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JMS OFFERS MOUTH- BELIEF SYSTEMS WATERING FARE FOR 2011 / 8 WORTH MORE SWERDLOW MULTI-TASKS IN THAN FLEETING THEATRICAL WORLD /8 VISIT / 9 The SA Jewish Report has 50 000 weekly readers! www.sajewishreport.co.za Friday, 11 February 2011 / 7 Adar 1, 5771 Volume 15 Number 5 Israel watches anxiously as US rethinks aid for Egypt PAGE 6 An Egyptian flag flies from an army outpost on the Egyptian side of the border with Israel near WILL EGYPT- the moshav of Kadesh Barnea. Israelis hope the relative calm that has prevailed on its southern ISRAEL BORDER flank will carry over in any “regime change” in Egypt. The peace deal negotiated with Anwar Sadat in 1979 has endured turbulent times, but TRANQUILITY the border has remained quiet. However, no crystal ball can predict the final outome of the Egyptian uprising. Israel waits with PREVAIL? bated breath. (PHOTO: DINA KRAFT) Dershowitz: The hard left SAKS: Settler Calls mount to Israel’s Ironman, FEATURE: encourages Arab despots / 7 roots in E Cape / 6 free Pollard / 3 3rd toughest / 16 Medical Matters YOUTH / 12 SPORTS / 16 LETTERS / 10 CROSSWORD & BRIDGE / 14 COMMUNITY BUZZ / 4 WHAT’S ON / 14 2 SA JEWISH REPORT 11 - 18 February 2011 PARSHA OF THE WEEK SHABBAT TIMES February 11/7 Adar 1 Published by February 12/8 Adar 1 S A Jewish Report (Pty) Ltd, PO Box 84650, Creating a better world for all of us Tetzaveh Greenside, 2034 Tel: (011) 023-8160 IT IS always fascinating to under- So, our holy day of Yom Starts Ends Fax: (086) 634-7935 stand the composition of our bril- PARSHAT Kippur, which is the day of liant Jewish calendar - the calcu- cleansing and purity must, of 18:15 19:26 Johannesburg Printed by Caxton Ltd lations of the new moon, and TETZAVEH necessity, not have any link what- 18:20 20:18 Cape Town EDITOR - Geoff Sifrin especially the way the festivals Rabbi Michael Katz soever with impurity. We don’t 18:15 19:20 Durban fall within a particular year. even want it celebrated on a day [email protected] Chabad Illovo 18:20 19:38 Bloemfontein So many principles are taken on which a conduit to impurity 17:51 19:49 Port Elizabeth into account, so many facts and was created! Sub-Editor - Paul Maree 18:15 19:38 East London features all converging on a con- Shabbos fasting, and we don’t In this week’s Torah portion - Senior Reporter - Rita Lewis clusive and very clever system of want to leave Shabbos fasting. Tetzaveh - we read of all the gar- [email protected] perfection. However, Yom Kippur can be on a ments and preparations for the particular action or realm of One of the fascinating facts Shabbos itself and the fast of Kohanim, the priests, as they life, but often there is something Sports Editor - Jack Milner within the calendar’s composi- Tisha B’Av can be on a Sunday went to work in the Holy hidden, a foundational “impuri- [email protected] tion is that Yom Kippur may not and that of Asara B’Tevet can be Tabernacle and Temples. ty” not immediately recognised, Books Editor - Gwen Podbrey be on a Sunday, a Tuesday or a on a Friday! They needed to be pure; they but lurking in the proverbial Friday. Never can be and never The Talmudic reason for Yom needed purity of body, of mind, of shadows or in the foundation. Arts Editor - Robyn Sassen will be! Because of that, our festi- Kippur not occurring on those soul and even had to be clothed in Like Yom Kippur, like the [email protected] vals fall into a certain “grid” of particular days dates back to special garments! Kohanim, like a Kingdom of days of the week upon which Creation. If we carefully study We, the Jewish people are Priests we need to guard our- Youth Editor - Alison Goldberg they can occur, and all of them what Hashem created on each day called a “Kingdom of Priests”. We selves against involvement in [email protected] can only fall out on four days of of the week, there is a particular are meant to be a nation that rep- that realm, retain our “purity” Cape Town correspondent the week, not seven! synergy between Sunday, Tuesday resents morality, purity and and with that, our role in this Why should Yom Kippur not be and Friday in that it was on those G-dly behaviour within every- world - bringing G-dliness into Moira Schneider: 021-794-4206 on a Sunday, a Tuesday or a days, and only on those days that thing that we do. the world and making it a Pretoria correspondent Friday? We often think that this the features of our world that Often it is clear that there is “Mishkan” - a place where G-d Diane Wolfson: 082-707-9471 has to do with Shabbos, for could conduct impurity were cre- something blatantly wrong and can dwell - a far better world for instance. we don’t want to go into ated! we know to stay away from that us all. 