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The source of quality content, news and insights t www.sajr.co.za Travel restrictions for South Africans discriminatory and unnecessary, olim say TALI FEINBERG near future and as olim, many of us are left her duty to be with the family at this time of feeling discouraged, disappointed, alone, loss. It’s been devastating for her.” ver the past 18 months, and hopeless.” Speaking to the SA Jewish Report from hundreds of South African olim He asked if anyone could “offer advice or Israel, Sher said, “I made aliyah in April this and their family members have suggest a platform where we can unite and year. My sister, who made aliyah about four Obeen unable to see each other thanks to voice this concern. Perhaps form a petition years ago, has been trying to see my parents Israel’s draconian travel restrictions. that calls for those South African family for the past year and a half. We have tried Complaining that they feel discriminated members that can prove their vaccination so many times, both to go back to South against, these olim are now asking why to be granted permission to enter Israel just Africa and to get my parents here. But we get they cannot see their South African families like all the other countries experiencing this fned 5 000 shekels [R22 290] for going to when tourists can come to Israel on holiday, Delta variant.” a country on the red list [which South Africa the “South African” variant is no longer the His post elicited a food of responses from has been on for the past year and a half]. dominant variant of COVID-19, and family Israelis with family in South Africa. “Thank “For South Africans, it’s practically members have been vaccinated. you for this post. I’m absolutely fuming day impossible to get here. They would have to Writing on the Facebook group “Reunite in and day out. This is ruining people’s lives,” travel to a ‘green’ country, spend two weeks Olim with Their Families” on 23 July 2021, wrote one person. there, and then apply for a permission letter one young oleh, Josh Sher, described his “I’m a South African olah getting married to enter Israel, which isn’t guaranteed. All frustration. “At this point, it’s apparent that at the end of August, and due to this this is also extremely costly. In addition, it’s most countries are struggling with the same ridiculousness, my parents and siblings most a COVID-19 risk to go in and out of different Delta variant. First-degree relatives of olim probably won’t be coming,” wrote another airports. have been granted permission to enter the user. “I haven’t seen my family for two years. “What frustrates most of us is the fact that country to visit their loved ones from all over I’m expecting a baby soon, and they won’t now South Africans are being vaccinated the world. However, for South African olim let in my vaccinated parents in from South and some – like my parents – have been living in Israel, our families have not been Africa. It’s not fair nor logical,” said a third vaccinated twice already with Pfzer. This is allowed into the country,” he wrote. woman. South African olim from the same vaccine they are giving to Israelis. “South Africans are receiving the Pfzer “I feel like Israel is determined to alienate the most recent aliyah Moreover, the largest cohort of South African vaccine, and will go through the same world Jewry ... and it feels like the Israeli flight olim made aliyah to Israel last week.” process as every other country in order to fy government, while undeniably trying to Sher said he suffered from a chronic to Israel [taking a polymerase chain reaction protect its populace, is playing a ruthless Samuel Hyde Photo: illness, so when he tested positive for test before fying, proving vaccination, flling game of cat and mouse with many of us COVID-19 recently, “I honestly just needed out the necessary documentation, etc] but who just cannot ft into narrow criteria. The my parents support”, but they weren’t South African parents and frst-degree family dividing lines have little to do with public allowed in. “It’s unjust considering the fact members of olim are still not allowed to health, or the criteria aren’t really thought that just yesterday, I passed about 20 maybe travel to Israel,” he wrote. through,” wrote another member of the 30 American young adults on a tour, as well “The situation seems extremely group. as another group (20+) of Asian tourists. prejudiced. The Israeli government allocates Another South African, speaking on How are these individuals any less at risk time and resources to encourage young condition of anonymity, said her mother of spreading the virus than fully vaccinated individuals to make aliyah, yet now that we tried endless channels to be allowed into South Africans who aren’t coming on a are here, with no support or family for many Israel to see her dying sister. Even after holiday but rather to visit their children? We of us, we have had to go nearly two years she was fully vaccinated, she was denied see this as extremely unfair.” with our families being denied the right to permission, and the sister has since passed Asked if Telfed could help, he said, “This see us,” Sher wrote. “We have been given no away. “Coupled with her grief is extreme is more about having the support of my indication that these laws might adjust in the disappointment at not being able to fulfl Continued on page 4>>

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Visit: 113 George Avenue, Sandringham Shop online: www.selwynsegalgifts.co.za Email: [email protected] Call: 0114851344 | 0116407173 Shabbat times this week 2 SA JEWISH REPORT 5 – 12 August 2021 Starts Ends 17:26 18:17 Johannesburg 17:53 18:46 Cape Town From a day of giving to a day of dividing 17:09 18:01 Durban 17:29 18:21 Bloemfontein TALI FEINBERG The billboard on William Nicol Drive near Sandton 17:23 18:17 Port Elizabeth 17:16 18:09 East London andela Day, celebrated on 18 July each year, Appliance Repairs on Site is designated as a day of giving to others and , building bridges between communities, but hers Mone anti-Israel group chose to mark it by erecting two as ishw s , D s, Stove giant billboards with the words “Mandela’s people stand s e Ilan Ossendryver Photo: ge achin with Palestine”. id g M Fr hin The divisive advertisement could have cost up to as s & more W Dryer R30 000 to R35 000 per board per month, according to mble Tu Call Jason an industry expert speaking to the SA Jewish Report on

082 401 8239 / 076 210 6532 condition of anonymity. FREE QUOTATIONS The billboards were erected along major highways in Gauteng, and depict a photo of Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Chief Zwelivelile “Mandla” Mandela. He’s homestead), and the Mvezo Traditional Council. One for organisations which were perhaps more neutral to a member of the African billboard is located outside East Rand Mall and another move into open support of one side, especially if they National Congress on William Nicol Drive near Sandton. had sympathies from the get-go,” says local political (ANC), a member of The industry expert says the organisations could have analyst Daniel Silke. Parliament, and a vocal negotiated each board down to “R20 000 per board per “Sympathy for Palestine is now felt across a wide anti-Israel critic. month in today’s market, assuming they negotiated a variety of South African nongovernmental organisations According to the good deal”. and related groupings. The atmosphere of partisanship most recent newsletter South African Jewish Board of Deputies National from the South African state gives these organisations of anti-Israel group Director Wendy Kahn says she frst saw one of the the ability to be much more open and vocal in their Africa4Palestine, the billboards when she was driving as part of a delegation allegiance.” billboards went up to deliver much-needed relief to communities in the East Asked what this means for the South African Jewish “coinciding with this Rand, who were desperate for food following looting and community and if we have a space to express ourselves year’s international unrest. as Zionists, Silke says, “I think [the space] has shrunk. Pro- #MandelaDay … “It struck me then, as it has before, how much money Zionist expression is now critiqued in the most extreme [as] a joint initiative the BDS [Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement] terms. The danger is that the rhetoric is now seemingly between the Royal is investing in its divisive campaign, including on this sanctioned from the ANC, which has largely given up a House of Mandela and expensive billboard. The need in our country is so more even-handed approach to the Palestinian issue. Africa4Palestine. Several great, and it chooses to spend large sums of money on With legitimisation coming from the state, the rhetoric Looking to live in other billboards are promoting its propaganda instead of assisting hungry serves only to fuel further anti-Israel sentiment – and being rolled out in South and desperate South Africans a few kilometres away. Talk possible antisemitism. the USA? Africa and other African about putting one’s political agenda above the welfare of “There are real dangers that sanctioning extreme countries.” one’s fellow citizens!” rhetoric can have a consequential effect on negative The billboards Why would the Mandela name lend itself to a actions,” he says. “The ANC needs to be aware that include three logos: billboard so in opposition to the mandate of Mandela sanctioning the extreme critique of Israel can unleash Africa4Palestine, Mvezo Day? “Given the polarisation over the Palestinian issue as antisemitism even if that wasn’t the original intention. Komkhulu (the Mandela a result of the recent Gaza confict, it has become easier Continued on page 15>>

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To learn more please visit Te joy of celebration www.noborders.co.za “You shall observe the festival of Sukkot commandment to be joyful is really a together with others seven days after you have gathered in your commandment to throw a party, to have a in a loving space grain and your wine; and you shall rejoice celebration, to bring people together, all flled with good cheer in your festival, you, and your son, and your the while making sure that even those most does, in fact, raise our daughter, and your manservant, and your on the margins of society are included. spirits. Sometimes getting out in the world maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, Because our joy isn’t really joy if it’s and enjoying what the world has to offer and the orphan, and the widow, who are available only for the privileged. That’s not can bring us to this feeling of exaltation. inside your gates. Seven days you should holy rejoicing. We should embrace the Jewish practice hold a festival for G-d … and you will have This commandment isn’t to feel joyful, of humility in happy occasions, and we nothing but joy.” (Deuteronomy 16: 13-15) but rather to get out into the community, should equally place importance on Happiness is an attitude to life as a and celebrate. It suggests that acts of embracing the moment of great love whole, while joy lives in the moment. As celebration will lead to feelings of joy. As a and happiness, and taking that moment American author JD Salinger once said, consequence of doing a good thing, “You to give thanks for the blessings that “Happiness is a solid, joy is a liquid.” will have nothing but joy.” surround us. Happiness is something you pursue, but I’m sure that you have experienced the Judaism has joy in sounds and tastes, joy isn’t. It discovers you. It has to do with feeling of being miserable, and all you want smells, dancing, laughing, hugging, and a sense of connection to other people or to is to get under the blanket and hide from connecting. It’s about being part of the G-d. It comes from a different realm than the world. But sometimes the doing leads world, being with the world, and knowing happiness. It’s a social emotion. to the feeling, sometimes when we drag that all of it is a blessing. A long time ago, I read a beautiful ourselves out, put on some special clothing, Let’s dance into the high holidays and explanation by Rabbi Ruttenberg of and go to the dinner or party or other social rejoice, but let’s remember to take the time the verses from our portion Re’eh. The event, we discover that being out and being to go inward, to be humble.

