February 20 2015 / 1 Adar 5775 Volume 19 – Number 6

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Proudly Jewish, proudly South African The energy was palpable at a march in Cape Town last week to protest against BDS-SA for inviting terrorist Leila Khaled to do a fundraising tour for them in South Africa. Mary Kluk, chairman of the South Jewish Board of Deputies, who organised the protest, said in her address that BDS was importing its own narrow and distorted agenda of demonising Israel and that its actions were leading to a conflation of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. The protesters chanted: “No to Terrorism” and expressed their pride in being “proudly South African, and proudly Jewish”. Demonstrators pictured include (front row) Li Boiskin, past chairman of the Cape SAJBD; Gwynne Robins, senior researcher at the Cape SAJBD; Wendy Kahn, national director of the SAJBD; and Mary Kluk, national chairman of the SAJBD. See page 4.

DUT SRC has to backtrack Khaled’s visit leaves bitter Denmark synagogue attack Maligned Israel comes up Irwin Cotler: Keynote on anti-Semitic demand taste seen as ‘wake-up call’ smelling roses speaker at SAZF Conference

DUT student leaders had to Terrorist Leila Khaled comes up Police officers with machine- South Africa has a lamentable Champion of human rights in apologise for a demand that with bizarre conspiracy theory guns are an uncommon sight in record for opposing global tyranny. Canada and across the globe, Prof Jewish students should leave. regarding Israel. Denmark. Cotler is no stranger to SA.

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If there is a power cut either immediately preceeding or during Shabbat built in memory of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg who were and the electricity is restored and re-heats the food, it may be eaten even if killed in Mumbai in a terrorist attack, opened its doors at the the food had gone cold in the interim. Great Park Synagogue in Johannesburg. 3. Even though the resumption of electricity is done by a gentile, this does not pose an issue in terms of “Bishul Akum”. Some expressed concern that a maximum of two to three 4. If the food was not cooked at all before Shabbat, it must be left on the women might use the mikvah and that the cost would not be blech and when the electricity is restored and cooks the food on Shabbat, it justified. At present over 100 women are, in fact, using the facil- may be eaten. ity, Great Park said in a media release. 5. With regard to hot water, if the electric urn did not boil before Shabbat “Great Park Synagogue community has seen first-hand how due to load shedding, a pot of water should be placed on the blech before the mitzvah of mikvah and family purity has been a catalyst Shabbat and when the electricity resumes and boils the water, it may be for growth and spiritual development for many individuals and used. families.” 6. In the event of 4 or 5 above, if you lift the lid on Shabbat and discover The shul says that after the initial opening of the mikvah, crea- Sheina Hazdan (centre with the laptop) with delegates at the book that the food is not fully cooked or the water is not fully boiled, you may launch at the International Women’s Conference Resource Fair, tive ways had to be found to continue to engage the community neither remove some of it nor replace the lid, since this would hasten the Lubavitch Headquarters, New York. in learning about this mitzvah. A website - www.greatmikvah. cooking. 7. In cases of necessity, during the period of load shedding only, one would com - was set up and a newsletter was launched to share inspi- tion has been a useful tool guiding the discussion about mikvah. be permitted to move any LED light (that is either already on from before rational thoughts. Thus was born “A Guide to Teaching Mikvah: a Visual Pres- Shabbat, or that comes on due to the load shedding during Shabbat) to “The annual women’s spa-day features prominent speakers, entation & Teachers Manual” authored by Goldie Simpson and another room where it is required. including women in the community who have recently embraced published by Mikvah Maayan Ganim, Great Park. The launch Furthermore, in such extenuating circumstances as above, one is also mikvah and many other mitzvot. took place last Sunday at the International Conference of Wom- permitted to ask a gentile to remove the wire from the electric socket, or in “Many women who previously did not know about mikvah or en Leaders and Teachers at Lubavitch Headquarters in New York. the absence of a gentile, one is permitted to remove the wire oneself in an did not know how it could become a part of their lives, appreci- “This publication is endorsed by Chief Rabbi Warren Gold- unusual manner (for instance using one’s elbows), so as to be able to move ated a short session or two, outlining the basic process required stein, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and rabbis and rebbetzens world- the lamp to where it is required. to visit the mikvah. A short PowerPoint presentation was cre- wide,” the release said. 8. In cases of necessity, should the electricity be restored around 18:15, ated for this purpose.” before one has accepted Shabbat, one is permitted to postpone the Women also asked to learn one-on-one. The visual presenta- • F or more information, e-mail [email protected] acceptance of Shabbat for all preparations of Shabbat, until the times specified below, as long as one’s community would not have recited More news on our website www.sajr.co.za “Mizmor Shir” which appears at the end of the Kabbalat Shabbat Service. My identity crisis Parshat Terumah metrically opposed. At one moment I’m soaring box, a middle wooden box and an outer golden scious expression in thought and speech and with inspiration, reaching for all that is holy and box. In effect, the bulk of its construction was our behaviour and actions. Rabbi Pini Hecht true and the next moment I’m consumed with wooden but on the inside and from without it The message we are to learn from study- Assistant Rabbi the desire for some immediate gratification. was gold. ing this holy vessel is that, despite what we Marais Road Shul The results are confusing and frustrating and While gold and wood may complement may be drawn to or tempted by, we ought to Sea Point at times we become anxious and depressed. If I each other, these two materials differ quite remember that at our core we are pure and am - as we all tend to think - a good person, why drastically. Gold is beautiful and shines; it golden. When I remember to identify the real Who is the real me? The one who sets my bed- am I drawn to such selfishness? And how do I is also one of the most resistant metals. It me with that core, then I am strengthened side alarm for an early morning rise determined reconcile the tension in order to remain upbeat won’t tarnish, discolour or crumble. Wood on and motivated to ensure my outside matches to fill my day with meaning? Or the one who hits and joyful? the other hand, although it too can be made my inside, that my every conscious thought the snooze button to relish a few more minutes Parshat Teruma relates the instruction from beautiful, is prone to rot and decay. speech and deed is golden and shines. under the covers? Hashem to build the Mishkan - a home for the The mystical teachings of Torah see in this Is the real me the one who is sensitive to Divine that would be placed at the centre of the construction a parallel to three layers of the the needs of others, committed to sharing and Jewish encampment in the desert. Now beyond human being. At the core each of us has a Shabbat Times uplifting? Or is the real me the one who turns the physical structure, the Mishkan and its holy pure golden neshama, a soul that shines and February 20 /1 Adar a blind eye to the collector supporting a worthy vessels, serve as a paradigm for individuals to never decays, one that remains singularly February 21 / 2 Adar cause? reach our own idyllic state and produce a place dedicated and connected to its Divine source. Parshat Terumah Am I the one whose sole aim in life is to for Hashem to rest within. On a conscious level though, we all experi- 18:15 19:18 Johannesburg ensure that I’ve put enough away for a luxurious The holiest of all the vessels in the Mishkan ence vacillation, swinging to the possibility 18:15 20:07 Cape Town retirement? Or the one who is driven to invest in was the Ark in which the Luchot, the tablets of of wooden crumble and decay; at times we 18:15 19:11 Durban things of the spirit that money cannot buy? the covenant, were housed. 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R729 R499 R799 R849 20 – 27 February 2015 Community SA JEWISH REPORT 3 Marina Wijn The Jewish Historical Museum in consultants search Amsterdam is looking to hire a DUT SRC has to backtrack on Director full details: jhm.nl/vacancies blatant anti-Semitic demand to apply: [email protected] OWN CORRESPONDENT with BDS. President Mqondisi Duma, it called The original demand by the SRC DUT management “mischievous”. The public furore over last week’s was made on Tuesday, a day after “We would like to also put it on call by the Students Representative Palestinian plane hijacker Leila record that the DUT management Council (SRC) of Durban Univer- Khaled had visited the Durban cam- is being mischievous by focusing on sity of Technology (DUT) for the pus. The university’s vice-chancellor, this one issue when in fact we have expulsion of Jewish students, espe- Prof Ahmed Bawa swiftly denounced recently submitted various other cially those who do not support the the call, calling it “preposterous, demands to it including the question Semitism. Once more we repeat our have been shown. They are doing Palestinian struggle, forced a quick unjust, unfair, unreasonable and of access to institutions of higher position: Israel is an apartheid state what their parents do and not what apology from the Durban student unconstitutional. learning by disadvantaged working that should be fully isolated; on this they say. leaders. “It’s in violation of our values and class students. point we will not concede.” “Our children have been told that SRC spokesman Ayanda Ngidi principles. DUT does not discriminate “As young people the DUT must Howard Feldman, chairman of it is acceptable to hate Jews if they apologised “without reservation to against any person based on their not just point out our errors but Jewish Report board of directors, on are Zionists. Because we can get anyone offended by recent demands race, religion, colour, ethnicity, sexual must engage with the full bouquet of his blog reacted: “February 11, the away with it then. But children aren’t made by us regarding Jewish stu- orientation or political affiliation. demands that have been put forward anniversary of the day when Nelson fooled, they see things for what they dents”. “I have made it very clear to the to it including the boycott against Mandela achieved his freedom and are, and the children of this univer- But the “unreserved apology” student leaders that we will not Israel as well as the academic exclu- ushered South Africans toward sity have removed the veneer and came across as surly and forced and agree to their demand,” said Prof sion issues raised recently. a non-racial future, will now be revealed the reality that there is a included a clarification. Bawa. “We are against all forms of rac- remembered by Jews the world over hatred for Jews simply because they “We would like to clarify that our In the SRC’s apology, made by SRC ism including Zionism and anti- as the day a South African university are Jewish.” position is, in fact, that Israel is an demanded the expulsion of its Jew- Alana Baranov, vice-president of apartheid, genocidal and terrorist ish students.” the Council of KwaZulu-Natal Jewry, state and that in solidarity with our He said that “as a South African said the KZN council was appalled Palestinian people who are currently I am ashamed. As a Jew I am by the SRC’s call. “It is blatantly anti- oppressed and colonised by Israel mortified, and as a father and a Semitic.” we demand that ANY student Jew- husband, I wonder for how much Mary Kluk, national chairman of ish, Muslim, Christian even atheist longer I can pretend that my fam- the Board of Deputies, said it was no or any other that is funded by the ily of Jews are welcome in this coincidence that the DUT SRC call Apartheid State of Israel and its beautiful country”. came a day after Khaled had visited institutions, must not be students Feldman wrote that “the children the campus. in DUT, and if there are any, they of the Durban University of Technol- Nathan Pollack, chairman of must be immediately de-registered. ogy who have demanded that Jews the SA Union of Jewish Students Our campuses will not be breeding be removed from the university, said: “We are appalled by the SRC grounds for apartheid.” are doing what children do. They statement. We believe that such a The SRC also confirmed that it are mimicking and emulating the statement goes against our freedom had adopted a complete cultural and behaviour of their parents. They are of speech and right to freedom of academic boycott of Israel in line following the examples that they association.”

