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In response to Israel's military incursion into Gaza, an anti-Israel demonstration on Friday in Sandton opposite the Israeli Embassy Trade Office accused Israel of genocide and...
On Wednesday kids from Gan Yavne enjoyed some respite from sirens & booms, reports Rolene, “by spending time in Modiin's municipal pool. The city of Modiin...
Read the emotional report by URI SHAHAM, the bureau chief (and himself a paramedic) of MDA's Director General the Paramedic who was touring the area near...
SAJR Online had an exclusive, frank and lengthy interview with ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe (pictured) on Monday evening after the ruling party’s weekly top-six meeting....
Betar is furiously planning and looking forward to an even more successful and much bigger summer camp in December.
Dirco and Ambassador confirm to SAJR Online that the widely reported ‘summons’ to DIRCO this morning was ‘normal business’.
How powerful is language! The beginning of our parsha is taken up with the importance of oaths. The care that we need to take with the...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
Olivia Bernstein, 16 years old and in grade 11 at Herzlia High School in Cape Town, was recently awarded National Protea colours for chess and presented...
I read in the media recently that Jesse Duarte and the South African government condemned Israel’s action (in defending itself) against Hamas in Gaza.
In response to the anti-racism rally in Jerusalem, I would like to ask those peace-seeking youngsters, whether they are aware of the coexistence in Israel (between...
QUESTION: A Jewish man is intending to marry a Hindu woman in a Hindu ceremony. He has always felt very Jewish and wants his Jewish friends...
Last week, shortly after the ANC had released a statement likening Israel’s actions in Gaza to Nazi extermination policies, former South Africans in Israel came together...
While the ANC’s Jessie Duarte condemns “the barbaric attacks on the defenceless Palestinian people of Gaza”, she makes no mention of the barbaric attack on the...
The Fifa World Cup has come and gone for another four years. In so many ways it followed the trend of the last 30 years. The...
Given the deep emotional ties between South African Jewry and Israel, not to mention the fact that so many of us have family and friends living...
Just s few months ago, John Phillips from Montagu in the Western Cape could only gaze longingly at the mountains surrounding his hometown. Confined to a...
Nadine Gordimer, the first South African to win a Nobel Prize for Literature (1991), died in her Johannesburg home on Sunday, July 14, at the age...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies has paid tribute to Nobel Laureate for Literature Nadine Gordimer, who died on Sunday at the age of 90.
It’s that time of year, when Grahamstown, the small town in the Eastern Cape, reverts back from its sparkly arty veneer, into something drab. Sadly, this...
“Do you love me, Alexandra?” is one of the lines in veteran local poet Mongane Wally Serote’s iconic poem about the eponymous township, north of Johannesburg....
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies has lodged a formal complaint with the SA Human Rights Commission regarding a Facebook post justifying the murder of...
The age-old saying that the first casualty in any war is the truth, applies equally today. One victim of the past two weeks in Israel is...
This year’s Jewish Achiever Awards promises to be something completely different. First of all, it is diarised for Sunday August 24, during the afternoon, unlike any...
Ahmed Kathrada Foundation condemns attempt by Chief Rabbi to “personalise this matter by targeting the ANC’s Deputy Secretary General” & his “alleged threats” against Deputy Minister...
Israel-Palestinian topic very much a hot button issue "with a unique local flavour" writes Ambassador Lenk. Read some of the tweets he is getting.
Roro sent the following letter to all SA media. “Wonder if anyone will print...?” she asks. “I humbly apologise to you and your readers and to...
Last week, the State of Israel began an extensive military operation designed to restore order and allow Israeli citizens to go back and live their lives...
SA olah Rolene Marks is bringing political and Zionist leader Ruchama Avraham to give 2 free talks in SA, in Cape Town on July 22 and...
In an exclusive interview with SAJR Online Monday evening, ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe refused to take responsibility for the party’s Western Cape social media communications...
Shabbat day passed with barely a bleep giving us the impression that we were in for a quiet day. This all changed when Hamas issued us...
A recent circumcision in Johannesburg “which resulted in injury to the baby”, has prompted the Chief Rabbi and the rosh Beth Din to establish a commission...
WIZO South Africa mourns the brutal murder of our sons and brothers, Gilad, Naftali and Eyal, our collective heart aches for their families. We pray that...
Photographer Mark Lewis is currently working on a new project that will develop the archives of Jewish Johannesburg. Called the Jewish Digital Archive Project (JDAP), it’s...
“Retract or Debate me!” So says the Chief Rabbi to ANC Dep-Sec General Jessie Duarte after she issued a statement on the atrocities of Nazi Germany...
In her third letter home from Tel Aviv on 12 July, BONITA LYNETTE tells her parents of a conversation she had with the mom of one...
Special needs self-styled “passenger from hell” on ElAl couldn’t match his needs with his budget.
A hoax mail has travelled world Jewry in the past 24hrs claiming Bibi told the Knesset erev Shabbos that he thanked Hamas leaders for uniting Jews...
BONITA LYNETTE, an expat-SA Israeli mom, wrote what has become the top read of the week on SAJR Online – on the emotions she felt as...
One should have expected the innovation nation to offer dual language keyboards & docs that switch from left-to-right & back!
