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Journalist Benjamin Pogrund receives the Order of Ikhamanga in silver from President Cyril Ramaphosa. (photo courtesy GCIS Government of South Africa) Not all 83-year-olds would choose to go paragliding off Signal Every year since 2003, the South African President bestows the Hill for their birthday celebration. Martin Margolius, however, is National Orders upon individuals who “have played a momentous not your average 83-year-old. role towards building a free and peaceful democratic South Africa hen you get to my age, people just think ‘well, this is it. You know, and improving the lives of South Africans in various ways”. “Wyou must start taking it easy.’ But that’s not for me. I want to get back into things. I’m young at heart, so I decided [paragliding] will be the he Order of Ikhamanga is one of the six Orders (the highest and most way I’ll start.” Tprestigious awards granted in South Africa), and is bestowed upon those “who have excelled in the field of arts, culture, literature, music, journalism Martin originally wanted to paraglide three years ago, on his 80th birthday, and sport”. In April this year, the Order of Ikhamanga was presented to eight but was stalled by a knee injury and subsequent knee replacement. He did people, including South African born journalism legend and anti-apartheid not let that hold him back though, and finally achieved his goal in April this activist, Benjamin Pogrund. year, just a few weeks after his 83rd birthday. See page 29 for more Continues on page 22 Ex-Mayoress Di Berrill celebrates her 100th birthday Di Berrill, singer, actress, then but the day I went to buy my travelled extensively, picking up businesswoman, plane ticket, war broke out and new designs and fabrics. She philanthropist and a nobody travelled then.” This did recounts, “I travelled the world by previous mayoress of Cape not stop Di from becoming a local myself, which was very scary to Town, celebrated her 100th singer and actress under her begin with. I was still young.” She stage name, Dianna Lazar. She was also featured in the Cape birthday in May. acted in many stage productions, Argus as one of its winners of i’s full and fascinating life in often for charity, and had a radio ‘Businesswomen of the Week’. DSouth Africa began when programme titled Dianna Lazar She says, “To keep yourself she and her family moved to Presents on which she sang happy, I would advise that you Paarl from Russia in 1924. At the in Yiddish, English, Afrikaans, not sit there like a queen. I was time, Di was six and spoke only German and Russian. always involved with the staff. Russian. Then they’re part of the picture.” After enjoying a stage career for After studying singing at the UCT many years, Di began designing It was after retiring that Di was College of Music, Di dreamed of clothes and, together with her approached to become the going to Hollywood “I was going husband Issey, started Riviera mayoress of Cape Town. to be an actress, so I was going Fashions, which became one of to move to Hollywood… I was the bigger clothing companies in ready to get on a plane right South Africa. During this time, Di Continues on page 27

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Contributors Featured articles Page 3 Lindy with a why Page 8 Richard Saevitzon explores name changing Page 4 Annual voluntary subscription notice Page 22 Paragliding octogenarian (continued from page 1) Community noticeboard Rambam Trust reaches major milestone Shabbat times Page 27 Changemaker of the Month — Glenn Stein Follow us on social media Martine Kawalsky wins CATA Page 6 South African Jewish Museum Di Berril turns 100 (continued from page 1) Page 8 Ort SA Cape Page 29 Benjamin Pogrund honoured in South Africa Page 9-11 Cape SA Board of Deputies (continued from page 1) Page 12-17 South African Zionist Federation Page 35 Ben Cohen on Poland and Yair Lapid Page 18 Union of Orthodox Synagogues Page 41 Book review: Antisemitism Here and Now Page 20 Temple Israel Page 45 Josh Abrams to perform in Covent Garden Page 21 Limmud Graff Lesedi La Rona showcased in Cape Town Page 23-25 Cape Jewish Seniors Association Page 26 CT Holocaust and Genocide Centre Maiyan Karidi’s cross-cultural harmony Page 28 Bnoth Zion WIZO Page 30 Union of Jewish Women Glendale Winter warmer campaign Page 31 Chabad on Campus 10 13 Page 32 Cape Town Torah High Mensch Page 33 Telfed Page 34 Jewish Community Services Page 36-37 United Herzlia Schools Page 38 Anton Katz on the law in space Page 39 The Herzlia Foundation Page 40 Jacob Gitlin Library Page 42-43 Simcha Snaps Page 44 Chronic Ads Page 46 Craig Nudelman on South Africa after the elections Page 47 Sport 37

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By Lindy Diamond, Editor Cape Jewish Chronicle Cape Town is the most Muslim man who, in conversation beautiful city in the world. once remarked how much he respects Judaism because it brings here are cities that have left me in Gd into every aspect of day-to-day Tawe of their religious significance, life, not just at prayer times, or in holy those that inspire me with their spaces. history, those that are fun and full of sights to see and experiences to Gd is acknowledged when we eat, have. But Cape Town? Come on, when we show gratitude (Baruch best ever. How often do you really Hashem!) and even when we think about that? experience something for the first time. His words made me relook I remember, in my childhood, my at how much I was practicing his Mom would snap me out of whatever observation in my everyday life and daydream I was dreaming to say, I conciously tweaked where I could. “Look, B, look!” and drag me back into present time to acknowledge And thirdly, and perhaps a bit darkly, some lovely thing that was happening history has shown us time and time in front of us. again that bad things can, and do, happen, sometimes very suddenly. I remember being exasperated by this most of the time. Yes, the sunset is I want to make sure that if everything lovely. Yes, that’s a pretty flower, now I love and enjoy is gone tomorrow I please let me go back into my head! had appreciated it all as fiercely and Forward 30 years, and I do exactly with as much energy as I could have. the same thing to my daughters. With no regrets. I live in the foothills of one of the I try to look at items in my home New Seven Wonders of Nature (how with fresh eyes, to truly see them, does that even happen?) and every hold them and enjoy them. I try to morning the drive to school offers acknowledge Table Mountain each us a breathtaking view of Table day as if it is the last time I will ever Mountain in all her glory. see her, (one day I will be right). And most importantly — and ironically the Every day is an artwork. The light greatest challenge of all whilst in the hits the rock-faces in slightly different trenches of parenthood — I try to see TIME FOR ways, the flora changes with the my children with fresh eyes too. There season, the sky is always showing off. is a limited time that I have them in my And each morning I say “Look, girls, home as a captive audience of three. DAD look!” and they dutifully come back VENTURES For me, parenthood often feels into present time to acknowledge the F THE FATHER’S DAY HOME O GIFT lovely thing happening in front of us. like a mixture of being an air traffic controller and a laundromat so it's Acknowledging beauty in the world easy to feel overwhelmed and forget around us serves many purposes. to look at the wondrous moments Firstly, it creates an opportunity created each day. Recognising the to be mindful. Mindfulness helps small, beautiful things in our lives is us to reduce stress and increase a kind of soul food, and I think for the our mental functioning, emotional most part we are hungry. regulation and self-control. It takes As Einstein may have once remarked: us out of our memories of the past “there are two ways to live. You can and our worries for the future and into live as if nothing is a miracle or you what is actually here and now. can live as if everything is a miracle.” Secondly, it brings Gd and goodness You really do have the choice, which into our daily lives. I know a lovely one do you choose? 4 Cape Jewish Chronicle June 2019 Subs for 2019 now due... Community Noticeboard

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by Richard (Saevitzon) Shavei-Tzion I must admit that I was not giving my same grandfather, Grandpa Morris. full attention to the Ketuba reading My maternal grandfather was married as while attending a wedding a little Shachneh Velve ben Tzvi Lipman but on his while ago. daughter’s Ketuba he appears as Shachneh fter all, just how many times can one Ze’ev. It is telling that the ‘Velve’ document Alisten mindfully to the Aramaic formula is dated 1927, preceding the establishment for “…necessities of life and conjugal of the State of Israel, while Ze’ev appears in needs, according to the universal custom”? 1953. Surprisingly the name ‘Wolf’ does not However my stupor was disturbed when out feature on any document. By the time he died, of the left field of my brain I heard the bride’s both Velve and Ze’ev had disappeared and name, “Daughter bat Father hamechuneh my great-grandfather’s name had morphed (known as) ‘Ritchie!’” Yep, there it was, the from Tzvi Lipman to Yehuda Leib Halevi! We father of the bride’s nickname penned on knew that grandfather as Grandpa Sidney. this significant family document for posterity. The above quoted Midrash continues It fascinates me how time and again, “…and the name he earns for himself. The people’s names bend and change as they most important name is the one he earns for pass through life. himself.” Having a good name, a synonym for integrity, was such an elemental feature The Midrash Tanchuma on Parashat Vayekel of my father’s life that on his tombstone states, “A man is known by three names: The we inscribed that famous statement from name by which his mother and father call Ecclesiastics, “A good name is better than him, the name by which others call him…” good oil”. That is the name which my father My two grandfathers are cases in point. earned for himself. My father called himself Abba ben Moshe. So why does all this name changing occur? Yet his father appears as Yechiel Moshe ben While there are records of censuses in the Abba Yisrael on his Ketuba. But hold on, prominent empires of the ancient world, until Yechiel Moshe’s father’s name as per his recently, written records of ordinary people tombstone was Abba Meir! Whether ‘Yisrael’ were sketchy if not non-existent. was meant to designated his rank in Jewish hierarchy or not, Meir had disappeared by The author’s grandparents Lily/Leah and Sidney/Shachne Velve/ the time his son got married. We called that continued on page 46 Ze’ev Sloan (Shlomovsky)

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Yom HaShoah V’Hagevurah 2019