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South Africans should not be living in calm or comfort in the present eco- nomic and political environment - they should be worrying, Sasfin economist David Shapiro (pictured) told the Un- ion of Jewish Women last week. Worrying, he said, actually helped to clarify things. January was an unsettled month. Normally, it is a good month on the markets. A scene from the Cape Town protest. “It usually signifies a fresh new start, and hope, and markets usually OWN CORRESPONDENT SA Communist Party - as a “struggle but by senior parliamentary staff. go up. Not this time. We started the icon” for the Palestinians. The South African Jewish commu- first week with problems in Greece, “Depicting Leila Khaled as Mother Khaled returned to Jordan - where nity, through the SA Jewish Board of then terrorist attacks in Paris - the Teresa is like awarding the Nobel she lives - on Monday after conclud- Deputies, voiced scathing criticism world is troubled and it created un- holds back on drilling, the oil price Peace Prize to Osama Bin Laden.” ing her South African tour with a of Khaled’s visit, noting that she’s certainty,” he said. should recover - not to $100, but to This was a comment read out to a visit to Soweto on Sunday which was persona non grata in a host of Euro- Then came the massive fall in the above $50,” he said. crowd protesting Khaled’s visit in co-hosted by BDS and the Umkhon- pean countries as well as the US. oil price as a result of fracking in the This had huge ramifications politi- Cape Town last week Friday and to we Sizwe’s Veterans’ Association In a statement released last week US, which changed the balance of oil cally and economically, added Shap- formed part of a message from a (MKMVA). ahead of the protest, the Board said: supply, resulting in the fall of com- iro. man who wish to be identified only According to Rebecca Hodes, writ- “The SAJBD has been consistent in modity prices. Added to that, was the “I don’t think the positive impact as Adam and who was on an El Al ing in Tuesday’s issue of the Daily its argument that BDS-SA is using fact that growth in China was lower has been felt yet in the world. With flight from Israel to New York that Maverick, conspiracy theories, in- the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to than expected. petrol now 30 to 40 per cent cheap- was hijacked by Khaled and her co- volving not just the usual suspects import anti-Semitism into South South Africa had its own issues with er, markets have responded to the horts in September 1970. like Israel, ‘Zionists’ and the CIA, Africa. Eskom’s load shedding which is not negative side, not to the consumers’ “The real issue is the hypocrisy of but also Julius Malema and the EFF, “The South African Jewish com- attracting investors. benefit. Who suffers? Oil-producing those who give a platform to people abounded. munity is committed to the ethos of “It is a huge problem and we countries like Venezuela, Nigeria, An- like Khaled, someone who explicitly Khaled warned in her speech that tolerance, diversity and respect that shouldn’t underplay it. While we don’t gola and the Middle East will be hurt. supports all terrorist attacks wher- “vicious” imperialists were “collabo- is enshrined in our Constitution. want to be negative, if we don’t un- Revenues will come down,” he said. ever they may be,” read the message rating with the Zionists to control This is the climate that we have expe- derstand and face problems, we will Another reason for the drop in com- from Adam. the whole world…” She also in- rienced until recently, and we believe never fix them. We have to worry and modity and oil prices was that every- “Khaled laid the foundation for formed the raucously enthusiastic is being eroded by the BDS’ continual make sure we improve. We can’t ig- one had been pinning their hopes on a many other attacks that are even crowd that the US and Israel were intimidation and maligning of the nore failings on so many fronts. We Chinese expansion and making use of happening today under the slogan ‘if the hidden hand behind Islamic ex- South African Jewish community are no longer the sweethearts of the the excess oil supply. you are not with us then you have no tremism worldwide. and use of threats of violence against world with Mandela at our head; we This did not happen. China, said right to exist, and we dare you to go “ISIS, I tell you, is a Zionist, Amer- those who reject their radical agenda. have become the mutts of the world Shapiro, was reshaping its economy or speak against us’.” ican organisation. Boko Haram is That agenda is epitomised by their that need grooming,” he said. from fixed investments such as roads, The protest, organised by the SA another Netanyahu. [Its leaders] are glorification of terrorism and vio- Shapiro explained the drop in the oil bridges and infrastructure, moving to Jewish Board of Deputies, took place more Zionist than the Zionists,” she lence, as demonstrated by their host- price. The US added more oil to the world social spending and a social service outside a press conference being said. ing Leila Khaled, whose organisation supply as a result of fracking, which re- economy where there was no more hosted for Khaled by BDS-SA. The Deputy Defence Minister Kebby the Popular Front for the Liberation vealed huge reserves which were tapped need for commodities such as copper participants stood with banners say- Maphatsoe said that, like “Comrade of Palestinian (PFLP) is responsible using improved technology. and iron ore. ing “BDS wants blood… BDS’s true Khaled”, MKMVA rejected the no- for the deaths of numerous Israeli “In the past few years, new tech- Commodity producers expected the colours” and chanted: “No to Terror- tion of two coexisting states, one civilians and remains committed to nology was developed to unleash this growth in China to continue another ism”. They also wore T-shirts saying: for the Jews and one for the Arabs perpetrating such acts of terror. oil. The cost of oil had previously risen 10 years and many opened new mines “The SA Government condemns all in Palestine. He further advised the “The SAJBD believes that it is only to $100 a barrel, so it was worth the as a result of this expectation. The forms and manner of terrorism”. SA Jewish Board of Deputies “to arm through negotiation that a resolu- price. As a result, when the world price of copper, iron ore and platinum SAJBD chairman Mary Kluk, who itself with real facts and rid itself tion to the conflict will be found and believed oil was in short supply, the has decreased. addressed the crowd, noted that it of misplaced self-pity and begin to it reaffirms its commitment to seeing black liquid started to flow into world In South Africa, the prices are also was no coincidence that the day after become part of the resolution of the a two-state solution in which Israeli markets with the US becoming self- down with no demand for platinum Khaled spoke on the campus of Dur- conflict in Palestine, rather than to and Palestinians live in secure bor- sufficient,” he said. which is now lower in price than gold. ban University of Technology, the serve as the insidious hand of the ders, alongside each other. This is in It had previously come to a point This is going to result in lower and SRC had called for the de-registration terrorist apartheid Israel Zionist line with what the majority of Israelis where Opec controlled the markets shrinking profits and less money for of Jewish students. “Welcoming state in South Africa”. and Palestinians want. It is also con- and held back supply when prices government with many new projects hate-mongers like Khaled to South Hodes reported that: “dozens of sistent with the official position of went down. being withdrawn. Africa sends out a message that it is audience members vied for a decent the South African Government.” “Now they aren’t holding back any- “This is going to hurt construction legitimate to discriminate against angle for a cell phone snap” with The Tripartite Alliance’s support more because the US is pushing oil companies and allied industries. As Jews, something that runs complete- Khaled while she was being present- of the BDS movement in a sense out. It has become a war of attrition South Africans, we rely on mining ex- ly counter to the South African ethos ed with a gift. shows up the ruling party’s confus- and the result is that the price, per pansion and ancillary industries. This of non-racialism, equality and toler- BDS made much of the fact that ing stance on the Israel-Palestine barrel, has halved to about $50. We is also going to put pressure on the ance,” she said. Khaled had been “personally invit- issue. Official government policy, as are now starting to see producers in whole of Africa. Khaled, now in her seventies, was ed” by President Jacob Zuma to his far as Israel is concerned, is “business the US holding back. This is not a big “Ninety per cent of Angola and Ni- hailed during her trip as “a leader State of the Nation address (Sona) as usual”. Government continues to deal in US life. geria’s revenue comes from oil. This in exile of the Popular Front for in Parliament last week Thursday. emphasise that it supports a two- “It doesn’t mean they will be short cutting back will have an impact on the Liberation of Palestine” by her However, the organisation quickly state solution to resolve the Middle of oil, but investment in fracking pro- developments which will ultimately South African hosts, BDS. She was backtracked on their announce- East conundrum, yet Khaled’s warm jects will be put on hold. As the US also affect South Africa,” he said. also feted by the ruling Tripartite ment, saying that Khaled had been reception by the ANC appears to tell Alliance of the ANC, Cosatu and the invited to the Sona, not by Zuma, a different story. More news on our website www.sajr.co.za

