Article: Soaring crime rate fails to bring South African Jews here

ARYEH DEAN COHEN
Jerusalem Post
12-09-1998
David Slauter became a South African crime statistic Sunday night. The 19-year-old Betar youth counselor was shot and wounded after walking into a robbery at a restaurant in Johannesburg's Ilovo suburb moments after he and other youth leaders completed a meeting there.

Doctors are hoping Slauter will not suffer any permanent damage, but there are increasing signs that the South African Jewish community may be running out of luck. Some say another sign of this is the recent sale of the building that once housed Johannesburg's historic Wolmerans Street Synagogue, now slated to become a mall.

The seven-story former headquarters of ...

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