Over 1000 community members and special THE CHAIRMAN'S YOM HASHOAH ADDRESS guests attended Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom By Rael Kaimowitz HaShoah, at the Pinelands What are we here to do today? California. Jewish Cemetery on 2 May. What are we attempting to achieve? So when we stand here today on the Why over 70 years later, are we gathered together to 2nd May 2019, there must be more his year marks the 80th remember a tragedy that many of us were not even born to it. anniversary of the start of the war T to witness? After 70 years the world has not in Poland. The Holocaust started at Is it to provide comfort to those remaining precious learned its lesson. World bodies are 6 am on 1 September 1939, when survivors? ineffectual in providing clear, strong, moral leadership. Warsaw was struck by the first of a Is it in order that we can recite the communal kaddish in As the world turned its back on the Jews in the 1930’s, succession of bombing raids by the memory of our loved ones? and again in those genocidal massacres I mentioned, it Nazi Luftwaffe air forces. Is it a fixture on the calendar that we reluctantly feel, G-d is our job to shine a light into the darkness. This year’s ceremony included forbid, obliged to attend? As the second, third and fourth generations after the extracts from the memoirs of Cape Or is it to ensure that we remember, so the world never holocaust we dare not turn our backs on the suffering Town survivors describing the impact forgets? of others. of the Nazi invasion of Poland. We shout with great vigour… Never Again! There is No place for antisemitism in the world today. Zola Shulman, the daughter of two I fear this is mere lip service. The right thing to say. But let’s also stand up and say there is no place for Lithuanian survivors performed a Never again? No longer a guarantee… Easy to talk. islamophobia, or for the senseless murder of over 300 moving Yiddish song, Ich Nemk Easy for passionate rhetoric but actions speak louder Christian worshippers in Sri Lanka. Aheim, written by her Uncle poet than words. There is no place for the baseless hatred of Jews. and song writer Leyb Rosenthal in Since the horrors of the Shoah, world leaders have But let’s also stand up and say there is no place for the Vilna Ghetto and then sung there proclaimed loudly that the “Crime without a Name” as hatred of the LGBTQI community or for the Bahá'í or for by her mother Chayela Rosenthal. Winston Churchill referred to it must never be allowed to the Hindu community. Leyb died in a labour camp two days happen again. These hatreds arise from the same dark human impulse, before liberation. But these are just empty words. from the fear and suspicion and ignorance of the other. How else do we explain a world gone mad as hate So let’s not only pay lip service when we say no place Our Special Guest was Miriam explodes all around us? for hate. Let’s call it out when we hear it, when we see it. Lichterman, who spoke of the Although we know that there is a unique, horrific depth Be it around our own Shabbat tables, in the staff canteen, horrors she experienced in the six and scale to the Holocaust that is unprecedented, when on Clifton beach or in the gym. Let’s take a personal years she was held captive in the you hear the names of Bosnia, Rwanda, Darfur, Syria, stand. Warsaw Ghetto and concentration you know full well that the world has failed dismally. Let us commit to telling our parents and grandparents, camps. She appealed to the youth Not only failed to act but essentially failed to give a damn. our friends and our colleagues that hate in any form is to never forget the past and thanked And therefore we are not foolish to think that any just not acceptable. the Jewish community for supporting government or country or world body will come to our If we do this; then we ensure nobody has perished in her and her family in overcoming the assistance should Never Again fail us, the Jewish vein. horrors of their past. people. Instead, we bring blessing and holiness and a continual Yom HaShoah is also a time to How lucky we are to have a Jewish state. How different upliftment to the 6 million holy souls of our brothers and remember the Roma and Sinti, things could have been. sisters that were slaughtered al Kiddush Hashem. people with disabilities, Poles Last year, 85-year-old Mireille Knoll, who survived the And we take the first steps in saying with conviction and Slavic ethnic groups, Soviet Holocaust, was murdered in her Paris flat. that Never again means just that… Never Again… for prisoners of war, Jehovah’s The figures documenting rising antisemitism across anyone. Europe are frightening, with almost every country Am Yisrael Chai, The Jewish Nation Lives. Witnesses, and persons who affected. In a survey conducted were targeted based on their by the EU’s Fundamental Rights sexual orientation by the Nazis You may apply if you: Agency it showed amongst those and their collaborators. Holocaust Cape SAJBD interviewed that: Remembrance Day is about more - Are a Jewish undergraduate or 28% experienced some form of than just remembering. With the postgraduate student Bursary Programme harassment for being Jewish in the number of Holocaust survivors - Are in need of financial assistance past 12 months; dwindling it has become more to study in 2020 Over 40% worry about antisemitic Apply now for financial assistance important than ever to say 'never - Live in the Western Cape again' verbal insult, harassment or - Wish to attend a registered for your 2020 tertiary education! physical attack in the next 12 university, technical college or months similar educational institution in Holocaust Remembrance 34% have avoided Jewish events the Western Cape because of safety fears Day is about more than just remembering. With 38% have considered emigrating in the past five years over safety Applications open on 1 July 2019 the number of Holocaust fears. and close on 30 September 2019. survivors dwindling it has Sobering statistics just 70 short become more important years later. For further enquiries, contact than ever to say 'never In the last 6 months: Jodi Goldberg T: 021 464-6724 again' Pittsburgh, Christchurch, Sri Lanka. E: [email protected] And just this week Poway,

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“ The Yom Hashoah Ceremony was powerful, moving and yet still hope filled. A remembrance of of the atrocities of the past recounted by the incredibly brave and strong Miriam Lichterman. Yet at the same time telling of the strength of the human spirit to overcome. Let us remember and hold in our hearts. To ensure that future generations know of the suffering and destruction of the holocaust, to give power to the victims and to ensure that the horrors of the past are never repeated. “ Nicola Jowell Cape Jewish Chronicle June 2019 11

What did the Yom Hashoah ceremony mean to you?

I had never felt such a sense of Jewish pride in Cape Town as I did on Thursday at the Yom Hashoah service. The sense of community warmed my heart and the excellent, smooth service was respectful, uniting and the perfect way to honour those who perished in the Holocaust! I am humbly honoured that I was able to take part in the service and am proud to be apart of such a supportive Jewish community. Michaela Codron, Herzlia High School

Having never attended the Cape Town Shoah ceremony I felt that in the week preceding my trip to Poland I had a responsibility to be there. What was initiated by a feeling of responsibility soon transformed into a feeling of absolute privilege. I will never forget sitting among those Holocaust survivors, hearing the beautiful voices of our Herzlia children’s choir singing Yiddish songs and listening to the incredible words spoken by Miriam Lichterman. We will never forget. But more importantly, we must always remember. “ Martine Vogelman

“Yom HaShoah is always a deeply moving and emotional day for me, but to hear survivor Miriam Lichterman speak about her gratitude to Hashem for saving her life, her deep faith, and her commitment to building community after the Holocaust was an experience to be treasured.” Rabbi Sam Thurgood

“Interweaving presentations by the youth with those of our precious survivors created a moving and meaningful ceremony, further enhanced by so many of our wonderful and diverse community members united to respectfully honour those who perished, all under one tent. Am Yisrael Chai!” Natalie Barnett, UHS Chair

“Meaningful time to rededicate myself to Shoah education. I pledged to be slower to judge others and quicker to build communities that welcome and include all.” Rabbi Greg Alexander

“The Yom Hashoah ceremony is becoming more and more important as the number of our honoured survivors diminishes. We cannot let the Shoah become just another piece of history. We need to ensure that our youth continue to understand the significance of the community commemoration that they will never forget what our people endured.” Geoff Cohen, Director of Education UHS

“What was more inspiring was the fact that they picked themselves up and with dignity previously denied them, managed to live very full and well-adjusted lives. We owe these survivors, who lived to tell the world, a huge debt of gratitude. Without the truth we will allow the hate to continue and not have learned from the horrific experience the Jewish Nation endured in Europe. It is important for the youth to be exposed to this.” Felicity Purchase, Mayoral Committee Member: Transport 12 Cape Jewish Chronicle June 2019

VIEW FROM THE CHAIR silent about all the horrors and that freedom of religion, speech, agricultural solutions that would take atrocities committed in Africa, Asia association and academia are millions out of poverty and turn our and the Middle East, as well as on the fundamental values that ensure the deserts into fields of plenty. Millions of mistreatment of women, minorities longevity of a democratic state. Any South Africans would not take kindly and children. It sits Janus-faced on unjust attempts to undermine those to their future being stolen by petty the international stage, facilitating values, as Sisulu and her faction short-term interests. Nor will they the work of despots offshore while seem intent on doing, will unravel appreciate the negative effect this proclaiming the values of human the very structures of the democratic will have on local job creation and our SA at odds with rights back home. state her predecessors fought for. already struggling economy. Cutting out Israel only cuts out SA’s future. world powers and There is but one country at which On the issue of cutting ties with Israel Brics nations SA directs all its opprobrium and and allowing the antisemitic BDS If SA attempts to throw out the Israeli judgment. It is the most undeserving fringe movement to capture foreign ambassador, it will send a signal that about Israel country of SA’s hostility, but so policy, Sisulu and the ANC should it wishes to disconnect the proudly SA By Rowan Polovin, targeted because the governing party proceed with extreme caution. SA is Jewish community from their spiritual, Chairman, SAZF Cape Council irrationally believes this will win votes focused on rebuilding its standing in religious and historical homeland. locally and power internationally. the international community and to The government should take heed be taken seriously on international that Jews will never allow their bond Hating the Middle Eastern country The ANC is dangerously wrong on affairs. with the Jewish state to be broken. has never garnered the ANC votes both accounts: hating Israel has never Nor will committed Christians, who or won it any international favour. garnered it votes in any election, and While still a member of the Brics make up the majority of SA’s religious targeting Israel internationally only (Brazil, Russia, India, China and SA) communities. There is something foul about SA’s isolates SA itself. It carries out an bloc, it parts company with every foreign policy. It stands continuously inverted foreign policy that bashes other member on Israel. Every Brics Anti-Semites may be pleased that with the anti-Western bloc of the Jew of nations and applauds the country besides SA is constantly their irrational hatred of Jews has dictators, fascists and human rights scoundrels. The ANC owes the public improving ties and friendships with resulted in a downgrade in relations abusers. It has a horrendous track an explanation about why it does this. the Jewish state. SA stands at odds with Israel, but the majority of South record of voting at the UN general Last week, international relations and with these world powers, including Africans will not be pleased with the assembly and the UN human rights co-operation minister Lindiwe Sisulu many African and Arab countries that uncertainty and instability it will bring. council that is diametrically opposite recklessly steered into dangerous work more closely than ever with It is time for principled business to post-apartheid’s values of freedom territory when asked about SA’s Israel. people, government officials, political and non-discrimination. relations with Israel. She spoke of parties and civil society to stand up to removing the SA ambassador to Moreover, SA needs Israel’s help to the ANC’s desperate and hypocritical It votes against measures that sanction Israel and of kicking out the Israeli solve local problems such as water obsession with the Jewish state. Our human rights abusers and praises the ambassador to SA. She even scarcity, access to electricity and future depends upon it. “diversity” of totalitarian dictatorships. declared that the ANC will dictate It abstains on the appointment of university policy on Israel. She forgot a special rapporteur on violence about SA’s esteemed constitution against the LGBTI community and on and rule of law, and that the ANC sits resolutions condemning human rights below, not above it. abuses in Syria. Our constitution was carefully written It keeps consistently but deafeningly by wise people who recognised

SAZF CAPE COUNCIL together to commemorate Israel’s fallen soldiers and victims of terror.

