approved for monitoring patients — may be made into people for the virus at home. Israel Eyal Zimlichman, chief medical blood pressure, blood oxygen facemasks that potentially kill, has initiated international cooperation and innovation officer at the saturation and pulse rate. Rambam not only block, Coronavirus. One on Coronavirus policy with the US medical center. Health Care Campus in Haifa has country has already bought treated government and leaders of countries integrated BioBeat in its new fabric from Argaman to make “When we knew we were getting in Europe and the Middle East. Coronavirus ward as well, to limit physical contact with patients. Israel’s Ministry of Education has set up remote learning platforms as well “This is critically important,” says as an emotional health hotline for the Chag Sameach, wishing Zimlichman. “We know that about thousands of students and hundreds 30 percent of healthcare workers of teachers currently quarantined at you a happy, peaceful and in Wuhan, China, contracted the home. The Israeli Finance Ministry is disease from patient contact.” meaningful Pesach establishing an emergency fund for Hospitals in Southeast Asian affected businesses and the air force countries including China, Japan, has been recruited to help ensure South Korea and Hong Kong are the continuity of the essential supply using another Israeli invention, the chain for the Israeli economy. With Temi personal robot, to minimise Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu patient contact. The parent company pledging to “enlist the best minds in is headquartered in New York and Israel in order to efficiently separate China with R&D in Tel Aviv. the healthy and the sick.” Cape Jewish Chronicle April 2020 53 Con Travis – a man of the world

By Jaime Uranovsky Ninety-three-year old Con Whelan, who was Later, Con with the Hebrew Order of David Travis has seen it all. among various became a public (HOD), which has become his biggest Manchester relations officer passion. “This is my life. Really and orn in 1926 in Cardiff, Wales, Con United players and worked truly,” he says. Con has contributed Band much of his extended family killed the same in sales and, greatly to the organisation over the emigrated to New Zealand in the late year in the Munich prior to the years in various capacities and at 1930s, once war was imminent. Air Disaster. In implementation different lodges. For example, he was A few years into World War II, the wake of this of television in made Consecration President of the American troops became a common tragedy, Con was South Africa, lodge in Sandton, which he helped sight in New Zealand, where they asked to play in a was called in to to establish; he became a member often went while on leave in between charity match to train people, to of the executive in 1975 and became fighting in the pacific islands. Con raise funds for the assist with sound the Grand President International often invited Jewish troops to his survivors. It was and lighting and in 1981. In the 116 years since the family for Shabbat. After one such after this match to advise on HOD was established, Con is one dinner in 1943, Con’s friend, Nat that he was mock television of only two people in the world to Berman sneaked Con, then 16, back offered to play shows. He went be awarded honorary membership. into his army cap. “They dressed professionally on to appear Today, Con is the President of Lodge me up in khaki in a marine uniform. for Manchester on Biltong & Golan, the last lodge in Cape Town, Unbeknown to them they were being United; however, Potroast, a panel and remains dedicated to giving shipped out in the morning to go back he refused. programme. charity through the organisation. After being widowed 13 years ago, into action in the pacific. So, I went Last year, when Con visited his In 1965, his family relocated to Durban he now lives in Cape Town with his along with the 2nd Marine Raiders brother, children, grandchildren and and Con began playing football again partner Jean Levy. Battalion. After six days at sea, they great grandchildren in England, he — he was nearly 40. His team went discovered me. They put me ashore visited Old Trafford and its museum. on to play at the Maccabi Games, “So many things have happened in at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides Since showing the curator his and one of his teammates at the time, my life; it’s been unbelievable.” islands in the Pacific.” team photographs, they have been Bernard Shapiro, now lives down the In true Capetonian nonagenarian displayed in the museum. road from him in Sea Point! Con was then sent back to New style, Con went paragliding when he Zealand. It did not take him very In 1958, Con was made an offer While in Durban, Con got involved was 91 years old! long however, to run away again. He to go to Canada to work on a new desperately wanted to join the air military aircraft, called the Avro force but was unsuccessful. After a Arrow. Con recounts, “This was a short stint in the army, Con finally got new all-weather fighter and there into the air force by pretending he was was nothing in the world to touch it 194A MAIN ROAD older. Ironically, once he completed at that stage.” However, in 1959, the SEA POINT, CAPE TOWN flight training school, he was posted Canadian Prime Minister canned the 021 439 4431 / 021 439 4915 [email protected] to Number 14 Fighter Squadron of MESKIN OPTOMETRISTS whole project and put nearly 20 000 WWW.MESKINOPTOMETRISTS.CO.ZA the Royal New Zealand Air Force at people out of work virtually overnight. Espiritu Santo New Hebrides islands Con was one of them. How easy is the — a location that was not unfamiliar. Introducing the new Ortho K Process Ortho K Process? This sparked a change in career for After the War, Con Con: “I’d always Are you tired of spectacles was stationed been a bit of an or contact lenses? in Japan for two While in Durban, Con got amateur comedian- years in Iwakuni Do you have active children with glasses 1. Measureent 2. Custo esign involved with the Hebrew cum-actor and, with o our ees o our a few miles south Order of David (HOD), a little bit of luck, who swim and do a lot of active sports? Orto enses of Hiroshima met a producer at Are you frequently replacing your and, once he which has become his contact lenses or breaking or losing glasses? biggest passion. “This is CBC (Canadian was discharged Broadcasting We can o er you or your children a safe and reversible alternative to Laser eye surgery that will be contributed in 1947, returned my life. Really and truly,” Corporation) in 3. ors wie . ee witout to by selected Medical Aids ou seep gasses or to Cardiff where Toronto. He helped atie enses his parents had me develop myself and I became a also resettled. He then obtained professional comedian.” a forces further educational grant and, still passionate about planes, Con went on to work on various studied aeronautical engineering. television shows and concerts with After qualifying, he worked on the stars like Sammy Davis Jr. and the first passenger jet aircraft, called Ink Spots, and in 1960 presented The Comet. at the Lions Club International Convention in Chicago, among CHAG SAMEACH During Con’s school days, his time in people like Rosemary Clooney and the air force and in between, he was Edie Gormé. In 1960, he went back always playing football and cricket. to Britain where he did a lot of radio His football position was goalkeeper. and television; highlights included Indeed, during the War, he played working with Benny Hill. football for the Royal New Zealand Air Force and captained the New Then, in 1963, Con came to South Zealand Combined Forces. From the Africa under contract with Connie 1948 football season, he played for Francis; they toured Johannesburg, the professional side of Cardiff City Durban, Port Elizabeth and Cape but as an amateur. Town. While in the country, he went on a blind date and ended up staying In 1953 he was chosen to play for in South Africa where he got married WWW.DALEGLEN.CO.ZA Great Britain in the Maccabi Games. to Ida Shur. They had two sons: Prior to going to Israel, Con’s team 021 424 1210 Lynton and Steven. Con regularly did daleglenpropertygroup played against Manchester United, cabaret at Ciro’s in Johannesburg after which he became friendly and went up to Salisbury (now with a few players, including Billy Harare) to perform there as well. 54 Cape Jewish Chronicle April 2020 SIMCHA PAGE