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Duduzane Zuma and the I want to Jewish ‘uncle’ in Mozambique buy your PAULA SLIER South African public and population. As his bobba! old or new, father, I’m definitely going to be looking to him we’ll pay you ot many people know first-hand that for guidance and teaching. I’ve always advocated a price Jewish anti-apartheid activist Albie for him to understand his Jewish roots and his wow Sachs “made the worst butter and jam place in the world as a Jewish man. And I’m for your car. Nsandwiches on brown bread”. It’s these personal glad that he’s doing that at the moment.” memories that make Duduzane Zuma, the son As for Israel, in spite of being invited of former South African President Jacob Zuma, multiple times to visit – and wanting to – Zuma intriguing to interview. Te 37-year-old comes hasn’t yet had the opportunity. He answers across as polished and polite, while exuding an diplomatically when asked about claims that Call Alan: 082 850 0004 air of confidence and humility. Israel is an apartheid state. “At this point, I www.alfinauto.co.za Sachs lived down the road from the Zumas in will be able to make my decision only when I Maputo, Mozambique, where Duduzane grew travel to Israel. I don’t want to be that person up. All the leaders and operatives of the African that offers commentary and I haven’t seen the Palestinian people; nobody else is going to solve chosen a side. We have a very good relationship National Congress (ANC) lived in and around situation for itself. Seeing is believing for me. So the issues for them. with the Muslim community in South Africa, parts of the city. I can’t come to that conclusion at this point.” “My take is simple. We have our own issues but South Africa needs to rise above being seen “I remember Mr Sachs’ apartment quite But he does believe that if his father was in South Africa. We have issues that we need to be taking sides because as it stands – this clearly. I would’ve been about five or six years still president, South Africa wouldn’t have to focus on, and the time to be part of other is my view, I may be wrong – it looks like the old, and not a word of a lie, he used to babysit downgraded its embassy in Ramat Gan. solutions elsewhere in the world will come if we government has chosen a side. So, South Africa’s us. We called him ‘Uncle Albie’ as that’s how we “It was a strange thing that it happened quite feel we have to do so, if we want to be a voice role in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian issue has knew him. It was quite an intricate involvement quickly after he stepped down. If anything, on the table. But for now, let’s focus on what’s been made irrelevant by the decision to revoke because there were times when we were left in South Africa should have an embassy in Israel, happening in South Africa. the embassy.” his care. Te last time I saw him was the period and the ANC should take a completely different “Does everyone have a right to their opinion? Zuma is saddened by the recent violence, and before the car bomb that was put on his door stance to what’s happening in that part of the Of course. But as it stands, and I’m speaking says it was unfortunate and unnecessary. handle which unfortunately left him limbless. I world and engage with the issues. We’re not specifically to a foreign policy that the ANC has “Te Jewish community is a part of us. From remember that day. I remember that explosion.” going to agree on everything, I get that. But taken which is obviously government policy, it’s my side, moving forward, there’s a guarantee Zuma grew up with Jews, both freedom discussion and communication is the first port very fragile. I think it needs to be dug into and you will be a part of the future of this country. fighters and children at the International School of call when it comes to resolution.” relooked at. We’re sitting in a new time with You’ve offered a lot to South African society, and he attended. Although he is from a Christian He says the ANC’s decision to downgrade new people, and there’s a new way to deal with still have a lot more to offer. So as much as I may background, he was always interested in the relations must be understood in its historical issues. I believe there are more people who want be misunderstood, the Jewish community will community. It’s unsurprising that he has quite context. to resolve this issue amicably.” get to know me, will get to understand that what a number of close Jewish friends – he even “I think it’s unfortunate. I use the term Zuma believes South Africa can contribute I want for the country is exactly what they want credits an Israeli as an elder of his – and has a ‘unfortunate’ because a lot of us are to the Israeli-Palestinian dialogue, but only if it for the country. Te majority of black people Jewish son. far removed from what’s changes its stance. in this land aren’t looking for a handout; they “By extension of his Jewish mother, I have happening in Israel or “Te stance as it exists takes South Africa off are just looking for an opportunity. If people Jewish family, and a beautiful Jewish son. Palestine. And people the table. As a matter of fact, dare I say, by virtue have something to gain, it means they have I’m loving it. It’s something that I’m proud need to be sensitive of pulling its ambassadorship away, South Africa something to lose, which will change the whole of, something that I’m inspired by. It’s that this conflict has actually chosen a side, or seems to have dynamic of our socioeconomic environment.” going to be interesting and a learning has existed for a curve from my side regarding his very long period Compromise sought in Sheikh Jarrah dispute growth and development. He’s not of time. I always your typical looking South African say the people BEN SALES – JTA At a hearing on Monday, 2 August, Justice Isaac Jewish boy, but I think that’s going who are going to Amit suggested that the Palestinian families stay in to be something that he’s going be the ultimate srael’s Supreme Court has proposed a the homes as “protected tenants” who are legally to be part of – getting that resolvers of all of compromise that could avert the contentious protected from eviction for life, according to The faith and getting that the issues will eviction of dozens of Palestinians from the Jerusalem Post. In exchange, they would have to pay teaching or learning be the Israeli ISheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in eastern Jerusalem. a small amount of rent to the Israeli owners. not just from the people The neighbourhood, also known in Hebrew as “What we are saying is, let’s move from the Jewish community and the Shimon HaTzaddik, was home to Jewish families level of principles to the levels of practicality,” said but from the before Jordan captured the area in the 1948 war for Amit, according to Haaretz. “People must continue broader Israel’s independence. Jordan then gave the Jewish to live there, and that’s the idea, to try to reach families’ homes to Palestinians who were displaced a practical arrangement without making various from Israel and prohibited from returning. Now declarations.” an Israeli group that obtained the original Jewish But the Israeli owners are demanding that the families’ ownership rights is trying to evict the Palestinian residents formally recognise the Jewish Palestinian families from the homes. residency rights. The Palestinian families worry that The neighbourhood has been the site of legal accepting the deal would constitute relinquishing battles and protests rooted in the competing their claims to the property in future potential court broader Israeli and Palestinian claims to eastern battles. Jerusalem. Protests over the pending evictions The hearing ended inconclusively, and the judges Duduzane Zuma helped spark the confict in May between Israel and asked the Palestinians’ attorneys to submit a list of Hamas in Gaza. people who are eligible for protected tenancy.

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They were fnally released on 27 and it’s been a whirlwind experience ever since. “I July following international pressure, and they aim to don’t think any of us have really slept yet. It’s overly continue to tell their Jewish story. stimulating after three weeks with nothing.” They Yet the memory of their captivity will stay with were told of how thousands of people said tehillim them for years to come. “There was writing on the 24/7 and prayed for their release. They believe walls of people who had clearly been there a long that without this spiritual support as well as efforts time,” says Rochman. “There was mould everywhere, behind the scenes, they would still be locked up. They have been working on a video on what they went through, but ultimately, “We want to turn the conversation back to the communities. We went to tell a story, and unfortunately, we became the story.” Photo: Supplied by Rudy Rochman Photo: They still plan to feature the Igbo, although they Nigerian Jewish community members asking Rudy Rochman questions about Israel, the day before won’t be able to go back to Nigeria. “But we will go they were detained back to Africa,” Rochman says. and bottles of urine from people who were there community. “Their culture and how others treat them “We called our series We Were Never Lost because before us [relieving themselves]. There was no is almost identical to the Jewish experience,” says they knew who they were,” he says. “They’ve bed. We slept on the foor surrounded by bed bugs Rochman. just been lost to our consciousness. My father is and mosquitoes. There was no air conditioning in It was in this context that he and his team went Ashkenazi, my mother is Sephardi, and their families terrible heat.” to Nigeria to make a documentary series titled We come from all over the diaspora. Yet, they all had the It was in these conditions that he, Noam Leibman, Were Never Lost about communities in far-fung same experience of suffering and expulsion.” and David Benaym spent a large part of their places that have Jewish links. Their frst episode He says his own family history shows how David Friedman detainment. They spent three Shabbatot there, but would focus on the Igbo, and they brought a Sefer scattered Jews are and yet how we’re all connected. CEA, GPr LS, BSc (Surveying), MSc (Eng), M Phil managed to mark it in various ways. On the frst Torah with them to give as a gift. Interacting with these peripheral communities “is Shabbat, they asked for grapes and crackerbread “We had a few days of amazing flming, but our like fnding out you had a brother you never knew over which to make the brachot, and in later weeks, guide told us that our social-media posts were going about”. He strongly feels that “every Jew comes from they were given challah by Chabad. viral with conspiracy theories. We made a social Israel. We were just born and raised in other places [email protected] C : +27 (0)83 451 1456 “I’ve never missed a kiddush in my life,” says media post clarifying that we were there only to because we have been displaced over generations.” www.choicenet.co.za W: +27 (0)44 533 5981 Rochman. “Even in these conditions, I managed to make a flm.” However, the police arrived the next Rochman was born in France and lived in Israel say it.” They were also able to mark Tisha B’Av with a morning. until he was three, when his family moved to the siddur from Chabad. According to Rochman, “There were 15 armed United States. But he always saw his destiny as Properties Garden Route “On the sixth day [of detainment], they let us men with ski masks. They said it was a ‘friendly being in Israel, and made aliyah at the age of 17. He RESIDENTIAL • COMMERCIAL • FARMS shower for the frst time. It’s not a shower like you invitation’ to answer a few questions.” However, defnes himself as a “Jewish and Israel activist”, and might think. In Nigeria, they don’t use toilet paper, considering the fact that they were armed, the his days include speaking, educating, and creating they use a bucket of water and their hands to clean filmmakers felt that they didn’t have a choice, conversations between Israelis and Palestinians. themselves. So we had to use that same bucket with and agreed to go with them. They were taken to a Rochman believes there is a big difference water from the sink.” location two hours away, and their passports and between being an advocate and an activist. “An At one point, they were moved into a cell which phones were taken from them. advocate is like a fan on the sidelines, while an had more space and light, but it also had two new They spent their first Shabbat in Nigeria on activist is playing the game.” For him, the latter is cellmates. One was accused of orchestrating a the floor of a cell. The next morning, they were the only way to be. “My tikkun olam [healing the bombing, the other of selling guns. Both had been awoken at gunpoint and driven nine hours to world] is to help am Yisrael [the people of Israel] to held for about seven years. The absurdity of the the capital. It was there that they were placed in transcend their problems, unite, and achieve their situation hit the Israelis hard, as they realised they the cage. Rochman realised that if they weren’t purpose.” were being detained with criminals. The flmmakers arrested, they wouldn’t be given the rights of a Asked about the trademark scarf he wears, he hadn’t even been arrested, and never were. After prisoner. They were left completely alone on the says, “It’s a sudra – a native Jewish head covering. 20 days, they were Saturday and Sunday, and were questioned on The patterns on it are Magen Davidim. I created it, deported to Israel. They the Monday. After five days, they finally saw an and am working to revive the sudra, which was worn were given back their ambassador. 3 000 years ago.” passports and phones They were given bread, but asked for kosher food It’s just one of the many ways he is building a only when they were on from Chabad. They hoped that this connection would connection between the Jewish past and future. the plane. get word out about where they were. Meanwhile, the Torah that he and his team brought Rochman says Nigeria Not knowing if and when they would be released to the community in Nigeria is still there – creating has a complicated was the toughest part. “But our spirit was that we a link between Israel and a people who may just be history of ethnic needed to fght this,” says Rochman. “I looked for one of the lost tribes. divisions. One group, the Igbos (or Ibos), are a minority, but are the Travel restrictions for South Africans discriminatory and unnecessary, olim say most educated and >>Continued from page 1 public-health sense. It’s the most diffcult of all the entrepreneurial. In parents here, and they [Telfed] could never really fll variants to tame with the vaccine, and it was the this context, they have that gap.” dominant variant in South Africa. been persecuted and Liat Amar Arran, the director of the Israel Centre “However, the highly contagious Delta variant has oppressed. They fought South Africa, said these are government regulations, changed the picture signifcantly. The Beta variant for independence but the centre is “trying to help [Israel] understand has almost disappeared from South Africa, and has in the Nigerian Civil how much the Jewish community is suffering as now been replaced by Delta, similarly dominant in War (1967-1970). a result of these regulations. The Jewish Agency is Israel. Although they lost, trying hard to fght for [the easing of regulations] “There is no evidence that the extent of the some separatists are still but we do respect the health ministry’s decision. We circulation of the virus is more extensive in South calling for change. It was had a meeting between it and [local virology expert] Africa,” Schoub said. “In fact, Israel, with a current these people who tried Professor [Barry] Schoub, and we’re trying to arrange seven-day average of daily cases of 250.7 per to hijack the flmmakers’ another meeting to present data from here.” million population, is even 35% higher than the visit, linking it to their Schoub told the SA Jewish Report that “the 185.9 per million population in South Africa. Of demands for freedom on prolonging of the restrictive blacklist of travel to and course, with the extensive vaccination coverage in social media. from South Africa by Israeli authorities is diffcult Israel, the mortality rate there – 0.47 per million Meanwhile, amongst to understand from a public-health point of view. It population – is 12 times lower than the 5.75 per the Igbo are those who continues to cause considerable frustration and, in million population for South Africa. see themselves as the some cases, great hardship, and is unnecessary. “It therefore makes little epidemiological sense descendants of the “Certainly, it can be appreciated that the Israeli to fear importation of this variant virus into Israel, Israelite tribe of Gad. authorities were understandably cautious when that and to continue this unnecessary blacklisting of They practice Jewish country seemingly brought COVID-19 under control travel from South Africa,” Schoub said. traditions like brit with one of the most successful vaccine campaigns The SA Jewish Report reached out to Israel’s milah and kashrut, and in the world,” he said. “In the earlier part of the year, Department of Health but it chose not to have a strong sense of keeping a wary eye on the Beta variant made good comment. 5 – 12 August 2021 SA JEWISH REPORT 5 SAJBD chair elated at protection order against Nazi sympathiser

