What’s on in Jewish SA this week

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There is so much happening in our community around the country every day, social, secular and religious. In the major centres such as Cape Town, Joburg, Durban, PE and Pretoria Jewish organisations and communities can hook you up with a host of events.

For those in the outlying areas and in sub-Saharan Africa, our world-famous “Travelling Rabbi” Moshe Silberhaft can always link you up with someone, somewhere, somehow – wherever you may be.

Friday (November 8) – UZLC is hosting Charisse Zeifert from the Jewish Board of Deputies on “Chatting About the Media”. Venue: Our Parents Home. Time: 12:45 – 14:00. Contact: Gloria, 072-127-9421 or (011) 485-4851.

Sunday (November 10) – Big Band Music Appreciation Society meets at St John’s College Auditorium, Houghton at 14:15 sharp. Charles Bossenger on keyboard will play his favourite numbers, followed by a short DVD tribute on Frank Sinatra, “A Man and His Music”, presented by Dave Goldstein. Enquiries: Marilyn 072-243-7436 or Jack 082-450-7622.

Second Innings hosts Rob Caskie, national and international tour guide and renowned raconteur, on “Going South with Scott and Shackleton”. Venue: The Gerald Horwitz Lounge, Golden Acres. Time: 10:00 for 10:30. Cost: R20 members, R40 visitors. Contact: Grecia Gabriel, (011) 532-9718.

UJW CT’s Kesher Group, hosts Steven Segerman – Venue No 17 First Crescent, Camps Bay. Time: 18:30. Cost: R150 per ticket. Enquires: (021) 434-9555 (until 14:00).

Monday (November 11) –  UJW hosts Emelia Potenza, curator of Exhibitions and Education at the Apartheid Museum, on “20 Years of South African Democracy”. Venue: 1 Oak Street, Houghton. Time: 09:30. Donation: R30. Contact: (011) 648-1053.

Chevrah Kadisha’s Social Services host developmental psychologist and international expert on abuse, Debbie Gross, at a breakfast on “Keeping Our Women and Children Safe From Abuse in a Changing World”. Venue: 70 2nd Avenue, Inanda. Time: 09:00 for 09:30. Information: Rozanne Sack 082-469-6610 and Wendy Hendler 082-44-6703. Cost: R150. RSVP to Marianne 083-327-5444.

Tuesday (November 12) – WIZO Forum hosts a “Historic Bus Tour, ‘Memory Against Forgetting’” a tribute to the role of Jewish men and women in the Struggle. The bus will travel through the eastern suburbs of Doornfontein, Yeoville, Houghton, Norwood, The Gardens and Oaklands, and then on to a guided tour of Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia. Park at Beyachad. Bus leaves at 10:00. Cost R250 per person. Duration 6 hours (expected to end at 16:00). Booking essential: Call (011) 645-2515 or e-mail sandy@beyachad.co.za

Wednesday (November 13) – UJW hosts Dr Lorraine Chaskalson, former lecturer Dept of English at Wits on part four of her series on “Contemporary Poetry”. Venue: 1 Oak Street, Houghton. Time: 09:30. Donation: R30. Contact: (011) 648-1053.

Chevrah Kadisha’s Social Services in partnership with CAJE present: “Enrich Your Life!” a thought-provoking series by experts Ilanit Gerson, school counsellor and creator of “Surfing Safely” and Luke Lamprecht, child and youth care practitioner and director of Parent & Child Counselling Centre. Cost: R30. Light refreshments will be served. Venue: Sydenham Shul Hall. Time: 19:45. Information and bookings: Sharon (011) 532-9616, e-mail: sharonp@jhbchev.co.za

Thursday (November 14) – UJW CT hosts a “Mitzvah Day – Packing of Comfort Kits”. Venue: Stonehaven, 7 Albany Road. Time: 17:30 – 19:00. Enquiries: (021) 434-9555 (until 14:00).