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Anti-Semitic Instagrammer says SA Jews need to recognise white privilege

Aug 22, 2019 Go comment!

When Jordan Pieters pulled a “zap sign” at the South African Jewish Museum (SAJM) in Cape Town, and shared her sentiments about Jews on Instagram, she said it honestly reflected her feelings towards South African Jews.
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Social-justice activist killed in freak biking accident

Aug 22, 2019 Go comment!

Celebrated academic and social-justice activist Tessa Hochfeld was killed in a freak accident at the weekend while riding a bike with her youngest daughter and husband in Greenside.
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Meeting with new international affairs minister presses ‘reset’

Aug 22, 2019 Go comment!

Jewish communal leadership has described its recent meeting with International Relations Minister Naledi Pandor as “professional and engaging”.
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Anti-Semitic Instagrammer says SA Jews need to recognise white privilege
When Jordan Pieters pulled a “zap sign” at the South African Jewish Museum (SAJM) in Cape Town, and shared her sentiments about Jews on Instagram, she said it honestly reflected her feelings towards South African Jews.
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Joburg CSO threatened by lack of funding
The Community Security Organisation (CSO) exists to secure South African Jewry, but right now, this vital community organisation needs rescuing.
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Anti-Israel scholar to give ‘academic freedom’ lecture at UCT
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has invited Israel-hater Dr Steven Salaita to give its annual academic freedom lecture this week. A proponent of academic boycotts of Israel, Salaita was scheduled to speak about the “Inhumanity of Academic Freedom” on Wednesday night.
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Herzog determined to fix Israel-SA relations
Isaac Herzog – effectively Israel’s leader of the Jewish world – says he “objects vehemently” to the South African government pulling out its ambassador to Israel, and moving towards downgrading its embassy. He intends to do everything he can to change this.
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Ehrenreich accused of ‘fauxpologising’ for hate-speech
Former Western Cape provincial secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) Tony Ehrenreich last week ‘apologised’ for hate speech committed five years ago, but the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) has hit back, criticising his apology as fake and saying it reinforces the original intent. This led to a further tirade of hatred from Ehrenreich.
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Remembering the Jewish ‘white Zulu’
He has been described as a son of Africa, a white Zulu, a voice of revolution, a genius, a teacher, student, and mentor, but before all of these, at birth, Johnny Clegg was Jewish.
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Anti-Semitic Instagrammer says SA Jews need to recognise white privilege

Aug 22, 2019 Go comment!

When Jordan Pieters pulled a “zap sign” at the South African Jewish Museum (SAJM) in Cape Town, and shared her sentiments about Jews on Instagram, she said it honestly reflected her feelings towards South African Jews.
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Social-justice activist killed in freak biking accident

Aug 22, 2019 Go comment!

Celebrated academic and social-justice activist Tessa Hochfeld was killed in a freak accident at the weekend while riding a bike with her youngest daughter and husband in Greenside.
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Meeting with new international affairs minister presses ‘reset’

Aug 22, 2019 Go comment!

Jewish communal leadership has described its recent meeting with International Relations Minister Naledi Pandor as “professional and engaging”.
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Community demands answers on Cape cemetery vandalism

Aug 22, 2019 Go comment!

Following the SA Jewish Report’s recent exposé of the “tomb raider” in Cape Town using old gravestones on new graves, community members are asking for answers and calling for action.
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Israel News

Ayelet Shaked’s rising star in Israeli politics

Aug 08, 2019 Go comment!

It’s been 45 years since Israel’s fourth prime minister, Golda Meir, resigned from the country’s top job. Often described as the “iron lady” of Israeli politics, she was strong-willed and straight-talking.
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What does it mean if Israel bombs an Iranian warehouse in Iraq?

Aug 01, 2019 Go comment!

For 38 years, there’s been no mention of Israeli strikes in Iraq. All that changed this week, when the London-based Arabic newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported that Israeli Air Force (IAF) F-35 jets bombed Iranian warehouses storing arms and missiles near Baghdad.
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Boris Johnson – is he good for the Jews?

Jul 25, 2019 Go comment!

My grandmother had a very particular world view. For the 25 plus years I’ve been a journalist, regardless of what was happening in the world, she’d ask me, “Is it good for the Jews?”
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Israel warns soldiers of fake friends on social media

Jul 18, 2019 Go comment!

Israel is stronger than Hamas on the ground. But in the digital sphere, the Gaza militant organisation is fast developing cyber capabilities that if the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is not vigilant, could seriously compromise its troops.
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Ehud Barak – the comeback leader

Jul 11, 2019 1 Comment

“The state of Israel is facing the total dissolution of its democracy,” says former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. “This is a strategic threat no less than the Iranian threat.” This is the alarming opinion of the man who occupied the country’s top seat from 1999 to 2001.
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Ethiopian Israelis take to the streets following another death

Jul 04, 2019 Go comment!

The rallying call, “Black lives matter!” was heard again this week. But it didn’t emanate from American cities like Ferguson, Baltimore, and New York – or even Africa. Instead, it came from Tel Aviv, Netanya, and Haifa. And the protestors weren’t African Americans, but Ethiopian Israelis.
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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

Former ISIS members and families – an international headache

Aug 22, 2019 Go comment!

The name Jihadi Jack was splashed across British newspapers this week as the story of 24-year-old Jack Letts was again brought to the public’s attention.
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Bibi refers to Nazi collaboration in Ukraine

Aug 22, 2019 Go comment!

(JTA) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the actions of the Nazis and collaborators at a killing site in Ukraine show that Jews must defend themselves.
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Religious News

Don’t get lost in the wilderness

Aug 22, 2019 Go comment!

Much has been said and written about the galut mentality, the subservience felt by generations of Jews living in the diaspora. As second-class citizens for so many generations in Eastern Europe and in Arab countries, Jews allegedly came to lose their self-esteem. Finally, in our own time, the old ghetto Jew would be replaced with a proud, strong, independent Israeli. No more would Moshke the Jew cower before Poretz the country squire.
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Seeing light where others see darkness

Aug 15, 2019 Go comment!

The Talmud tells us that Rabban Gamliel, Rabbi Elazar ben Azaria, Rabbi Joshua, and Rabbi Akiva went up to Jerusalem. When they reached Mt Scopus, they tore their garments as an act of grief and mourning for the Temple that had been destroyed there. When they reached the Temple Mount, they saw a fox emerging from the place where the Holy of Holies was situated.
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Are we really independent?

Aug 08, 2019 Go comment!

Tens of thousands of Jews will converge on Jerusalem’s Western Wall this week as our people mark Tisha B’Av, our national day of mourning. On this day in history, both our holy temples were destroyed, and a host of other calamities have occurred throughout the centuries.
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Danger of making incidental significant

Aug 01, 2019 Go comment!

While encamped on the eastern side of the River Jordan, the tribes of Reuben and Gad, owners of cattle, observed that the Land of Jazer and Gilead was suitable for the rearing of livestock. Knowing that the people of Israel were about to cross over the Jordan to enter the land of Canaan, they asked that they be allowed to remain and settle on the east side of the river.
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