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TWO BARBED WIRES
Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day 2025 (Yom HaShoah) commemorated this Thursday, April 24th, the image of the barbed wire of the Shoah is joined by the image of the barbed wire broken through on October 7, 2023 as “Never Again” too easily became “Once Again”
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THE REICHSTAG, WWII AND GAZA
A lesson that the world has forgotten
By Neville Berman
THE REICHSTAG, WWII AND GAZA
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AN UNEXPECTED FIFTH SON
A first encounter at a Passover seder left this Capetonian enriched by the experience.
By Tim Flack
felt nervous as “I had never been to a synagogue before.” When proceedings reached the narrative of the 4 sons, someone
leaned over and said, “You’re the Fifth Son.” Not understanding at that moment what he meant, “I do now.”
AN UNEXPECTED FIFTH SON
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SOUTH AFRICA TRYING TO MAKE IT A CRIME TO VISIT ISRAEL
The true crime would be the fragility of a democracy that fails to allow its people to make up their own mind.
By Kenneth Mokgatlhe wa Kgwadi
SOUTH AFRICA TRYING TO MAKE IT A CRIME TO VISIT ISRAEL
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MAXIMUM PRESSURE NOT ONLY PROTECTS AMERICA – IT EMPOWERS IRANIANS
A plea by a survivor of the Iranian regime to the US to apply maximum pressure.
By Iranian American Marziyeh Amirizadeh
the writer who was once imprisoned in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, where she was tortured
and faced execution, a fate that befell her cell mate and best friend.
MAXIMUM PRESSURE NOT ONLY PROTECTS AMERICA – IT EMPOWERS IRANIANS
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