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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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Whatever you’re feeling, there’s a psalm for it
In much the same way that there is an app for everything, there is a psalm for every requirement as well. So says Chabad House Director Rabbi David Masinter.
South Africa witnesses a spike in anti-Semitism
Cosatu’s Refugee Day faux pas brings Jewish history to light
‘Comprehensive’ investigation delays Stan & Pete probe
Once vibrant Rosettenville Shul breathes its last
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
Killarney Mall cares
Generous Killarney Mall shoppers and retail sponsors have managed to collect one-years-worth of stationery for Thembelenkosini Care Givers in Soweto, part of an ongoing initiative to support the centre.
Abby the robotic nurse jet fuelled by ORT
Jill Katz, a regal presence who touched many lives
Eight-year-old soccer star shines in Brazil
Maccabi table tennis has fans on the edge of their seats
Israel
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Israelis watch the rising star of Gantz
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 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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Another fight over Holocaust memory threatens ties between Israel and Poland
(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.
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
How to show that terror doesn’t pay
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.
True relevance of the anniversary of the Islamic revolution
Interesting friends of Israel and Trump
Golan Heights rises from international backburner
Netanyahu fighting to maintain coalition government
Lifestyle / Community
Is Julian Edelman the best Jewish football player ever?
(JTA) After the New England Patriots beat the favoured Kansas City Chiefs to reach their third straight Super Bowl – their amazing ninth in less than 20 years – CBS sports analyst Boomer Esiason made an intriguing statement, namely that Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman belongs in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Israeli gymnasts competing to fly flag in Doha
Israeli gymnasts fly through world competitions
Israeli equestrian pulls out of world championships over Yom Kippur conflict
FIFA suspends and fines Palestinian soccer boss for threats against Messi
Opinion
The Jewish Report Editorial
No place for bullying
I can’t bear bullies! I know I am not alone in having a serious aversion to anyone or any group who tries to make themselves feel better by making others feel bad about themselves. I can’t stand people who push others around just because they are not able – for whatever reason – to stand up to them.
Cutting off your nose to spite your face
To be brave and bold and stand up for what is right
How Jewish is Jewish enough?
Fight hatred with family values and caring
OP-EDS
Why Israel and apartheid can never be the same thing
We have all heard the term before, and either flinched, cringed, or nodded our heads. The words “apartheid Israel” have become a term so often used in the discourse around Israeli-Palestinian conflict that we have somewhat lost our ability to think critically about its use.
Mboweni rings the changes with ‘aloesterity’
When the lights go out, and you can’t look on the bright side
The Israeli elections and the politics of the individual
Growing ties in Africa
Letters/Discussion Forums
Will foot and mouth affect kosher meat prices?
Thank you for your informative and great journalism.
Women must speak out against abuse
Van Heerden plays fast and loose with the facts
Campaign to vilify board has no basis in truth
Nothing ‘above board’ about management of country communities
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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.
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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
Torah stories for grown-ups
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.
Ain’t it a joy to complain?
Make 2019 a year of reconciliation and celebration
Is religion still relevant?
Emerging from darkness – Yitro’s legacy
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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Ikeys minyan – a first for UCT
Jewish students at the University of Cape Town (UCT) recently celebrated a successful semester of their newly established weekly morning minyan.
https://www.sajr.co.za/news-and-articles/2018/05/24/ikeys-minyan-a-first-for-uct
Ikeys minyan – a first for
UCT
, two years, established a thriving Jewish student community primarily on the campuses of
UCT
, the highest population of Jewish students. Ikeys is the name of the
UCT
rugby team. The “Ikey” nickname originated in about 1910 as an anti-Semitic epithet applied to
UCT
students because of the supposed, Samson Foundation which, together with Chabad, opened the Samson Student House near
UCT
in 2016, Rachel Bloch House, home of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research at
UCT
while it’s
UCT Nazi propagandists given amnesty
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has given a blanket amnesty to the “Black Monday” group of students who hung huge swastikas, pictures of Hitler and other Nazi paraphernalia prominently on campus in March. The students said at the time that it was their intention to put their struggle against the Rhodes statue into a form that “Jews could understand.”
https://www.sajr.co.za/news-and-articles/2015/05/20/uct-nazi-propagandists-given-amnesty
UCT
Nazi propagandists given amnesty,
UCT
vice-Chancellor, Dr Max Price, said last week that an "executive decision" had been made to grant amnesty against prosecution to students involved in protest-related incidents between 9 March, , Board lash out on
UCT
Hitler posters by VANESSA VALKIN and ANT KATZ, published on 20 March 2015, SAJR Online reported how a group of
UCT
students, calling themselves “Black Monday” had admitted, that we recognise that there were incidents of unacceptable behaviour that contravened
UCT
rules,” said
UCT fridge is coldest spot in Africa
Some 500 000 light years away from earth is the coldest place in the known universe, the Boomerang Nebula, with a temperature of minus 272,15 degrees Celsius - just one degree above absolute zero.
https://www.sajr.co.za/news-and-articles/2016/03/30/uct-fridge-is-coldest-spot-in-africa-and-possibly-the-world
UCT
fridge is coldest spot in Africa, University. Before joining the Department of Physics at
UCT
, he worked at the National Physical
Jewish students are full and equal participants at UCT
The headline of an article in the March 16 issue (“SAZF concerned for Jewish students’ safety at UCT”) gives the unfortunate impression that the campus has become an unwelcome place for Jewish students. This could not be further from the truth.
https://www.sajr.co.za/opinion/letters-discussion-forums/2018/03/29/jewish-students-are-full-and-equal-participants-at-uct
Jewish students are full and equal participants at
UCT
, occasional morning services on campus. (He is also responsible for the
UCT
Yids sweatshirts, worn, as seders were conducted each year in the Obama White House.)