NICOLA MILTZ unbelievably appalling”. illegal like the Spaniards did in 1492. Consequently, the magistrate “unsettling” and “disturbing”, especially It was hard to grasp that she was “We cannot co-exist with them,” he confirmed the interim protection order, since this post elicited further “Relief and elation” describes the within spitting distance of the ordinary has said. and added further conditions with a “disturbing” comments from some of emotions of Professor Karen Milner, looking, middle-aged man who had He also calls the COVID-19 pandemic view to protecting Milner from any Lamprecht’s supporters. the Gauteng chairperson of the South displayed such unmitigated hatred in the “scamdemic”. He wore a mask future harassment. It resulted in Milner applying for a African Jewish Board of Deputies his writings and on his website. at last week’s court appearance, but Milner said she was grateful for protection order against him. (SAJBD) on obtaining a final protection “There was a sense of unreality, those present noticed how the unwavering support of Advocate Lamprecht’s inciteful videos help to order against Nazi sympathiser and and you wonder what kind of frequently it slipped Laurance Hodes, attorneys Ian Levitt and spread inflammatory material. He lauds white supremacist Jan Lamprecht last person would say these beneath his nose. Nick Kourie, as well as SAJBD National lone-wolf white supremacists, including week. kinds of things,” Milner Lamprecht, who Director Wendy Kahn. Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue mass “It was a combination of the two,” said. has worked in “They provided me with this circle of shooter Robert Bowers. she told the SA Jewish Report after Lamprecht openly information protection, for which I’m very grateful,” Milner said she was “hugely relieved” having to endure several hours and and unashamedly technology, calls she said. that the final protection order had been at least six closed court proceedings despises Jews, black people “Not once has Lamprecht shown granted, and that however stressful it sitting uncomfortably close to the man gays, blacks, and all “Bravos”, refers an iota of remorse or regret – on the had been, she didn’t regret taking the who made her fear for her safety in people of colour. to President contrary,” said Milner. action she did. online posts after she laid crimen injuria His appearance Cyril Ramaphosa Around Rosh Hashanah last year, Levitt, said, “This is a huge victory, charges against him a year ago. is nondescript, as the “Black Milner was unnerved when she received and well-worth the fight in spite of “I felt positive that the magistrate “someone you’d walk Jew”, and to a threatening email. It was full of hate the length of time the case took.” He recognised the clear racism and straight past in the politicians as and vitriol directed at her and Jews. cautioned antisemites and racists, that antisemitism of his utterances and street and not for one “Bravo Rulers”. He She had a feeling it was linked to “no matter how long it will take, our writings, especially during this time of second think he looked like Jan Lamprecht calls Israel “That Middle the charges of crimen injuria that she resolve is strong, and we will show you rising global antisemitism,” she said. a typical Nazi sympathiser or Eastern Country”. had laid a few months earlier against that there are consequences to your While waiting for their case to be neo Nazi”, said Milner. According to the SAJBD, the Lamprecht, an English-speaking “ex- hatred”. called on Thursday, 29 July, Milner It’s difficult to believe Lamprecht, magistrate commended Milner for Rhodesian” who has spewed anger at Milner said she was absolutely felt an eery chill in the corridors of who admires Adolf Hitler, has remained pursuing justice. Jews and others for numbers of years delighted that once again, the South the Randburg Magistrates Court as under the radar for so long, especially The SAJBD welcomed her judgment, on social media. African courts had recognised that hate she read through some of the pages when you listen to some of his home- saying, “It was found that the website When she clicked on his white and antisemitism have no place in our documenting his vile antisemitic and made videos posted online. owned by Lamprecht devalued the supremacist, pro-Nazi website to see society, and that those targeted would racist views. In one recording, Lamprecht lauds Jewish community and other racial where the email may have originated, be protected. “His comments online had become Charleston Church mass killer Dylann groups. The consistent, unashamed she saw a photograph of herself posted There are still reams of racist, quite personal, so there was a certain Roof for “popping off some blacks”. nature of his website led Professor on his website, HistoryReviewed, antisemitic articles on Lamprecht’s amount of discomfort when I saw him A quick glance through his website Milner to fear for her safety. She was along with her personal details and websites, and dozens of videos posted sitting there,” she said. reveals a man who loathes Jews, saying the one person who was sufficiently disparaging comments about her. It online on his channel. As she went through some of the things like “Hitler was too nice to them”. identifiable in the threats from him became clear how one of his online He blames Jews “across the Western legal documents in preparation for He refers to Jews as “the race of shit”, and his followers. He nevertheless supporters got her email address. world” for censorship and interfering in the case, she said there was also a “racial enemies”, “lying scum”, and continued to publish his antisemitic It was a “horrible” email, she said, not freedom of speech “all under the guise “level of disbelief that I was sitting “those liberals”. and racist comments, and while the from Lamprecht himself, but related to of combating hate speech”. next to someone who could think such He tells his supporters that the results were foreseeable, he never the criminal case against him. A further criminal case against things and hold views that were so practice of Judaism should be made desisted from doing so.” At the time, Milner said it was Lamprecht is still to be heard.

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6 SA JEWISH REPORT 5 – 12 August 2021 Israel’s relationship with Africa runs deep OPINION BENJI SHULMAN

he South African government recently a country like mine. We can learn a great Volta (Burkina Faso). Israel’s friends included world, they outweigh Israel.” acted surprised that Israel had rejoined deal because the problems of Tanganyika President William Tubman’s Liberia (which After 1973, Israel’s relations the African Union (AU) as an observer. are similar to Israel’s.” Tis resulted in a vast voted for the establishment of the state in 1947 in Africa were reduced to only four states. In THistory tells us that it shouldn’t have. array of joint projects across the continent at the United Nations (UN)) and Emperor Haile 2002, the old OAU was replaced with the AU. In Connections between Israel and Africa go including construction, agriculture, aquaculture, Selassie’s, Ethiopia. the process, Israel was excluded from the new back more than a century. Te founder of healthcare, hydrology, youth movements, By 1973, Israel had established relations formation by Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi Zionism, journalist Teodor Herzl, wrote in regional planning, engineering, community with 32 African states. Many opened embassies from Libya. his seminal book, Altneuland (1902), “Once I services, and many others. in Israel, of which a number were based in Since the low point in the 1970s, Africa-Israel have witnessed the redemption of the Jews, my John Tettegah, the secretary-general of Jerusalem. Included on this list were those of relations gradually improved along with the people, I wish to also assist in the redemption of Ghana’s trade union movement, said his visit the Ivory Coast and Kenya. Israel also gained end of the Cold War and apartheid as well as the Africans.” increased interest in Israel’s agricultural, In African intellectual circles in the Assembly of the African Union water, health, education, and security early 1900s, the idea of national Jewish technologies. Former Prime Minister liberation was a popular one. For Benjamin Netanyahu also prioritised instance, the founder of Pan-Africanism, relations with African states during Marcus Garvey, championed what was his time, and made several visits to the known as “Black Zionism”, and once continent. In the past year, Africa-Israel asserted that “many white men have relations have received an additional tried to uplift them, but the only way is boost with the Abraham Accords for the Negroes to have a nation of their bringing several North African countries own is like the Jews, that will command including Sudan and Morocco into the the respect of the nations of the world fold. with its achievements”. Liberian All these developments made it diplomat/journalist Edward Wilmot inevitable that Israel would push once Blyden referred to “that marvellous again to become a part of the AU, and movement called Zionism” as a model for regain its place as an observer on the African emancipation. to Israel had “given me more in eight days observer status on the Organisation of African body. Te chance came this year, with the Once African countries started gaining than I could obtain from a British university Unity (OAU). In return, Israel was a regular Democratic Republic of the Congo taking independence in the 1960s, these ideas gained in two years”. African states also appreciated backer of anti-apartheid resolutions at the over as chair of the organisation from South currency at continental level. the experiment that Israel was undertaking UN, eventually having the most votes against Africa, and Chad taking the role of chair of Kwame Nkrumah, the president of Ghana, by bringing in Jews from all over the world. apartheid of any western nation. the AU Commission, both Israeli allies on the expressed it best in 1961 when he said, “We Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta believed that, However, Israel-Africa relations weren’t continent. understand one another, Jews and Negroes. We “You have built a nation with Jews coming always smooth, and were subject to continuous Te decision to re-admit Israel to the AU has were both oppressed for a long time, and now from all corners of the world; we want to build pressure by Arab states. But African leaders been met with some howls of protest from the we both have our own independent states.” a unified Kenya of a multitude of tribes joined resisted. Nyerere, said, “We’re not going to let likes of South Africa and Algeria, however it It was more than just commonalities between together through harambee [working together]”. our friends determine who our enemies are.” remains to be seen if they will be able to reverse national ideologies, however, that drove the Many African citizens also went to Israel Te real blow came after the 1973 Yom it. Both sides have much to benefit from the early Africa-Israel relationship. Israel made an to study at its tertiary institutions, including Kippur War. Te Arab states threatened any relationship. One can only hope that this latest attractive diplomatic partner in Africa. As a the Weizmann Institute of Science, Hebrew country which had relations with Israel with an chapter in Africa-Israel relations will result in small country, Israel was in no position to be University, and Mount Carmel Center, which oil embargo. Tey also promised aid to those improved lives and more peaceful relations in an agent of neo-colonialism. In fact, having was dedicated to training women in the African countries that broke ties with Israel. Te both regions of the world. recently overthrown the British, Israel was a developing world. strategy sent the oil price rocketing, leading to a good example of a successful liberation struggle. By 1965, most major African leaders global economic crisis, but proved strategically • Benji Shulman is the director of public policy at Also, African states and Israel shared many of had visited Israel, coming from the Central successful. African states weren’t able to resist the South African Zionist Federation. Tis article the same developmental challenges. President African Republic, Chad, Dahomey (Benin), any longer. President Léopold Sédar Senghor of is a version of a presentation done for the African Julius Nyerere observed in 1957 that, “Israel the Congo, Gabon, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Senegal stated the situation plainly, “Te Arabs Centre for the Study of the United States, Wits is a small country … but it can offer a lot to Liberia, Madagascar, Uganda, Mali, and Upper have the numbers, space, and oil. In the third University, 2021. The highs and lows of being a Hatzolah Wellness caller OPINION ANONYMOUS

