Our Warmest Wishes to Family and Friends for a Happy and Healthy

ABRAHAMS
Seymour and
Yettie
ALLEN
Clive and Luba and
family
ANNENBERG Suzanne, Dudley,
Francesca and Georgina
ASHBERG Tony, Jocelyn and
family
ATLAS Glenda and Selwyn
BAIGEL Mike, Batyah and family
BARRON
Isadore and Carol
(Gisela)
BEDER Norman and Sheila
BEEKMAN Roslyn and Cecil
BEHRENS Valerie
BEHRMAN Shirley and Anthony,
Melanie and David Stein, Elana
and Leonard Goetz (London)
BERELOWITZ Joe and Ethle,
Saul, Mark, Lance and their
families
BERKMAN / LEVINE Raphael,
Kim, Joshua, Jessica and Yvonne
BERKMAN
Samuel
and
Jeannette
BERKOWITZ Joel and Anna and
family
BERMAN Barbara, Gary, Brenda,
Anthony, Martine and families
BERMAN Hilary, Paul, Suzanne,
Saul, Karin and families
BERMAN Ian and Irene and
family
BERMAN
Michael, Michelle,
Noah and Jenna
BERNSTEIN
Rosemary and
family
BIDERMAN-PAM Johnny, Jordan
and Glen
BLACHOWITZ
Nathan,
Glenda,Mark, Linda, Ruby and
Bella
BLOCH Eddie and Eleonore,
Pauline and Len Leuw and family
BLOCH Stanley, Janice, David,
Arlene, Saul and Romy, and
Israeli families
BLOOM Judy and Mervyn
BRIDGES FOR PEACE Chris,
Cecilia Eden and staff and SA
members
CASPER / CASPERS ELECTRIC
Sam, Melanie and Adam
CASPER Devorah, Abe, Harry,
Mayer, Debbie, Rozanne and
David
CASPER Harry, Joy and family
CASPER Herschel, Marion, Lindi,
Steven and Robyn
CHAIT Howard, Michelle, Justin,
Donna and Cecilia
CHAIT Noah and Irma and family,
here and overseas
CHAPEIKIN Selwyn, Maline and
family
CHAPMAN
Carol, Elsa and
family
CHERNOTSKY
Avron, Elaine,
Jenna, Brent and Bea Frumer
COHEN Alec and Thelma, Merryl,
Stacy and Anton Klein
COHEN Des and Daphne
COHEN Victor and Rosa
COSCIA Jeanette, Raoul, Lauriel,
Marianna, Jerome, Michael, Julia,
Alexander, Gregory and Matteo
Our Warmest Wishes to Family
and Friends for a Happy and
Healthy New Year and
Well over the Fast
and may 5770 bring
Peace to Am Israel
DAITSH Ian, Kim and Jared
DIBOWITZ Terez, Craig, Sienna
and Zachary
DIAMOND Cyril, Deanna, Janine,
Carin and Shaun
DIAMOND Gerald, Ashna, Gavin,
Mandy, Caryn, Paul, Andy, Joshua,
Zak, Samuel and Sarah.