Taryn Rosen to Jaryd Scher Photo: Ayeh & Mischa from Something Forever Herzlia matric students’ photographs exhibited in Jewish Lens competition in Israel

Jessica Leveton and Ruby both take visual art as one of their a Jewish person.” Jessica played Blachowitz, matric students electives, entered the competition with the idea of reflection physically at Herzlia, are some of several at the end of their grade 11 year and figuratively to explore her own high school students from in 2019 and were informed of the conflict regarding her positionality around the world whose results in early February. in Judaism. photographs have been Jessica’s piece, titled Reflections, Ruby’s photograph was taken during chosen to be exhibited at the captures Jessica’s sister holding the March of the Living trip, on which Museum of the Jewish People a siddur. She says, “What I was she embarked last year. She says of at Beit Hatfutsot in Tel Aviv. trying to incorporate into the her piece, “At this moment we were photo was an idea of confusion, on the march in Israel to the Kotel to ach year, the Jewish Lens, an uncertainty, because I took a show that we survived. Thousands Einternational organisation that picture of a reflection of my sister of youth from all around the world, aims to guide the exploration of and you couldn’t tell at first glance coming together to show our Jewish values and identity through looking at the picture that it was strength, power and that no matter the medium of photography, runs a a reflection. So, I wanted to get how you try, no one can get rid of us. competition with participants from across how I feel in Judaic society. I took this photograph to try to make over 20 countries. The competition Like I’m not sure where I stand as everyone who sees it feel the same is aimed at Jewish students sense of empowerment that I felt and requires entrants to submit that day.” Ruby Blachowitz' piece taken during the photographs that relate to Judaism March of the Living in 2019 and Jewish identity in their own communities. In Cape Town, the Jewish Lens competition is run by the South African Jewish Museum in conjunction with Cameraland, with the images also being exhibited at the latter destination on Long Street until the end of March. Both Ruby and Jessica’s pieces have been displayed in the Jewish Lens Gallery at the Museum of the Jewish People since 22 March as part of the 2019-2020 competition exhibition. The students, who Jessica Leveton's piece titled Reflections Jessica showing her piece to Belinda Selikowitz during an interview at Cameraland Cape Jewish Chronicle April 2020 55 SIMCHA PAGE

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The Cape Town Zionist Youth work together in the future. To he Youth Graduate Board is a forget to follow us on Instagram Council is made up of various actualise this, each meeting in 2020 Tnew structure made up of Grade @netzer_southafrica to find out more youth organisations in the is going to be hosted by one of the 11 and 12 Netzer chaverimot who about the Netzer leadership. organisations or youth movements work with the mazkirut (secretariat) community that are affiliated Rachael Sara, Rosh Cape Town with the South African Zionist within the council. We hope to to help run the movement. Don’t accomplish great things together and Federation (Cape Council). inspire the community at large! he Youth Council meets once Ta month to plan projects, learn La’asok B’tzorchei Tzibur! — To about the community, discuss topics engage in the needs of our and learn about each other. A focus community! this year for the youth council is to Rachael Sara, Head of Zionist Youth bridge the gap between the various Council organisations so that we can better

Bnei’s in full swing!

