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I have just returned from the I.T.B. (International Travel Fair) in Berlin, and had a great chance to see the "world" on show in six huge halls where I managed to pick up quite a few new ideas and destinations. I was also amazed at Berlin which is certainly one of the most exciting cities in Europe today. The blending of the old and new as well as the great Museums and Galleries really put Berlin on par with Paris, London, Rome and Prague.

Carol and I decided to go back to South Africa for a eight-day vacation and chose to concentrate only on the Cape and Garden Route. Our plan was to spend two days in Knysna, 2 in Piettenberg and the rest in Stellenbosch and Cape Town.

After an excellent SAA ﬂight, we carried on directly to George and drove to our small (8-room) bed and breakfast lodge on Leisure Island overlooking the Heads and Featherbed Nature Reserve in Knysna. We were captivated and decided to cancel the last three days and to stay on in the Garden Route. The area from Wilderness to Storms River is full of the most magniﬁcent scenery, walks, quaint shops, great restaurants, special "small" hotels and Lodges. In fact, everything that one can dream of for a great week's vacation.

I'm sure that most of you have visited the Garden Route for a night or two, but believe me it is really worth a longer period of time. I will, of course, be happy to help you plan the trip of a lifetime.

Those of you planning to travel this summer, please remember that the Maccabi Games take place during the 2nd half of July and space will be at a premium. So be advi.sed and book early.

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the "easy and ready-to-wear" Aussie look CapturingI is allcentre the ragestage in Southon the Africa.catwalks, Israeli P E O P L E 1 fashion fare hardly raises an eyebrow. COVER STORY The Autstralian merchandising machine, in the vernacular of the fashion industry, is chic. Allur F E A T U R E 2 0 ing advertisements and articles abound in the SA A R T S C E N E 2 2 Jewish Times, while parlours in top hotels play host to record audiences, receptive to the purveyors of T E L F E D T I D I N C S 2 4 "what's-on-offer" in the cozy coastal cities of

B U S I N E S S 3 2 Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. Against this back drop, Israeli apparel appears as last summer's "off- RELI6I0N 35 the-peg" collection alongside Australian haute

couture. N O T I C E B O A R D 4 0 Yet this is not the ﬁnal chapter in the convoluted B O O K N O O K 4 2 yet compelling saga of how Jews on the move swap one Diaspora for another. Intrigued by the many N E W A R R I V A L S 4 4 South Africans who over the years, have immigrated to Israel having ﬁrst settled elsewhere, we decided KEREN TELFED 46 to interview some of these Olim to explore their R E C I O N A L N E W S 4 8 reasons for again changing wardrobes. Appearing as our cover story on page 12, it makes interesting CUEST COLUMN 51 reading. On behalf of the Chairman. Executive and Staff N U P T I A L S 5 4 of the South African Zionist Federation (Israel), I F E A T U R E 5 6 wish you all Chag Pessach Sameach ve'Kasher.

C O N D O L E N C E S 6 0 David Kaplan CLASSIFIED 63 Chairman of the Editorial Committee

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l-r: Patrick Adams of Cape Town, Janine Gelley of Kfar Saba. Thabisile ""1 f you chance to stroll along the Msezane of Dawn Park and Mayor of Port Alfred. Eric Khuluwe at the farewell cocktail parly of a recent training programme at Beit Berl. ■stone Bed paths Campusof the outsidewooded of Beit Kfar Saba, don't be surprised to overhear conversations in Xhosa, Tswana, Zulu or Afrikaans. in handling meetings and teamwork management. South Africans of colour have been attending com We have 61 local councils in my area as we try munity development and leadership training pro to involve as many people on the local level as grammes at Beit Berl since 1986. On the day that possible in decision-making. This policy prevails the Telfed Magazine team visited the campus, throughout South Africa and is indicative of our the vibes were upbeat as the 28th group was com new democracy which empowers people to de pleting the course with a farewell cocktail party. termine their own destiny." Among the veterans of the Beit Berl programme Over the years, hundreds of members of local are two dozen mayors of South African towns and government councils and at Ica.st twenty members cities including the present mayors of Cape Town, of parliament and ministers of provincial coun Johannesburg, Randburg, George, and cils have passed through Beit Berl, contributing Grahamstown. To that list, we can now add Port leadership skills to the new South Africa and at Alfred's mayor, Eric Khuiuwe.He tells us, "Port the same time creating a cadre of leaders who have Alfred is growing at an enormous pace as people an understanding and empathy for Israel. Patrick are streaming in from the rural areas. The job Adams, a Coloured man from Cape Town, is in situation is bleak and we are ﬁnding it hard to charge of Emergency and Disaster Management provide services. The course was excellent; it for the Cape Metropolitan Council. "The course widened my horizons and gave me practical help was intensive and very professional. I am in charge

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2 of reconstruction and development programmes of Israeli relations with the apartheid regime. Armed in the Western Cape region, and my team is now with an understanding that there would be no busy with various housing and community projects. political manifestos and no pictures of politicians Not only have I learned a new dimension of prob kissing each other, but a programme geared solely lem-solving, but I have learned a lot about Israel. to assisting in the struggle, we approached Jew We travelled all over the country, and I believe ish circles in the United States for support. In Israel, I have gained a real appreciation of the politics and the struggles going on here." What seems routine today all began in the undercover world of the early 80s when clandestine contacts took place between progressive Israelis and the anti-apartheid forces in South Af rica. We don't know whether he likes his martini shaken or stirred but the local powerhouse behind this project was Pro fessor Shimshon Zelnicker, who l-r: Mrs. Maaichen and Ambassador Frank Land, Arthur Goldreich, masterfully manoeuvered among Holly course parlicipanl, Thabisile Msezane and Professor Shimshon Zelnicker. wood stars, Black South Africans. Black Americans, Israelis and American Jew ish politicos and donors. Zelnicker. a professor Yossi Beilin, Alon Liel, Ruth Baron and myself, of political science at Beit Berl and at UCLA, was among others, spearheaded a programme in com part of Shimon Peres' advisory team in 1982. "I munity development and leadership training at the was given responsibility for third-world policies, Beit Berl College which was designed to assist and my first mission was making positive contact impoverished communities to be called the "Is with leaders of the strug raeli and South African Centres for International gle in South Africa" The Cooperation" (ICIC). players in this unfolding The early days saw us "pounding the pavements theatre of clandestine op in South Africa for twenty months recruiting erations spread across support and participants. We had to make sure that three continents. In South the South African Jews wouldn't react hysterically Africa, "a chap named to our activities and the success of the whole thing Clive Menell of was predicated on our ability to keep it under tabs." Anglovaal headed an Asked how he managed to keep the operation secret, Trevor Ngwame, a initial meeting with Tutu. Zelnicker.smiled, "You know how porcupines make councillor from Among the participants love?... Very carefully. Johannesburg. were Jane Fonda, Tom "The first group of twenty came out in 1986. Hayden and Ethel They represented three constituencies: Soweto, the Kennedy, who twisted Bishop Tutu's arm into Cape Coloured community and Women's groups. meeting with Israelis. A meeting followed in South We brought in the Histadrut to do part of the Africa between a delegation of Israelis represent training, and the input of the first group was pivotal ing anti-apartheid sentiment and prominent Blacks, in designing the future programme. After the such as Albertina Sisulu and Ntatho and Sally success of that first group, we were able to obtain Motlana. "We came out of the meeting with a clear more funding. We approached very prominent, mandate for action. The conditions, however, were radically anti-Israel, Black leaders in the U.S. and that we take no money from the Israeli govern got their blessing, bringing them a step closer to ment, and that any programme undertaken was Israel in the process. Individual Jews donated large not to be used as a fig leaf to cover the great evil sums of money in the full knowledge that they continued on ne.xt page

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would get no recognition, and the American lease that the programme's principles began sur Government very quietly assisted us in funding." facing. In 1993, we decided to do rural commu Shimshon's shuttling to and fro between Israel nity development in the former homelands, and and South Africa was not without risk. "My visa it was then that we came out into the open. Today was revoked any number of times and I was taken the programme has wide appeal in South Africa. to police stations and interrogated without recourse Another participant in the present programme is to counsel. My associate Ruth Baron was also Thabisile Msezane from Boksburg, who runs detained. There were many ways the South Af a daycare centre. Thabasile explains, "In the rican Authorities could have hurt the programme Boksburg area there were no schools and children and they made it clear to us that physical intimi just wandered around. Each day I noticed a little dation could be escalated. We were worried about boy roaming around the shopping centre where the graduates being whisked away on their return I bought milk. He would ask me for money for for interrogation and intimidation, which on food. I thought, what kind of future does this little occasion did happen." Despite all the harassment, child have? Since I was starting a day care centre, including inﬁltration by the South African Bureau I thought I would try to include him. I went in of State Security (BOSS), the programme ﬂour search of his parents, and he directed me to a shabby ished. compound behind a farmhouse. He took me to his At one point in the late 1980s, Thomas parents and wiiile 1 spoke to the father, the little Friedman of the New York Times bumped into boy ran to talk with his friends and told them he a group of Black trainees in Tel Aviv. He thought was going to school. By the end of my conver he had uncovered the story of the century - ANC sation, I had enrolled another twelve children. and AZAPO forge secret ties with apartheid's ally! Today I have 150 pupils, some of whom walk a "He telephoned me and said, 'this is sensational.' distance of twelve kilometres to get to the school. I told him of our need for secrecy and he replied, "I think this course has been wonderful, and '1 am a Jewish boy with an ego that wants to write I have enjoyed my stay in Israel tremendously. on this.' 1 persuaded him that our programme was We have a lot to learn from Israel and the Israeli far more important than his ego. He dropped the people." story." Trevor Ngwame. a councillor from Johan- It was only a year or so after Mandela's re coniinued on page 6

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nesburg, appreciated the new perspective he Sixteen year-old gained from the programme. "We are dealing with Yaron Nahari, for the legacy of apartheid - no jobs, lack of hous merly of Johannesberg, ing, poor education. My own approach is to try was awarded first place to give people hope, and to try to get them to in the individual com organize themselves. When there are so many petitions of the recent problems and a person feels hopeless, they can European Debating slip into drugs or crime. Our challenge is to Championships held in maintain the hope which the new government Stuttgart Germany. has given the people. Things are not going to Yaron, son of Karen fall into place overnight. Of course, the govern (nee Shel) and Dov ment must deliver the goods, but if people are NO SMALL Nahari, was also part feeling hopeless, they won't pick up the fight. of the six-person Israeli TALK I think Israel is in a similar situation. The op delegation which won tions seem so limited, but of course, compromise the team competition. The Israeli delegation, the always involves risk." Shimshon Zelnicker add.s, youngest of all the teams, will now have the honour "As a Jew I have learnt that liberation is not of hosting the 1998 European championships next simply about taking the people out of the ghetto. January. Yaron, who is working on organising a It means taking the ghetto out of the people. Hebrew and English team in his high school in 'To say that I am proud of this programme would Tel Aviv, is looking forward to a heightened interest be an understatement." • in this 'gentlemanly' sport, and to Israel's hold ing its first place spot..*

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At a well attended ceremony including all the princi pals and supervisors of Ort Schools in Israel, English teacher Gilda Kreiner of the Aircraft Industry's Ort School was awarded a certificate of excellence. The certificate was presented by the the fourth President of Israel, Efraim Katzir. The award, which Gilda received once before, is given for excellence in the teaching of English coupled with specific distinctions. Not only did Gilda introduce the bagrut examinations in English into a highly tech nical curriculum, she also came in an hour early every day to help new immigrants. Gilda was praised by the Gilda Kreiner receiving her award from former principal who mentioned her charismatic personality, her President of Israel Efraim Katzir. Her grandson, unsurpassed dedication, and her ability to create enthu Daniel Mendoza. is holding the certificate. siasm among her students for the English language.

