SA Jewish Report Staff
Friday (July 29)
* UZLC hosts The Star’s Metro Watch editor Anna Cox on “Major Developments Happening Around Johannesburg in Anticipation of the Local Government Elections”. Venue: Our Parents Home. Time: 12:45 – 14:00. Contact: Gloria 072-127-9421 or (011) 485-4851.
* Shalom Masorti Seniors Club welcome everyone who would like to make new friends and have some light-hearted fun on the last Friday of each month. Tea is served and there is a selection of board games to play and cards. Bev Goldman will speak on “He Who Controls the Media Controls the Mind”. Contact: Esther (011) 485-5619 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday morning.
Sunday (July 31)
* Ditsong Museum of Military History in Saxonwold. (next to the Johannesburg Zoo) shows two films with an instruction by Radio Today presenter Selwyn Klass. “The Kid 1921” (52 minutes) sees Charlie Chaplin for the first time as a filmmaker, stepping into feature-length storytelling with this tale of the down-but-never-out tramp. The second movie is “The Red Balloon 1956” (34 minutes). It remains one of the most beloved family films of all time. Time: 14:30. Cost: R100 (incl tea and snacks). Bookings: (011) 486-3648 or e-mail: majestic.henni@gmail.com
* JH&GC and Limmud Johannesburg present a staged reading of the play, “The Boys from the Ashes” by Courtneigh Cloud. Venue: JH&C, 1 Duncombe Road, Forest Town. Time: 18:00. Seating limited, Booking: shirley@jhbholocaust.co.za or (011) 640-3100/2148. Suggested donation of R50.
* RCHCC presents, back by popular demand, the film, “The Last Mentsch” Venue: Clive M Beck Auditorium. Time: 19:30. Booking: Hazel or René (011) 728-8088/8378, a/h (011) 728-8378; e-mail: rchcc@telkomsa.net; rene.s@telkomsa.net. Donation: R70 (incl refreshments)
* Second Innings hosts Prof David Bilchitz on “Constitutional Democracy Twenty Years on: “How is South Africa Doing?” Venue: The Gerald Horwitz Lounge, Golden Acres. Time: 10:00 for 10:30. Cost: R20 members and R40 non-members (incl tea and light refreshments).
Tuesday (August 2)
* UJW presents “Unchain Jewish Women – the Get Issue”. Presenters will include Rosh Beth Din Rabbi Moshe Kurtstag; a co-founder of Go Getters, the SA Get Network; an advocate; and a woman who recently got her get after waiting five years. Venue: The HOD, Orchards. Time: 19:30. Cost: R50 (incl tea). Booking essential. Contact: Ann at UJW offices (011) 648-1053 or info@ujw.co.za
Tuesday (August 23)
* JWBS walks down “Memory Lane with John Berks”. Venue: Gerald Horwitz Lounge, Golden Acres. Time: 09:30 for 10:00. Cost: R100 (incl tea and refreshments). Booking: (011) 485-5232 or gloria@jwbs.co.za”
* UJW hosts “an inspirational evening” with Ivan Sacks, survivor from cancer and other debilitating diseases and motivator from Dallas on his approach to the challenges of his life in a humorous and inspiring way. Proceeds to DL Link. Venue: The HOD, Orchards. Time: 19:30. Cost: R100 (incl light refreshments) Prebooking essential: info@ujw.co.za or (011) 648-1053.
