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30 HASHALOM April
2017
April 2017
HASHALOM
31
Above Board
Mary Kluk,
President of SA Jewish Board of Deputies
A column of the SA Jewish Board of Deputies
Jewish Students Stand Firm during IAW
Those who accept at face value claims that “Israel Apartheid Week”
(IAW) aims at promoting justice, human rights and democracy need
only witness how this annual propaganda circus is actually conducted
to be disabused of such notions. As has become quite apparent,
IAW activists are intent on imposing their views and silencing those
who challenge them, and so it proved this year. The event at Wits
saw a steady stream of provocative incidents aimed at intimidating
SAUJS students and disrupting their activities, including destroying
posters and cutting the power cord to their sound system. At times,
the rhetoric and demonstrations crossed over into open acts of
antisemitism (including one IAW supporter goose-stepping and stiff-
arm saluting and another telling our students that reason why Jews
were killed was because they didn’t know “how to behave themselves
in other people’s countries”).TheWits authorities have been alerted
to these incidents, all of which were captured on video, and hopefully
those responsible for so blatantly flouting the university’s values and
regulations will be called to book.
To the credit of our students, they resisted being provoked into
responding in kind. Instead, they continued to conduct a campaign
pushing peace and dialogue.The Board, as in the past, worked closely
with SAUJS, assisting as much as we could in ensuring that they can
freely carry out their activities. For this year’s counter-IAW campaign,
we combined with the SAZF in bringing out Craig Dershowitz of
Artists 4 Israel, an NGO that promotes peace and social change
through arts and culture, to run a series of graffiti art projects and
workshops in the Johannesburg inner city. We were able to obtain
much publicity for the visit, including organising radio interviews
where Craig referred to his work in promoting peace and co-
existence in Israel. Our professional staff had a number of articles
published in the print media in response to articles trying to push the
Israel-Apartheid analogy, and we were active in combating attempts
to push for an academic boycott of Israeli institutions.
Think before youTweet
Last month, members of our Cape and professional staff attended
the Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office/ Hanns Seidel Foundation
discussion on the draft Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill led by
Deputy Minister John Jeffery and Matthew Clayton of the Hate
Crimes Working Group. The Board is a founding member of the
latter body, and Durban-based Alana Baranov has represented us
with distinction on its steering committee.While it is important that
at the official level, the SAJBD enables the Jewish community to be
involved in the formulation of public policy in the area of combating
racism, it is just as important that Jewish individuals do their part by
scrupulously avoiding hate speech themselves. It can happens that
community members are goaded by what they hear and read into
making offensive comments in their turn. However, not matter how
gross the provocation might be, it is never a license to be bigoted,
racist or hurtful.We all have to exercise common decency and avoid
being provoked into saying or writing things that denigrate entire
communities, whether defined by race, ethnicity, religion or other
such grounds.
FROMOUR FAMILY
TO YOURS THIS
PESACH…
BEST PESACH LEMON SPONGE CAKE
9 eggs, separated
1½ cups sugar
¼ cup lemon juice
rind of 1 lemon.
1 cup cake meal
¼ cup potato starch
Pinch salt
Beat egg yolks with the sugar, lemon rind and lemon juice until thick
Gently fold in the cake meal, potato starch and salt Beat the egg whites
with a pinch of salt until stiff peaks form - fold into stiffly batter
Place in an ungreased chiffon tin and bake at 170C for 1 hour
FAMILYALMOND CAKE
250g ground almonds
6 eggs, separated
250g caster sugar
drop vanilla or almond essence
1 Tablespoon cake meal
Beat egg whites with a pinch of salt until stiff.
Beat egg yolks then beat in sugar until thick and creamy.
Fold in cake mean, almonds and essence then gently fold in egg whites.
Bake at 180C for 45 minutes.
DELICIOUS PASSOVERAPPLE CAKE
CAKE BATTER
3 eggs 1 cup sugar
½ cup oil 1 cup cake meal
1 teaspoon potato starch
1 teaspoon vanilla
pinch salt
APPLE FILLING:
5 Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored and finely diced
¼ cup sugar
½ teaspoon cinnamon
TOPPING
½ cup sugar
2 teaspoons cinnamon
½ cup roughly chopped walnuts or pecans
Preheat oven to 180degC - Beat eggs and sugar until thick, then add oil.
