Parsha Noah as submitted to Jewish Report but never printed Sometimes change comes upon us in a flood without warning. On other occasions we are warned, but don’t take heed of that inner voice giving us the preverbal heads-up. If we are to succeed in our endeavours and our future, we would do well to […]
PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM IN THE NEWS New Era Begins: SAUPJ Gathers in Cape Town for Biennial Conference The SAUPJ(South African Union for Progressive Judaism) biennial conference, which took place at Cape Town’s Temple Israel from June 6-8, 2014, heralded a new era for the community. The gathering marked the end of Steve Lurie’s 10-year tenure as […]
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Exploring mind, body and soul at Netzer SA Winter Camp Chakirah. Kathryn Henning, Netzer SA National Rosh Chinuch Pennington Beach, Durban. 1-9 July 2013.What a wonderful camp filled with laugher, smiling and growing! We had such a blast learning about all the cool things in Netzer, and actually getting down to the fun stuff. Here’s […]
THE Durban Progressive Jewish community plays a prominent role in a provincial interfaith council, whose mission is to improve service delivery to the poor. The KwaZulu Natal Inter-Religious Council, launched in October 2007, began when Premier Sbusiso Ndebele invited the province’s religious leaders to join a partnership to redress social ills such as poverty, unemployment, […]
Cape Town Shaliach, Omer Rabin, Rosh Cape Town, Tali Cassidy, and Netzer Mazkira Meghan Finn, at the Netzer Curry & Rice stall at the main Cape Town event Cape Town Shaliach, Omer Rabin, leads the Netzer procession at the Ratanga Junction celebrations Dressing up military style at the “Israel@60” sleepover at the Wynberg shul Just […]
THE South African Union for Progressive Judaism and Netzer celebrated Yom Ha’atzmaut with the rest of the Johannesburg Jewish community at the Wanderers Cricket Stadium on Wednesday night, 7th May 2008.Both the SAUPJ and Netzer were part of the procession of Jewish organisations and youth movements. Those who joined the procession through the stadium included […]
THE United Sisterhood is in serious need of financial assistance to avoid closing its Jewish Family Assistance Fund.The United Sisterhood, which will celebrate 75 years of helping the underprivileged in August this year, may have to cut down on supporting projects and people it has assisted for many years, and may have to close the […]
TWO British youngsters who recently finished high school, have embarked on a round-the-world trip to visit branches of the youth movement Netzer, and aim to join South African Netzer at their December youth camps in Cape Town. J.J. Silverman and Dan Raanan, youth leaders in Britain’s Reform movement, have embarked on a six-month journey to […]
THE World Union for Progressive Judaism has called for emergency funding to help the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism (IMPJ), which has been hard hit by the current global economic downturn and devalued US dollar, forcing it to make massive staff cutbacks. Reform synagogues, seminaries and rabbinic organizations in the US and Canada have joined […]