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Predictions for SA Jewry for the 20-teens
In a newly published provocative blog, Ant Katz lays out his predictions for SA Jewry in the twenty-teens: (i) Our renowned Travelling rabbi is going to need an assistant as Jews take over Africa; (ii) The disconnect between the Board and SA Jewry will get deeper; (iii) Jewish immigration will quicken but the rift between Orthodox and non- will widen; and (iv) SA Jewry is learning to stand up for itself – Habib gets it, Badat doesn’t.
STAFF REPORTER
It is the nothing-happening time of year again – end December and beginning January – a time where little or no news is made so media globally resort to their time-honoured tricks of the trade like reporting on the biggest, worst, silliest or best of last year and similar predictions for the coming year.
READ ANT’S (VERY) PROVOCATIVE OPINIONS
There is no advertising to speak of so every form of media run public service messages and promos for their own whatevers. All pretty boring, really, isn’t it? So I thought I’d take a bash at predictions for SA and other Jewry – most of it not serious, some of it very serious indeed.
Now, before users get too excited, please
allow me to make two things crystal clear:
- Firstly, much of what I am writing is tongue-in-cheek, don’t over-react; and
- Secondly, this is a personal blog. I write this in my personal capacity and, as with all of our bloggers, the opinions, serious or sublime, are NOT the opinion of the SA Jewish Report!
Now to my predictions…
By January 2015 (jeez, I still can’t get around the fact that we’re in 2014) and even deeper into the twenty-teens, I believe that…