DONNINGER
David, Mandy,
Gabriella and Alyssa
EDELSTEIN Hackey and Fanny
EHRLICH Hymie, Chana, Adie,
Bev, Sam, Michele and families
EPSTEIN Selwyn, Tessa and
family
EPSTEIN Vivian, Margot and
family
FIGOV Dennis and Maureen
FINBERG Kenny, Jennifer and
Cal
FINE Roy and Michelle and
family
FINKENSTEIN
Gita, Jack
and Malcolm and Malcolm’s
Electrical
FISCH Mickey, Ros and family
FRANK
Bevan, Dana and
Joshua
FREEDMAN
Celeste and
Richard
FRIEDLAND Simonė and Harry
and Raymond
FRIEDLANDER Geoff, Anne, Judi
and Dalya
FRIEDLANDER / ARNONI Phyllis,
Serena and Nachum
FUCHS Brian, Adele, Kelli and
Daren
FUTERAN Gordon and Ricky
(Israel)
FUTERAN Martin and Jeanne
FUTERAN Owen, Lisa, Chen,
Keren and Adi
GERSHUNY / HESSEN /
SCHNEIDER Lesley, Gayle, Irma
and family (Canada)
GETZ Keith, Brenda, Kevin and
Craig
GINSBURG Cyril, Rochelle and
family
GISCHEN Hilton, Pearl, Mel, Dani
and Grant
GLASER Paula
GOLDBERG Brian, Adele, Jenna
and Bengi
GOLDSTEIN Avron, Jean, Justin
and Carla
GORDON Arlene and Brent, Lisa,
Cindy and Ricky
GORE Stephen, Renée, Richard,
Neil, Jack, Bunny Wener, Taryn
and Craig Solomon
GOTTSCHALK Lewis, Sandy and
Jarred
GREVLER Bernard and Ruth
GRUSS Dave, Emi, Lynn, Gabi
and Jayson Rawraway, Debbie,
Steven, Kayla and Jemma Bagg
HACK Herbert, Sharon, Ayton
and Sholem
HAICALIS Dimi and Shirley
HENDLER Mathew, Toni and
family, both near and far
HENECK Martin, Bridget, Mila
and Dylan
HENECK Sheila and Harold
HERMAN
Livy, Michael and
family
HOFFMAN Lester and Maryanne
ISAACSON Norman and family,
(Beadle, Sea Point Synagogue)
ISRAELE
Judy, Anton and
Martine
JACOBS Anne Muriel
JACOBSON Irene, Arthur, Pauline,
Greg, Mandy, Fran and family
JAFFE Milly, Louis and family
JOCUM Simon, Pola and Nadine
JOFFE Carol and Beverley
JOFFE Stan, Michelle, Ryan,
Chantell, Martine, Dean and
Brandon
The Cape Jewish Chronicle wishes
all readers and their families
Shana Tova U’Metukah
KAPLAN Ernest, Estelle and
Lisa
KAPLAN Liz, Natan, Sascha, to
family, clients and friends
KARON Shirley and Morris
KATZ Maurice and Berenice and
family
KATZ Willie, Joyce and family
KATZEFF Alec, Minnie, Howard,
Alison, Yael, Oren and children in
Canada
KATZEFF Joe and Ruth
KATZEFF
Norman, Sharlene,
Joshua, Michaela and Adam
KAVALSKY Bella, Sydney and
Nerine
KAWALSKY Leslie, Bess and
family
KING Ivan, Rochelle and David.
Hetty King and Molly Derman
KLASS Jack, Rosalie and family
KLEINBERGER / SHENKER/
WOLOWITZ
Sadie, Marlene,
Dorê, Aura, Ada and Eva
KOLEVSOHN Morrie, Rosa and
family
KORBER Morris and Rose
KRAWITZ Philip, Michele and
family
KREDO Udi, Cherna and Tamara
KREIN
Philip, Naomi, Lucy,
Ze-ev, Masha, Maya and Staff
Brommersvlei Veterinary Clinic
KURGAN Icky and Avril
KURLAND Roy, Ros and Joshua
LEVIEN Carole and Sheila
LEVIN Barry and Collette
LEVIN Selwyn and Marilyn
LEVIN Sybil, Willie and Shawn
LEVIN Ross, Sara-Lee, Josh and
Jessica
LEVINE Syd, Lulu and family
LEVITT / HOROWITZ
Leon,
Roslyn and family
LEVITT
Mel, Marléne and
extended families
LEISEROWITZ
Michael and
Sylvia
LESSEM Mark, Terry and sons
LEVY Maxine, Jacob and Nava
LEWIN Alfred and Diana and
family
LEWIS
Marion, Leslie and
family
LIPSCHITZ Ida, Stan, Bernadette,
Guy, Ryan and Zac
LITTLE PERCY Judi and Cyril
LOMOFSKY Trevor and Lilian
LORY Mark, Zoe and Tristan
LOUIS Celia
MALLACH
Graham, Shirley,
Larry, Lana and Rael
MALLACH Maureen, Stephen
and family
MALLACH Trevor, Sandy and
family
MARCUS Harold and Beverley,
Karen and Jason, Gavin and
Caroline and Michael and all the
grandchildren
MARCUS Larry, Melissa, Nicole,
Jarred and Tamara and Lily (in
Chicago)
MARON
Ruby, Bernice and
family
Rosh Hashanah Message
Our Warmest W
and Friends for a H
New Year and W
Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein
W
hen the first Jews
arrived in South Africa,
they made a priority of
establishing shuls. They
were refugees from the
poverty,
hardship
and
oppression
of
Eastern
Europe, struggling to find
their way in a new country.