The shlichim, together with the Zionist Youth Council, chose to focus on the diversity of Israel. The exhibition at the entrance to the Herzlia Hall Yom Hazikaron presented the stories of eight different young Israelis from completely report back different backgrounds. In my speech, I highlighted the four victims of the By Michal Ilan, last bloody round with Gaza. Lavi Community and Aliyah Shlicha Wolff, Bnei Akiva shaliach, shared a personal story of losing his close friend, Aviv Levi, in the army. The On Erev Yom Hazikaron the Cape choir of Israeli teens sang two songs, Town Jewish community got which made everyone very emotional.

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THE ISRAEL CENTRE MASA, an umbrella organisation for long-term programmes in Israel, is giving each South African student $9,100 towards their first year’s tuition. This grant can be used once and is significantly higher than other Who wants to study places in the world. in Israel? For further assistance, Telfed is By Michal Ilan, offering a number of things. Their Community and Aliyah Shlicha SASI (South Africans Studying in Israel) scholarship helps students More and more South Africans to pay for their housing while they realise that studying in Israel is a study in Israel. They also offer small real viable option. In the last few scholarships for students who give of years, a few developments have their time and volunteer. made studying in Israel more accessible and affordable for Those who wish to study in Hebrew South African students. can enjoy much lower tuition and can use their MASA grant towards a Firstly, more Universities now offer full 6 months’ predatory course, which degrees in English. There are now six will enable them to learn Academic institutions that offer BA degrees and Hebrew and be better prepared to a few more that offer MA degrees in start their studies. English. Oh, and did you know that if you In most institutions, the English choose to make Aliyah and make degrees cost more than the Hebrew Israel your home, your studies are programmes but some Universities, paid for by the State of Israel? like Bar Ilan University, have changed their prices to make it more affordable For great education and an opportunity and the English degrees cost the to experience Israel as a resident, same as the Hebrew ones, which is studying in Israel is a great choice. If about the same as UCT tuition. To you want to learn more, feel free to help those who decide to study in contact us at the Israel Centre, or go Israel, there is financial assistance. to www.studyabroad.masaisrael.org

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DILLER TEEN FELLOWS

Diller Jewish Community Mifgash 2019

By Lee Lobel, Shoham teens spending time at Astra Shoham Cohort 4 Programme Co-ordinator

Every year before Pesach, our partnership city, Shoham, comes to visit Cape Town. On the 8th of April this year, we welcomed our fourth cohort from Shoham. They spent 10 days exploring Cape Town, learning about its history and meeting our Shoham teens at Herzlia School Cape Town and Shoham exploring Cape Town together incredible Jewish community.

A few highlights included a historical tour around Cape Town, gaining a deep understanding about the history of South Africa and where we are today. Meeting with both the Progressive and Orthodox Jewish communities, as well as various organisations such as CSO, UJC, Cape Town Jewish Board of Deputies, the SA Zionist Federation (Cape Council) and the Israel Centre. The Shoham teens also spent a day at Herzlia, running workshops for the middle school and meeting with Geoff Cohen, Marc Falconer and Rabbi Cannon. They also spent a very meaningful and special morning at Cape Town and Shoham Cohorts Astra, volunteering and learning about the incredible things that our Jewish community does.

Both the Shoham and Cape Town cohorts had an incredible 10 days, bringing the Diller partnership together for the fourth time. One of Cape Town’s fellows, Ruby Epstein, writes, “Never did I think lifelong friendships could be formed in a time span of 10 days; however, JCM exceeded beyond all of my expectations in every way possible. Not only did I learn the true meaning of community, and what it truly means to be a part of the Jewish People; but the bonds and friendships formed, along with the memories, are forever remaining. Not only did I learn a lot about other people during this time, but I also discovered a lot about myself, as a person and as a leader, and I am grateful to Diller for allowing me this experience. I would repeat JCM in a heartbeat; however, I know the incredible effects the experience had on each one of us will never be forgotten or lost.”

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Temple Israel, together with The Omer in verse Moishe House, ran a young adult 4th night Seder dinner. (49 lines for 49 days) Every aspect of the evening was crafted carefully to By Rabbi Emma Gottlieb symbolise the many Pesach motifs, from the pyramid This is a time serviettes and place cards of counting resembling matza, to Not a holy day the modern stories and or a week-long festival, interpretations throughout but a season — the night, we even searched a season for counting for the Afikomen! Once There was representation it was about the grain; from all the various pockets Tables all set for the Seder about the priests; of our diverse Jewish about counting from one harvest community which certainly added to the evening of stories, questions, laughs, to the next and getting to know new people. A season full of anxiety and hope anxiety because the prosperity of the year was at stake — their hopes rose and fell with the size of the reap KTA NEXT go overseas (a little) Then the world changed KTA NEXT took a moving and informative trip to Robben Island, exploring and new leaders rose from the ashes ideas relating to Passover and how to activate freedoms for ourselves and and with no more Temple, and no more sacrifices, others. new meaning had to be found Festival of First Fruits became Festival of Giving and Receiving Torah No longer counting the days from one harvest to the next, now it was about a journey — from slavery to freedom; from political liberation to spiritual revelation This counting, more relevant to city-dwellers and the rabbis who led them No longer dependent on the spring harvest, their focus shifted and counting took on a mournful tone as they lamented what was lost even as they reinterpreted what they could salvage As the world changed and changed again the spiritual resonance of the counting intensified and the focus shifted once more from national revelation Jacob Lund, Nathan Amato, Ghaim Atash, Daniella Beswick, Maya Reitstein and to personal revelation Noah Gonsenhauser We count, now, toward our own self-improvement 49 days of self-scrutiny; 49 days of reflection on how to emulate The Divine; 49 days to get ourselves out of our own personal Egypt and move through our own spiritual journey; To find our own Torah, and carry it toward freedom.

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Contact me: Rose Lerer Cohen [email protected] www.kin-search.com Cape Jewish Chronicle June 2019 23 Honouring your ageing loved ones Out and about with Jews have recently The loss of independence, driving and the ability members celebrated Pesach. As is to get around without assistance, turns life upside the norm with any major down and will certainly increase the limitations of Jewish Festival, families come together old age and each loss is a wound which can cause to enjoy a meaningful time together. a person to become frustrated because they are hurting inside. As in any grieving process, one As usual, afterwards, things get back to of the early stages of dealing with loss is anger normal and families leave to carry on which can manifest in many different ways. with their daily routines and our seniors are left to their own devices. Empathising with losses that come with age and including our seniors and their friends in our lives n our community and many other towns in South can help you to express honour, patience and IAfrica, it has become evident that the majority love for the elderly as well as providing them with of the communities’ residents are senior citizens. dignity. We also know that in many cases younger family Harry and Debbie Epstein, visitor, Shirley Cohen, Truda members have either emigrated or are not living Most older people measure their personal worth by gauging how well they meet three goals — Goldman and Sylvia Quin at OPEN 24 HOURS in close to their parents, which in the long term can Harrington Street put a tremendous strain on families, especially dependability, ability to maintain close family ties when times of crisis occur. and self-sufficiency. Most do not want to reach out for help and want to do things independently SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Ageing isn’t easy and as we often witness proving themselves dependable and responsible people becoming feisty and argumentative The longer older people feel they can be counted Births and often complaining about something that on to take care of themselves, help their loved Charlotte Berson — great granddaughter seems unnecessary. Honouring ageing parents ones and stay connected to a family or community, Wolfie and Glickie Bloom — great granddaughter or ageing community members can be hard. the more likely they are to remain optimistic. Ettie Buch — great granddaughter Time constraints of those caring for aged often Reina Hurwitz— great granddaughter As a community we should recognise skills and interfere with outside commitments and often the Alan and Pauline Sevitz — granddaughter successes. In order to honour our aged. caregiver really does have to make sacrifices in Engagements order to be able to provide the necessary services • Being part of the community, instead of being Vivienne and Nigel Brooker — daughter for their loved ones. This can be very difficult, kept apart from the community is important Steven and Jos Horwitz — son especially when one cannot necessarily see an and part of the mission of CJSA. We look out Anniversary end in sight. It may mean carving extra time from for opportunities to recognise the significant Maureen and Roy Summerfield 60 one’s own limited personal time and the stress part they can play in one’s life. Birthdays and strain of dealing with their problems, as well • Record your elder’s stories capturing their Sonja Keschner — 90 as their own family time, can be really daunting. history as well as interaction with children and Judith Resnick — 92 grandchildren What motivates a caregiver to keep on caring and We extend our sincere condolences to our • Reinvent memories by sending notes on members those who have lost family members: what keeps the carer persevering? Love should special days as well as phone calls at any time go a long way towards energising and motivating Rabbi Malcolm Mattitiani — father is always so appreciated. Monique Nieuwenhys — grandmother one to care for elders, but the key word is • We all benefit from spending time with old honour — a genuine and sincere love in action. Seymour and Jocelyn Stoch — mother companions as well as making new friends — We extend condolences to the family of members When sincerely honouring parents or other keeping in touch is a reason to get up .and get elders, caregiving becomes a more gratifying who have recently passed away out and ensuring that our seniors are able to do Rebbetzin Bertha Sherman experience. Caregivers use the positive word this is beneficial for all. ‘rewarding’, to describe feelings about caregiving We welcome New Members to the CJSA family: • Regular exercise improves circulation and Cecilia Rogut responsibilities. Loving and honouring our keeps the endorphins (feel good hormones) seniors is worth the effort. coursing through the blood system to. Walking Special Events June In order to honour the aged, respecting losses or even chair exercises are ideal. booking essential for all functions helps to remember that they have travelled a • Latent talents such as baking, writing or any hobby or past time. Computer lessons or any long pathway, facing a variety of obstacles. As TWILIGHT SUPPERS way to get people involved is good too. one ages, your world does not look the same. Sea Point 18 June Rolene Miller, founder • CJSA programmes are all planned to enable Indignities are common and physical disabilities of Mosaic R60 our members to derive the most out of ageing. often result in a diminishing return of life’s simple Milnerton 27 Dr Anastasia Tomson on There are a variety of activities to sort the pleasures and the letting go of one privilege diversity and compassion R70 needs of all and there is no reason for anyone after another associated with independence Wynberg 19 Stefanie Shulter of Two to be alone or lonely at any time during the and autonomy. As life changes and losses Oceans Marathon R60 accumulate, personal identity of an elderly week. An added bonus are our caring drivers person also undergoes change. who are available to transport anyone who no OUTINGS JUNE longer has their own transport. CJSA strives to Southern Suburbs 3 Durbanville Ceramics Important losses that they might endure are:- honour and hold all our members at all time to Exhibition R40 a) Cherished active roles such as mother, ensure that while ageing is not an option, it is 24 Boere Sjiek R40 father, provider, mentor and friend. really possible to live a rich, full and significant Milnerton 4 Wheel at the Waterfront R85 b) A career or job that provided opportunities for life as one ages. 25 Rupert Museum in interaction with others, stimulating interests Stellenbosch R40 and a sense of belonging and making a Farewell Sea Point 19 Big Wheel at the Waterfront difference. R85 It is with great sadness that the CJSA family c) Perceived usefulness, dependability and West Coast 18 District 6 Museum R30 bids farewell to Social Worker Melanie van self-esteem or simply being needed, or being MEN’S SCHMOOZE Emmeness and her husband William who are enjoyed by the people they love, is one of the Milnerton 7 June Gilad Stern speaks on 'Is it leaving South Africa to live with their son and his worst losses. racist to think the Jews are the family in Connecticut, USA. Melanie has been d) Siblings and lifelong friends pass on and their chosen people?' R10 instrumental in starting the West Coast Branch deaths or relocation occurring at a time when Wynberg 12 Gilad Stern (topic above) R10 of CJSA and nurturing its maturing to a viable friendships are more important than ever to Sea Point 28 Gilad Stern (topic above) R10 branch for the last 51/2 years. Special thanks and help your ageing loved one cope with all the mention must also go to William who has always SHABBAT SUPPER 21 June Shabbat Supper in changes. been there to support and assist Mel every step Sea Point at our Centre R80 for members R100 e) Perhaps the most stressful of losses, of the way. We will miss you both dearly and wish non-members. Booking Essential spouse loss, is associated with losing the you all the happiness you deserve in your new role of husband/wife, confidant and lover. OT AZEY Sea Point. 2-4 September with special home. Sometimes this is also associated with guest presenter Shane Baker from New York. Booking Essential. having to move homes or communities. Diana Sochen Executive Director 24 Cape Jewish Chronicle June 2019 Cape Jewish Seniors