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Family members from Israel, South Africa, Australia, the U.S., England and Lithuania gathered at Neve Ilan in the Judean Hills to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the annihilation of the Jewish community of Girkalnis in Lithua 1902 - At the wedding of the parents of the eldest member nia, the majority of whom were mem of the Tatz clan, Beryl Friedman. Ber} l, who hou' lives in bers of the Tatz family. Cheree (nee Ramot. had been a judge in Vilna. Blacher) Hadani, a member from a South Af reclaimed in another ten years." Girkalnis, a small rican offshoot of the family, and now resident in village in the area of Rasein, was home to 27 Jewish Israel tells us, "this reunion was the result of pains families before theSecond World War. Soon after taking research by Allan Blacher of London and the war broke out, the village fell prey to locals Shmuel Tatz of New York. The family tree they who took matters into their own hands. The ﬁrst began to chart is continuously branching out as thing they did was to desecrate the Beit HaMidrash, new family members are discovered around the taking out the Sefer Torali, opening the scrolls world. Nearly 70 arrived for our gathering this outside and dancing on them with their muddy year, including Yoseph Tatz, the only surviving boots. The next day, the murders began. Cheree family member in Lithuania today." He brought tells us, "My father's elder brother, Yitzchak a video of the village and his family's house which Blacher, survived to tell the horriﬁc tale of how he tells, "is occupied by drunks and can only be the Jews of Girkalnis were killed. After the

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10 community was shot in the woods, the murderers passed on to us a certain culture based on belong left to find shelter from the rain, leaving the pits ing to the Jewish people without having to de uncovered. Yitzchak, who had been only lightly clare it every day: a lifestyle based on loyalty and injured, managed to crawl out with his dying son integrity which was very typical of the Jews of while his mortally wounded wife lying among the Lithuania. We learned Sephardic rather than bodies shouted, '7 'm finished, but you — run, run Ashkenazi Hebrew, but spoke Yiddish amongst away." ourselves. Our teachers were good and imparted Describing family life before the war, Cheree an openness. For nearly two years, one of our tells us that, "at least half of the Jews in the village teachers was the famous poetess Leah Goldberg were either Tatzs, Blachers, Vinniks or Friedmans, (1932). but actually, they were originally all Tatzs." How "There was intense Zionist political activity in can that be, we inquired somewhat puzzled. Cheree town. Most of the young people belonged to one explains, "Jews, like everyone else, were forci or other of the Parties. Arguments between the bly conscripted into the Czar's army. But what Zionist Socialists and the Revisionists were some parents wanted their sons to go to the army, and times very bitter, particularly before the elections of course, the Russia-Japanese War was looming. to the Zioni.st Congress, sometimes even deterio The only loophole to avoid conscription was for rating to physical violence." Cheree recalls the families with one son. My great-grandfather had doyenne of the family, her great grandmother, four sons, and very cunningly, he changed (he sur Friede Rochl, who in her nineties, was killed, of names of three of them, and that explains the four all things, in a motorcycle accident. Yehiel surnames of different branches of the same fam Zilberman. who today lives in Acco, remembers, ily." Yitzchak Kaplan, a relative who grew up in "In Girkanlis, there was no transport other than a nearby town and now living in Petach Tikvah, wheelcarts (and those only on Sunday market days). describes how "our families lived humdrum lives. But one day a motorcycle appeared. Friede-Rochl There were celebrations, weddings, births on the was crossing the street and was hit. 1 was young one hand and days of worry, sorrow, sickness and at the time, but little did I know that ten years deaths on the other. The constant concern, how later, my people would die not separately, but whole ever, was making a living. There were altercations, families and friends together." occasionally minor quarrels, but they always stayed Cheree tells us that, "my two grandmothers were in the family." Yitzchak remembers visiting his sisters, so my parents were first cousins. It hap aunts who would, "serve him a glass of tea with pened quite a bit in the family, and we could really a slice of cake and tasty jam. An uncle would je.st, see it at the reunion. Cheree concludes with a smile. telling me how much I'd grown, even though I "We came from all over the world and everyone was the shortest child in the family. Our families looked like everyone else. It was quite uncanny." ANGLO-SAXON VW. Zichron Ya'akov I I b J R e a l E s t a t e A g e n c y I I • A selection of private homes and plots in Zichron Ya'akov and the surrounding area. Fantastic views of the mountains and the sea. • Holiday suites, spectacular ocean view. • Homes for sale on moshavim, including plots and agricutural land in the Zichron Ya'akov area. • Agricultural land available directly from the owner in Zichron Ya'akov, Binyamina, Givat Ada and the surrounding area. The leading real estate agency firm in Israel. 41 Herzl Street. Zichron Ya'akov. Tel.: 06-6399085, 06-6397694 Fax: 06-6392285

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1996 saw only 360 South Africans emigrate to Israel. At a time when South African Jewry is again on the move, they are ﬂocking in their droves to Australia. Why do they not choose Israel? Did they ever consider aliyah? But this is not the full stoiy. Many South Africans who orginally opted for varied destinations in the Diaspora, had second thoughts, and re located to Israel. Why? Telfed Magazine spoke to some of these South Africans who have happily resettled in Israel after sampling life in Australia, North America and England.

Alan and Dalya Malkow left Johannesburg my husband, Maish, was offered by the company in 1982 for Canada. "It was very nice in Toronto," he had been working for in South Africa a po Alan tells us. "Ultra-clean, ultra-sterile, very sition in San neat and tidy. Compared to South Africa, Diego." it was crime-free, like a dream world." Alan, Phyllis de an accountant by profession, was the fi scribes their nancial manager of an insurance company. lifestyle Originally from Que-Que in Zimbabwe, there, "We Alan missed the outdoorsy lifestyle.' "In stayed in a Canada, kids live a very artificial existence beautiful -from car to mall to car. You are living c o n d o - in concrete all the time." On another level, m i n i u m w i t h Alan found Canada "just plain boring. I The Cork Family: a swimming wanted to live in a more connected, more Maish, Daniella, Phxilis, Talya and Ronii. pool right on interactive sdciety where people have a our doorstep. shared sense of responsibility." Alan grew up in The children went to the Jewish Day School on Betar and had come on the machon programme 17-Mile Drive. We regularly went on drives through in 1971. "I had always felt a hankering to live California visiting the film studios and of course, in Israel, and by the 1990s Israel was booming Disneyland. There are lots of South Africans there, economically while Canada was in a real finan and we made many friends." How did your friends cial slump." The Malkows, who have made their react when you told them you were coming to home in Katzir, are "eslatically happy. We are far Israel? "They actually didn't think we were nor- from the big city in a warm, small community." Another powerful motivation for leaving Canada, explains Alan is, "1 have four daughters. Accord Quality Tourist Apartments ing to the statistics, at least two of them would On Holiday or Business have married out of the faith. That I could not have lived with. Rather than take the chance, 1 Tel Aviv: Frug St., Dizengoff St., Ben Yehuda St. said, let's go to Israel." Jerusalem: Bezalel St., Emek Refaim St., Jaffa St. Per night/apartment 7 night minimum stay The Cork Family, originally from Glenhazel, Fully furnished/Equipped made aliyah in 1987, after having basked in the Subject to company policy, terms and conditions sunshine city of San Diego. Phyllis tells us, Tel: 972-3-5105342 Fax: 972-3-5163276 "Although we had been planning to make aliyah. Friends International Apartment Service

12 mal. They couldn't understand why we wanted my friends to go to Israel, to give up life in America and start are Is- all over again," says Phyllis. Asked whether they r a e 1 i . " were tempted to stay in California, Phyllis replies Gaby, emphatically, "No, not at all. My sister and brother Shana's had already made aliyah with their families and o l d e r s i s we wanted to be all together. In the end, the chil ter. came dren found integration into the Israeli schools easier to Israel than in the U.S. schools, despite the language dif right after ﬁculties." Maisli joins in, "1 was offered a Job high school at age 18. "I in Irvine by a fellow South African, but I wasn't loved Australia, but it tempted to stay. The whole American system of lacked the charm and vibe and soul that Israel has bringing up children didn 7 appeal to us. It seemed to offer. I wouldn't regret my decision in a million wonderful on the outside, but America is not a years. I sometimes miss my friends, but I don't place to bring up kids, particularly from a Yiddishkeit miss the lifestyle because I actually have a simi point of view. I'm not sorry at all that we made lar lifestyle here." Gaby is completing her ﬁnal the decision to come here." year in social work at Tel Aviv University. "Some of my Australian friends who are still studying are thinking about making aliyah. I would really encourage any of them to come The Hilkowitz sisters, Shana and Gaby. and live here." moved to Sydney with their parents, Monty and Marilyn in 1986 from Johannesburg. An ebul lient Shana tells us, "1 had a good life in Aus tralia. We lived in Vaulcluse and went to the Moriah "I didn't want to be religious, but didn't know Day School. To be honest, the crowd was very how else to maintain my Jewish identity in spoiled, rich and snobby, but I absolutely loved Australia," admits Sharon Kangisser. a 25 year- it." Nu, so what made you want to leave? "I had old who left Johannesburg with her family in 1987 been very active in Betar, so I was very Zionistic. for Sydney. "We settled in Woolhara: I attended My sister was already living here, and so 1 Just the Moriah School and was active in the Hillel got up and came when 1 was sixteen. My parents movement. I had lots of friends, but found life soon followed. I suppose I was looking for a chal a little bland." Sharon is specializing in Holocaust lenge. Life was too easy and too boring in Aus Studies in a Masters programme in Contemporary tralia." Shana, who Just completed her army .service Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. "Stu feels that she is fully integrated into Israel. "All dents are more serious at the university here and it is a great way to come on aliyah. I miss the ease and the free time, but I don't miss Australia. A breath of fresh air I am very happy here." is not a privilege.

It's a right. The Davis Family have only been in Israel one year. They left South Africa in 1981 for To Join Adam Teva V'Din, ronto. Illana, a doctor, and Geoff, who worked at a pharmaceutical company, found life in the Israel Union for Environmental Defense, and lend your voice to Israel's most effective Toronto, "very comfortable. As nice as the life environmental advocacy group. style in Canada was. it was Just sort of empty." explains Illana. We opted for Canada for rea Tel.: (03)525-6462 Fax: (03)525-6475 sons that made sense at the time, although Israel

13 ^OVER STORY was always in our hearts. We both had Zionist upbringings and felt that we had reached a crossroad and had to make a decision, now or never." Geoffrey adds, "We are very happy with our decision."

