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	South African Jews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The early patterns of Jewish South African history are almost identical with the history of the Jews in the United States but on a much smaller scale, including the period of early discovery and settlement from the late 15th century to the early 19th century.
		Jews fought under the Boers' Vierkleur ("four colored") flag in many of the major battles and engagements and during the guerilla phase of the war, and a dozen are known to have died.
		Johnathon Handler, chairperson of the UCT branch of South African Union of Jewish Students, was one of a group of 15 conscientious objectors to make public their resistance to war in the townships shortly before the End Conscription Campaign was banned.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_African_Jews (2376 words)

	Jewish history - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After 135, Jews were not allowed to enter the city of Jerusalem, although this ban must have been at least partially lifted, since at the destruction of the rebuilt city by the Persians in the 7th century, Jews are said to have lived there.
		Of critical importance to the reshaping of Jewish tradition from the Temple-based religion it was to the traditions of the Diaspora was the development of the interpretations of the Torah found in the Mishnah and Talmud.
		The last ban on Jews (of the English) was revoked in 1654, but periodic expulsions from individual cities still occurred, and Jews were often restricted from land ownership, or forced to live in ghettos.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jewish_history (2839 words)

	The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry - HUJI
		The overwhelming majority of South African Jews claim to be Zionists, in the sense that they consider the State of Israel central to their Jewish experience.
		It is interesting that South Africa instituted apartheid in 1948, the same year in which the State of Israel was established, and the whites in South Africa always tended to compare and even identify their situation with that of Israel.
		South African Jews have preferred not to immigrate to Israel for several reasons: the language barrier, although Hebrew is taught at Jewish day schools; the situation in the Middle East ; and the fact that professionals, such as doctors and lawyers, are forced to pass entrance examinations.
	icj.huji.ac.il /forum_sajews.asp (1863 words)

	The Jewish Journal Of Greater Los Angeles
		South Africa’s main Jewish group is celebrating its 100th anniversary, and concerns about the community’s future — as well as its past — are dominating the organization’s efforts.
		One of the issues causing the concern is the widely held conviction among South African Jews that their government is pro-Palestinian — particularly rankling to a community that has always been strongly pro-Zionist — and that the Jewish community is being sidelined.
		While the South African media is also perceived by the community to be anti-Israel, leading Jewish journalist Jeremy Gordin warned against "shooting the messenger," saying that Israel was not always right.
	www.jewishjournal.com /home/preview.php?id=11087 (775 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Apartheid and South African Jewry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		...That white South Africans should have driven miles out of their way each morning and evening to give lifts in their cars to the boycotters has left an impression on African opinion it will be difficult for even this government to efface...
		...Jews as Jews in South Africa have often in the past made representations to the government on immigration laws and the control over transfer of funds...
		...The South African Jewish community was outraged by the seizure of Jewish property and the internment of Jewish civilians in Egypt...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V24I5P48-1.htm (4867 words)

	Press release - New South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Antisemitism: South African Jews tend to believe that antisemitism is more of a problem elsewhere than it is in their home country.
		South African antisemitism is mostly confined to unpleasant discourse, with 89 per cent of those surveyed reporting having heard derogatory remarks about Jews.
		Overall, South African Jews are Zionist, with 54 per cent feeling a strong attachment and 33 per cent a moderate attachment to Israel.
	www.jpr.org.uk /Press_releases/New_South_Africa.htm (914 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Jews of South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		THOUGH there have been Jews in South Africa almost since the first days of European settlement of the Cape in the middle of the 17th century, the South African Jewish community of today is...
		...South Africa is a country of great physical beauty and almost limitless economic possibilities, but its moral atmosphere is pernicious, and there is no conscious person in the country, not even among supporters of the present government, who looks to the future with any confidence at all...
		...The South African government is desperately anxious to get all the support it can for its Native policies from all whites, and though its goal remains an Afrikaner republic outside the Commonwealth, it has dropped not only its anti-Jewish policies but its threats against the language rights of the English-speaking community as well...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V23I1P45-1.htm (3432 words)

	South Africa's Jews Uncertain Future
		Five years ago, South Africa's first multi-racial elections sparked optimism within the Jewish community about the country's future, and there was even talk that some of the 40,000 Jews who had emigrated in the previous 20 years would return.
		But as South Africans headed to the polls in early June--Mandela was replaced by his top deputy, Thabo Mbeki--it was no longer politics giving rise to feelings of insecurity but violent crime, a serious problem that has only intensified since Mandela's African National Congress (ANC) was elected.
		Because of a large pool of unskilled African workers, domestic servants are a given, and the ubiquity of private swimming pools, meticulously tended gardens, and even an occasional private tennis court attest to a lifestyle that's luxurious by Western middle class standards.
	www.generationj.com /archive/politics/safrica.html (1642 words)

