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Two months after questions about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s commitment to a two-state solution threatened to upend the US-Israel relationship, tensions have abated, but not...
Last Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cancelled a proposed plan from his new defence ministry that would have forced Palestinian day labourers returning home from...
Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein initiated the Generation Sinai project in South Africa in 2011. Today more than 100 Jewish day schools across six continents - children...
It took many years for me to shed, more or else, my dislike for the English. Part of my antipathy was due to jealousy - having...
The Israeli bureaucrat at Israel’s interior ministry who committed suicide over the weekend after being called a racist on a Facebook post which was shared 6...
The Union of Jewish Women was being called on increasingly for the provision of basic needs, Diane Levine said in her chairman’s report at the 83rd...
The joint programme of Zambia’s Copperbelt University (CU) was “more than a vision - it is a reality”, said the university’s vice-chancellor, Prof Naison Ngoma, at...
The mightiest man in the Bible was, of course, Samson. He took on the most savage of beasts and levelled a stadium with his bare hands....
On the first night of Shavuot, shuls throughout the country were again packed for Tikkun Leil - the traditional programme of learning through which Jews celebrate...
The atmosphere at some South African universities had become “confrontational, ugly and intolerant”, Professor Jonathan Jansen, rector of the University of the Free State, told a...
A weekly summary of briefs on some of the top issues in the Jewish media worldwide brought to you by Jewish Report staff writers. The SAJR...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
One of the qualities we are most proud of at the Chev is the organisation’s global uniqueness. There is no other Chevrah Kadisha anywhere else in...
I am deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Barney Meyers. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family, particularly his daughters and grandchildren.
The US has the biggest Jewish population by far, outside of Israel. They, as well as Latin America, experience a clear trend of massive unprecedented assimilation.
As the time ticks away towards this weekend’s Fifa congress it looks as if it could come down to the wire as to whether Israel is...
If I were one who updated his Facebook status, I would write, “Howard Feldman is feeling proud”. Proud because South Africa, from June, will be on...
Anti-Semitic rant condemns Wits for “succumbing to the demands of the Jewish funders.” Higher Education Transformation Network particularly singles out Habib for removing SRC president Dlamini...
“If I had lived in Hitler's Germany, I would have been sent to a death camp simply because I am Jewish,” posted Friedman on Facebook. A...
Award-winning actress recently made it back into the public eye after a four-year respite when she married Benjamin Millepied, had a child and moved to Paris.
A young, black South African woman has fiercely flown Israel’s flag on a recent visit to the United States, inter alia refuting the “Israel is an...
A regular user accuses the Online Editor of stifling free speech claiming fellow user has “right within this site to (troll) at every opportunity - as...
Perry Feldman, pictured, is one of the last remaining Jews in the Free State town of Parys, a retired farmer and a passionate volunteer at the...
We have 38 top Zionist reads from Bev Goldman this week and apologise to users for the delay in posting them. It is our fault, not...
Paper's public editor rebukes The New York Times reporter for asking PhD candidate David McCleary, pic. ‘demeaning’ questions as he didn't look Jewish
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has given a blanket amnesty to the “Black Monday” group of students who hung huge swastikas, pictures of Hitler and...
Based “on the totality of life experience”, Rabbi Dr Lionel Mirvis has expanded his Kabbalah lessons in Cape Town to include Graphic Kabbalah - with DVDs...
It’s not the first time that a student has returned to his alma mater to become principal. And although he matriculated from King David High School...
Would one examine the entire Ten Commandments, which are mentioned twice in the Torah, once in Parshat Yitro and once again towards the end of the...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
I refer to Geoff Sifrin’s Taking Issue column in last week’s Jewish Report, "Is the new Israel government a bigger elephant in the room?"
Easton's Biblical Dictionary says Galilee was the scene of the "most memorable events of Jewish history".
Unfortunately I am not in possession of the Pope’s e-mail address, but would some kind individual care to inform him that the Vatican’s recognition of the...
Emma Daitz writes in a letter in last week’s paper of the events that she states occurred during the Arab invasion of Israel and the Palestinian...
Minister of higher Education Blade Nzimande and the 4 others have the will and time to involve themselves in university education in Palestine but not in...
Since 2001, after the late Joe Welcher passed on, my brother Jeff and I together with assistance from my sister Matilda, have run the Brakpan Shul...
Barney Meyers, beloved former headmaster of King David Primary Schools in Linksfield and, later, Victory Park, passed away last week Friday, just short of his 90th...
Shereen Usdin and Emma Daitz demonstrate so clearly, in their letter to the SAJR last week (on the village of Lubya) just what a free society...
Following on from last year’s successful YH66 (Yom Ha’atzmaut Year 66) party, YH67 took place at the KONG nightclub in Rosebank in Johannesburg last Saturday night....
I was alarmed to read about Howard Sackstein taking over as chairman of the Board of the SA Jewish Report. This brings another ANC left-winger into...
