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In a new blog posted today, David Hersch, pictured, writes”I have often wondered about our people walking or being herded to their deaths. Read more..
I am proud to be a Jew and stand up and fight for my people and our beloved land of Israel.
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What would the state of the Palestinians be if the aim of a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria and Gaza were to become reality? Less...
“We have received information which… relates specifically to South Africa,” reads a notice joint statement to be issued this morning regarding a heightened security level for...
The world of Torah should be open to women, is the philosophy of Rebbetzen Dr Yael Ziegler, described by Rabbi Ramon Widmonte, dean of The Academy...
A red carpet evening at the Durban Jewish Centre last week, saw the Jewish community congregating for a single cause: to raise awareness of the financial...
Last week, in the second of our 3-part series on paradox, we discussed: Cutting our coats according to our cloth. This time…
ORT SA’s Classic Golf Day is turning 41 this year and is still going strong. Places are still open and the prize-pool is great. Sign up...
Pictured: Zev Krengel and Charisse Ziefert. Despite a strong focus on the upsurge of anti-Semitism as a result of the Gaza conflict and the presence of...
At the time of writing, I am participating in the Governing Board meeting of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Berlin. The intention of hosting the...
Professor Steven Friedman (Professor of Distortions?) claims Hamas is a “rational actor which believes its interests are served by a compromise”.
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
This past week Pretoria's Yeshiva Mahon L'Hora'a celebrated its 13th Tekes (smicha ordination ceremony) where the current group of bochurim received smicha from Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi...
In one section of his letter (replying to Victor Gordon), Professor Steven Friedman states that “a severe obstacle to a peace settlement [is] the view that......
The Kotzker Rebbe warned about the danger of unwittingly creating a culture of dependence within the mindset of the recipient of kindness....Above all else he valued...
Alliance resolves to step up boycott, calls on transport workers to refuse to handle Israeli goods to SA or SA goods going to Israel. BDS gloats,...
"I'm done with Israel – It is the State of Hamas not of the Jews" said Shuvu Bonim leader R. Berland after being released on Friday....
The Breslovers have left our community and I, for one, am left wondering as to what just happened
Pushing the boundaries from within
STOP PRESS: Full story to be posted Monday – here is the abridged version, from the horse’s mouth so to speak. Rabbi Eliezer Berland was released...
Shuvu *Bonim Breslov leader Rabbi Eliezer Berland appears to have been freed by the Dutch authorities after an 8 hr-long court ordeal that ended in his...
The ANC Youth League (ANCYL) in Gauteng announced this morning that they will “embark on a protest action against the South African Jewish Board of Deputies...
Gauteng Premier, David Makhura, and Dr Zweli Mkhize, ANC Treasurer General, will be among those participating in the SA Jewish Board of Deputies Gauteng Council, to...
The opening video for the 16th Absa Jewish Achiever Awards, which was roundly complimented for being the best ever, really was a crowd stopper. The short...
As the SAJR, we have the responsibility to present all views in line with our broad editorial policy, but these views need to be expressed with...
The SAJR would like to apologise for the publication of an opinion piece that compares Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu to Hitler. The paper apologises to the...
“Comparisons made between Israel’s actions and the crimes of the Nazis during the Gaza conflict was one of the most objectionable recurring themes in the flood...
Rabbi Eliezer Berland is in the hands of the Dutch authorities – who are being supported by the Israeli authorities – at Schipol Airport in Holland...
Writing in the afternoon edition of The Star on Wednesday, Botho Molosankwe’s front page lead story “Sex pest rabbi eludes SA police again” came out several...
The ‘67 blankets for Nelson Mandela Day’ won a Campaign of the Year award and all Jewish Report knitters get to celebrate with them for free,...
SAUJS execs, Natan Pollack (national treasurer, pictured) and Cayla Urdang (vice chairman) went to the small town of Luhačovice in the Czech Republic last month for...
Last Shabbos the SA Friends of Israel (SAFI) together with Christian Zionist group DAISI and SAUJS took thirty DAISI members to Sydenham Shul’s Shabbos service and...
Over 140 young Muslims and Jews from some 30 countries, gathered in Vienna, last month to engage on a platform of interfaith dialogue unlike any other.
BOOK BUY APPEAL – The Fed’s reference library urgently looking for funds to buy important current books.
14-year-old was on death’s door when Rambam surgeon transplanted sister’s kidney. A similar operation in Egypt some years back using his brother’s kidney failed dismally.
In another of his fascinating DELVING DEEPER thoughts, Rabbi Shmuel Bloch gives us a different take on religious and secular events around us. “Take a glance...
In a hard-hitting Op-Ed piece for SAJR Online today, Likud-SA chairman Leon Reich accuses “The latest self-appointed midget of history” Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu of ignoring...
Rhodes University’s Senate last Friday rejected a resolution to cut any ties with academics who hold Israeli citizenship, or official representatives from Israel, unless they "make...
