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www.sajewishreport.co.za Friday, 10 June 2011 / 8 Sivan, 5771 Volume 15 Number 21 UJ law professor says academic boycotts are unconstitutional PAGE 3 Marchers representing the Jewish Agency for Israel, were among the 30 000 MARCH IN NEW 30 000 people who marched in the Celebrate Israel Parade in New York YORK'S ISRAEL PARADE City on June 5. (JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL) Theatre buff Maurice SAKS: Palestinian Award for Afrikaans Raymond Ackerman’s Father’s Podbrey builds SA / 4 denialism / 9 Anne Frank Diary / 2 UNISA doctorate / 5 Day / 13-15 YOUTH / 16 SPORT / 20 LETTERS / 12 CROSSWORD & BRIDGE / 18 COMMUNITY BUZZ / 7 WHAT’S ON / 18 2 SA JEWISH REPORT 10 - 17 June 2011 SHABBAT TIMES PARSHA OF THE WEEK June 10/8 Sivan June 11/9 Sivan Where the Beha’alotecha Starts Ends cloud dictated, 17:06 17:57 Johannesburg 17:26 18:20 Cape Town we followed 16:46 17:38 Durban 17:06 17:59 Bloemfontein 16:57 17:52 Port Elizabeth PARSHAT 16:51 17:45 East London BEHA’ALOTECHA Rabbi Larry Shain Director Ohr Somayach Published by RABBI DESSLER offers an insight into a hard- S A Jewish Report (Pty) Ltd, to-understand phenomenon found in Parshat PO Box 84650, Greenside, 2034 Tel: (011) 023-8160 Beha’alotecha. We are familiar with the fact that Professor Lina Fax: (086) 634-7935 the Jewish people were miraculously guided by Spies at the Printed by Caxton Ltd a “Cloud Pillar” throughout their 40-year jour- 2008 launch of ney through the desert, prior to entering the EDITOR - Geoff Sifrin Land of Israel. her translation [email protected] The Ramban remarks on the fact that there of the Diary of Sub-Editor - Paul Maree was no real pattern to the movement of the Anne Frank Ed Co-ordinator - Barry Bilewitz cloud and the movement of Bnei Yisrael, in into Afrikaans, [email protected] response to its “initiative”... sometimes a day (in held at the Senior Reporter - Rita Lewis a fine place), sometimes a month (in an average Cape Town [email protected] location) and sometimes a year (in an undesir- Holocaust able location!) and vice versa. Sports Editor - Jack Milner The lesson, says Rav Dessler, was one for the Centre. [email protected] generations. What better expression of depend- Books Editor - Gwen Podbrey ence upon Hashem? Arts Editor - Robyn Sassen We were being taught to believe that we are Prof Lina Spies wins award for [email protected] not in control of our destiny. The cloud dictated Youth Editor - Alison Goldberg and we followed. This was the training ground [email protected] for the Jewish psyche, the acute awareness of Hashem in our lives. translating Anne Frank’s diary Cape Town correspondent As ‘the best-laid plans of men’ go awry, so too Moira Schneider: 021-794-4206 MOIRA SCHNEIDER glaring ignorance about the author and the the destiny of the Jewish people, individually CAPE TOWN diary, particularly in South Africa and espe- Pretoria correspondent and collectively, is unpredictable and part of a PHOTOGRAPH: AMANDA COOPER cially in the Afrikaans community. I trust Diane Wolfson: 082-707-9471 Divine plan over which we have no control, nor that my translation 60 years after its first Manager: Distribution true understanding. The training that goes with PROFESSOR LINA Spies has been awarded publication, will contribute to counteracting Britt Landsman this, is the will to do the Will of Hashem, despite the prize for translated work by the Suid- this ignorance.” [email protected] our “better” judgement, despite inconvenience Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns She said her work was “the realisation of a Sales Executives - (011) 023-8160 and beyond our “comfort zone”. for her translation of the Diary of Anne lifelong ideal”, recalling that her association Britt Landsman: 082-292-9520 Rav Chaim Volozhin expresses a similar les- Frank from the original Dutch into Afrikaans. with the diary had started in 1961 when she Manuela Bernstein: 082-951-3838 son in explanation of Psalm 23: “He makes me to The poet and academic had access to was a university student. “I read it against Murray Schoeman: 083-627-6670 lie in green pastures, He leads me by still unpublished and previously withheld sec- the background of the Eichmann court hear- Freelance Sales Executive waters...” says Rav Chaim Volozhin: When I tions of the diary during the course of com- ing in Jerusalem in the same year - for the Marlene Bilewitz: 083-475-0288 want to move, He causes me to stay, and this pleting the work, titled Die Agterhuis, the first time I was confronted with the Nazi becomes green pastures, when I want to stay, He Classified Sales Cape Town Holocaust Centre said. atrocities,” she said. [email protected] causes me to move and this place becomes still The award, which is made every three Die Agterhuis has been recognised in waters... with the belief that Hashem is in con- years, “recognises the aesthetic qualities of a reviews as one of the finest and most com- Design and layout trol, I view my situation as best for me, as engi- translation from any language into plete translations of the diary, of which there Frankie Matthysen neered by Hashem and I accept. Nicole Cook Afrikaans”, according to the Akademie’s web- are approximately 60 in existence. There is a lesson here on a “national” level site. Die Agterhuis was launched at the • This weekend sees the commemoration of Website too. Centre in 2008 and is available there. Anne Frank’s birthday, on June 12. She www.sajewishreport.co.za We live with the deep frustration that the At the launch, Spies said there was “still would have been 82. Ilan Ossendryver world judges Israel by “double standards”. IC-Creations Hypocrisy abounds. Israel has become the [email protected] KASHRUT ALERT aggressor in the eyes of the nations despite Subscription enquiries every attempt at presenting the truth. In the suc- KINDER JOYEGGS NOT KOSHER Avusa Publishing (Pty) Ltd cinct analysis of a foremost Israeli commenta- Tel: 0860-13-2652 THE KASHRUT department of the kosher. tor, Efraim Karsh, we are in the midst of a trag- Johannesburg Beth Din has announced that “We are working closely with the manu- BOARD OF DIRECTORS ic and age-old scenario, the “blood libel”, the Kinder-Joy Eggs manufactured in Poland facturer and hope to have some good news Howard Feldman (Chairman), Issie Kirsh bizarre and perverted characterisation of the and/or South Africa, are NOT approved soon” the department says. (Deputy Chairman), Stan Kaplan, Jew being held accountable for the bloodthirsty Marlene Bethlehem, Russell aggression of his enemies. Gaddin, Norman Lowenthal, Once again we are faced with nothing less Bertie Lubner, Benjy Porter, than an existential threat. KASHRUT ALERT Herby Rosenberg, Howard In this era of “cloud technology”, when some- Sackstein, Jason Valkin. VICENZI’S KOSHER SYMBOL NOT VALID IN SA thing so ephemeral as a cloud could contain so much, we are reminded of that vaporous sub- THE JOHANNESBURG Beth Din’s kashrut a kosher symbol that is not recognised by Advertisements and editorial copy from stance that alluded to Hashem’s protection, con- department has announced that Vicenzi bis- our Beth Din outside sources do not neccessarily reflect stant and forever. cuits, imported by Patleys, are marked with the views of the editors and staff. 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