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A fire burns in Beit Midrash Morasha, also known as Arthur’s Road Shul in Cape Town, South Africa on December 4, 2018 (Screenshot/YouTube)
December 6, 2018, 4:23 am
Fire guts a Cape Town synagogue, burning 7 Torah scrolls
No injuries in the blaze and investigators find no signs of foul play
By JTA
In this 2012 file photo, Lana Marks and her husband, Dr. Neville Marks, are shown at the 2012 Mental Health Association of Palm Beach County, Inc. Bell Society Dinner at The Colony Hotel in Palm Beach, Fla. President Donald Trump has nominated Lana Marks, a South Florida-based luxury fashion and handbag designer, to be the new U.S. ambassador to South Africa. Marks is a native South African who speaks Xhosa and Afrikaans. The White House announced her nomination late Wednesday. (Meghan McCarthy/Palm Beach Post via AP)
November 19, 2018, 1:05 am
Trump nominates handbag designer Lana Marks as envoy to South Africa
Marks grew up in the Jewish community in the South African city of Port Elizabeth; now she lives in Florida, where she is a member of the president’s Mar-a-Lago club
By Agencies
Adi Greenberger, left, and Nadav Freeman at a Shabbat Project event in New York's Times Square last year. (Ido Simantov/Courtesy)
October 25, 2018, 11:21 pm
Over 1 million to ditch phones for Day of Rest, says South Africa’s chief rabbi
Encouraging people to unplug, take a walk, and eat with friends, the Shabbat Project, starting Friday at sundown, says it has participants in 1,400 cities across 98 countries
By Yaakov Schwartz
South African Ambassador to Israel Sisa Ngombane. (Screen capture: YouTube)
September 25, 2018, 3:06 pm
South Africa now says envoy’s return to Israel is not permanent
After reports Sisa Ngombane was reinstated, and a letter ostensibly confirming this, Pretoria says he came to tend to personal matters but will then ‘return to South Africa’
By Raphael Ahren
South African Ambassador to Israel Sisa Ngombane signs the guestbook at the residence of then-president Shimon Peres in Jerusalem, February 28, 2013. (Issac Harari/Flash90)
September 23, 2018, 9:37 am
South Africa quietly returns its ambassador to Israel
Four months after recalling Sisa Ngombane over deaths at the Gaza border, Pretoria presents ‘its compliments’ to the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem
By Raphael Ahren
South African model Shashi Naidoo (r) apologizes for supporting Israel on June 20, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)
July 25, 2018, 5:09 pm
Israel bars entry to South African model on BDS-organized ‘re-education trip’
After receiving death threats for social media posts supporting Israel, Shashi Naidoo retracted her comments and agreed to join anti-Israel program
By TOI staff
Howard Feldman
July 25, 2018, 2:24 pm
Howard Feldman
Me and Erdogan
The Turkish president and I oppose Israel’s new nation-state law — for very different reasons
Sergio Kowensky (left), the head of Likud South Africa who was killed in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Courtesy)
July 8, 2018, 6:49 pm
Slain Likud South Africa head remembered as ‘true Zionist’
Circumstances remain unclear in shooting of Sergio Kowensky, a prominent pro-Israel advocate killed at his office in Johannesburg
By Raoul Wootliff
South African Ambassador to Israel Sisa Ngombane signs the guestbook at the residence of then-president Shimon Peres in Jerusalem, February 28, 2013. (Issac Harari/Flash90)
July 8, 2018, 4:58 pm
South Africa says it won’t reinstate Israel envoy for now
‘We can’t be looking away,’ Pretoria’s PM says, two months after recalling Ambassador Ngombane over Gaza deaths
By Raphael Ahren
Sergio Kowensky (left), the head of Likud South Africa who was killed in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Courtesy)
July 6, 2018, 4:48 pm
Head of Likud South Africa gunned down in Johannesburg
Sergio Kowensky, a prominent Jewish pro-Israel advocate, killed at his office in the crime-ridden city; circumstances surrounding his death are not clear
By JTA
Howard Feldman
July 6, 2018, 4:05 pm
Howard Feldman
I was a draft-dodger
Where the South African army was an instrument of racism, the ultra-Orthodox have nothing to complain about
A German flag with Nazi swastika graffitied on a wall in Johannesburg, South Africa, on June 20, 2018. (South Africa Jewish Board of Deputies)
June 29, 2018, 8:33 pm
South African Jews file police complaint against 3 for ‘gross anti-Semitism’
Community leader says attacks, threats becoming increasingly inflammatory, warns prevalent anti-Israel sentiment is spilling over into racist slurs against Jews
By TOI staff
A German flag with Nazi swastika graffitied on a wall in Johannesburg, South Africa, on June 20, 2018. (South Africa Jewish Board of Deputies)
June 21, 2018, 7:19 pm
‘We’re called scum, rats, pigs’: S. Africa’s Jews protest soaring anti-Semitism
Community head: Anti-Israel sentiment spilling over into ‘hateful slurs’ against Jews: We’re being warned our time is coming, and told Holocaust will be a picnic by comparison
By TOI staff
Howard Feldman
June 21, 2018, 4:11 am
Howard Feldman
The day the Little Mermaid died
A South African model dared suggest Hamas shared blame for Gaza violence — guess what happened next
Students dress in shtetl clothing as part of the Education Outreach program at the South African Jewish Museum. (Courtesy South African Jewish Museum)
June 16, 2018, 10:55 am
Cape Town students swap their duds for shtetl garb in educational time machine
A program at the South African Jewish Museum highlights the similarities between today’s South Africans and Eastern European Jews — and leaders from both communities are loving it
By Martin Rosenberg
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