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Exploring the Legacy of the “Boerejode”
In the late 1940s, one of the pet projects of Rabbi Prof. Louis Rabinowitz, Chief Rabbi of the Federation of Synagogues of South Africa and a keen historian, was to research the then-all-but-unknown subject of Jews who served on the Boer side during the Anglo-Boer War. Rabbi Rabinowitz interviewed and corresponded with veterans, consulted enrolment and prisoner of war (POW) lists, and meticulously trawled through contemporary press reports.
You're Broke Busted Bankrupted & Foreclosed
You're broke, busted, bankrupted and foreclosed. You missed another house payment again, Oh no. Your credit's screwed up real bad Your FICO score's just been had You're broke, busted, bankrupted and foreclosed. You're broke, busted, bankrupted and foreclosed. It was in the Daily News, now everybody knows. Your straight loan just got bent Your Mercedes has a big fat dent You're broke, busted, bankrupted and foreclosed. You lied on the loan app, said you earned A good deal more money than you burned.
DAVID SAKS | Jewish community faces rising threats amid anti-Israel protests
The recent stabbing of two Jewish men in Golders Green, London, has brought to a head a dilemma that the UK, in common with many other Western countries, has been wrestling with for a long time. The attack was the latest act of serious violence against the Jewish community — others in recent weeks have included the targeting of Jewish schools, synagogues and charities through arson and the use of improvised explosive devices — directly inspired by events in the Middle East.
EXTRACT | In touch, in tune and independent: The day ‘Channel’ 702 was launched
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Celebrating the story of 702
The compelling story of the innovative and in-your-face Radio 702 had never been properly told. The saga of how it came into being, the impact it made, and the legendary personalities who were part of it. That deficiency has now been made good by the lively new book The 702 Story – In Touch, In Tune and Independent. Many years in the making, the book was officially launched last week at the headquarters of Primedia in Sandton.
Kevin Bloom dances dangerously close to 'anti-Semitism denialism' in a hostile UCT campus climate
LETTER TO THE EDITOR University of Cape Town, (UCT). (Photo: UCT / Facebook) In this piece, David Saks has, on behalf of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, authored a reply to Kevin Bloom’s article in which the journalist reflects on the narrative that the council of the University of Cape Town had chosen to wilfully sacrifice donor funding on the altar of its so-called Gaza resolutions. Bloom writes that a pro-Israel lobby is attempting to shut down criticism of the Jewish state.
Happy Mother's Day !
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The Return of Medusa
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Antisemitism closes curtain on Jewish life in the West
“Skyrocketing rise”; “Spreading a fire already out of control”; “Like a dam burst”; “Open season on Jews”; “A year of disbelief”. Reports on what Jewish communities the world over have been experiencing since 7 October 2023 are replete with such phrases. There are those that might ask whether the gravity of the situation is perhaps being overstated, but even a superficial acquaintance with the bald statistics will quickly dispel any doubts on that score.
Orlando Pirates name their price for unsettled Monnapule Saleng!
Monnapule Saleng has been largely unsettled at Orlando Pirates this season for reasons undisclosed by him or the club. Saleng has seen his game time drop drastically and there have been questions over his future at Pirates. Saleng has not been involved for Pirates lately Previously a key player, Saleng has not even been at training on more than a few occasions this season. This has led to speculation over his off-field behaviour or a possible fall out with coach Jose Riveiro.
PSL transfer news: Kwayiba, Saile, Matuludi, Lepasa, Appollis
The PSL’s January transfer window has been relatively quiet but could soon snowball into a transfer frenzy. Several stars are expected to be jumping ship. Rumours around the league Kaizer Chiefs are upping their pursuit of midfielder Sinoxolo Kwayiba and are willing to let Christian Saile go the other way. Orlando Pirates forward Zakhele Lepasa could be used in exchange for Polokwane’s Oswin Appollis or Thabang Matuludi.
Cheapest province to RENEW a South African car licence in 2025
New Year, new inflated costs to renew a South African car licence in 2025. But what you’ll realise when working through the numbers yourself, is that costs vary greatly between provinces. So, what we’ve factored in average vehicle weight – or ‘Tarre’ – which determines how much it costs to renew a South African car licence in 2025. RENEW A SOUTH AFRICAN CAR LICENCE IN 2025 Which provinces are ripping us off when it comes time to renew a vehicle licence in South Africa?
Mamelodi Sundowns target another Bafana star in spending spree!