"I got into my plane, flew over most of Israel and picked out the most beau tiful spot. I then shouted, 'I found it. That is where I am going to build my home.' Mark Yachad in ihe cockpit with his wife Gali and their Mark Yachad who left Johannesburg in 1980 at the age of 20 to seek work ' daughter Maya in the cockpit of a Boeing DH-7. as a pilot in Canada, made aliyah two years ago. "Canada is a nice place from a super the election and no one has yet turned off the ficial viewpoint. It was very materialistic, and not excitement. I wake up every morning knowing at all family-orientated." Two years ago, Mark, .something is going to happen. It keeps me alive tired of the American lifestyle, packed up his bags and kicking." and came to Israel. "I wanted to start a family and I knew that those weren't the values I wanted to give my children." Mark, newly married to an Israeli, has a young child and they are looking Rachel Hayward spent eight years in Boston, forward to moving to their new home in Karkom training as a psychologi.st and .specializing in treat in the Upper Galilee which Mark picked out from ing AIDS patients. Rachel, originally from his cockpit. England, lived in South Africa with her small daughter in the mid-70s. "I worked for the South African Zionist Federation in Johannesburg. It was a g r e a t a t m o s "You can't get on a bus in the Sharon area with phere and they out having someone tap you on the shoulder, ask were ju.st fantas ing, 'Don't I know you from...?"' relates Mark tic in helping me Cohen, clearly enjoying the immediate familiar get to Israel where ity of his new home in Ra'anana. Mark, who had I w o r k e d a s a been executive director of the South African Board fashion model of Deputies took a convoluted route to Israel. 'I and journalist." received a firm job offer in Australia, and as we For family rea felt uncomfortable with the situation in South sons, Rachel Africa, I decided to take it," recounts Mark. After Rachel Hayward in her moved to the my five year contract was up, we went back to United States South Africa to be with our first grandchild and Tel i4\'iv home. where she worked care for an aging family." One by one, however, in Boston. "I loved the States. It is much easier the Cohen children made their homes in Israel even in terms of making money. But, we felt Israel was tually bringing their parents Mark and Juliet with our home, and Andrea wanted to come back to them. "I have four children and five grandchil serve in the Army." Since Rachel's return to Israel, dren in Israel. It had been a lifelong dream of mine she has opened a drug abuse treatment clinic at to settle here, but it was my children who allowed Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv and hasacted as the me to realize it. Maybe it took me too long. It moving force in establishing the Israel AIDS Task really is a great place to be. I arrived just before Force." continued on page 16

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Former Habonimniks. Nadine (nee Silbert), formerly of Durban, and Issie Piemer, who grew up in Harare, emigrated as a young couple from Johannesburg to London in the late 1970s. "Issie had been offered a job in London. We were young and without a family, so we de cided to go for it," Nadine tells us. "At first we lived in Stanmore where most of our friends were South Africans. Eventually we had a lot of close English friends but after five years, Young doctors. David and Michal Hoppenstein we realized that, essentially, we were rootless. We had no family in England and both of us had family in Israel. I had two brothers and Issie Klita in Ra'anana, the Hoppensteins are feeling had a sister." very upbeat about being in Israel. An ebullient The Piemers also felt it very hard to identify Michal tells us, "There are lot of young couples with the local Jewish community. "One looks for our age in the Merkaz Klita, and we have met quite ways of expressing one's Jewishness if one is not a few people in the area as well. From a social living in Israel. Although we joined a shul in order point of view it is much easier than in England. to try and get involved, it Just wasn't the kind of For me, it has been a little difficult in terms of Jewishness we were used to. By this time we had the language, but David has mairic Hebrew." David young children and we couldn't see a real future pipes in, "being in the Merkaz Klita is like a semi- for Jewish kids growing up in London. There was holiday." no great involvement in youth movements as there Both graduating in medicine from WITS, Michal had been in South Africa, and at any rate, it was and David moved to England in 1995 where they not what I wanted for my children." The Piemers initially lived outside of Birmingham, and then had always been ardent Zionists, and had a han moved and worked in Brighton for the last year. kering towards Israel. Michal describes their life in England, "We are Issie, manager in a pharmaceutical company, shomrei shabbat, and were isolated to a degree. guffaws when asked why they left London for The centers of Jewish life in England are Lon Israel, "Because I didn't know about Sydney — don, Manchester and Leeds. If you are outside those but seriously, we couldn't be happier with our centers, your Jewish life is very limited." decision. It wasn't that Israel was not an option Asked whether they were enticed to stay in when we originally left South Africa, it was simply England, David replies, "If the weather was belter that I had been offered a good job in England." and we had had a better social scene, we may have Nu, so what do the Piemers miss about Eng been tempted, but we made sure never to strike land? Nadine is quick off the mark with "a good down roots because our goal was always to make English newspaper and my girlfriends," while for aliyah." Issie, it's "Tottenham-Hotspur, curry and good takeaways." The Goldberg Family initially made aliyah in 1979 from Springs and lived in Israel for a year At the time of this interview, Michal and David and a half. "Then I got an attractive offer of Hoppenstein had only been in Israel for two weeks. employment in Sydney," admits Solly Goldberg, Happily ensconced in the social scene of the Merkaz who worked as a minister and cantor on the North

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S h o r e , a n d a s a you can always learn to live with." Both Sharon H e b r e w t e a c h e r a t and Alan were very active in the Jewish life of Moriah College. the community, but "I always knew I would come "Life was very good back to Israel. What is important for both of us there. I had a respon was family. As so many members of our families sible and honoured were in Israel and South Africa, Canada was just position in the com too far away. It doesn't matter how close your munity, and it was friends are, it is your family that counts." difficult to leave. Actually, both my children returned to Israel first, and we It appears that a number of factors impel former followed shortly af South Africans to emigrate to Israel or to rethink t e r . " H i s s o n A l o n the Zionist option, having experienced life else Goldberg. who where in the Diaspora. For many, there is that works as a designer for a high-tech company in elusive gut feeling that Israel is the right choice Tel Aviv, returned to Israel when he was 24 years - that it is home. It is evident from our interviews old in 1990. "Being an observant teenager, I felt that graduates of youth movements clearly have restricted in Sydney. There weren't too many of been instilled from an early age with a profound us. For a religious young person in Sydney, the sense of Jewish identity, and a love and longing choices were either Melbourne or Israel, and for Israel that youngsters failed to receive either Melbourne wasn't an option for me. I miss cer from their parents or from the Jewish Day Schools. tain aspects of Australia. Sydney is a fantastic city, Furthermore, Israel offers the surety that one's but I'm not unhappy that I left." Alon married an grandchildren will be Jewish. A Jewish family with English woman in Israel and they recently moved four children in Perth, Auckland. Toronto. San to Modi'in with their two children. "Modi'in is Diego or Manchester will always be worried that a great place. There are lots of parks, two or more of their children will marry out of mostly young professional families, the faith. a fantastic educational system, and I'm Clearly, family reunion is not far from my work." a big factor in people's choice of where to emigrate. Many South Africans are emigrat ing to Australia to join rela Sharon Berkeley, nee Kaplan, <55. tives who have successfully made aliyah at the age of 18 from settled there. This is not unlike Johannesburg. She studied and worked the pattern of Jewish emigra for many years before attending Co tion from the early part of this lumbia University in New York, where century from Lithuania to she graduated with a master's degree South Africa. Similarly where in curricular development for early families have settled in Israel, childhood education. It was in the US siblings or parents often that she met her husband to be, Alan, choose to join them. Sharim and bushaiul Alan against a a former South African and an account Toronto backdrnp. Living in the center of the ant, living in Toronto. The newly Jewish world and the expe married couple settled in Toronto. rience of participating in "Professionally, we were both very satisfied in history in the making, one feels a sense of Toronto. I was given respect, support and encour determining one's own destiny. Despite bad press, agement as an educator. In that sense it was hard Israel is one of the most exciting countries to live to leave Canada. The weather was lousy, but that in. Few people would argue with that.*

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In our continuing series on former South Africans associated with the Hebrew University, Telfed Magazine speaks to Professor David Kretzmer, professor of Law and a leading expert on human rights.

Issues which in other countries may remain the interest." domain of academia, in Israel cut at the very core Kretzmer feels that it is crucial to make a clear and fabric of our society. Questions like - Where distinction between "racist incitement and other do you draw the line betiveen sedition and free forms of incitement against democracy per se. The dom of speech ? How does one balance the diver law on racial incitement is clear. Israel, which is gent interests between the religious and the secu a signatory to the international convention against lar? In a small country like Israel with scarce all forms of racial incitement, is obligated to adhere natural resources, how do we adequately protect to the international code. Israel has legislation our environment against economic interests? What which outlaws racial incitement. We don't is the role and function of the law in resolving always enforce it, but it appears on our statute these issues. books." In many cases, the political will deter David Kretzmer. a professor of law at the mines application. Whereas Israel might be remiss Hebrew University, contends that the "Law can in some areas of enforcement, it does, "exclude not solve nor should it be expected to solve, all racist lists like the Kach party from running for of society's problems. Kretzmer, who came on the Knesset." aliyah in 1963, and began his undergraduate studies When it comes to incitement against democ at the then smaller Law Faculty at the Hebrew racy, the que.stion is more difficult. "Incitement University, continues, "It is only one of the mecha should be very clear before the law should inter nisms to be used in resolving conflict. When there vene. My approach, therefore, is 'when in doubt, are deep-rooted conflicts between various sec allow people the freedom of speech.' Of course, tors in society, one should also look to the I would like to see people restrain themselves. But, political process for resolution." Kretzmer is you have to be very careful that the law is not the Director of the Center for Human Rights at used as a mechanism to inhibit criticism of the Hebrew University which recently hosted an in government." Asked if the law should adjust to ternational conference entitled Freedom of Speech confront these new threats to society in light of and Incitement against Democracy. The Center extreme expressions which some claim led to po decided to hold this symposium after Rabin's litical assassination, Kretzmer replied. "I'm not assassination. "At the time, there was enormous so sure. You are dealing with hindsight. The pressure to tinker with the law, more specifically, connection between the actual expressions which to redefine the law of sedition by making it an were used and Rabin's assassination were very offense to even praise a crime which has already tenuous. Political statements were made which been committed. In that prevailing climate, it was tried to delegitimize the democratic process. To strongly felt that these issues should be discussed me, they were clearly unacceptable. However, they with international academicians and lawyers who were not illegal and they should not be illegal. had dealt with similar issues in other democratic If people are called to account, they should be called societies. It was interesting to note that confer to account politically. That distinction is quite clear, ence delegates with an American orientation had and I would not support a radical change in the a far wider view of freedom of expression and law." were less inclined to favour restrictions, whereas Another area in which political will determines the Europeans were far more willing to place con the efficacy of the law is the environment. Kretzmer, straints on extreme forms of expression in favor who has taught courses in environmental law of what they considered to be in the best national stresses, "Once again, I don't think we should put

20 all the onus on the law. The big problem in Tulane, MIT environmental protection is that the main threats and Oxford. come from economic and other societal interests. In addition You have to make a political choice. If you want to his to curtail the building of new highways, you world-re have to decide to change your whole transpor nowned ex tation system. If you want to minimize pollu pertise in tion in the cities, you have to opt for energy h u m a n conservation or alternative forms of energy. rights law, The.se are decisions that, unfortunately, many in he has written and edited many books on topics the fast-developing countries have learned too late. ranging from constitutional law to the law of torts It was apparent to Kretzmer even as a teenager to freedom of speech." that Israel would be his home. "The youth move Asked whether Israel would be better served ment was the most important part of my educa by introducing a Bill of Rights. Kretzmer responds tion. As a teenager, 1 was in Habonim more than "Well, we already have a partial Bill of Rights. at school. I also wasn't prepared to live in South We have two basic laws on human rights - free Africa with its apartheid system. 1 had always been dom of occupation and the law of human dignity interested in law and knew 1 would live in Israel, and liberty. 1 would certainly be in favor of a more so it just made most .sense to come and get my general basic law which would protect all human degree at Hebrew University." Since then Kretzmer rights. However Israel is now party to all the major has taught at University of Southern California. amtiiuicd on pa^e 31

