Judicial decisions Richard Goldstone made in South Africa that resulted in sending black South Africans to their deaths under the apartheid regime have nothing to do with his report on the Gaza war, he told Haaretz yesterday.
A delegation of senior South African Jewish communal leaders met with Richard Goldstone.
Tikkun magazine will give its 25th annual ethics award next year to Richard Goldstone, author of the U.N. report on the Gaza war.\n
Richard Goldstone will attend his grandson\’s upcoming bar mitzvah in South Africa, following an agreement with local Jewish groups.
Richard Goldstone said he will not attend his grandson\’s bar mitzvah because of information his family received from the synagogue and a group\’s protest threat.\n
A Jewish group in South Africa still plans to protest if Richard Goldstone attends his grandson\’s bar mitzvah.
The South African Jewish umbrella body and a top U.S. Jewish lawmaker slammed the South African Jews who pressured Richard Goldstone into not attending his grandson\’s bar mitzvah.\n\nFollowing negotiations between the South African Zionist Federation and the Beth Hamedrash Hagadol in Sandton, an affluent suburb of Johannesburg where the event is to take place, an agreement was reached with the family that will keep Goldstone, a judge and the author of the Goldstone report into the 2009 Gaza War, from attending the synagogue service early next month.\n
South African judge Richard Goldstone is being barred from attending his grandson’s bar mitzvah.
A bipartisan slate of U.S. Congress members urged the Obama administration to keep the Goldstone report from advancing to the International Court of Justice.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is objecting to the appearance of Richard Goldstone at New York University.
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