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COVID-19 deaths in decline, but community still on alert
The Jewish community in Johannesburg has experienced a dramatic drop in COVID-19 deaths since the surge in July. “So far in September, we have only had two COVID-19 deaths in Johannesburg, and we are seeing no excess deaths compared to the past five years,” says Chevrah Kadisha (The Chev) Chief Executive Saul Tomson.
Jewish News
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
Beit Luria celebrates first birthday
Johannesburg’s youngest progressive shul, Beit Luria, celebrated its first birthday with Rabbi Julia Margolis and the congregation via Zoom on Sunday 6 September.
December youth camps on a cliff edge
Emunah girls thrive in trying times
JNF distributes 500 food parcels in Mamelodi
A virtual trip from Jozi to Jerusalem with endorphins
Israel
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Finally … Israel forms a government
After the longest political deadlock in Israeli history – more than 500 days – the country finally has a new government. With 36 ministers and 16 deputy ministers, it’s the most bloated government to date.
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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
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White House ceremony celebrates new era for Israel, UAE, and Bahrain
(JTA) Benjamin Netanyahu has complained for years about Arab leaders telling their people one thing in Arabic, and diplomats saying another to Western audiences in English.
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
Former ISIS members and families – an international headache
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.
Any wonder why Israel doesn’t buy into UN investigations?
Who is sticking their nose into Israeli politics?
How to show that terror doesn’t pay
True relevance of the anniversary of the Islamic revolution
Lifestyle / Community
Israel’s championship dreams reach a cul de sac in Slovenia
Israel’s dream of reaching next year’s European Championship finals all but ended in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana on Monday, when their footballers conceded a third Slovenia goal to lose 3-2 agonisingly late in the game.
Is Julian Edelman the best Jewish football player ever?
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
Opinion
The Jewish Report Editorial
Appreciating every day as a gift
As we head toward Yom Kippur – effectively our annual judgement day – how many of us contemplate what this means for us?
Making real change for 5781
The real meaning of forgiveness
The good guys who keep us together
Still protesting the same old epidemic
OP-EDS
Malka Leifer’s evasion of justice – an indictment of us all
The ugly Malka Leifer saga began 12 years ago, when three sisters, Dassi Erlich, Ellie Sapper, and Nicole Meyer, came forward in 2008 and reported to the Adass Israel school in Melbourne that they had been sexually assaulted by the principal, Malka Leifer, over a period of seven years, from 2003 to 2008 while they were teenagers.
Less boss is more in the new world order
WIZO celebrates achievements and new beginnings
Reflections on returning to shul
Lessons from commodity trading
Letters/Discussion Forums
Leave a legacy of kindness every day
We all want to have an impact on the world. Yet we don’t often realise how we influence those around us. Our moods and emotions ripple out to others with strong effect, and from them, they extend out to more people. Even – or especially – those who are very quiet have an impact. Their silence stands out.
Rabbi Bombach’s approach to education is visionary
Journalist’s bias shows ignorance and indoctrination
Looking for Linkuva Jews
Diplomatic relations with UAE will boost Palestinian economy
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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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Chief Rabbi and Rebbetzin’s lockdown lessons
This year has been like no other, and it was therefore very difficult to write Rosh Hashanah messages like any other year. As Rosh Hashanah 5781 approaches, we (Gina and I) take this opportunity to reflect and share some of our lessons from lockdown with you. It is our hope that as the resilient and magnificent community South African Jewry is, we will all emerge from this stronger, more evolved, and more equipped than ever to approach 5781 with hope and optimism.
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
Love dew, need rain
“May my words fall like rain, may my speech flow like dew.”
Yom Kippur – how it changes us
The blessing in the (salad) dressing
The meaning of life can be found in a sukkah
Rabbis find perfect pitch for Rosh Hashanah
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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Israel baseball team to compete in the Olympics
Sep 26, 2019
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Quick Trivial Pursuit question: “How many Israeli teams have competed in the Olympics?”
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World News in Brief
Sep 26, 2019
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Gandhi Rosh Hashanah greeting found in archives A Rosh Hashanah greeting written by Mahatma Gandhi on the day that the Nazis invaded Poland has been discovered at the National Library of Israel.