6 SA JEWISH REPORT Opinion and Analysis 20 – 27 February 2015 Jewishsouth african Report Countering the Israeli apartheid metaphor in SA When former Deputy Foreign Minister go to Israel,” says Brotman. “They are Ebrahim Ebrahim in 2012 instituted a very concerned about the Muslim vote.” de facto ban on South African govern- SAIF is taking a whopping 200 indi- ment ministers visiting Israel, it epito- viduals to Israel this year. They include mised the souring of a once very close journalists, politicians, and student relationship between the two states. leaders. Their strategy is to focus on This was echoed by International Rela- the country’s younger political lead- tions Minister Maite Nkoana-Masha- ers - future job creators and opinion bane, who remarked at the time: “The makers who are also more likely to be last time I saw a map of Palestine, I persuaded to go than their older more Denmark’s mourners pay tribute to victims. couldn’t go to sleep… It is just dots, established counterparts. smaller than those of the homelands, In conjunction with the South African and that broke my heart.” Union of Jewish Students, SAIF took a Denmark synagogue attack seen What a stark contrast to the intimacy delegation of 16 Student Representa- of the relationship that the Israeli gov- tive Council (SRC) members from Wits, ernment had with the National Party University of Johannesburg, Pretoria, as a belated ‘wake-up call’ in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Although Israel, Cape Town, Stellenbosch and Rhodes, at times, expressed criticism for South to Israel in January--many with ties to CNAAN LIPHSHIZ in his capacity as the representative for combating Africa’s apartheid, the two countries, the ANC Youth League and Sasco. COPENHAGEN anti-Semitism of the Organisation for Security and surrounded by hostile nations, were Jamie Mithi, one of the delegates, Co-operation in Europe. almost driven into one another’s arms, spoke about how the six-day trip From the window of the Jewish community of Copen- Noticing the absence of the sort of security arrange- becoming close military and economic “cleared the fog” of propaganda and hagen’s crisis centre, Finn Schwarz can see his country ments familiar in Paris and Brussels, Baker asked allies. information he and friends are con- changing before his eyes. Danish officials whether they were worried about an Today there is no official policy of tinually fed on campus and through the Hours after the killing of a guard outside the Dan- attack on Jewish institutions. boycotting Israel nor cutting diplomat- media. ish capital’s main synagogue early Sunday morning, “The officials I met recognised the risks but said that ic ties, but support for BDS and the Pal- Although Zionist church groups visit two police officers toting machine-guns were on patrol Denmark had a ‘relaxed approach to security’, as one estinian struggle is very strong among Israel all the time and the South Afri- outside the centre - a common sight in France, Bel- interlocutor put it, and that having armed police in ANC members. Grabbing the banner of can Jewish Board of Deputies takes 10 gium and other trouble spots for Jews, but which au- front of buildings would be too disturbing to the popu- the apartheid struggle to compare the journalists a year, there has to be more thorities in Denmark had previously considered both lation at large,” said Baker, who also serves as director plight of Palestinians to the plight of done to take non-Jewish decision-mak- excessive and unpalatable. of international Jewish affairs for the American Jew- disenfranchised black South Africans ers and politicians to Israel to see mat- “I think this attack was a wake-up call,” said Schwarz, ish Committee. pre-1994, has become a very motivating ters for themselves. Durban University a former community chairman who has lobbied the “I was taken aback because I never encountered in slogan for both ANC elite and younger of Technology SRC’s call last week for authorities for years, often in vain, for greater secu- other countries this argument of rejecting security struggle activists of all ethnicities the deregistration of any students who rity. “What we have long feared, happened and we will measures while fully acknowledging the threat,” Baker I heard one South African student did not support the Palestinian cause, now see a changed Denmark. We have never seen this told JTA. “I left knowing it was only a matter of time leader say last week that “If you are pro- makes trips like these all the more vital. much security and guns before.” before I got the call.” human rights then you are pro-the Pal- We have a lot to learn from North Denmark has approximately 8 000 Jews, according Schwarz said authorities had improved secu- estinian cause (and against Israel)”. To- American Jewry with strong lobby to the European Jewish Congress. rity around Jewish institutions after the slaying last day, most of the South African political groups like AIPAC in the US and CIJA The deployment of armed officers at Jewish insti- month of four Jews at a kosher market near Paris. But leadership is too intimidated to visit Is- in Canada, who have extensive human tutions came within hours of a shooting at a Copen- he said there remained a gap of tens of thousands of rael. For many there is a genuine affini- and financial resources behind them to hagen cafe where a caricaturist who had lampooned dollars between the security funding sought by the ty for the Palestinian struggle and a de- win the propaganda war and to build Islam was speaking. One person was killed at the cafe community and what the government was offering. sire to boycott Israel, but for those who as many bridges as possible between in what Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt called “I think the heavy security is good, but I’m also sad would be open to engaging in dialogue, Israel, their Diaspora communities and a terrorist attack. to see it because a Denmark where armed officers there is a genuine fear of ostracism. government leadership in Washington Later that night, Dan Uzan, a 37-year-old volunteer stand outside [the] synagogue doesn’t seem like the and Ottawa respectively. security guard, was with two police officers at the Great peaceful country I know and love,” Schwarz said. “But How we are countering the We, within South Africa, of course Synagogue when a gunman opened fire with an auto- it’s necessary.” propaganda war have a much more hostile environment matic weapon, killing Uzan and wounding the officers. EJC officials stressed that the problem of Jewish Luckily our community never just than North America, to contend with. The trio were standing guard over approximately 80 security is not Denmark’s alone and called for conti- throws their hands up in hopelessness. But we are not powerless at all. Our people who had gathered for a batmitzvah celebration nent-wide countermeasures, including legislation that As you read this, the largest ever del- community, both here and in Israel, has in a building behind the synagogue. Guests reportedly provides national governments with improved tools egation of MPs from the Democratic Al- a glittering reputation for success - aca- took shelter in the basement after the shooting and to counter the threat. liance (DA) to visit any foreign country demically and financially. later were escorted out under heavy guard. “We are dealing with a pan-European problem are spending a week in Israel, visiting Our fellow-South Africans do want On Sunday morning, Danish police killed a 22-year- which is being dealt with individually instead of on a the territories and meeting with mem- to learn from us. For example, a pri- old man, who they said was a Muslim extremist re- pan-European basis,” said Arie Zuckerman, a senior bers of Israel’s Foreign Ministry as well vately funded trip to Israel in 2013 took sponsible for both shootings, in a shootout. The shoot- EJC official who oversees the group’s Security and Cri- as with representatives of the Palestin- seven powerful South African business er was later identified as Omar El-Hussein. sis Centre. “This is part of the reason our enemies are ian Authority. leaders, many with strong ties to ANC Throughout the day on Sunday, heavily armed po- the ones who have the initiative.” The trip is being organised by a very and government, who wanted to learn lice remained deployed across the capital and beyond, EJC President Moshe Kantor called on the Euro- innovative group called the South Af- about Israel’s business practices and as authorities hunted for accomplices. pean Union to establish an agency devoted to fighting rica-Israel Forum, run by a dynamic build economic ties. Like the SRC lead- The attack comes amid an escalation in anti-Semitic anti-Semitism. young American, Dan Brotman. Work- ers last month, they were overwhelmed incidents in Denmark, including one this summer in “European governments and leaders who in the ing closely with DA Deputy Shadow by the innovation and entrepreneurial which several individuals broke into a Jewish school name of upholding liberties refrain from acting effec- Minister of Labour Michael Bagraim, spirit they witnessed and were anxious just weeks after the conclusion of Israel’s seven-week tively against terrorists, are endangering those very they managed to convince the 12 par- for further connection and collabora- conflict with Hamas in Gaza. No-one was injured in freedoms because they are exposing them to the ter- ticipants to join. tion. the incident, but some weeks earlier Jewish educa- rorists’ attacks,” Kantor said. The group even includes DA Deputy We cannot change the minds of a tors had instructed students not to wear yarmulkes or In Copenhagen, Dr Ilan Raymond, a Jewish phy- Shadow Minister of Higher Education whole nation, many of them attached other identifying garments to school. sician and father of two, spoke of an uncertain road and Training Yusuf Cassim, South Afri- to the apartheid struggle metaphor “This reality and the attack hurt the Jewish commu- ahead. ca’s youngest member of parliament in for the Israeli-Palestinian issue, nor nity both by encouraging emigration and by forcing “What happened Sunday is a shock that will stay history, who sits on the Muslim Judi- can we fund trips for even a fraction of people to distance their children, for security reasons, with us for a long time,” said Raymond, who learned cial Council and who helped organise a them. But there is power in individual from the Jewish community, its schools and institu- of the attack while on vacation when his 16-year-old rally last July in support of the Gazans connections and in giving leaders the tions,” Schwarz said. son sent him a text message that read “I am alright.” during Operation Protective Edge. Any opportunity and exposure to make up Yet Danish authorities often resisted requests for The attack “will have a profound effect and may previous attempts to get a big delega- their own minds about Israel. We need greater security measures, an issue that Rabbi Andrew cause some to leave,” Raymond said. “It’s early days.” tion to go, had failed. to commend and support these game Baker raised last September during a visit to Denmark (JTA) “The Jewish community should not changing initiatives. take it for granted-that DA MPs would – Vanessa Valkin, Editor More news on our website www.sajr.co.za 20 – 27 February 2015 Community SA JEWISH REPORT 7 Could South Africa go the Read the South African Jewish French route? Report online www.sajr.co.za in dangerous times. The vigour which South African Jews spend whining about An exciting position exists for a dynamic, hardworking TAKING ISSUE the country would be better spent getting and enthusiastic individual in the role of: involved in improving things. The need is enormous. Geoff Sifrin There is so much anger under the surface Executive Director due to poverty, unemployment and racism, Beit Mordechai Campus Kollel on the Yeshiva College campus One effect of the cringe-worthy circus Par- that it doesn’t take much to ignite a xeno- liament became last week during President phobic rampage like we saw in 2008 against Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation Address, foreigners perceived to be stealing jobs was to revive the whinge-sessions many from South Africans. A Malema-like popu- Competencies must include: whites - Jews and others - frequently in- list could channel the rage into sinister dulge in. “How terrible it is here! The crime, directions to suit his own agenda - includ- • P assion for Torah corruption, Eskom switching off the lights, ing fostering hate against Jews or others. education potholes in the roads which never get fixed, Nurturing interfaith links is crucial to • Ex cellent communication skills Nkandla...” counter this. They must be strong, so when • Initiative The well-known script usually ends like trouble comes there is something to lean • Sound administration this: “The country is going down the tubes! on. and project management If only we had left for Australia, the UK, An intriguing example of interfaith co- skills Israel or other places as our relatives and operation happened recently in Bradford in friends did years ago!” the UK, where for the first time a Muslim Zuma’s gleeful face as EFF parliamen- was co-opted onto the governing council of Interested applicants are to please send their CVs to: tarians were physically thrown out of the the Bradford Reform Synagogue. Estab- [email protected] Chamber didn’t help. He seemed contemp- lished in 1880, it is the oldest Reform shul tuous of the effect this spectacle had on outside London, located in the heart of the citizens. Muslim community, who has helped look In stark contrast, European Jews’ desire after it. to leave countries like France, is not about Jani Rashid, a Muslim, raised funds last whether they are well-run, but fear for their year to repair the roof of the historic build- safety. European countries are experienc- ing when subscriptions from the 45-strong ing their worst levels of anti-Semitism in Jewish congregation were insufficient. He decades, including killings, desecration will help make decisions about the build- of Jewish graves - some 300 in France ing’s day-to-day running, though not the reported this week - and rabid hate speech religious aspects. The incident reflects a on social media. pocket of unusually close links between In the UK, an all-party Parliamentary in- Jews and Muslims there, in stark contrast quiry into anti-Semitism, is suggesting that to what is happening in Europe generally. on social media like Twitter and Facebook, Rudi Leavor, the synagogue’s 87-year-old prevention orders like those restricting sex chairman, said: “We want to show the two offenders’ access, could be used to ban us- religions and communities can and will ers spreading racial hatred. stick together.” People who carry out hate crimes could Could this sort of thing happen in South be prevented from using social media, Africa? Could a historic synagogue in Cape increasingly a hotbed for anti-Semitism and Town or Johannesburg have a Muslim on other bigotry. The report said the terms its board? Or could a historic mosque be “Hitler” and “Holocaust” were among the assisted by a Jewish benefactor? Interfaith top 35 phrases relating to Jews during last co-operation has a proud history here, and year’s Gaza conflict. The hashtags “Hitler” through all the recent bad times, relations and “genocide” featured with “high fre- between Muslims and Jews have remained quency”. The “Hitler Was Right” hashtag relatively good. spread worldwide in July 2014. But in these times, complacency is In a bizarre reaction to the fear Euro- dangerous, particularly with the appall- pean Jews live in, in the wake of the recent ing standard of our national leaders, as we Paris and other killings, an Israeli salon is witnessed in Parliament. We need to keep producing a hair-based kippah as a camou- thinking out of the box to ensure South flage for Jews who don’t want to stand out Africa never goes the route of France. in public - they could wear this “kosher” kippah, but outsiders would see only hair. Geoff Sifrin is former editor of the SAJR. 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Taking issue with Sifrin’s ‘swipes’ at Netanyahu

