July 10 2015 / 23 Tammuz 5775 Volume 19 – Number 25 Who are the Jewish south african Report’s board members? Read all about them on page 8 & 9. Jewish Report www.sajr.co.za LEARNING WITHOUT LIMITS LIMMUD David Fleminger Photo: Book now at www.limmud.org.za The world is coming MISHY THE to Limmud STORY TELLER MISHY HARMAN, Jerusalem Mishy Harman is the host and Meiri’s mischievous muralsco-founder of the much loved Israel Story podcast-the Israeli version of This American Life. He’s a curly-haired Jerusalem- ite who stumbled upon radio by light up drab city wallschance. Come hear Mishy explain how setting out to tell Israel’s ‘story’ immud presents its 13th extraordinary programme of Jewish learning and Famous Israeli street artist Rami Meiri is pictured with his wife Rachel in front of a wall of an orphanage on the corner of Nelsontaught him Mandela more than Drive he could and Stanza culture with up to nine concurrent sessions an hour. - Bopape Street in Pretoria, with second year students from theThere Tshwane are 21 international University presenters of Technology across the threeand someconferences, sta in members ofhave City ever Property. imagined about Meiri, his coun who also try, its people and its future. painted another wallHURRY in Pretoria (see page 3), conducted a workshopaddition to overwith 200 his local young presenters. university charges this week. Meiri was brought to South Africa as- a joint Sessions Include: Operation Hul collaboration between the Israeli Embassy and the WapnickLThey will family discuss through a wide range their of Jewishcompany, subjects City including Property. Israel, Torah, “I’m thean arts,urban artist. My language is visual. I have human rights, current affairs, history etc. This unparalleled Jewish experience da: In Search of an Israeli Symbol. been givingAND gifts to cities throughBOOK murals for 35 years,”includes the erudite kosher Meiricatering said. and residential He has pliedor come-for-the-day his art as far experiences a eld as in China.Johan- He Anwill incredible also grace story someabout Israeliwalls in Cape Town with his quirky designs and characters. nesburg, Cape Town and Durban. soldiers standing in awed silence at NOW! Where else can you hear: the Kotel during the Six Day War, Keeping kosher in the UK, Street artist Meiri gives joy •e AnUS urban and Iran: planner What who specialisesSir in Nicholas environmental Winton, protection in Israel.Happy 80th birthday,only to be startled by the cries of a Canada and Australiawww.limmud.org.za to Pretoria walls happens• A commentator once a deal on is Islam in and Jewish-Muslimrescuer of WWII relations. Jewish community stalwartwoman Herby in the throes of labour in a place• An expert on the history of Polishchildren, Jews and passes Holocaust on studies. Rosenberg nearby Arab home… Jewish Report puts 3 major cities Meiri’s artworks have been • A former Israeli diplomat who now writes a Hasidic television show. with large Jewish populations083 451bringing 9176 cheer and laughter to A nuclear• Thought-leaders deal between addressingIran and theSir future Nicholas of ourWinton, community, the British South Africa,A veritable Israel feast of family, friends, under the spotlight to see what passersby around the world. theand major the powers Jewish could world. unleash stockbroker who saved the lives felicitations and fi ne food - fi tting kosher products are available far-reaching changes in the of more than 600 Jewish children tribute to a gentleman and scholar. there - and at what price. region. Much depends on what the from the Nazis, has died at the participants to engage more deeply on issues- These programmes are all planned and run that affect our youth today. This includes Lim ur Limmudfi nal deal Youth will andlook Younglike. Limmud age of 106. - by our fantastic volunteers, each of whom mud Nights: an electrifying Saturday night 2 3programmes have been specially cre6 7 10 - has had experience in youth movements, ed- programme including a silent disco, cocktail ated to cater for our younger partici BRING O ucation or childcare. making (over 18’s only!), live performances pants. For our youngest Limmudniks - babies Leaders with a combination of expertise - by an artist collective, and an international and toddlers - we haveYOUR a supervised PERSONAL crèche INVITATION guarantee TO that A P participantsRESTIGIOUS in AND our proMOST SECURE CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT LAUNCH IN MORNINGSIDE musician and three film premieres. There will ALONG THE facility, as well as the option of evening grammes are not only safe and cared for, but - also be a late night nigun workshop. babysitting. also exposed to fun, structured learning op We offer a limited number of discounts to LAUNCHING For primary school-age children, we have a - portunities, ensuring that Limmud is truly an first time families who come for the week Sunday 12 July fromKIDS 12-5pm AND full programme of activitiesCHIC on offer as part AND REFINED experience for the whole family. end, so that the entire family can experience of Young Limmud. SessionsONLY cover a 12 broad EXCLUSIVE CLUSTERS ON ±1000m2 STANDS For our young adults, we have a stimulating the best in Jewish learning and culture. 