n mid-June, when COVID-19 cases began climbing see it everywhere. Hearing my patients ask, “How did this It was the worry that every time I asked for help from unbelievable team, whose to unprecedented levels in our community, I was happen to me? I was so careful, I didn’t go anywhere?” one of the incredible paramedics or from the admin members were willing to help privileged to be asked to become a Hatzolah caused me endless fear. I feared for my own parents as team at Hatzolah, I was adding to their burden and one another. I’m so grateful to have witnessed their ICOVID-19 Wellness caller. I, a university student without they did, indeed, leave the house (only to shop for food). inconveniencing them. selfessness. There were my fellow callers, who were a medical qualifcation, joined a team of at least 80 If my overly cautious patients who never went out could It was having patients say, “Stop calling me, I’m fne”, always there for advice and tips, and the crisis response other more experienced and trained individuals (now contract COVID-19, so could we. and put the phone down on me, when all I wanted to do team, which looked out for the mental well-being of numbering 110), many of whom had been caring for It was hearing all the COVID-19 symptoms and was help. everyone – even my own. COVID-19-positive patients since the beginning of the thinking that every time I had a bad night’s sleep, But, it was also the small triumphs of a normal I’m in awe of the incredible nurses who ran into the pandemic. an itchy eye, or heard a single sneeze in the house, it temperature after days of fever; when a patient fre of infectiousness every day from morning until late, My responsibility? To call twice daily at least 25 defnitely was COVID-19. I would insist that we all test completed days on an oxygen machine; or once a as well as the knowledgeable and patient paramedics patients infected with COVID-19 who were considered immediately. I was becoming “the COVID-19 police” of patient had fnished isolating and could fnally see their who the callers could turn to for any medical advice. high risk due to their age or comorbidities. I captured the house. grandkids. Then there were the drivers, who probably drove the their vital statistics and general well-being on an It was doing calls on my favourite day of the week – It was the feeling of relief when a patient came home equivalent of Joburg to Cape Town and back in order to ingenious data system, as well as taking action to assist Shabbat. (We were given halachic exemption to do calls from hospital and sounded more energetic and happy. deliver equipment to many patients. Also, I loved the them if their health deteriorated. on Shabbat and chaggim.) So even the day of rest was It was the friendships made over the phone, sharing Pop team, which organised hundreds of balloons for So, what was it like being a Hatzolah Wellness caller infltrated with the worry of “should I have alerted my muffn recipes, learning Hebrew from a patient, and recovered kids, bringing light and joy to their precious during the height of the third wave? supervisor [who also keeps Shabbat] for this”, and “did I chatting about our shared passion for music. lives. Then, there was the superhuman admin team, It was like being an amateur swimmer trying to rescue do enough?” It was a patient who completed the programme which probably didn’t sleep for six weeks while it held those drowning in the COVID-19 wave on shore while It was hearing about the suffering my patients were calling me on a Friday weeks later to wish me “good the lives of more than a thousand of our community at trained lifeguards were consumed with taking care of going through and sometimes not being able to do Shabbos”. the peak of the wave in its caring and capable hands. I’m those stuck in deep, choppy seas. more than just listen. I heard about their physical pain, It was the kindness I received in a sweet thank you inspired and in awe of all of them. It was waking up at four in the morning in a start, their emotional hardship, their fnancial trouble, and message, warming up my heart and making my day. It was the opportunity, fnally, to be able to help thinking that I had heard the bone-piercing sound of my sometimes, unfortunately, their losses too. It was the knowledge I gained, and the patience I had during the pandemic in a way that wouldn’t threaten my Hatzolah phone ringing, just to realise that it was only a It was having patients who were bubbly and cheery to learn. family. dream. over the phone be admitted to hospital and return home It was hearing a 90-year-old patient with a number of I’m so privileged to have had this opportunity. Thank It was having nightmares about talking to patients sounding utterly exhausted and no longer in the mood comorbidities have absolutely zero symptoms, and an you, Hatzolah! who were deteriorating, and not acting wisely enough to to chat. 100-year-old patient return home from hospital, feeling What you do is unmatched. It was humbling to help them. I had dreams of oversleeping, and missing It was the knowledge that all healthcare workers much better. witness the lengths you go to in order to care for the the time to call my sickly patients. I also had visions of and health facilities were swamped, and my job was to It was proudly telling a patient at the end of 14 days happiness and well-being of the community. We are coming into contact with COVID-19, and having to be the take care of patients to relieve the pressure. I bore the that they were doing well, and had “graduated from the blessed to have you. one to take care of my deteriorating family at home. weight of knowing that patients who should ideally be programme”. • This writer asked not to be named to avoid any It was telephonic exposure to the virus, making me hospitalised were my responsibility instead. It was having the privilege of being part of an complications with the work she’s doing. 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NOMINATIONS CLOSE AT 17:00 ON 14 AUGUST 2021 SEND NOMINATIONS TO: [email protected] GO TO: www.sajr.co.za AFRICA ISRAEL RESIDENCES 10 SA JEWISH REPORT 5 – 12 August 2021 Australian athlete cheered by ex-SA family in Sydney NICOLA MILTZ father this week. Steven begins to make headway, a hard experience for him as he Blomson’s, parents are also from Michael, an orthopaedic surgeon their faces light up, and they begin was coming back from hamstring Durban,” he said. lthough there have been specialising in hip and knee screaming, “Go Steven, go!” louder surgery. Born in Sydney, Solomon many world-class Jewish surgery, told the SA Jewish Report and louder ending in a frenzy of “He has trained so hard. He was attended Lindfield East Public Olympic athletes, it’s safe that his son was “in the best shape jubilation, tears, and gutted when he narrowly missed School and Cranbrook School. toA say that there haven’t been many of his life and gave it his all”. hugs. Michael is seen Rio, and was more determined He planned to follow his father with strong Jewish South African Solomon went on to stop the hopping up and than ever to make these Olympic into medicine after accepting connections. clock on Monday, 2 August, in down, fist pumping Games,” said Michael. an athletic scholarship in track Track and field sprinter Steven 45.15 to finish in third place of the air and whooping Solomon has an impressive at Stanford University where he Solomon, 28, of Sydney, Australia, his semi-final and 13th as his son outperforms resume of athletic achievements studied human biology. He set is one of them. He’s the son of place overall at the all expectations. spanning more than a decade, track records at Stanford. ex-South Africans, Dr Michael Tokyo Olympic Even the making him one of the most “Steven went to Stanford, and Solomon, originally from Cape Games. It was a family’s experienced and respected then did one year post graduate Town, and his wife, Lucille, from performance that Labrador, athletes in Australia. Some said in business studies at Duke Durban. he told his family Luna, makes he was the perfect captain to lead University,” said his father. Te determined athlete gave his he was happy a tail-wagging the team in Tokyo. Always a sporty kid, he first loving family enormous nachas at with, although appearance. Solomon’s family is still on a began track training in 2009 this year’s exciting 400m athletic he conceded Te high after the 44.94 he ran on and that year, won the U17 events. He clocked a personal best that his main moment Sunday, which wouldn’t quite All Schools Championships in of 44.94 to make it into the semi- goal was to was all the have got him to the final, but it 400m. He has competed twice finals, beating South African World make the final. more sweet was a personal best and a glorious for Australia in the Maccabiah and Olympic record holder and gold “While I’m considering all moment the family will never Games, first in soccer then as a medallist, Wayde van Niekerk. delighted that he’s the trials and forget. track athlete. Solomon fell just short of running so well, I’m tribulations Michael said he and his wife, The confident athlete told qualifying for the final. also half looking Steven Solomon the athlete has who were married in Claremont the Sydney Morning Herald it At the weekend, in stifling forward to his experienced Shul, left South Africa in 1988 was “beautiful to be back at an morning heat at about 12:00 retirement. It’s in his running shortly after he completed his Olympic Games”. midday Sydney time, Solomon, so stressful,” career. medical degree at the University “Rio was such a hard the Australian co-captain and the the proud father “It hasn’t been of Cape Town. Michael has experience for me, coming back 400m finalist from the London jokingly told the plain sailing. Tere have returned several times for class from hamstring surgery, every Olympics, ran better than he has SA Jewish Report. been many ups and downs,” reunions and to lecture. weekend for six months missing ever run before to make the semi- In the video, said Michael. “My wife still has elderly the qualifier by 0.04, 0.10, 0.11, finals. which was According to Te Age relatives in Durban. Steven 0.15. It was such a hard thing, His family thousands of later aired on newspaper, Solomon faded absolutely has connections to but that experience gave gravity kilometres away in Australia Australian from international prominence South Africa, and has visited the to what I’d done in London … watched this race from the comfort television, you after London, largely through country twice, once as a baby,” he Personal bests don’t come every of their Sydney home. see Steven’s injury and studying in the said. week. I had to wait nine years for A home video taken on a cell sister, Bianca, United States, but managed to The family spend most Friday my personal best.” phone shows the family in a nail- 25, and their “re-discover his best at the right nights together, sometimes in the The family is patiently looking biting moment of tension and mother sitting time”. company of their many ex-South forward to reuniting with the star excitement as the athlete powered on the couch He made the final at the African friends, all of whom have athlete and wishing him a hearty his way around the track, finishing silently looking London Olympics as a 19-year- children whom he said were “very mazeltov in person, but it has to second. nervous at the old, but then didn’t make the attuned to South Africa”. wait it out until he comes out of “Man, talk about nerves,” said his start of the race. As games in Rio in 2016. Rio was “Steven’s girlfriend, Gabi quarantine. Bringing SA expertise to the Paralympics TALI FEINBERG To ensure fair competition, all players wear Finally, he manages to ft in his own exercise Toit, who has cerebral palsy, and Anrune Liebenberg, eyeshades. Each team has a goalkeeper who is routine, especially running. And as the father of who has an arm amputation. Both will be running the ports and exercise-medicine expert Professor sighted. The ball makes a noise due to a sound four, his children keep him on his toes – especially 400m and 200m, and are “gold medal contenders.” Wayne Derman has worked with elite system located inside that helps players orientate his youngest, who is following in his dad’s Then, he recommends watching Ntando athletes for his whole career, so when he was themselves. Teams have off-feld guides to assist footsteps with a true passion for sport. Mahlangu, a double amputee track star Sappointed chief medical offcer to the Paralympics them. “The game can lead to head injuries or Amidst it all, he found time who he predicts will “set the stage Games in Beijing in 2008, he felt like it was a concussion, so we’ve taken steps to heighten recently to help develop a free alight”. step backwards. That is, until he met the athletes awareness and made changes to make it safer,” says online tool to assist event He believes the pandemic “will themselves. Derman. organisers to assess and mitigate change the face of sport – and “I realised [that] it was the ultimate challenge The study is specifcally for the Paralympics, but COVID-19 risk during endurance- life as we know it. For athletes, in sports medicine,” he says. “You’re working with there is a similar initiative at the Olympics. “This sports events. “You enter the travel is already a high-risk period athletes at the highest level, and then they have this year, there is the added ‘layer’ of COVID-19,” he says. country and area you are in, the of when they could get ill, and the added layer of disability and each one is different. It “For some time, we’ve been trying to implement an number of people you expect, Professor Wayne Derman pandemic has highlighted that. So was the most magnifcent transformation in my own illness-prevention programme. The most common and mitigating factors like limiting precautions like wearing a mask when learning, compassion, and awakening.” illnesses contracted by athletes are respiratory tract numbers, having sanitiser available, and travelling are here to stay – especially for So, when it came to the Paralympics in London illnesses, which can take them out of the games. staggering the start. The tool will then calculate how athletes.” and Rio de Janeiro, he was frst in line to take on the So, we were trying to implement a programme of safe your event is in terms of COVID-19. It will make He is on the planning committee for the winter same role. Now, he is about to step onto a plane to sanitising, early isolation, and so on, but were battling suggestions about how to lower your risk score and Paralympics and the winter Olympics to be held in the Tokyo Paralympics – and it may just be his biggest to get it instituted. With the pandemic, it’s been done raise your mitigation score.” Beijing in March 2022. “We are taking the same challenge yet. for us!” Derman says the tool, available on the World counter measures like testing and tracking – it’s “I’m excited. I haven’t travelled in a year and a half, When he’s not at the Paralympics, Derman has a Athletics website, is already being used, and will allow just as radical. So this isn’t going away soon. I think and I used to take an overseas trip a month [before full schedule as director and chair of The Institute of event organisers to bring back sport in circumstances fexibility and resilience in the face of sudden change the pandemic],” he says. He is part of the medical Sport and Exercise Medicine (ISEM) at Stellenbosch in which it’s safe to do so. are the main teachings of the pandemic.” team of the International Paralympics Committee, University’s Tygerberg Campus. He’s also the director Refecting on the Olympics, he says “COVID-19 For young people thinking of going into sports which consults doctors whose athletes have of the FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence, and co- represents a huge challenge”, and the event medicine, Derman says, “It’s a great career choice. complicated or diffcult issues. director of the South African International Olympic highlights “a lot of hard and considered work by a lot When I did sports medicine I had to forge my own He’s also going as a doctor to a number of South Committee Research Centre for Injury Prevention and of people, who came together to make it the safest path, now it’s a recognised specialty. It’s not only African Paralympic athletes, but he’s not the offcial Protection of Health of the Athlete. games possible in the current circumstances”. about elite athletes, it’s about mitigating chronic team doctor. On top of all that, he will be conducting In these roles, he does a large amount of research “Statistics show it’s working well,” Derman says. diseases. Exercise is the strongest preventative an injury and illness surveillance study for the entire and academic writing. He also works in under- “We’re only halfway through, but the positivity rate strategy in preventing heart and lung disease, cancer, Paralympics, together with Stellenbosch University. resourced communities, such as in the ISEM’s for COVID-19 at the Olympic Games amongst athletes and diabetes. So, sports medicine will continue to “The study was initiated by the desire to make rehabilitation centre in Bishop Lavis on the Cape and staff is only 0.02%. Meanwhile, the numbers in play an important role in society.” sports safer,” he says. “You can’t measure illness and Flats. And, Derman works to ensure safety in sport, Tokyo itself are just rising. But it’s not the Olympics With his qualifcation and experience, Derman injury if you don’t know which sports are higher risk.” with a particular focus on rugby at university level. He that’s causing that rising rate. The games are totally could go anywhere in the world – but for now, he’s They found that the most dangerous sport for trains doctors in sports and exercise medicine, and sealed off. The workforce is tested every day, and this staying put. “In spite of the fact that South Africa has a disabled athlete is blind soccer, also known as is currently supervising 14 doctors from around the ongoing monitoring is really working.” been through a rough time, I remain very optimistic. 5-a-side soccer or football 5-a-side. It’s an adaptation country doing their MSc (Masters) in sports medicine, He says it’s a highlight to work with Paralympic I’m here for the long run.” of soccer for athletes with a visual impairment, and is which he sees as “a great honour and privilege”. athletes because “there are no prima donnas”. On the Finally, he says, “The Olympics are special, but the played with modifed FIFA (International Federation of He also spends two days a week seeing patients in para-athletes to watch in these upcoming games, he Paralympics are extra special. They give the gift of Association Football) rules. private practice. recommends keeping an eye on sprinter Charl du perspective and gratitude. I hope you’ll be watching!” 5 – 12 August 2021 SA JEWISH REPORT 11 The Jewish women lighting the Olympic flame MIRAH LANGER Upcoming Events: Linoy Ashram – Rhythmic he Olympics isn’t just the site of the greatest Gymnastics, Israel Considering selling? sporting prowess in the world, it’s also a source The 22-year-old Adidas-sponsored of national nachas. This Women’s Day, 9 August, Ashram is Israel’s darling. Having Highlights from our recent Premium & Hybrid-Live Twe celebrate some of the great Jewish female athletes set a number of records and won auctions achieved for our clients across South Africa, taking part at the Tokyo Games. the European all-around title ahead of the Olympics, she’s now considered one of Israel’s Medallists: biggest hopes for glory at these games. Avishag Semberg – Born in Rishon LeZion, her family is of Yemini and Taekwondo, Israel Greek origin. She said that she began gymnastics as a Avishag Semberg has proven her small child because she simply couldn’t keep still. mettle in Taekwondo, winning a She’s studying education, and describes herself as a bronze for the Israeli team at the perfectionist. One of her routines is set to Hava Nagila, very frst day of this year’s Tokyo Games. Competing in although she incorporates lots of different musical genres the women’s under-49kg category, she’s the youngest into her routines. According to the Hey Alma website, she Israeli to get a medal. And, she’s certainly not done yet, even has a back-bend turn named “the Ashram” after her. recently telling The Times of Israel that her next goal is The women’s rhythmic individual all-around gold at the Paris 2024 games. gymnastics qualifcations take place on Friday, 6 August. Of both Ashkenazi and Sephardic roots, Semberg