While it is all very well to be a student of political affairs and to Though this address is to take place less than two weeks before participate in political discussion, is it necessary for any of us Israel’s general election (on March 17), the timing is totally living in cosy homes in South Africa or elsewhere, to disparage irrelevant with regard to his responsibility for the security Timeless Torah vs the shifting sands and guesswork the activities of the duly elected prime minister of Israel? of Israel and the Jewish people. Sifrin could have made his He receives plenty such criticism from political opponents points, emphasising jihadist atrocities, without knocking In last week’s “Letters to the Editor”, Martin Frack takes issue with my there (a number of whom are of course merely after his job), as Israel’s PM. description of “millions of people” at Mt. Sinai who received the Torah. well as from many non-Jews of all shades of opinion vis-à-vis It is a reality that almost no one person is beloved by all. He is correct in stating that the basis for this calculation is the Torah’s Jews and Israel, throughout the world. Even Mordechai, the leader of the Jews of Persia (now called statement that there were 600 000 men between the ages of 20 and 60 I respect Geoff Sifrin for his past stewardship of the Iran) of 2 500 years ago, who played a dominant role in saving who were present. Add to that approximately an equal number of women SAJR, but why, in the course of his “Taking Issue” column the Jews from Haman’s evil plan of annihilation, was not, as and those below the age of 20 or above the age of 60 and it’s reasonable of February 13, does he deem it important to take swipes at stated in Megillah Ester, loved by all of his brethren. to say that the total exceeded two million. Benjamin Netanyahu whenever he refers to him, for accepting Why not, at least in a public newspaper in the Diaspora, Frack says that the barren Sinai could not have sustained those an invitation by the Republicans to address the US Congress show solidarity with the prime minister of Israel? numbers and contends that “Biblical scholars” estimate that there were on the Iranian nuclear issue? far fewer Jews, perhaps 10 000, who left Egypt. This is his responsibility as the prime minister of Israel and Chonnie Romm How does one prove that history actually happened, especially if it de facto leader of the Jewish world. Johannesburg and Jerusalem is in the distant past before the advent of photography, filming and Facebook? It is through the books that have been written on those D r Tobias needs help with his Torah Embarrassing ad slips through the cracks... events, records, excavations and the art of that era. reference library website The Torah relates the narrative of the enslavement in Egypt and the I was absolutely dismayed by your distasteful unprecedented exodus that followed. The Torah that tells of the events I am a radiologist in Johannesburg. I belong to the Kollel advertisement “No more suffering” on Page 11 of the in Egypt, is that same Torah that relates the miraculous existence of the community. For the past six years I have been building up the Jewish Report of February 1. Jews on their subsequent journey through the desert: the manna that Torah reference library there and it is now very substantial. It certainly lowered the standard of what is a most fell daily from Heaven to feed them, the Well of Miriam that provided I have formed a close connection with Rabbi Yaakov reputable and extremely popular weekly newspaper! water and the Clouds of Glory that protected them and smoothed the Rosenes, who runs a service called Virtual Geula. He often path forward. helps me to obtain out-of-print volumes etc. He is an expert Gillian Sallis In the natural order of things the desert cannot sustain a very large on Torah publications, rare volumes and related matters. Johannesburg number of people, but it is precisely the miraculous existence of the Jews My project is entirely voluntary and freely available to the in the desert that could see them through their 40-year trek. One cannot Torah community who come to study and do research there. You are right. It was the wrong ad sent to us and as we were embrace one half of the story - that the Jews miraculously left Egypt en As a next step in my project, it has been arranged for me experiencing load shedding on production day, it slipped masse, while without any basis rejecting the other half of the story - the to have a webpage as a subsection of Rabbi Rosenes’ website. through. It’s not a good enough excuse, but we sincerely miraculous nature of that journey. I am going to have some items about our “collection’’, how apologise. - Editor I am not sure who the “Biblical scholars” that Frack refers to are and it came about, some photos etc. To add interest, for anyone what the basis for their hypothesis is. But that is what it is - a hypothesis who visits this site, especially from overseas, I would like to Not much magic about this ring, our based on fragmentary evidence that is subject to change and even radical add some items of general Jewish interest, for instance some readers say reinterpretation, as more information comes to light. Such is the nature photographs of shuls in South Africa, historical articles, etc. of their field that is one of conjecture. Could any of the readers perhaps let me have a few items As an avid reader of the Jewish Report, including its The Torah on the other hand is an actual description of the events which I could use without any copyright issues? Or could they adverts/advertorials, I am afraid I have to take strong that has been handed down unchanged and unchallenged for millennia. suggest where I could get a few items like this from? exception to the inclusion of the almost half-page ad on Objective facts that are properly understood invariably dovetail with the I don’t have experience with web pages and would the “Magic Ring”! Torah. appreciate some suggestions as to what one can use without Your fine newspaper is not the forum for such an ad, I prefer to embrace the certainty of the G-d-given Torah rather the copyright issues, to make such a feature interesting. and is totally inappropriate. shifting sands and guesswork of Egyptology. I can be reached at [email protected] or 082-566-0842. I, together with a large group of friends and family who talked about the ad over Shabbos, hope that such ad Rabbi Pesach Fishman Dr Milton E Tobias does not appear in the Jewish Report again. NorthcliffS hul, Johannesburg Johannesburg Fay Flood Johannesburg A dmit that there’s no future in SA for Jews It was a wrong ad which slipped through in the “half light” of Howard Feldman has, for the past year or so, written quite a few interesting and thought-provoking articles in the Jewish load shedding. We sincerely apologise. - Editor Report. He was always described (I presume with his approval) as a being unashamedly Jewish, proudly pro-Israel, and unashamedly South African. SA can’t be credible partner in Mideast This week he penned another well-written article regarding the anti-Semitic stance taken by a South African university talks demanding the expulsion of its Jewish students. (The article “Welcome back to Durban” in the online edition refers). Feldman ends his article with the following words: “Today I am ashamed of being a South African. I weep for what the country I would like to know if Howard Sackstein still believes has become and I pray to G-d for our future.” Strong words. One can only admire Howard Feldman for a complete turnaround South Africa should host Spier 2. from his “unashamedly” South African” sentiments to “shamedly South African”. The only pity is that he and other leaders did What with the South African government giving official not see the writing on the wall since our new “rainbow nation” was born 20 years ago. recognition to the terrorist Leila Khaled, does he really I believe that instead of praying to G-d for our future, as Feldman suggests, our leaders, especially the Torah leaders, adopt believe South Africa can be a credible partner/arbitrator in the same attitude as he does, by admitting that there is no future for young Jews in this country, and urge their communities to talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority? make their future in the Land of Israel. All I can say to you, Mr Sackstein, is if you were my This is a “shmitah” year and there is no doubt that the G-d of Israel is at the wheel guiding His people home to His Holy Land. lawyer and recommended to me to enter into negotiations Let us hope that our children leave in an upright manner, and not by force and humiliation. with my enemy and the negotiations were to be chaired/ In his article Feldman writes; “I wonder for how much longer I can pretend that my family of Jews are welcome in this arbitrated by my enemy’s best friend, I would have fired you country.” I suggest that the choice we all face is clear: Either we continue to live in this anti-Israel/Semitic country, or we as my attorney, on the spot! convince our young community to move to Israel. I suggest Feldman has made his choice and I salute him for his courage. Sonny Myerson Oranjezicht, Choni Davidowitz, Golden Acres, Johannesburg Cape Town

