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  • 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.

  • Perfect Yom Tov Gift idea
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    Here's a gift that will keep giving for 16 months - a UOS pocket diary. The popular annual diary for 5771 (20010/2011) was published today with a host of new features. But they usually sell out fast, so don’t dilly-dally!

  • Linksfield Eruv is DOWN!!
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    An urgent alert has just been issued by the UOS stating: “Please note that the LINKSFIELD ERUV is DOWN until further notice, due to the Council working on the fence.”

  • Kosher Lulav & Etrog, but hurry
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    The UOS will once again be supplying quality Arba Minim for Sukkot - approved by the Johannesburg Beth Din. But hurry to order AND COLLECT, they say, as stocks are limited and it is on a first-come-first-served basis “even if you order every year.”

  • Loads of Woolies fish now kosher
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    A number of ranges of Woolworths’ fresh fish products have been added to the kosher list as of today according to a Kashrut Notice circulated by the Beth Din this morning. CLICK HEADLINE to see what they are and how to identify the kosher product.

  • Change in Kashrut status of Fry’s
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    In a short kashrut alert notice this afternoon, the Beth Din advised that certain Fry’s Vegetarian products have lost some of their kosher status. No explanation was given as to the reasons for this.

  • Kashrut Update on January Alert
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    Glen's is back!The Beth Din have updated a kosher alert originally sent out on 27 January 2010, stating that Glen's product is once again being manufactured under Beth Din supervision.

  • Permanent schach at the UOS
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    With a view to keeping the cost of keeping the faith affordable, the UOS has facilitated the sale mehadrin schach mats at special prices - but for a limited time only.

  • Beth Din warning: The Bread Basket
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    The Bread Basket has advertised some of their locations as carrying kosher meat. Kosher consumers are advised to read the urgent kosher alert issued by the BD this afternoon.

  • Kosher Alert: OAT BRAN
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    The Beth Din has issued a kosher alert relating to infestation in some oat bran products in the market. Read the notice and the Beth Din’s advice as to haw kosher consumers should check oat bran products.

  • “General apathy of kosher consumers”
    Darren Sevitz, Executive Director, UOS

    UOS exec director Darren Sevitz held an honest talk and answered questions from a disappointingly few kosher consumers at the UOS this morning. What was the biggest concern? “Price,” says Darren, “especially meat and chicken.”

  • Shortest kashrut notice ever?
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    In what must be the shortest kashrut notice ever issued by the Beth Din, the kosher community were advised as follows today:
    ”Please be advised that Faff Restaurant has closed down.”What more can one say?

  • “We don’t control the market”
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    The Rosh Beth Din came under close cross questioning by Rabonim regarding the role of the Beth Din in the poultry market last month. Dayan Kurtstag kept his cool. Click headline to read what he had to say.

  • Beth Din, UOS to hold special service
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    The Joburg Beth Din and the Union of Orthodox Synagogues will hold a Sifrei Torah send-off this weekend and the community has been invited to attend. The Chief Rabbi and Rosh Beth Din (pictured) will bth be in attendance.

UOS welcomes new communication platform

The UOS has a very active, useful and practical website www.uos.co.za, which is accessed upwards of 4000 times a month by our members, the congregants of the 83 affiliated orthodox Shuls and communities countrywide.

But www.uos.co.za is designed to carry content that is static. UOS on MyShtetl.co.za, however, will be about news. It will be about communicating with our members on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. New-media opens up a whole new level of transparency for the UOS, one that we look forward to embracing.

We at the UOS consider ourselves the premier Jewish organisation in the country, catering to the needs of 95% of the SA Jewish community. As such, the opportunity offered the UOS and its various divisions via MyShtetl.co.za, to communicate with our membership so freely, represents a leap forward in our communication requirements. We have mustered a significant portion of our brains trust towards this end.

Bear with us as we learn. Interact with us. Tell us what you would like to hear more of.

So, welcome to The UOS on MyShtetl.co.za – may this site grow into the world’s best Jewish community website, as it will be serving the world’s best Jewish community outside Israel.

Darren Sevitz, Executive Director, UOS

Eruvs

Our Jewish religious code spells out the Shabbat restrictions. For example, carrying and pushing wheelchairs and prams are only permitted in homes, private gardens and community areas. An Eruv is a boundary recognised by Jewish law, within which these activities are permitted.



Click here to see Eruvs in Johannesburg and Pretoria.

Division Shuls

  • UOS to run course for Gabbaim
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    Shul’s packed! Barmie boy and his family are there. Groom of a few days is there, and one getting married this week. Visiting Rosh Yeshiva (a Kohen) is in Shul. Shul Chair has Yahrtzeit. Vice-chair (also a Kohen) sponsored the Kiddush. Wife of the Shul President has Yahrtzeit for her mother who was married to a non-Jew. Now What??!!??
    UOS to the rescue, of course, that's what!

  • New 010 phones for the UOS
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    The Union of Orthodox Synagogues of SA (UOS) has a new telephone number. This has come into effect today and includes the UOS, the Beth Din and Kashrut Department, and the Office of the Chief Rabbi.

  • Mitvah Club for Plett

    The Plett community have started a ‘Mitzvah Club’ every Wednesday and funds raised will go to the local Chev. Any visitors to Plett can contact the Shul at 044 533-4833 or 082 776-0652. Or e-mail to: spdcell@global.co.za.

Kashrut Search

Division: Beth Din Jhb

  • Beth Din warning: The Bread Basket
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    The Bread Basket has advertised some of their locations as carrying kosher meat. Kosher consumers are advised to read the urgent kosher alert issued by the BD this afternoon.

  • Kosher Alert: OAT BRAN
    BD hechsher.gif

    The Beth Din has issued a kosher alert relating to infestation in some oat bran products in the market. Read the notice and the Beth Din’s advice as to haw kosher consumers should check oat bran products.

  • Loads of Woolies fish now kosher
    woolies logo.jpg

    A number of ranges of Woolworths’ fresh fish products have been added to the kosher list as of today according to a Kashrut Notice circulated by the Beth Din this morning. CLICK HEADLINE to see what they are and how to identify the kosher product.

  • Shortest kashrut notice ever?
    faff logo.jpg

    In what must be the shortest kashrut notice ever issued by the Beth Din, the kosher community were advised as follows today:
    ”Please be advised that Faff Restaurant has closed down.”What more can one say?

  • Change in Kashrut status of Fry’s
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    In a short kashrut alert notice this afternoon, the Beth Din advised that certain Fry’s Vegetarian products have lost some of their kosher status. No explanation was given as to the reasons for this.

Shuls

Click here to see all Shuls in Southern Africa affiliated with the UOS.

Division: Beth Din Cpt