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It wasn't rugby, it wasn't cricket, and not even bowls, but the South African crowd came all the same. Over four hundred ex-South Africans in their cocktail party garb descended into the foyer of Kfar Saba's impressive Cultural Centre on February 27th for the opening of an art exhibition of former Southern Africans living in Israel. The exhibition was organised by the Promotions and Activities Committee of the South African Zionist Federa tion. Clearly impressed by the standard of work on exhibit, the guest of honour the South African Ambassador to Israel, His Excellency, Mr. Frank Land, commented that he was astounded by the quality and diversity of the artists work and in his address noted that "it is clear that South Africans excel at whatever they put their hands and heads to." David Kaplan, vice-chairman of the South African Zionist Federation (Israel) and organiser of the exhibition explains that "we had recognised artists who have exhibited both in Israel and abroad, others who have exhibited only locally, while some whom we can categorize as closeted artists never exhibited before and were thus afforded an oppor tunity to gain exposure to the public." On exhibi tion, for the opening night were a few selected works by the well-renowned and internationally acclaimed South African sculptor, the late Lippy Lipschitz."South Africans from all over Israel mingled at the Cheese and Wine Cocktail party enjoying light classical music and the beautiful art. David Kaplan noted that he was proud that this prestigious exhibition should be hosted in Kfar Saba. 'Today our city boasts over 150 South African fami lies. More and more South Africans, not only new immigrants but from elsewhere in Israel, are relo cating to Kfar Saba, possibly because of its good schools, its tree-lined av enues and parks, or possibly because of the city's empha s i s o n c u l t u r e . " n Jerusalem Post art critic, Angela Lurie. remarked that "it was a beautiful exhibition MARK BLUMBERC INTERVIEWS which brings unity and har MAUREEN FAIN mony to a very varied and attractive body of work." ROBERT AND SHEILA KAPLAN OF CAPE TOWN CHATTING TO ARTIST M I R I A M J A N K E L O W I T Z

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PAINTINCS AND SCULPTURE SOUTHERN Exhibiting Artists Anne Bloch Bernard (Dov) Oserovitz VIVIENNE AFRICAN Debbie Kempel DAVICIONi Estelle Reingold ARTISTS liana Gorﬁl Jenni Tsafrir Lana Bengis Rubenstein EXHIBIT Louis Sakalovsky Maurice Kaplan Michael Adler M i r i a m J a n k e l o w i t z Natalie Shapiro Sam Steinberg Simcha Gordon Vivienne Davicioni Ziporah Segal David Kaplan Archie Poliak Binyamin (Brian) Meyer Doreen Guinsberg Glenda Sacks Jean Stein Joy Hesselberg Loma Sakalovsky Maureen Fain M e n a c h e m G o s h e r Michael (Teddy) Saitowitz Nahum Pamela Silver Sharon Dekel B E R N A R D ( D O V ) Tamara Rose OSTROVITZ Zinky Agulnik the late Lippy Lipshitz

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NEWS FROM T H E N O R T H m u n i t y c e n t e r neatly perched on the side of the s luck would have it, mountain with a Ma the 23rd of January magniﬁcent view * saw a break in a week of the Hula Valley. of tempestuous winter weather. The Deputy Mayor Bathing in the welcome rays addressed the gath of sunshine, members of the Leib Golan of Kibbmz Ma 'ayan Barucii explains the ering and an illu Telfed Executive, Staff and the geography of the region to the Telfed group. minating discus South African community in sion ensued on the Israel piled into a luxury bus social and eco and headed up north to Kiryat Shemona. The nomic situation in Kiryat Shemona. purpose of the visit was to attend a ceremony at Pursuant to Telfed's policy of going out and the Community Centre honouring Telfed for its visiting members of the community in outlying contribution from one of the many trusts under areas, the delegation set out from Kiryat Shemona its management to along the eucalyptus-lincd roads toward wards the acquisi Kibbutz Ma'ayan Baruch, home to tion of a Public fourteen South African families. At the Address system for entrance, the bus was met by the inimi the local cultural table Leib Golan, former South African, centre. During the and one of the founders of the kibbutz. Grapes of Wrath On a high spot on the kibbutz, he gave Operation which a concise lowdown on the geography and found most of military history of the area. In an Kiryat Shemona's unﬁagging South African accent, he tells citizenry in bomb us, "I ran away from home and entered shelters, it became the country illegally in 1948 with no

unfortunately evi Geoffrey and Taniara Lsrael of Ranuit money. Today I can assure you, at age dent that a proper HaSharon planiing a tree with a youngster 70, that I still have no money, but I am PA s y s t e m w a s surrounded by my grandchildren and feel from Kiryat Shemona. sorely missing. At enormous satisfaction with what 1 see the first ceremony which was held at an agricul around me. When we came here, there was nothing tural school for young children, the director of the but the rocks you see lying on the side of the road. town's cultural center made special note that, After fifty years," Leib proudly exclaims stretch "during Kiryat Shemona's agonizing weeks of ing out his arms , "you can see what we have shelling, I got a call from the Director of Telfed, achieved. I wouldn't leave this place for all the an organisation which I had never even heard of, money in the world." asking what we needed. We were all very touched Kibbutz Ma'ayan Baruch is named after the by the offer." The well-orchestrated ceremony late Bernard (Baruch) Gordon, who had been vice- began with a youth choir, speeches and finally with president of the South African Zionist Federation. the children taking each of the delegation mem Present at the opening ceremony in 1947 was bers by hand and escorting them to designated spots Michael Comay, at the time a special representa in the fields to plant trees. tive of the SAZF in Palestine, and who was later The group then moved on to the nearby com- to become Israel's ambassador to the Court of St.

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Jame.s. In a cabled despatch to the Zionist Record of that memorable day. "At 5 a.m., the convoy of on March 14. 1947, Michael describes the events trucks and cars moved off in moonlight past par ties of staring Arabs making their way down to mar ket. It was a pleasant site to note the clusters of lights twinkling in the nearby Jewish settlements of Metulla to the north, Menara and Misgav Am on the escarpment above Kfar Giladi, and Dan and Dafne in the valley below." Within three hours, wooden huts were built, stones had been piled for defence posts and a barbed wire fence was strung out. Comay continues, "This is a South African ﬁeld day. Amongst those taking part are Jack Alexan der. Rona Moss-Morris, and others from Kfar Blum and Benny Jaffe from Ramai Yohanan. In the ﬁrst group of 25 going out today are Harry and Mazal Salber, Issy Bloom, Harry Green, and Dov Levitt of Cape Town, Ben Zion Yudelman. Cyril Tiger of Bloemfontein. Basil and Maysie Berman. Ziona Yudelman, Eddie Cohen, Mony Hemel and Willie

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ited, we intend to Ma'ayan Baruch. May 1948 form a Telfed Tiyul South African pioneers stand Club. The plan is to ing in front of the (l-r): Anns incorporate into and Ammunition Lock-Up, each tiyul a visit to Look-Out Tower and Dining m e m b e r s o f o u r Room. community while exploring the beau Standing, l-r: ties and history of Shiumo Kroll, Issy Lowenstein Israel. Anyone in (Lavi), Basil Berman, Itzik terested in joining Goodman. ?, ?. ?. Syd Basson, m a y c o n t a c t Issy Bloom F r a n c e s a t Te l f e d . Bending: Hillel Fine Sitting, l-r: Leib Golan. Aviva I Rubin) Levinson, Dov Levitt. ?

Rubin of Johannesburg. Haig Kaplan and Issy TIME TO ROLL UP Lowenstein from Rhodesia. There are another score still to come from South Africa., so that within OUR SLEEVES a year, there will be more than eighty members." Today Ma'ayan Baruch has a population of over AN 380. with crops on over 44,500 dunams of land. INTERVIEW Visitors to the north can book into the kibbutz WITH youth hostel or guest house. Leib promises to show URI CORDON any South African visitor around the area. The South African kibbutz offers a swimming pool, tennis courts and Jewry is again on shady trees to have your braais, and of course the move, prima canoeing, rafting and tubing on the Hatzbani. rily to Australia. As usual, there can be no meetings between Has this wave of South Africans without excited exclamations re emigration in the calling some shared past. Leib fondly embraces wrong direction his old Habonim chum, Mike Frednian, recall rocked the Zionist establishment? You bet. Telfed ing a photograph tucked away in a drawer of the Magazine interviews Uri Gordon. Head of the two them standing starkers in the showers at a Department of Absorption and Immigration of the Habonim camp over 50 years ago. Jewish Agency. "The Jewish people are an ob Freda Raphael, who came up on the bus, chats stinate lot - this is not the first time they have simply with her old pal, Lola Hemei, a kibbuiznik. who left one Diaspora only to go to another. Although had been with her on the first Machon in 1946. the South African Jewish community is the only Phyllis Sachar pipes up, "when I came in 1960 Western Jewish community on the move, they are to visit, Lola and Mony were in their first house not coming to Israel. It pains me to see this tra and I remember being so impressed by the flow ditionally Zionist community which per capita gave ers on the kibbutz. Since then, of course, I have more than any other community to Israel both in visited many times, and I am always struck by terms of funds and in terms of aliyah, forsake Israel the beauty of the place." for Australia, Canada or Great Britain. Telfed's trip to the north was well overdue. In "I think Israel must recognize South African light of the enthusiasm by both visitors and vis- Jewry as a community in distress and afford those

26 olim preferred rights. I know that many young peo youn REiATmAWvm to vism ple are interested in coming to Israel, but are con cerned about the price of housing here. We must WA m TO o m s o M i O N i A m s i prepare special programmes for optimal use of our tOOKAT OUR mUTtfUL coufm? human and budgetary resources, both in and outside of the Jewish Agency. We cannot afford to con tinue using anachronistic methods. Our approach must be innovative and creative. The emphasis must be on the young, and our efforts must be YOU NEED A TOUR GUIDE coordinated with the government of Israel, and the Zionist Federation in Israel and in South Africa. "We have a plan," Uri exclaims, raising his voice. "But a plan on paper is not enough. We 'tX SOUTH APftlﬁAN need people to shoulder the immense task that lies "TOUR IN All StATEX HON SMOKlNft LIMOVAN ahead, and of course, to mobilize all the resources "UCENOfO TOUR MIIDE in the Jewish community to promote aliyah. "RETIREb SmiOR HmTARV OFFIGER "One of the most important tools in oi\r liasbara armory Is Telfed Magazine as it reaches the community both in South Africa and in Israel. It relates positively how South Africans are contrib (I QAlb JOEL mm uting in so many different ﬁelds to the State of /f) 08-9240)30, 052-551860 Israel. 1 am committed to its production and distribution. However this is not enough." Gordon concludes that, "The Israeli government has to come up with a special package for the absorption of South African Jews. The Zionist In 1987, the Jewish Agency e.stablished a youth Movement has to be revitalized, and the South educational community there. It accommodates African Zionist Federation, the Jewish Day Schools, upwards of 500 students, partly from Israel and and the Youth Movements must all play their part. partly from Diaspora youth movements who after Its time to roll up our sleeves and get to work." completing basic courses there, go on to further their studies elsewhere in the country. In 1995, NITZANA REVISITED... the Cohen Trust, one of the funds under Telfed's administration, awarded a large sum for scholar At the end of January 1997, a delegation rep ships. The latest visit was intended to assess resenting the Isidore and Theresa Cohen Trust, progress on the spot and to be more clo.sely apprised which is jointly administered by Telfed and the of the facts in anticipation of further requests for Jewish Agency under the chairmanship of Leib support during the current year. Frank, paid a visit to Nitzana, one of the crossing points for travellers and goods on the Egyptian border. HOUSE HUNTINC;? Nitzana has a history going back thousands of Are you dreaming of a house in the country, years, to Biblical times and the days of the yet not far from Tel Aviv? In keeping with its Nabateans and the Byzantines, serving merchants SLiccesfuI record of initiating and establishing and pilgrims as a tie between Africa and the Near residential projects throughout Israel, the SAZF East. In the days of World War I, it was an important (Israel) is once again at the forefront in champi military base for the Turks and the Germans oning a new and exciting housing development. eventually conquered by Allenby in 1917. Between Having actively participated in the founding 1948 and 1967. it served as a vital defence post of the two towns in the Sharon area. Kochav Yair for Israel. and Tzur Yigal, the Federation has joined forces

