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CSO warns community to be vigilant about kidnapping
The Community Security Organisation (CSO) has warned parents and caregivers to be hyper-vigilant about children’s safety because of an increase in suspicious activity in public places.
Jewish News
South Africa witnesses a spike in anti-Semitism
Lawyers are preparing criminal and civil charges following one of the darkest weeks of anti-Semitism in South Africa. There have been a slew of vile incidents that sent shock waves through the community.
Cosatu’s Refugee Day faux pas brings Jewish history to light
‘Comprehensive’ investigation delays Stan & Pete probe
Once vibrant Rosettenville Shul breathes its last
PJ Library encourages kids to explore their Jewish identity
Organisations
For them, the battle has just begun…
The SA Friends of the Beit Halochem Zahal Disabled Veterans Organisation was established in Johannesburg in 1982, its primary goal being to help and support Zahal disabled veterans by raising funds to help them return and resume their normal lives as soon as possible.
Hatzolah’s aim is that it should end well
Limmud wins a prize for uniting Jews
‘Sounds of Summer’ raises much-needed funds
Sasco Israel ‘directive’ shows closed-mindedness
Lifestyle / Community
Doyen of furniture industry reaches his century
Isaac Jankelowitz celebrated his 100th birthday on 2 September surrounded by family and friends. Always a wonderful storyteller, he recounted his life for those celebrating with him. He told how he grew up in the shtetl of Lubtch (Lubza), in what is Belarus today, how he arrived as a poverty stricken migrant in Johannesburg in the early 1930s. He then spoke of running what was the largest furniture factory in South Africa at the time.
MMA fight raising funds CSO funds to lower risks
Victory Park alumnae take art and philanthropy to new heights
Sydenham Shul hosts Israeli ambassador for dinner
Soweto school supported with fun and generosity
Israel
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Taking you through some of Israel’s firsts
1952 High-school dropout Stef Wertheimer sets up a small metal shop and tool-making company in the backyard of his home in Nahariya. His company, ISCAR, is today one of the world’s largest manufacturers of carbide industrial cutting tools used by carmakers like Ford and General Motors, employing 6 000 people in branches in 50 countries.
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Israel has true Christian friends in Mozambique
Devotion to the cause of the State of Israel flourishes in the most unlikely places, even in societies where the Jewish presence is small to non-existent. Such is the case in Mozambique, where the work of Beth-El Associacao Crista Amigos De Israel - Mozambican Christian Friends of Israel - testifies to how much can be achieved by those inspired by their Christian faith to promote the Israeli cause, despite adverse conditions.
Israelis vow their future will be decided in and by Israel
Israel's door swings both ways for Africa
Swazi, Israeli PMs meet on expanding relations
4 young soldiers die in J’salem truck-ramming
Zionism
Touch his kippah and Blue Boy Box nods
JNF’s unique “Blue Boy Box” now lives at King David Linksfield Pre-Primary so that children of each generation learn the importance of tzedakah (charity or welfare). It is the responsibility of Jews all over the world to build Israel, develop it and nurture it as the home of the Jewish nation
Kerry and Netanyahu continue to duke it out
'Who is a Zionist?' - an ever-present question
Invigorated Fed gets noticed on world stage
Roro's anti-BDS toolkit for World Wizo
Lifestyle / Community
Being schooled in a new school system
“Knowledge is Light” was our school motto when I was a child in Durban. The importance of education was made clear to us from as far back as I can remember. It wasn’t taken for granted. A good education was a privilege.
Pretoria girl with 7 distinctions off to Israel
November tourism to Israel up almost 40%
Do something special with Rebbetzen Tap
How Israel is courting tourists from India and China
World
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Ben Kingsley kept photo of Elie Wiesel close while portraying Adolf Eichmann
Ask Ben Kingsley about why he was keen to portray Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann in the new film Operation Finale, and he describes a traumatic childhood incident in which he first learned about the Holocaust.
Jewish News
Ben Helfgott: From concentration camp to knighthood
Among the hundreds of British subjects on the Queens Honours List this June was Ben Helfgott, a holocaust survivor, an Olympic weightlifter, holocaust educator par excellence, and now a knight.
Chassidic lego on offer
17 Jewish centers had bomb threats yesterday
Dershowitz hopes Trump will make him proud
US Senate/Congress weigh in on embassy move
Middle East
The humanitarian cost of throttling funds for refugees
A few years ago, while visiting a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, I asked a 17-year-old boy where he came from. I was taken aback by his reply. Although he’d never set foot out of Lebanon, he told me he came from Haifa. I asked him again, and again he insisted, “my home is in Haifa”. He’d never seen Haifa, nor that home.
