SA Jewish Report Online has posted almost 50 stories on the unique relationship between SA Jewry & Madiba. We’ve followed community-related events since the tragic news of his passing last week & brought you every significant event in close to real time. And we are just getting started – so we have compiled all the favourite reads under this single umbrella & will constantly update it for you. User response has been literally amazing. Locals and Jews, like everyone else all over the world, are looking to find ways to relate to Nelson Mandela – and www.sajr.co.za is the place to find it. On several days this week the website has had more users from America and Israel than from South Africa. And, given the thousands of hits we’re getting from SA, that tells us you want more of it. So, users, sit back and enjoy, you aint seen nothing yet!

Tomorrow and Thursday we will be bringing you stories on:

• Two wonderful books;
• Why ex-Ambassador Alon Liel says it’s a pity Israel didn’t listen to Madiba;
• Mandela and the Jews by David Saks;
• JR editor Geoff Sifrin’s account of the Memorial Day
• Some hilarious memories of the early years from Howard Sackstein;
• The bar mitzvah lad who invited Madiba & nearly platzed when he arrived; and
• Many, many more Jewish Mandela moments.

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Stories on SAJR Online…

MANDELA THE MENSCH – MAYBE THE HIGHEST HONOUR

CHIEF RABBI’S MEMORIAL PRAYER FOR MADIBA

ISRAEL WORKED HARD TO KEEP MADIBA & CO OFF GALLOWS

PROGRESSIVE JEWRY TO HONOUR MANDELA LEGACY

BEIT EMANUEL SHUL MOURNS PASSING OF MADIBA 

VICTOR GORDON ON BARGHUTI VS. MANDELA

SA JEWRY PAYS TRIBUTE TO MANDELA AT OXFORD

IN EACH OF US RESIDES A SMALL MANDELA

REST IN PEACE, TATA, FROM YOUR MANY JEWISH FRIENDS!

ALL WHO KNEW ‘TATA’ SUFFER HIS ABSENCE – SAUPJ

2-MIL JEWS SHARE SORROW OVER MANDELA – WUPJ

MANDELA’S PASSING: ISRAEL ISSUES STATEMENT

WE’RE ALL MOURNERS WRITES CHIEF RABBI WARREN GOLDSTEIN

CHEV’S CONDOLENCES TO MANDELA FAMILY

MANDELA INSPIRED THE WORLD – BERTIE LUBNER, AFRICA TIKKUN

ZIONIST FED MOURNS DEATH OF MANDELA – AVROM KRENGEL

NELSON MANDELA: ONCE IN A CENTURY – GEOFF SIFRIN

SA JEWRY CONDUCT MEMORIAL SERVICES FOR MANDELA

JEWRY DEEPLY SADDENED BY LOSS OF BELOVED MADIBA

SA ZIONIST FED ISSUES 2ND MANDELA STATEMENT – AVROM KRENGEL

PA EMBASSY’S CONDOLENCES TO FAMILY & COUNTRY – TAMER AL-MASSRI

MBEKI, KLUK, CHIEF TO BE AT OXFORD SHUL TONIGHT

WEB-USERS WORLDWIDE CLAMOUR TO READ SAJR.CO.ZA

MANDELA’S DOCTORATE FROM ISRAELI UNIVERSITY

JEWS SHOULD GET BACK INTO SA POLITICS – GEOFF SIFRIN

60% OF WHITE TREASON TRIALISTS WERE JEWISH

OSSENDRYVER’S CLASSIC MAKES MADIBA MUSEUM ​

Stories previously published on MyShtetl

• 17/07/2013: Happy Birthday Tata Madiba
• 17/07/2013: Who has pics & vids with Madiba?
• 15/07/2013: Get well soon, Madiba, say Our Parents’ Home residents
• 10/07/2013: Challah of love for Tata Madiba
• 03/07/2013: Chief Rabbi’s Prayer for Madiba
• 30/06/2013: “Asimbonanga Mandela”
• 30/06/2013: Mandela family’s message to SA Jews
• 15/07/2012: Bet David does Madiba proud!
• 20/09/2011: Zev: Bibi not a Mandela or De Klerk
• 23/08/2011: Craig Joseph’s Mandela memory
• 27/07/2011: We’re proud of our “rogues’ gallery”!
• 24/07/2011: Madiba’s “first white friend” to be laid to rest this morning
• 22/07/2011: Board’s book on Madiba & SA Jewry
• 19/07/2011: Madiba shares birthday with us
• 10/082011: Jewish Memories of Mandela – By NICHOLAS WOLPE
• 28/06/2011: Zapiro: Jiving with Madiba