We’re counting down... to sushi, pizza and coffee 20 – 27 February 2015 Community SA JEWISH REPORT 9 r e : t h e l at e Maligned Israel comes up DANIEL COPANS smelling roses The family of the Late Daniel Copans would like to express their grateful thanks and appreciation to all persons who Apart from South Africa, I don’t know Not that it will make one jot of difference to those bent graciously donated funds towards the considerable medical if there is any other country that has on believing otherwise, but Israel, with 1,5, scores higher costs incurred as a consequence of Daniel’s condition. been referred to as a “rogue democ- than South Africa. This record is even more striking when racy”. Quite probably there isn’t one. compared with the rest of the Middle East, which is some- The funds were paid into an account administered under our It is rare to find a country quite as thing of a horror story. control, and were utilised and applied as and when required. schizophrenic as South Africa, one in Only Lebanon (“Partly Free”, with a score of 4,5) which liberal democratic and Afro-au- escapes being classified as “Not Free”, while Syria and As a consequence of Daniel’s premature death, it became thoritarian impulses are pitted against Saudi Arabia are ranked among “The Worst of the Worst” unnecessary to utilise all the funds, and we are in a position BARBARIC one another in a fight whose final (the others being the Central African Republic, Equatorial to refund donors with a pro-rata share of the balance. YAWP outcome is far from certain, regardless Guinea, Eritrea, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Turkmeni- David Saks of what the Bill of Rights might say. stan, and Uzbekistan). A suggestion has been made by certain donors that the For the time being, at least, the The general failure of Islamic societies to operate in a funds be donated to either a cancer-related charity, or apply country remains a bona fide democracy, with all the basic democratic milieu, is shown by the fact that overwhelm- the funds to establish a Foundation in memory of Daniel. pillars of a free society - judicial independence, freedom ingly, Muslim-majority countries fall into the “Not Free” This Foundation would assist desperately ill children with of expression and thought and universal suffrage among or, at best (and less frequently at that), “Partly Free” medical costs in the case of life threatening conditions. them - in place. Why it has earned the more ignoble title category. of “rogue democracy” in certain quarters is because of its Among the very few exceptions are Senegal and Tunisia, As certain of the donations were made anonymously, we morally compromised foreign policy. I think it was Tony with the latter being the only country where the so-called appeal to all persons or institutions who made donations, Leon who once said that the South African government “Arab Spring” resulted in genuine freedom rather than to contact us, in confidence, with instructions as to how you had yet to meet a dictator it did not like. leading to intensifying repression. would prefer your share of the refund to be applied. Virtually all “Not Free” countries are in Africa and Asia. In Europe, only Belarus and Russia (if one regards So lamentable has been South All queries can be directed to it as being part of Europe rather than of Asia, which is an Lucille Liebowitz c/o Tuffias Sandberg KSi Africa’s record in opposing global interesting question) fall into that category, whereas in E-mail: [email protected] tyranny, that even the leftwing (and, the Americas - both North and South, and including the Telephone: 087 940 9080 certainly when it comes to Israel, Caribbean - only Cuba continues to be regarded as “Not notoriously biased) Human Rights Free”. Watch had some sharp words to This certainly surprised me - it was not so long ago that countries say... like Chile, Bolivia, Columbia, Nicaragua and Haiti were among So lamentable has been South Africa’s record in oppos- the most authoritarian regimes ing global tyranny, that even the leftwing (and, certainly on the planet. when it comes to Israel, notoriously biased) Human The overall import of the latest Rights Watch had some sharp words to say about it in its Freedom House findings is that latest report. while the world unquestionably While “repeatedly supporting resolutions on Pales- remains a far freer and more tine”, it had “abstained on the votes of all other country democratic place than was the situations, including on North Korea, Syria, Sri Lanka, case prior to the collapse of the and Iran”. Moreover, despite having supported the Soviet Union at the end of the establishment of the International Criminal Court, it had 1980s, worrisome trends are afoot frequently failed to stand against impunity for human that threaten to reverse many of rights violations. For example, it had been in favour of the those gains. proposed African Court providing immunity from pros- ecution for serving heads of state and senior government officials, including war crimes and genocide. If anything epitomises South Africa’s contradictory for- The overall picture eign policy, it must be how it has three times in five years appears to be refused to grant a visa to the Dalai Lama, whereas notori- ous Arab and Islamic extremists have been able to come one of increasing and go as they please. In light of this, no-one should be polarisation... surprised at unrepentant PFLP terrorist Leila Khaled not only being allowed to enter the country, but being given a rapturous welcome by ruling party representatives. Domestically, at least, South Africa remains solidly The overall picture appears to democratic, even if certain worrisome inroads have been be one of increasing polarisation, made. In its latest Countries’ Report, Freedom House, an where on four of the inhabited influential US-based research organisation that monitors continents, freedom is over- democracy, political freedom and human rights around whelmingly the norm whereas in the world, gives it a score of two, based on a scale of one the remaining two (the largest, in representing the most and seven the least free. terms of population), authoritari- In African terms, this is an impressive rating, given anism holds sway and is in fact that 88 per cent of African countries were adjudged to intensifying. be either “Not Free” or at best, “Partly Free”, with scores That Israel, objectively speaking of four upwards. That it was graded only two (all West- a genuinely free and democratic ern European countries, by contrast, receive a “one”) is society (despite being in a situa- because of, inter alia, government encroachment on the tion of continual war) is among editorial independence of the SABC, the pressure under the most vilified countries on the which judicial and prosecutorial independence has come planet, speaks volumes about in recent years, the fact that senior-most ANC leaders the prejudice and perversity that “generally retained impunity from punishment” and xeno- dominates so much of global hu- phobic violence by police (including torture). man rights discourse.

