friday 16 november 2012 / 2 Kislev 5773 volume 16 - number 41 news opinion letters tapestry community columns youth sports Silberhaft’s south african compassionate humanity brought to life (page 12) jewish report www.sajewishreport.co.za Labelling: SAJBD makes its final submission DAVID SAKS material used to produce the goods rules of origin be “prepared and ap- originated there. plied in an impartial, transparent, In the latest development regard- It lists Gaza along with the predictable, consistent and neutral ing the Department of Trade and West Bank and East Jerusalem as manner”. Industry’s controversial move to being “Israeli Occupied Territory”, It also would fall foul of the relabel Israeli products emanating even though seven years have now requirement that rules of origin from Jewish enclaves in the West passed since Israel withdrew in toto should be so applied as not to create Bank, the SAJBD has made another both its military forces and Jewish unnecessary obstacles to trade. formal submission detailing its residents from Gaza. The second main requirement objections to the measure. The SAJBD’s submission lists in the Board’s submission was This follows Minister of Trade two essential requirements for the that labelling legislation should and Industry Rob Davies’ issuing proposed measures to be regarded not discriminate but should apply of a Final Notice a month ago, in as acceptable. It accepted that it consistently to all of South Africa’s which the public was invited to was technically incorrect to label trading partners. submit their comments within a products emanating from the West In its current form, the notice prescribed 30-day period. Bank as being products of Israel and was discriminatory, and was incon- In making the submission, the consequently did not object to their sistent both with South African Board clearly specified that its com- being relabelled so as to more accu- trade policy and WTO regulations. ments specifically did not address rately denote their place of origin. It was therefore suggested the IDF ex-Chief of Staff on the technical irregularities in the However, such labelling should new policy should apply uniformly notice, but this was not to be inter- be “politically neutral, technical and consistently to all disputed preted as an abandonment of its and descriptive”. The term “Made territories, not singling out Israel trial in Turkish court right to do so at later stage, should in Israeli Occupied Territory” had or another country for differential, A Turkish court has begun a trial of four high-ranking Israeli the notice find its way into law. the effect of politicising what was unfavourable treatment. officers in absentia for their involvement in the 2010 Gaza The latest version of the notice “supposedly a technical, trade issue In concluding, the Board Flotilla incident. uses the term “Israeli Occupied relating to consumer protection”. recorded its “disappointment” that The trial, which commenced on November 6, is likely to further Territory” when describing the Describing even the West Bank this Final Notice was issued without strain relations between the former regional allies. Israel has re- relevant products, whereas the in such terms, moreover, was waiting for relevant stakeholders buffed Turkish demands for an apology over the May 2010 incident original version has it as “Occupied historically and legally question- to submit their “minimum require- in which Israeli commandoes killed nine activists – including eight Palestinian Territories”. able, but in the case of Gaza it was ments”, as agreed at the recent Turks and one Turkish – American, who violently attacked the It significantly extends the entirely incorrect. As currently Parliamentary Portfolio Committee commandoes as they bordered the ship, Mavi Marmara, headed for scope of the original legislation to worded, moreover, the notice con- hearings. Had these submissions include not only complete prod- travened the World Trade Organisa- been taken into account before- Gaza. ucts originating in the West Bank, tion Agreement on Rules of Origin, hand, the objections it had to the Pictured is former IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi visiting the but even in cases where the raw which specifically required that Notice might have been addressed. Communications & Computers Branch School. 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The Talmud teaches yet she is righteous; she deserves a 18:15 19:10 Johannesburg as his mother shmeared cleanser that a Ba’al Teshuvah (person who child.” 18:15 20:07 Cape Town on her face. “Why do you do that, changes his/her life and begins to In other words, both Yitzchak 18:13 19:06 Durban Mommy?” he asked. “To make follow the Torah) is greater than a and Rivkah prayed that they would 18:20 19:24 Bloemfontein PARSHAT TOLDOT 18:05 19:38 Port Elizabeth myself beautiful,” said his mother, tzaddik (a person who has always be blessed with a child - in the merit Rabbi Aharon Rose, 18:15 19:27 East London who then began removing it with a followed the Torah), because the of the other. And Hashem accepted Waverley Shul tissue. “What’s the matter?” asked Ba’al Teshuvah has so many ad- Yitzchak’s prayer and blessed KASHRUT ALERT little Yankel, “giving up?” ditional difficulties to overcome. If them with children in the merit of Yitzchak and Rivkah, shared the Nut HOuse reMAIns UNDer In this week’s parsha, we read so, Rivkah should be greater than Rivkah, who was an extraordinary same goals and dreams. We see Beth DIN superVISION that “G-d accepted his [Yitzchak’s] Yitzchak, and it is her prayer that Ba’alat Teshuvah, and therefore that they both davened - neither prayers, and his wife Rivkah con- should have brought a favourable greater than Yitzchak, a humble left it to the other to get the job The kashrut department of the Union ceived.” response from Hashem? tzaddik. done. Perhaps most importantly, of Orthodox Synagogues announces We have already learned that The Torah describes Yitzchak as Apart from resolving my ques- we see the high esteem in which that The Nut House in Glenhazel, both Yitzchak and Rivkah were praying “opposite his wife”, which tion, I find this answer to be quite both Yitzchak and Rivkah held under new management, will remain praying for a child. If so, why did could be understood to mean that inspirational, especially in the their spouse - each viewed the under Beth Din supervision. Hashem respond to Yitzchak’s he prayed for the opposite of that sphere of a Jewish marriage. We other as spiritually greater. prayers and not hers? Rashi for which Rivkah prayed. Rivkah’s see that Hashem treasures each And we learn if you want explains that it was because the prayer was: “Hashem, my husband one of us - husband and wife, son something, never give up; Read the South African prayer of a tzaddik who is the child is such a great tzaddik and the son and daughter, male and female Yitzchak and Rivkah prayed for of a tzaddik (Yitzchak) is superior of a tzaddik; he deserves a child.” - our spiritual value depends on 10 years before they were blessed Jewish Report online to the prayer of a tzaddik who is the Yitzchak prayer was: “Hashem, how we handle the mission and with a child! www.sajewishreport.co.za child of a wicked person (Rivkah). my wife grew up in the home of challenges Hashem presents to us. Have a joyous and inspira- For many years I wondered how wicked people (Betuel and Lavan), We see that husband and wife, tional Shabbat! World News in Brief Jewish community benefits from ROckets FROM GAZA HIT Israel FOR thIRD DAY JERUSALEM - Rockets fired from Gaza continued to hit southern Israel for a third Patrice Motsepe’s generosity day, despite Egyptian officials’ attempts to mediate a ceasefire. One rocket, of the more than 110 that have struck Israel’s south since last Sat- urday night, on Monday landed in the yard of a home in Netivot, damaging the home, OWN CORRESPONDENT and two neighbouring homes, leaving 20 people requiring treatment for shock. Two rockets fired at the city of Ashkelon were intercepted by the Iron Dome In what he describes as a very large anti-missile system on Monday. A rocket fired on Sunday hit a home in Sderot.