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From 1880 to 1914, the Jewish population in South Africa grew from 4,000 to over 40,000. South African Jews have played an important role in promoting diplomatic and military relations between Israel and South Africa. [6] South Africa's Jewish community peaked in the 1970s with an estimated 120,000 Jews living in the country.
In his address to the 2015 Biennial National Conference of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, South African President Jacob Zuma credited the South African Jewish community's historical role in resisting apartheid. [39] In 2020, the trade unionist, Tony Ehrenreich, apologised to the Board after a long running dispute dating back to ...
[33] [34] In Zimbabwe and South Africa, the people prefer the name Mwenye. [31] They have a tradition of ancient Jewish or South Arabian descent through their male line. [35] Genetic Y-DNA analyses in the 2000s have established a partially Middle-Eastern origin for a portion of the male Lemba population.
There is a one-year “pre-Semicha” program, also, which covers practical areas of Halakha, Jewish Law, additional to the “regular” components of Semicha. [ 3 ] The Yeshiva is an important [ according to whom? ] component of the Pretoria Jewish community - there is daily interaction between students and congregants, and one-on-one torah ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:South African anti-apartheid activists. It includes South African anti-apartheid activists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
The Yeshiva College of South Africa (Yeshivat Beit Yitzchak), commonly known as Yeshiva College - and formerly known as Yeshivat Bnei Akiva - is South Africa’s largest religious Jewish Day School. The school is headed by Mr Rob Long [1] since 2018; the Rosh Yeshiva is Rabbi Nechemya Taylor as of 2021.
Afrikaner-Jews (Afrikaans: Afrikaner-Jode, also called Boerejode) are Jewish Afrikaners. [1] At the beginning of the 19th century, when greater freedom of religious practice was permitted in South Africa, small numbers of Ashkenazi Jews arrived from Britain and Germany. They established the first Ashkenazi Hebrew congregation in 1841. [2]
The Old Synagogue, also known as The Pretoria Hebrew Congregation, is a former Orthodox Jewish congregation, synagogue, and apartheid-era court house on Paul Kruger Street in Pretoria, South Africa. It was consecrated in 1898 and closed as a synagogue in 1952, when the congregation moved to a larger site. [1]