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DIRCO – cream on top of the Clover deal

Feb 21, 2019 Go comment!

“There is no economic ban on Israel whatsoever,” International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) Minister Lindiwe Sisulu told a packed media briefing on Tuesday.
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Middle East peace prospects waning, says UN envoy

Feb 21, 2019 Go comment!

The South African government believes that “peace in Palestine remains elusive”. This is according to a statement put out late on Wednesday night by UN Ambassador Jerry Matjila, the Permanent Representative of South Africa to the United Nations.
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Leaders object to axing of country communities rabbi

Feb 21, 2019 Go comment!

In November last year, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) announced that it was bringing Rabbi Moshe Silberhaft’s tenure as country communities’ rabbi to an end and shutting down its country communities department at the end of 2019.
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DIRCO – cream on top of the Clover deal
“There is no economic ban on Israel whatsoever,” International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) Minister Lindiwe Sisulu told a packed media briefing on Tuesday.
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Adventurous Israeli dies at Victoria Falls
Ofer Cohen, aged 34, literally had the world at his feet when he visited Victoria Falls earlier this month. But that all came to a tragic end when his body was found floating in the Zambezi River last Tuesday. It is suspected that he drowned when taking a spontaneous swim without a lifejacket.
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Capetonians escape roaring Lion’s Head fire
When local artist Beezy Bailey evacuated his Cape Town house on Sunday night, it brought back memories of his holiday home in Plettenberg Bay, which burned down in runaway fires a year and a half ago.
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Right-wing anti-Semitism on the rise in South Africa
The right-wing anti-Semitism understood to be entrenched in many parts of the world is now on the rise in South Africa, say experts in the field.
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Soccer-goalpost tragedy far from over
When the father of Hugo Paluch – the Yeshiva College boy who died after soccer goalposts fell on him – heard that another boy had died in the same tragic way as his son, it “shook him to his core”.
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Darkness descends on last night of Chanukah, as terror attack hits home
It has been a harrowing week of torment for the South African-born parents of the latest terror-attack victim in Israel, who this week described events as “every parent’s worst nightmare come true”.
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SA News

DIRCO – cream on top of the Clover deal

Feb 21, 2019 Go comment!

“There is no economic ban on Israel whatsoever,” International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) Minister Lindiwe Sisulu told a packed media briefing on Tuesday.
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Middle East peace prospects waning, says UN envoy

Feb 21, 2019 Go comment!

The South African government believes that “peace in Palestine remains elusive”. This is according to a statement put out late on Wednesday night by UN Ambassador Jerry Matjila, the Permanent Representative of South Africa to the United Nations.
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Leaders object to axing of country communities rabbi

Feb 21, 2019 Go comment!

In November last year, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) announced that it was bringing Rabbi Moshe Silberhaft’s tenure as country communities’ rabbi to an end and shutting down its country communities department at the end of 2019.
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Sydenham rings the changes with removal of shul choir

Feb 21, 2019 Go comment!

When Johannesburg Jewry got wind that the Sydenham Shul choir was not going to be singing for the foreseeable future, most were astonished. The choir had been a huge pull factor for this shul, as choirs have been for many other large congregations over the years.
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Israel News

Israelis watch the rising star of Gantz

Feb 07, 2019 Go comment!

There’s a popular weekly satirical show in Israel called Eretz Nehederet. In a recent episode, an actor playing Benny Gantz, the former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) and newcomer to Israeli politics, is asked how he’s feeling.
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Israel among top five most innovative countries on the globe

Jan 24, 2019 Go comment!

Israel – commonly dubbed the “Start-up Nation” – has jumped to fifth place in the 2019 Bloomberg Innovation Index, skipping five places since last year. It is officially the fifth most innovative country in the world, according to Bloomberg, an international business news network that calls itself “the central nerve system of global finance”.
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Israeli elections down to two men

Jan 17, 2019 Go comment!

Israeli elections are still three months away, which is a lifetime in Israel. So much can happen between now and then that when election day arrives on 9 April, much of what is written here could be obsolete.
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Israel story based on a fake narrative

Dec 06, 2018 Go comment!

The Israel story is “malfunctioning or getting warped in translation”, says Canadian-born Israeli Matti Friedman, who is a senior journalist and author based in Jerusalem.
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Rockets, mortars, retaliation, repeat – welcome to the Gaza belt

Nov 19, 2018 Go comment!

Fifteen hours. That’s all it took for Hamas to shoot 460 rockets and mortars at southern Israel.
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Former deputy Israeli ambassador to SA drawn into Gaza rocket anguish

Nov 15, 2018 Go comment!

On Monday evening, the skirmish raging between Israel and Hamas became very real for former Deputy Israeli Ambassador to South Africa, Michael Freeman, and his wife, Sigalit. They learned that the home of Sigalit’s mother had been hit by rocket fire, and neither of them was in a position to do anything.
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'Beware of Jews' sign in London

Mar 15, 2017 Go comment!

A nasty prank was behind a fake "Beware Of Jews" road sign that appeared outside a north London shul on Tuesday and was removed by authorities on Wednesday.
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Sup, Y’all – Kerry slips on ketchup

Jan 03, 2017 Go comment!

YouTube sensations Diamond and Silk stand up for Israel in wake of Obama administration’s actions, joke about Kerry having married Heinz heiress
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Why News Year’s is the worst night of the year

Dec 29, 2016 Go comment!

Israeli wordsmith Rachel Gross, submitted a hilarious piece on celebrating secular New Year for publication in JR Online.
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Tel Aviv beachfront Trump Towers

Dec 22, 2016 Go comment!

With all the hullabaloo about moving the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, this could be an amusing option.They could add a casino too...
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World News

How to show that terror doesn’t pay

Feb 21, 2019 Go comment!

How to fight terrorism while at the same time not encourage it is a challenge Israel continues to grapple with. Last Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that he was enacting the so-called “terrorist salaries law” for the first time. It allows Jerusalem to deduct from the monthly taxes it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority (PA) those monies it claims go towards terrorism.
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Another fight over Holocaust memory threatens ties between Israel and Poland

Feb 21, 2019 Go comment!

(JTA) It was meant to be a diplomatic triumph for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: a much-touted diplomatic summit in Jerusalem on Monday with four central European states.
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Religious News

Torah stories for grown-ups

Feb 21, 2019 Go comment!

It boggles the mind. Why is so much Torah-coverage given to the subject of an elaborate tent-structure called the tabernacle? The verses that relate to the tabernacle’s construction seem to go on and on. They fill not one, but four weekly portions.
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Ain’t it a joy to complain?

Feb 14, 2019 Go comment!

Sol visits his old friend, Abe, who has recently acquired a new dog.
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Make 2019 a year of reconciliation and celebration

Feb 07, 2019 Go comment!

Last year, 2018, was an important year, because of the many historic milestones that were commemorated. The end of World War I, the 80th anniversary of the “so called” Kristallnacht – the night of the broken glass – in 1938, which marked the beginning of the Final Solution of Nazi Germany. And, on a more positive note, there was, of course, Nelson Mandela’s 100th birthday.
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Is religion still relevant?

Jan 31, 2019 Go comment!

Cyberspace, outer space, inner space. Smart cards, smart bombs, stem cells, and cell phones. There is no denying it. We live in a new age. Science fiction has become scientific fact. And the question is: in this new world order, with science and technology changing the way we live, is religion still relevant? Do we still need to subscribe to an ancient and seemingly long-obsolete code of laws when we are so further advanced than our ancestors?
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