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Lithuania: My journey of return

Jul 20, 2016 1 Comment

As a Cape Town-born Jew, my life has come full circle. Although I was born after his death, my zaida, Rabbi Shimon Ze’ev Aysenberg had an indelible influence on my life. My father, Isaac Eisenberg, born in a stable in Mogilov, Belarus in 1922, a medical doctor and writer, spent his life interpreting his childhood memories.
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Mirvis pioneers a new way of looking at Jewish education

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Social entrepreneurship has become a buzzword for the attempt to draw on private sector approaches to solve public sector social, cultural, or environmental problems.
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Brisket married to baked beans – union made in heaven

Jul 20, 2016 Go comment!

If a sweet pulled brisket married a can of baked beans, this dish would be their delicious baby. Try it and be sure there will be many repeat performances.
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A host of Jewish faces at the 2016 Rio Olympics

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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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Israel & Africa 'neighbours and partners' - Lenk

Jul 18, 2016 1 Comment

“During the visit we signed a series of agreements with Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Ethiopia,” said Netanyahu of his"'African Adventure" and no less important, he said, was the success of the business delegation which had opened doors and advanced their economic interests, as well as those of the State of Israel. Read what Ambassador Lenk says of the new Israel/Africa partnerships that are being forged and watch Netanyahu's address to the Ethiopian Parliament.
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Many Christians will do anything for Israel

Jul 18, 2016 3 Comments

SAFI and the Zionist Federation will host highly sought-after speaker, Jan Willem van der Hoeven next week, See the video to get an insight into why he has had the ears of Israeli prime ministers for 40 years and why, he says, so many Christians will do anything for Israel. Inspirational speaker Van der Hoeven is the director of the International Christian Zionist Centre (ICZC) in Jerusalem.
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Nice terror trucker kills 2 Jews, injured at least 6

Jul 17, 2016 1 Comment

Jews hit in the Nice terror attack included a US father-and-son who were killed, two elderly French sisters who are still critically injured and at least five members of Chabad House in the city of 25 000 Jews. For the third year in a row French Jews making aliyah is sky-high and thousands more have made inquiries since the horrific attack. France has the second-highest Diaspora Jewish population in the world. Read the chilling accounts. Pictured are Texans Sean Copeland, 51, and his son Brodie, 11, who perished.
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Rivlin sends note to Hollande after attack

Jul 15, 2016 1 Comment

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin this morning (Friday) sent a letter of condolence to President Francois Hollande of France following the mass casualty terrorist attack in Nice on Thursday night. "It is with pain and sorrow that I must once again write and express my deepest condolences, and those of all the Israeli people, following the horrific terror attack in Nice,” wrote Rivlin
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Hawks thwart plan to attack Jewish institutions

Jul 14, 2016 1 Comment

Twin brothers Brandon-Lee and Tony-Lee Thulsie, 23, were arrested last Saturday at their Newclare home in Johannesburg for planning to blow up a US diplomatic mission and Jewish institutions in South Africa. The police’s Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) is aware of the institutions involved but would not give further details at this stage.
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Turkey, Egypt, eastern Africa: Netanyahu pulls off trifecta

Jul 13, 2016 Go comment!

The conventional wisdom has it that earning the sobriquet “the most right-wing government in Israeli history” does not lead to diplomatic successes. In recent weeks, on the Turkish, Egyptian and African fronts, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is proving the conventional wisdom wrong.
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After Elie Wiesel, can anyone unite American Jews?

Jul 13, 2016 Go comment!

Being an American Jew, more than anything else, means remembering the Holocaust.
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Netanyahu upbeat after 4-nation African tour

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's four-nation Africa visit last week was the first to sub-Saharan Africa by a sitting Israeli prime minister in nearly three decades. Netanyahu visited Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda while pursuing closer security, trade and other ties with African nations, which cut or limited their relationships with Israel in the 1970s under pressure from Arab countries.
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Entebbe still imprinted on Israel’s psyche

Jul 06, 2016 2 Comments

Israeli PM Netanyahu, pictured, started his 3-day, 4-state Africa visit at Entebbe where his brother died exactly 40 years ago. Don't miss the gaffe-filled & embarrassing speech by Pres. Moseveni which Israeli radio cut short
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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

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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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Nicholas Winton, the ‘British Schindler’, dies at age 106

Jul 06, 2016 1 Comment

LONDON - Sir Nicholas Winton, the man who famously organised the Kindertransport that rescued 669 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, has died.
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