Claudia Braude
By Claudia Braude
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News South African Jews Struggle With Legacy of Apartheid
Since the fall of apartheid, South African Jewry has struggled mightily with two specters from its past. Its central body, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, worked happily with the apartheid regime, even as that regime violated the civil liberties and human rights of many Jews who were key figures in the anti-apartheid struggle….
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News Did a Private Meeting Prompt Goldstone To Change His Mind?
When Richard Goldstone returned home to South Africa last May for his grandson’s bar mitzvah — an event that he was almost unable to paticipate in because of protests planned against him — he also attended a separate meeting whose details were kept secret until now. In the wake of Goldstone’s bombshell retraction of a…
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News Goldstone’s Gambit: The Man Behind U.N. Report
Ask Richard Goldstone what possessed him, a Jew and self-described supporter of Israel, to accept the job of chief United Nations investigator of alleged war crimes committed in Gaza last winter, and the legendary South African judge invokes his past. His decision in 1980 to accept the racist South African government’s offer of a judicial…
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News South African Jews Look for Support
When Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s new president, appeared before the country’s premier Jewish umbrella group in late August, the audience before him was concerned about the tack his government might be taking not just toward Israel, but also toward South African Jews who support it. Just two weeks before the August 29 meeting, the Palestinian…
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News Helen Suzman: Jew to the World, Not Always at Home
Johannesburg, South Africa — Helen Suzman, who died January 1 at 91, has been praised worldwide for her long career and courage as an opposition politician in South Africa’s apartheid-era parliament. A daughter of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, she was lionized by Jewish organizations in the United States and elsewhere as an exemplar of Jewish principles…
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News As Zimbabwe Votes, a Once-Proud Community Searches for Sustenance
Harare, Zimbabwe — In early March, a South African rabbi traveled to Zimbabwe’s capital city on one of the many trips he has made in recent years to give material and spiritual sustenance to a Jewish community suffering from one of the world’s worst economic crises. The rabbi, Moshe Silberhaft, held a meeting at the…
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