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B Advertising Supplement to Jewish Report • 26 July 2018 • 23 Tammuz 5779 JUST SOME OF THE GREAT HIGHLIGHTS OF LIMMUD 2019 Book now on our website at www.limmud.co.za TEN LOCAL MIDDLE EAST TODAY SPEAKERS YOU MUST NOT MISS ILANA STEIN Teaches Tanach and environment at Academy of Jewish Thought and Learning Animal Rights and Human Responsibilities in the Torah JONATHAN ANCER Hard-hitting journalist and author of ‘Spy: Uncovering Craig Williamson’ Sessions include Spies, Lies and the Search for Pink Rabbit Dawn nathan-Jones Dynamic entrepreneur and accomplished business leader. Former CEO of Europcar Power Pitch: Limmud’s Premier Business Game ADAM MENDELSOHN Director of the Kaplan Centre for BIBLICAL DIPLOMACY DEFENDING THE OTHER CONVERSATIONS ON ISRAEL Jewish Studies at UCT What’s up with Cape Town’s Jews? A DANIEL TAUB, Jerusalem JESSICA MONTELL, Jerusalem CALEV BEN DOR, Jerusalem Data-Driven Snapshot of the Trends The multi-talented Daniel Taub served as the Jessica is executive director of HaMoked: Center Director of Research at BICOM, an independent Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom from for the Defence of the Individual, and has been British research centre producing analysis on BONITA MEYERSFELD 2011 until 2015 and is currently Director of Strat- a leading figure in Israeli civil society for two Israel and the Middle East, and Deputy Editor Renowned human rights lawyer and egy and Planning at the Yad Hanadiv (Rothschild) decades. Jessica served as executive director of of the Fathom Journal, Calev previously worked academic Foundation. B’Tselem from 2001-2014. A frequent commen- as an analyst in the Reut Institute and the Policy Social Justice and South African Jewry Daniel was a member of Israel’s negotiation tator on human rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Planning Department of Israel’s Foreign Ministry. SCOTT HAZELHURST teams in the Israeli-Syrian and Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Action Against Armed Violence named Based in Jerusalem, he is a member of the David Professor of Bioinformatics at the negotiations. He authored Parasha Diplomatit, a Jessica as one of the 100 people making the world Cardozo Think Tank, a forum of Jewish thinkers Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular book of diplomatic insights on biblical texts and a safer place. which explores a wide range of Jewish topics. Bioscience created and wrote a popular television series, Sessions include: Why call it Occupation? A Polit- Sessions include: Israel’s Geo-strategic Chal- Sephardi and Mizrahi DNA HeChatzer, set in an ultra-orthodox Hasidic sect. ical and Legal Analysis of the West Bank Map lenges Sessions Include: The three battles for Israel’s HOWARD SACKSTEIN survival: security, legitimacy, identity Publisher of the SA Jewish Report 7 Life Lessons from 7 Remarkable People YOCHI RESS THE FIGHT OF OUR LIVES Clinical psychologist with a passion for Kabbalah, Chassidut and GLORIA GREENFIELD, Knoxville, Tennesee consciousness Award-winning documentary filmmaker and president Ancient Torah Wisdom Meets of Doc Emet Productions, a nonprofit organisation that Neuroscience and Positive HURRY produces films that contribute to the strengthening of Psychology Jewish identity, Jewish nationhood, and the values of freedom and democracy. MIGHTI JAMIE Gloria will premiere her new film-The Fight of Our Political analyst, Africa analyst AND BOOK Lives-Defeating the Ideological War Against the West and author at Limmud. In January 1980, Ms. Magazine cited Gloria Death of Debate - Discourse in NOW! as a woman to watch in the 80s; she walked out of the Universities women’s movement in 1983 in defiance of its intensifying JUDITH ANCER www.limmud.org.za anti-Semitism and illiberal dogmas. Clinical psychologist Sessions include: The Contemporary State of Judeophobia: A Your Children Are Not Your Children: 083 451 9176 View from the Battlefield Thinking About Sexuality, Gender and Identity Some key principles THE FIVE STEP GUIDE TO LIMMUD LEARNING PARTICIPATION DISCOUNTS: Limmud SA is an inter-generational learning Everyone should be a student and Volunteering one’s time is a key JOHANNESBURG experience.