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12 October 2012 / 26 Tishrei 5773 Volume 16 - Number 36 News Opinion Letters Tapestry Community Columns Youth Sports South African Some Good Reads friday 12 october 2012 / 26 Tishrei 5773 volume 16 - number 36 news opinion letters tapestry community columns youth sports south african Some good reads. (page 11) jewish report www.sajewishreport.co.za Netanyahu announces early Knesset elections JERUSALEM - Israeli PM Benja- lution to dissolve. said: “Today, I finished a round of the deficit, which would quickly min Netanyahu on Tuesday an- Netanyahu held meetings last consultations with the heads of put us in the situation of the nounced early national elections. week and on Tuesday with the the coalition parties and I came to crumbling economies of Europe. I He said elections for the 19th heads of the other parties in his the conclusion that it is not pos- will not allow this to happen here. Knesset would be held a year early. government coalition to decide sible at this time to pass a respon- “At this time, in light of the Though a date has not yet been whether to work to pass the 2013 sible budget. two great upheavals around us, announced, it is expected that the budget or go to early elections. “We are on the threshold of the security and the economic, my vote will be held in early 2013. Going to elections without an election year; to my regret, in obligation as prime minister is to A February election will be an approved budget means the an election year it is difficult for put the national interest above four years since the last Knesset ministries will operate on the 2012 parties to place national interest everything and therefore, I have election. The Knesset will return budget. A new budget would have ahead of party interest. The result decided that the good of the State on October 15, after which the seen deep cuts in many ministries. of this is liable to be a budgetary of Israel requires going to elections government likely will pass a reso- In a statement, Netanyahu breach and a massive increase in now, as soon as possible.” (JTA) BLUMENTHAL: Jewish philanthropy: Charity or reparations? We cannot afford the level of influence Succot in Jerusalem which the “bleeding hearts” have over the Jewish corporate sector in this country. 8 SAKS: Efforts underway to deny Jewish people their august history It is sometimes useful to simply turn the other side’s propaganda on its head. “See how little of our ancestral homeland had been liberated by 1946, compared with how most of it was back in Jewish hands by 1967 and nearly all of it by today,” I would say. 8 SA Medical Assocation issues pleas for Professor Cyril CourtesyPhoto: TheKotel Karabus’ release from UAE jail 3 Strategic investment in Israel’s new war Now, the main arena - the “Durban strategy”, which emerged at a 2001 UN conference in Durban - is a battle over the legitimacy of the very existence of Israel. Because the struggle is no longer physical, international financial support Israel’s Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar leading the Cohanim prayer during the Jewish holiday of Succot at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on October 3. has become critical. 6 Choice of brand new apartmentsents iinn tthehe bbeste areas... Benjy Pein 083 453 4156 [email protected] Web Ref: 11106 Web Ref: 11999 Web Ref: 12384 Web Ref: 12668 011 731 0300 www.firzt.co.za ABBOTSFORD/OAKLANDS RIEPEN PARK/CRAIGHALL BRYANSTON HURLINGHAM Priced from R2 995 000 Priced from R1 599 000 Priced from R2 999 000 Priced from R1 545 000 WE KNOW PROPERTY 2 SA JEWISH REPORT CommunityNews 0112 –- 1908 October June 2012 2012 Shabbat Times Oct 12 / 26 Tishrei Commit ourselves to one more good deed Oct 13/ 27 Tishrei This Shabbat is referred to as Shab- not think I would fit them in and food you will no longer eat. Parshat Bereishit bat Bereishit. We begin reading somehow managed to put them on Shabbos is 24-hours. A 17:55 18:45 Johannesburg the Torah anew to be finished by just before sunset. person can resolve to keep 18:15 19:33 Cape Town next Simchat Torah. To many this “I carried through with my certain parts of it, like com- 17:46 18:37 Durban PARSHAT BEREISHIT is considered the first “proper” commitment and felt uplifted by mitting to keep Friday night, 18:05 18:56 Bloemfontein Rabbi Alex Carlebach 18:05 19:04 Port Elizabeth Shabbat of the year, as it is the first it. I know I’m making a connection saying the family will assem- Chabad of Lyndhurst 18:01 18:54 East London Shabbat not interrupted by the with my Creator and it boosts my ble for Kiddush. The TV and Festivals, as well as the beginning day. Last year I resolved to wear other electrical gadgets will be off. connects us with that Infinite. KASHRUT ALERT of the Torah reading cycle. tzitzit every day. I’m able to ob- What is important