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ORT Jet helps businesses survive lockdown

Jul 02, 2020 Go comment!

ORT Jet’s monthly business induction is helping businesses to survive the lockdown. The induction, now held online, introduces businesses to ORT Jet’s COVID-19 rescue initiative, which offers exceptional resources, mentorship, and world-class tools to help them with the effects of the lockdown on their livelihood. The induction’s expert panel is an uplifting support structure for businesses, start-ups, and entrepreneurs who have nowhere else to turn.
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Great Park Lag B’Omer generates warmth in Alex

Jun 25, 2020 Go comment!

This week Afrika Tikkun distributed hundreds of blankets to families who lost their homes and belongings in shack fires in Alexandra, Gauteng, last week.
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Donations warm our heart

Jun 25, 2020 Go comment!

Generous donations from the community have enabled the provision of winter essentials for elderly, indigent, and lonely members of the community through the Jewish Women’s Benevolent Society’s Benevolent Care initiative.
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ORT SA drive to connect the unconnected

Jun 11, 2020 Go comment!

ORT South Africa is urging the public to donate devices no longer being used to help bridge the digital divide for students.
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Bethlehem honoured for ‘remarkable’ leadership

Jun 11, 2020 Go comment!

“I want to pay tribute to the thoughtful and visionary leaders with whom I have been fortunate to work these past four years,” said Marlene Bethlehem, the outgoing president of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture (MFJC), at the Zoom meeting of its board of trustees on 8 June.
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Israeli embassy supports Afrika Tikkun

Jun 11, 2020 Go comment!

The Israeli Embassy in South Africa has lent its hand to Afrika Tikkun, an agency of the Solidarity Fund, so it can up its support for communities affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Anniversary of a lockdown celebration

Jun 04, 2020 Go comment!

Maish and Lorraine Reznik celebrated their 60th anniversary on the first day of lockdown. Ironically, 60 years ago in March, following the Sharpeville Massacre, South Africa was similarly in turmoil, and the Rezniks had to get permission from a magistrate to get married.
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World ORT ‘more important than ever’ as it turns 140

Jun 04, 2020 Go comment!

“Celebrating 140 years of one of the largest global educational nongovernmental organisations is a significant milestone, especially in light of the COVID-19 crisis,” said Ariellah Rosenberg, the chief executive of ORT South Africa.
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UJW honours women on the frontline

May 28, 2020 Go comment!

The Union of Jewish Women (UJW) has launched a Women of Action campaign to thank its members and volunteers, as well as the care-workers, medical personnel, retail assistants, and all those on the frontline of the pandemic helping others during the lockdown and beyond.
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A sparkling 60th wedding anniversary

May 21, 2020 Go comment!

Sandra and Toby Behr celebrated their Diamond 60th wedding anniversary on 15 May.
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Bringing warmth to the elderly

May 21, 2020 Go comment!

Many elderly and indigent in our community rely on the Jewish Women’s Benevolent Society’s (JWBS’s) clothing depot for their needs, particularly in winter, but with closure over lockdown, they haven’t been assisted for some time.
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My Family Story has virtual awards ceremony

May 21, 2020 Go comment!

Ella Barnett from King David Primary School Linksfield and Rachel Meltzer from Torah Academy Girls High School were selected as winners of the My Family Story International Competition in Memory of Manuel Hirsh Grosskopf.
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ORT Jet powers business rescue

May 14, 2020 Go comment!

ORT Jet’s Business Rescue Initiative has helped 52 businesses to access government funding and other relief measures since the lockdown began.
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High-tech masks for Hatzolah

May 07, 2020 Go comment!

Michael Sieff, the new national executive director at the South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) donated cutting-edge Israeli medical-grade masks from Israel’s Sonovia Tech to Hatzolah on Tuesday.
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Can’t wish someone face to face? Donate a mask!

Apr 23, 2020 Go comment!

When Joanne Hooghuis couldn’t be with her daughter, Siobhan Wilson, on her birthday, she did the next best thing, she donated masks to underprivileged communities.
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100 years young

Apr 23, 2020 Go comment!

Helen Richfield, the wife of the late Leslie Richfield
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ORT Jet helps small businesses in distress

Apr 23, 2020 Go comment!

ORT Jet is offering to help Jewish businesses in distress navigate the process of applying for government and private-sector assistance. Volunteers who have the skills to navigate the process of applying for benefits have offered their assistance.
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A sporting life during lockdown

Apr 23, 2020 Go comment!

Jewish sportsmen are coping with the demands of the COVID-19 lockdown in broadly similar ways, although each brings to the pandemic an adaptation of their own.
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Minnie Bersohn cooks up inspiration online

Apr 02, 2020 Go comment!

Minnie Bersohn Nursery School brought laughter, inspiration, and Shabbos light into pupils’ homes by holding a virtual challah bake at the outset of South Africa’s lockdown on Friday, 27 March. The bake was led by Michelle Vinokur, with 76 pupils and teachers in attendance. Mandi Defries gave an emotional introduction, welcoming everyone to this special mitzvah (commandment).
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ORT alive and well at 140

Mar 26, 2020 Go comment!

ORT Johannesburg celebrated the organisation’s 140th birthday on International ORT Day, 18 March 2020, with a huge birthday cake and much cheer in spite of the current health crisis.
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