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A host of Jewish faces at the 2016 Rio Olympics

Jul 20, 2016 Go comment!

The Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil begin on Friday, August 5 and unlike the recent European Soccer Championships hosted by France, there will be quite a bit of Jewish interest at this year’s Olympics.
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Wiesel gave Holocaust a face, world a conscience

Jul 06, 2016 3 Comments

Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate who became a leading icon of Holocaust remembrance and a global symbol of conscience, died last Saturday at age 87.
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Don’t make excuses for your old tech

Jul 06, 2016 Go comment!

The next 10 years will see the most rapid advances in the history of technology, but sometimes it will be okay to be left behind, writes ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK.
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Cookie popsicles - just what the doctor ordered

Jul 06, 2016 Go comment!

In thinking about “Jewish” desserts, certain dishes immediately come to mind such as babka, the sweet yeast cake; Rugelach, the pastry of Ashkenazi origin; and Hamantaschen, the filled-pocket cookie or pastry, recognisable for its triangular shape and association with Purim
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Around The Jewish World

Jul 06, 2016 Go comment!
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Algeria cancels friendly to stop ‘bullish’ Jewish coach

Jul 06, 2016 1 Comment

“Cancel the match, we don’t like your coach!” This seems to be the attitude of Algeria who is due to play a friendly soccer match against Ghana in September.
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Brexit splits UK from Europe and Labour from its party leader

Jun 29, 2016 Go comment!

Only a week ago, Jeremy Corbyn seemed to have survived his biggest public relations debacle as the leader of Britain’s Labour Party: the proliferation of anti-Semitic rhetoric among its members.
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Chief Rabbi Mirvis condemns Orlando shooting

Jun 22, 2016 1 Comment

It is the responsibility of faith leaders to act where hate is religiously motivated, was the community response to the terror attack in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando last week, led by South African-born Commonwealth Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis.
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Sesame noodles with chicken and vegetables an all-time favourite

Jun 22, 2016 Go comment!

The thing with cholent is that it’s just so heavy! No matter how it’s made, it always seems to put me straight to sleep. It’s even worse in the summer: the heat in the air combined with the heaviness and hot temperature of the traditional Shabbat dish always have me yearning for something lighter, fresher and - dare I say it - newer.
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Creator of Amadeus and Equus bows out

Jun 22, 2016 Go comment!

One of the greatest postwar playwrights, Sir Peter Levin Shaffer, died on June 6 at the age of 90 while on a trip to Ireland from his Lancashire home. He gave the world masterpieces such as Amadeus and Equus.
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Anti-Semitic Hungarian soccer fans give Hitler salute

Jun 22, 2016 Go comment!

Hungary versus Iceland at Euro 2016 in France. No Jews on the field and probably just a few in the stands. What on earth a section of the Hungarian soccer fans believed they could gain from giving a Nazi salute during the match, is a total mystery.
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Czech Jewry returning to normal post WWII

Jun 15, 2016 Go comment!

The Jewish community in the Czech Republic is small but progressing rapidly, says Zuzana Pavlovska, who heads up the education and culture department of the Jewish Museum in Prague.
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Massacres, gays and religion - SA still a miracle nation

Jun 15, 2016 Go comment!

While Sunday’s massacre of 49 people in a gay nightclub in Florida in the United States - in which the gunman pledged allegiance to Islamic State, although his sincerity is questionable - may seem far away for South Africans, it throws into relief things that are reasonably on track in this country, despite the cacophony of political noise suggesting everything is falling apart.
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Sweet ricotta & strawberry bourekas for Shavuot

Jun 08, 2016 Go comment!

I’m a cheese and dairy fanatic. So for obvious reasons my favourite holiday is Shavuot. This is when spring has sprung and my family makes a whole spread of cheese and dairy-filled foods and desserts.
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Around The Jewish World

Jun 08, 2016 Go comment!
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Ali loved Jews & asked Crystal to eulogise

Jun 05, 2016 3 Comments

Muhammad Ali started off as a boxer. But, by the time he died on June 3 at the age of 74, he had become so much more, to Americans and to the world. He enjoyed close relationships with Jewry, including his trainer, promoter, sports-casters and other celebs. He pre-choreographed his own funeral and will be eulogised by close friend Jewish comedian Billy Crystal - seen here in a 2003 picture together
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Around The Jewish World

May 25, 2016 Go comment!
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Let’s not lose the battle against forgetting

May 04, 2016 Go comment!

The “battle against forgetting” is an ongoing one, and we have a duty not to allow present and future generations to forget the past was the message that came across forcibly at a moving ceremony at the Old Fort building at Constitution Hill in Braamfontein recently.
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Around The Jewish World

May 04, 2016 Go comment!
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Yshai Oliel may become Israel’s Novak Djokovic

May 04, 2016 Go comment!

Teenager Yshai Oliel is been groomed to be Israel’s Novak Djokovic, thanks to support from a British businessman.
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