UCT
students know, too, that
UCT
cares, have a proud place at
UCT
, or, as it is known to its students “Ikeyland”: an anti-Semitic slur of the 1920s that
UCT
students long ago adopted and transformed into a point of pride
BDS group roundly defeated in UCT election
DA Student Organisation (DASO) at UCT, won the SRC election in a landslide victory last week, scooping 10 of the 17 seats. Says DA Youth Leader Yusuf Cassim (pic): “This is an exceptional victory, as every single DASO SRC candidate has been elected to the SRC. I would like to congratulate them, on behalf of the DA and the DA Youth. They have made us extremely proud.” One of the DASO students is Jewish.
https://www.sajr.co.za/news-and-articles/2014/10/14/bds-group-roundly-defeated-in-uct-election
BDS group roundly defeated in
UCT
election, , Khanyisa Baz Pinini, DASO will put
UCT
students first, as it has done in the past.” Cassim said DASO appreciated the faith and trust that
UCT
students had placed in their leadership. He promised to do
SAZF concerned for Jewish students’ safety at UCT
Rowan Polovin, chairperson of the SA Zionist Federation (SAZF) Cape Council, says he fears for the future of Jewish students at the University of Cape Town (UCT). This, in the midst of an aggressive but fairly uneventful Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) at the university.
https://www.sajr.co.za/news-and-articles/2018/03/15/sazf-concerned-for-jewish-students-safety-at-uct
SAZF concerned for Jewish students’ safety at
UCT
, Polovin says Jewish students have received little support from
UCT
’s leadership, despite attacks on their religion and identity, and vandalism targeting them during IAW. “They’ve done little to show how they will protect our students and their rights to freedom of speech and identity.
UCT
, as Jews and Zionists. We are concerned for the future of Jews at
UCT
.” Despite this, Jewish, that
UCT
is not a safe space for minority groups.” In addition, as IAW started on Monday, an Israeli
SAUJS, Board lash out on UCT Hitler posters
Black Monday students tell SAUJS, SRC that swastikas were to put struggle against statue into a form that “Jews could understand.” Intransigent & unapologetic over the images, Black Monday said they planned similar campaigns this week. Jewish students and Cape SAJBD were up in arms & the story is making international headlines. It is unclear why dissenting students who want founder Cecil Rhodes’ statue removed have targeted Jewish students in the process.
https://www.sajr.co.za/news-and-articles/2015/03/20/saujs-board-lash-out-on-uct-hitler-posters
SAUJS, Board lash out on
UCT
Hitler posters, Town (
UCT
) arrived on campus Wednesday to find images of Adolf Hitler and swastikas plastered, met with the
UCT
Students’ Representative Council (SRC) and the Black Monday perpetrators, for the remainder of this week. LEFT:
UCT
is SA’s oldest university, founded in 1829. In 1928, that greeted
UCT
students on Wednesday morning SAJBD’s Cape Council up in arms Chairman, of Nazi imagery.” They also called on the authorities of
UCT
to curtail the use of such imagery
UCT and Wits are tainted by their calls to boycott Israel
Graduates of what were great academic institutions must be saddened and outraged today by the depths to which the universities of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and Cape Town (UCT) have sunk.
https://www.sajr.co.za/opinion/letters-discussion-forums/2018/03/22/uct-and-wits-are-tainted-by-their-calls-to-boycott-israel
UCT
and Wits are tainted by their calls to boycott Israel, . Wits and
UCT
, through various platforms, are unashamedly urging a full academic and cultural boycott, in the region and, by association, the Jewish people. In the 1960s, young activist students at
UCT
and Wits
Call on UCT to break academic ties with Israel
The recent call by UCT to break off relations with Israeli institutions, may be well-intended if the reasons for this proposed break were consistent and applied to other countries whose well-documented (bad) human rights records far surpass those that the university and their Palestinian support accuse Israel of.
https://www.sajr.co.za/opinion/letters-discussion-forums/2017/10/19/call-on-uct-to-break-academic-ties-with-israel
Call on
UCT
to break academic ties with Israel, occupation of Ukraine and of course
UCT
should cut her ties with Turkey for not only occupying parts of Cyprus, but denying Turkey’s 25 million Kurdish citizens an independent state. But
UCT
and her
UCT’s Max Price in a catch-22 situation over boycott
Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Town (UCT), Dr Max Price, is facing a monumental ethical dilemma as his campus campaigns - for the second time in three years - for an academic boycott of Israel. If imposed, this would be one of the first major academic institutions in a democratic country to do so.
https://www.sajr.co.za/news-and-articles/2017/09/07/uct-s-max-price-in-a-catch-22-situation-over-boycott
UCT
’s Max Price in a catch-22 situation over boycott, is a programme of
UCT
’s Palestinian Solidarity Forum (PSF). This pressing issue is shortly to be pronounced upon by
UCT
’s Academic Freedom Committee (AFC) – an organisation which aims to protect and promote free speech on campus - of which Dr Price is a member. A delegation of
UCT
’s South African, bridges towards engagement, not boycott”. SAUJS Cape chairperson, Jordan Seligmann said: “If
UCT
endorsed, : “While there are many in our community who may support BDS and other boycotts,
UCT
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