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with prominent personalites and residents of these Israel" seminar sponsored by the South African two towns in forming an amiita for the purpose Zionist Federation and the Immigration and of developing an area immedi Absorption Department of the Jewish Agency. ately north of Kochav Yair, at Hertzcl Katz, chairman of Telfed and Mark Tzur Natan. within the Green Line. In choosing this area, the Federation has taken cognizance of the fact that there already exists a strong enclave of South Africans in the area and that the central po sition of the Sharon is greatly sought after — not to mention the beautiful surroundings. In motivating the establishment of this new amuta, Amutat Tzur Natan, the members hope to pressurise the Government and the Israel l-r: Uri Bar Ner-Ceniral Youth and Aliyah Shaliach. Moshe Tal- Lands Authority to allocate them land at a rea Director of the Western Aliyah Division of the Jewish Agency, Rose sonable price and build homes at a cost cheaper Richter-Direclor of the KwaZiilii Natal Zionist Coitncil. Shiomo than that of private contractors. As far as is Gravetz-Chairman of the Youth and Hechalutz Department of the currently known, the town plan allows for the JewishAgency. Suzanne Edmiinds-ChairpersonoftheKwaZidu Natal building of over 2000 units, in the form of villas, Zionist Council, Hana Ofck-Direcior of the Aliyah Department, SA. semi-detached houses and terraced apartments. For further information, call the SAZF (Israel): Kcdem. Deputy Director returned recently from tel. (03)6290131/ fax (03)6295099; email: South Africa after attending the seminar and [email protected] conducting a series of meetings and discussions with community leaders of all the major Jewish organisations throughout South Africa. The "Des tination Israel" seminar provided an important and encouraging message to the community and at tracted a conservative attendance of 150 people who attended lectures and workshops aimed at aliyah promotion and changing the image of Israel amongst the community, many of whom still view the Israel of 20 years ago. Seeking lo focus aiieniion on the needs of ilie Jewish "With this image in mind, no wonder the Jewish communiiy in South Africa. Telfed's Management Committee met recently with President Ezer Weizmann at Beit HaNasi. community opts for Australia and not Israel," says Hertzel Katz. Only a week after "Destination Israel" l-r: Martin Lewak, David Kaplan. Solly Sacks. the Perth Jewish community sent a delegation of Sidney Shapiro. Ilz Kalmaiwvitz, President Ezer Weizmann, Herizel Katz- commuity leaders to South Africa as part of their "10,000 by 2000" campaign (10,000 South Af rican Jews in Perth by the year 2000). Needless DELEGATION TO to say this delegation was met with much enthu siasm and their meetings attracted large numbers SOUTH AFRICA of the Jewish community. Concerned about the sober statistics of the "We have to change our focus of the aliyah pro number of Jewish families leaving South Africa motion campaign and bring our community into and the relatively small numbers coming on aliyah. the centre of it," says Mark Kedem. "We need Telfed recently dispatched a delegation to South to dispell the myth that one cannot succeed in Israel Africa to attend the launch of the "Destination and to change the image of Israel in the eyes of

28 the community." suggests Mark. "We cannot leave come and if you would like to get involved, please the arena to our brethren in Australia" concur both c o n t a c t M a r k K e d e m a t o u r o f ﬁ c e s . Hertzel and Mark." The discussions with commu nity leaders were both enlightening and depress ing, bringing home the sad truth that Zionism and TELFED TURNS 50 ideology are not signiﬁcant factors in determin A gala event commemorating the 50th anni ing the community's emigration destination. Whilst versary of the South African Zionist Federation there are still pockets of committed and ideologi in Israel is being planned for sometime during 1998 cal people particularly amongst the youth move at the Cultural Centre in Kfar Saba. The programme ments and their graduates, their numbers are will take the form of a variety show and we invite dwindling. We have to change the thrust of our members of the our community- campaign to meet the motivating factors in the talented in theatre, dance, mu- iff - C commuity." concludes Hertzel Katz. sic, etc. who would like to par- Telfed calls on the 20,000 strong South Afri ticipate to write to David Kaplan, can communitiy in Israel to become involved in chairman of the Promotions and Ac aliyah promotion. Any ideas will be most wel tivities Committiee at Telfed.

EMERCINC LEADERSHIP During South Africa's summer vacation, university students toured Israelwith SAUJS. Telfed Magazine took the opportunity to interview the madrich, Hillel Cohen dur

ing the groups home hospitality weekend l-r: Brendan Silver (Satidion), Hillel Cohen (Johannesburg), Sean in Ra'anana. Cesser (Johannesburg), Neil Herman (Johannesburg). "This weekend was important. Meeting people in a home environment presents Israel as should be a focus on the youth. There is a critical a viable option. People have a misconception that period of time between leaving school and start it is so hard to make it in Israel.We need to see the ing a family. This is the time in which people make great life people are living here. Personally, I had a choices. There is a lot of catering to the religious terriﬁc weekend with the Kacev family." like Ohr Sameach or Aish HaTorah, but very little Asked how SAUJS is faring in the new politi for the secular. For those who didn't grow up in cal climate, Hillel responds that, "Out union is the youth movements and are not religious, SAUJS facing a very challenging period. In the past, it is often is the only avenue for connecting them took strong stands against the apartheid regime. with Israel. Hillel concludes, "SAUJS is trying Now in the new South Africa, it is more fashion to meet the challenge by developing a cadre of able to be South African ﬁrst, rather than Jewish young leaders, learned about Israel and Jewish first — more like American society. Whereas in identity. the past Jews were relatively insulated, today, we face in a more integrated society the challenge OOPS of assimilation." Following this analysis, Hillel DECEMBER 1996 ISSUE feels strongly that more than ever before it is vital Solly Sacks' name was erroneously omitied from to "strengthen our Jewish organisations." the list of the Telfed Executive Committee. Hillel, unhappy with the large Jewish emigra He is Chairman of the Aliyah Committee. tion to destinations other than Israel, feels that there Our apologies.

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manner in which she attended to the needs of the COMINGS public. The successes of the two national Events for Anglo-Saxons at Wingate were due in no small AND GOINGS measure to Sharon. Loyalty and devotion perme Sharon Bernstein re ated all her activities and for this the members cently left the employ of the of the Telfed Executive, staff and public will always South African Zionist Federa be grateful to her. tion (Israel) after ten years of We wish her success in her new job and wel service. Having commenced come her on board as a new volunteer worker. her career at the Federation as secretary to its housing -Victor Sanua. Telfed's despatch clerk and company, Isrentco, she rose through the ranks of a proofreader for Telfed Magazine is leaving the Aliyah and Klitah and Employment departments, Federation. We will miss him and wish him the to become the personal assistant to the director, best of luck in his new job. and secretary to the Executive and Management Committees. •Congratulations to Telfed editor, Becky Rowe For Sharon, the work at the Federation was a and her husband Tal. on the birth of Aviv. labour of love as exempliﬁed by the number of •Congratulations to Telted Business Manager, Lena committees she participated in and the empathetic Niilman, on the birth of her grandson, Itai.

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31 Business

by Mike Fredman THE SOUTH AFRICAN AND HIS WORLDWIDE ASSETS

THE PROBLEM side the republic (sec 3 2 c) It has been suggested that the South African •any right in movable Estate Duty Act levies estate duty on the world property physically situated outside the republic (sec 3 wide assets of every person who has assets in South Africa at the date of his death. Having regard to 2d). • any debt not recoverable the falling rate of exchange of the rand, this could or right of action not enforce be expensive. able in the courts of the THE PROVISION OF THE republic (sec 3 2 e). •any goodwill, licence, STATUTE patent, design, trade mark, copyright or other similar The act levies estate duty on the estate of every right not registered or enforceable in the republic person who dies on or after 1 April 1955 (sec 2) or attaching to any trade, business or profession For the purposes of this act, the estate of any in the republic (sec 3 2 f). person consists of all property of that person as •any stocks or shares held by him in a body at the date of his death and of all property deemed corporate which is not a company (sec 3 2 g) and to be his property as at that date (sec 3). The any stocks or shares held by him in a company, deeming provisions have no relevance to the present provided any transfer or any change or ownership inquiry. Property means any right in or to prop is not required to be registered in the republic (sec erty, movable or immovable, corporeal or incor 3 2g). • any rights to income produced by or proceeds poreal. and includes any ﬁduciary, usufructuary or other like interest, including an annuity, held derived from any property referred to in sec 3 (e) by the deceased immediately prior to his death (0 or (g). (sec 3 2). However, property does not include, in the case THE QUESTIONS of a person who was not ordinarily resident in What is the meaning of the following phrases the republic of South Africa at the date of his death, in the statute? the following: •ordinary residence •any right to immovable property situate out •the nature of the property

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33 The Telfed all a.ssets in the average portfolio. Chairman, THE WHEREABOUTS OF THE ASSETS Executive, Staff The six categories of assets mentioned above and Members of are only exempt if they are situated outside the Republic of South Africa. the Telfed APPROVED INVESTMENTS, A Magazine SPECIAL CATECORY OR NOT? Assets situated outside the republic, and acquired Editorial Board as approved investments by persons ordinarily resi dent in the Republic of South Africa under the wish all our South African exchange control regulations, do not form any special category for estate duty

r e a d e r s a n d purposes. Where the owner is not ordinarily resident in a d v e r t i s e r s a the Republic of South Africa at the date of his death the matter is more complicated. In the early Chag Sameah days of the approved investments programme, the investor was required to hold the assets in a com pany registered as such in South Africa. In that ca.se, the .sole criterion is whether transfer of the stocks and shares is or is not required to be registered in the republic. If it was nece.ssary, then the shares are or are not required to be registered in the republic. If it was .so necessary, then the shares are not exempt from estate duty. In recent Ocean Company Ltd. years, the assets could be held in a foreign com pany, in which presumably transfer is required to International Removing of take place outside the republic. Household Goods Therefore, the shares are exempt from South Customs House Brokers F r e e E s t i m a t e s a l l o v e r I s r a e l African Estate Duty. Storage Services The case of the foreign investor, not being A l l R i s k s I n s u r a n c e resident in South Africa, who acquires assets situated within the Republic of South Africa, is HEAD OFFICE: a hard case, but an easy problem. The act levies H a i f a P. O . B o x 6 9 7 Israel 31006 estate duty on those assets, on his death, notwith Phones: 04-8523227/8/9 standing the fact that he was never resident within BRANCH OFFICES: its borders. He .should acquire these assets in an Tel Aviv 2 Kaufman St.. 10th ﬂoor offshore company, or an off-shore trust, or both. Phones: 03-5162206 The estate duty is calculated at twenty-ﬁve Evenings: 03-6491828 percent of the value of the dutiable amount (less Ben Gurion Airport: 03-9711259 recognised deductions) of the estate above one mil Representing in Israel worldwide network of moving companies. lion rand. Adv. Mike Fredman 13 January 1997. EXPERIENCED STAFF This article is based on the South African Estate Established since 1944 Duty Act 45 of 1955 as at December 1995 with amendments introduced in 1996.

34 RELIGION

Among the papers and hooks of the late Rabbi Diischinsky [see stoiy on page 50], Telfed Magazine discovered an illuminating lecture on a subject as topical today as when it was delivered over twenty years ago.