Blend in the cake meal, potato starch and salt - Put half of the batter
into a greased pie dish.
Top with the apple mixture.Top with remaining batter. Sprinkle topping
on cake.Bake for 1 hour and five minutes. Nice served warm with Ice
Cream
COCONUT MACAROONS
Beat 3 jumbo egg whites and ¼ teaspoon salt until stiff.
Slowly add 1¼ cups sugar until glossy.Then add ¼ teaspoon vanilla
Gently fold in 2½ cups desiccated coconut until just combined
Drop teaspoons onto a lined baking sheet and bake at 160degC for 18
minutes.Watch carefully!
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BIRTHS
Mazaltov to Kara and Kenny Hoffman on the birth of a son; to Neville
and Melanie Bernstein on the birth of a grandson, a son for David and
Tarryn; to Charles Kluk and Graham and Mary Kluk on the birth of a
great grandson and grandson, a son for Katie and Rob; to Masha Hack
and Larry and Michelle Hack on the birth of a great grandson and
grandson, a son for Lisa and David in Canada.
BAR/BAT MITZVAHS
Mazaltov to Mike and Michele Rosenthal on the Barmitzvah of their
grandson Ryan Diamond in USA; to Kenny and Arline Forman on
the Batmizvah of their granddaughter Allie, daughter of Michael and
Lauren in London; to Rabbi and Ruth Avidan on the Batmizvah of their
granddaughter Kayleigh, daughter of Alastair and Sheli Francis; to Ezra and
Yvonne Altshuler and Mike and Maureen Caminsky on the batmitzvah of
their granddaughter Kira, daughter of Dave and Tanya Altshuler.
ENGAGEMENTS
Mazaltov to Sam Ziegler on the engagement of his daughter Sarah to
Amir Swisa
WEDDINGS
Mazaltov to Sandy Getz and Masha Hack on the wedding of their
daughter and granddaughter Taryn to Avigdor Hack; to Lorna Harris
and Ryan and Anthea Harris on the wedding of their granddaughter
and daughter Paige to Duane Nicol; to Ronnie and Frances Herr on the
wedding of their son Brandon to Cara-Lee Ruditzky.
ANNIVERSARIES
Mazaltov to Issy and Maisie Shevil on their 60th wedding anniversary.
BIRTHDAYS
Mazaltov to Barbara Lipschitz on her 95th birthday; to Debbie Werner
on her 60th birthday.
CONDOLENCES
Our deepest condolences to Anita Jocum and family on the passing of
their husband and father Cyril; to Jody Levy and Rommy Simon on the
passing of their mother Marian Levy; to Kate Shneier on the passing of
her son-in-law Colin Rubin.
Date Time Event
Venue
4 9am
Akiva College Junior Seder
Akiva
5 12pm
Akiva College Senior Seder
Akiva
5 9.30am
Friendship club- UJW
Beth Shalom
19 9.30
Friendship club- Sisterhood
Beth Shalom
23 6pm
Yom Hashoah
DJCentre
30 6pm
Yom Hazikaron
DJCentre
Date Time Event
Venue
1 6.30pm
Yom Ha’atzmaut
DJCentre
APRIL 2017
MAY 2017
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Sincere thanks to all our family and friends for your support,
caring messages and phone calls at the time of the passing of
our beloved Cyril.
-Anita, Michelle, Brian and Debi
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DUHC Notice: *** First night Pesach Seder at DUHC***
*** Second night Pesach Seder at UJC***
Errata
In the March 2017 issue of Hashalom, there was an unfortunate error
on our Matric feature page. The information we received for Joshua
Serjeant was incorrect. We do apologise to Joshua and Family. Below
is the corrected information:
Joshua Serjeant - Eden
2 distinctions, Joshua is studying for a BA Graphic Design Degree at
VEGA (DSSA) IIE.