# achiever (news sources) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover achiever. Page: Feed: --- ## [Choritz defends slurs against Mendelsohn](https://www.sajr.co.za/choritz-defends-slurs-against-mendelsohn/) _2026-08-20 · Tali Feinberg · SA Jewish Report_ Antizionist agitator Megan Choritz argues that she has a right to denigrate Professor Adam Mendelsohn – the director of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies at UCT – because he is “a self-confessed Zionist” who supports the “apartheid settler colony in Israel”. She makes the claim in her defendant’s plea, submitted to the Western Cape High Court on 7 August. And she claims that Mendelsohn… ## [‘Homeless’ Le Clos raises money for fire-struck neighbours](https://www.sajr.co.za/homeless-le-clos-raises-money-for-fire-struck-neighbours/) _2026-08-20 · Lee Tankle · SA Jewish Report_ Just days after making Commonwealth Games history, Chad le Clos returned to a very different kind of reality. His home at the Dorchester in Sea Point had been gutted in a fire. And he’d lost a neighbour he was fond of. The fire tore through the building on High Level Road on 30 July, destroying several top-floor apartments, displacing dozens of residents, and claiming the \[…\] The post ‘Homeless’… ## [Family living in car gets help and Shabbat invitation](https://www.sajr.co.za/family-living-in-car-gets-help-and-shabbat-invitation/) _2026-08-20 · Lee Tankle · SA Jewish Report_ After three years of living in their car in Cape Town, Jolene Erasmus and her Jewish husband and son were given more than just R20 when they crossed paths with Gary Meyers. They were given a lifeline. The family – Erasmus and Itzy Diamond and their son, Hymie Diamond – had survived a farm attack and were facing certain destitution when they met Meyers. \[…\] The post Family living in car gets help… ## [Shofar a wake-up call we need to hear](https://www.sajr.co.za/shofar-a-wake-up-call-we-need-to-hear/) _2026-08-20 · Gilana Lab · SA Jewish Report_ As Rosh Hashanah approaches, the sharp daily blast of the shofar punctuates the month of Elul, serving as a spiritual wake-up call to prompt self-reflection. For Rabbi Motti Hadar of the Pine Street Shul, this preparation links biblical history with personal growth. “Historically, it recalls the shofar that sounded when Moshe ascended Mount Sinai,” he says. “The shofar \[…\] The post Shofar a… ## [Wolf’s legacy reaches far beyond the classroom](https://www.sajr.co.za/wolfs-legacy-reaches-far-beyond-the-classroom/) _2026-08-20 · Lee Tankle · SA Jewish Report_ The name Jeffrey Wolf will always be synonymous with King David Victory Park. Now, with the loss of this educational icon on 17 August, his legacy lives on in his family, former colleagues, and all the pupils whose lives he touched. “Some teachers teach you a subject. A very few leave something of themselves in who you become. Mr Wolf was \[…\] The post Wolf’s legacy reaches far beyond the classroom… ## [Fissures among Haredim – a challenge for Netanyahu](https://www.sajr.co.za/fissures-among-haredim-a-challenge-for-netanyahu/) _2026-08-20 · Paula Slier · SA Jewish Report_ For years, Israel’s argument over ultra-Orthodox military service has told a fairly simple story. On one side are Israelis who serve, whose children serve, and whose husbands and wives spend months doing reserve duty. On the other are Haredi men who largely do not. Since 7 October, that divide has become increasingly difficult to ignore. Israelis have watched reservists return again and again to… ## [Government legally obliged to help return Perez’s body](https://www.sajr.co.za/government-legally-obliged-to-help-return-perezs-body/) _2026-08-20 · Rabbi David Benjamin · SA Jewish Report_ No one should have any moral or legal difficulty with President Cyril Ramaphosa’s intervention to secure the return of Captain Daniel Perez’s body. The president has done the right thing and should be unreservedly commended for it. There are humanitarian considerations that transcend conflicts. In Jewish tradition, the Teruah shofar blast is said to signify the sobbing of Sisera’s mother – Sisera… ## [What leading Jewish community of KZN taught me](https://www.sajr.co.za/what-leading-jewish-community-of-kzn-taught-me/) _2026-08-20 · Alana Baranov · SA Jewish Report_ “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And when I am for myself alone, what am I? And if not now, then when?” Hillel’s words in Pirkei Avot have sat with me throughout my term as president of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) KwaZulu-Natal Council, not as a slogan, but as an instruction. A community \[…\] The post What leading Jewish community of KZN taught me appeared first… ## [The Muslim sisters who found out they are Jewish](https://www.sajr.co.za/the-muslim-sisters-who-found-out-they-are-jewish/) _2026-08-20 · Claudia Gross · SA Jewish Report_ For most of their lives, Batyah\* and Gila\* understood themselves to be Muslim. Yet, woven through generations of their family was a Jewish identity they did not fully understand. The two sisters shared their story at Limmud Cape Town on Saturday in a session titled “Becoming Ourselves: Two Sisters and their Jewish Journey Home”. The talk drew such a large crowd \[…\] The post The Muslim sisters who… ## [Trade Bitcoin & Ethereum (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/007LzBOnABiq) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Buy, sell and margin trade BTC & ETH with fiat currencies ## [Israel needs military tactics in narrative war](https://www.sajr.co.za/israel-needs-military-tactics-in-narrative-war/) _2026-08-20 · Claudia Gross · SA Jewish Report_ For Israel, the battle is no longer only a military one. Dan Feferman told Limmud Cape Town that the information space is as strategic a battlefield, capable of shaping public opinion, political decisions, and physical violence. Feferman, an Israel-based media entrepreneur focusing on the Middle East and an expert on military, intelligence, and diplomatic affairs, said the problem is bigger than…