SHOULD RABBIS P A R T I C I P A T E I N POLITICS? or not our politics By the late Chief Rabbi Emeritus are worthy of the Professor Israel Abrahams Divine Image in which we have Before we can attempt to pasken (decide) this been made may, she'elah (question), which is both ideologically in a final analysis, and practically of fundamental importance to the prove to be not Jewish way of life, it is necessary, in the first the least crucial instance, to determine two ancillary issues: what test of our lives. is meant by politics and what is the essential nature If, at the same of the Rabbi's function. time, it be borne The term Politics is defined by the lexicogra in mind that Judaism is conterminous with the whole pher as the science and art of government. Un of life viewed from the Jewish standpoint, it be derstood in its widest connotation, this will in comes pellucidly clear that the Rabbi, as an clude. for our purpose, Jewish communal and expounder of Judaism, has a right, nay a duty, to national affairs, political matters appertaining to proclaim his message on political issues as an the country of one's domicile, and also issues of integral part of the entire panorama of human life. international import. The basic functions of the In truth, the secular and the spiritual can never Rabbi, as the name (signifying implies, be wholly separated. They are inextricably inter is to be the spiritual teacher, the religious guide woven. They form, as it were, the warp and woof of his community. of the tapestry of history. The following story may The question may now be restated in somewhat illustrate the point. different terms, without changing its essential There was once a Jewish preacher who. in his meaning: Are there any points of contact between desire to please his congregation, resolved to preach the science of government and the teachings of only on subjects that met with universal favour. religion? Is there any relationship or contiguity On the first Sabbath, he took so innocent a theme between the realm of ethics, morality and the Word as Sliemirat Shabhat (Sabbath Observance); but of God, and the affairs of State, Nation or Com he found to his dismay that he had stirred up a munity? The cynic may answer None. But the very hornets' nest. The Mechalelei Shabhat (Desecra- cynicism provides in itself convincing proof of tors of the Shabbat) vehemently denounced him the vital need to bring the domain of the spirit for meddling with matters outside his legitimate to bear on the matters that are popularly called sphere. Sabbath observance, they insisted, was an secular or mundane. The laws of truth, and jus economic question; the preacher should keep to tice and humanity embrace the world of politics his proper task — religious instruction. no less than other aspects of human relationship. The following Sabbath, the Rabbi chose com We are accountable to our Maker for our political mercial morality as his topic. But the howl of protest activities even as for all our other actions. Whether was, on this occasion, even fiercer. "Cobbler stick

35 Kosher Supervision Rabbinate - Ra'anana PELICION M e a t - P a r v e to your last!" was the burden of criticism from all quarters. "What do you know of Geschaftl Shirley's Deli Business is no concern of yours!" Next the Minister ventured to speak on Zion Herrings: Chopped, Pickled, Danish, Muslard. ism. But lo, the militant assimilationists would have Fish: Fried, Geﬁlle, Gullets, Curr)', Pickled, Cocktail none of it. Politics in the pulpit! This was an Balls, Plain or Curr)', Apricot Sauce. unpardonable desecration of Jewish sanctities. In Baked Goods: Kichel, Teigelach, Rye Breads, no unmistakable terms the spiritual leader of the Chalot, Babkes, Boolkes congregation was given to understand that Zion Quiches: Asparagus, Broccoli, Mushroom, Onion. ism must in future be regarded as streng verboten. Kugels: Carrot, Lokshen, Potato. Deeply shaken, the persevering Minister de Our own Pickled Meat, Tsimmes, Assorted Beef cided to speak on a subject which he imagined could not possibly be offensive to any of the and Chicken Dishes To Order worshippers: he delivered a sermon on "Anti- Assorted Salads Semitism." But to his consternation, a report of Homemade Biscuits, Cakes and Desserts the address reached the local M.P. a notorious Jew- Catering: Either Platters or up to 250 People. baiter, who promptly threatened to take action Orders are also being taken for Pessach against the Rabbi for misusing his pulpit for the purpose of launching political attacks on citizens 92 Achuza Street, Ra'anana of the country. Sadly, the Rabbi perceived that human affairs Telephone orders 09-7460789/7460879 were altogether too dangerous to be discussed in Synagogue, and so he made up his mind to re strict himself solely to theological problem.s, problems such as the Hereafter, Providence and Young Tender the like. Surely, he argued, these subjects would be safe! But again he was proved wrong. The LAMB materialists complained that they had no interest in Heaven; the scoffers doubted whether the Rabbi grown naturally on Galilee pastures was ever consulted about Divine Affairs; and the by South African farmers. intelligentsia strongly objected that the Minister had no right to adjudicate on such highly contro QUALITY YOU CAN TRUST versial philosophical issues as Providence. He had only quoted the Rambam, whereas it was well Kosher and veterinary supervision. known that both Kant and Hegel did not agree Freshly frozen, cut, packed and w i t h M a i m o n i d e s . delivered to your home! Utterly dejected, the preacher appealed to his one remaining friend in the community for coun Choice Cuts: leg, shoulder, sel: What was he to do? He had exhausted all his neck, chops, ribs, etc. subjects. Smilingly the friend replied: "What you lack, Rebbe, is not a theme, but a vertebrae. Have a little more backbone, critics you will always To order, call have." If we unroll the scroll of history, we ﬁnd that Ben Saks our great spiritual teachers in all ages were, in the M o s h a v K f a r K i s c h best sense of the term, statesmen. The Prophets thundered not only against the social evils wrought 06-676595&--;^3^7 by the ruling classes but also against their conlimted on page 38

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wrongheaded national policies. The Sages of the Zionist. By mutual agree Talmud played a vital role in determining the ment it was decided that the political relations of the Jewish people with their Rabbi should not advocate Gentile neighbours, particularly with the ruling his Zionist doctrines in power of the day. Rabbi Johanan b. Zakkai made the temple, but he re peace with Vespasian; R. Akiba set the nation mained completely un aflame in support of Bar Kochba in his tragic fettered to propagate resistance to Hadrian. Throughout the Middle Ages the Zionist cause, with all his characteristic vig the great Rabbinic authorities helped to order every our, outside his sanctuary. There was nothing public aspect of Jewish organised life, and today hypocritical about this arrangement: it was a in Israel revered Rabbis are members of Knesset. democratic compromise allowing the utmost free Nor is this association of clergymen with politics dom of conscience and speech short of the point limited to Jewry. Throughout the world spiritual where it became an aggression against other leaders play their part in political affairs, and in people's freedomôf thought. On the other hand, democratic countries ministers of religion are not if a Minister's convictions on a given issue are infrequently found as members of Parliament. such that he feels constrained to express his views In time, the right of a spiritual leader to par from the pulpit, then his obvious duty, when he ticipate in politics can, as a general principle, hardly finds his opinions in conflict with those of the be in doubt. Nevertheless, in the actual use of this majority of his congregants is to tender his res right a little common sense and circumspection ignation. In that case to stifle conscience — the cannot be considered out of place. There is a right soul's holy of holies— or to disregard the demo and a wrong way in this as in all other human cratic rights of his community would be cbillul concerns. The old rabbinic rule: Tafasta Merubbah ha-kodesh (desecration of the sacred). And still Lo Tafasta (Take too much and you lake nought) another caveat, more important than the preced is as valid in this sphere as in others. It is the part ing, must be entered in respect of a Minister's of wisdom for the Rabbi to preserve a sense of participation in politics. The roles of a Rabbi and balance, proportion and fitness in his political politician dare not be wholly interchanged. A Rabbi utterances and activities. A democratic liberty must remember his cloth at all times. He is first misused becomes sheer license. Even in politics and last a religious guide. His contribution to there is a proper time and place. politics must, fundamentally, have a spiritual Let us analyse one or two aspects of the prob character. It would be the salvation of mankind lem. The pulpit is a privileged rostrum. The preacher if our politicians became more spiritually minded. speaks there ex cathedra-, he cannot be questioned, On the other hand, it would be an unmitigated evil he cannot be heckled — not at least in the Syna if religious teachers debased their message to the gogue. If it be wrong to deny the Minister the free current level of political rostrums. There lies the expression of his political views, the congregant crux of the whole matter. If the Rabbi cannot hallow likewise must not be put in a position of di.sad- the profane, spiritualize that which is material vantage. istic, banish intrigue before integrity and high- In other words, when the Rabbi holds political minded principles, then in the name of Heaven, opinions that are diametrically opposed to the let him leave politics alone. Let him eschew majority view of the Congregation, it would be touching pitch. How sublime is the truth of the manifestly unfair for him constantly to din his own Talmudic comment on Malachi 11.7: "If the Rabbi pet ideology into the ears of his muzzled listen be (pure) like an angel of the Lord of hosts, let ers. That would not be democracy, but the wrongful them seek Torah instruction from his lips, but if exploitation of a favoured position. In America, not, let them refrain from seeking instruction from a famous Zionist leader of a former generation him." occupied the pulpit of a congregation the vast "Ye wise men, be heedful of your words" — majority of whose members were strongly anti- not least on political issues! •

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50 ^UEST COLUMN

THE STORY OF THE DROM AFRIKA by Issie Granoth

This May, it will The Drom Afrika, a fishing trawler that sailed from South Africa be fifty years since to Palestine. Among its crew were seven brave Jewish men. the Drom Afrika set sail from Cape Town for Palestine. merchant navy in the hope of making his way to The ship had been Palestine. After many hardships he returned to Pretoria in time to hear of the Drom Afrika. He procured by the Jew ish Maritime League immediately came to Cape Town and .signed on. We all belonged to or sympathised with one of and converted from a the Zionist Youth movements. Sam Gross joined minesweeper info a us for the first stage of the trip to Mossel Bay. A fishing trawler. Among the 17 man crew were crowd of well-wishers came to the docks to see 7 young Jewish lads, determined to reach Pal us off. Hatikvah was sung and hope was in all estine despite the ban on immigration by the our hearts. Mandate administration. What became of these By nightfall the wind had risen to gale force. youths? This is the story by one of them, a The little ship rolled and pitched as she struggled former Capeionian, Issie Granoth, then known through mountainous wavc-v and howling winds. as Issie Greenberg, a retired architect who At midnight I went up on watch. Water poured into the tiny fo'c'sle [the section of the upper deck now resides in Lev HaPark, Ra'anana. at the bow forward of the foremast] where ten of us bunked in tiers around the mess table. Lines had been made fast on deck to haul oneself, battered Cape Town for Haifa. The little ship sailed J|"n withn May the aspirations,1947, the Drom hopesAfrika and set prayersout from of by waves coming over the bows and side of the the founders of the Jewish Maritime League and ship, across the short distance of deck from fo'c'sle to galley and then to the bridge. the Jewish Community of South Africa, in that The bosun [petty officer in charge of the ship's she would help to promote the building of the Yishuv in a way that had been closed to Jews for riggings, anchors, cables and deck crew] gave me the course to steer. I grabbed the wheel, and watched centuries. the compass pin. With luck I got the hang of it During World War II the ship, a 500-tonner, and managed to keep on course. served as a mine sweeper and cruised at I i knots Meanwhile, a drama was unfolding in the engine under good conditions. The crew was a motley room. The pumps were not working and the engine lot: our skipper was Danish, our chief engineer room floor was awash with water. If the fire u-rt.? Norwegian and our second engineer English. The e.xtinguished by the rising water, we would have rest of the 17 man crew were South African and no steam and the ship would drift helplessly onto included 7 young Jews whose fervent wish was the rocks off Mossel Bay. Since we had sailed on to make Eretz Yisrael their home. The State of the National Day of Norway, the Chief Engineer Israel was then but a dream. Of these, only Chaim "Solly" Chait had been had celebrated with gusto and was lying on his bunk in a stupor! The other engineers were hardly to sea before. At 16 he had taken his brother Solly's in better condition. All available hands were called identity document and run away to join the wartime

