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“Come on Mr. Editor, print the rest of my comment," asks Choni Davidowitz. "No Way," says the online editor. See why, and have your say too.
Three exceptional long-service awards were a highlight at the 121st annual general meeting of the Johannesburg Jewish Women’s Benevolent Society (JWBS) at Golden Acres, last week.
It’s the smallest programme in over 20 years, but this year’s Dance Umbrella, from Sunday, packs a hefty punch, not only in important and focus-shifting productions,...
“Living in apartheid South Africa was easy in moral terms - good versus evil,” says Benjamin Pogrund, former deputy editor of the leading anti-apartheid newspaper, the...
Mentalist Gilan Gork amazed the audience at the Jewish Achiever event on Sunday, by locking some predictions in a sealed box at the beginning of proceedings,...
Users post so many comments on this website every day – sometimes a lot about a few stories, and at other times one or two comments...
The Greenside Shul is holding SA’s first Gourmet Kosher Food Festival from Thursday to Sunday. The stalls are sold out and the event has everything for...
Superman is as American as apple pie, in that both have their origins in the M-East. Superman Is Jewish
Ben Levitas, pictured, has a full go at US Defence Secretary, Chuck Hagel, who, says the SAZF national vice-chair, seems to have been given a wake-up...
Jewish talent spans across the generations – from the achievements of a 17-year-old to an 80-year-old. This is what emerged at the SA Jewish Achievers 2014...
The Field Band Foundation, made for a special opening to an already special 2014 Absa Jewish Achievers event. The Foundation is an innovative & successful youth...
This year 3 Jewish Wits SRC candidates are again in the running next week. The candidates are hoping that both Jewish and non-Jewish students who are...
UOS Executive Director Darren Sevitz says: “There is no shortage of meat. There is an abundance of sensationalist journalism designed to create panic for no good...
A wave of vitriolic sentiment has been directed against Israel in recent weeks throughout the entire world.
The King David Big Walk which took place in Johannesburg last Sunday, was a resounding success.
A lot has been said in recent weeks about Operation Protective Edge. That the debate has aroused passion is good. That as a community the vast...
I hesitantly write as a principal of a school reluctant to perpetuate the Josh Broomberg debate. However, I do want to express my concern and disgust....
With all the brouhaha over the "500"signatories, it seems to me that we are overlooking some small but salient points, one of them being the keffiyehs...
This week’s Torah reading begins with the commandment to appoint judges in all communities. This points to one of the fundamental thrusts of Judaism, namely that...
The Johannesburg Sephardi Hebrew Congregation (JSHC) in partnership with the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) held an event to mark the 70th Commemoration of the...
It took one unintended trip to a gymnastics class - and a new door was opened for young Livya Eliana Firer.
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
This year marks the ninth anniversary since the passing of Chief Rabbi Cyril Harris zt’l on the ninth of Elul in Hermanus in September 2005 on...
King David High school Linksfield was in full support of the ALS challenge. ALS stands for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Former rugby great Joost van der Westhuizen,...
Members of the Jewish and Japanese communities, diplomats, business leaders and Holocaust survivors, packed into the Abe Abrahamson Auditorium at Beyachad last Wednesday to remember Chiune...
This past week has been a very uplifting one for our community. A number of highly successful and well-supported communal events have taken place in Johannesburg,...
I refer to Dr Dean Lutrin’s article, “The holiness of the BDS movement”, in last week’s Jewish Report.
When you invite an eminent person to be honoured for excellence at a high-profile function like the Absa Jewish Achiever awards, and ask him to say...
Download your PDF copy of the complete glossy 76-page 2014 Absa Jewish Achiever magazine in either low-res (8-meg) or hi-res (20-meg) to see all the nominees...
PDF: WINNER Meyer Kahn PDF: WINNER Prof Jonathan Jansen PDF: WINNER Rabbi Dovid Hazdan PDF: WINNER Prof Valerie Mizrahi YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR FINALISTS YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR WINNER PDF: ABSA ENTREPRENEUR FINALISTS PDF: ENTREPRENEUR...
Last post at at 10,23pm - LISTED WINNER Braudo speaks. This live blog will begin on Sunday 24 Aug - follow the 2014 sixteenth annual Absa...
It is almost upon us - Sunday's annual social highlight of the SA Jewish calendar, the Gala Awards Banquet of the Absa Jewish Achiever, brought to...
“What is going on now is the most brutal demonstration of man’s inhumanity to man and is criminal for the world to keep silent in the...
Last week Thursday, the Cevrah Kadisha’s Helping Hands, in partnership with Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIB) in Johannesburg, hosted another exclusive talk in the Jewish...
I was annoyed reading about Joshua Broomberg of King David Victory Park’s opinion on the Gaza issue. Just because he is a learner at KDVP, it...
A serious crisis is looming for observant Johannesburg Jews, as the supply of kosher meat dwindles way below the demand, due to factors difficult to control....
Jewish Report readers have so far collected around R80 000 for Israel’s emergency first-response service in the SAJR/MDA Click-Athon. And, over the past week, readers have...
Most South African Jews who read last Sunday’s biggest mass-circulation paper - which reaches hundreds of thousands of people and has an illustrious history as a...
Remember Johannesburg's Great Challah Bake” last year? Well this time around they are looking to make it bigger – so much bigger, in fact, that they...
Past tense - future perfect? This was the theme of the 30th National Triennial Conference of the Union of Jewish Women, held at the Killarney Country...