Time for Netanyahu to stop fence sitting on the Wall
The danger Corbyn raises for British Jews
Living in anticipation of that deadly siren
The law that devastated Israel’s minorities
Lifestyle / Community
Israeli equestrian pulls out of world championships over Yom Kippur conflict
An Israeli equestrian has withdrawn from next month’s world championships because the competition will take place on Yom Kippur.
FIFA suspends and fines Palestinian soccer boss for threats against Messi
Israeli gymnast bags second gold after breaking world record
Israeli athlete misses a second medal by miscounting the laps
Beitar Jerusalem soccer club sold to Blockchain entrepreneur
Opinion
The Jewish Report Editorial
Take time to reassess and smell the roses
As a community, we punch way above our weight. Our contribution to the economy, the country, and its people is quite phenomenal. This was evident on Sunday night at our Absa Jewish Achiever Awards. I was so very proud of our community. We have every reason to be proud. It is not often that we actually take time to consider the good we do as a community and as individuals.
No more excommunicating people for their beliefs
We have nothing to hide
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OP-EDS
Israelis and SA Jews need to stop and listen…
In recent times, there has been heated debate over the law of nationality. One can argue about the nature and essence of the law, but I do not want to argue about its social implications and the stormy debate about the results.
Objective journalist a lone soldier in anti-Israel media war
Taking the poetic route to seeing our way forward
Netanyahu’s silence helps to hide Lithuanian Jewish genocide
A time of spiritual growth and renewal
Letters/Discussion Forums
We need to talk about our successes, not lay low
I have a burning question. Why do we not stand up and loudly and proudly tell all of South Africa what sort of a role we play in society? We seem to hide. We have many successes, from charity to the business world. They are publicised in this newspaper, and circulated amongst ourselves.
Limmud entitled to shun unacceptable BDS
Championing pro-BDS speakers’ rights reeks of hypocrisy
No comparison between Limmud censorship and BDS
Ponary Forest massacre inexplicable
Latest Stories
Hatzolah’s aim is that it should end well
When you think of Hatzolah, you imagine ambulances, accidents, sick people - you don’t equate it with a fun YouTube game that is going to inspire you not to text and drive at the same time.
Live blog: The #ZumaMustGo protests
Alternative education where wriggle room is the name of the game
Should the Hebron shooter be pardoned?
On this one, maybe Trump is not so far off the mark
Religion
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The connections between the British royals and the Jews
With Prince William’s historic visit to Israel this week, all eyes have been trained on the Jewish capital. It may have taken 70 years, but the first official visit by a member of the British Royal family began in Israel on Monday, when William, the Duke of Cambridge, arrived in Tel Aviv.
News
R. Hazdan keynote speaker at Chabad-Lubavitch event
Some 5 600 emissaries (shluchim) from Chabad-Lubavitch from all over the world gathered at the Pier 8 warehouse in Brooklyn, New York this week for the opening of their four-day annual international conference and banquet, 75 years after the arrival of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, from Europe.
South Dakota to get a permanent rabbi
No trial for Berland who'll serve little time
Mexico fires envoy, but changes its vote
Religious leaders pledge support to Pravin Gordhan
Parshot/Festivals
What is the difference between hearing and listening?
Why is it that music has such a deep effect on us? Sometimes it seems as though music has a direct line to our souls. It affects our mood and our emotions. It can make us laugh or cry. It can make us get up and dance, and it can make us stop and think. It can soothe us, uplift us, and stir us to the depths of our being.
Shofar an almighty alarm clock
New year brings new light, new life
Facing our potential as we face our creator
Making our world Hashem’s home
UOS/Congregations
SA in ‘titanic fight between good and evil’
“The greatness of our nation is that our people are great. We are a nation of heroes, of people with good and decent moral fibre who will not tolerate our country being plundered!” So said Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein in Pretoria this morning.“This is a struggle for accountability and justice,” Goldstein told the crowd (which included prominent Jewish CEOs like Adrian Gore, Stephen Koseff and Michael Katz). “This struggle is about sovereignty. The power of the people always triumphs in the end.”
Chief’s varsity fee input sits well with Blade
Gardens Shul - glorious past, bright future
Cemetery in sad state & no funds for repair
SA rabbis on a solidarity mission to Israel
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What is the difference between hearing and listening?
Sep 06, 2018
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Why is it that music has such a deep effect on us? Sometimes it seems as though music has a direct line to our souls. It affects our mood and our emotions. It can make us laugh or cry. It can make us get up and dance, and it can make us stop and think. It can soothe us, uplift us, and stir us to the depths of our being.
