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Jul 20, 2017
In a farewell message to Jewish communal leaders this week, Israel’s Ambassador to South Africa Arthur Lenk, insisted that if South African Jewry want to change the politics of the country, they need to be the change.
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Jul 20, 2017
Johannesburg-based Jewish businessman, Mark Pamensky, is on a mission to clear his tarnished name. He has been shunned and maligned by the community he claims is “so important to him” because of his entanglement with the notorious Gupta family and their dodgy business conduct.
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Jul 20, 2017
Some South African shuls are brim-full every weekday and some battle to get a minyan, even on Shabbos. Some have an extremely young and vibrant community and some are filled with mostly elderly folk.
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Jul 20, 2017
The Cape SA Jewish Board of Deputies is in the process of voting in new members. The final step of this process will take place at its biannual conference on August 6.
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Jul 20, 2017
When a Jewish person does well, we klibe such naches and love to bask in their glory. Remember when Joel Stransky kicked that winning drop goal in the World Cup 1995? He became our hero and we were very proud that he was Jewish.
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Jul 20, 2017
I have covered wars and had rockets explode behind me during live reports, and yet it wasn’t so long ago that I was uneasy just walking down a street in Jerusalem. There was a feeling of anxiety; not knowing who to trust and where to feel safe.
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Jul 20, 2017
As I approach the end of four wonderful years as Israel’s ambassador in South Africa, I have been reflecting on many lessons learned here.
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Jul 20, 2017
It wasn't the first time that a French president acknowledged his nation's Holocaust-era guilt, but Emmanuel Macron's speech on the weekend was nonetheless groundbreaking in format, content and style.
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Jul 20, 2017
As Israeli Ambassador Arthur Lenk’s tenure in South Africa comes to an end, he has been hosted at a number of farewells… such is the love and respect he has engendered in his four years in South Africa.
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Jul 20, 2017
The decision to employ a fulltime sport director was the catalyst for Maccabi South Africa’s success at this year’s Maccabi Games. That is the opinion of Maccabi SA Chairman Cliff Garrun who returned from Israel on Wednesday morning.
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Johannesburg-based Jewish businessman, Mark Pamensky, is on a mission to clear his tarnished name. He has been shunned and maligned by the community he claims is “so important to him” because of his entanglement with the notorious Gupta family and their dodgy business conduct.
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In delving into their ancestry, many South African Jews have travelled to Lithuania and not just rediscovered their roots, but actually touched their own personal history on these life-changing journeys.
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Even with so many South Africans desperate to rescue this country from President Jacob Zuma’s train of destruction, last week’s report of a R2bn amnesty package offered to him from frantic private sources to leave office - including amnesty for 783 corruption charges and other misdemeanours - is wishful thinking.
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While it seems incredible that in a racially charged society like ours, someone would purposely stoke black-white tensions, for enough money some people will do anything.
Full StoryA famous example of a journalist bravely speaking truth to power, regardless of personal consequences, comes from Jewish history in 1898, when French writer Emile Zola (a non-Jew), published a front page open letter in the paper L’Aurore to the French President headlined “J'accuse...!” [In English: “I accuse...! Letter to the President of the Republic”].
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