From Tu B’Shevat celebrations Another highlight has been launching with Gurim, to launching our the amazing Hadracha Tzeria gap year opportunities for programme for 2020, where Grade Matrics, it has been quite an 10 channichim have an opportunity eventful month. to explore Israel and experience its sites, culture, food and beautiful ome of our activities included views with their fellow channichim Scelebrating Tu B’Shevat with an from Johannesburg. The programme incredible event at our Bayit for Gurim will take place for three weeks in channichim; and launching our Mini the summer holidays. Finally, we Machaneh for all primary schools. introduced our gap year opportunities, We then had one of our infamous namely Limmud and MTA. Big Bnei Shabbatonim where we had It has been a busy and exciting Johannesburg madrichim visiting us. month, and we are looking forward to It was a very meaningful time and the next one. they made a big impact on our Cape Town channichim. We also enjoyed Netzer Bogrim Board members: Eden Shapira [Durban], Julian Gordon two beautiful Shabbas meals with our Hayden Norrie, Chairman Bnei Akiva [Johannesburg], Daniella Beswick [Cape Town], Samuel Castle [Cape Town] and Mimi Mokone [Johannesburg]. Orot and our Moledet channichim. Cape Town Diller Teen Fellows: Mid-Year in Morocco

Diller partnership: Martine Kawalsky (Cape Town) and Yifat Nadler (Shoham); Atlas Mountains, Morocco In January, 32 Diller coordinators from around the world met for the annual Mid-Year Seminar. his year the seminar was held in the vibrant and colourful country of Morocco. As Tthe Cape Town Diller Coordinator, I had the privilege of engaging with the Moroccan Jewish community and discovering the vibrant history of Casablanca and Marrakech. This seminar serves as added educational value for the Diller coordinators and I am inspired to use this experience to enrich the educational narrative of the Cape Town programme. Martine Kawalsky, Cape Town Diller Coordinator Cape Jewish Chronicle April 2020 59 Celebrating HABONIM’s 90th HDSA Cape Town off to a great start

Anniversary in Israel h e TCape HUG will be the two-day Habonim Ultimate Gathering Town Ken has been where movement graduates living in Israel join together thriving over the last with those from abroad for an experience like no other. couple of weeks! We started our he event consists of a five-day Kaleidoscope Programme weekly meetings Tdescribed as a nuanced journey of depth and disruption in the for madrichim which open, experiential and informal educational style of Habonim. This boasted close to programme has a proven record of bridging needs for participants 40 Bogrim coming ranging from mavens who have visited Israel many times to first together to get ready timers. to start the year off “We see a coming-together of community, created over the with Habonim. decades, for whom HabonimDror SA has had a transformative On 23 February we and meaningful effect. Whether social, intellectual or political, this had our opening effect has been key to their interactions with each other and the Ken Event. Our societies in which they live,” say organisers. channichim, from HUG will take the form of multiple events, interactions and unique Grade 3 to Grade experiences. Some of these will be together with the full gathering 11, and our Bogrim of attendees. Others will take the form of parallel activities. A lot body enjoyed a will be meeting old friends and listening to new voices carnival themed day filled with snacks, POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE Organisers say that “the aim is to create an experience filled with games and lots of fun, wonderful memories and looking to the future. The programme fun. It was the first carries with it, momentum and impact and creates value for us of many successful as individuals. The impact created can be taken with us into the events that the environments in which we are active, beyond the moment. Unlike Cape Town Ken many reunions, which are momentary, rushed and solely based plans to host this on nostalgia, this will be a coming together of wonderful people; year. sharing stories, common experiences, singing songs and a look at the future within the comforts of fun, friendship and trust.” After just coming off a hugely successful The events will take place at a modest, yet beautiful and comfortable Mini-Mach in March, resort called YEARIM tucked in the hills between Jerusalem and HDSA is ready for they become madrichim. They also Tel Aviv. Kaleidoscope will run Sunday to Thursday 18-23 October our April Seminar happening from 14-19 learn about Habonim’s history and the and HUG will run from Friday to Saturday night 23 and 24 October April. This seminar, aimed at Grade 11 importance of HDSA in society. 2020. 200 have already people signed up and organisers are and 12 pupils, begins their engagement Aaron Sher, Rosh Ken Cape Town expecting over 1 000 to attend. with hadracha (leadership styles) before To register www.habo2020.com

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