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With compliments With Compliments The Henry Van Embden Kalman, Esther and Family Foundation Michael Maisel Trust 26 Cape Jewish Chronicle June 2019 Twilight Manta rays

Story by Maiyan Karidi – for Keshet On a small, remote island, sixty it seemed a very long way. As he sea miles from the mainland tried to concentrate on never putting of Fiji, we were living with a his foot down, the lagoon became friendly Fijian tribe belonging increasingly shallow. He wondered to the weaving clan. how to stay on the surface as the sand grew closer and closer to his y son Keshet at ten years old body. already had a history of living M There was no choice but to put all in Africa, Israel and Mauritius. His his strength into swimming slowly ability to blend with different cultures, on the surface, pick up their inch by inch. language and The darkness participate became more naturally in and more creepy their daily with knowing that activities, was the Manta rays remarkable. were watching On a warm him from below. tropical The laughing evening, he and splashing disappeared had abated and from sight with an eerie silence the village took its place. children on a He could hear small canoe, his own heart on their way beat and felt to throw desperate to fishing nets relax his legs. He near a small looked around islet, far in him and saw two the distance. other boys, doing Together the same. The they threw canoe stayed the nets, and close and all the clambered kids held their back onto the breath. overcrowded c a n o e , Time stood still homeward Photo credit: Andreea, Pexels and his arms and bound. The legs ached. He twilight took them by surprise as had to continue, no matter what. He they spent time playing games in the could feel the tension in the air and warm, turquoise lagoon. The boys realized the darkness had taken over showed him how to swirl a vortex with and he couldn’t see the beach. He their hands in the water and call up tried to focus on the canoe and follow luminescent creatures, shining in the it as closely as possible. looming darkness. He reached the shore feeling as Laughing and splashing on their way, heavy as lead and walked up to a few boys were swimming beside his father with a lump in his throat, the overweight canoe. pushing back the tears. He had turned white. His father saw immediately Keshet was happy to swim and spent that something had happened, put most of his time underwater. About his arm around him and said “Come, half way home the kids in the canoe let’s sit under the tree and you can tell called to him “Be careful Keshet, we me everything.” are in the home of the Manta rays, don’t touch the sand!” This is the story of how my son Keshet, acquired his Fijian name “What?” which means ‘swims with Manta “You are swimming over Manta rays, rays’. The villagers sat in a circle, don’t disturb them, don’t put your foot presented him with a special ‘bilo’ on the sand, stay afloat!” of Kava in honor of his strength and courage. He had earned his identity “Ok”, Keshet called, continuing to within the tribe. stay cool and pretending not to be petrified. Bilo – coconut container Kava – powdered root mixed with He looked towards the beach and water.

The Karidis are an Israeli/South African artist family who have lived and worked in South Africa, Israel, Mauritius and Fiji. Maiyan studied art, anthropology and linguistics and was trained in mosaic restoration in Israel. Tovi studied ceramic design at Betsalel Academy of Arts in Jerusalem. He is also a sound engineer. Their children, Mistorin and Keshet have lived amongst different cultures for most of their lives. Keshet is currently at school at Herzlia High School in Cape Town. These stories form part of a series of experiences of Jewish identity in extraordinary locations. Cape Jewish Chronicle June 2019 27

mensch change-maker of the month Theatre award for Kawalsky Martine Kawalsky won Glenn Stein best actress in a musical at this year’s Cape Not my mother-tongue Amateur Theatre Awards (CATA) ceremony. Language is fundamental a pregnant woman visiting a clinic artine won the award for to human connection and and not being able to understand Mher role as Peppermint communication. It can both the basic, but crucial, questions the Patty in Snoopy the Musical bring us together and divide healthcare practitioner is asking which was staged at the us, and is a lens through which them. In such commonplace cases, Artscape Arena last year. She misdiagnosis occurs far too often is no stranger to the stage, prior we make sense of the world and in some cases a around us. to her role as Peppermint Patty security guard (often in Snoopy, she played the part s a privileged a male) is brought in of Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz ASouth African to act as an interpreter at the Artscape Opera House. Jew, I had to the which is completely She was also involved in the opportunity to spend undignified for the choreography of Ruddigore my gap year in patient, leading to staged at the Artscape Argentina as a Rotary them losing faith and Theatre and has been involved Exchange Student. trust in the public in many productions including Becoming fluent in health system. Such My Fair Lady, The Sound of Spanish opened a issues plague our Music, Annie and The King & whole new universe socio-economic I, to name but a few. of possibilities for development in South me and continues to enrich my life Africa, yet not enough is done to to this day. But it wasn’t the actual resolve it. From page 1 learning of Spanish that made me In 2013, after years of obsessing over come to appreciate language, rather these realities, I decided that I would Di Berrill celebrates 100th birthday the extent to which I suffered in my dedicate my life to language activism. first four months, before I had any I embarked on a journey to leverage By Jaime Uranovsky meaningful grasp of the language. my skills and experiences in the The constant day to day struggle, world of digital product engineering, uring her term as Mayoress of Hospital and was instrumental in from the moment I woke up until I to address these issues. This journey Cape Town, Di made personal saving the institution from being went to sleep, just to understand and D led me to found Aweza, a tech-based visits to the homes of many South demolished in 1992. Regarding social be understood. That period was one initiative that would go on to build a Africans, particularly those living responsibility, Di noted, “Whether of the most difficult of my entire life family of mobile apps and websites in poverty. Her fundraising efforts it’s a Jewish nation or a South and I came extremely close to calling geared towards democratising were very successful resulting in a African nation, we have to believe in it quits and coming home to Cape access to education and healthcare large amount being raised. Di says, ourselves and be strong. ‘Yes, I can. Town on multiple occasions. But services for those who don’t speak “Being mayoress made me feel very Yes, I will. Yes, I do’ is my philosophy. thanks to the strong support structure English as a first language. responsible.” Her term also coincided Those are my words. There’s nothing I had there (caring host families and with Nelson Mandela’s release; you can’t do if you make up your mind a Rotary Councilor — who barely Most notably (and closest to my indeed, Di had the honour of standing to do it. That’s a very important part spoke English), as heart), I recently on the balcony of City Hall alongside of one’s daily life if you are interested well as an incredibly began the pilot of The app allows medical him as he addressed thousands in what is good for the nation and for supportive mother our flagship project on the Grand Parade below. Di the self because you’re responsible who made this whole professionals to speak to in collaboration reminisces, “He inspired me to do the for what you do.” experience possible patients in their mother with the Council best we can for the country.” for me, I found the tongue, using speech for Scientific and When asked how she feels about personal resilience recognition and text-to- Industrial Research, Di has also been highly involved in turning 100, Di said, “It doesn’t bother to push through. And speech synthesis. AwezaMed. community societies such as Club me. It’s just part of living. I’ve got two I’m glad I did. Despite AwezaMed is a 100, International Women’s Club, wonderful sons and I’m very blessed. experiencing these mobile app which Community Chest and Soroptimist My life has been a very interesting struggles daily, I was still grounded addresses communication and International. Additionally, she was experience.” in the context of privilege, safety, and language barriers between medical on the board of directors for Somerset security. The majority of those around professionals and patients in South the world and in South Africa who Africa. The app allows medical keep going and explore gearing isiXhosa speaker. But equally I experience similar such struggles on professionals to speak to patients in the app towards disaster relief. cannot understate the difference a day to day basis are not. their mother tongue, using speech AwezaMed has been entirely self- and impact that learning just a few recognition and text-to-speech key greetings and phrases has had Upon my return to South Africa in funded up to this point, because I synthesis. The current focus is on for me. It's very obvious to me that if 2009, still fresh from this experience, genuinely believe in the project and women’s sexual and reproductive every white South African made the I was for the first time incredibly aware the impact it is already having and health, and is at the end of its first effort to learn a few phrases in an of how the difficulties I faced as a can have in future. I'm now hoping to year of a 2.5 year pilot. indigenous South African language, foreigner in Argentina, were a daily find donors and collaborators to help and got over the fear of sounding like reality for millions of South Africans The feedback thus far has been with its expansion. a fool initially, South Africa would be who weren’t meaningfully exposed to incredibly encouraging. Doctors say But here’s the thing: we don’t all have a much better place. English growing up. Consider what it that it allows them to feel like they to dedicate years of our lives building must be like as a high school student can speak their patients’ language a language startup, to be a language from the Eastern Cape coming to and build stronger trust between activist. In fact, all one needs to do Mensch Network member Glenn Cape Town in the hopes of receiving them, as well as improving their is embrace learning a language Stein is the founder and creator of a better education. Regardless of ability to diagnosis more accurately. as a way of better connecting with AwezaMed, a mobile app which how smart they are, the language The journey to this point has been the people around us for whom addresses communication and barrier will more often than not be the incredibly difficult to say the least, English is not their mother-tongue. language barriers between medical reason that they struggle and in many but the feedback has made it Unfortunately, I cannot yet claim to professionals and patients in South cases fall behind or fail. Or consider worthwhile and invigorated me to be fluent or even an intermediate Africa.

