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The Malka Ella Fertility Fund - established 14 years ago to provide financial assistance to Jewish couples undergoing the costly and emotionally difficult process of fertility...
The Pretoria Jewish community was joined in full force this past Sunday by a number of diplomats and Christian Friends of Israel to commemorate Yom Hashoah...
In his regular Delving Deeper column, Rabbi Shmuel Bloch, pictured, gives his take on the weekly Parshas: Tazria-Metzorah, starting off by recounting an amazing story
On Tuesday the Union Buildings in Pretoria were awash with thousands upon thousands of colourful blankets in commemoration of Freedom Day. “67 Blankets for Nelson Mandela...
Do not be misled by the very first Rashi in this week's double parsha of Tazria-Metzora. It appears evolutionary, but it's not. It's revolutionary.
It’s widely believed that travel broadens the mind. We see different places, cultures and customs and realise that the part of the globe we occupy is...
I’m addressing an open letter to South Africa’s Ambassador to Israel, Sisa Ngombane. I am writing this to bring to your attention two disturbing facts and...
Johannesburg Jewry unfortunately took an unprecedented amount of flak in the recent KosherWorld coffee shop fiasco. I assume that the Rastafarian, while drinking their coffee, displayed...
Browsing through regular posts on various classified forums, I think it's an absolute chutzpah what some of the advertisers are charging for rent. More than R5,000...
It's no secret that domestic violence occurs in all communities including our own. Statistics compared to other communities is not relevant here. The fact is that...
I would like to respond to Rabbi Yossy Goldman’s parshah in last week’s Jewish Report, headlined “Why keep kosher?”
A fascinating pictorial insight of Israelis commemorating Yom HaZikaron (Israel’s Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers). Jewish Report Online has selected six pictures dating between 1950 and...
From: Zionism is here to stay by Amos Yadlin and Uri Sadot; Givat Haviva and the pursuit of a shared society by Mohammad Darawshe; Strategic follow...
Parents express support for teacher who had kindergarten students wear yellow star on erev Yom Hashoah. While Israeli & world Jewish media slammed the Rishon Lezion...
SEE THE MOVING VIDEO. Thousands of SA Jews will attend Yom Hazikaron remembrance ceremonies throughout the country tonight. Get the details here, read about the history...
Protesters at World Cup Ice-Hockey match risked serious injury to players on both the SA and Israeli sides when they threw marbles onto the ice-rink last...
Rabbonim in Israel & the US are pondering whether last week’s emergence of what claims to be a Halachic-compliant light switch really is. Opinions differ. But,...
The Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFA), under the auspices of their SA affiliate, The Israel Centre, will be hosting a guest speaker next week who is...
YH67 is back with a bang for 2015 as a talented team of organisers try and outdo last year's incredible Israel Birthday Bash. And, this year,...
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin met Tuesday 14 April with senior Greek Orthodox cleric, Theophilos III, in Jerusalem. In his greeting to Rivlin, Theophilos noted the link...
Israeli Prime Minister spoke to Russian President Tuesday, according to Bibi’s media advisor. Bibi expressed Israel's grave concerns regarding the decision to sell S-300 missile systems...
The Israel Mobile Summit is the premier annual mobile event of Israel, and simply put, it is the greatest mobile show in town! a full day...
Looking for news from the provinces? A husband? Sholem Aleichem’s book tour schedule? Published between 1908 and 1939, Haynt (along with Der Moment) was one of...
Last month, the Iranian mission at the United Nations wrote an “explanatory note” to the International Atomic Energy Agency protesting that resolutions by the organisation had...
By chance I was at KosherWorld last week Wednesday evening and saw a man and woman dressed as Rastafarians. The woman's laptop was perched on a...
I read with interest in your issue of March 20 how prices of Pesach goods at Norwood Hypermarket went through the roof,
The Star newspaper must be complimented on its journalistic integrity for featuring as a front-page story on Wednesday April 8, an incident at a kosher coffee...
They call it a nail in the bridge, because although progress has been made in relations between Jews and Christians, the work of the Foundation for...
Martin Frack writes: "Some 3,400 years ago Hashem delivered to our Jewish forefathers the Torah which we are assured by our rabbis is an accurate description...
Phillip Gordon writes: "I recently had a discussion one Shabbos with a resident of Kibbutz Lubner, which I understand is managed under the auspices of Selwyn...
The death this week of famed Nobel Prize-winning author Günther Grass, coincides with another round of arguments about Iran’s threat to Israel and the world, if...
One of the recent debates in the letters’ pages of the Jewish Report has revolved around the question of miracles in Judaism, particularly those relating to...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
WIZO Johannesburg’s 101st AGM last month marked the “changing of the guard” of the WIZO Johannesburg executive. Lee Joffe and Andrea Wainer were elected new co-chairmen....
An observant Jew was experiencing a crisis of faith. He decided to sneak into a non-kosher restaurant and have a fling. He orders “you know what”,...
The Shalom Masorti Congregation in Johannesburg recently sent executive chairman Adele Gluckman to a tri-annual board meeting of Masorti Europe, which was held in Israel.
Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it, Lord Jonathan Sacks wrote in a piece published in the London...
What started as light hearted banter between Zelda la Grange, Nelson Mandela’s personal assistant and Carolyn Steyn last year, with a challenge to come up with...
We are catching up 4 weeks’ worth of Bev Goldman’s Picks of the Week. There are 31 great reads to pick from and Jewish Report Online...
The national ice hockey team of Israel has touched down in Cape Town for a busy week of intense competition, vying for the IIHF (International Ice...
