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I read with plausible laughter, the comments made by Lisa Seftel (in last week’s Jewish Report) regarding the Rea Vaya construction along Louis Botha Avenue. Residents...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
South-African-born Sir Michael Lawrence "Mick" Davis has been honoured for his work on the Holocaust Commission in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for 2015. Davis has...
A substantial number of Jews, including South Africans such as Johnni Clegg, left, from a wide variety of fields, such as education, business, inter-faith relations and...
The way Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir slipped out of South Africa a free man last weekend, after attending the African Union Summit in Sandton, touches a...
The angry voice of some among SA Jewry have joined that of the general population in expressing their disgust at the government’s allowing a wanted mass...
The SA Union of Jewish Students has invited the community to attend a Gala Dinner next month. While its billed as an “Alumni” event, SAUJS’ special...
A brave Jew died in the Soweto Uprising due to his compassion for the community. Little-known hero Dr Melville Edelstein’s life started in the stereotypical manner...
"The Art of the Brick Exhibition running in the Zone at Rosebank is a marvel, something that appeals to all ages and all types," writes DAVID...
We have thousands of rand worth of prizes to give away over the next few months. Ahead of the season of tzedakah, Jewish Report will give...
Jewish Report Online is giving away six copies of Howard Feldman’s best-selling book. Read what you have to do to win one of them.
Dawn Nathan-Jones, CEO of Europcar, which has sponsored a new Achiever Award category - The Europcar Women in Leadership Award.
The falsehoods being peddled about the South Africa Forest in Israel, are typical of the anti-Israel lobby.
Vanessa Valkin's report on the SAJBD meeting with Johannesburg’s Mayor Parks Tau, made interesting reading but what struck me most, was the naivité of the Board...
Muhammed Desai tells SAJR Online that the mere fact that opposing BDS has become the main dominating campaign both in Israel & among SA organisational Jewry...
Monday was the fifth anniversary of the US State Dept coming up with its own definition of anti-Semitism as it felt Europe’s was too parev. Last...
In this parsha we are taught that slander - lashon hara” - is not only when speaking evil against a person but also finding fault in...
In leaning upon the “expertise” of “new-historian”, Prof Ilan Pappe of Exeter University, to substantiate their claims, David Sanders and Shereen Usdin strip their argument of...
Emma Daitz, writing under a number of different banners such as “Jews for a Free Palestine” and “Jewish Voices for a Just Peace”, got considerable opinion...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
Two weeks ago I received an official-looking letter from the Department of Social Development. I opened it carefully. It was my clearance certificate confirming that I...
This time last year, world Jewry was anxiously waiting to learn of the fate of Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Sher and Naftali Frenkel, three teenage yeshiva bochrim...
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...
A world lost forever is memorialised in “There was once a home”, an anthology of memories of life in the Lithuanian shtetls, that first appeared in...
Last week an exciting youth soccer tour - The Robin van Persie tournament - in Holland, held every two years, saw two South African teams taking...
One reason we achieved a settlement in South Africa was that religion was not an obstacle. Face-to-face dialogue between wise leaders acting rationally on behalf of...
Deemed a “remarkable force of nature” by friends and colleagues alike, lawyer, teacher, academic, political activist, wife and mother, Lady Felicia Kentridge (née Geffen), who established...
World Jewish leaders seem to be in the midst of intense preparation for battle. This enemy they are gearing up to fight - the Boycott Divestment...
Tax is a complex area of the law and people considering aliyah or doing business in Israel should obtain legal advice to take full advantage of...
Jewish CEOs are among the many top executives who have volunteered to sleep out under the stars on a freezing winter night next Thursday, June 18,...
Being Jewish is often not easy, but it is also expensive. The costs involved in Jewish identification, education, living and even dying, are high - yet...
South Africa’s future has long been of concern for young Jewish South Africans as they contemplate whether to stay or leave, or once they have left...
Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the majority in the Supreme Court decision that will keep “Israel” off the passports of Jerusalem-born Americans, begins by calling Jerusalem...
The current construction of the Rea Vaya Bus Rapid Transit system (BRT) along Louis Botha Avenue in Johannesburg is causing major disruptions and discontent among local...
In fulfilling its mandate as the spokesbody and civil rights lobby of South African Jewry, the Board benefits greatly from its relationships with international Jewish organisations....
Four of South Africa’s five Jewish youth movements are offering winter camps this year. The dates differ considerably, one is a day-camp while others are a...
Monday was the fifth anniversary of the US State Dept coming up with its own definition of anti-Semitism as it felt Europe’s was too parev. Last...
JERUSALEM - French President Francois Hollande, trying to contain the fallout from the controversy over a French telecom company, in a conversation with Prime Minister Benjamin...
Israeli rabbi “now delivering to SA” says his website presents sex toys & sexuality in a manner which doesn’t contradict Orthodox values
Past David Award-winner has been named as director of the new Institute of Sport & Exercise Medicine at Stellenbosch University. An ex-King Davidian, Professor Wayne Derman,...
