No Protests as Goldstone Attends Grandson’s Bar Mitzvah
Richard Goldstone attended his grandson’s bar mitzvah without protests.
Members of the congregation stood at the road leading to the Beth Hamedrash Hagadol Shul in Sandton, South Africa, to make sure that only family and their guests entered for Saturday’s service, the South Africa Times reported.
Goldstone, the author of a United Nations report on the 2009 Gaza war that many deemed unfair to Israel, originally had planned to skip the bar mitzvah after the South African Zionist Federation threatened to protest the former South African judge outside the synagogue.
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies brokered a deal last month between Goldstone and community organizations angry with him over his report in which the Jewish groups agreed not to protest during the bar mitzvah celebrations and Goldstone agreed to meet with the leadership of South African Jewish communal organizations.
It’s our birthday and we’re still celebrating!
We hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, we’d like to ask you to please support the Forward’s independent Jewish news.
This week we celebrate 129 years of the Forward. We’re proud of our origins as a Yiddish print publication serving Jewish immigrants. And we’re just as proud of what we’ve become today: A trusted source of Jewish news and opinion, available digitally to anyone in the world without paywalls or subscriptions.
We’ve helped five generations of American Jews make sense of the news and the world around them — and we aren’t slowing down any time soon.
As a nonprofit newsroom, reader donations make it possible for us to do this work. Support independent, agenda-free Jewish journalism and our board will match your gift in honor of our birthday!
Support our mission to tell the Jewish story fully and fairly.