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gold medals in her sock drawer, although she now puts AN ALUMINIUM GROUP CHAIR, A GEORGE III GILTWOOD MIRROR A 5,01CT DIAMOND PENDANT CIRCA 1958 FOR HERMAN MILLER Sold for R 31 083 Sold for R 263 010 Jessica Fox – Canoe Slalom them in a safety-deposit box. Her fancé is acclaimed US Sold for R 17 932 and Kayak Slalom, Australia soccer star Megan Rapinoe. The wonderful “water-whizz of Bird has been instrumental in the fght for better pay Oz”, Jessica Fox is frequently cited and benefts for the female players in the US’s Women’s as the most successful paddler in National Basketball Association (WNBA). Former WNBA history. These games have been player Dawn Staley is quoted by Time magazine as saying no exception, with her having already achieved a gold that Bird “gives a voice to women who are underpaid and in women’s canoe slalom and a bronze in kayak slalom. underappreciated”. According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), The women’s basketball fnals take place this weekend.

although Fox was born in France, her family moved A SET OF CHRISTOFLE AMERICA PATTERN SILVER PLATED CUTLERY to Australia when she was four after her father was Jemima Montag – Sold for R 47 820 appointed as a coach for the country’s Olympic team. Racewalking, Australia Fox’s story is one of intergenerational talent. Her A frst timer at the game, Montag’s mother, Myriam Jerusalmi, who is now her coach, was parents’ “meet-cute” story began at an Olympic champion herself, having won bronze for the 1989 Maccabiah Games where kayak slalom at the 1996 games. Her father, too, was her father was playing cricket and an Olympic canoeist, and her sister, Noemie, is also part her mom competing in heptathlon. of the canoeing clan, taking part in slalom canoeing. According to the Hey Alma website, though Montag The 27-year-old has previously spoken about the tried a variety of sports and dance, she found her niche in family pride that motivates her. “Both my parents racewalking, saying that her “combination of endurance, competing in the Olympic Games is something pretty hypermobile joints, and fery competitiveness are a great Pablo Ruiz Picasso - VISAGE A LA CRAVATE Keith Alexander - THE SANCTUARY special. Winning a medal is something that you dream trio for racewalking”. Sold for R 125 527 Sold for R 508 087 [of], and I’m proud to follow in my mother’s footsteps,” Montag sites her Holocaust survivor grandparents she told JTA. as her inspiration, holding close their lessons about resilience. Lilia Akhaimova – Gold in The women’s race walking fnal take place on Friday. Team Artistic Gymnastics, Russia Alix Klineman – Beach Akhaimova is one of Russia’s Volleyball, United States golden girls after nabbing top When Alix Klineman wasn’t spot as part of the country’s selected for the US Olympic team A GOLD ONE OUNCE KRUGERRAND Irma Stern - MELON SELLER AT A ZANZIBAR MARKET A GENTLEMAN’S ROLEX artistic gymnastics team. Competing under the banner for indoor volleyball for the 2016 MINTED 1967 Sold for R 1 135 725 Sold for R 49 775 of Russian Olympic Committee, Akhaimova attained Rio Olympic Games, the now Sold for R 43 038 the top score for vault in the team fnals. 31-year-old decided to switch to beach volleyball to The 24-year-old hails from Vladivostok, a city with continue her Olympic dream. This gamble paid off, and Consign in confdence to our upcoming auctions. a rich Jewish history dating back to the 19th century. she is now ranked second in the world with her partner in Contact us to meet with one of our department Akhaimova’s family lived in the area until 2012, when the game, April Ross. they moved to St Petersburg to give her and her sister, Born in California, Klineman is a graduate of Stanford specialists for a confdential evaluation. Luba, more sporting opportunities. University, having gained a degree in Art Studio. In 2015, Specialist’s in: Fine Art, Decorative & Oriental Art, Antique When not training, Akhaimova is a big fan of she was inducted into the Southern California Jewish & Designer Furniture, Books & Maps, Jewellery, Diamonds social media, posting extensively on Instagram and Sports Hall of Fame. & Gemstones, Pocket & Wristwatches, Silverware, Judaica, TikTok. At university, she studied sport and health. 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Though she studied and now trains in team event. This success has become a worthy prize the US, her heart is made of pure milk and honey. for your talent and perseverance in reaching your She told Hey Alma that being a Jewish athlete and www.swelco.co.za goals, for your team spirit, solidarity, and beautiful, representing Israel, a “small country that has known so graceful performance.” many hardships” was an honour and a privilege. SW2821-JR_AUG.indd 1 2021/08/03 16:25 12 SA JEWISH REPORT 5 – 12 August 2021 Chev vaccination site injects hope in Joburg’s bleakest month NICOLA MILTZ protected during the third wave, Tomson said. this morning at the Chev – Sandringham. said. Tomson’s personal tragedy affected him Hatzolah on mass Having made her an appointment, Diana uly will go down in history as “There have been very few acutely. His late father-in-law, Alec Levy, was treated as a priority. All the info one of the bleakest months ever hospitalisations and almost no deaths. In 70, passed away from COVID-19 in June. vaccination drive needed is given on the printed online experienced by the Johannesburg the context of July, in which we recorded Levy was well known and respected in the Hatzolah launched its COVID-19 vaccination questionnaire to save time, which it did! JewishJ community, which recorded 113 the highest number of deaths in the community. He was a highly regarded site last Wednesday, 28 July, and has We arrived at 09:20, and she was able to deaths in one month. community’s recent history, our residential fnancial advisor and a trustee of the vaccinated close to 1 600 people to date. leave at 09:40. A truly professional service In response to the severity of the impact facilities have been largely spared.” Rambam Charitable Trust, with a strong “We are averaging about 300 vaccinations to the community. I’m so proud to be of the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic This was remarkable, he said, given the communal leaning. a day,” said Darren Kahn, Hatzolah’s executive Jewish,” said another grateful community on the community, the Chevrah Kadisha age and frailty of residents, which has been This, along with the rising COVID-19 death general manager. “We have an energetic member. has been on a mission to vaccinate as many documented as the major determinant of rate in the community and the resultant team of volunteers and nurses. For a smooth “Earlier this year, the health department members of the community as fast as the severity of economic suffering and quick experience, come to our site, was impressed by how we managed to possible. experienced by those situated above KosherWorld, 1 Long Avenue, vaccinate all our elderly residents on site The Chevrah Kadisha vaccination site According to Saul affected, was “very painful”, Glenhazel. with their frst Pfzer jab. Our protocols Tomson, the chief he said. “It fts in with Hatzolah’s motto of saving and things like our onsite pharmacy, executive of the Chev, “There was too much lives. The more people are vaccinated in our medical staff, and parking satisfed the over the past 12 months, suffering and sadness. community and surrounding bubble, the department’s requirements. We were the there has been a 35% Something needed to be safer our families. We want to see everyone frst aged home in Gauteng to vaccinate increase in the number done,” said Tomson. vaccinated, so when we saw the Pikitup guys our residents, and we continued to push of deaths compared Two of the Chev’s passing us, we jumped at the opportunity to relentlessly for the second jab,” said to the prior 12-month senior managers called assist them. It was a brief pause in their job. Lijahne Beetge, the group’s care manager. period. an urgent meeting with We took them upstairs, and within 20 minutes, All staff members received the Johnson “Sadly, the key role players at the they were back on route,” he said. & Johnson vaccination during the Sisonke Johannesburg Jewish health department. The site is open Sunday to Thursday, 08:00 trial at Helen Joseph Hospital.

