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Worldwide condemnation after rocket lands on UN school last night. Hamas may have been behind the attack, says Israel
An internal CSO notice regarding a Gaza motorcade on Shabbos has been leaked into the community and resulted in a viral panic with people using social...
In January this year, art patron and theatre personality Carolyn Steyn, unleashed a veritable mountain of goodwill in the form of handmade blankets and squares for...
A record number of 250 nominations for this year’s Absa Jewish Achievers Awards have been received from the community at large. Earlier this week, the Board...
Volunteering for MDA during Operation Protective Edge – Ben Feldman, a 19-year-old South African lad, tells of his experience. And, with another 3 Israeli soldiers reported...
EXCLUSIVE: Rabbi-on-the-run Eliezer Berland is in the headlines again after calling on Bibi to quit. The following day, say his followers, the PM went into Gaza....
Both Jewish members of Parliament submitted reports to SAJR Online today. MP Darren Bergman was not happy about all the Palestinian scarves being worn by ANC...
Our kids are in the middle of their annual summer holidays - what a holiday! All activity cancelled, the beaches empty, the water parks - not...
If one had ask who is the most successful Jewish Olympic athlete. I’m sure most people would think for a moment and then come up with...
Ushered through the space of the relaunched Beyachad Library in Raedene in Johannesburg last Sunday, some 100 dignitaries and members of the public, including businesswoman Reeva...
"Fellow South Africans: On behalf of the government and the ANC, I want to say to you: There are shocking things happening in the Middle East,...
A brief run-down of some of the more interesting items of Jewish news from around the world over the past week. These are compiled by SA...
ORT JET’s innovative and dynamic programme for teenagers interested in entrepreneurship and business, its “Future CEO” programme, was such a success last year that it is...
STANLEY LUNTZ Yet again, hats off to David Saks’ Barbaric Yawp in last week’s Jewish Report. In his last sentence he so puts ANC commentator Jessie...
Children from Torah Academy Nursery School hosted their peers from Uthando, the Afrika Tikkun crèche in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, at a sports day to mark Nelson Mandela...
.A letter was signed by 52 Jews, among them some prominent personalities, who condemn the “completely disproportionate” assault by Israel’s bombing of Gaza; and they have...
I refer to the parsha in last week’s Jewish Report by a Cape Town Progressive rabbi. My criticism is not about the man, but I find...
Prof Adam Habib, vice-rector of the University of the Witwatersrand in last weekend’s Sunday Times last Sunday wrote an article in the Middle East situation.
The teachers from Minnie Bersohn Nursery School in Johannesburg, recently visited Sedibathuto Primary School in Soweto as part of an outreach programme.
ParshatMasei begins with a chronicle of the journeys of the Jewish people from the land of Egypt. The questions presents itself immediately - 42 journeys away...
The Chev was born on September 2, 1888 in a bar in old Johannesburg that belonged to Barnet Weinstein. The organisation will be 126 years old...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
Basil Wunsch (the Mensch on the Bench), the first practising attorney to be appointed as a justice, passed away on June 29 at the age of...
On Monday July 21, a person driving his car outside Waverley Shul in Scott Street, appeared to have a heart attack while he was driving. He...
I believe when people stop to question their own beliefs, they become fanatics. There are strong disagreements between those who are in favour of circumcision and...
As stated by a young Israeli (by the name of Kanani) on BBC, this week, “Israel in its effort to destroy Hammas’ armaments stores and manufacturing...
My compulsive routine is as follows: Twitter, Times of Israel, Jpost, Facebook, Whattsapp, BBC News and then I repeat it all. I do this from the...
It was with much pride and joy that the grade ones of Sandton Sinai Primary received their first siddur for davening on July 2 in a...
The conflict in Gaza has unleashed an unprecedented flood of anti-Semitic sentiment in South Africa, even exceeding the levels reached during Israel’s Operation Cast Lead five...
On Mandela Day, last Friday July 18, the 101.9 ChaiFM team took on an initiative to honour Mandela’s legacy, by creating their own “Pavement Farm Vegetable...
Theatre: Cooking with Elisa by Lucia Laragione, at Auto & General Theatre on the Square, Sandton (011) 883-8606 Until: August 2
Evoking the amusing miniatures for piano composed by early 20th century French composer Erik Satie, William Kentridge’s deliciously self-deprecating film, “Journey to the Moon”, with composition...
The continuing conflict in Gaza and the fall-out we are experiencing in South Africa, has inevitably dominated the events of the past week. Hopes for a...
Sunday, August 3, will see the coming together of SA Jewry with civil society leaders & their communities from across the spectrum, representing millions of South...
30 users had used the “SAJR/MDA Click-athon Campaign” to make an estimated R25 000 in donations by last night, says Mark Hyman, pictured.
What is Israel planning? How are our IDF boys feeling? How are they coping? Are they afraid? – Read a mother’s deepest thoughts…
"How does one describe a day like (Saturday)? News of the loss of 18 soldiers left us all reeling in grief. We know we will pay...
“Magen David Adom is second only to the IDF for the safety of Israelis,” says Professor Yehuda Skornick, who heads MDA’s international relations department. In this...
The SA Absa Jewish Achiever awards is just a few weeks away and this may be the last chance to get a seat at the Gala...
At 17:33 Israel time, Magen David Adom (MDA) - the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross or in Muslim countries the Red Crescent - put out...