Mamelodi Sundowns are again, looking like the most active club in the January transfer window locally. Sundowns are about to wrap up one signing imminently, but could be making it two or three soon after. Already Sundowns have seen their bid to sign Bafana Bafana midfielder Jayden Adams accepted by Stellenbosch FC. He has already landed in Gauteng where he will undergo his medicals, before finalising his move to the club.
When Jew hatred masquerades as moral outrage: A response to Rob de Mezieres
“God’s ‘chosen people’…my ass!” That Rob de Mezieres chose to conclude his article of 9 December (How to Justify a Genocide: Zionist Israel’s 3 Big Lies) with this bile-ridden little jibe pretty much says it all. When the word “chosen” is brought up in contexts like this, it is a dead giveaway: It means Jewish people, and it can be taken as read that readers of this publication would have known exactly who was being referred to.
Slaves of a Soviet Gulag
It took nearly three days for Mordechai and Yaakov Perlov to hack a double grave out of the frozen ground. The brothers had returned from the logging camp deep in the forests where they had been working as slave laborers only to find their parents, Leib and Malka, lying dead in their bed. Both had died of exhaustion and starvation. Between them, still alive, lay their seven-year-old sister Tova.
Stopped By To Say Hi !
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DAVID SAKS: The insidious new war against Jewish business
The Israel-Hamas conflict has been affecting SA society in many unwelcome ways, and of these the systematic targeting of Jewish-headed business establishments for boycotts and other disruptive action is among the most insidious. While not a new phenomenon in contemporary SA, the virulence of these campaigns together with the extent to which — unlike in previous years — they have gained at least some traction, is unusual.
OPINION | David Saks: SAJFP cannot recreate Judaism to suit political beliefs | News24 Original
Professor Verne Harris from the Nelson Mandela Foundation invoked a false dichotomy when he referred to "one dominant institutional Jewish voice" on the one hand and the "many Jewish voices" beyond that, writes David Saks.
OPINION | David Saks: Setting the record straight on Lamola's remarks about antisemitism
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies has reported a surge in antisemitism in South Africa over the last three months. While our minister of justice may think otherwise, antisemitism does exist, just as it does in any country where Jews are living, writes David Saks. South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a prosperous future. News24 has kept the country informed for 25 years, and we're about to enter a new chapter of fearless journalism.
David Saks | Why Teeger committed no offence in expressing his support for Israel
Picketers gathered outside Cricket South Africain Melrose to support of David Teeger who was stripped off his captaincy. South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a prosperous future. News24 has kept the country informed for 25 years, and we're about to enter a new chapter of fearless journalism. Join our free subscription trial to unlock this story and a world of news aimed to inform, empower, and inspire.
With Hamas neutralised, perhaps there is hope for the future
19 November 2023 - 00:00 For the past six weeks distressing images have come out of Gaza, following Israel’s attempts to eradicate Hamas and take back its hostages. It is important to remember how we got here. On the sabbath of October 7, coinciding with the Jewish festival of Shemini Atzeret, an incursion of major proportions from Gaza into southern Israel took place. The carnage wrought by Hamas was unprecedented. ..
Hatred for Israel drives the pro-Hamas voices
Hatred for Israel drives the pro-Hamas voices What happened on October 7 was the culmination of an ongoing series of cross-border attacks by Hamas since the early 1990s, says David Saks of the SAJBD 29 October 2023 - 00:00 By DAVID SAKS “Hamas has been looking forward to implement Allah’s promise whatever time it might take ...
David Saks | History's judgement awaits the ANC government
Supporters of Israel and supporters of Palestine hold demonstrations at the same time at Times Square in New York, United States on October 08, 2023. Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images When it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian question, the SA government’s approach has diametrically contradicted its own stated policy regarding international disputes, writes David Saks. South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a prosperous future.
True friend: Buthelezi’s 50-year relationship with SA Jewry
Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, who passed away over the weekend at the age of 95, will be remembered for many things. His role, specifically during the traumatic final decade of white minority rule, remains a matter of much debate, and his legacy is inevitably a complex one. For South African Jewry, however, he’ll be remembered as a loyal friend and supporter as well as a valued partner in building a better society, particularly in his native KwaZulu-Natal.
O’Riordan’s attempt to draw linkages between Israeli settler terrorism and SA Jewish community is baffling
As the saying goes, “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing”. Too easily it can lead to people presuming to make authoritative pronouncements on issues they barely understand, and getting things dead wrong. When the issue concerns a particular religious and ethnic community, moreover, making sweeping statements that seriously misrepresent the nature, beliefs and activities of that community is not only presumptuous, but often defamatory and sometimes even dangerous.