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Players at this year’s WIZO Sponsor-a- Child Golf Day had a marvellous time and, as always, the prizes were out of this world thanks to the generous support of sponsors. eld on 11 April at King HDavid Mowbray Golf Club, the tournament was masterfully organised by WIZO’s ‘queen of the green’, Donné Querido. Play ended at around 5.30pm as the Lynton Cassel, Tate Eshelby, Hylton Segall and Donné Querido 28 four-ball teams came in from the course in time to be Overall winners! Glenda Muller, Rona Maskie, Sandy Swanson and treated to a gin tasting and Wei Mason sushi, before being served a delicious dinner. WIZO thanks both the players and sponsors, who make this day a highlight on the golfing calendar. Monies raised go to WIZO’s ‘Sponsor-a-Child’ fund for disadvantaged youth, and the Saartjie Baartman Centre, a shelter in Manenberg that provides a refuge and place of safety for women and children escaping abusive relationships. 2nd place winners — Julian Ellison, Jack Levy, Stan Katz and 4th place winners — Coenraad Van Graan, Anton McElhone, Evan Robert Feinblum D’arcy-Jones and Steve Van Zyl

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By Jaime Uranovsky

enjamin, who has lived in Israel paper… then we went to Israel at the event stood out Bfor more than twenty years, is invitation of the late Rabbi Mickey to him during his well known and highly respected for Rosen, who asked me to come start career in South his prolific journalistic contribution a dialogue centre called Yakar… and Africa, Benjamin both in South Africa and abroad, we simply stayed on there.” explained, “The as well as for his dedication to joke was that they Despite living abroad, Benjamin human rights advocacy. While the closed the [Rand feels deeply connected to South list of his achievements and writing Daily Mail] to get Africa and visits often to see his endeavours is difficult to summarise, rid of me because children and grandchildren. “I felt his twenty-six years at the Rand I was part of the deeply honoured to be one of two Daily Mail during the height of furniture… I was dozen recipients of various orders… apartheid speak for hugely fortunate I stood there… themselves of as a journalist totally honoured to his courage and because of the …standing up there be in the presence write a word about it. Just imagine integrity. quality of the people I knew. And the listening to the Soweto of these, mainly, that scene! I was deputy-editor of a important thing to a journalist… was He recounted, “We choir singing ‘Nkosi South Africans who leading newspaper and I had to go that I had people whom I trusted to left [South Africa] in had done the most to my colleagues and say, ‘I’m going Sikelel'iAfrika’ was an give me accurate information, even 1986. I was deputy- amazing things to be seeing Nelson Mandela this intensely emotional when they imperilled their own liberty. editor of the Rand in their lives… weekend and I cannot write a word experience. And they, in turn, trusted me to report Daily Mail, …which Because, I’m from about it.’” accurately and that was it, when I was too fiercely this country, I come think back, you know: the people Benjamin’s writing career is far from anti-apartheid; we were closed back a great deal, I write about this I knew and whom I know. Nelson over and his new book, a collection of down by our business owners under country, I comment on it all the time Mandela was a good friend. I was essays assessing Robert Sobukwe’s pressure from the government. I was but I’m Israeli. And standing up the first non-family person allowed to legacy, will be released in South simply unemployable at that time… there listening to the Soweto choir visit him in prison after about twenty Africa this November. “I’m still totally So Britain gave me sanctuary …and I singing ‘Nkosi Sikelel'iAfrika’ was an years and I didn’t do so as a journalist steeped in South Africa even though was on Queen Street newspapers for intensely emotional experience.” but as a friend. But I had to give the I live in Israel and am occupied with eight years. Then we went to America On being asked which story or government a promise that I wouldn’t Israeli affairs,” Benjamin said. where I was editing an international 30 Cape Jewish Chronicle June 2019 HELP KEEP Appreciation tea a success EVERYONE Women of Action Another successful Domestic Workers Tea was hosted by the UJW Cape in March. WARM he day was filled with fun and laughter, music and dancing as Tdomestic workers enjoyed some pampering and a break from their THIS WINTER day to day work. Lunch was served, full goodie bags were given and wonderful prizes handed out, leaving no-one without something to remember the day. The domestic workers were also given a professional PASS ON YOUR NEW OR talk about diabetes and the importance of following a balanced diet. It PRE-LOVED SCARVES, was a day thoroughly enjoyed by all. BEANIES, GLOVES, SOCKS & BLANKETS For Souper Troopers

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Students moved by survivor's story Chabad on Campus and the SA Union of Jewish Students hosted 97-year-old Ella Blumenthal at a Yom HaShoah event in May. Ella shared her personal story of pain, loss and survival and made an impact on all the students who had come to hear her speak. he students, many of whom had never met a survivor before, had the opportunity to meet, interact and hear first-hand from Ella in an intimate setting. Ella Tis a powerful woman and a true matriarch of our community. We asked two students to tell us how they were moved by hearing Ella’s story: istening to her speak about how week because I have so many exams hat stood out for me was me greatly was how she told us “Lher family managed to save the and I don’t know how to handle it. I “Wwhen she spoke about that luck and good fortune aren’t Sefer Torah from the Nazi’s ghetto fire mean I know suffering is relative but during their time of hiding which the reasons she’s still here and made me remember the vows I made still, I felt silly. She really put life and so happened to be speaking to us to myself when i was in Poland last the important things into perspective around the time of today. year — to live more Jewishly, to have a for me. What stood out for me was Pesach, her father Another anecdote that The real reason Jewish family and raise her will to live and was able to save moved me greatly was why she’s still my kids Jewish. This her drive to survive morsels of Matzah What stood out for me how she told us that strong and is year away from home and push through all for her and her was her will to live and luck and good fortune fortunate enough has made it difficult to the suffering and the family, because for to wake up every live as Jewishly as I her drive to survive and pain. It really inspired me, keeping the aren’t the reasons morning to see would have liked to, so push through all the me to be Jewish, if tradition of the holy she’s still here and the sun rise is hearing how the she suffering and the pain. she and many of our holidays plays a speaking to us today. due to the fact risked her life to live people pushed so pivotal part of my that Hashem’s as a Jew reminded me hard through all of Judaism… how presence was, and continues to how important it is and how easy for me that just to be here and exist, I need Ella’s father who faced such terror be, around her. That she still has it is to upkeep. It renewed my resolve. to carry this on and pass it down to my and risked destruction yet still faith after all she’s been through It also put life in to perspective for me. kids and them to theirs.” stuck to fulfilling the mitzvah of inspired me greatly.” I cried when I was listening to her talk Pesach by feasting on Matzah… Carli Borer, 20, UCT about what she had to go through and I Jade Spiro, 19, FEDISA Business Science Another anecdote that moved thought to myself, I was just crying last Bachelors in Fashion Design

Ella gave time to answer each student's questions Ella lit up the room Ella with Jade Spiro after her talk How to be happy and free The Rebbe, of righteous learned from this, of which I will point be no real freedom — freedom from and do all that G‑d memory, would periodically out but one: any fear of oppression by others, commanded us in His and freedom from one’s own evil holy Torah. Like our issue a pastoral letter in Our Sages tell us that when Moshe inclinations — except through laws ancestors at Mount preparation for the Shavuot was about to lead of justice and Sinai, we also must holiday. Below we bring you the children of We cannot be truly free people, righteousness, proclaim: Naaseh v’nishmah — we Israel out of Egypt, one such message addressed which only the will do and learn; and only then will he told them of nor would we be worthy of such to youth. Creator of all we have lasting freedom. G-d’s promise to freedom, unless we take upon mankind could ear Friend, give the Torah Indeed, it was their determination, ourselves to observe and do all make, because D to His beloved while still in Egypt, to accept the Torah Following Pesach, the Festival that G‑d commanded us in His He knows best people following that merited them their liberation of Our Liberation, comes Shavuot, holy Torah. what is good for their liberation from enslavement. Likewise at this the Festival of the Receiving of Our them. It is not from bondage. At time, our return to the Torah and its Torah. surprising, therefore, that they were once they asked when would that observance, while awaiting for the so eager to receive the Divine Torah, The days of Sefirah (Counting of the happy day be, and Moshe replied that Redemption, will hasten the coming containing those wonderful laws to Omer), beginning immediately on it would be fifty days later. Every day of Mashiach and merit us the true guide them and all the world. the morrow of the first day of Pesach the children of Israel counted: One and complete Redemption in our own and ending on the eve of Shavuot, day is gone, two days, three, and Let us also remember that we cannot day. connect these two great festivals. so on, and eagerly looked forward be truly free people, nor would we Wishing you a happy Shavuot, to the fiftieth day. The children of be worthy of such freedom, unless Many significant lessons can be Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson Israel understood that there could we take upon ourselves to observe 32 Cape Jewish Chronicle June 2019 Cape Town Torah High observes Yom HaShoah and Yom Ha’Atzmaut

Nothing has impacted Jewish the Kodesh and To mark Israel week, Rabbi Brett life in the 20th century more secular streams highlighted personalities who than the decimation wrought of our school. exemplified love for Eretz Yisrael in by the Holocaust and the hope Throughout our ancient and modern history and and haven created by the Holocaust week, by showcasing Beneath the Helmet, after Shacharit, a powerful eye-opening documentary establishment of the State of Rabbi Dani Brett exploring the lives and minds of Israel. began each day by Israeli teenagers as they graduate oday, we find ourselves in a sharing the stories High School and join the IDF. In Tworld where Holocaust education of inspirational light of the recent hail of rockets has never been more necessary. Torah personalities on Israel’s south, students wrote It is hard to avoid the ever-present who survived letters of love and encouragement to signs of prejudice and hate in the the Shoah and residents affected by the terror, and world around us and it is here where defeated Hitler by joined an international campaign to modern education must find its place. rebuilding their Mr Luba Myekiso, Director of the Israel advocacy group, take on pledges of Torah and mitzvot lives, families, Africa for Israel, speaks at a schoolwide assembly in honour of the Jews of Israel. Our Schools, above all else, must strive communities and Israel education was rounded off people is one built on the survival to be producers of hope. Educators institutions. Through these lessons by a visit from Israel advocate, Mr. of these stories. The younger need to equip the next generation to of hope, each day began centred on Luba Mayekiso, who runs an Israel grades reflected on the poem, The grow up to be change-makers and in the power of the human spirit. During Advocacy organisation, Africa for Butterfly, written in the Warsaw turn, producers of hope themselves. this week Rabbi Kalman Green Israel and serves as a beacon of Ghetto. Examining this poem fed into At Cape Town Torah High, two of also presented lessons based on light in a national political landscape student’s personal introspection on our founding principles are that Holocaust survivors as they shared where Israel is routinely condemned their hopes and dreams for the world students will be passionate about their testimonies. and falsely vilified. their Judaism, and possess a feeling today. In the wings of butterflies, our of connection and love towards the On Yom HaShoah Ve’haGevurah junior students wrote their prayers Celebrating Yom Ha’atzmaut would land of Israel. These values are not itself, the school collaborated with for a peaceful world, now decorating not be complete without enjoying just marked by observing two dates the Cape Town Holocaust and the walls of our school. The day was some Israeli food and music and a in our calendar, but in Yom HaShoah Genocide Centre and Mrs. Linda then wrapped by senior students visit to the community carnival at the and Yom Ha’atzmaut we find a Hackner ran a powerful visual joining the community ceremony Zip Zap Circus. Here CTTH teachers, springboard for a multi-dimensional workshop and discussion for the in Pinelands. Here students were students and parents joined together examination of the lessons that we senior students that centred around a empowered hearing the testimony in a candle-making workshop are still learning in the wake of these toddler’s tragically abandoned shoe of Holocaust survivor, Miriam celebrating the theme of spreading moments in history. found at Auschwitz. This workshop Lichterman, and took home the the light. CTTH also provided the led to exploring a valuable lesson in inspiring lessons of how she built her opportunity for all children to put We spent these weeks weaving how and why we study history and family and community based on the on tefillin and pledge a letter in the together an awareness through both how our own history as the Jewish values of hope and joy. international children’s Torah.