community has one of the Cohen Alon Photo: “They were passionate, to 16:00, and Friday 08:00 to 14:00. It’s closed In May, every single Chevrah Kadisha highest excess death rates professional, and frankly, on Shabbat and public holidays. resident over 60, as well as most of in the world,” he said. wouldn’t take no Call 072 605 7511 or register on Johannesburg’s Holocaust survivors, were Tomson was moved by Hatzolah’s vaccination site at KosherWorld in Johannesburg for an answer,” he http://www.hatzolahvaccines.co.za/ vaccinated. the community’s pain as said. A week later, The organisation has also launched Residents were scheduled to get the well as his family’s own grief following their vaccination Hatzolah Vaccinates on the Move for those second dose only in mid-July, “but our a personal loss to COVID-19 during site was up and who are unable to leave their homes to get a team phoned the health department this month of despair. running. COVID-19 vaccine. If you are eligible, register every day, and were relentless. We got The growing sense of mourning “During July, on https://linktr.ee/vaccinationdrive. our entire allocation exactly 42 days propelled him and his organisation to we really saw after the frst dose [the minimum time push the Gauteng Health Department the worst of this and shuls vaccinated as quickly as in terms of government policy], and our into granting the organisation a pandemic. It possible,” said Tomson. team immediately got to work. They went license to operate a public vaccination motivated us to The Chevrah Kadisha vaccination site room to room, vaccinating virtually every site. become involved in Sandringham has been operating resident. “We have seen the tremendous in getting the for nearly two weeks. It has already “We see this as life-saving work effectiveness of the vaccine on our whole community administered thousands of vaccines. and as an extension of our communal own elderly residents and staff, and and everyone It has been responsible for creating responsibility. It’s a way to give back to our the desperate need to accelerate associated with about 20 much-needed jobs for members wonderful community and the broader the rollout of the vaccine for the the community, of the community including several community,” Tomson said. community at large,” he said this week. Ilan Ossendryver Photo: including retired pharmacists who help to prepare Members of the public need to book Because of the Chev’s aggressive, early disease and hospital admission. communal organisations, other vaccines on site, as well as several other a date and time to visit the site. There push to vaccinate residents and staff, its “It shows the power of the vaccine in nongovernmental organisations, domestic administrative personnel. are no walk-ins. It’s open Sunday to residential facilities have virtually been fully preventing spread and severe illness,” he workers, staff at kosher restaurants, schools, The site and its staff have been praised Friday for all who are EVDS (Electronic by all those who have visited for operating Vaccination Data System) registered. in a streamlined, professional, and speedy There is no charge or medical aid And now it’s a third vaccine manner. necessary, and everyone is welcome, PAULA SLIER Pfizer vaccine were effective against vaccine say they will have a third Tamar Dakes, who got vaccinated at the Tomson said. the highly contagious Delta variant. shot. Among those under the age of Chev, said, “Thank you to everyone at the “In spite of these tragic fatalities, the n a world first, Israel has begun As it turns out, seemingly not. 60, only 47% said they would take Chev. I was vaccinated in eight minutes, vaccine is clearly having a positive effect. administering third doses of the Tis third dose is expected to the shot. checked in and out. Was a pleasure to be We are grateful to be a part of it,” Tomson COVID-19 vaccine to Israelis increase patients’ immune systems’ Te main concern is that the supported by so much care and love for said. “Our goal is to try as best as we can I60 years and over. Tose eligible awareness of the coronavirus, long-term impact of the vaccine our people, for all people.” to prevent more unnecessary deaths.” are receiving phone calls and SMS creating a vaccine-based “memory” is still unknown, and as the “Many thanks and much appreciation messages alerting them to go to in the body that allows it to identify Delta variant spreads across the for what you do. I took my long time • Contact www.jhbchev.co.za/vaccine to their nearest health office. To date, and more strongly respond to the country, including re-infecting helper and friend in for her COVID-19 vax make a booking. no-one who has received the jab has virus. But this isn’t necessarily a high percentage of vaccinated reported any side effects. true when it comes to the Delta individuals, more people believe testing ground before approval by hotels were divided into two groups Tat’s the good news. Te bad variant, which is more contagious that the vaccine doesn’t work. the United States Food and Drug – one received Ivermectin while one news is that for the first time in than previous strands. Tis means According to the health ministry, Administration (FDA). Israelis are received a placebo. Nearly 72% of five months, new coronavirus cases a smaller quantity of virus is more than half of all new cases are concerned about this, as they are those treated with Ivermectin tested in the country are nearing 4 000. necessary to cause infection. Te people who were fully vaccinated. that they might not be receiving negative for the virus by day six. Daily new infections have spiked to assumption is that giving a third accurate information about the In contrast, only 50% of those who more than 2 000, up from a handful dose of the vaccine to older adults Israel is the first pandemic or the vaccines. Since the received the placebo tested negative. of cases per day a few months ago, can boost the immune system in country to launch start of the coronavirus pandemic, Tere were no significant side effects and about 160 people are currently the event that immunity weakens a COVID-19 accusations have been levelled at among the Ivermectin users. hospitalised with severe symptoms. over time, as well as boosting the booster campaign, the Israeli media for exaggerating Still, the World Health More than 6 400 people have died vaccine’s response even if it hasn’t the risk of the virus. Organization continues to from the virus in the country. waned, among populations at effectively becoming Te FDA has also been unwilling recommend against using the drug Te latest data suggests that increased risk of serious illness if a testing ground to approve Ivermectin, a drug used except in clinical trials. people vaccinated in January they are infected. before approval by to fight parasites in third-world As Israel prepares for another appear to have just 16% protection Te demand for the third the United States countries, to reduce viral shedding lockdown during the upcoming against infection now; while in booster has been relatively high Food and Drug among non-hospitalised patients September Rosh Hashanah holiday those vaccinated in April, the among Israelis 60 years and older, Administration (FDA). with mild to moderate COVID-19. period, more Israelis are more afraid effectiveness is 75%. Some experts so much so that phone lines to But now, the Sheba Medical Center of the economic impact of the virus have questioned the veracity of the health organisations crashed due It’s believed that in order for the in Tel Hashomer has released the than of contracting it. Te list of data, but most agree that there’s no to the number of people calling dose to be effective in halting the results of a study, finding that the countries regarded as “red” – in harm in administering a third dose to schedule appointments. Still, rising rate of serious cases, at least drug could help reduce the length other words, no-go zones – has even if it may not end up boosting not everyone is thrilled. According one million Israelis need to receive of infection for people who contract increased, as has the requirement protection. In other words, the risk to a survey released on 30 July it. Even afterwards, it will still take coronavirus – for less than $1 (R15) to enter into mandatory quarantine from a third dose is no greater than by the Social Policy Institute at several weeks to determine exactly a day. when arriving from abroad. South the risk of getting coronavirus itself. Washington University and the the effects of this third dose. In the study, about 90 volunteers Africa has been on the red list for It wasn’t an easy decision to reach. Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel is the first country to over the age of 18 who were some time for travellers to and Israeli experts were divided over Israel, only 52% of Israelis who launch a COVID-19 booster diagnosed with coronavirus and from Israel – and this is unlikely to whether the initial two doses of the received two shots of the COVID-19 campaign, effectively becoming a were staying in state-run COVID-19 change any time soon. 5 – 12 August 2021 SA JEWISH REPORT 13 Rabbi tells of child sexual abuse and recovery MIRAH LANGER remember” his dream was to emulate his him, urged him to seek professional help. How to arm your place than thinking G-d hated me was father. Reluctantly, he agreed, quipping that, after children against abuse thinking G-d had somehow ignored e told his eight-year-old-self that Born in Canada, but growing up in Salt all, his wife and mother are indeed “very [me].” Although it’s impossible to guarantee your child’s he was so sorry for the horrors Lake City in Utah, he was home schooled strong Jewish women”. He began to ponder, “What kind of safety from potential abusers, there are some steps he would endure as the victim along with his siblings as there was no Sitting in a therapist’s offce, Zippel G-d allows this to happen to a child? you can take to protect them, says abuse survivor Hof sexual abuse for the decade that would Jewish school in the area at the time. In recalls uttering the words for the frst time: Not once or twice or fve times but Rabbi Avremi Zippel. follow. He implored his small self to 1999, when Zippel was eight, the family “‘I think I was sexually abused as a kid.’ dozens and dozens of times? Not just First, parents needed to be open in age-appropriate remember it was never, ever his fault. He hired a nanny to help with the day-to-day That began a lengthy process of healing.” ways about the possible dangers. “The greatest way G-d in the abstract, but the G-d that we directly addressed the perpetrator – his running of the household. In the decade that In 2018, Zippel, also decided to pursue to arm our children is to be honest with them that this learn about and think about, frankly the childhood nanny – and he forgave her, not ensued, she would wreak havoc on his life. justice, reporting the case to the police sort of thing happens,” Zippel says. G-d I ‘sell’ as a rabbi – the all-knowing, because she asked for it or deserved it, but Yet, even after she left, he swore to himself and then facing the diffcult trial that Moreover, parents need to nurture open all-seeing, all-powerful G-d. Did he because he wanted to free his mind to do that he would “never tell a single soul about led to his former caretaker, evasive and communication with their children. “We know that just decide to remain oblivious to my positive work for the rest of his life. what had happened”. lacking remorse throughout, fnally put children rarely speak to their parents or trusted adults suffering? In the 18 months since Utah Chabad behind bars for 25 years to life. about these experiences because by and large, they “Ultimately,” muses Zippel, “those Rabbi Avremi Zippel, 29, gave his Yet he cautions against a neat feel shame and fear the consequences. are questions to which I will never have victim-impact statement to the court – sense of closure. “People assume “As parents, we have to share the sentiment that a good answer. In that sense, I feel as his now-septuagenarian childhood that when you ask a Chabad rabbi there is never any sort of topic, any sort of experience, welcome to join the legions of human nanny was convicted of 131 counts what the healing process was like or any sort of encounter that our children will go beings that have endured any sort of of sexual abuse against him, and and if G-d played a role, the answer through that will be met by judgement or any sort pain and suffering in their life and have jailed – he has continued to speak out. will be, ‘Oh absolutely.’” of shaming on our part. Let them see that if they questions and complaints to G-d.” Believed to be the frst Orthodox rabbi The reality is far more complex. share something with us, they can come to expect Yet, there is a further development to do so, he has made his experience “It’s fair to say that the Almighty unconditional love, acceptance, and understanding,” to his connection to G-d. “After I went Zippel says. public to offer solace to those who still and I have had a very complicated public that I was a survivor of child sexual To the victims, Zippel says, “I often tell people to try suffer. relationship over the years,” Zippel abuse, I had the opportunity to use my Rabbi Avremi Zippel [to disclose] it in small doses.” “It has given me the ability and said, “and it’s a connection that experiences to enact positive change in In his case, he says, telling a therapist was actually constantly evolves. my community and in the world around opportunity to be an advocate for this easier as the frst step. Nevertheless, it’s also important issue in my community, to provide a “I spent the majority of my life to tell close family and friends. Sometimes, says me,” Zippel said. voice for those who often don’t feel pretty passionately convinced that Zippel, survivors of abuse are reluctant to do this More than just patching it up, Zippel like they have a representative in the the Almighty G-d hated me. This because they believe that they will burden their loved and his wife have fulflled his childhood world around them. They feel alone, was a mentality that I developed ones or affect the way they are seen by them. But this dream, serving as a community rabbi and they feel isolated. They feel like no one Nevertheless, “The funny thing is that a lot as a child, when these things started is a misconception. rebbetzin in Salt Lake City. Yet, he said, quite understands their plight. Having this of these trauma issues, they don’t play by the happening to me. I didn’t really have “Just the proximity that they have to your life meansthis joyful success doesn’t take away from opportunity is the single greatest gift that I rules that we would like to enact for them. the vocabulary or the understanding that they have been touched by these experiences. the reality that “no one graduates from think the Almighty G-d has ever given me,” They still fnd a way to crop up in our lives, to realise that these things that were By sharing this information, we’re giving them the childhood trauma … every single day, you Zippel told a webinar co-hosted by a number and the trauma that I suffered continued to being done to me were a crime and knowledge, the context, and the education they need wake up with the mentality that today, I of Chabad centres around South Africa this bother me continuously.” weren’t my fault.” Instead, said Zippel, to grow through this with us.” have the ability to focus on being either week. By the time his wife had their frst child in he became twisted with his own sense a victim of my pain or a survivor who has During his talk, he detailed how his 2016, “I would say that it was getting worse of blame, shame, and guilt. • To get help, contact Koleinu, a support service for come out to the other side. Every single parents were emissaries of the (Lubavitcher) instead of better.” His parents and wife, “When I started therapy, I realised abuse victims, www.koleinusa.co.za, or via the day, I need to represent that eight-year-old Rebbe, and “from as far back as I can perturbed by the unexplained changes in that an even more painful and lonely organisation’s social media pages. child. This is a lifetime journey of healing.”