	South African Jews Polarized Over Israel (washingtonpost.com)
		Written by two Jewish heroes of South Africa's liberation struggle against the white government's apartheid system, and signed by 220 Jews, the document asserts that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories is the cause of the escalating violence in the Middle East and denounces Israel's campaign of violence.
		The document has triggered a raging debate among South Africa's 80,000 Jews that many here said is unrivaled in the years since South Africans of all races went to the polls for the first time and abolished apartheid.
		But while many Jews accommodated the apartheid system with silence, many others were instrumental in its downfall, surrendering lives of comfort and privilege to financially support and even join the fl majority's preeminent liberation organization, the African National Congress.
	www.mafhoum.com /press2/saj75.htm (814 words)

	The Jews of Africa -- The Jews of South Africa
		The Jews of Africa -- The Jews of South Africa
		South African Jewry had always demonstrated strong Zionist characteristics, and despite its overt anti-Semitism the South African government was consistent in its support of Israel.
		Some historians suggest that the South Africans, both Jewish and non-Jewish, felt a kinship with Israel, a primarily white nation born on the land of unwilling non-whites.
	www.mindspring.com /~jaypsand/sa2.htm (604 words)

	AmNote -- Jewish Apartheid
		Israeli and South African collaboration in the join testing and development of nuclear weapons and nuclear ballistic missiles is evidence of the strong alliance forged between the Israeli Jews and the South African Jews during their many years of collusion in apartheid and the diamond trade.
		The Blacks of South Africa should have no doubt that as soon as Israel perfects their targeted bioweapons against them, the Jews will use the bioweapons to reclaim the diamonds mines that were lost with the end of apartheid.
		Until then, Jews are using the Aids virus as a bioweapon against the South African Blacks to decimate their population, which explains why South Africa has the largest number of people living with HIV/Aids of any country in the world.
	www.amnotes.net /ap.html (5096 words)

	ENGAGE - FORUM
		While Israel must be accountable for her transgressions, comparing Israel to South Africa and labeling all Zionists as racist is an oversimplification of the truth and is extremely unconstructive — it merely serves as a convenient vehicle for those who are deeply hostile to the idea of Israel.
		It is true that during the apartheid many Jewish South Africans chose to focus mainly on Jewish issues and remained distant from the struggle until relatively late.
		McGreal also criticises the South African Board of Deputies for failing to stand up against the apartheid arguing their neutral position was taken so as not to endanger the Jewish Community.
	www.engageonline.org.uk /blog/article.php?id=240 (828 words)

	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		On the other hand, Jews clearly benefited from the privileges conferred on whites by apartheid and were not eager to undermine their status by actively opposing this profoundly unjust system.
		Similarly, one of the accused in the celebrated 1963-64 Rivonia Trial was a Jew, though the public prosecutor in that case, Percy Yutar, an observant Jew, was the deputy attorney general of Transvaal province.
		The South African media attacked the move as a direct gesture of identification with terrorist attacks on South Africa, while the Jewish Board of Deputies and the Zionist Federation issued a joint statement condemning “support for terrorism.”
	www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=3994 (1277 words)

	Jews in the South African Struggle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		As the fabric of traditional African society was torn asunder by waves of violent colonialism, the missionaries continued to preach the biblical doctrines of the common humanity of all people.
		Nevertheless, it must be said that only a tiny minority of white people in South Africa chose to abandon the privileges of apartheid and cast their lot in with the struggle of the oppressed.
		The disproportionate representation Jews amongst the minority of whites that chose to cast their lot in with the oppressed did not go unnoticed by the racist regime.
	www.jfjfp.org /BackgroundU/anc.htm (2300 words)

	SABCnews.com - south_africa/social
		Mbeki was addressing the centenary conference of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies in Sandton, Johannesburg.
		He said history had given South Africa the Jewish community and it played an integral and inalienable role as part of the country.
		South African Jews belonged here as much as other communities did, Mbeki said, and over the past 100 years had played major roles helping to free the country from apartheid and in the reconstruction and development of the country.
	www.sabcnews.com /south_africa/social/0,2172,65344,00.html (314 words)

	JTA NEWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		South African Jews relax at a Johannesburg cafe on March 11.
		JOHANNESBURG, March 25 (JTA) — For South African Jews, this Passover falls at a time when the symbols of oppression and liberation embedded in the Haggadah resonate particularly strongly with the atmosphere in the country.
		South Africa is celebrating a decade of democracy, with national elections due on April 14, the day after Passover ends.
	www.jta.org /page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=13931&intcategoryid=5 (135 words)

	SASIG - Southern Africa Jewish Genealogy: N.D. Hoffman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Maybe, the South African Jews, have these two men to thank for their comfortable and happy lives in that country.
		While a few Jews of Eastern European origin whose mother tongue was Yiddish arrived in the 1870's in the Cape Colony, it was not until after the Russian pogroms of the early 1880's that Lithuanian Jews began to stream to South Africa, attracted by tales of freedom and prosperity.
		When the Jews of his native Lithuania began to emigrate to South Africa, he too was persuaded by his brother-in-law Barnett Millin to exchange Czarist Russia for a freer life in Capetown.
	www.jewishgen.org /safrica/NDHoffman.htm (2773 words)