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Shofar an almighty alarm clock
Sep 06, 2018
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There are many lovely explanations for why we blow the shofar on Rosh Hashanah, but one of the most powerful is given by Moses Maimonides. For Maimonides, the shofar is G-d’s alarm clock, waking us up from the “slumber” in which we spend many of our days. What did he mean?
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New year brings new light, new life
Sep 06, 2018
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Hey, does anybody here still make new year’s resolutions? Or are we all over that phase? Maybe you do still make resolutions, and yours goes something like mine?
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Facing our potential as we face our creator
Sep 06, 2018
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People over-estimate themselves.
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Making our world Hashem’s home
Sep 06, 2018
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Rosh Hashanah, the first day of the month of Tishrei, is the day on which we beseech Hashem to grant us our needs for the year to come.
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Slave, rebel and humble infinity
Sep 06, 2018
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“… two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shatter’d visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read … And on the pedestal these words appear: ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains: round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
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The spiritual story behind a South African shofar-maker
Sep 06, 2018
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How did a Rustenburg pharmacist become the manufacturer of shofarim that have found their way to every corner of the globe? For Marinda du Preez, it started with a visit to Israel over the high holy days, from Rosh Hashanah to Sukkot, in 1998.
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Bringing a modern consciousness to ancient prayers
Sep 06, 2018
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In just a few days, many of us will be standing in shul, listening as the chazan intones the familiar yet soul-stirring incantation of the prayer, U’netaneh Tokef.
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Today is the birthday of the world
Sep 06, 2018
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During the blowing of the shofar, we declare Hayom harat olam! (This is the birthday of the world!) Wait, we all know that Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish new year, but here we are celebrating the birthday of the world, nothing less! Let’s try to understand this.
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The case for rationality and belief in G-d
Sep 06, 2018
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What is the nature of Jewish faith? And are we rationally entitled to believe in G-d?
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Satire - A survivor’s guide to Rosh Hashanah
Sep 06, 2018
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By the time you read this, the end will be upon us. The time has finally come. We all knew that the day would arrive, much as many of us opted to feign ignorance or hoped against all odds that it wouldn’t.
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Need for zero tolerance for all forms of abuse in community
Sep 06, 2018
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The South African Jewish community has made strides, but it is still a long way from being a community that is safe from abuse.
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SA Jews have a lot of freedom to celebrate
Sep 06, 2018
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From ancient to modern history, being Jewish has far too frequently become a matter of life and death. Throughout the crusades, pogroms, the Holocaust, and contemporary terrorist attacks, Jews have experienced being shunned, exiled, forced to practise in secret – or, at the very least, encouraged not to stand out.
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Giant apple-cinnamon-sugar Chelsea bun
Sep 06, 2018
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There’s something about a giant bun filled with mounds of cinnamon that makes me feel happy. I just want to eat more and more. And why not? You’ll also want more and more.
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The Arameans are still trying to destroy us!
Aug 30, 2018
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As the Five Books of Moses come to an end, Moses sets the scene for the grand entrance and settling of the Jewish people into the Promised Land: “When you come to the land that The Lord your G-d is giving you as an inheritance, you shall acquire it and settle it.” (Deuteronomy 26:1).
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Successful marriage is a work in progress
Aug 23, 2018
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My dear friends Herby and Sandra Rosenberg celebrated their 58th anniversary last week. I asked them for the basis of the success of their enduring and endearing relationship.
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Here comes the judge
Aug 16, 2018
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Don’t be judgmental. Unless, of course, you happen to be a judge. Then it’s your job. This week’s parsha, Shoftim, lists the Biblical command for judges to be appointed in every city and town to maintain a just, ordered, civil society.
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A shield of armour
Aug 10, 2018
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At first glance, the calendar looks like a good old “regular Shabbos” (none, of course, are), but Parshat Re’ei tells you it’s not. Re’ei signals that the Day of Judgement is a month away!
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Enjoy your wealth, just remember who is ultimately responsible for it
Aug 02, 2018
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Parashat Ekev includes a reminder that we are indebted to G-d for all that we have. We are urged to remember that we owe Him gratitude for all of our wealth and possessions, and thanks.
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Can we comfort Sergeant Levy’s mother?
Jul 26, 2018
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No amount of downed Syrian jets on the northern border of Israel this week are any comfort to the family of Israel Defence Forces (IDF) Sergeant Aviv Levy. He was killed on the southern border last Friday and laid to rest on Am Yisrael’s national day of mourning, Tisha B’Av, on Sunday.
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