is to realise The moments you spend doing SOME SALLY WILLIAMS NOUGATS There is a well-known Chassidic serve this without feeling conspic- that when it comes to all matters a mitzvah, may feel like just a INCORRECTLY LABELLED vort: “Vee men shtelt zich avek uous as most people are not even of Yiddishkeit, it is not an all or couple of minutes; what differ- The kashrut department of the Union of Shabbat Breishis azoi geit dem aware that I have them on. nothing issue. We should stop ence does it make one way or the Orthodox Synagogues announces that gantzen yohr. (The way you set “Rabbi, what should I under- focusing along those lines and other? Spiritually during those some batches of Sally Williams 125g yourself up this Shabbos, so goes take this year?” My reply was that rather realise that every mitzvah is moments you are performing a Dark Chocolate enrobed Nougat, a parev the rest of the year.)” there are certain mitzvoth that significant, not merely a good start mitzvah, you are connecting to product, have been made with milchik Let me share a phone call I re- are “yes” or “no”, like putting on - it is a great thing in and of itself. the Infinite. chocolate. These batches, however, still ceived shortly before Yom Kippur: tefillin or wearing tzitzit. Then The Lubavitcher Rebbe explains What appears to you as rather bear the parev logo. “Rabbi,” he says, “two years ago I there are mitzvoth that are more one reason why it is so significant small in significance, is perhaps The affected batch codes are decided to make a commitment complex and it is just not saying to do a mitzvah. The word mitzvah the most significant you can do 30112013 and 31122013. to Yiddishkeit and after some a simple yes or no to them, but in addition to commandment, for your own and your family’s Sally Williams has rectified this error deliberation, I committed myself to rather they are mitzvoth that can also means connection; when we souls, and connecting to the Infi- and future batches will revert to parev. putting on tefillin every day. be done in stages, for example perform a mitzvah, we are actually nite. So, this Shabbat Bereishit, This only applies to the mentioned “Now I must confess it hasn’t kashrut. creating a bond with the one who let us begin by committing to one 125g Dark Chocolate enrobed Nougat; all always been easy. There were days I Rather, start with making gave us the command and as G-d, more good deed and be privileged other Sally Williams products are correctly could only put them on and say the your home kosher; if your home is our Creator, is Infinite every mo- to the year following, with bless- labelled. Shema. There were days I truly did already kosher, start with items of ment spent observing a mitzvah ings, success and peace. Moshal Scholarship Programme opens the door to a better life Photos supplied ALANA BARANOV This was the first of many planned op- achieve his own version of success by allow- portunities for students to engage and inter- ing Moshal to make a difference in people’s “Education is the most powerful weapon act with one another and forms part of the lives. which you can use to change the world,” for- Moshal Scholarship Programme’s commit- Moshal scholars then had the opportunity mer President Nelson Mandela, said. ment to build networks for multi-faceted and to address their peers and the invited guests, These wise words from a South African long-term support to its students. with many wishing to personally express icon, are the inspiration behind the extraor- The gathering was addressed by guest their thanks to Moshal and tell the audience Wilton Fredricks, Moshal scholar, at the dinary Moshal Scholarship Programme. speaker Dr Max Price, vice chancellor of UCT, what the scholarship meant to them. luncheon. Founded in 2009 by Durban-born internet who stressed that access to higher education “The Moshal Programme said to me: ‘If entrepreneur and venture capitalist Martin was the single most important intervention you believe in yourself, then I will believe in Moshal, the programme aims to provide fi- in moving people into a middle class environ- you’,” said one young student studying for a nancial support to promising young students ment. B Com degree with hopes of becoming a char- who would otherwise not have access to ter- He praised the efforts of the Moshal tered accountant. tiary education. Scholarship Programme, highlighting that it Another student quoted that “gratitude is Believing that higher education builds not only provided many young people with when memory is stored in the heart and not bridges from impoverishment to economic the prospect of further study, but also al- in the mind”, to describe his appreciation to freedom, the Programme provides students lowed universities to raise the quality of edu- the Programme.
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