Jaimi Meyerowitz

THe Habo Gazette“Keeping Bogrim in the loop since 2012”

Volume V Price: R0.0023 May 2012

HABO’S IN DURBAN!For those of you who don’t know me,

I am Jo’burg’s Rosh Durban on this year’s Hanhaggah. Last month I went

down to Durban for the weekend to run an epic event for the community there. It was great getting to know the community better, which is small, but definitely vibrant.

I arrived just in time for a delicious shabbos dinner at Lauren Shapiro and her wonderful family. I got to learn a lot about the jewish community in Durban from listening to their stories. They also gave me some good advice for what I can do to help Habo have more of a presence in the Durban community.

On the Saturday, Ma’ayan and I went to the Orthodox Shul for me to get a chance to meet more community members and, most importantly, some of the kids and their parents. They were very excited to see Habo in Durban, and even more excited to take part in the event we ran.

On Sunday we ran an event for Garanim to Amelim at Eden College. Ma’ayan, myself and 9 fantastic kids had loads of fun play-ing games and learning a bit about Habo! Of course, this involved Marie biscuits and icing, the camp video, wool and bracelets and an impressive game of fly.

I had an amazing time in Durban and even got to visit the sea. Hopefully I’ll to go there again this year and inject some more Habo magic into the city!

Garinim get introduced to Habo and its weirdness in Durban.

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ALL SMILES: Durban channies greet the camera and Jaimi sticks her tongue out.

Talya Galakso

This year, just like every other year since I don’t know when, we held a Third Seder.

By ‘we’ I mean a few Shomrim, Bogrim 1 to 6 and even a few dinosaurian Bogrim 7’s and up. It was fantastic to have the likes of Stiller-man, Dylan, Jules and the rest of their cronies grace us with their presence on this auspicious occasion.

Let me first say that the Third Seder is a contemporary, Habonik take on the order of the evening, involving much less matzah because it occurs post Pesach, no rabbis or rebbetzens, or awkward family guests and no fancy Shelley Geffen kneidlach. Gener-ally, when one thinks of these dinners plastic cutlery and polystyrene crockery come to mind. And while this year, that was still the case, the VP went out of their way to colour co-ordinate the borrowed tablecloths, paper serviettes, sparkle centerpieces and a properly printed Haggadot.

The food, one could guess, had not come from the Onrus Mitbach and was enjoyed by all, including the vegetarians. There was sing-ing, and reading, chattering and laughter. All in all, it was a wonderful evening that brought together the newer and older models of the Movement and allowed us to celebrate Pesach in our own way. Thank you to everyone that contributed.

Cape Town Third Seder Report

The Candy residence gets a makeover for the Cape Town Third Seder. Unfortunately, Sarah did not have time to laminate the serviettes.

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JO’ BURG KEN UPDATE: MAY 2012

Lynzi Bennun

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Well hello there. A hearty Johan-nesburg hello unto you all! We have been busy little bee’s so far

this block, let me tell you what’s been going down so you can pick it up – hence picking up what I am putting down g-money’s! I totally just went there.

(EDITOR’S NOTE: My sincere apologies for not deleting that horrible play on words. Lynzi

should be shamed of herself)

The Mazkirut has been running events like Laz runs when he sees fruit. Our chocolate seder was a hit, channichim got to do a Pesach inspired challenge leading them to a final challenge to find the Afikoman (which ironi-cally was an easter bunny chocolate).They ate more chocolate than they could have imag-ined and went home for a hyper night of good memories to look back on. We then had a movie night where we watched Tangled (Roxy cried) and ate pizza. A fun night was had by all! On Sunday (20 May), we had a Bon Fire Chill event for Amelim and Sollelim which marks the start of consistent events for older Channichim. There’ll definitely be more to come, because okes are keen for some braai’d marshmallows and camp banter.

Friday Night Meetings are still very well attended and interesting. This block has taken

a more chinnuchic twist where we have dealt with the comparison of Freedom Day and Yom Haazikaron, May Day, Religions around the world and many more mind provoking topics! Kefication (kef and educational) is on a serious roll. The 3rd Seder was redonc, it was a very new creative way to explore how we interpret the hagadah leaving everyone feeling very warm and fuzzy inside.

The season of the Yoms was busy and eye-opening for us as a movement. As we continue through the block we grow more as a Ken and a Bogrim body, our presence grows stronger in the community and channichim dig our vibe at break :P If you are in town be sure to pop in and give a hello howzit!

Jo’burg Mazkirut Report

Galit Seligman

From a chocolate seder, to a master chef competition and a garinim movie night,

the Jo’burg Mazkirut has successfully hosted a pretty diverse range of events targeted at our Garinim channies this block.

Three Sundays ago, our mini-people rocked up in their matching pjamas and slippers to watch the movie Tangled (everyone must watch this! Pure genius!). Garinim channies had popcorn, sweets, pizza and hyperactivity that we left their parents to deal with :)

Although I was away, the rest of the Mazkirut hosted un unbelievably creative chocolate seder over the long weekend. This involved playing pictionary using nutella as paint, downing cups of chocolate milk, split-ting smarties as the red sea, playing pyramid-Jenga with chomps and lastly running around to find an afikoman (aka massive chocolate).

I think we have created a great group of core channies that are always up for one of our events. We’ve created a great culture of participation in our Ken. From here, the only direction is up!

Watch this space for events for some older channies.

Everyone is happy happy in Joburg. But why is Justine hiding her face?

Gabriella Kempen | 24 May

Zoe Wein | 27 May

Mike Frolich | 22 June

Steve Frolich | (three guesses)

Gabi Hyman | 26 June

Birthdays Coming Up

Upcoming Events

Shorashim | 25 June - 15 July

JHB Winter Camp | 12- 15 July

CT Winter Camp | 12 - 15 July

EE National Congress | 9 - 12 July

Raphael Chaskalson

This year, Habo officially became a sister organisation of Equal Eduction. There

are several recognisable faces in the organisa-tion’s current national leadership, like Sack, Doron and Joey. Our two organisations are built on very similar values and I’m sure we can all agree that the connection we have right now is something to be fostered and built upon.

In this spirit, it is fitting that we should all be up to speed about what’s going at EE’s Inaugural National Congress from the 9th to the 12th of July. Last year, at a tour of several Khayelitsha High Schools, Joey explained the rationale behind the national congress:

“In our first three years of existence, we have accomplished amazing things. However, we are so far not a democratic organisation. The current national leadership has not been elected, it is a group of people who have been there from EE’s inception. As an organisation

fighting for democratic values and rights, we should be democratic ourselves.”

The National Congress this July will be held in Johannesburg, which is also intended to spread the organisations name around the city. At the Congress, some 300 delegates will be given voting rights and positions of national leadership will be decided on. At the Congress, people standing for positions will motivate themselves in front of the delegates, who will then choose leadership positions by means of a ballot (and no, they will not have to provide two motivations and two demotivations, and absentions do not mean that a revote has to happen). The delegates are selected from the EE’s current leadership, those involved in its Gap Year programme and students involved in youth groups.

As EE’s sister organisation, it is only fitting that we should take a keen interest in the outcome of this Congress. I am thrilled that EE is democratising. I think it will give the organisation’s leadership legitimacy and will kickstart their campaigns for the new year. Let’s wish all the candidates good luck, and see what happens come July

Equal Education goes democratic