We, the South African Jewish community, as represented by the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, know who we are and we will speak for ourselves
Some say support for Zionism is growing and equate criticism of Israel as antisemitic, while others say their religion doesn’t mean they support Tel Aviv
Halima Hoosen-Preston was killed in her home apparently after an altercation with a local man whose relatives were killed in Israel
The JCC’s recent ruling against the chief justice is a win for accountability that enforces the principles of judicial authority
We can only conclude that he ‘willingly and knowingly lent his personal credibility — and that of his office — to a white-washing of Israeli crimes’
We have to keep battling, because it all has to do with people in public office who are making important decisions about the nation’s future.
Cosas members allegedly placed a pig’s head in the meat section of a Woolworths store in Cape Town, in protest of their trade relations with Israel.
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies said that the report likening Archbishop Desmond Tutu to Hitler and Stalin is a misuse of Jewish history.
The row at Wits over an alleged racial and ethnic profiling tactic by Zionist organisations to control access to the a jazz concert has intensified.
Two representatives from Palestine and Israel repeatedly heard the region’s conflict called "apartheid". They explain why this idea is inaccurate.
While a great many people around the world are wishing the best for Archbishop Tutu on his 80th birthday, the cleric still has a fair few detractors.
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/ 23 September 2011
President Zuma supports the Palestinian bid to seek a seat at the UN, but not all SA voices who feel they have a stake in the matter favour the move.
The severing of ties between UJ and Ben Gurion University is a blow to academic freedom, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies said on Wednesday.
The dismissal of head of the Market Theatre’s Laboratory following alleged anti-Semitic comments was welcomed by the SA Jewish Board of Deputies.
Amid calls for her arrest, the trip to SA by Israel’s former foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, has been postponed due to a labour strike.
The Hawks on Tuesday deliberated whether there were grounds to issue an arrest warrant for former Israel foreign minister Tzipi Livni, due in SA soon.
The SA Jewish Board of Deputies on Wednesday rejected a call by Archbishop Desmond Tutu for the Cape Town Opera to cancel a planned trip to Israel.
The Black Management Forum on Wednesday added its voice to attacks on the media, accusing newsrooms of double standards.
Judge Richard Goldstone would attend his grandson’s bar mitzvah in Johannesburg next month, the SA Jewish Board of Deputies said on Friday evening.
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/ 4 December 2009
The Human Rights Commission has ruled that statements by a Cosatu official were hate speech, the Jewish Board of Deputies said on Friday.
A solution to the conflict in the Middle East between Israelis and Palestinians is more possible now than ever before, President Jacob Zuma said.
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/ 6 February 2009
Surely a deputy minister should at least be schooled in the most rudimentary aspects of diplomacy?
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/ 5 February 2009
The SA Jewish Board of Deputies is satisfied with Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Fatima Hajaig’s second apology, it said on Thursday.
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/ 3 February 2009
Deputy Foreign Minister Fatima Hajaig on Tuesday apologised for any pain caused by alleged anti-Semitic remarks she made at a rally a few weeks ago.