BDS’s anti-Israel campaign an abject failure
At the beginning of the present century, a new movement calling itself BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) emerged on the international scene. Its core aim is to delegitimise the state of Israel and push for it to be isolated and boycotted by the international community. A problem those fighting BDS must continually confront is the perception that BDS’s proponents have been able to foster in the public mind.
Backlash against Saltzman has all the features of alt-right antisemitism
Beyond their obviously Jewish surnames, there appears at first glance to be nothing to connect Dis-Chem Chief Executive Ivan Saltzman, Cape Town student activist Jack Markovitz, and satirist Daniel Friedman. On closer examination, however, one finds that there are indeed important points of commonality. The first is that all three have now been the targets of vitriolic smear campaigns portraying them as inveterate haters and enemies of the white race in South Africa.
Lipstadt acclaimed for calling out denialists
Back in 1996, Deborah Lipstadt was a respected but relatively little-known academic and author noted for her work in the field of modern Jewish history and Holocaust studies. This changed dramatically in September that year, when she was thrust into the public eye when David Irving launched a libel case against her and her publisher, Penguin Books.
RIGHT OF REPLY | Van Heerden falses charges the Jewish state with grotesquely inflated crimes
David Saks from the South African Jewish Board of Deputies writes a response to Oscar Van Heerden saying making false comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany is a spiteful form of Jew-baiting, no matter how much it is dressed up as moral indignation over the plight of the Palestinians. The systematic annihilation of three-quarters of European Jewry by the regime of Nazi Germany during World War II can be regarded as history's ultimate expression of antisemitism.
OPINION| Liliesleaf Farm is a vital part of South Africa’s history that needs to be preserved Original
There is surely a hit movie waiting to be made about Liliesleaf Farm, legendary secret headquarters of the anti-apartheid underground in the early 1960s. The story has it all: a daring secret plot to overthrow a totalitarian and racist regime, straightforward heroes pitted against unambiguously nasty villains, the drama of discovery and mass arrests and finally the thrilling escape of at least some of those who were caught up in the net.
G-d wags His finger a lot but still gives us hope
Guided: Ultra-Orthodox men pray at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. Their Almighty tempers strict justice with mercy. Photo: Thomas Coex/AFP Notwithstanding the tendency to associate it with dire future punishments, finger-wagging condemnation and joyless self-denial, religion is at bottom an optimistic phenomenon.
OPINIONISTA: ‘Death and life are in the tongue’ – lessons from the Bongani Masuku hate speech case
After 13 years, a case that first came before the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) and from there progressively worked its way through to the Constitutional Court, finally concluded last week with the handing down of a unanimous judgment in “the matter between the SAHRC on behalf of the SA Jewish Board of Deputies (applicant) and Bongani Masuku (First Respondent) and Congress of South African Trade Unions (Second Respondent)”.
Jewish Affairs - an online, stand-out publication
Way back when I was in primary school, I had a good friend who grew up in a deprived household – at least, he felt deprived because his parents wouldn’t allow him to read comic books. Batman, Superman, Archie, The Beano, Mad Magazine – they were all deemed to be of dubious literary merit and harmful to impressionable young minds.
Hamas has never deviated from its oft-stated goal of eradicating the Israel state
It was déjà vu last Monday when residents of cities throughout southern and central Israel found themselves under yet another deadly missile barrage from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Ever since Israel’s evacuation of Gaza fifteen years ago, Hamas has regularly used the territory as a base from which to launch rocket attacks on Israeli population centres.
OBITUARY: Eric Samson - the mogul who made the Nelson Mandela Children’s hospital a reality
Tributes from around the world have flowed in for the late SA steel mogul and renowned philanthropist Eric Samson, who died at his home in Newport, California on Tuesday at the age of 83 after a long illness.
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.
OPINION | There are lessons to be learned from Mandela's legacy - a response to Suraya Dadoo
David Saks writes a reponse to Suraya Dadoo's column 'The hijacking of Nelson Mandela's legacy by the Zionist lobby'. When Nelson Mandela, shortly after his release, met with and warmly embraced Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat, it sent shock waves through an already jittery Jewish community in South Africa. This, after all, was before the Oslo Peace Process, and officially the PLO was still wedded to its traditional policy of pursuing Israel's violent destruction.