Wherever they went across
the length and breadth of
the country, they set up shuls
to gather as a community, to
pray to G-d, learn Torah, and to be
connected to the Divine heritage of
the generations of Jews that had
come before them.
We, their descendants, have
inherited their passion for shuls.
One of the outstanding features of
the South African Jewish community
is the fact that we belong to shuls
in much higher proportions than do
any other similar Jewish community
around the world. Being a member
of a shul and attending regularly is
part of our ethos, and it is one that
we should strengthen and take
forward. Rosh Hashanah and Yom
Kippur, in particular, is a time that
we all feel the importance of being
connected to our shuls and our
congregations.
This commitment to shuls goes
back to the very beginnings of
Jewish history when the Jewish
people left Egypt and received the
Torah. One of the first instructions
they received from G-d, while
they were still in the desert, was
to construct the very first shul
of all time: the Mishkan - the
Tabernacle - the forerunner to the
Beit HaMikdash - the Temple. The
Mishkan forms the model and
prototype for our shuls throughout
history. The Talmud says that when
the Temple was destroyed, G-d
said that He would be with us in
our “miniature temples”, which are
our shuls.
To walk into a shul is to be united
with Jewish history, what one could
call the “vertical community” of
the generations of Jews who have
come before us, from the time of
Mount Sinai and the construction
of our very first national shul in the
form of the Mishkan.
A shul is a place where we can
feel the presence of G-d much
more strongly than in any other
place. It has a holiness, a sanctity
and a specialness. A shul is a place
of spirituality, of connectedness
to G-d. It is a place where we
reconnect with our most important,
fundamental values of
who we are as a people
and as a community. It
is a place where we find
solace and tranquility
from the turbulence, and
trials and tribulations of
the world, and where we
find our roots and the
solid foundations of the
Divine values that form
the very essence of our
identity as Jews.
The modern world is filled with
unique pressures and stresses and
strains. It is a place of confusion
full of the turmoil and of a highly
competitive environment. We need
a place, as human beings and as
Jews, to which to retreat, in order to
re-focus ourselves, to regroup and
to come together as families and
as a community.
A shul is a place that unifies us.
Each community brings together
its members to pray together. For
Jews, prayer is not merely a lonely
and individual experience. It is also
a communal experience where we
try to transcend ourselves and our
own interests, moving beyond to
unite with those around us, and
most importantly, to come before
G-d in humble submission.
As we approach Rosh Hashanah
we feel that sense of trepidation
that comes with the Day of
Judgment, and so we remain
attached to the Jewish people, to
our community - we can rise above
it all. The Talmud teaches that our
strength comes from our unity: that
whilst a single twig can easily be
broken, a bundle of twigs together
can resist destruction; so too when
we stand together before G-d. We
can endure.
At this time of Rosh Hashanah
let us all recommit ourselves
to our shuls. Let us stand
together. Together we are so much
stronger.
The Chairman, Honorary Officers,
Executive and Staff of the Bnoth Zion
Association WIZO extend to
the community and our members all good
wishes for a Healthy, Happy and fulfilling
New Year and well over the Fast
CSO extends best wishes to the
Cape Town Jewish community for
a secure and safe Yomtov.
Wishing you a happy healthy and
peaceful New Year and
Well over the Fast
The Chairman, Committee, Management
and Staff of the Cape Town Jewish
Community Centre and the Albow Centre
wish you a happy, healthy and peaceful
New Year and well over the Fast
ASTRA
The Chairm
Staff and Wo
community a very hap
Rosh Hashanah an
Thank you Cape Tow
wonderful suppor
UNION OF JEWISH WOMEN
The Chairman of the Cape Town Branch
of the UJW, the Executive Committee and
staff, wish all their members
and the community a happy, healthy and
peaceful New Year and well over the Fast
Chief R
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Wishes to Family
Happy and Healthy
Well over the Fast
A CENTRE
man, Committee
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t and encouragement
Rabbi Cyril and Ann Harris
iva of Cape Town wish the
Jewish community a sweet
year full
ace, happiness and spiritual
and physical health
The Director and Staff
of the Cape Town Holocaust Centre
wish the community, our benefactors
and supporters a peaceful,
healthy and blessed new year
and a meaningful fast.
