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There was States, but in security at shuls and news when I got home from shul, administration. “It is a passive or originally from no security because no one ever public places, South Africa is 20 and was simply flabbergasted,” even active consent to allow them Johannesburg, was in the expected this to happen here,” years ahead.” says Howard Schachat, originally to behave in a way they would ChabadA shul of Poway, California, says Meyerowitz, who had even He says the America of today from Cape Town. “I’ve been to never have before. on Saturday when he heard shots seen children playing in the is a different place to what it that shul, and sang in the choir “Ten years ago, I would never ring out. “It was the first aliyah of reception area of the shul just was when he arrived 23 years for a Barmitzvah there. It’s a have expected something like the Torah, and I heard three shots. before the shooting. ago, and this kind of terrorism is lovely community. I was in tears this to happen in San Diego, but I dropped to the floor now, with neo-Nazis saying under the seats, and stayed ‘Jews will not replace us’ there. in Charlottesville, it’s a “The whole thing took ‘In the face of darkness, spread light’ different paradigm, and only about 30 seconds to a Jews will always be the minute but I counted about scapegoat.” 15 shots fired. I heard Daniel Weiss, also women screaming and men originally from Cape Town, shouting.” attends the shul, and his He says there were about children go to Hebrew 70 or 80 people in shul school there. – way more than were in It is a ten minute drive the Pittsburgh shul when from where he lives, “and a shooting claimed eleven this definitely hit too close lives six months earlier. to home”, he says. “It’s a But, in this instance, huge shock, but in a way more deaths were it could also be expected, prevented because the especially in the US. Until shooter’s gun jammed, and the laws change, it has just Photo: Ilan Ossendryver Photo: he was confronted by a become too easy to get a shul member who had been gun,” Weiss says. in the military. “As soon He attended a vigil as the shooting stopped, on the night after the I ran out of an emergency shooting, along with exit, so I never saw the hundreds of other people. carnage,” says Meyerowitz. “The eight-year-old girl But he knew the woman who was injured in the who was killed in the attack was there. It wasn’t attack, Lori Gilbert-Kaye. only a Jewish event, but a “She was a wonderful, San Diego event, with an charitable person, and her Praying for solidarity and unity at amazing blend of people, family was at shul every Chabad House in Johannesburg on the mayor and a senator.” Shabbos.” The rabbi of He says the turnout Tuesday night, following attacks on the congregation, Yisroel demonstrated that people Goldstein, lost two fingers the Chabad of Poway shul were deeply affected by the in the attack, but managed shooting way beyond the to keep calm, and even Jewish community. finish his sermon before Claire Ellman, originally being taken to hospital. An from Johannesburg, has Israeli man, Almog Peretz, and his “The attitude has been ‘no becoming an everyday occurrence. watching the rabbi speak after the known Rabbi Goldstein for 30 eight-year-old niece, Noya Dahan, one will worry us, we don’t have It is something he never could shooting.” years while working on Jewish were also injured. They had moved a fight with anyone, and we’re have imagined when he made San “It’s almost like a lid of education projects. More recently, to San Diego from Sderot (on a welcoming community’. But Diego his home. permission has been opened she interacted with him through the Gaza border) to escape the obviously that will have to change Other South African expats for white supremacists,” he Continued on page 5>> IF YOU DON’T VOTE YOU CAN’T KVETCH This year’s Great Debates saw leaders from several political parties discuss issues pertinent to the community. Now’s your chance to cast your vote and make your voice heard. #MakeUsCount rief • • W n B or 2 SA JEWISH REPORT i ld 3 – 10 May 2019 s N w e e w N d s l i r n its suburbs. The CDC pinned the o Terrorism Bureau on Thursday, B W Third record year for r i • e Appliance Repairs on Site resurgence on the unvaccinated, four days after a terror attack f • • f e • Canadian anti-Semitism and those who brought back i at eight churches and hotels in r W , B rs o n r e i l h Anti-Semitic incidents in Canada rose to a measles from other countries. three cities in Sri Lanka that d s s a N w e w e w N h record high for the third consecutive year, Prominent rabbis in New York killed at least 359 people and s s d l i s i r e n o v B o W r D t i • e f , es, S according to an annual audit by B’nai Brith have called on their followers to • injured hundreds. It called on es chin dg Ma Canada released on Monday. vaccinate their children. Israelis already in Sri Lanka to leave ri g F hin The audit showed 2 041 anti-Semitic as soon as possible, and for those planning as rs & more incidents recorded last year in Canada – trips to cancel or delay those plans. W Drye French philosopher afraid ble 16.5% more than the 1 752 incidents in um Call Jason to appear in public T 2017. Buenos Aires honours 082 401 8239 / 076 210 6532 “This represents the third straight record- Alain Finkielkraut, a Jewish philosopher breaking year for anti-Semitism in Canada, and one of France’s foremost thinkers, Olympic swimmer FREE QUOTATIONS reflecting a ‘new normal’ regarding the said far-left protests against him meant he Argentinean Olympic swimmer Damian landscape of anti-Semitism here,” said Ran could no longer show his face on the street. Blaum, who started his career at a Jewish Ukashi, the director of B’nai Brith Canada’s Finkielkraut made the remark in sports club in Buenos Aires, was honoured League for Human Rights. response to recent protests against him at by the Buenos Aires City Parliament as Eighty percent of the incidents came the Sciences Po university in Paris, where an “outstanding sports personality” in from online platforms such as Facebook, he spoke at a symposium on Europe’s recognition of his career. Instagram, and YouTube. future. The Jewish athlete in February 2018 set The demonstrators wrote, “We cannot a new record for swimming from Uruguay US measles outbreak accept Finkielkraut’s ‘modern Europe’ to Argentina, crossing the Rio de la Plata and his islamophobic, racist, sexist and river in 9 hours, 6 minutes, a distance of tops 700 homophobic rhetoric.” Commenting on about 26 miles (41.8km). The measles outbreak in the United States, the protesters, Finkielkraut said, “You are • All briefs supplied by JTA especially prevalent among haredi orthodox the fascists. You are the 1930s. You are the Jews, has topped 700 cases – the most in anti-Semites.” one year since the Center Shabbat times this week for Disease Control (CDC) Israel issues Sri Lanka Starts Ends declared the disease travel warning 17:19 18:08 Johannesburg eliminated in the US in 17:46 18:38 Cape Town 2000. Israel recently issued a travel warning of a 17:02 17:52 Durban The record outbreak of “high and concrete (terror) threat” in Sri 17:22 18:12 Bloemfontein 704 cases reported last Lanka. 17:17 18:09 Port Elizabeth week by the CDC includes The warning was issued by the Israel 400 cases in New York and National Security Council’s Counter- 17:09 18:01 East London Torah Thought Moral is normal f anyone was bent on convincing us that Man-made laws are forever being Ultimately, morality Torah was old-fashioned, this would be a amended to suit changing times and cannot be decided Igood Parsha to prove it. Leviticus, Chapter circumstances. When a new super-highway by referendum.