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BZA WIZO Rebecca Sieff Awards

60 year award recipients: Back: Rene Kleinman and Sylvia (Lovey) Elyan. Front: Rosette Weber, Mary Atlas and Ada Scher.

Bnoth Zion Association WIZO honoured its Rebecca Sieff Award recipients at World WIZO Day, at the glorious Gardens Shul, home of the Cape Town Hebrew Congregation, on Tuesday 2 December.

Rabbi Osher Feldman delivered the dvar Torah, Ivor Joffe and talented pupils of the Herzlia Highlands Primary School together with Cantor Ian Camissar entertained the guests, with Mendel and Jill Kaplan guests of honour.

Mendel Kaplan‘s passionately delivered address enthralled the audience as he recounted his own and his family’s personal and long-time involvement with BZA WIZO and his fervour for the State of Israel.

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Herzlia Matrics 2008

The following matrics achieved 6 or more distinctions:


Dalya Levin
Rebecca Segall
Daniel Kaliski

Amy Kaplan
Danielle Kaplan
Roxy Kawitzky

Kirstie Kleinman
Kelly Kowalski
Robert Shaff

Jamie Srubis
Kiara Suttner
Jenna Joffe

Joshua Anstey

First Chabad Golf Day

“I’ve never had sushi delivered in the marshall’s cart – and a hot pancake buffet at the 14th hole?”

This was just one of the many sentiments heard from the players overwhelmed by the unprecedented golfing experience at the Chabad Golf Day at King David.

The beautiful weather and holiday season on 11 December saw a full field tee off at the inaugural Chabad – Alliance Group Golf Day. This memorable day, which included great entertainment, great prizes and food carts doing the rounds with fresh sushi, droewors and l’chaims, was a delight for all who participated. The feelings of excitement are still reverberating amongst the players and the community.

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2008 December

December 08 Cape Jewish Chronicle PDFAt the outset, I must explain the reason for the rather belated appearance of this issue on the web, needing, as it did to coincide with the postage of the ‘hard’ copies.

The paper was always intended to be posted later than all previous months, as it is a combined December/January edition and thus needs to be staggered somewhat, to offset the long wait for the February 2009 issue.

In this instance, however, while production was ready on time for home and web-postage by about 5 December, the technical part of the process was dramatically delayed by the repro house, causing a spiraling of delays at the printers and distributors. This latest public holiday on 16 December did not help matters.

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Historic AGM consolidates the 7 welfare organisations

AGM for all Jewish Welfare Organisations 4/11/08

“This consolidated AGM is, I believe, a defining moment for welfare for the Jewish Community of Cape Town,” said Chairman Paul Berman at the historic first ever combined AGM of the 7 welfare organisations in Cape Town: ASTRA (Jewish Sheltered Employment Centre), Rosecourt (Rosecourt House & Vriende House), Cape Jewish Seniors Association, Glendale, Highlands House, Jewish Community Services, Nechama and Oranjia Child & Youth Centre. The meeting took place at the Albow Centre on 4 November.

“Today is the culmination of four years of intense commitment, sacrifice and dedication by a group of outstanding individuals representing all the seven welfare bodies.”

The process had taken four years to create a unified, committed and engaged welfare organisation known as Jewish Care Cape, he said.

“A wealth of experience, passion and energy is contained in this room — we have a duty to awaken the endless possibilities in others – and encourage them to transform. We have together, as Jewish Care Cape, successfully completed the process of transformation by entering into a new world of possibilities.

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Newcomers enjoy communal hospitality at UJC cocktail party

Mayor Helen Zille and UHS chairman Brian Goldberg

“The breakaway party is very good for South Africa”, Mayor Helen Zille told the guests at a United Jewish Campaign cocktail party on Thursday evening, 13 November, to welcome Jewish newcomers to Cape Town, and introduce them to Jewish leadership and community organisations. It would loosen the political log-jam by legitimising the right of people to vote for a party other than the ANC without feeling a sense of disloyalty.

