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Only in America… this ad for a "Pet Laundrette" claims it can meet all a pet-owner's "Bark Mitzvah Needs"!
DIRCO replaced their ambassador to Israel last Dec with the most savvy & experienced candidate available, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary* Sisa Ngombane.
WIZO held competition for kids to design labels on tzedakah boxes. Entries flooded in & 3 girls, one each from Durban, Joburg and Cape Town scooped...
Many careers can be summarised in a single phrase, writes MICHAEL BELLING, but SKA leader Dr Bernie Fanaroff's requires a long list – ensuring the project...
MICHAEL SEIFF writes that when he walks around Sandringham Gardens & Our Parents Home he is delighted to see so many happy and contented residents.
The kids at Chabad Fourways Montessori pre-school learned about Noah and the Ark in a tangible way - and they even 'built' their own ark, filling...
F W de Klerk tells Cape Board conference that minorities present themselves as nation-builders and not just as looking inward and asking for protection writes MOIRA...
It has always been hard to come by good statistics on South African Jewry, writes ANT KATZ, and it’s about to get much harder he says....
Conference theme was “Safe Spaces” - on SAJBD acting as truly representative forum allowing for broad a range of views to be expressed. This aim was...
Many halachic pitfalls need to be considered in creating an eruv - but the UOS and Beth Din have ensured that Joburg's are secure and keep...
The Shabbos Project encourages Jews, regardless of degree of religiosity, to learn about Shabbos, observe it during this coming weekend, and embrace it in their individual...
Newly-appointed Cape Town raised UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis says he will attend Limmud there in December. For the mean time it’s still ‘no go’ in...
"I would like to extend sincerest condolences to the family of Rav Ovadia Yosef zt”l on his passing“ said Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein on behalf of...
New study of maternal lineage shows 40% of all Ashkenazi Jews can trace their genetic line back to just four “founding” mothers - all of them...
Rabbi Yossy Goldman “Abraham’s great trek would be the fulfilment of his calling as the father of monotheism” writes Rabbi Yossy Goldman of Sydenham Shul in...
Massive new (and maybe biggest ever) study by respected US pollsters Pew shows that 22% self-identify as having no religion and 60% who have married since...
Rabbi Bryan Opert of the Milnerton Hebrew Congregation writes on Parshat Noach - Knowing Hashem creating experiences
Since 1994 SA has worked hard to dissolve the institutions of race and heal wounds between communities. We have made huge strides but there is still...
Letter from Ran Greenstein, University of the Witwatersrand responding to what he calls the SAZF's Ben Levitas’ ‘fantastic claims’ regarding Israel circa 1967, don’t tally with...
Sports editor JACK MILNER explains why Americans will never come to terms with Test cricket in his: Rocking the Boat - Dissecting all-rounders ‘in that funny...
The South Africa-Israel Chamber of Commerce and Chabad House join Jack Halfon in providing a library for an impoverished informal community near Lanseria Airport.
ANT KATZ postulates on a thought he had: “The State of Israel, in 1967, was the first party ever to grant the people who self-identify as...
What has Syria got to do with us? The dreadful brutality comes immediately into our homes via computer screens and cellphones, writes SAJR editor GEOFF SIFRIN
Mark & Brett Levy faciliate card payment facilities at 22,000 small businesses, traders and spaza shops in rural areas for the first time in South African...
David Saks to write an introductory blog titled… “About David Saks and Barbaric Yawp"
What's wrong with a Zionist lobby anyway? It's the Arab lobby that exerts negative influence and use underhand tactics due to the weakness of their case...
Ant Katz' exclusive story appeared in the SAJR on 16 Sept 2013. Rhodes was set to decid how to proceed after SA Jewry declined to participate...
ABOVE BOARD - SA Jewish Board of Deputies chair MARY KLUK's weekly paid-for column appeared in the SA Jewish Report on 16 September 2013
Wherever there is a WIZO branch in SA, members & friends will be celebrating Shabbat together as a community or at home. The weekly parsha is...
Kosher consumers take care. “This is not a kosher fish,” warns the Beth Din’s kashrut alert about wrongly labelled Woolies product. “Corrective action has been taken.”
The Yiddish Folk Choral rocked the stage and audience alike at the Soul Simchah concert again organised by Joburg Jewish outreach organisation Soul Workout
Shabbas Times around Soth Africa from the Union of Orthodox Synagogues for 4 and 5 October 2013
“Maybe it’s because the accordion is so physical, you really carry it with your whole body,” Renée Bekkers tells Arts Editor Robyn Sassen in e-mail interview...
Moira Schneider in CAPE TOWN reports on an 11-yr-old's laudable project to make a difference to the lives of underprivileged schoolchildren
Letter from Joel Wolpert, Atholl, Johannesburg
Letter from Lionel Thwaits, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth
Letter submitted by Yossi Bogacz, Johannesburg
Rav Moshe Taub, breathes new life into forgotten souls, one handshake at a time. He'ill be in a variety of shuls in Joburg 7 to 12...
Selwyn Segal residents serve delicious beef or chicken burgers and drinks to 300 guests in firt of its kind event. It won't be the last.
Steve Apfel says Tom Holland the historian reckons we’re witnessing the total extinction of Christendom in the M-East & Christian leaders' attitudes & actions in the...