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Eco-living tour & tea Mensch spent a sunny morning in May visiting the home of Network Member Janna Kretzmar and family to learn about the ‘off-grid eco- lifestyle’ they are creating. Janna and husband Andrew Jamieson introduced concepts of permaculture and circular systemps which they are implementing to reverse the trend of how homes have become places of consumption rather than production. We toured the ‘food forest’, the grey water wetland filtration bed, learnt about the biodigester and the eco-choices they have made in renovating the house. Followed by a hot drink made on the biogas stove! --> save sunday the 21 July date 2019

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By Harris Green

Telfed’s 70th anniversary year cater to the needs of new immigrants Southern Africans is drawing to an end. from Southern Africa. In its first three have made their decades, Telfed’s focus was on homes in Israel. elfed staged a number of immigrant absorption. Immigration That’s quite a Tspecial events to celebrate can be expressed in numbers. community. Many this remarkable milestone. These Absorption is much more than that. of them have made included a meeting with President and continue to Absorption is about creating Reuven Rivlin, a well-attended make significant opportunities for new immigrants. It’s community picnic and a chronological contributions to about giving them a vision and making publication featuring the highlights of Israel’s growing them an integral part in the fulfillment Telfed’s illustrious history. list of impressive of their Zionist dreams. It’s about successes. In addition, Telfed launched the developing and successfully utilising ambitious Telfed History Project. This their skills. It’s about facilitating their Telfed’s office is run initiative culminated in the creation of President Reuven Rivlin greets Telfed representatives, integration into society and making by a small, dedicated including Harris Green, at the President's Residence in an online digital archive of Telfed’s them useful citizens. group of professional Jerusalem in August 2018 records and history. This website staff members Helping olim find housing and more affluent countries is basic, enables former Southern Africans to supported by more than 300 active employment in a new country is minimal and impersonal. share their personal Aliyah stories volunteers. fundamental to the absorption and their connections to Telfed. This And that’s where we come in. Telfed process. Adapting to a new In its earlier years, Telfed’s financial impressive archive includes video still has a vital role to play in servicing environment, learning a new requirements were financed by interviews and digitised copies of the needs of our community and language and providing new the Jewish Agency. Unfortunately, all the Telfed magazines published those South Africans who have yet immigrants with functioning social the Jewish Agency is no longer the since 1975. to make their homes in Israel. The and cultural infrastructures, are financial powerhouse it once was. demand for these services clearly And while celebrating these events, formidable challenges. Successful Its priorities have changed. Jewish exists. Telfed’s volunteers argue that Telfed’s leadership continued to immigrant absorption has long identity has replaced Aliyah as its the organisation’s best-kept secret ponder its future. Does an annual been Israel’s prime objective and main focus. Absorption has been is the work it does to enhance the Aliyah rate of 350 olim from South Telfed’s contribution to achieving delegated to the government’s communal quality of our lives. Africa justify the existence of an this objective amongst olim from Ministry of Absorption. Their focus organization dedicated to providing Southern African has been crucial. is on providing generic services to Telfed’s job is far from done. Our quality Klitah services? olim from diaspora communities in future is still way ahead of us. Twenty-five thousand former Telfed was initially established to distress. Assistance to olim from Somewhere over the rainbow. 34 Cape Jewish Chronicle June 2019 Cape Jewish Chronicle June 2019 35 Polish anti-Semitism is serious, but Yair Lapid is overreaching

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Why are the Poles guiltier for the Holocaust as zealously as some creating and running extermination witnessing Jewish victims were suggesting, Netanyahu told camps,” he said. “Poles handed over arrive at concentration camps reporters on a visit to Warsaw that no- Jews to the Germans and thus sent than are the Dutch or Greeks one disputed that “Poles cooperated them to death.” with Nazis.” This comment resulted who watched them being Later on, he continued: “There were in a furious response from the many Polish Righteous Among the dragged out of their homes to Polish government, with Polish Nations who saved Jews, and we are get there? Prime Minister Mateusz Marowiecki grateful to them for all time. But can promptly announcing that he would ver the last year, Yair Lapid, the you pretend that there were no Polish boycott a summit in Jerusalem the Oco-chair of Israel’s opposition helpers in the extermination camps? following week involving Israel, Blue and White Party, has made Of course, they were!” And finally, Poland and three other central several outspoken statements about there was this: “It is no coincidence European countries. Poland, Polish anti-Semitism and the that the Nazis created their center of Holocaust. Each time, his message Since then, the anti-Semitic extermination in Poland. They knew has been the same: Poland is playing atmosphere in Poland has worsened. that the Polish population would help a deceitful game by denying the A common theme in the media is the them.” complicity of many ordinary Poles claim that the Jews are invoking the Some of these statements are true in the Nazi extermination of the specter of Polish guilt as a prelude and can be illustrated with historical Jews; contemporary anti-Semitism to forcing Poland into passing a on the continent, 2.9 million — in documentation—for example, the in Poland is reflective of a hatred law restituting the individual assets other words, about half of the total betrayal of at least 60 000 Jews to the of Jews going back centuries; any of Polish Jews that were stolen number of Holocaust victims — most Gestapo by their Polish neighbors. Israeli politician who refuses to during the war—an act that Polish of whom died in the extermination But the more dramatic claims made recognise this reality is dishonoring nationalists would regard as a camps built and managed by the by Lapid here have little basis in the victims of the Holocaust. treacherous abandonment of the Nazis in the same country where historical truth, and repeating them principle that Germany, and Germany they lived. By Nazi standards, this All of this has taken place against only damages the fight against Polish alone, was and remains responsible was all very efficient. the background of a government- historical revisionism. led offensive in Poland aimed at for the fate of the Jews. Secondly, Poland’s relatively No one denies that there was a establishing an unmovable doctrine: Then there were the Easter advanced rail system and its central powerful anti-Semitic political that the three million Polish Jews celebrations of two location in Europe influenced the movement in Poland murdered during World War II are the weeks ago — an Nazi extermination planners. between World War responsibility of the Germans alone; eerily disturbing The idea that the Nazis I and World War II, Finally, and this is something that Poles suffered as much as the Jews reminder, as situated the six main as was the case Lapid should think about, the trains did from the German occupation; Jews around the extermination camps in in many countries that carried Jews to the slaughter Poles tried to protect Jews whenever world celebrated Poland solely because of Europe. But had to leave from somewhere else the opportunity allowed. Legislation Passover, of how when the Nazis before arriving at one of those approved by the Polish parliament in persistent the of the country’s native occupied Poland, extermination camps in Poland. The 2018 effectively makes it a crime to presence of anti- tradition of anti-Semitism they digressed trains came bearing Jews from Paris, discuss the notion of Polish collusion Semitism in Poland is also fanciful and from their practice Amsterdam, Budapest, Salonika and with the Nazi regime. is, from ordinary needlessly insulting. elsewhere on the all other points of the compass; cities rural folk all the Lapid’s emergence as the loudest continent by directly and towns where their neighbors saw way to the upper voice in Israel opposing Polish administering the country. As their Jewish fellow citizens dragged echelons of the Catholic Church. In revisionism is based partly on his a result, there was no Polish from their homes and schools, to be the small town of Pruchnik, we were having grown up in a family that was equivalent of Pétain in France or herded to their deaths in Poland. treated to the spectacle of a group of scarred, like nearly everyone else’s, Quisling in Norway. Nor did you find adults and young children dragging Why are the Poles guiltier for by the Holocaust. Like most of us, he Poles serving in the SS, as was the an anti-Semitic effigy of Judas watching the victims arrive than are takes the Holocaust personally. But case with Ukrainians or Lithuanians. through the streets, while Catholic the Dutch or the Greeks who watched there is also a political calculation Nor was there a Polish pro-Nazi Bishop Andrzej Jez dedicated his them leave? involved. Lapid’s nemesis, Israeli paramilitary, like the Ustaša in Croatia Holy Thursday sermon to blaming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, or the Arrow Cross in Hungary. Yet The fact that it is Poland that has alleged Jewish control of the media has looked vulnerable on the issue Lapid claims nonetheless that the chosen to weaponise the Holocaust for the myriad stories of sexual abuse of Poland, having been criticised by, Polish nation bears the lion’s share during its current nationalist in the Church. among others, the famed Holocaust of Holocaust guilt. resurgence doesn’t license us to historian Yehuda Bauer for allegedly So there is little for reason for Jews be cavalier with the truth, to make The idea that the Nazis situated compromising the integrity of the to feel positively about Poland at vague or inaccurate statements, or to the six main extermination camps Shoah for the sake of a closer the moment, and doubtless there repeat falsehoods that can be simply in Poland solely because of the strategic and economic relationship are many in our community who disproved. country’s native tradition of anti- with the nationalist government in wholeheartedly endorse Lapid’s Semitism is also fanciful and The moral high ground is always Warsaw. latest attacks on Poland’s war record needlessly insulting. where the truth can be found. Lapid’s point was inadvertently last Friday. The reasoning in Berlin, if one can Ben Cohen is a New York City-based demonstrated by Netanyahu himself In an interview with a Polish news call it that, was based far more on journalist and author who writes last February. In an off-handed outlet, Lapid made the following strategic considerations. Poland had a weekly column on Jewish and attempt to prove that Poland wasn’t comments. “Poles cooperated in really policing the discourse around the largest single population of Jews international affairs for JNS.

