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'Trauma still felt': North African Jews and the Holocaust

The Holocaust is widely remembered as a tragedy that devastated Europe's Jewish communities. But its impact extended far beyond the continent's borders. Nazis persecution and antisemitic policies had ...
Yahoo

South Africa’s Lemba people: how they view their Jewishness challenges Zionist ideas that identity is linked to one homeland

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man wearing a yarmulke stands on the edge of a hill, quietly taking in the landscape below as he considers his ancestors and ...
The Forward

South African Jews Drop Ban on Women Singing at Holocaust Ceremony

— Women will no longer be banned from singing at the annual Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony in Cape Town, South Africa. The South African Center for Religious Equality and Diversity, or SACRED, agreed ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

North African Jews in Israel Ask for Action on Moroccan Ban

A deputation of settlers from North Africa called on Dr. Giora Josephthal, Jewish Agency treasurer and head of its absorption department, today to demand that all possible action be taken to obtain ...
The Forward

Jewish teens in South Africa, where crime and Israel criticism are sky-high, see little future at home

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. (JTA) — When she was in ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs

South African activists armed with wanted posters demand local Jews be arrested or deported

Many of the individuals, who were contacted by the Report, deny having committed any crime and some claimed they had never lived nor worked in Israel. A Johannesburg remedial educator told the Report ...
The American Spectator

The Antisemitism of South Africa Should Not Surprise

To be born a Jew is to be born with a target on your back. You go to the same movies others do. Enjoy similar foods, although — if you play by the rules — you restrict yourself to kosher ingredients ...
PoliticswebOpinion

Are we really here again?

We have again seen evil coming step by step – the most lethal pogrom since the Holocaust happened on 7 October 2023, ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs

South African politician calls for Cape Town Jewish school to be shut down

Member of the Provincial Legislature Aishah Cassiem made the controversial statement about Herzlia High, a Cape Town Jewish school, on June 15 in the Western Cape Provincial Parliament. A South ...
insider.si.edu

The Black Jews of Africa : history, religion, identity / Edith Bruder

The lost tribes of Israel -- Jewish accounts and Christian traditions -- The mythography of Africa -- The legend of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba -- Blacks and Jews, the archetypal "others" -- ...
Jewish Journal

The Jewish Myth-Making African Adventurer

When Jewish comic book creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created the Black Panther character for Marvel, neither probably knew that they owed a debt of gratitude to a long-dead coreligionist. But as a ...