51 to bail from the hold shoals of flying w i t h b u c k e t s a n d fish would take long ropes. off, scintillating in The bo.sun and I the sun and some came off watch at times a few would four in the morning land on deck. to join the others. Aden was dry and The stokehole was ashen, grey goats hot and we stood wandered aim knee deep in the oily lessly through the bilge water, lurch streets. In the ing with the heaving evening the towns of the vessel. One people brought could stay below for t h e i r b e d s t o t h e only a short while without being sick. Before dawn docks to sleep. Once more we took on water and a hand pump was rigged and eventually we made sailed up the Red Sea. On a calm moonless night it to Mossel Bay. we ran aground on a sandbar. The engines were After repairs we sailed for Port Elizabeth, East flung into full astern with such alacrity that we London and Durban. The Jewish communities in came off the bank almost immediately. these ports of call received the Drom Afrika with At Port Suez, a pilot came aboard and we took enthusiasm and warm hospitality. But our trou our place in the convoy going up the Canal. I had bles were far from over. At each port we had re first met "Palestinians" eighteen months before, pairs. Sometimes we would leave harbour only at the Air Force base at Shamdur across the lake, to return within a few hours for more repairs. Most while waiting to return to South Africa after the of us, even the old salts, would be seasick for the war. Their spirit and zest made me a Zionist without first four days out of every port. We experienced having read a line of Herzl. 1 then decided to return even worse storms going through the Mozambique on aliyah. A short call at Port Said and off on the channel, but our spirits were high and we sailed last leg. with enthusiasm and anticipation. When the sun rose the following day, we were There are few pleasures in life that compare sailing up the coast of Eretz Yisrael towards Haifa. to seeing a sunrise at sea after standing in the small While it had been an extraordinary voyage for all cosy world of the bridge, ploughing through the of us, for the seven Jewish crew members the dark sea, stars fanning out over the sky as the ship emotions were profound. It seemed that we had rolls matron-like through the swell, and a reas yearned for this moment for generations. This was suring rhythmical throb of engines below. We were a homecoming made more poignant by the hard on our way to the Promised Land. After Lourengo ships of our voyage and the fact that Eretz Yisrael Marques, the heat and humidity drove us out of was still forbidden to us by the British. As we the unventilated fo'c'sle. Clothing turned green. approached Haifa, our captain was in doubt what We staked out shelters on deck and I made my the local flag was, so we hoisted the Zionist Hag. self comfortable under the life boat. At Beira we Immediately a police launch shot out to investi look on water and sailed for Mombassa. Again gate and made us take it down. Thus we entered several days were spent on repairs. We launched Haifa; the Carmel benign in sunshine. the life boat — a very difficult operation— and The Drom Afrika anchored near a line of a dozen sailed in the lagoon enjoying a rare spell of lei derelict ships. This was an honour as those ships

sure. had brought the illegals home. They looked pathetic The next port of call was Aden. Schools of por and it was incredible that they could have crossed the Mediterranean with such a heavy freight of poises frequently accompanied us on our way, showing off a wonderful repertoire of tricks. Often suffering. The British would not grant us shore

52 leave so we stayed aboard the Drom Afrika. looked for our last fishing trip. We left Haifa in the longingly at Haifa and the Carmel, and listened afternoon. Shortly after we returned from that trip, to the noises from the town. After more repairs five of the Jewish crew were taken off by the and some delays we set out on our first fishing Hagana and replaced with crew from Kibbutz Sdot trip. Thus we learned what a hard life deep-sea Yam. A month or two later "Solly" Chait and Sam fishermen lead. Wulfson were also taken off. and not long after As soon as the huge net had been cast and the .joined the newly formed paratrooper unit. The trawl doors had spread the net-like wings under War of Independence was upon us. Sam, an ex- the water, anyone off-watch would bunk down. air gunner in the SAAF. had been a great morale When the order for irawl-up came, everyone was booster aboard ship. He lost a leg in the War of at the net manhandling it into the boat. If nets were Independence, after which he settled on Moshav torn they had to be repaired and we all worked Habonim. He later died in South Africa. at it. The first trawling expedition lasted five days Haim Chait settled in Timorim and was killed and we totalled six hours sleep. We caught very on Reserve duty when his parachute failed to open. little fish but miles of net were repaired. On the "Piet" Groenewald joined Kibbutz Ma'ayan second trip we almost lost our propeller. Baruch. The Drom Afrika sailed slowly back to Haifa, TuviaOzen, Yaakov Shirk. Ben Hayam Hirshon then on to Alexandria in Egypt to repair the pro and I joined Kibbutz Shuval in the Negev. Tuvia peller and scrape her bottom. We arrived in the died in South Africa: Yaacov lives on Moshav middle of a cholera epidemic and spent a month Timorim, and Hirshon returned to South Africa. in Alexandria anchored in the Bay, on constant My last contact with the Drom Afrika was in guard against pirates who often boarded the ships 1948 during the War of Independence. Returning there. from Czechoslovakia on the aircraft accompany We returned to Haifa and were at our mooring ing Spitfires flying to Israel, I learned that the Drom when the Exodus was towed into port and the 5,000 Afrika, now serving legally in the Israeli Navy, survivors of the Holocaust transferred to three was somewhere below us ready to give aid and British ships to be taken back to the camps in succor. There are other ways of getting to Israel Germany which they had so recently left. I learned today — eight hours by El A1 can also be a moving afterwards that all eventually made their way back experience. I am grateful I came with the Drom to Israel. At night Haifa harbour was alive with Afrika. • activity. Police launches patrolled the harbour dropping depth charges against Jewish frogmen. BURGER RANCH Charges went off with a tremendous clang against HOME DELIVERIES FROM THE FOLLOWING BRANCHES: the hull of the ship at 'Beer-Sheva 07-233966 *Netanya: intervals all through the ' B a t Ya m 0 3 - 5 0 6 2 0 4 0 Kenlon Hasharon 09-618908 night. Searchlights con •HerzliaPituah 09-565757 Kenlon Hadarim 09-8845017 'HerzllaLevHa'ir 09-512727 •Petahllkva 03-9317343 stantly swept the harbour. 'Holon 03-5037074 •Rehovot 03-93e49'^6 Despite all that, at least ■Haifa 04-373393 •Ra'anana 09-901703 one British .ship used for ■Jerusalem: ' Rishon Lezlon 03-9502880 transporting Jews to Moshava Germanit 02-666990 Tel Aviv: Cyprus was sunk at the Pisgat Ze'ev 02-850088 Lev Dizlngof 03-5257880 Kenlon Hare! 02-337033 wharf. NeveAvlvIm 03-6427568 • Kfar Saba 09-972768 RamatAviv 03-6421792 We had been aboard ■KIr'on 03-5341587 'KIkarMllano 03-5468744 the Drom Afrika for six ■Naharlya 04-9983852 'Karmlel 04-9887388 months when we set out Nazerath 06-573485 ■ Parties Nana 06-272836

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55 Feature

DISCOVERINC DUSCHINSKY

Are you someone who loves browsing leisurely in second hand bookstores, moving from natural history to Renaissance art, pulling out a vol ume here and there,

blowing off the dust Yossi Halper pointing out to David Kaplan a report and leafing carefully The lale Rabbi Eugene by Rabbi Duschinsky on his work in the coiintr}' through the pages? If districts in South Africa. Duschinskv. you are. then head out to Allenby Street in Tel this fell into his hands. Aviv where used and new bookstores number "Rav Du.schinsky had a brother who was a dentist at least three per block. Telfed Magazine re and lived on Rehov Allenby. He recently passed porters were on the Allenby beat when they away at the age of 97, and a family member who chanced into an inconspicuous alleyway for a tired of sorting through the over 4000 books asked peek, only to discoverHalper's bookstore snuglv me to make an offer. Among the books were papers, tucked away at the end of the passage. photographs and letters. I said if you throw it in Balanced precariously back on his chair, a laid- with the books, I'll buy it as well. So I took the back Yossi Halper adjusted his baseball cap and whole kit and caboodle. As I was going through welcomed us with a beaming smile. Yossi, a former the books, I saw that something didn't click because American, quickly picked up our accents and Duschinsky was a dentist and a chess expert and inquired, "Are you guys, perchance South Afri here were all kinds of rabbinical material from can?" When we replied in the affirmative, he South Africa, sifrei kodesh and other religious writ exclaimed, "Wow, 1 was thinking of phoning your ings and documents dating back 300 years. 1 asked Federation. Have I got something to show you!" the fellow who sold me the material and he He leapt out of his swivel chair and squeezed explained that about a third of it belonged to the through a maze of bookcases to his cache in the dentist's brother, Rabbi Duschinsky from Cape corner. He then proceeded to drag out a box Town." In addition to the books, there were boxes overflowing with papers and books. "This all of interesting material, much of it pertaining to belonged to the late Rav Duschinsky of Cape Town, the South African Jewish community. and there are tons more boxes where this came Yossi tells us, "I became fascinated with the from." We stared at the dusty box in amazement. material and discovered that the Duschinsky family Rabbi Eugene Duschinsky, who passed away in had been rabbis in Hungary for over 300 years. 1979, had been Rabbi of the Schoonder Street Shul There were papers dealing with Hungarian Jewry, in Vredehoek, Av Beth Din of Cape Town, and and specifically the town of Ratispolko outside in the early years Rabbi to the country commu of Budapest. In addition, there are documents and nities all over South Africa. We asked Yossi how letters from the period the Rabbi spent in a forced

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labour camp in Yugoslavia, and as a chaplain in ing that they are maintained in dignity. Don't forget the Hungarian army. The Rabbi came to South them, those pioneers of this Jewish community. Africa in 1956 and among other duties, he served Look after them even after their families have the country communities from the late 50s to the moved away." early 60s." With the South African Jewish community In a report to the Board of Deputies submitted shrinking, the communal assets of defunct or di by Rabbi Duschinsky summarising his scope of minishing communities are today a subject of major duties in the Country Districts, he writes, "There concern. In Duschinsky's day, he notes, "there were are about 40 districts in rural South Africa from about 72 synagogues, Talmud Torah buildings and a Jewish point of view... the most essential serv ministers' homes throughout our rural communi ice these outlying districts need is that they should ties. Many of them have no organised congrega not remain without a minister, without their spiritual tion to look after them, while others remain empty leader and educator, the man around whom Jew after the last Jewish resident had left the town." ish organised life in their community revolves.... He recalls, "going to Dordrecht, making provi I feel that the most significant success of my de sions for the shul to be demolished, sold or kept partment has been procuring personnel for these in a dignified state eight years after the last Jew communities..." The bread and butter of his work had left the town." was establishing personal contacts with country On a more positive note, Duschinsky describes towns such as Pietersburg, Carletonville, community-building in rural areas by organising Standerton. Roodepoort, Warmbaths, Paarl, Family Days. "Over the past few months, we had Oudtshoorn, Grahamstown and Parys. "I endeav Family Days at Winburg and the Eastern Lowveld. oured to visit all of the districts as a rule twice These Days become events where the entire fam a year. They comprise about 225 geographical ily can come together with other Jewish families points. That adds up to about 14,000 iniles by car from adjoining towns for a well planned pro per year." gramme." After the Bethlehem Family Day, he He writes that if you come to a place like recalls receiving a letter "from the only Jewish Ladysmith "where there is a military camp, I meet lady in one of the 14 small communities around the Jewish boys and try to arrange for the few local Bethlehem. She wrote Tt was so nice to be able Jewish families to host them for Shabbat or at least to spend a day among unsere eigene.' That's what Friday night dinner." Of growing concern to South community building is all about." African Jewry today is the care and maintenance We found material relating to Duschinsky's of cemeteries where the community has greatly work as a member of the Hostel Committee of dwindled or disappeared {see Telfed Mag. Dec. the Board of Education. He writes, "The hostels 1996). Rabbi Duschinsky, in a report written over of King David and Herzlia Schools and Yeshiva 35 years ago records, "I visited close to one hundred College are filled mostly with children from the cemeteries every year, saying a prayer, and see country. The waiting lists for the hostels are long

