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 […]
DESPITE a long and often vicious campaign to paint Barack Obama as anti-Israel, exit polls reveal that more than three quarters of American Jews voted Democratic. NBC television’s exit polls said 77% of Jews voted for Obama; 22% for John McCain CNN television’s exit polls said 78% of Jews voted for Obama; 21% for McCain […]
“Is medicine still a good job for a nice Jewish boy or girl?” THE newly appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town, Professor Max Price, will be giving the this year’s Rabbi Dr David Sherman lecture. The lecture, in memory of the much-loved Rabbi Sherman, who was the outspoken leader of Cape Town’s progressive […]
STEVE LURIE, chairman of the SA Union for Progressive Judaism, was silenced mid-way through a public speech in November in which he called for an end to discrimination against the Progressive youth movement Netzer at King David Schools.The incident unbottled long-simmering tensions over the treatment of Progressive Jews by the SA Jewish Board of Education, […]
Women were regularly present in the synagogue. One early rabbinic tradition speaks of a halachic ruling allowing a non-Jewish woman to help prepare the meal until the Jewish woman of the household returned from the synagogue (Babylonian Talmud, Avodah Zarah 38a-b). Another mentions the right of women and minors to be included among the seven […]
THE Anita Saltz International Education centre in Jerusalem is an exciting, innovative initiative of the World Union for Progressive Judaism. It offers many seminars and workshops, one of them being the Beutel Seminar for Progressive Jewish Leadership. I was privileged to be chosen by the South African Union for Progressive Judaism (SAUPJ) to represent South […]