To freshness... quality... 10 SA JEWISH REPORT Community Columns 20 – 27 February 2015 A column of the Chevrah Kadisha Beyond belief Many people don’t believe in who has only limited use of the miracles. But I see miracles every left side of his body. day at the Chev. At this moment The trip, fully sponsored by I know personally of 14 people Achilles, was an incredible experi- under our care who are feeling ence for these two young men. blessed by miraculous events Neither of them had ever been they thought were beyond their on a plane or travelled anywhere, wildest hopes and dreams. Let me least of all to the bustling me- share their touching stories with tropolis of New York! you. They both completed their 42 Of all the divisions within km races, running with volunteers the Chev, there is only one who assisted them along the way, that provides services further and were awarded their medals afield than the Jewish commu- Partners in which, Buthi said, he didn’t take nity; only one that is nonde- Chesed off for days! It was a life-changing nominational and multiracial Michael Sieff taste of magic, unlike anything - a candidate for BEE ratings. Group CEO they ever thought they would That is Kadimah Occupational experience. Services which provides protected employ- As for the other 12, they’re residents of ment for people with physical and intel- Sandringham Gardens who’ve been given the lectual disabilities. It has been in exist- opportunity to travel overseas to visit family ence for over 35 years and came under the members - children, grandchildren, brothers, Chev’s umbrella to be incorporated into our sisters - they haven’t seen for years and thought own protected employment programme in they might never see again. 2008. The perceptive, generous (and anonymous) Last year Dennis Taubakin, who man- donor has recruited other contributors to assist ages a running programme, Achilles SA, in this project which, besides planning itinerar- approached Kadimah to offer two positions ies, also involves renewing passports, acquiring for people with disabilities to run in the visas where necessary and providing travellers New York Marathon in November. with a daily allowance for the duration of their There were eight runners competing for the trips. two spots and they were trained by Dennis him- “It’s a miracle,” they’re saying. And they’re self over many months of relentless exertion. right! Ultimately the winners were Buthi Murule, who May our partnership continue to thrive! is intellectually disabled, and Vincent Gwebu, [email protected] This column is paid for by the Chevrah Kadisha Property ownership proposals leave more questions than answers SUZANNE BELLING interfere with the free-market principles of will- ing buyer, willing seller,” Seeff said. There was a great deal of confusion over Presi- Denese Zaslansky, CEO of Firzt Realty, said dent Jacob Zuma’ s remarks in his State of the she concurred with Seeff. She cautioned against Nation address that, in terms of new proposed panic “because if you speak to 10 different peo- legislation, foreign nationals would not be al- ple, you get 10 different opinions of what was lowed to own land in South Africa, but would said”. only be eligible for long-term leases. She said Zuma was “very vague” and He gave more clarification last week- if one wanted to stop the sale of land end by saying that if the bill is passed, for- to foreigners, a law had to be put into eigners may only own land in a business place to stop the Reserve Bank from capacity, if the dominant shareholder of releasing funds. an enterprise is controlled from abroad. She also questioned whether Zuma Zuma’s spokesman Mac Maharaj said meant large tracts of land, or mining the bill would soon be sent to Cabinet for or commercial property. “He never approval after which there would be pub- stated a finite plan of implementation lic consultation.” and would have to change the law.” Local estate agents are both confused and Nevertheless, Zaslansky believes there are and frustrated, “because they don’t explain the ra- would be legal routes that would enable foreign- tionale”, said Samuel Seeff (pictured), chairman ers to buy property in South Africa. of Seeff Properties. “Currently, if a foreign buyer wants to purchase “Purely in my opinion, it is a question of poli- property with finance from one of our registered ticking and trying to get votes from people who banks, he has to have a South African partner or ultimately won’t be beneficiaries of the proposed shareholder in the company.” legislation. Trevor Stamelman, principal and owner of “It’s not foreign visitors, but those residing Stamelman Properties, said: “We are being cut here on a permanent basis who constitute the off at the knees. We are becoming another Zim- bulk of foreign property buyers.” babwe. This is bad for buyers, bad for sellers and Research has shown that only about three per bad for agents. cent of properties are owned by foreign nation- “In Sydenham, Orange Grove, most of the als. owners are foreign - practically the whole of “If the government feels strongly, yes, restrict Cyrildene is Chinese. the sale of government-owned land rather than “It is going to affect investment.” More news on our website www.sajr.co.za

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It’s a blight on humanity, and there’s of dissents - including Natan Sharansky, released nobody that has ever spoken against it with his ve- Sunday 22 Feb, 7:45pm by the Soviet Union in 1986 after nine years of hemence and nobody ever worked against it with Thursday 19 Feb, 7:45pm forced labour, and Nelson Mandela, who was freed the vehemence that he has taken to the issue.” in 1990 after 25 years and went on to lead South With Irwin Cotler as the keynote speaker at THE GREAT DEBATE Africa. our Conference, all of us present that night will In his words: “Each case of a political prisoner be far better informed and educated, and able to “Who is a Better Jew: represents a deprivation of liberty, a violation of understand even more clearly the future of the Born Frum or Born Free?” fundamental freedoms and untold suffering for the Middle East. Rabbi Gidon Fox, Pretoria Hebrew Congregation individual and his or her family. While the abuses Rabbi Dovi Goldstein, Ohr Somayach, Savoy meted out by oppressive states show us their • Bookings for the Conference can be done online true nature, the international response reflects through www.ticibox.com Monday 23 Feb, 7:45pm Purim is also for the elderly, C M THE CONVERSION CONUNDRUM says Chabad House Y Should We Want CM Chabad House in Johannesburg kicks off a its annual Seniors’ Purim Party. This year’s More Jews or Better Jews? MY media release on Purim, by stating: “Purim is festivity takes place on Purim, Thursday, March Rabbi Ron Hendler, not just for kids.” 5, at 11:30 at 27 Aintree Avenue in Savoy in CY Registrar of Conversions, Beth Din Calling Purim one of everyone’s most favour- Johannesburg. Admission is free. CMY ite holidays, Rabbi Ari Kievman appealed for the “Come nosh on Hamantashen and other Mr Adam Gross, a Personal Story K elderly not to be forgotten during this holiday. treats and spend an entertaining afternoon “Every shul plans its uniquely schmoozing with friends and themed party, especially at- neighbours in a cheerful holi- Wednesday 25 Feb, 7:45pm tracting the kids to rejoice day setting. You’ll hear the in the festive holiday’s cele- Megillah, along with a fun HEAVEN, HELL... AND THE HERE & NOW brations. Although Purim is multimedia wall projec- a time for kids to masquerade tion. Journeys of the Soul; in fancy dress and for adults “Have some l’chaims, to have a good time too, we listen to holiday music, Life, Afterlife...Get a Life! mustn’t forget the elderly.” enjoy delicious food and share shalach Rabbi Dovid Wineberg, Marais Rd Shul, He pointed out that many elderly manot gifts with one another prepared Sea Point, Cape Town people are suffering from depression, health by Chabad House. Who knows, maybe issues, financial constraints, loss of a spouse, you’ll win one of the great prizes in the Dr Shelli Sandler, Psychiatrist, Johannesburg children far away, loneliness et al. “So Purim is raffle!” a natural time to celebrate and put our worries With Grateful and concerns aside. It’s a time to reflect on pre- • Rabbi Ari Kievman is director of Chabad’s Thanks to the vious celebrations and make this year’s exceed Chai Seniors programme and can be Isaacson Family – In Memory of them all. It’s a time for real reJewvination.” reached at 079-434-1293 or via e-mail Miriam bat Yosef. Every year when Purim comes around, he [email protected], or call (011) 440-6600 says, Chabad House invites all seniors to attend for more information. Sydenham Community Centre, Seeff Hall, 24 Main Street, Rouxville | Info/ Bookings 011 640 5021 | R50 each

