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At a moment’s notice, they fly out to do a task from hell

Mar 14, 2019 Go comment!

They work tirelessly all day under the harsh rays of a blazing sun, the stench of death and destruction around them. They are a team of Jewish heroes who are working around the clock with one mission: the recovery of human bodies.
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World News in Brief

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(JTA) Norwegian rapper not charged with hate speech A Norwegian rapper who cursed Jews while performing at an event in Oslo promoting multiculturalism will not be charged with hate speech, because his words may have been criticism of Israel, prosecutors said.
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Danny K says he called out racism because he is Jewish

Mar 14, 2019 Go comment!

Jewish South African singer Danny Koppel, better known as Danny K, tweeted to his 44 500 followers that South Africans should stand up against racism – and received a vicious backlash in response.
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At a moment’s notice, they fly out to do a task from hell
They work tirelessly all day under the harsh rays of a blazing sun, the stench of death and destruction around them. They are a team of Jewish heroes who are working around the clock with one mission: the recovery of human bodies.
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The South African who helped Israel go to the moon
“Ten, nine, eight…” Morris Kahn was transfixed by a live-feed broadcast from Cape Canaveral as the Beresheet – the Israel spacecraft – lifted off en route to the moon in the early hours of 21 February. He is the South African behind the Israeli venture to the moon.
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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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SA News

At a moment’s notice, they fly out to do a task from hell

Mar 14, 2019 Go comment!

They work tirelessly all day under the harsh rays of a blazing sun, the stench of death and destruction around them. They are a team of Jewish heroes who are working around the clock with one mission: the recovery of human bodies.
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Danny K says he called out racism because he is Jewish

Mar 14, 2019 Go comment!

Jewish South African singer Danny Koppel, better known as Danny K, tweeted to his 44 500 followers that South Africans should stand up against racism – and received a vicious backlash in response.
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BDS board member compares Israel with Nazis

Mar 14, 2019 Go comment!

A Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions South Africa (BDS-SA) board member has compared Israelis to Nazis, and demonised Israeli soldiers by portraying them as calculated mass murderers and child killers.
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Ramaphosa flip-flops in pre-election dance over Israel

Mar 14, 2019 Go comment!

As elections draw near, President Cyril Ramaphosa is caught between a rock and a hard place as far as downgrading the South African Embassy in Israel is concerned, and is pandering for approval depending on his audience, according to experts.
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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

World News in Brief

Mar 14, 2019 Go comment!

(JTA) Norwegian rapper not charged with hate speech A Norwegian rapper who cursed Jews while performing at an event in Oslo promoting multiculturalism will not be charged with hate speech, because his words may have been criticism of Israel, prosecutors said.
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The horror of anti-Semitism in France

Mar 14, 2019 Go comment!

Weighted down by a bulletproof jacket, I’m standing in front of the iconic French monument, the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris. To my right are the French gendarmerie with their shields raised and gas canisters ready. To my left are furious protestors hurling abuse. I don’t notice it today, but previous demonstrations had protestors brandishing posters declaring that French President Emmanuel Macron is “the Jews’ bitch”, “Jewish trash”, “Macron = Zion”, and that he is guilty of “colluding with the Jews”.
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Religious News

Happy intersectional Purim

Mar 14, 2019 Go comment!

One of the questions that haunts the story of Purim and moves silently through the lines of the Megillah is clear and chillingly simple: How could Jews have chosen to remain in Persian Shushan? It was so clearly an environment in which anti-Semitism was so prevalent that a genocide could be planned and almost implemented without comment by broader society.
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What it took for Esther to find her courage

Mar 14, 2019 Go comment!

An attentive listener to the Megillah reading on Purim may notice a transformation in the character of Esther, for whom the story is named. She emerges from her protective palatial cocoon, where her natural beauty won the eyes of the Persian king, to become a powerful and courageous queen.
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History shows many versions of the Purim story

Mar 14, 2019 Go comment!

Purim is a unique festival during which we celebrate the miraculous deliverance of the Jewish community of Shushan from the designs of the grand vizier of Persia, Haman. Or is it?
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No more Mr Nice Guy: Mordechai’s intervention in the narrative of Esther

Mar 14, 2019 Go comment!

There is a beautiful idea in Judaism, that G-d looked into the Torah and created the world. Although it is unlikely that G-d literally peered into a hand-written Torah scroll to create the world, this mystical teaching about the origins of our universe conveys a profound truth. We are not, as some would have us believe, random atoms, hurtling into an abyss of uncertainty.
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