The Cape Council of South Africa’s Jewish Board of Deputies celebrated its 100th anniversary. Speaking at the group’s centenary conference over the weekend, the Muslim premier of the Western Cape region, Ebrahim Rasool, congratulated the council for persevering through “many acts of bigotry, including from the community in which I was born.”
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