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World News in Brief
Sep 19, 2019
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PewDiePie rescinds $50 000 donation to ADL Popular video blogger PewDiePie announced a donation of $50 000 (R736 000) to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), then rescinded it a day later after negative fan feedback.
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World News in Brief
Sep 12, 2019
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Netanyahu removed from rally after rocket fire Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had to be removed from the stage during a campaign speech in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod after rockets were fired from Gaza.
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Israeli athlete uses Cape marathon to qualify for Olympics
Sep 12, 2019
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Israeli athlete Beatie Deutsch is hoping to use this year’s Sanlam Cape Town Marathon on Sunday, 15 September, as a step towards qualifying for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. She is aiming to achieve a world championship time of 2:37.
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Hamas and ISIS hate Israel – and each other
Sep 05, 2019
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(JTA) Explosions earlier this week at two Hamas police checkpoints in Gaza City left three policemen dead. But it wasn’t Israel that planted the explosives, as many might have suspected. Hamas says it was Islamic State suicide bombers.
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Enemies of Iran warming to Israel
Sep 05, 2019
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While the connection of Jews to Israel is frequently in the news, the changing nature of Jewish and Israeli links to Arab countries is a story that has shown up less frequently.
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Move to ban kosher slaughter a pressure cooker for investors
Sep 05, 2019
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(JTA) On 1 September, the picturesque region of Wallonia became the second in Belgium to ban killing animals without stunning them, rendering both kosher and most halaal methods of slaughter illegal.
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World News in Brief
Sep 05, 2019
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Chabad opens first centre in Rwanda Chabad has opened its first centre in Rwanda, which becomes the African nation’s first synagogue served by a permanent rabbi.
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Jews in Hong Kong apathetic about protests
Aug 29, 2019
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(JTA) Since early June, protesters in Hong Kong have been gathering multiple times a week to fight what they see as Chinese attempts to encroach on their freedom. The police have responded violently at times, shooting tear gas and rubber bullets at the crowd.
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Trump ‘disloyalty’ jab a bridge too far for supporters
Aug 29, 2019
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(JTA) Of the many Jews unsettled by United States President Donald Trump’s claim that voting for Democrats would demonstrate “disloyalty” to Israel and to other Jews, Lee Zeldin might be in the toughest spot.
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World News in Brief
Aug 29, 2019
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Israel helps Brazil fight Amazon fires Israel will help Brazil in battling fires raging in the Amazon rain forest.
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Bibi refers to Nazi collaboration in Ukraine
Aug 22, 2019
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(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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Fake Twitter accounts impersonate Jews and promote anti-Semitism
Aug 22, 2019
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(JTA) Fake Twitter accounts impersonating Jews and promoting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories have proliferated following a post on the online messaging forum 4chan.
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Muslim paper awards Jewish author for outstanding writing
Aug 22, 2019
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Philip Feinstein, formerly of Johannesburg now resident in Sydney, Australia, earlier this month received an award from the Australasian Muslim Times (AMUST) for contribution to the paper.
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World News in Brief
Aug 22, 2019
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Hamas threatens escalation of violence Hamas has threatened an escalation in violence on Israel’s southern border unless Israel allows financial aid from Qatar and an increase in electricity supply to Gaza.
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Author David Grossman eulogizes murdered settler teen
Aug 15, 2019
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(JTA) The body of Dvir Sorek, the 19-year-old student who was murdered last Thursday in a West Bank terrorist attack, was found clutching a book by David Grossman, a staunch opponent of Israeli settlements.
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The sordid saga of Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘suicide’
Aug 15, 2019
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American financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide last Saturday has triggered a wave of anti-Jewish conspiracies online.
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What drove philanthropist Leslie Wexner into Epstein’s arms?
Aug 15, 2019
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(JTA) One of the most befuddling questions surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein saga is why Leslie Wexner, a billionaire entrepreneur, entrusted all of his money to Epstein, a secretive financier with no college degree.
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Liberal Hungarian Jews swing far-right
Aug 15, 2019
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(JTA) In 2011, Hungary’s largest Jewish group called on the justice ministry to ban the far-right Jobbik party, describing it as “anti-Semitic” and “fascist”.
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