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THE NLDTF SEASON Yeshiva College has announced its primary school house captains for 2015, for houses Tzion, Judah and Israel. Mazeltov to all! February • Wednesday 25 & Thursday 26 Pictured are Levi Jacobson; Doron Romberg; Eyal Mindel; Raphy da Costa; David Rapp; and Jake Shapiro. Principal Joseph Beer; Adina Sender; Sarah Zimmerman; Sara Joselowsky; Dani Naum Rousine conductor KLATZOW The Healing Melody Moritz; Rivka Alpert; and Eden Liebowitz. TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto, op.35, D major BRAHMS Symphony No.3, op.3, F major Avigail Bushakevitz violin Mishloach manot packages March • Wednesday 04 & Thursday 05 Daniel Boico conductor OPERA Highlights: Famous Arias, duets, ensembles and chorus works from operas Aïda, Il Trovatore, available from TA Girls’ High La Traviata, Tosca and Lucia di Lammermoor in collaboration with Big Wig Opera Company Stéfan Louw, Elizabeth Lombard, Natalie Dickson with the Big Wig Opera Chorus OWN CORRESPONDENT March • Wednesday 11 & Thursday 12 It’s that time of year again - Torah Academy Girls’ High School’s biggest fundraiser of the year, Daniel Boico conductor SCHUBERT Overture, D 590, D major (In the Italian Style) the making up of special mishloach manot packages for Purim, which falls this year on Thursday, BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No.3, op. 37, C minor March 5. MENDELSSOHN Symphony No.4, op.90, A major (Italian) All gifts come in branded luggage with a combination of imported chocolates and sweets, Lucas Vodracek piano dried fruits, nuts, sauces, whisky and grape juice or wine. March • Wednesday 18 & Thursday 19 Prices range from R30 to R1 000, with free deliveries for orders over R1 000. Deliveries will be made on Purim. Michal Dworzyński conductor ZAIDEL- RUDOLPH Fanfare Festival Overture Pictured are grade 11 girls showing off part of the selection of gifts: Yocheved Cohen; Touba RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No.1, op.1, F-sharp minor Nikfard; Sara Bacher; Hadassah Carlebach; and Kayla Drutman. HOLST The Planets (with visual display courtesy Wits Planetarium) • F or further information: e-mail [email protected] or call (011) 485-3871. Pallavi Mahidhara piano (The JPO reserves the right to alter scheduled programmes or artists as necessary)

Linder Auditorium • St Andrews Road • Parktown • Time: 20h00 • Free Pre-concert talk: 19h15 Booking for all concerts through Computicket or Box Office on the night. Season tickets available from the JPO. 011 789 2733 • [email protected] • www.jpo.co.za Photo supplied 20 – 27 February 2015 Community SA JEWISH REPORT 13 It’s fifty shades of controversy...

DINA DIAMOND tion – hosted a premiere last week for Fifty and Christian Grey, a suave billionaire that on the sidelines and complained, instead Shades of Grey in an effort to raise aware- sweeps her off her feet. He falls for her and of rolling up their sleeves, volunteering First the book, now the movie, has got- ness and funds for projects that include, likes to indulge in a little, not very graphic personal time and doing some real work to ten millions of tongues wagging across the but are not limited to, battered women, or even violent, bondage in his playroom… help those in need. globe. However, wagging is just the begin- women empowerment, day-care centres, All of the interaction between the two Laurienne Baitz, World WIZO Aviv’s ning. Fifty Shades of Grey became the fastest youth villages, youth centres, foster homes is consensual and Anastasia is continually representative, agrees. “In a world where book to sell one million copies, beating pre- - the list goes on. reassured that she can leave at any time. In viewing the real mutilated bodies of vious records by Dan Brown for The Da Vinci These premieres were hosted across the fact in this movie, it is the woman who is in humans’ spoils of war is an all-day, every- Code and JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series. world and all over South Africa as well. All control of herself and her relationship and day visual reality oozed across every news It was also the first book to sell a mil- events were an instant sell-out and in fact has the ability to indulge and the freedom channel that our children view out of the lion copies on Kindle. It has since sold over proved to be the fastest selling tickets to to walk away. corner of their eyes while playing games 100 million copies. The movie has been no any fundraiser in WIZO’s history. “For any of those who chose rather to on the Internet with unrestricted access different, smashing all previous box office Despite the success of the events, the film stay at home and watch the State of the to more unspeakable real horrors, exercis- records around the world, even before it choice certainly sparked some controversy Nation Address, (which was on the same ing the personal choice to view (or not) a opened. in the South African Jewish community, night), they were surely exposed to far strictly-rated adult movie that has passed Taking into account the immense, pre- particularly among traditional and religious more violence than actually appeared in the the international censorship boards, seems dominantly female interest in the movie Jews. The email invitation from WIZO got movie,” said one of the event organisers. more in perspective.” In South Africa the and the obvious fact that women of all ages, responses like, “not the kind of movie an Some moviegoers even expressed disap- PG rating is 16, whereas in other countries marital statuses and cultures would flock to organisation like WIZO should be showing” pointment that the movie was “too soft”. A such as France, it is a mere 12 years. the cinemas, it seemed only a natural choice and that any money raised from this event journalist in the Sunday Times echoed this Baitz added: “WIZO is capitalising on the that this movie would be used by a women’s would be “tainted.” sentiment, stating that there is “not a great movie’s hype to raise funds. An additional charity organisation to host a premiere and However, after viewing the movie, many deal of actual flesh” on view and quipped motivation is to change the organisation’s raise funds for a very worthy cause. Yes? could ask what the fuss is all about. that she had “seen more explicit scenes on reputation from ageing women who organ- No! The storyline is, in essence, your typi- Discovery Channel”. ise luncheons and bridge parties. This does The Aviv (younger) arm of WIZO - the cal love story. It centres on a fictitious For the organisers, it felt like a storm in a not attract a younger membership without Women’s International Zionist Organisa- Anastasia Steele, a young college student tea cup was created by those who merely sat whom WIZO will have no future.”

