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Sep 20, 2018
Yom Tov was spent in the ICU ward praying and hoping for a miracle,” says Daniel Witz, the son-in-law of 71-year-old Zalman Orlianski, who was critically injured in an altercation with an Uber driver over a parking space at OR Tambo International Airport, where he was collecting his family for Rosh Hashanah on Sunday. Orlianski passed away in hospital before Yom Kippur.
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Sep 20, 2018
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has made it clear that anti-Semitism – even from political leaders – will not be tolerated in South Africa.
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Sep 20, 2018
“We must be vigilant against all forms of intolerance including anti-Semitism,” said President Cyril Ramaphosa in a landmark address to the South African Jewish community on 12 September at the Gardens Shul in Cape Town. “We must respond to it with the same resolve as we do against any act or statement that seeks to demean any faith, gender, or ethnic group.”
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Sep 20, 2018
Wendy Kahn, the National Director of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD), has been recognised as one of the world’s top 50 most influential Jews by The Jerusalem Post.
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Sep 20, 2018
King Goodwill Zwelithini, Reverend Kenneth Meshoe, and Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein don’t have a whole lot in common. However, this week they were each named as one of the top 100 individuals who have positively influenced Jewish life over the past year. The American-based Jewish and Israeli news platform, The Algemeiner recently unveiled the list, known as the J100.
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Sep 20, 2018
An artwork featuring Nelson Mandela in a Nazi salute superimposed onto a swastika caused an uproar at the FNB JoburgArtFair at the Sandton Convention Centre earlier this month. Guests angrily demanded that it be removed, and because of this, the work was hung and taken down twice in one day.
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Sep 20, 2018
Despite Palestine not being recognised internationally as a country, the South African government welcomed Palestinian Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Rula Maa’yaa, to South Africa on an official visit earlier this month.
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Sep 20, 2018
Shana tova to all our readers! By the time you read this, Yom Kippur will have come and gone, although we are putting this newspaper to bed just hours before the start of the fast.
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Sep 20, 2018
It nearly tore Israeli society apart, while for me, it remains one of the most distressing stories I’ve ever reported. This week, thirteen years ago, Israel completed its unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and four northern West Bank settlements.
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Sep 20, 2018
The wars in Iraq and Syria have greatly expanded the influence of Iran, in an arc from Tehran westwards to the Mediterranean coast. It has long supported and armed proxies like Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Gaza, and poured invective on Israel. But Iran’s biggest threat lies at home from its increasingly impoverished people.
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Yom Tov was spent in the ICU ward praying and hoping for a miracle,” says Daniel Witz, the son-in-law of 71-year-old Zalman Orlianski, who was critically injured in an altercation with an Uber driver over a parking space at OR Tambo International Airport, where he was collecting his family for Rosh Hashanah on Sunday. Orlianski passed away in hospital before Yom Kippur.
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The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has made it clear that anti-Semitism – even from political leaders – will not be tolerated in South Africa.
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“We must be vigilant against all forms of intolerance including anti-Semitism,” said President Cyril Ramaphosa in a landmark address to the South African Jewish community on 12 September at the Gardens Shul in Cape Town. “We must respond to it with the same resolve as we do against any act or statement that seeks to demean any faith, gender, or ethnic group.”
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Julius Malema, the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), insists it was never his intention to hurt or upset the Jewish community with anti-Semitic conspiracy claims. He was referring to claims he made in a press conference on 23 August that Jews are training right-wing extremists to become snipers to kill blacks over land.
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