First Blood in the Boer Wars
As early as 1842, long before the wars of 1880 and 1899-1902, British and Afrikaner settlers clashed in South Africa. In October 1899, nearly a century of rivalry in South Africa between the British empire and the white Dutch-speaking settlers known as Afrikaners came to a head with the start of what is now generally referred to as the Second Anglo-Boer War. The First Anglo-Boer War had occurred in 1880-81, when the Transvaal Boers successfully challenged British overlordship.
Global anti-Semitism is on the rise, 75 years after Holocaust
On November 1 2005 the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution establishing January 27 as international holocaust remembrance day. That date was chosen because it was on that day in 1945 that the Red Army liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest and most infamous of the death camps set up by the Nazis during World War 2. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation. While Jews were not the only people singled out for destruction by Nazi Germany, they were the primary targets.
Boycott of Israeli varsities is counter to academic freedom
COMMENT Every so often, certain South Africans of Jewish origin feel the need to announce to the world that they condemn and distance themselves from the State of Israel and its supposedly unjust treatment of the Palestinians. The latest instance of this was an open letter supporting “the Academic Boycott of Israeli Universities Enabling the Occupation” that was sent last week to the senate of the University of Cape Town’s (UCT), which is considering such a resolution.
South Africa: Jesse Duarte's 'Noxious Brand of Anti-Israel Chauvinism' Is Distasteful
opinion By David Saks For Jews throughout the millennia, the connection to the biblical land of Israel has been the bedrock of their religious tradition and the nurturing place of their nation, the land they have loved and yearned for since the dawn of recorded time. In recent times, Israel has emerged as a safe, welcoming haven for Jews fleeing persecution in all parts of the world.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Jesse Duarte’s ‘noxious brand of anti-Israel chauvinism’ is distasteful
Photo of Jessie Duarte by Leila Dougan For Jews throughout the millennia, the connection to the biblical land of Israel has been the bedrock of their religious tradition and the nurturing place of their nation, the land they have loved and yearned for since the dawn of recorded time. In recent times, Israel has emerged as a safe, welcoming haven for Jews fleeing persecution in all parts of the world.
‘Sick with rage’ - Petzer’s video sparks anti-Semitic frenzy
David Saks Deep Fried Man (left). Willem Petzer (right) What began as a smear campaign against a Jewish comedian opened a frightening Pandora’s Box of hatred. Last month, a video purporting to show comedian and Citizen online news editor Daniel Friedman – a.k.a. Deep Fried Man – belittling the horrors of farm murders and their traumatic impact on much of the white population elicited a furious backlash.
OPINION | Jewish community are citizens too
At the biennial conference of the SA Jewish Board of Deputies Gauteng Council next week, Gauteng Jewry will have their first opportunity of engaging directly with President Cyril Ramaphosa since his assumption of the presidency earlier this year.
Those biased against Israel complicit in Hamas propaganda
"This is the first government in history that has deliberately sought to compel its enemy to kill its own people." Thus did Richard Kemp sum up the latest round of deadly confrontations along the Israel-Gaza border.
OPINION: Those biased against Israel complicit in Hamas propaganda
"This is the first government in history that has deliberately sought to compel its enemy to kill its own people." Thus did Richard Kemp sum up the latest round of deadly confrontations along the Israel-Gaza border.
'Mousa Abu Marzouq's article encapsulates the self-defeating culture of denialism'
Anyone wondering why no resolution has been found to the vexed Israeli-Palestinian question, despite countless internationally-driven peace initiatives, need look no further than the article by Hamas politburo member Mousa Abu Marzouq (Mail & Guardian online, November 29). In his relentlessly accusatory, tiresomely tendentious screed, Marzouq ticks off all the standard conspiratorial, post-colonial, ultra-leftist and anti-Western boxes.
A new level of absurdity | IOL
While tensions between Qatar and other states in the region have long been brewing, the move by Saudi Arabia and some six other countries to sever ties with and impose a blockade against Qatar has obviously taken the international community by surprise, and no one at this stage can say for sure what is behind it all. But Iqbal Jassat’s bizarre charge that Israel is behind the Saudi-led boycott of Qatar has taken things to an altogether new level.
Comment: Trump comes to town
WHAT DEAL will President Donald Trump try to push when he gets to Israel later this month?. (photo credit:REUTERS) It’s a visit that probably could have waited a while, as far as the policy planners in the Prime Minister’s Office are concerned.US President Donald Trump touches down in Israel on Monday, and nobody knows what’s going to happen. Sure, every step of the way has been choreographed and coordinated between the Trump team and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office.
Edelstein in Moscow
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein.
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