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By Anton Katz Law regulates conduct law due to the nature of air travel. atmosphere, is a rather new area of Office for Outer between humans, between The business aspects of airlines and law; much of space law is connected Space Affairs humans and institutional their regulation also fall under aviation to aviation law. Space law is the subcommittee, bodies, such as corporations law. Aviation law directly affects body of law governing space-related aid in governing and governments, and individuals on a daily basis. Flight activities. It includes both international international space routes, and in particular reciprocity and domestic agreements, rules, and law and policy. between these non-natural of landing rights has a significant principles. So, questions arise: does Challenges that legal persons. But what about impact on how and where we travel. the United States own the moon space law will continue to face in the happens in space. Is there law In the 1990s the South African because it managed to put a man on future are fourfold — spanning across concerning what occurs in government’s decision to make the the moon first, and is the only country dimensions of domestic compliance, outer space, the area beyond international airport in Johannesburg to have done so? Who decides? And international cooperation, ethics, and the earth’s atmosphere? (now OR Tambo what laws apply? the advent of scientific innovations. International There are only a Aviation law airport) as the prime The notion of space as the fixed number of Furthermore, specific guidelines on hub in South Africa, province of all humankind spots available for the definition of airspace have yet efore turning to space law, it and develop it to be satellites that are in to be universally determined. Space is worth recalling that during is key idea in United B the African hub had Nations space activities. geostationary orbit. law include space exploration, apartheid air travel to and from major implications. Many countries on liability for damage, weapons use, South Africa to Europe or the United It became difficult the equator believe rescue efforts, environmental States was somewhat prolonged. to fly from Cape Town directly that they have the right to control preservation, information sharing, The airplane had to detour because to any destination outside South the space above their countries. new technologies, and ethics, the it was not permitted to fly over many Africa. That is changing with daily As more countries want to launch preservation of the space and Earth African territories, which were hostile direct flights to world hubs, such as geostationary satellites, conflicts environment, liability for damages to South African apartheid. The Istanbul, Dubai and Addis Ababa, between countries will likely continue. caused by space objects, the law relating to air travel generally and a new direct flight to Newark in settlement of disputes, the rescue of A number of fundamental principles is known as aviation law. Aviation New York beginning in December astronauts, the sharing of information guide the conduct of space activities. law is the law that governs flight, 2019. about potential dangers in outer The notion of space as the province air travel, and associated legal and space, the use of space-related of all humankind is key idea in business concerns. Some of its area Higher than the sky technologies, and international United Nations space activities. of concern overlaps that of admiralty cooperation. Many fields of law, such Nevertheless, developing nations law and, in many cases, aviation law Space law, governing matters in as administrative law, intellectual are concerned that the spacefaring is considered a matter of international outer space beyond the Earth’s property law, arms control law, nations will monopolize space insurance law, environmental law, resources. criminal law, and commercial law, are The origins of space law date also integrated within space law. back to 1919, with international law recognising each country’s Jewish thought on life on Mars sovereignty over the airspace directly above their territory, Rabbi Menachem Schneersen later reinforced at the Chicago was asked by Dr Velvi Greene, a Convention in 1944. The onset of microbiologist working for NASA domestic space programs during privately, if looking for life on Mars the Cold War propelled the official was something he should be doing. creation of international space policy The Rebbe replied: “Dr. Greene, look (i.e. the International Geophysical for life on Mars! And if you don’t find Year) initiated by the International it there, look somewhere else in the Council of Scientific Unions. The universe for it. Because for you to sit Soviet Union’s 1957 launch of the here and say there is no life outside world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik of planet Earth is to put limitations on 1, directly spurred the United States the Creator, and that is not something Congress to pass the Space Act, thus any of His creatures can do!” So, creating the National Aeronautics hopefully by the time the little green and Space Administration (NASA). alien arrives on earth and says: Because space exploration required ”Take me to your leader!” humans crossing transnational boundaries, will have figured out a way, perhaps it was during this era where space through space law, to respond in a law became a field independent from meaningful and peaceful manner. In traditional aerospace law. saying this, I obviously don’t mean it literally. What is crucial is that issues The Outer Space Treaty of climate change, and all things, and that includes outer space, that Since the Cold War, the Treaty on affect all humans are regulated Principles Governing the Activities of and managed in a manner that is States in the Exploration and Use of sustainable and with respect to each Outer Space, including the Moon and human being’s dignity. Indeed, so it Other Celestial Bodies (the “Outer is often said: “If humans could put Space Treaty”) and the International a man on the moon, why can’t we Telecommunications Union have eliminate poverty?” served as the foundational legal framework and set of principles Anton Katz SC, a senior counsel and procedures constituting space practicing at the Cape Bar, was law. Further, the United Nations a member (2011-2018) of the UN Committee on Peaceful Uses of Human Rights Council Working Outer Space, along with its The Group on mercenaries Cape Jewish Chronicle June 2019 39 40 Cape Jewish Chronicle June 2019 JACOB GITLIN LIBRARY