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Hollywood star of the 1930s and Lamarr was involved in Also speaking at the webinar was Heather 1940s who came from an Austrian invention. “She started Massie, an actor and writer who studied Jewish background, Hedy Lamarr when she was still a astrophysics and wrote a play about Lamarr. wasA most famous for her dazzling beauty, six child, deconstructing and She has performed the show all over the marriages, exotic costumes, and some risqué constructing her toys world including in South Africa, and noted roles. Now, it’s revealed that she offered far from afresh, taking apart a the impact it had on inspiring young people more as a woman of science a stratosphere music box ‘like a puzzle’. to pursue a love of science. ahead of her time, a genius who hoped to “She was a genius,” said Massie said the story resonated across help the war effort and, in fact, invented Spera, who throughout cultures and continents. “Tis way of the technology that was the precursor to her life was always finding communicating about science is powerful Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and GPS. practical solutions through because storytelling is so important in the “Her goal in inventing things was always to invention. When during culture in South Africa.” make life for others easier. She wanted to be the war Lamarr heard She recalled how during a performance able to help people in their daily lives and, of about the problems of to students at a girl’s high school, they all course, her big goal was to fight the Nazis,” radio-controlled torpedoes gasped when hearing of Lamarr’s half a said Danielle Spera, the director of Vienna’s being thwarted by signal dozen marriages. Massie said she decided Jewish Museum about this complex icon. jamming, she began to to improvise a little, and turn this into a Spera was speaking at a webinar co-hosted conceptualise a solution. teachable moment. by the South African Holocaust & Genocide Hedy Lamarr Along with a “I was able to stop for a moment and say, Foundation in collaboration with the Austrian collaborator, George use that as a lesson. I had my character as embassy this week. Antheil, who was also a Hedy tell them, ‘Well, this is a lesson to Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler Hollywood. pianist and composer, Lamarr developed a you to choose well the first time. Choose in 1914 to an assimilated Jewish family. Her Here, her name was changed, and her look system of transmitting radio signals whereby someone who’s going to support your father was a banker and her mother a concert refined. “Her beauty was staged to perfection. they hop between frequencies, therefore dreams and support you as a woman in pianist. Te family lived in a wealthy district She became an overwhelming success and making interception more difficult. Tis the world and in accomplishing all those of Vienna, where Lamarr enjoyed a carefree an international star.” Wittily self-aware of frequency hopping technology was patented, things that you want to accomplish.’” childhood. Even more remarkable when the superficiality of this fame, Lamarr once and Lamarr and Antheil gave their invention Since 2018, there has been further reflecting on her later scientific pursuits is that quipped, “Any girl can be glamorous. All you to the United States Navy “as a contribution acknowledgement of Lamarr’s scientific Lamarr had little formal education, leaving have to do is stand still and look stupid.” Her to the American war effort, but the system contribution through the creation of school at 16 to pursue a career in film. life became tabloid fodder as she navigated was too complex for immediate practical a Hedy Lamarr Prize in Austria. This She gained fame quickly, especially after myriad relationships, also adopting one child implementation”. However, the technology award is given out by the City of Vienna a role that contained a nude scene, which and having two of her own. was later used during the Cuban Missile to a young female researcher in the field she was allegedly duped into performing Tough her father died in 1935 before Crisis, helping to prevent further escalation. of digital analytics. Lamarr will move on camera. Shortly afterwards, she married World War II broke out, Lamarr was able to A recluse in her later years, Lamarr would even further into the limelight when an older film director who was intensely save her mother’s life by getting her out of speak – even to her children – only on the an upcoming TV mini-series about her, jealous and controlling. She eventually Austria and into America. “Tey started a close telephone. She died in Florida in 2000. As starring Israeli actress Gal Gadot, is fled this “golden cage”, according to Spera, relationship again,” said Spera, noting that per her wishes, her ashes were scattered in released. travelling first to Paris, then London, and then there are a number of letters showing great the Vienna woods. Today, Lamarr’s legacy continues to offer Slowly, in recent years, the full luminosity to the world in surprising ways. constellation of her erudition has been As she once declared, “All creative people recognised. An exhibition held by the Jewish want to do the unexpected.” The Jewish athletes decorated in Tokyo EMILY BURACK – JTA Fox had previously won two Olympic medals: silver in 2012 and bronze in 2016. Her mom, he Jewish highlights of the Tokyo Olympics Jewish Olympian Myriam Jerusalmi, won bronze kicked off with Jewish basketball superstar at the 1996 Olympics in kayak slalom. Jerusalmi Sue Bird serving as one of Team USA’s two now coaches her daughter. Tflag bearers at the opening ceremony, a huge Lilia Akhaimova won gold with Team Russia in honour. the women’s team gymnastics competition on day The lasting accolades, though, are the medals four of the Games. that winning athletes take home. Dozens of Jewish Akhaimova, who is competing in her first athletes are competing in the Games this year, but Olympics, earned the top score on vault during the the fierce competition means that only some will women’s gymnastics team finals, helping propel enter the record books as gold, silver, or bronze the Russian Olympic Committee, aka Team Russia, medallists. to the gold medal. Here are the Jewish athletes who have clinched Akhaimova will compete in the women’s a medal, in chronological order. We’ll continue to individual vault competition later in the Games. update this list until the last day of competition, Team Israel won bronze in the mixed judo event 8 August. on day eight of the competition. Avishag Semberg won bronze in Taekwondo for After a disappointing showing in individual Team Israel on day one of the competition. judo events, Team Israel took home a bronze after Semberg, 19, was third in the women’s defeating the Russian Olympic Committee in the under-49 kg category, giving Israel its first medal inaugural judo mixed team event. Team Germany, CLARITY. of the Tokyo Olympics and its first ever in the too, won a bronze in the competition, in one of the sport. Games’ few ties. ORDER. “I said to myself, ‘I want this medal more than The win was emotional for many on the team. she does,’ and I did it … I have an Olympic medal Sagi Muki said, “Everyone here gave their heart DIRECTION. at 19, it’s a dream come true,” Semberg said and soul, and that is what we won here.” The following her win. bronze is Israel’s sixth-ever medal in judo. Our team of over 1 400 professionals, operating from 7 offices in South Africa, offers a unique Because of the pandemic, Semberg didn’t stay Israeli gymnast Artem Dolgopyat won gold combination of local market knowledge coupled in Tokyo long afterward, and she was greeted at in the men’s floor exercise on day nine, giving with an international network, personal service and Ben Gurion Airport with a festive reception and big Israel its second-ever gold in any Olympic event. a professional approach. We shine a unique lens on clients’ businesses to see the people beyond the celebration. The 24-year-old Israeli is one of many Jewish numbers and establish where they are going. Jessica Fox of Australia won bronze in women’s gymnasts competing at this year’s Games. Born in www.bdo.co.za kayak slalom on day four of the competition. Two Ukraine, he emigrated with his family to Israel at days later, she took gold in women’s canoe slalom. the age of 12. Fox, considered by many to be the greatest “I don’t know what it will be like when I go back paddler of all time, was the only athlete to medal to Israel – until now I definitely wasn’t well known in both canoe slalom and kayak slalom. She or recognised,” Dolgopyat said. “I want to continue finished a disappointing third in the kayak race, to be modest the way I am, not think about the but rallied for the gold in the historic canoe event things around me and just do my work.” – it was the first time that women’s canoe slalom He’s already shifted his sights to the 2024 TLG8062 © 2019 BDO South Africa Services (Pty) Ltd. has been contested at the Olympics. Olympics in Paris, hoping to repeat his success. 5 – 12 August 2021 SA JEWISH REPORT 15 The lost art of being social A column of the SA Jewish Board of Deputies here is something truly awful about Fighting a Nazi in court being the only couple at a restaurant. s Gauteng Council Chairperson Whereas after years of travel, I don’t have Professor Karen Milner put it, it’s ABOVE BOARD Shaun Zagnoev Ta problem dining alone, I still detest almost not every day that one gets to fight nothing more than occupying the only table at INNER VOICE anA out-and-out Nazi and beat him. Last week, rabbi by “discovering” a document allegedly Howard Feldman a venue. the South African Jewish Board of Deputies written by him that rehashed standard Protocols For me, it’s the loneliest and the saddest I had never considered people to be draining (SAJBD) recorded such a victory when the of the Elders of Zion-derived tropes about alleged feeling, and makes me wonder if the occupiers before, but then in times gone by, I was also Randburg Magistrates Court confirmed the Jewish plots to control the world. Nearly a of our table are the only people left on the more practiced. I might even once have been an previous imposition of a restraining order century has ensued since then, but the need for planet, everyone else having been vapourised or athlete. Just of a different kind. Te social kind. against white supremacist and crusading us to confront these calumnies from time to time in court sadly remains. turned to ashes in the apocalypse. Te end of the third wave coinciding with antisemite Jan Lamprecht. It was Professor As with a number of previous successful Te past few weeks felt exactly like that. the return of warmer weather is somewhat of Milner who in July last year laid a criminal prosecutions that the SAJBD has conducted in With the country back to level 4, schools, a pathetic fallacy. Te phrase “pathetic fallacy” charge against Lamprecht, resulting in her recent years, this result was made possible by places of worship, gyms, and entertainment was coined by John Ruskin, and is a literary receiving hate mail and being subjected to the unstinting support of Ian Levitt Attorneys. venues closed, we were once again confined to term for the attribution of human emotion and online abuse after the latter retaliated by We thank Levitt and his superb team, in our tables. So palpable was the feeling, that on conduct to things found in nature that aren’t publishing her personal details along with particular advocate Laurance Hodes and Nick Shabbat when I went to shul and saw people, I human. disparaging comments about her on his Kourie, for the hard work and countless hours was pleasantly shocked to see that not everyone It’s a kind of personification that occurs in website. In terms of the order, Lamprecht was they have devoted to the case. It’s indeed largely had either died from COVID-19 or made aliyah. poetic descriptions, when, for example, clouds compelled to remove the offending items, and thanks to the selfless efforts of distinguished Tose being the only two options that I could seem sullen, when leaves dance, or when rocks has been interdicted from publishing any more legal practitioners in our community that the think of. seem indifferent. Whereas we know logically such material. SAJBD has been able, over the decades, to fulfil To some extent, it was as if we emerged from that the heralding of spring has little to do with Te court’s confirmation of the restraining its core mandate of protecting the safety and hibernation, blinking in the harsh light, whilst the end of the third wave, and that the sun is no order brings to a successful close the first upholding the dignity of South African Jewry. trying to adjust to the strangeness of seeing brighter than it was the day before, it does feel stage of this matter. While the criminal case A second relevant legal ruling handed down actual people. People with full bodies who don’t like that. against Lamprecht is still to be heard, the legal last week was the long-awaited judgment of come with a mute button. Just as for me, being at the only table at a proceedings instituted to date have already the Constitutional Court in the Jon Qwelane It also became clear to me that I have become restaurant creates the impression that we are resulted in a distinct toning down of the hate-speech case. We have taken a keen interest socially unfit. Not in the same way that my alone on the planet. inflammatory rhetoric on his website. Like in this matter, and indeed took part in the others before him, he has learnt that when family might think that I am, but in the sense What’s clear is that there isn’t going to be an capacity of amicus curiae (friend of the court) the SAJBD says there is a price to be paid for with the South African Holocaust & Genocide that I have less social stamina than I once easy transition back to life as we knew it. It will attacking Jews and that those who cross the Foundation when it was heard last year enjoyed. take time to get used to the many things that line will be made to pay that price, we mean because of the relevance of its outcome to our Even being an extrovert and someone who is we have been precluded from doing. And, much what we say. own hate-speech case against the Congress of energised by other people, I found that the few like an untrained athlete, we will need to build Te judgment brings to mind a previous South African Trade Union’s Bongani Masuku, conversations that I had with living, breathing up stamina and strength before we are socially instance of the SAJBD taking on proponents of currently before the Concourt. We will meet our people quickly exhausted me. In no time at all, I fit again. Nazism in the courts and winning. Tis was the legal team shortly to consider the implications was overcome by the need to scurry home to the Step one, however, is to walk outside, turn famed Grahamstown libel trial of 1934, when of the Qwelane judgment. sanctity and relative silence of my home where I our faces towards the sun, and enjoy the change leaders of the notorious South African National could have a little lie down. of season. Pathetic a fallacy or not. Socialist Movement (better known to history as • Listen to Charisse Zeifert on Jewish Board Talk, the Greyshirts) tried to frame a Port Elizabeth Letters 101.9 ChaiFM, every Friday from 12:00 to 13:00. Tis column is paid for by the SA Jewish Board of Deputies