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She is a SYDNEY - Mass flash flooding triggered by Cyclone Classified Sales true Jewish intellectual, and as the travelling Yasi, caused severe damage to Jewish community build- [email protected] WORKING FOR the community is often a organiser for WIZO South Africa, has trav- ings in Melbourne. thankless job, yet eight members of WIZO elled the length and breadth of the country, Design and layout Floods stormed through several suburbs heavily pop- who have spent their lives working for the bringing all facets of Israel and WIZO to the ulated by Melbourne’s Jewish community of 50 000 on Frankie Matthysen organisation, are not only still there but main cities and remote parts of South Africa. the evening of February 4, prompting the closure of the Nicole Cook are active and productive – despite being “In her heyday, she was a sought after Sephardi Synagogue on Shabbat. aged 90 and over. speaker. She edited ‘News and Views’ and Website At least two Jewish schools also were flooded, with At a tea in their honour, WIZO Johan- took on the portfolio of council’s hasbarah www.sajewishreport.co.za Bialik College - one of the largest Jewish schools in the nesburg’s Zee Bergman paid tribute to all chairman. She is now chairman of Meier- country - reportedly closing for two days last week due Ilan Ossendryver the nonagenarians for their devotion and Szold. to damage. The offices of the Australian Jewish News IC-Creations loyalty calling them true “Ayeshet Chayils”. “Jenny Nowitz is 92 and for over 60 years also were partially flooded, according to Yossi Aron, the [email protected] “Sylvia Berzack, honorary life president has devoted herself to the Cyrildene branch. newspaper’s religious affairs editor. of WIZO South Africa and a life member of Her home has been the venue for many excit- Subscription enquiries “The streets were like rivers,” Aron told JTA. the World WIZO executive, has been an ing functions. One house in a low-lying area of his street was com- Avusa Publishing (Pty) Ltd active member for 73 years, starting as a “Esther Batzofin (92) hails from pletely flooded, he said, adding: "The water was waist Tel: 0860-13-2652 young girl with her aunt in the Hillbrow Bloemfontein. Her father was the first chair- high.” branch. man of the Port Elizabeth Zionist Society in Driving rain and wind gusts of up to 130 km per hour BOARD OF DIRECTORS “At 93 she still attends council meetings 1901, when he lived there. battered Victoria, ripping roofs from buildings, felling Stan Kaplan (Chairman) and WIZO functions and does an excellent “After moving to Johannesburg five years trees, and closing roads, schools and other premises. job canvassing for campaign and member- ago, she joined the Bramley branch where Issie Kirsh (Deputy Chairman), Marlene Some suburbs received more than 150 mm of rain in 24 ship. she is a valued member. Bethlehem, Russell Gaddin, Norman hours, according to the Bureau of Meteorology. “Beccy Flekser at 90 is still the treasurer “Lottie Nathan (90) is a founder member of The flash flooding was caused by the tail end of Yasi, Lowenthal, Bertie Lubner, for ‘Elise’ the WIZO gift shop in Fairmount the Parkview-Parkwood branch. She is now a category 5 storm that ripped through Queensland on Benjy Porter, Herby and has been since its inception many years at Waverley and has become synonymous February 3, just weeks after rampant floods deluged the Rosenberg, Howard ago. with the book sales. She has raised thousand state, claiming at least 35 lives. (JTA) Sackstein, Jason Valkin. “Stella Greenberg (96) is the oldest active of rands for WIZO and still continues to do so. member of WIZO Johannesburg. “Matla Sarkin (91) is an actress, beautician AUSCHWITZ SIGN STEALER TRANSFERRED TO SWEDEN “Until recently she worked in WIZO’s and raconteur par excellence. For over 70 KASHRUT WIZE Buys, second hand shop, but had to years she brought Jewish history, culture KRAKOW - A Swedish neo-Nazi leader who organised give it up when she stopped driving three and knowledge to WIZO through the drama the theft of the "Arbeit Macht Frei” sign from The following symbols will appear on months ago.