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He a secret unit that will act independently of all organizations and expands on how it became an integral part of the celebration recruit as well as train them. Their mission is to stop a militant of Sukkot during the Second Temple. He takes the reader on Red Army faction, which has returned to terrorize Europe. a journey from which one emerges with understanding of the In this fast-paced thriller, they soon find that the hunter may Etrog as a symbol of all fruits of the land and beloved by the become the hunted. Jewish people as a whole. MEMENTO PARK by MARK SARVAS. Matt Santos receives WITNESS: LESSONS FROM ELIE WIESEL’S CLASSROOM an unexpected phone call from the Australian consulate about by ARIEL BURGER. In this book, Ariel takes us into the sacred a painting Budapest Street Scene by Ervin Kalman which space of Wiesel’s classroom. They met when Burger was fifteen may have been looted from his family in Hungary during the and he remained his devoted protégé and mentor. 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An original work floating from one by forbidden acts of kindness such as sharing clothing, food of her life experiences to another as she seeks to understand rations and replacing an ailing friend during work detail. Using the creativity in these. A delightful, insightful and humorous more than two hundred survivor memoirs, he shares this recollection of childhood. testament to their courageous actions. BELONGING by NORA KRUG. In this evocative graphic ASHES TO LIGHT by NELLY BEN-OR. Born in the 1930’s in memoir, Krug wrestles with her family ties to Nazi Germany. Lvov, Nelly’s early life was overshadowed by the Shoah. She For Nora, the simple fact of her German citizenship and that all escaped with false identity papers to Warsaw but hiding her four of her grandparents lived through the war bound her to the Jewish identity for a long period left her scarred. After the war, Holocaust and its atrocities. She returns to Germany to visit Nelly flourished in her musical career moving from Jerusalem archives, conduct research and interview family members. to England becoming an internationally distinguished concert Krug’s format of scrapbook layering and colourful drawings pianist. Her extraordinary story of resilience during and after create a synergy between form and content. the Holocaust is moving. THE PHOTOGRAPHER AT SIXTEEN by GEORGE SZIRTES. THE BOY WHO FOLLOWED HIS FATHER INTO AUSCHWITZ A memoir flowing backward in time of his ‘supposed’ Lutheran by JEREMY DRONFIELD. The author draws on the accounts mother. In 1975, Magda Szirtes died en route to hospital after from Gustav Kleinmann’s camp diary and his young son of attempting to take her own life. He delves into her past — her fourteen, Fritz’s, post-war memoir. 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By Julian Richfield There can be very few of to balance the ‘oy’ with the ‘joy’ is us who are not concerned an exhortation that could well be about the rise and spread shared with many other groups of antisemitism around the that have become the objects world. of discrimination and prejudice. In the words of the Hebrew ntisemitism is not a one- Scriptures, ‘be strong and of good Adimensional topic and in courage.’ Never stop fighting the Antisemitism Here And Now, good fight, even as you rejoice in Deborah Lipstadt has given us a who you are.” vital and timeous analysis of the issue. Antisemitism Here and Now I was lucky enough to meet Deborah Lipstadt Lipstadt is Dorot Professor of should I believe be essential at the 2017 Franschhoek Literary Festival Modern Jewish History and reading to all of us who are and we had a chat for a couple of minutes. Holocaust Studies at Emory concerned about prejudice, She mentioned then that she was busy with University in Atlanta, Georgia. demand a response from readers. racism and the disturbing surge a book on antisemitism and I said that I She is maybe best known for her Professor Lipstadt ends the of anti-Jewish rhetoric. Deborah looked forward to reading and reviewing it. book History on Trial: My Day book with this entreaty: “You Lipstadt has cleverly pitched the I remember that she said I shouldn’t be in a in Court with David Irving and can participate in a vibrant tone of her book so that it and its hurry, it was still a work in progress. the film Denial (starring Rachael Jewish future. You will encounter many important messages will be Weisz) which was based on it. The wait was certainly rewarded, the book, antisemitism along the way, but clearly accessible to any level of Antisemitism Here and Now, is outstanding. According to Professor Lipstadt, I entreat you to avoid letting this reader. antisemitism is not the hatred of ‘longest hatred’ become the After I finished reading it, we chatted online This is not a weighty, intimidating people who happen to be Jews. linchpin of your identity. Jewish about a few antisemitism-related things tome, it is an important and topical It is hatred of them because they tradition in all its manifestations and I thought you might find Professor read that will resonate loudly with are Jews. And like other forms — religious, secular, intellectual, Lipstadt’s views on a few of these useful and all its readers. of prejudice, this one occurs communal, artistic, and so much interesting: independently of any action by more — is far too valuable to be Immediately after I’d finished I told her that I had heard from quite a few Jews. tossed aside and replaced with a reading it, I felt the need to go for a people in our community that they liked singular concentration on the fight jog by myself in Newlands forest, The book, amongst other Donald Trump because he was good for against hatred. This need for Jews to absorb and to reflect. things, asks and answers Israel… these questions: What “I think Donald Trump has done some is antisemitism? Does it excellent things for Israel. Every candidate come from the right or the committed to moving the embassy and left? Is anti-Zionism the never did it. He did it. same as antisemitism? 0869990120 Are there different kinds of However, I think he has done some dangerous [email protected] anti-Semites? and, What things as well. He has emboldened white can be done to combat this supremacists and white power groups extremely racist ideology? who are inherently antisemitic. I am not suggesting that he is a white supremacist, “Given that I have already but he has made them feel that he is, and he spent so much of my has never disavowed them. “ scholarly and personal time HAVE A PROJECT skulking in the sewers of I then asked her if we should be wary of antisemitism and genocide, Jeremy Corbin and the Labour Party? why should this project have IN MIND? “I think we should be very concerned. been any different from the Since I wrote the book, things have only many others that preceded LET’S TALK. gotten worse. At the heart of things is the it? 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46 Cape Jewish Chronicle June 2019 continued from page 8 Using my Nudel What’s in a changing name? Let the games resume! by Richard (Saevitzon) Shavei-Tzion n some cultures By Craig Nudelman Inames are so And then it was over. Our thumbs role in the excellent results complex, how were (mostly) purple, our blue and of these parties. And the could they possibly pink ballots were in the box and we main issue driving identity be remembered? had to wait patiently for the results in South Africa for the past International cricketer of the most hotly contested election few years has been land. Gampalage Shehan The EFF is obviously Naveendra De South Africa has ever seen. the most well-known party with respect to Fonseka Gunawarna ur 6th democratic election was deemed the land question. They were the driving Jayasuriya is a typical O‘free and fair’ on 11 May. After three force behind the attempt to introduce land Sri Lankan name days of furious vote counting, the ANC had expropriation without compensation. This which may include the come out victorious. However, their grip over issue goes further than just legislation. It name of an ancestral South African politics is clearly becoming will see the amendment of the Constitution. village, rank in the looser than before, with 57% of the And it’s not just any part of the Constitution, village hierarchy, electorate deeming them worthy of running but for all intents and purposes the most ancestors’ profession the country, a big change from the 62% they sacrosanct section of the Constitution: the and more. received in 2014. What can we take out from Bill of Rights. Malema and the EFF have The Torah expends these elections, besides for the controversial used discourse around land as a tool to take hundreds of indelible ink and double voting issues? in disillusioned voters from the ANC, those Fanny/Feigel and Charles Morris/Yechiel lines listing male Moshe Saevitzon The first thing we can analyse is voter who have not seen any change in the last lineage. Yet of the turnout. Now, just after voting day, I looked 25 years. With nearly 50% unemployment approximately two around the staffroom, some shops and other for people aged between 16 to 35 in South million souls who left Egypt we know the names of just a few areas, and I noticed many thumbs with faded Africa, it’s understandable that there would dozen. God changed our founding parents’ names and Moses’ brown on the nail and skin surrounding it. be simmering resentment. father-in-law had seven different ones according to Midrash. But according to the statistics this wasn’t The land issue has also given traction to the Until the modern age the record of almost everyone who was the case in many areas around South Africa. FF+. Founded by Constand Viljoen as an not rich or famous, lived and died with their descendants. Voter turnout was the lowest it’s ever been, at alternative Afrikaner Nationalist party in 1994, And not so long ago, most people did not even know their nearly 67% of registered voters. This means they have gradually lost power throughout grandparents in their adult life. So their names disappeared or that nearly nine million people did not vote at the years, as their voters were taken in by were remembered vaguely. Have we not all told family stories all, and it was predominantly the youth (18- the open arms of the DA. However, it is and then heard those same tales told by our siblings or cousins 25) who did not vote. This sends a message once again being seen as the party for white with a twist on our version? Meticulous digital recording of to the parties out there – nobody is speaking Afrikaaans South Africans who are fearful human identity, from name through blood-type to DNA, is a the language these people want to hear. of their land being taken away. The DA has modern development. A lot of people say that this happened been rather wishy-washy on the land issue, Then there is the phenomenon of the wandering Jew. As our because there is little voter education. thus losing a massive support base. The FF+ forefathers and mothers traversed continents and culture However, I beg to differ. I have been teaching has said that, regarding land expropriation through the millennia, they chose or were forced to adapt to Life Orientation at Herzlia for three years without compensation, “The Freedom Front local custom and mold their identities, down to their names. (It now. One of the biggest sections we cover Plus launched specific action, for instance, is a testament to the power of tradition that they continued to in the High School is civic responsibility, we already laid a charge at United Nations give their children Jewish names throughout the dispersion.) which includes voting. We follow the national Human Rights Council. We have submitted My great-grandparents and grandparents were born in syllabus, which means that for nine years partition in parliament.” And although they Europe and immigrated to Cape Town, South Africa. In their since the Curriculum Assessment Policy won’t have much say when it comes to a cases, Yiddish was dropped in favor of English. Siblings Statement (CAPS) was introduced, voter vote to amend the Bill of Rights (a two thirds of my two grandfathers included Harry, Phillip and Louis, education has been taking place at school majority is needed to amend it), they will fight names of Western European kings rather than Latvian and level. This demonstrates that most voters tooth and nail — the modern bittereinders. Byelorussian locals. Our parents were born in Cape Town between the ages of 18-25 have had The DA has said it wants to build a South and made Aliya. Hence the mingling and morphing of Yiddish, education around the importance of voting. Africa for all, but how can they be the European, English and Israeli titles. My father was known to To blame the low turnout on inadequate voice of all the people? They certainly did his children as Albert and to his grandchildren as Sabba Abba. education does not make sense. The not get the votes to prove they are. How Our grandchildren will wonder how their Savta Cheryl whose political parties should take the blame for can the blue wave wash over the anger of Hebrew teacher re-named her Tziona was born as Chesnah. not communicating with the youth in the the disenfranchised youth or the fear of Our kids and grandchildren have only Hebrew names. (I gobbledygook they call election manifestos. the Afrikaner volk who fear being removed remember our parents’ consternation having descendants We can then consider the winners and from their land? The ANC will also not be named Mor, Bar, Hen and the like.) Hoping that our offspring losers of the vote. The ANC did indeed win able to bear down on its evergreen support will never leave this cherished land, perhaps their given names the election, but with a majority of 57%, a base, as was seen in Kwazulu-Natal, where will travel with them down the length of their lives. 5% decrease since 2014. This translates Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s IFP made an incredible resurgence and stole four seats As for family names, you will note from mine that therein lies into 19 less seats in Parliament, and also back from the ANC. another story. I would guess that you have one too. has massive implications in provincial legislatures throughout the country. The It appears that we are not only heading The author was born in Cape Town and lives in Jerusalem DA also did not do particularly well, losing down a road to a potential future of coalition five seats in this election and not achieving government, but also that identity will their outcomes of getting the ANC below a inevitably play a massive role. We will Follow the Chronicle online 50% majority in Gauteng and winning the potentially see a shift in all directions as Northern Cape. www.facebook.com/capejewishchronicle parties try to convince the electorate that The real winners of this election were ‘they’ will fulfill everyone’s needs. Who knows www.twitter.com/CapeChronicle Malema’s EFF and Pieter Groenewald’s what will happen in the Local Government https://www.instagram.com/ Freedom Front Plus (FF+). The EFF managed Elections in two years’ time? It all depends to attain 10% of the vote, translating into on the fun and games that will take place capejewishchronicle 44 seats in Parliament, while the FF+ in the legislature. I’m sure channel 408 on www.linkedin.com/company/ grew by six seats to have 10. This shows DSTV will never be dull again. cape-jewish-chronicle a tremendous shift in South Africa, where Craig is a teacher, father and Jewish identity politics seem to have played a big www.cjc.org.za observer Cape Jewish Chronicle June 2019 47 SPORT Sports and Religion came together Iran ends its sports boycott against Israeli judokas

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Israel's Sagi Muki raises his hands after winning in the men's under-81 kg weight Stuart Diamond, Nazema Diedricks, Anroux Marais, Rev Bruce Nadin and David category during the European Judo Championship in Tel Aviv on 27 April 2018. Brooke Photo by Roy Alima A chance meeting between Cape SAJBD Director, Stuart Diamond The International Judo competition with Israel, due to the and the National Director of Sports Chaplaincy, Reverend Bruce Federation reportedly country’s boycott of the Jewish state. Nadin, evolved into an intercommunity event held on 30 April. threatened to ban Iran from In February, Iranian judoka Saeid he breakfast meet-up brought the Cape Board and the Cape Town international competitions if Mollaei threw a match at the Paris TInterfaith Initiative communities together to explore the topic of religious the country continued to pull Grand Slam competition to avoid diversity in sports in South Africa. stunts to avoid its athletes facing off against Israeli star judoka The Panel Chair, Stuart Diamond, with special guest Anroux Marais, WC having to face off against Sagi Muki, which meant he was no Minister of Cultural Affairs and Sport, spoke to Nazema Diedricks, Chairperson Israelis. longer eligible to win a gold medal. SA Gymnastics, David Brooke, Brand and Sponsorship Manager, Cape Though he won the bronze, he again n a letter to the International Cobras and Rev Bruce Nadin, National Director Sports Chaplaincy SA. faked an injury to avoid standing IJudo Federation, Iran’s Olympic on the winners’ podium with Muki, Each of the panellists, representing the Jewish, Muslim and Christian faiths, Committee and local Judo Federation and Iranian athletics head Davoud shared stories of how their religion impacted their game. Nazema Diedricks agreed to put an end to their boycott Azarnoush told Iran’s Radio Farda spoke about the challenges Muslim women face with the limited range against Israeli athletes, allowing to that he hoped “Israel will be wiped of modest sports clothing available for them to participate in gymnastics play Israeli judokas in tournaments out and annihilated before the next competitions. While David Brooke highlighted the fact that sports betting and rather than refusing, forfeiting or Olympic games, and all of us will alcohol brands can be problematic sponsors as they collide with the beliefs feigning injury to avoid meeting breathe a sigh of relief.” of most religious groups. High Holidays too, especially in the Jewish and them on the mat as has happened Muslim communities also often clash with major match days, and sportsmen/ in the past. The IJF welcomed In 2008, an Iranian swimmer at the women are placed in the difficult position of choosing between their faith and Saturday’s letter, which came after Beijing Olympics refused to swim in sport. Reverend Bruce Nadin shared his experiences of strength, power, and talks pertaining to the “disturbing the same pool as an Israeli, and an influence of religion and sport. He talked about the youth he counselled and phenomenon, which involves the Iranian judoka was disqualified from helped off the streets onto the sports fields. sudden ‘injury’ or failure of weigh-in the 2004 Athens Games for refusing of Iranian athletes.” to face an Israeli. Anroux Marais expressed the importance of acceptance of our cultural differences and the important role that sports has on social integration and Israel’s Army Radio reported that In 2018, the IJF punished the UAE inclusion in society. the IJF threatened to ban Iran from and Tunisia for their refusal to admit international competitions, including Israelis to compete by stripping them the Olympics, if the country continued of their right to host international Smooth Sailing for Jessica to pull stunts to avoid its athletes competitions. The UAE subsequently having to face off against Israelis. withdrew its ban, and even played Israel’s national anthem, “Hatikvah,” Until now, the Iranian sports when Muki won the gold medal in his establishment has avoided category.

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