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Ettie Buch shares centenary and lifelong service with WIZO

Nov 27, 2020 Go comment!

Ettie Buch has been an active member of Bnoth Zion (BZ) WIZO (the Women’s International Zionist Association) in Cape Town for 72 years, so it’s fitting that she celebrates her 100th birthday on 24 November, in the same year that World WIZO celebrates its centenary.
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Grave project for Gauteng SAUPJ’s Mitzvah Day

Nov 27, 2020 Go comment!

Coming up with an activity for international Mizvah Day on 15 November was a no-brainer for the Gauteng Progressive movement, whose members spent the day cleaning up the Wall of Remembrance and children’s section at West Park Cemetery in Joburg.
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Abel choice for Rhodes scholarship

Nov 27, 2020 Go comment!

Zac Abel, the son of Raella Abel and Chris Purcell, and the grandson of Myrna Nel and David Abel, has been selected as the 2021 SACS and Partner Schools Rhodes Scholar Elect.
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Israeli Embassy helps women fight back

Nov 27, 2020 Go comment!

The Embassy of Israel in South Africa has joined Fight Back SA, a non-profit organisation focused on the empowerment of women and children, to provide free self-defence classes to individuals living in high-risk and crime-ridden areas.
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Israel Rugby 7s to camp with the Blitzbokke

Nov 27, 2020 Go comment!

The thrill-a-minute Rugby 7s have captured the hearts of fans around the world. The Blitzbokke, South Africa’s national Rugby 7s team, ranks second in the world, and is among the most exciting, formidable, and feared of 7s teams.
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Movies under the Stars drives thousands to Huddle Park

Nov 19, 2020 Go comment!

A Chevrah Kadisha fundraiser drew more than a thousand people in the Joburg Jewish community into their cars to relive the days when going to the drive-in was a regular family outing.
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Hundreds pay tribute to Tanzer

Nov 19, 2020 Go comment!

Hundreds of people from across the world paid their respects to the late Rabbi Avraham Tanzer, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva College, at a memorial tribute held on Wednesday, 11 November.
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UJW Pretoria helps Hoopstad farmers

Nov 19, 2020 Go comment!

Members of the Pretoria Union of Jewish Women (UJW) recently travelled to Hoopstad in the Free State with more than 100 crates full of food, toys, and medicine for 300 farmers whose land and cattle were destroyed by fire.
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JNF paints Mamelodi green

Oct 22, 2020 Go comment!

The Jewish National Fund (JNF) Walter Sisulu Environmental Centre on 3 October donated 1 000 fruit and shade trees to the community of Nellmapius, Mamelodi, a township to the north-east of Pretoria.
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WIZO turns wheel of fate with chairs for disabled

Oct 22, 2020 Go comment!

The Women’s International Zionist Organisation (WIZO), accompanied by the South African Friends of Israel (SAFI), on 8 October handed over four wheelchairs to the Kutullo Disability Care Centre, a non-governmental organisation located in Brits, close to Tshwane.
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ORT SA educates for life

Oct 08, 2020 Go comment!

“Our primary function should be to focus on getting businesses online and familiar with the digital world,” said Professor Barry Dwolatzky, the director of the Joburg Centre for Software Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand, pointing out that digital transformation has been fast-tracked by COVID-19.
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Partnership of giving brings joy to Bara kids

Oct 08, 2020 Go comment!

Children in paediatric wards at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital were overjoyed to receive packs containing reading books, colouring books, workbooks, and crayons recently. What with their families not being allowed to visit them, they were given the packs along with a donation of DVDs to the wards to keep them entertained.
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Passing of mighty ‘Little Lor’ leaves void at WIZO

Oct 08, 2020 Go comment!

Lorraine Rosmarin, a past president of WIZO SA and honorary life vice-chairperson of WIZO Johannesburg, died on Yom Kippur, 27 September. However, her illustrious titles don’t portray the essence of a special lady, according to her WIZO co-workers.
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Beit Luria celebrates first birthday

Sep 10, 2020 Go comment!

Johannesburg’s youngest progressive shul, Beit Luria, celebrated its first birthday with Rabbi Julia Margolis and the congregation via Zoom on Sunday 6 September.
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December youth camps on a cliff edge

Aug 27, 2020 Go comment!

The South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) and Zionist youth movements Bnei Akiva, Habonim, Netzer, and Betar are in discussion with medical and security advisors about the feasibility, and form of the December machanot as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Emunah girls thrive in trying times

Aug 27, 2020 Go comment!

The Emunah Batmitzvah Course has thrived this year in spite of the challenging circumstances. The course, run by Jayde Ronthal and Diasha Gershuni, is part of World Emunah, which promotes the status of women
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JNF distributes 500 food parcels in Mamelodi

Aug 20, 2020 Go comment!

The Jewish National Fund of South Africa distributed 500 food parcels to the Mamelodi community in Tshwane on 11 August with the assistance of volunteers from philanthropic organisation Cadena.
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A virtual trip from Jozi to Jerusalem with endorphins

Aug 13, 2020 Go comment!

It may be almost impossible to get from Johannesburg to Jerusalem now because of lockdown, but the Jozi2Jerusalem project will enable people across South Africa and the globe to virtually traverse the 9 191 kilometres between the two cities between 16 and 30 August.
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Cycalive in final lap of international competition

Jul 23, 2020 Go comment!

Torah Academy’s Cycalive, is a finalist in Shalom Corps, an international competition to find the best volunteer projects that bring about social change.
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Illovo CAN keep Ikageng children going

Jul 23, 2020 Go comment!

In honour of Mandela Day this year, the community rallied together to support CAN Ikageng (Illovo) by preparing “meals in a bag” – a bag of nutritious ingredients that can feed four people.
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