57 fEATURE PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS

Sorting through the piles of Rabbi Duschinsky's documents and letters, the name Dennis Diamond repeatedly cropped up. Pursuing this lead, we contacted Dennis who, it turns out, had been a close friend and stu dent of the Rabbi for many years. Dennis lives in Jerusalem today, having made aliyahfrom Cape Town in 1979, and was at the Rabbi's side when he died in 1986 in Jerusalem. Dennis takes us back to a Cape Town of the Offtcialing the signing of the Keluba at a wedding in 1960s, recalling how after Friday night services the Schoonder Street Shul in Cope Town. at Schoonder Street Shul, one or a number of the congregants would accompany the Rabbi home to Upper Oranjezicht. "A walk home with him was and when I managed lo get a child from the country always an intellectually challenging experience. into a hostel. I realised that I had done something We would discuss his sermon and if any of us lasting for Yiddishkeit. Thai child might have been misinterpreted something, he raged in frustration lost to everything Jewish, but will now have the while explaining what was actually meant. One foundations for a decisively Jew Friday evening as we were ish life " walking home, we noticed a Digging through the papers, drunk staggering down the we came across some comments street. Suddenly, some white of Gilad Stern who was chair hooligans came up behind him man of Bnei AkivainCape Town pushed him into the gutter and during the 1970s. He writes about it looked like they were about Duschinsky as an educator and t o k i c k h i m a r o u n d . We d i d n ' t leader. "His proposals and his quite know how to react. We teachings were never obscure. He thought that the Rabbi would didn't present Judaism as a list not want to be involved in a of don'ts... He was often radi scene on a Friday night, yet, on cal, and in fact, unorthodox, and the other hand we couldn't just that was part of his Orthodoxy. walk past and ignore it. While He presented Orthodoxy as rel we stood momentarily immo evant to life, and problems as Rabbi Dushinsky with Ben Giirion during bilized, Duschinsky turned stepping stones to solutions... his visit to Cape Town in 1968. ' determinedaround and staredway. Notat us saying in a very a Duschy often a difﬁcult per son, a godjly, an arguer. And in that, he taught us word, he marched over to the hooligans and pushed that one can and should argue and object. One does them away. Putting out his hand, he helped the not have to accept things as they seem to be., that Coloured guy up, checked to see if he was alright, Jewish learning and scholarship are the products and said a few comforting words to him. The Rabbi of generations of arguments and objections." was a big man with strong eyes. You Just couldn't [see page 35 for an article by Rabbi Abrahams ignore his presence. The hooligans were awestruck which we found among Duschinsky's papersl. and just went on their way.

58 "He rejoined us and walking on he said. "You more outspoken on social and political issues." are thinking he is just a drunk. But he isn't just When Dennis came on aliyah, he found cer a drunk, he is also a person. He is always going tain prevailing attitudes and behaviour toward non- to be Coloured, but he isn't always going to be Jews disturbing. Looking for counsel from his drunk." I think the Rabbi realized why we didn't mentor in Cape Town, he wrote to Duschinsky. do anything and he never referred to it again, but Du,schinsky replied by mentioning that he had this incident remained in the background of any developed a good rapport with the Imam in Cape discussion we had concerning race relations in Town who was head of the Muslim Council. They South Africa. This incident epitomi.sed Rabbi cooperated on many issues, and he cited instances Duschin.sky as a man who didn't let things pass of how their relationship proved useful to both — h e i n t e r v e n e d . " communities. Duschinsky, by dangling the promise in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Cross of an increased consumer market by bringing in roads squatter camp outside Cape Town was cap the local Muslim community, persuaded local food turing not only national but international atten producers to make some of their products kosher/ tion. Duschinsky, who was then the Av Bet Din hallal. That served the interests of both commu of the Cape Bet Din, felt that the squatter ques nities. tion was an issue that faced the entire country and Duchinsky continues in his letter that he too, it was inconceivable that the Jewish community was upset by things he had seen in Israel. "One could stand idle in the face of such a moral outrage. thing that distressed him was seeing soldiers with "The Board of Deputies had the policy that it was their boots on in a Bethlehem mosque. It was not its brief to be involved in political affairs. It Duschinsky's contention that if we want to im claimed it could not take a public stand on an issue prove human relations, we have to start with a like Crossroads. Duschinsky. undeterred, demanded basic respect for religious sensitivities. The mini an audience with the Board's Executive Council mum requirement is to take your shoes off when in Johannesburg to argue the case. The Board you go into a holy Muslim site. His observation, claiming that it was a sectarian rather than a political as usual had to he understood at more than face agency could not agree to taking a stand. value. He was making the point that once you begin Duschinsky responded that this was semantic to understand a person, and actually respect his nonsense. The Board was a body with elected or her beliefs and traditions, you can then move officials and members and was there to represent on to the more profound issues of politics and peace. the community's views on a wide diversity of You have to get the order straight. issues, including those of a moral nature. When "I was reminded of the Rabbi's words when the Board suggested that the rabbis should issue the meeting between De Klerk and Mandela took a statement. Du.schinsky replied that they were place. Despite years of ingrained fears and preju planning to take a stand notwithstanding, but he wanted it to be backed by the premier body dice, two people from either side of the political divide, were struck into realizing that they had representing the entire Jewish community. Very to look for the man, the person behind the atti reluctantly, Dennis recalls, "the Cape Board sup tude, behind the surface, behind the make-up. ported what came to be known as the Tisha B'Av "Per.sonally. Duschinsky was uch an awe-in statement on the squatter issue. It was among spiring figure that some perceiveu .lim as arro the boldest statements the community had made gant." Dennis quickly points out. There was until that time. nothing arrogant about the man. He had fiery moods "That confrontation was like a watershed in the and fierce loyalties, and was very demanding of Board of Deputies' relationship with the country his friends and students. You had to give a great and its affairs. When I look back on it, the state deal of yourself in return, but the benefits were ment seems so timid, but thereafter it became far enormous. I have hod no better teacher ever." •

59 Condolences The Chairman, Executive members and staff of the S.A.Z.F. (Israel) offer sincere sympathies to the bereaved families of: i T r V r

the late Annette Klein (Netanya) ^ ^ the late Aryeh Sive (Kibbutz Kfar Blum) w the late Ellas Choritz (Netanya) the late Judy Roberts (Hod Hasharon)

the late Genia Jarzyna (Mishmar Hasharon) the late Lutz Hammerschlag (Ra'anana) the late Hans Liebenstein (Kochav Yair) the late Percy Manham (Beth Protea)

the late Hedva Konvisser-Cwaigenbaum (Petach Tikvah) the late Shlomo Maliniak (Ra'anana) the late Issy Kaplan (Ra'anana) the late Sidney Katz (Pardess Hana) the late Jack Markowitz (Netanya) the late Ethel Abrahams (Jerusalem)

the late Sanna Dorfan (Beth Protea) the late Gilad Misheiker (Jerusalem)

the late Abraham Margolis (Kfar Saba) the late Isaac Sudat (Tel Aviv) the late Dorothy Canard (Netanya) the late Gertie Gantovnik (Ra'anana) the late Brenda Bank (Ra'anana)

On Shabbat, January 4th 1997, at the age of 89, Percy Nahum Manham — one of "natures gentlemen" and a "complete Jew"—went to his eternal rest. This tragic event brought to a close • in effect • the era of a contribution to Eretz Israel in pre-State days of a dedicated band of South African businessmen of which he was so outstanding an example. Born in Britain, Percy grew up in Johannesburg and Durban. In the early 1920s, he already actively associated with the former South Africa Young Israel Federation, the forerunner of the ofﬁcial Zionist Youth movement. A deeply religious man, the epitome of Jewish tolerance and kindliness, he found and practised the synthesis of the principles of Judaism and Zionism which he welded into an indivisible whole. In Johannesburg, he became a leading insurance broker and before long became recognised as the outstanding Jewish insurance expert in his community. Long before the end of World War II, he became closely associated with the potential of the National Home in Palestine. In May 1945, with the end of the war, he was prominent in the gi'ojtp of South African businessmen who set up investment companies here. After his aliyah in 1945, he became one of the most enthusiastic pioneers ofSavyon and played a leading part in setting up, then, a Hebrew Congregation, including the erection of a synagogue and establishing the local cemetery. Tragedy stalked his life - particularly in the heinous kidnapping and murder of his grandson Oren Yarden. His deep religious convictions enabled him to face this and other setbacks with philosophical equanimity. He plunged himself even more deeply into the promotion of educational projects and in doing good to others. After the death of his beloved wife, Anne, and with his own failing health, he entered Beth Protea, where he soon took the lead in representing the residents and in the supervision of religious services. His personal integrity remained unsurpassed and to the end his counsel in investment and other public matters was eagerly sought. He is survived by his daughters Aviva and Pnina, son Ilan and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He will be sorely missed. — Sam Levin

60 A' - T r ^ t St.-Sgt. Gilad Moshe Misheiker (20), Combat Paramedic H'ai' among the 73 soldiers killed in the helicopter disaster of 4th February. Gilad had distinguished himself during a Hizballah ambush in Lebanon some months ago by carrying wounded comrades to safety under fire when the helicopter unable to land. He had been informed, before the disaster, that he was to be promoted at a special ceremony to head of his unit. Son of Yael and Jonathan Misheiker, brother of Sharon and Dan, grandson of Betty and Ronnie Misheiker, Emmy and the late Pino Ginsburg. t Sanna Dorfan's death on March 1 touched all who knew and loved her. Sanna and her husband. Benny, influenced countless people who made aliyah to Israel. The Dorfan's home operated as an informal immigration office, easing the u-aj for new immigrants through the intricacies of starting a new life in Israel. Anyone needing help or encouragement adopted by Sanna. Few immigrants to Israel can have contributed to the country as much as Sanna did. She a model immigrant, a model citizen and a model friend. — Meera Jacobson

Abraham Benzion Hymie% Margolis known as Abe, was born in Lithuania, and came to South Africa with his family as a young boy. He urn highly respected in Cape Town and rose to the position of senior partner in the largest Jewish firm of auditors in South Africa. He had been president and life trustee of the the Green Point and Sea Point Hebrew Congregation, and was chairman for many years of the committee to visit the sick. He was a Brother of the Hebrew Order of David International in Cape Town and Netanya Lodges. Abe had been active with ESRA and urn Treasurer of the Kfar Saba Branch ofTelfed which position he held until he passed away. In April 1995, his wife of 37 years. Beryl, passed away leaving a void in Abe's life. He later .struck up a relationship with Zelda Lipchitz from Cape Town and married her in September 1996. Unfortunately his untimely death on February 4, 1997 cut short his marriage to Zelda, with whom he had found a zest for life once again. t Aryeh Sive, a Zionist pioneer, passed away after a serious illness on February 20, 1997. Aryeh came to Palestine in 1939 whereafter he Joined a garin located in Binyamina planning to settle on Kibbutz Kfar Blum in 1943. While in Binyamina, he became the editor o/Hemekasher, the publication of the English and American Habonim, which u-fl.v practically the only source of Israel .settlement information during the war years. After having .settled on the kibbutz, Aryeh went back to South Africa to serve there as the first full-time Habonim shaliach where he set up a hachsharah /flrm near Britz. The garin that u-«5 to eventually Join kibbutz Tzorah trained under Aryeh on that farm. Upon his return to Israel, Aryeh served as World Mazkir of Habonim. During the 1950s, Israeli apple growers were looking for ivrt w' to extend the sale of apples past the summer picking season. With this in view, the Upper Galilee Regional Council, with Aryeh heading the project, .set up a cold storage atmosphere-controlled laboratory. It was to become the source for technical and scientific information for atmosphere-controlled cold .storage plants all over Israel. Aryeh rose to renown as an e.xpert in the field and some years ago received the Kaplan Award for his work.

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