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Hatzolah heroes on the frontline
It was Hatzolah medical manager and advanced life support (ALS) responder Yudi Singer’s birthday this week. Instead of blowing out birthday candles and spending the day with his wife Jade and their new-born son, Gilad, he was risking his life attending to countless COVID-19-related and other medical emergencies.
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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
ORT Jet helps businesses survive lockdown
ORT Jet’s monthly business induction is helping businesses to survive the lockdown. The induction, now held online, introduces businesses to ORT Jet’s COVID-19 rescue initiative, which offers exceptional resources, mentorship, and world-class tools to help them with the effects of the lockdown on their livelihood. The induction’s expert panel is an uplifting support structure for businesses, start-ups, and entrepreneurs who have nowhere else to turn.
Great Park Lag B’Omer generates warmth in Alex
Donations warm our heart
ORT SA drive to connect the unconnected
Bethlehem honoured for ‘remarkable’ leadership
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
World
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Jewry battens the hatches as Brazilian president gets the virus
(JTA) The bombshell news on Tuesday was ironic for some. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, one of the world leaders who has most staunchly downplayed the potential of the coronavirus pandemic, had contracted the virus.
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
Between a rock and a hard place
As we clamber toward the peak of this pandemic, and everyone in the country and community feels the pain of what the coronavirus can do to a population, the country’s eyes have been averted.
In the eye of the storm
It’s not worth flouting the lockdown laws
Our future is safe with our youth
Make sure our new reality is better than the old
OP-EDS
There’s much to be grateful for
This past week, I’ve heard of people I know fairly well whose companies have gone into liquidation, have had to put their homes up for sale, and in one case, almost died waiting for an ambulance.
‘Hashem helped me – there is no other explanation’
‘The rollercoaster finally stopped’
Israeli television unlikely medium of social reconciliation
Shtetl under attack
Letters/Discussion Forums
Voicing opinion on Israeli politics isn’t worth the vitriol it spawns
Bennie Katzman is correct when he says that the South African Jewish community shouldn’t get involved in Israeli politics. (“Majority of Israelis support sovereignty over occupied territories”, SA Jewish Report, 3 July 3).
Majority of Israelis support sovereignty over occupied territories
Pay attention to our teachers – they’re critical
Kosher consumers short changed
Just settlement only hope for democratic Israel
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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Why a crisis needs a woman in charge
I recently read an article in the Guardian asking, “Are female leaders more successful at managing the coronavirus crisis?” (25 April 2020). The writer looked at the results of countries like New Zealand, Germany, Finland, and Denmark, all governed by female leaders, up against the less exemplary record of some of their male peers – no names named, but I know who you are probably thinking of. Not just in their COVID-19 statistics, but in the way that the messaging has been broadcast – strong and clear, but compassionate, empathetic, and inspirational at the same time, creating a sense of trust in the leadership.
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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
Providence and living consciously
There is a constant interplay between divine providence and freewill in our lives. This is active not passive. It’s not co-incidence or happenstance. It means that there is meaning and purpose to the situations we are placed in, and we can (and should) ask, “Why am I here, and what must I do?” This is a logical response.
Two coronas, poles apart
Visiting the sick good for our spiritual health
Humility is our strongest suit
Heed your calling for greatness
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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A host of Jewish faces at the 2016 Rio Olympics
Jul 20, 2016
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Algeria cancels friendly to stop ‘bullish’ Jewish coach
Jul 06, 2016
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“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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Ali loved Jews & asked Crystal to eulogise
Jun 05, 2016
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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
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Let’s not lose the battle against forgetting
May 04, 2016
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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
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Yshai Oliel may become Israel’s Novak Djokovic
May 04, 2016
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Teenager Yshai Oliel is been groomed to be Israel’s Novak Djokovic, thanks to support from a British businessman.
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