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C M Y CM MY CY At your service for all your CMY property law matters. K Danielle Abrahamson Kashiefa Orrie Cell: 082 467 1890 Tel: 021 433 0761 VOLUME 35 No 9 OCTOBER 2018 www.cjc.org.za [email protected] [email protected] Community mosaic to feature at SAUJS and BZA work to empower Kristallnacht commemoration young girls in Gugs The Yom HaShoah ceremony at WIZO recently collected and LGBTIAQ+ Support Project. Pinelands Cemetery this year handed over 1300 packs of SAUJS Director Nicole Lee explains, was unusual. sanitary pads to students at “We will continue to support etween the two sections of the Intshukumo Secondary School Intshukumo Secondary School in Bprogramme, the audience was in Gugulethu, in the hope that Gugulethu, but we also aim to extend invited to participate in making a this will enable these young the (#keepagirlinschool) campaign to mosaic of the beautiful Oranienburger women to never miss a day of females who are studying at colleges synagogue in Berlin. school. and universities in the Western Cape, to ensure that they can be Hundreds of people, including Ruby Blachowitz, Kayla Wilck and Alexa oing forward, SAUJS will be #keptincollege or #keptinvarsity while Premier Helen Zille, Deputy Brews Gjoining up with Injabulo Projects on their menstrual cycles. To this end, Mayor Ian Neilson, Members of and completing the mosaic was to continue their participation in we will place a portion of the sanitary Parliament, diplomats and interfaith undertaken by Lauren Palte and the the #keepagirlinschool campaign. wear collected in all female toilets at representatives queued up to glue art students at Herzlia. For months Injabulo Projects have headed up various tertiary education institutions on tiles, symbolically restoring the they have worked to glue thousands various support projects, including across the province.” beautiful synagogue. of coloured glass tiles to complete the Anti-Bullying Project and the The mammoth task of designing this magnificent art work. Continues on page 22 Continues on page 32 A Unique Bar Mitzvah Mensch and Temple Israel join forces It is not every day that you hear a bar mitzvah boy of 83 years old chant his maftir and haftarah. t’s definitely not every day that he Ishares the honour with his 13-year- old self. But that is exactly what happened in Temple Israel over Shabbat Ki Teitzei. The tradition of a second bar mitzvah goes back to the book of Psalms which declares, “The days of our years are threescore years and Harold Sandak-Lewin holds the Torah at Mensch member Danielle Klaff with Bnei Mitzvah kids and their friends and family, his second Bar Mitzvah cleaning the beach in Hout Bay ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore years.” (Psalm 90:10) bar mitzvah 70 years ago, his father Read all about it on page 45 Simon took him to a recording studio Based on that verse, the rabbis and had a vinyl LP made of his understood that a life fully lived was chanting. Fabulous food at the Yom Tov market one of 70 years, and therefore the clock heads back to zero and you can His father was an Ochberg orphan ‘begin again’. That means that at 83 who had come here when he was a you are ready for your (second) bar child, and his one surviving brother mitzvah. Nachman lived in Israel. He made the recording to send to his brother and Rabbi Greg Alexander knew that his cousin Hymie Rosman in Toronto. Harold Sandak-Lewin was coming up to his 83rd birthday and wanted When Harold met Hymie in 1977, he him to do a second bar mitzvah, but gave Harold his copy of that record Harold was adamant that he would and Harold had kept it all these years. not be able to prepare the whole Rabbi Greg says “When he played it maftir and haftarah in time. to me, I was absolutely gobsmacked. Deborah Branch’s delicious salmon bagels by members Ada Sher, Joan Zieff, Eileen What Rabbi Greg didn’t know was You could hear in crystal clarity the Smiedt, Marjorie Milwidsky, Terry Lessem, Selmae Miller, Sheila Lazarus (Australia), something absolutely phenomenal. 13-year-old Harold perfectly chanting Leina Sank, Phoebe Saville and Rosa Kolevsohn When Harold was preparing for his his verses.” More on page 22 Continues on page 20 2 Cape Jewish Chronicle October 2018 CONTENTS VOLUME 33 No 5 JUNE 2016 VOLUME 35 No 8 SEPTEMBER 2018 Contributors Featured articles Page 3 Lindy with a why Page 8 Save a Child’s Heart Page 4 Community notices Page 32 Mosaic to feature at Kristallnacht Shabbat times Commemoration Subscription notice Page 38 Wandering in the Namib-Naukluft Page 6 The Shabbos Project Page 50 Historical Revisionism in Lithuania Page 7 SA Jewish Museum Page 9 SA Board of Deputies Page 10-14 SA Zionist Federation Page 14 Telfed Pages 16 Chabad on Campus Page 17 Bnoth Zion WIZO Page 18 Union of Orthodox Synagogues Page 19 The Shabbos Project Page 20-21 Temple Israel Page 22 SA Jewish Museum Page 24-25 Phyllis Jowell School Page 26 Family announcements Union of Jewish Women 11 Bnoth Zion WIZO Page 27-29 Cape Jewish Seniors Association Page 30 Jewish Community Services Page 32 Astra SA Jewish Museum Page 33 Glendale Page 34-36 United Herzlia Schools Page 38 ORTJet Page 39-41 #FollowTheSeed Page 42 The Shabbos Project Page 43 Cape Town Torah High 22 Page 44 Jacob Gitlin Library Page 45 Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Centre Page 46 Community Security Organisation Page 47 The Shabbos Project Page 48-49 The Herzlia Foundation Page 51 Anton Katz — A view from the bar Page 52-53 Simcha snaps Page 54 Chronic ads Page 55 Sport PJ Library SA Zionist Federation 35 PLEASE NOTE The Cape Jewish Chronicle’s CSO emergency number for CJC EDITORIAL BOARD banking details: Chairman: Lester Hoffman. 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Or is it designed to seek the known. something to be navigated, explored, embraced, cultivated, or expressed? e try to create situations If you think of facing the unknown, Wwhere we know and can what thoughts and emotions come to correctly anticipate conditions, but mind? What metaphor? A beast to be unfortunately life doesn’t always play tamed, a wave to be surfed, a game along. And that can be downright to be played? How we perceive the scary. Most kids go through a stage in concept of this unfolding future we which they’re afraid of the dark, and call the unknown determines how fear of the unknown is just another easily we navigate it.” version of those dark shadows in your bedroom. She continues by explaining ‘the beginners mind’. “Since we are living Our distant ancestors observed that in a knowledge-based society, the predators higher than them on the more we know, the more intelligent, food chain preferred to hunt at night capable and competent we are and this association has become an considered.” But if we can bring what absolute; the dark is where the bad we don’t know to the table and let it stuff is. Cut to modern times, and sit side by side with what we do know, with less grassy savannahs and we can bring a fresh approach to any MAKE SURE YOU CHOOSE more concrete jungle, our frightening new situation.