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Friday (February 20)

* UZLC is hosting Isaac Reznik on “Lights Out”. Venue: Our Parents Home. Time: 12:45 – 14:00. Contact: Gloria, (011) 485-4851 or 072-127-9421.

Sunday (February 22)

*Chabad’s Goodness & Kindness Centre presents “Power Sundays; Learn, Shmooze, Pray”. Venue: 8 Stella Street, Sandton. Time: 08:15. Information: Rabbi Ari Kievman 079-434-1293 www.SandtonCentral.org.za rak@chabad.org.za

* RCHCC presents the movie “Headmaster, Headmaster”, a comedy featuring Neil Jardine. Venue: Clive M Beck Auditorium. Time: 19:30. Donation: R100 (incl refreshments). Booking: Hazel or René (011) 728-8088/8378, after hours (011) 728-8378, or e-mail rchcc@telkomsa.net or rene.s@telkomsa.net
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* CAJE in conjunction with Sydenham Shul hosts Rabbis Gidon Fox and Dovi Goldstein who will square off in The Great Debate: “Who is a Better Jew: Born Frum or Born Free?” Come along and help decide who wins this debate. Venue: Sydenham Community Centre. Time: 19:45. Cost: R50 pp. Special series tickets which include all events are available at a reduced fee of R200 from Sydenham Shul (011) 640-5021. Speak to Shirley. Secure parking and tea will be served.

* Second Innings hosts Brenda Lasersohn on “The Healthy Ageing Brain – Inspire To Rewire”. Venue: Gerald Horwitz Lounge, Golden Acres. Time: 10:00 for 10:30. Cost: R20 members, visitors R30 (incl tea and light refreshments). Contact: Hylton Marks: (011) 532-9616.

Monday (February 23)

* Chabad Seniors Club includes “Memory Enhancement” with Cynthia Liptz. iPad lessons, and much more. Refreshments and lunch, Venue: Chabad House, Savoy. Time: 09:00 – 13:00. Information: Rabbi Ari Kievman (011) 440-6600 or www.chabadsouthafrica.org/seniors

* CAJE in conjunction with Sydenham Shul confronts the conversion conundrum: “Should We Want More Jews or Better Jews?” Registrar of Conversions Rabbi Ron Hendler will present the Beth Din’s case. He will be joined by Adam Gross who has a personal story to share. Venue: Sydenham Community Centre. Time: 19:45. Cost: R50 pp. Special series tickets which include all events are available at a reduced fee of R200 from Sydenham Shul (011) 640-5021. Speak to Shirley. Secure parking and tea will be served.

* UJW hosts Robyn Sassen, freelance art writer and academic, on “Dulce et Decorum Est”, focusing on SA artist, Paul Emmanuel, Wilem Boshoff and Manfred Zylla and their focus on war. Venue: 1 Oak Street, Houghton. Time: 09:30. Donation: R35. Contact: (011) 648-1053.

Tuesday (February 24)

* Chabad House’s Miracle Drive Dinner. Venue: Sandton Convention Centre Time: 19:00. Contact: Chabad House (011) 440-6600 or rak@chabad.org.za

* CAJE in conjunction with Sydenham Shul will ponder the mysteries of life and beyond. “Journeys of the Soul” will bring together Rabbi Dovid Wineberg of Cape Town’s Marais Road Shul and psychiatrist Dr Shelli Sandler from Johannesburg on “Heaven, Hell and the Here & Now”. Venue: Sydenham Community Centre. Time: 19:45. Cost: R50 pp. Special series tickets which include all events are available at a reduced fee of R200 from Sydenham Shul (011) 640-5021. Speak to Shirley. Secure parking and tea will be served.

* WIZO Women Inspired presents “Live your Life in a Frenetic World” with Roz Basserabie. Time: 09:30 for 10:00. Cost: R80 (incl tea and refreshments). For venue details and more information: Joceline 082-441-4375; Lorraine 083-268-8016; Maureen 082-445-1515; Isarae 083-375-1212; Leslie 083-456-3911; Ilana 082-601-2519; or Merlene 082-410-4976.

* UJW hosts Estelle Sher, musicologist and JPO lecturer, on “A Programme of Music and Discussion Based on the Current JPO Programme”. Venue:  Home of Stella Beder, 104 Pembury Lodge, 1 Kernick Avenue, Melrose North. Time: 10:00. Donation: R35. Contact: (011) 648-1053.

Wednesday (February 25)

* Chabad Seniors Club presents “Nicky’s Family”, a documentary on Sir Nicholas Winton, Britain’s Schindler, who saved the lives of 669 children in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Venue: Chabad House, Savoy. Time: 12:00 – 13:30. Information: Rabbi Ari Kievman (011) 440-6600, rak@chabad.org or www.chabadsouthafrica.org/seniors

* Chabad’s Goodness & Kindness Centre presents “The Art of Parenting: Will our Children Listen to us? Should they?” Venue: 8 Stella Street, Sandton Central. Time: 19:15. Information: (011) 440-6600 or jli@chabad.org.za www.JLI.org.za

* UJW hosts Dr Lorraine Chaskalson, former lecturer in Dept of English at Wit, on “Contemporary Poetry”. Venue: 1 Oak Street, Houghton. Time: 09:30. Donation: R35. Contact: (011) 648-1053.

* Second Innings hosts an outing to Doonholm Herb Farm. Meet the bus at 09:00 at Golden Acres. Cost: R180 (all-inclusive). Booking: Betty Jankelowitz (011) 532-9616.

Thursday (February 26)

* Chabad’s Goodness & Kindness Centre offers a “Hebrew Reading Crash Course for Beginners with Ephraim Zaslansky”. Venue: 8 Stella Street, Sandton Central. Time: 19:00.Information: (011) 440-6600 or jli@chabad.org.za www.JLI.org.za

* Chabad Seniors Club daily presents “Educational Academy for the Elderly”. It includes free transportation, occupational therapy, lectures and discussions, refreshments, lunch, Yiddish Club, iPad lessons, blood pressure and sugar tests, and much more. Venue: Chabad House, Savoy. Time: 09:00 – 13:00. Information: Rabbi Ari Kievman (011) 440-6600 or www.chabadsouthafrica.org/seniors

* CAJE in conjunction with Sydenham Shul contemplates “The Israel Issue”, with Israel’s Ambassador to SA Arthur Lenk, on “Sharing Start-Up Nation… in a Complex Neighbourhood” while Olga Meshoe, COO of DEISI will be insisting that “Right is Might” – “We Saw the Truth They Don’t Want You to Know About.” Venue: Sydenham Community Centre. Time: 19:45. Cost: R50 pp. Special series tickets which include all events are available at a reduced fee of R200 from Sydenham Shul (011) 640-5021. Speak to Shirley. Secure parking and tea will be served.