Israeli Pianist: Victim of Thuggery
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friday 15 march 2013 / 4 nissan 5773 volume 17 – number 9 Delicious recipes for your Pesach south african meals. (page 20) jewish report www.sajewishreport.co.za The disruption at the piano recital, as two security guards (centre) confront a demonstrator approaching pianist Yossi Reshef (right back in suit and tie). Prof Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph to the left of the demonstrator is photographing the pandemonium. A frightened couple (bottom left) hold each other as the tension rises. Photo: Ilan Ossendryver Photo: Israeli pianist: victim of thuggery ROBYN SASSEN The concert was attended by dignitaries of happening, I attempted to contact Wits’ two las; some sat on the piano. It shows how many the Jewish community, diplomatic corps and vice-chancellors. Both Professors Adam Habib more notches the BDS’s antagonism towards Pandemonium broke out on Tuesday evening the art world. As befits an audience of this sta- and Loyiso Nongxa, who is also Wits’ principal, us has been ratcheted.” at the Atrium in the South West Engineering tus, private security personnel were present. are currently in New York, attempting to raise Professor Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph, a music Building on Wits’ West Campus, when Wits Victor Gordon, director of Tararam, the funds for the university from Jewish benefac- lecturer at Wits, deemed the disruption “out of University Palestinian Solidarity Committee cultural fund promoting Israeli culture in tors and alumni. hand. The protesters made the situation very members disrupted a recital by Berlin-based South Africa, which was responsible for “About 60 protesters came in through the tense from before the recital; some audience Israeli-born, internationally celebrated pianist, paying Reshef’s flights for his national tour, door of the Atrium, which had been locked, members did in fact turn away before the Yossi Reshef. commented: “Immediately I heard this was and which they had broken; they blew vuvuze- concert. To page 3 Chavez and the Rabbi Manis Cape Board launches SUPPLEMENT: BRIdes! 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This annual Matzah NOT CertIFIed FOR event - which includes speakers, PesaCH films, rallies and performances all The kashrut department of the Union claiming that Israel is an apartheid of Orthodox Synagogues says it has state - plays out mainly on univer- been found that there are a number sity campuses in over 250 cities of products that are being sold as around the world every February “matzah” which are not suitable for and March. Pesach. IAW claims that it seeks to high- It urges members of the community light the plight of the Palestinians to check that the matzah they buy has and thereby gain support for the a reliable hechsher and is kosher for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Pesach. The Beth Din certifies both (BDS) movement against Israel. In reality, claim its critics, it is used Mozmark’s and Rakusen’s matzah as Israeli Apartheid Week graffiti outside the Apartheid Museum, Ormonde. Photograph by Ilan Ossendryver kosher for Pesach. as an opportunity to demonise and The kashrut department explains delegitimise Israel at every turn, as racist and colonial Zionist projects Vanderbijlpark. (including unions) in South Africa, that chametz is only created by the well as stifle pro-Israel views about tied to the criminal state of Israel, in Several senior ruling alliance fig- with over 50 groups having their fermentation of flour from one of the the Middle East conflict. the interests of freedom, justice and ures feature in IAW events. emblem appearing on this year’s of- five major grains in the presence of This year’s IAW in South Af- equality”. For example, ANC National ficial IAW poster. water. rica was launched on March 10 at The SACP called for the “com- Chairman Baleka Mbete, spoke at Apart from the organisations Fermentation in the presence a rather poorly-attended press con- plete ‘de-Zionisation’ of our econo- an event at the University of Johan- mentioned at the press conference, of all other liquids - such as fruit ference at the Apartheid Museum. my”, and SAMWU has impressed on nesburg on “The bond between Pal- supporters include the Centre for juices, wine or eggs - cannot become Messages of support were delivered its shop stewards in every munici- estine and South Africa” on March Civil Society, the Muslim Judicial chametz. The mixture commonly known as by the Congress of South African pality to question the use of Israeli 13, and on the same day ANC Dep- Council, National Union of Metal- “egg matzah” (although it is usually Trade Unions (Cosatu), the SA Com- goods and services. uty Secretary General Jessie Duarte workers SA, Open Shuhada Street, made today with apple or grape juice) munist Party (SACP), the SA Mu- Its representative said: “In just spoke at the University of Pretoria SA Artists Against Apartheid, the SA may therefore be eaten during Pesach nicipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU), about every corner you can look in, on “South African and ANC support Council of Churches, SA Democratic without any concerns of chametz, as the National Education Health and you’ll find that there’s Israeli busi- for Palestine”. Teachers Union, the Student Repre- long as no water is added. Allied Workers’ Union (NEHAWU), ness, Israeli advisers, Israeli consult- Dr Blade Nzimande, Secretary sentative Councils of the University If even a drop of water is added the ANC Youth League, Christian ants, Israel products for sale… we General of the SACP and Minister of Pretoria and the Witwatersrand, to the mixture or to any of its group Kairos Southern Africa and have pledged ourselves to make eve- for Higher Education and Training, and the Young Communists League. ingredients, the mixture becomes the mostly Jewish-led StopTheJNF. ry municipality in this country an is set to speak at a rally in Orange Jewish communal organisa- chametz almost immediately. There were almost more people apartheid Israel-free zone.” Nehawu Farm on March 17. Struggle vet- tions are closely monitoring and “It is for this reason that the custom on the panel than in the audience, mentioned that it planned monthly erans Denis Goldberg and Ahmed documenting IAW events. On among Ashkenazim is to refrain from using egg matzah during Pesach, suggesting that many in the main- protests outside the US and Israeli Kathrada spoke in Cape Town and March 12, a performance at Wits unless it is absolutely necessary for stream media dismiss IAW for the embassies. Port Elizabeth respectively. Several University by Israeli concert pianist children or the elderly who would propaganda circus that it is. It is of- IAW is widespread in South Afri- events featured Palestinian Susan Yossi Reshef was disrupted by IAW have difficulty eating regular matzah; ten the Jewish media that gives IAW ca, with events this year scheduled in Abulhawa, who wrote the novel protesters.