CSO CAPE TOWN 24 HOUR SECURITY & MEDICAL WESTERN CAPE EMERGENCIES ONLY 086 18 911 18 CSO needs your help to make a difference as a community organisation. www.csocape.org.za We are grateful for your continuous support VOLUME 37 No 4 MAY 2020 www.cjc.org.za Fundraising for food parcels Creating a platform of giving As the concept The ‘Good Food of lockdown Network’ was due to accelerated into an launch this year. Anna imminent reality, had been working Anna Shevel on it for two years. It was to be an online realised what this marketplace giving would mean for small businesses South Africa. and producers their ow it would impact own affordable, easy Lizo Madinga of Afrika Tikkun and Brad Stern elbow-bump in Mfuleni during the Hthe 11 to 14 million to set up, easy to first week of lockdown South Africans already manage online micro Like many South Africans, Brad (such as Microsoft, DSTV ad Telkom experiencing extreme stores. As COVID-19 Stern of Cape Town tuned into Mobile), and which is dedicated to hunger. She was approached she was President Ramaphosa’s first youth empowerment. The company immediately gripped devastated that her COVID-19 related address to works with the Department of Basic by an urgent call to do something to big dream and all her work and investment would now be the nation on 15 March. Education and has completed more mitigate what was coming. than 600 activations at schools, meaningless. e was particularly struck by the reaching 400 000 learners throughout Anna is, at heart, a food activist. She is passionate about reinventing She soon realised, however, that Hfollowing words of the President’s South Africa. there would be an opportunity to speech: “Those who have resources, the food system and using food as As a result of this work, Brad was reinvent her work if she looked those who are healthy, need to assist a superpower to change the world. already familiar with the government’s for the opportunity. Incredibly, the those who are in need and who are For the last few years, she’s been school feeding scheme (the National experience and technology platform vulnerable.” focused on creating the ‘Good Food School Nutrition Programme) which Network’. A mapped online national she had built to map the food system Brad founded and owns Superiate, provides almost 10 million children resource for connecting the entire for ‘Good Food Network’ led to the a two-year-old marketing agency with a daily school meal. For many, local, organic and ethical food synchronous creation of mapping that specialises in nationwide youth this is the only source of food received system for suppliers and consumers. care to needs for the #OneloveSA marketing for numerous brands for the whole day. Campaign. Click to read more on page 26 Click to read more on page 20 Creating toolkits and Serving 30 000 meals a week posters to assist the Ladles of Love (Ladles) started as a single soup kitchen in 2014 by Daniele (Danny) Diliberto. community Today, it has rapidly extended its reach and, during the lockdown, provides food for The Cape SAJBD has been involved in numerous feeding schemes all over the Cape. various initiatives leading up to and during the national lockdown, including anny explains, “It started on the basis of the helping a team of experts and communal Dancient Sanskrit word seva, meaning ‘giving of yourself and wanting nothing in return.’ And when I leaders draft and distribute safety learnt of that word back then, I was on a meditation guidelines tailored to the local Jewish course and it very much resonated with me. Long story community. short, our seva that day was to go out and make and During this trying time, a big focus has been serve the homeless a cup of tea. I decided to arrange “our legal research with Tyla Dallas and the a pot of soup because my restaurant at the time was legal subcommittee, whose work has helped the around the corner from where I was doing this course board break down various legislation that came and it just all clicked for me. The learning of the word into play during the lockdown for the community’s seva, how easy it was to cook a pot of soup; I had the education and information. We’ve made various staff, I had the kitchen space and I thought, let me just toolkits and posters available on our website and start, and I never looked back.” our social media platforms, and provided the Before the onset of the pandemic, Ladles had four community with regular COVID-19 updates as kitchens around Cape Town serving soup to homeless the local situation progressed. Our digital Food people. Additionally, it partnered with four schools and Bank campaign in support of JCS has raised over with four other feeding schemes and supplied them with Danny with Thandie Matikinca, Provincial Site R67 000 towards care packages for vulnerable food parcels so that they could continue to feed needy Coordinator for Hope World Wide, Africa members of the Jewish community.” said Board children and keep their own soup kitchens running. Director, Stuart Diamond Click to read more on page 30 2 Cape Jewish Chronicle May 2020 CONTENTS VOLUME 33 No 5 JUNE 2016 VOLUME 37 No 4 MAY 2020 Regular contributors Features Page 3 Lindy with a why Page 1 and 26 Cans With Purpose fundraises for food parcels Page 4 Community noticeboard Page 1 and 30 Ladles of Love serves 30 000 meals a week Online information hubs Page 1 and 20 #OneLoveSA creates a platform of giving Subscriptions Page 19-20 Daniel Rabinowitz on social isolation Shabbat times Page 32 Kevin Chapman on his new book, Can Do! Page 6 Community Security Organisation (CSO) Lorna Levy’s May Day reflections Page 7 Mensch Page 34 Hillel International lays off 20% staff Page 8-9 Cape SA Jewish Board of Deputies Page 10 Friends of the UJC Cape Town eLimmud Page 11 Telfed Page 12-15 SA Zionist Federation (Cape Council) Page 16 Temple Israel Page 17 Jacob Gitlin Library Page 18 Union of Orthodox Synagogues Page 19 SA Jewish Museum 15 Page 20 Family Announcements United Herzlia Schools Page 21 Phyllis Jowell Jewish Day School Page 22-23 United Herzlia Schools Page 24 Anton Katz on freedom in the time of Coronavirus Page 25 The Herzlia Foundation Page 27-29 Cape Jewish Seniors Association Page 30 Astra 18 Page 31 Jewish Community Services Page 33 Simcha Page Page 34 Chronic Ads Page 35 Craig Nudelman on love in the time of Corona 27 JCS Food Bank Page 36 Nechama 23 CJC EDITORIAL BOARD CSO emergency Zapper SnapScan Chairman: Lester Hoffman.Ex-officio: Ben- Banking details: number for security and Zion Surdut. 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Cape Jewish Chronicle Samson Centre 87 Hatfield Str Gardens 8001 PO Box 4176 Cape Town 8000 phone 021 464 6736 email [email protected] Editor Lindy Diamond Cape Jewish Chronicle May 2020 3 Lindy with a why Why setting our narrative keeps us positive By Lindy Diamond, Editor Cape Jewish Chronicle There was a time, a million me she had a tight chest too and it years ago in January 2020, was such a relief, everything is easier when I thought the best way to when you know you aren’t crazy get to know yourself and learn or alone... or that at least if you are and develop as a person was crazy, you’re in good company. through travel, and meeting Then there have been the unexpected new people, and having parts. I wrote in my last column Why experiences outside of the living in interesting times is a blessing world you know.