Nina Kovensky opened the proceedings and Marco Van Embden, chairman of the UJC, welcomed Mayor Zille and the newcomers, 25 families and over 40 beneficiaries to the gathering. On behalf of the City, Mayor Zille extended a warm welcome to the new residents and thanked them for settling here.

“We need to attract middle class people who can bring jobs, investments and tax income in order to ensure job opportunities. Thank goodness they choose to stay and invest. If they don’t, it would be much harder for us and for the poorer residents, because people like you pay your rates and taxes and we use this money to make life more bearable for the poor.”

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YAD’s Annual Golf Day tees off yet again

On Thursday 6 November YAD held its annual Corporate Charity Golf Day at the King David Golf Club.

This was YAD’s 7th such annual event and each year the committee strives to make it extra special. A golf day is a composite of many critical elements, a base requirement being passionate golfers — and thank goodness there is never a shortage of those!

A successful golf day must have the formation of vital partnerships, with a variety of supporters. YAD has fortunately been blessed with an abundance of open-hearted supporters, larger and smaller, and loyal stalwarts as well as brand new ones — all playing vital roles as part of the whole.

A list appears on these pages acknowledging all of the generous sponsors of this premier event. YAD honours them and also those companies and individuals who stepped up to the ‘tee’, by sponsoring wonderful prizes, goodie bag contents and delicious foodstuffs and refreshments.

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Herzlia High School Prizegiving

Principal Marianne Marks presents the Rossouw van Zyl Memorial Trophy in recognition of Academic Excellence in Grade 12 to an unprecedented number of 9 candidates: Joshua Anstey, Daniel Kaliski, Danielle Kaplan, Kelly Kowalski, Michelle Levenson, Dalya Levin, Rebecca Segall, Jamie Srubis and Kiara Suttner.
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Israel’s 60th anniversary year 5767/5768

The Dudu Fisher Concert

The Western Province Zionist Council commenced Israel’s 60th Anniversary celebrations with THE DUDU FISHER CONCERT. This outstanding performer entertained a full house at the BOE Auditorium, with many people disappointed at not being able to get seats.

Adv Jonathan Silke and Moonyeen Castle met with a very high profile Israeli delegation, which included Silvan Shalom — former Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ronit Tirosh — Member of the Knesset and Ambassador Levanon — the Israeli Ambassador in Geneva, who were in South Africa for the Inter Parliamentary Union Conference.

Well done, Tamar Lazarus

We congratulated Tamar Lazarus, the recipient of the 2008 Herzl Award, which was presented to her at the WPZC Conference by the chairman of the SAZF, Avrom Krengel. Barney Singer was the proud recipient of the Jerusalem Award, presented to him at a luncheon in his honour by Ze’ev Bielski, chairman of the Jewish Agency and WZO.

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New UHS award for Ivor Joffe

Brian Goldberg, chairman UHS, and Ivor Joffee,
the first recipient of the Chairman’s Award

At this year’s Herzlia High School Valedictory UHS Chairman Brian Goldberg announced the creation by the committee of an annual Chairman’s Award for “an individual member of the greater Herzlia family, who has made an extraordinary contribution to the day-to-day experience of Herzlians”.

The recipient would be one who had enhanced the name of the school in one or more area and “through his or her particular interest or area of expertise, made an impact on the lives of pupils of Herzlia, while also enhancing the good name and standing of the school in the eyes of the greater Cape Town and South African community.

“The first recipient has for many years quietly, and in the most unassuming way, made a massive impact on the school, the pupils, and their families. Dedicated and passionate about what he does, he has skilfully empowered the pupils with this same passion. He has elevated his culture into the hearts and minds of all, and has placed our school on a cultural path, from which we must ensure there is no way back. His commitment to and love of Herzlia is uppermost in his mind, and he has thereby endeared himself to pupils, parents and teachers alike. Insofar as he is an alumnus of our school, we are especially proud.

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