WE LOST OUR HOME, BUT GAINED MUCH BLESSING We would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to the milestones of our family. Yet, we gained the everyone who helped us in so many ways, selfessly outpouring of love and kindness of so many. We are reaching out to a family known to some people, but blessed still to have each other, food, clothing, and a certainly not to all. warm and comfortable place to stay. The kindness was overwhelming. The generosity In time, we will have another place to call home, came from those who live here as well as those who and we will continue to celebrate simchas with mazel, have emigrated. Not a single day has passed that we brocha, and nachas. haven’t received something meaningful. Thank you! May you all be blessed, and know only There are two sides to every coin. Yes, we lost good health, happiness, and safety. our home of 36 years, along with the contents G-d bless. and a gallery of framed photographs depicting – The Posner family HEAD OF JEWISH LIFE THE NUMBERS DON’T LIE – VACCINATION SAVES LIVES In last week’s SA Jewish Report (29 July 2021), our chief In Israel, where most people are diffcult to fool, rabbi urged us to get vaccinated. almost everyone has been vaccinated. In fact, they are SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA It’s well known that according to the Talmud, saving now going for additional booster shots in the holy land. a single life is considered as important as saving the Should we differ in our views, let’s agree to disagree. Emanuel School is a thriving pluralistic, egalitarian, entire world. When it comes to protecting human lives, Unity and peace are important. Rather than hating the almost all of the mitzvot fall away. Virtually every doctor person just because of an idea, it’s best to have the grace co-educational Jewish Day School in Sydney, Australia. and scientist around the world agrees that it’s important to rise above the disagreement. Hillel pointed out that The Head of Jewish Life provides a key leadership role across to get the jab. to love your neighbour is the essence of Judaism. It’s Yet, there are some conspiracy theorists with colourful preferable to play the ball, not the man. our School from Pre-school to Year 12 (fnal year of High School). beliefs who disagree. Talking about love and saving lives, we have an When there’s a disagreement, the Talmud always opportunity to help others who are struggling to register We’re looking all over the world for an engaging and driven leader follows the majority view. The numbers and facts don’t for vaccinations. Fortunately, the South African roll out is who shares the values of our School. lie. These show overwhelmingly that vaccination saves now moving quickly. lives. – Martin Zagnoev, Johannesburg We’d love to hear from you if you’re an excellent communicator who can represent Emanuel within the community From a day of giving to a day of dividing and create engaging, meaningful programs for our students, >>Continued from page 2 “The BDS movement wishes to try and suppress to build a sense of pride in their Jewish Heritage. That’s why critique of Israel requires a special these facts. It has strategically allied itself to the late understanding and balance of approach.” Madiba’s grandson, Mandla Mandela, because of the A generous salary package and relocation allowance Meanwhile, others have criticised the cynical use of Mandela name, which is being used to push a false and Mandela’s name when the great statesman promoted disingenuous apartheid narrative against Israel and to is available for the right candidate. an even-handed approach as much as possible. “Former stir unnecessary division in Madiba’s rainbow nation. President Nelson Mandela supported Israel’s right to “Mandla Mandela is chief of the Mvezo Traditional Applications, including a cover letter, copy of your resume exist as a Jewish state. He stated, ‘We recognise the Council, and has now lent the council’s support to a and details of two referees, should be sent to our Principal, legitimacy of Zionism as a Jewish nationalism. We insist billboard campaign by Africa4Palestine,” says Polovin. on the right of the state of Israel to exist within secure “It’s a sad misuse of tens of thousands of rands a month Andrew Watt, at [email protected] borders’,” says South African Zionist Federation National to display a misleading and divisive billboard instead of Chairperson Rowan Polovin. spending the funds on skills development and poverty Closing date: 29 August 2021 “He travelled to Israel, met its leadership, and accepted alleviation for the people in the council’s jurisdiction.” an honorary doctorate from Ben-Gurion University,” Polovin The SA Jewish Report reached out to Africa4Palestine For further information, visit emanuelschool.nsw.edu.au says. “Madiba recognised that the overwhelming majority and Chief Zwelivelile “Mandla” Mandela MP for of South African Jewry identify proudly as Zionists. comment but did not receive a response. 16 SA JEWISH REPORT 5 – 12 August 2021 Yeshiva angels to the rescue rade 6 students at Yeshiva College Girls High School helped The Angel Network, Yeshiva Grade 6 girls volunteering GAfrica Tikkun, and Warm the World serve soup and bread to the needy in the school’s parking lot on Thursday, 29 July. Hundreds of people received a blanket, a mask, a cup of soup, bread, and an orange. The enthusiasm and empathy of the Yeshiva students was such that many asked if they could do it again next week. It was a real hands- on experience, something they won’t forget in a hurry.

Herzlia awards honorary life membership to Natalie Barnett WIZO Cape Town plants seeds of sustainability in Khayelitsha nited Herzlia Schools’ Board of Governors has know and love, about Herzlia today comes from initiatives noth Zion WIZO’s awarded honorary life membership to Natalie that she spearheaded.” (Women’s Barnett for her services to the school. Barnett has “Natalie was at the forefront of the process of appointing International Zionist Userved the school for 20 years, starting with the Parent- an executive director for the schools,” said Andries van BOrganisation’s) Cape Town’s Teachers Association, then serving on the governors’ board Renssen, the executive director of United Herzlia Schools. outreach arm made an impact for about 18 years, two of which were as board chairperson. “She was visionary in understanding its needs, recognising in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, “This award acknowledges Natalie’s exemplary service that change was imminent, and had the ability to articulate recently, with its first ever over many years and in various capacities, including this with clarity. Natalie was tremendously valuable in her beginners organic gardening leadership, vision, commitment, empathy, constitutional introduction of me into the Herzlia community and the training course. development, appropriate role workings of the Cape Town Jewish Fifteen local participants Graduates of the first WIZO organic gardening course at the defnition of the governors, and community. This support enabled were trained in soil Makukhanye Centre, Khayelitsha. Esta Levitas is front left, and succession planning. Special me to move swiftly into a position composting, mulching, her daughter and course leader, Mikhaela Levitas, is front right. mention must be made of Natalie’s where I could begin to implement fertilising, and planting. The course, which was Under the guidance of Esta Levitas, WIZO introduction of the menschlichkeit practical initiatives and changes.” run in collaboration with The Angel Network Cape Town’s head of outreach, the organisation pillar to Herzlia’s values – Natalie Said Barnett, “I salute all those and Group 18, was practical and interactive, will continue to work in Khayelitsha to help personifes all of the attributes of who came before me, those giving the skills needed to achieve food make a difference in the lives of those who this pillar!” said Matthew Gruzd, the who served with me, and those security and sustainability in one of Cape need it most, breaking down socio-economic chairperson of Herzlia’s governing who continue to carry the torch. Town’s most impoverished areas. barriers and furthering the vision of WIZO. board. Kol hakavod l’kulam. Always WIZO South Africa President Shelley Some items for the Khayelitsha gardening “Natalie is extremely dedicated, remember, Im tirtzu ein zo Trope-Friedman applauded this wonderful projects were donated by Israeli agricultural uncompromising, smart, invested, aggadah (because if we will it, it’s initiative, saying “This project is at the heart of company Netafim, and WIZO hopes to professional, and empathetic,” Gruzd no dream).” the mandate of WIZO to educate, equip, and use further Israeli technology in future said. “Large parts of what people Natalie Barnett empower.” endeavours.

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