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  • “I saved our community’s heritage”
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    Over 1,000 people visit monthly. Yet it faces being shut forever. For a few Rand a month each, we can save a most precious cultural resource and be able to say to future generations: “I helped save the Beyachad Libraries!”
    Read about the ambitious new plans to save the Libraries.

  • New UOS/PnP calendar ups the ante
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    A completely new and revised edition of the Pick ‘n Pay Hebrew/Gregorian calendar will be available countrywide in the next few days. It is a total revamp of the old PnP calendar and has been done in collaboration with the UOS this year.

  • Shtetlers start another chirp-fest!
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    A comment on users' comments on ChabadGirl’s latest blog at 09:23 Tuesday morning chirps: “Two opinionated orthodox women kvetching about others, has anything changed much ...?” It has solicited a major war of comments, some 30-odd. Read all the chirping

  • Say goodbye to ‘JOBS’ for a few days
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    Users of the ORT JET and MyShtetl websites have inundated us with suggestions for our new recruitment sub-site. We will deactivate it for a few days, fix and improve and roll out the final product by Rosh Hashanah as promised.

  • News from Orgs - hot off the press
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    “Tachlis from Beyachad” is a weekly newsletter from the organizations based at Beyachad. Read this week’s newsletter. If you like it, you can get “Tachlis” e-mailed directly to you by Beyachad every Thursday.

  • Glenhazel Centre has roof wetting
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    Three respected Joburg Jewish businessmen - Arnold Garber, Joel Back and Shaul Daniels - held the roof wetting for their prestigious new Glenhazel Centre opposite Yeshiva College on Wednesday evening.

  • The death of hope
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    Our eloquent Cape blogger Lion613 writes that “the media landscape of the M-East changed radically in the last 24 hours,” after the Kiryat Arba killings which “have aroused some uncharacteristic pro-Israeli sympathy from Islamist-funded sources. READ Lion’s latest

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So, this enquiring mind of mine was wondering and wandering…

We have an incredibly competent, developed-world private sector and an under-capacitated public sector. So why doesn’t government outsource the public sector to the private sector? Besides the obvious: “Then what’s in it for me, my friends and family?” the idea isn’t too preposterous.

Imagine a scenario where our private hospital operators, who can and do compete with the best in the world, were asked to tender for the running of State hospitals.

READ ON TO FIND OUT WHY THIS CAN'T AND WON'T WORK

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