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Before you pour someone else a drink, have you established that he or she is not driving? 2. Have you established how much they have had? 3. Have you clarified if they’re on any chronic medication that may conflict with alcohol? What about non-chronic medication? 4. Ha ve you labelled your juice punch with a sign “contains alcohol”? 5. Have you verified with a parent whether pour- ing for their child is okay? 6. Are you going to take responsibility for whatever may occur to the person you are pouring for? 7. Has it occurred to you that some people strug- gle to say no to a drink? 8. Ha ve you asked yourself if alcoholism can be nurtured? I’m not saying don’t drink on Purim, I’m saying be responsible and think about the consequences of your potential actions. 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E&OE. 17979OFyt for minors. 14 SA JEWISH REPORT Community Columns 206 –– 1327 FebruaryFebruary 20152015 A column of the SA Jewish Board of Deputies Proof of BDS’ toxic motives The two issues that most involved the Board last week store in support of the BDS boycott by the Congress of SA some way responsible for the myriad ills being experi- were the demonstration we held in Cape Town to protest Students, but there have been others. enced by the Muslim world. Such a mindset puts Jews against the presence of PFLP terrorist Leila Khaled and Increasingly, radical anti-Israel groupings are not everywhere at risk. the related scandal over the student leadership at the even making a token distinction between “Zionists” and In taking to the streets to protest against Khaled, we Durban University of Technology calling on Jewish “Jews”. It only serves to confirm what we believed from were sending a forthright message that we are proud students there to be “deregistered” because of their links the start to have been BDS’s toxic motives in inviting a Jews and proud South Africans, and that we will not be to Israel. speaker like Khaled in the first place. intimidated, whether by BDS, SRC students or any other That the DUT incident was related to Khaled’s visit is It was nevertheless heartening to see the outpouring of lobbies who seek to deny us our fundamental rights to undeniable. It is hardly coincidental that the “Juden raus” support and sympathy for our community following the freedom of expression and association. call followed immediately on her speaking at DUT. It was DUT call, both locally and from our Jewish counterparts As events around the globe, and particularly in Europe, Above Board just the latest in a growing number of outrageous threats abroad. I commend our Council for KwaZulu-Natal Jewry, show, the hostility we are experiencing is not new to being made against our community as a direct result of in particular their president, Ronnie Herr and Vice- South Africa but part of an international trend. Looked at Mary Kluk BDS incitement. Two especially serious incidents were President Alana Baranov, for the strenuous, but always in this perspective, we can take heart from the fact that National Chairman the chanting of “Shoot the Jew” by BDS supporters at measured and dignified manner in which they dealt with despite the virulent nature of much of the rhetoric we are Wits and the depositing of a pig’s head in a Woolworths the matter, in the media and in their interactions with dealing with, acts of violence against our community have the university itself. been virtually nonexistent, even during the overheated Over the weekend, Denmark, expe- atmosphere generated by last year’s Gaza conflict. rienced something very similar to what A few days ago, our community in Umhlanga took to took place in Paris last month, with the the streets to participate in a rousing Hachnasat Sifrei murder of someone adjudged to have Torah ceremony. It demonstrated our ability in this offended Islamic sensibilities being country to live a full, unfettered Jewish life, regard- Will the quickly followed by a lethal attack, in less of the efforts in certain quarters to make us feel this case by the same individual, on a unwelcome. Copenhagen synagogue. With this reassurance, we must be careful not to over- In both cases, avenging a perceived react when those wishing us harm presume to threaten 2015 Budget slur against Islam was combined with us, but rather deal with each case as it arises in a consid- an attack on people solely on account ered, proportionate manner. of their being Jewish. It shows how deeply rooted has become the notion in • L isten to Charisse Zeifert on Jewish Board Talk, 101.9 make l ght radical Islamist circles that Jews are in ChaiFM every Friday 12:00-13:00. This column paid for by the SA Jewish Board of Deputies World News in Brief work? in the wake of the two Paris attacks by Islamists France’s PM appeals to last month that left 17 dead, including four Jew- ish men at a kosher supermarket. Jews to stay On Sunday, it was reported that several hundred graves were vandalised at a Jewish Given the impact of South Africa’s power crisis on our PARIS - Prime Minister Manuel Valls of France cemetery in northeastern France. Valls on Twitter country’s economic growth, the question is... has appealed to his country’s Jews to stay in the called the vandalism “a vile, anti-Semitic act, an how much tax will you have to fork out to keep the lights on? wake of a call by his Israeli counterpart Benjamin insult to the memory” of the dead and vowed to Netanyahu for European Jews to move to Israel. find those responsible. (JTA) For answers to this question and insights into the budget’s “My message to French Jews is the following: France is wounded with you and France does not impact on you and your business, read our online budget want you to leave,” Valls said on Monday follow- review and analysis. ing a weekend that saw two deadly shootings in Majority of Americans: Copenhagen that mirrored two attacks in Paris Just go to www.gt.co.za last month. Obama should meet Bibi In the wake of the Copenhagen attacks, WASHINGTON - More than half of Americans be- including one outside a synagogue that left a lieve that President Barack Obama should meet Jewish volunteer security guard dead, Netanyahu with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday in a statement: “To the Jews of when the latter visits Washington, DC next month Europe and to the Jews of the world, I say that to address Congress. According to a YouGov/ Israel is waiting for you with open arms.” Huffington Post survey of 1 000 US adults, 58 per On Monday, Valls said: “The place for French cent believe Obama should meet with Netanyahu. Jews is France. I regret Benjamin Netanyahu’s Forty-six per cent believe that their members of remarks. Being in the middle of an election Congress should attend the Netanyahu address, campaign doesn’t mean you authorise yourself to compared with 24 per cent who said their elected make just any type of statement.” representatives should not attend and 30 per www.gt.co.za Valls also said that the threat of terror at- cent who were undecided. tacks remained high in France and that security 2015 Grant Thornton South Africa. All rights reserved. Grant Thornton South Africa is a member firm of Grant Thornton The White House is opposing the speech on International Ltd (GTIL). GTIL and the member firms are not a worldwide partnership. Services are delivered by the measures would remain stringent for as long as member firms. GTIl and its member firms are not agents of, and do not obligate, one another and are not liable for one the grounds that House Speaker John Boehner another’s acts or omissions. Please see www.gt.co.za for further details. necessary. France deployed 10 000 troops to (Republican Ohio) did not consult with Obama protect Jewish buildings and other public sites prior to inviting Netanyahu. (JNS.org) Jewish Report_Budget.indd 1 2015/02/09 2:16 PM Peace of Mind for the Jewish Community Jewish Emergency Response • Jewish Emergency Network

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[email protected] 083-346-4627 1616 SASA JEWISHJEWISH REPORTREPORT Sport 5 – 12 December 2014 16 SA JEWISH REPORTSport Sport 206 – – 27 13 FebruaryFebruary 20152015 BigBillie birthday Jean helps clash Women’s forWerbeloff Black Benevolent Stars’ leads Avramnew fundraiserMaccabi Grant tennis JACK MILNER Elton John. they have been active for 99 years.  e organisa- JACK MILNER played for Hapoel Petach Tikvah junior team but Byron Werbeloff Both have signed the posterinitiative along with eight tion is 121 years old, having served the Jewish Coach Avram Grant during did not have much of a senior career. In fact, he and Kayleigh One of the greatest tennis players of all time, tennis players, including Grand Slam winners people of Johannesburg continuously. Ghana’s quarterfi nal One cannot help but admire the tenacity of took over the role of coachingJACK the MILNER same junior Sher have Billie Jean King, has donated memorabilia to Andy Roddick, Ste Graf, Martina Naratilova  ose who know Billie Jean cannot help but match against Guinea Israeli soccer coach Avram Grant. I wonder team in 1972, a role he held until 1986 when he earlierbig this plans week. for the Johannesburg Jewish Women’s Benevolent and Andre Agassi. be a ected by her determination and charm. whether earlier in his career he would have seen was handed the senior team.Ever since most people can remember, the South African Maccabi tennis. Society to help them raise funds. “We held a ra e and the winner was Rael She is outspoken and does not mince her himself coaching Ghana in the African Cup of He did wonders with a tennisteam that team was chosen battling for the Maccabi Games has been selected Marlene Bethlehem, herself a tennis player of Berelowitz,” said Marlene. words. In 2002 she was in South Africa for the Nations. to stay a oat and in the basedrst couple on whether of years you he can reasonably hit a ball over the net, note who has participated on the international As the winner lives in London, the memora- Nike Junior Tour International Masters which After beating Bafana Bafana 2-1 in the nal managed to get them backhow into available the First you Divi- were and if you could afford to go. platform, used her contacts to ask Billie Jean for bilia were handed over to JJ van der Linde at on that occasion joined forces with World round robin stage, Ghana edged into the second sion. By 1991 Petach TikvahNot were quite, title but contend- selections were made more often on an a signed racquet that they could ra e. Global Capital, the  rm with which Berelowitz TeamTennis, the organisation owned by Billie round by having a head-to-head advantage over ers. arbitrary basis. However, that is all about to change if “Billie-Jean is well known for her generosity is associated. Jean and Ilana Kloss, at Sun City. Algeria. In the quarter nals Grant’s team scored After that he coached MaccabiByron Werbeloff Tel Aviv and has his way. Byron, 24, has been appointed and notRead only did the she send South us a racquet, African but also Marlene, Jewish president of the organisation, and Speaking to the youngsters aged between 11 an impressive 3-0 victory over Guinea to set up Maccabi Haifa before beingconvener o ered and the headjob of coach for Maccabi South Africa and he Masters of the Nike Junior Tour, representing the country a signed edition of her book as well as a poster,” her vice-president, Annette Angel, have donated and 14, Billie Jean was amazed by how many of a semi nal clash with hostsReport Equatorial onlineGuinea Israel’s national coach, a positionintends settinghe held up from a national structure, similar to that of in Nice in 2005 as an under-12 player and again in 2007 at said Marlene. “Billie Jean was also involved in a many years of their time to the Women’s the players did not know the names of some of on  ursday, a day before his 60th birthday. 2002 to 2005. Maccabi Golf SA. Turin in the under-14 category. concert to raisewww.sajewishreport.co.za funds for an Aids concert with Benevolent. In fact, between the two of them the tennis greats from their respective coun- Born in Petach Tikvah, as a youngster Grant Grant moved to England “Maccabiin 2006 to has become not had an organised programme,” said For a while Kayleigh hung up her racquet to concentrate on tries. “If you don’t know where you come from, Byron. “We want to have regular her studies, but over the past few years she has coached ten- how do you know where you are going” she tournaments and a ladder with nis and has also represented South Africa at the International asked them. JJ van der Linde (centre) accepts the rankings based on performance. In University Games. Perhaps my favourite quote from her best Billie Jean King memorabilia from Jewish that way selection to the Macca- There will be a small charge to be part of the Maccabi puts Billie Jean King into perspective. “A cham- Benevolent Society President Marlene biah will be prestigious. set-up, but this will be a nominal amount. Part of the money pion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of Bethlehem (left) and Vice-President Annette “We will set up a system that collected will be used to sponsor the team going to the Mac- winning.” Angel on behalf of winner Rael Berelowitz. will help us get to know the players cabiah. and give them the chance to play The training will be open to anybody between the ages againstJR memberswill beof other available clubs.” of six and throughout 25. “The under-10s will beholidays known as our ‘Rising technicalByron was director top junior of Portsmouth in the beforeMaccabi being Stars’,”was explained set to have Byron. his “Therst match idea isas to manager plan for of the Jewish Report’s website, www.sajr.co.za website - and how to find things country.appointed He director has set ofup football a number at Chelseafuture in July and givePartizan them something in a friendly to againstwork towards.” Sepahan Isfahan will be updated throughout the holidays. fast. 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