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Beth Din reinforces prohibition on rabbis attending Limmud

Jun 20, 2019 2 Comments

The Beth Din this week reinforced a ten-year prohibition of local orthodox rabbis from attending or teaching at Jewish learning festival Limmud. This was after the South African Rabbinical Association requested the Beth Din’s opinion on their long-standing policy.
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SA woman’ ‘love at first sight’ marriage to Biden’s son

Jun 20, 2019 Go comment!

When South African-born Melissa Cohen met Hunter Biden – the son of Joe Biden, former United States vice president and 2020 Democrat front runner – she told her family it was “love at first sight”.
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Unions claim ‘the Rothschilds’ control state-owned enterprises

Jun 20, 2019 Go comment!

Unions protesting against the resignation of South African Airways (SAA) Chief Executive Vuyani Jarana are threatening to shut down the aviation industry in South Africa if their demands aren’t met.
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Beth Din reinforces prohibition on rabbis attending Limmud
The Beth Din this week reinforced a ten-year prohibition of local orthodox rabbis from attending or teaching at Jewish learning festival Limmud. This was after the South African Rabbinical Association requested the Beth Din’s opinion on their long-standing policy.
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Thulsie twins’ financial support points to bigger forces at play
Terror-accused Thulsie twins Brandon-Lee and Tony-Lee once again appeared in the South Gauteng High Court on Tuesday, this time to hear about preparations for their trial.
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Protestors support Hezbollah at BDS rally
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions South Africa (BDS-SA) appears to have aligned itself with Hezbollah, allowing the terror organisation’s flags to fly and people to chant for the “death” of Israel and Zionism at a protest last week.
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Mixed reception for Naledi Pandor as international affairs minister
There are mixed feelings about President Cyril Ramaphosa’s appointment of Naledi Pandor as minister of international relations and cooperation late on Wednesday night. Some believe she has the perfect mix of statesmanship and wisdom for the position. Others feel she is not neutral about the Israeli-Palestinian situation.
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Our right to be critical of government
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) this week came out strongly in defence of its right to express critical views of the country’s political leadership.
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Chief leads prayer for president and country
Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein said a prayer on behalf of the Jewish community at the swearing in of South Africa’s president and newly elected members of parliament (MPs) on Wednesday.
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SA News

Beth Din reinforces prohibition on rabbis attending Limmud

Jun 20, 2019 2 Comments

The Beth Din this week reinforced a ten-year prohibition of local orthodox rabbis from attending or teaching at Jewish learning festival Limmud. This was after the South African Rabbinical Association requested the Beth Din’s opinion on their long-standing policy.
Full story
SA woman’ ‘love at first sight’ marriage to Biden’s son

Jun 20, 2019 Go comment!

When South African-born Melissa Cohen met Hunter Biden – the son of Joe Biden, former United States vice president and 2020 Democrat front runner – she told her family it was “love at first sight”.
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Unions claim ‘the Rothschilds’ control state-owned enterprises

Jun 20, 2019 Go comment!

Unions protesting against the resignation of South African Airways (SAA) Chief Executive Vuyani Jarana are threatening to shut down the aviation industry in South Africa if their demands aren’t met.
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Cape Town sheikh calls Zionism “a world cancer”

Jun 20, 2019 Go comment!

“As apartheid was a cancer here, Zionism is a world cancer. It is going to consume the world. I see Zionism as the major threat in the world today. Benjamin Netanyahu and your ilk and kind, your time is near. You will also go six feet down.”
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Israel News

The reason for Lieberman upending Netanyahu’s government

Jun 06, 2019 Go comment!

Israelis are going to the polls again over an issue that is as divisive as it is seemingly unsolvable. Should ultra-Orthodox (haredi) men serve in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), or not?
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Netanyahu loses election he has already won

May 30, 2019 Go comment!

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lost an election he had already won. For the first time in the country’s history, a party (in this case Netanyahu’s Likud) was unable to form a majority coalition after parliamentary elections.
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Benjamin Netanyahu re-elected as voters swing to the right

Apr 18, 2019 Go comment!

As expected, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has named incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the best person to put together the next Israeli government.
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Jews out in space

Apr 18, 2019 Go comment!

“We’re Jews out in space, zooming along protecting the Hebrew race.” This was sung by a bunch of tallit-wearing Jews depicted at the end of Mel Brookes’ 1981 comic classic, History of the World Part 1. Flying a magen david (star of david) shaped spacecraft, the Jews dance a hora each time they destroy an enemy spacecraft while singing, “When goyim attack us, we give them a smack and slap them right back in the face.”
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King Bibi here to stay

Apr 11, 2019 Go comment!

“This is an unimaginable achievement,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told exuberant supporters in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
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Israeli election day dishes up some hard choices

Apr 11, 2019 Go comment!

(JTA) Even by Israeli standards, the country’s latest general elections have been exceptionally dirty, rife with personal attacks between candidates, and fake news.
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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

Is confrontation between the US and Iran imminent?

Jun 20, 2019 Go comment!

There are fears that a confrontation between the United States and Iran could erupt at any moment in the Middle East.
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What the popularity of ‘Shtisel’ tells us about the non-orthodox majority

Jun 20, 2019 Go comment!

(JTA) Would the builders of New York’s Temple Emanu-El ever have imagined that their congregation’s sanctuary would one day be packed to the balconies with thousands of devout followers of a black-hatted orthodox rabbi and his family?
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Religious News

Positively brilliant

Jun 20, 2019 Go comment!

In this week’s parsha, some of the Jewish people are taken to task for complaining. First, they complained of exhaustion as a result of their travels in the desert, and second, they complained about the manna that Hashem gave them as food. In both cases, Hashem was actually being kind to them! He made them travel quickly in order to enter the land of Israel, and the manna He fed them was a miraculous food that gave energy, satiation, and helped them to think.
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Shavuot: always receiving

Jun 06, 2019 Go comment!

The year was 1935, and the Spanish government was making elaborate plans to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the Rambam’s birth, seemingly a great honour and proud moment for Jews everywhere.
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The power of shaping people’s sense of self

Jun 06, 2019 Go comment!

Shavuot, 49 days after Passover, marks the jubilant end to the exodus. On Passover, the people of Israel left Egypt, but it is only on Shavuot that they become G-d’s chosen people by accepting the Torah at Sinai.
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The precious tradition of all night Torah study

Jun 06, 2019 Go comment!

I recall my sense of excitement the first time I was allowed to come to shul with my father on Shavuot for the all-night Torah vigil. I felt so big!
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