Best wishes for a healthy, happy and
prosperous new year and well over
the fast
From the Chairman, Committee, Staff
and the seven welfare organisations
of Jewish Care (Cape)
Rosh Hashanah Message
I
Rabbi Malcolm Matitiani
t once happened that Reb
Avigdor Halberstam was
invited to spend Shabbat
at the home of a man
known for his wealth but
not his compassion. He
was infamous for treating
his servants harshly and
firing them for the slightest
mistake. In deference to
their guest, the cook passed
the pot of cholent she had
made to Reb Avigdor, who
was expected to ladle it out to those
around the table. After breathing
deeply of its aroma, the rebbe took
a spoon and tasted some right from
the pot. “How unusual!” he cried and
ate some more. “This is the best
cholent I have ever tasted!” And as
his host and Hasidim watched in
amazement, he ate all the cholent
in the pot, leaving nothing for the
rest of them. The host and his family
were stunned. Never had they had
a guest behave this way. Yet, in
deference to their guest, they said
nothing and made do with challah.
After Shabbat, the rabbi and his
students thanked the family for
their hospitality and left. When they
were outside the town, the Hasidim
asked the rebbe about his bizarre
behaviour. “The cholent smelled of
kerosene,” the rebbe said, “I realised
that the cook had mistakenly added
this to our food rather than vinegar.
If our host had tasted the cholent he
would have fired the girl on the spot
so I ate it all to save her job”.
Rabbi Halberstam’s concern for
the welfare of the cook whom he
had never met is illustrative of the
obligation and responsibility that is
inherent in being in partnership with
God in the Berit of Torah. Every Jew
no matter their social station is a
member of this covenant, whether
by birth or by conversion. As such we
are all responsible for each other and
must take care to protect the dignity
of our fellow Jews. This notion of
The South African Jewish Museum
wishes our guides and staff,
friends and supporters
a Happy and Healthy
New Year, Blessed with Peace,
and well over the Fast
ORANJIA JEWISH CHILD
AND YOUTH CENTRE
The President,
committee, staff and
children send Rosh
Hashanah greetings
“all Israel is responsible for
each other” (Shevu’oth 39a)
is extended by the Mishnaic
to include all human beings:
whoever destroys a single
soul is guilty of destroying
an entire world; and
whoever preserves a single
soul preserves an entire
world (Sanhedrin 4:5).
Since we are all part of the
world we destroy ourselves
when we hurt another by
lessening our divine potential and
harming our spiritual growth. Rabbi
Halberstam was prepared to be
perceived as discourteous in order
to save the dignity of the cook who
would have lost her job because of
one mistake.
On Rosh Hashanah and Yom
Kippur we recited God’s thirteen
attributes thrice before the open
ark: “The Eternal! the Eternal! a God
compassionate and gracious, slow
to anger, abounding in kindness and
faithfulness, extending kindness to
the thousandth generation, forgiving
iniquity, transgression, and sin”
(Exodus 34:6-7)
The recitation of this passage
from the Book of Exodus not only
reminds us of God’s compassion,
grace, patience and kindness, but
more importantly it articulates
our obligation, as members of
the berit to emulate these lifeaffirming attributes. While we stand
before God on Yom Kippur asking
for atonement we need to ask
ourselves whether we have been as
compassionate, patient and kind to
others as we would want them and
God to be to us.
The directive to imitate God’s
attributes of Rachmanut, Chein
and Chesed is expressed in the
statement of the Rabbi Abba
Shaul. “Be like God. Just as God is
gracious and merciful, so you must
also be gracious and merciful”
(Mekhilta, Shirah 3). Thus before we
can achieve teshuvah we need to
imitate God by showing compassion,
kindness and understanding. We
need know when it is appropriate to
suppress our egos in order to allow
others to express themselves and
when to sacrifice our dignity so that
others might retain theirs. We must
endeavour to be gentle and patient,
slow to anger and ready to forgive.
Let the teaching of the tannaim be
a mantra in our hearts as we enter
the New Year: “whoever destroys
a single soul destroys an entire
world”
The Chairman, Executive Director, and
members of the Cape Committee and staff
of the Board of Deputies extend best wishes
to the Cape Town Jewish community for
good health and happiness throughout the
New Year,
in a world at peace