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The Israeli Embassy in South Africa is holding a mock election campaign and wants as many South African citizens as possible to take part in it....
2013 Jewish Report Lifetime Achiever awardee Natie Kirsh let rip at US President Barak Obama last week. Why was SA’s richest man so mad? Because they...
Israeli cable reveals South Africa missile theft cover-up. Leaked Mossad cable shows Israel obtained stolen missile plans, and South Africa asked for their return. AlJazeera’s has...
Howard Feldman opines: "It has taken a while, but finally, earlier this week, South Africans awoke to the announcement that we had our very own Wikileaks...
It was general knowledge - but not acknowledged openly in the apartheid era - that South African intelligence co-operated with Israel and Mossad. Now, AlJazeera is...
Media frenzy as senior Chabad rabbi gets delisted as emissary as fallout continues from Australia’s Royal Commission into a child sex abuse scandal. Rabbi Yosef Feldman,...
Bev brings JR Online readers some fascinating Zionist reads from around the world. Enjoy this week's fare Try these for size, and print out what you...
US jury orders PLO & PA to caugh up for damages to US victims of 6 terror attacks in Israel as prescribed under the US Anti-Terrorism...
This week I attended the Chabad Miracle Drive, which is one of the biggest fundraisers on the South African Jewish calendar. Its success is less the...
Latest Zionist reads from around the world
In Persia in the 4th century BCE, the Jews were subjects of the mighty Persian empire. Three years after King Ahasuerus ascended the Persian throne, he...
Ilan Herrmann, pictured, says Danella Eliasov is the first female world champion in women’s EFC - Extreme Fighting Championship.
“If you are breathing, you have the right to feel safe.” This was the key message to rebbetzens in the South African community, at the Protective...
Unlike a generation ago, today the walls of the ghetto no longer sequester us from the rest of society. We fraternise and do business with non-Jews...
US President Barack Obama doesn’t want to “meddle” in Israeli politics. He said he didn’t intend meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the latter’s...
I have made a formal request to The International Criminal Court in The Hague to formally investigate the Durban University of Technology's SRC’s request to the...
Sunday morning February 22 - a beautiful morning, sunshine, birds singing, and the streets are lined with eye-catching posters exhorting us all to “Go kosher”. How...
The new university year has got underway, and students will by now have received their examination timetables. For religiously observant Jewish students, it is important to...
In South Africa for five weeks from Tel Aviv, rehearsing in Newtown every day, choreographer Rachel Erdos has partnered with Sonnyboy Motau in a work called...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
When Oscars were doled out, Cape Jewish human rights activist Eric Abraham won his second gong - for the film Ida. Other Other films with Jewish...
Rabbis Julia Margolis & Adrian Schell were inducted at a special ceremony at Bet David Progressive Synagogue, Sandton, earlier this month. The ceremony was led by...
"If you have had enough in South Africa, then pack your bags and go. Otherwise decide to stay and contribute to the country,” Howard Sackstein, entrepreneur...
After years of generally sweeping spouse and child abuse under the carpet in the Jewish community, the phenomenon is coming to the fore increasingly, with community...
Last Sunday, the executive committee of the African Jewish Congress convened in Cape Town for its first meeting since the passing of its long-serving president, Mervyn...
The carrying of guns by police evicting EFF members from Parliament during President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation address, refers.
Sandton Shul’s new youth Sefer Torah “came down from the Heavens” - it arrived by helicopter and landed in the car park of the shul, where...
News on terror threat in CANADA; a new rabbinical group for AUSTRALASIA; Iconic FRENCH blonde bombshell of the sixties, Bridget Bardot, "fed up" with living under...
The world’s largest Jewish campus comes out in support of SA Jewish students. US-based Hillel International vowed last week that they will not allow hatred against...
“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time”
“Sounds of Celebration II” which is being billed as “A unifying celebration of talent, cultural diversity and music” and which hopes to build on the pilot...
Red-faced Rabbi, 63, the former spiritual leader of a prominent Washington Orthodox shul, pleaded guilty to 52 counts of misdemeanor voyeurism last week after police found...
Our online users are famous for feeback and joining the conversations on the website which is why we have ensured that any item that is posted...
As an avid reader of the Jewish Report, including its adverts/advertorials, I am afraid I have to take strong exception to the inclusion of the almost...
I was absolutely dismayed by your distasteful advertisement "No more suffering" on Page 11 of the Jewish Report of February 1.
There was a great deal of confusion over President Jacob Zuma’ s remarks in his State of the Nation address that, in terms of new proposed...
First the book, now the movie has got millions of tongues wagging across the globe. However, wagging is just the beginning. 50 Shades of Grey became...
The South African Union of Jewish Students is continuing with its global campaign against the Durban University of Technology’s SRC in spite of DUT’s apology after...
South Africans should not be living in calm or comfort in the present economic and political environment - they should be worrying, Sasfin economist David Shapiro...
Howard Feldman has for the past year or so has written quite a few interesting and thought-provoking articles in the Jewish Report. He was always described...