	Lemba of South African Jews - San Diego Jewish Journal
		The Lemba of South Africa circumcise their young, follow the Sabbath and don’t eat pork.
		The Lemba of South Africa, who number 50,000, practice a unique religion with many similarities to – and many differences from – Judaism as we know it.
		In the Limpopo region, the northern rural area where most Lemba Jews live, the elders speak of a book of laws that was lost a long time ago.
	www.sdjewishjournal.com /stories/mar04_1.html (1146 words)

	Outline ~ Syllabi
		South African Jews provided more human resources than U.S. Jews to the fledgling Israeli state, especially in military medicine and what became the Israeli Air Force, (via Canada and South Africa).
		We call on South Africans of Jewish descent, and Jews everywhere, to raise their voices and join with all governments and people[,] in support of justice for Palestine and peace and security for all in the Holy Land.
		Their report observes: It becomes difficult, particularly from a South African perspective, not to draw parallels with the oppression experienced by Palestinians under the hand of Israel and the oppression experienced in South Africa under Apartheid rule.
	home.comcast.net /~apartheid101/archive.htm (5078 words)

	My Genetic Cousin, I Presume? - In which a Cohen of the American variety meets his Bantu kinsman. By Jon Cohen
		Despite the dismissiveness of academics and some South African Jews, the Lemba have long claimed that they are fl Jews, a lost tribe who 3,000 years ago sailed across the Arabian Sea from their home in Yemen to the African continent, slowly migrating down to what is now Zimbabwe and South Africa.
		Goldstein says some non-Cohen Jews have taken umbrage at this work, as they (wrongly) inferred that the data say Cohens are genetically superior to other Jews.
		Perhaps he is unaware of a phenomenon called apartheid, in which non-Africans (including Jews) plundered the country for decades--a plundering which is continuing today as a tiny minority gobbles the country's wealth.
	www.slate.com /id/79372 (2085 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Ronnie Kasrils, the South African Minister of Water and Forestry, who is of Jewish origin, said that the views of the Jewish Board of Deputies do not represent those of all South African Jews.
		But the South African Jewish Board of Deputies claimed that in the documentary Israel and Israelis were “dehumanized, de-legitimized and debased” from the beginning of the program.
		A spokesman for the South African based ‘Palestine Support Committee’, Na’eem Jeenah said, “We commend e-tv for persisting in their decision to show the film even after death threats, accusations and abuse.
	www.islamonline.net /english/news/2002-11/17/article49.shtml (961 words)

	Jewish Dominance and Exploitation of the Black Civil Rights Movement
		Yet, "Jews cannot afford to engage in or tolerate political tactics or public rhetoric that seriously threatens to discredit fls," observes Benjamin Ginzburg, "This is one of the major reasons that Jewish racism, often expressed privately, seldom manifests itself publicly.
		If Jews engage in attacks on fls or permit doubts to be raised about the merits of their political claims, then Jews are, in effect, undermining a major moral prop supporting the institutions from which they themselves derive enormous benefits and through which they exercise considerable power." [GINZBURG, p.
		Jews were propelled into the civil rights movement by the belief that Jews and fls shared the same agenda.
	www.jewishtribalreview.org /naacp.htm (5671 words)

	ZA@Play
		The lengthy introduction to this anthology assigns itself the ambitious task of assessing "the construction of memory and racial identity in South African Jewish literary and cultural history", believing that "it is now possible to assess the long-term impact of apartheid on Jewish identity, culture and literature".
		On the one hand, the real fears and threats in relation to South African Jews produce greater sympathy for the attempts on the part of South African Jewry to assimilate hard and fast into apartheid-era whiteness, and on the other hand this assimilation becomes even more morally problematic given the Nazi connection.
		One would imagine that given the close ties many South African Jews have to Israel and the support of the African National Congress for the Palestinian cause, that this would be a matter of contemporary concern.
	www.chico.mweb.co.za /art/2003/2003may/030528-jewish.html (715 words)

	It's Almost Supernatural: Smoking Socks Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		He calls on South African Jews to recognise that ‘Palestinians are indeed the victims of the victims.’ (A phrase he borrowed from the much discredited professor Edward Said).
		Chris McGreal’s comparison of Israel and apartheid South Africa (March 3) raised numerous issues for South African and Israeli Jews, including the role of histories of victimhood in reproducing repressive political ideologies.
		Why are Muslim South African’s not forced to condemn Palestinian suicide bombings or members of the Russian orthodox church in South Africa not called on to denounce the actions of the Russian army in Chechnya?
	supernatural.blogs.com /weblog/2006/03/smoking_socks_a.html (917 words)

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