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That time of the year is just around the corner – where we peek into the corners of each nook and cranny of our homes to...
When teaching a child Torah, we are meant to start teaching them from the Book of Vayikra -Leviticus. Not from the beginning of Torah, but from...
Over 7,000 page-views with an average of over four minutes each clearly indicates that South Africans poured in to read and vote in the Israeli Embassy’s...
On meeting Sarah Copelowitz who turns 100 on Shabbat Hagadol (28 March, the Shabbat before Pesach), one comes away feeling that this centenarian’s lifestyle can hardly...
After months of preparation, Mizrachi South Africa partnering with ORT SA and the SA Zionist Federation, took a group of runners to this year’s Jerusalem Marathon....
Official Israeli election returns showed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party heading toward a decisive victory over Zionist Union.
What difference will the Israeli elections make in a Jew’s life in Sandton? Probably little in a practical sense, although there will be vigorous debates around...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
It's a round bakers’ dozen of top Zionism reads from Bev Goldman this week. And she certainly does offer Jewish Report users a wide variety, as...
It's a round thirteen items from Bev for your Shabbos reading this week. Be sure to print the ones you want beforehand
The enigmatic Howard Feldman reacts to last Frioday's #AskHamas fiasco which left the terror organisation red-faced after just one day
Flagrant anti-Semitism was the order of the day when pro-Palestinian protesters defied the agreed protocols while protesting at the SAZF conference in Sandton last weekend. The...
Hamas’ attempt to woo Europeans and English-speakers using twitter backfired on them before they even had the chance to get it off the ground! What a...
Pesach shopping season kicked off with a bang on Sunday with the 26th annual Torah Academy Pesach Wine Sale. The school fundraiser was, as always, organised...
Tickets to win a whopping R50,000 cash prize in Torah Academy’s Infinity 2015 competition stall at the annual wine sale on Sunday sold like hot cakes.
“The time has come to speak plainly about the Jewfro” and her sheitel wrote Jessie Cohen in the Mail & Guardian last week.
Our Israel election Pundit, Cape Town attorney Aubrey Katzeff, is still confident that – despite the polls – Israel will elect a Bibi-led coalition tomorrow. Israeli...
It looks like Bibi is still the front-runner according to our election pundit, serial communal worker and Cape Town attorney Aubrey Katzeff. He is a close...
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JA head wants all Jews to make Aliyah, but doesn't believe they should be forced to. He sat down for an hour with SAJR’s Ant Katz...
Team work across the Jewish community and beyond meant that the 2015 efforts to counter BDS-SA’s Israel Apartheid Week (IAW), met with a great deal of...
Tributes have flowed in for the late Sam Benatar, president of the Zimbabwe Jewish Board of Deputies and one of Zimbabwe Jewry’s most experienced and active...
Last week’s edition of Jewish Report featured a column by former SA Jewish Report editor, Geoff Sifrin, entitled “In whose Jewish name does Bibi speak?”
Who are the Cape Town community’s young Jewry? What are their views? How do they identify as Jewish and as South African? How are they revolutionising...
Geoff Sifrin in his Taking Issue column in last week’s Jewish Report headed his article on Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the US Congress,...
I felt proud and privileged to be among the many thousands of South African Jews present at the auspicious occasion, celebrating the “Nation of Creation” at...
What is Israel’s real story behind the surface of pro- and anti-propaganda? The SAZF Conference last weekend tried to give an answer. BDS-SA gives another.
On Wednesday March 4, a major Johannesburg daily newspaper made no mention or comment on the speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin to the US Congress,...
This past weekend saw a notable gathering of Jewish communal leaders at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg for the 48th Annual South African Zionist Federation...
In America, pundits and politicians are wondering what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech will mean for the next few months, years, even decades of US-Israel...
When Israelis head to the polls for the March 17 elections, 26 parties will be vying for the Knesset's 120 seats - including such fringe groups...
Those who say that Israel is an apartheid state know deep in their hearts that this is not true, said the Rev Dr Kenneth Meshoe, MP,...
The dance card had been completed before the ball began. The streets outside the SA-Israel Expo that took place in Sandton at the weekend, were always...
Tomi Reichental, a survivor of Bergen-Belsen Concentration camp, had audiences in South Africa spellbound with his harrowing tale of survival. Reichental was a boy of nine...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
There are two modes of revelation in the Torah. One mode is that of Sinai; revelation comes from a mountaintop, in the form of laws and...
I was sixteen when a friend of the same age called to tell me what had just happened. He had, without permission, stolen his mother’s car...
Visiting South Africa last week as a guest of the 48th Annual Zionist Federation Conference, Jerusalem’s Mayor Nir Barkat approached the trip as he might have...
You know how people say this person looks Jewish, or you can tell they are Jewish because of their names?
South African ultra marathon great, Ludwick Mamabola, has joined the Unity Challenge South African delegation to the Jerusalem Marathon 2015, being run Friday 13 March.
