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Hilarious Jewish humour: Clean, parev, and delivered with a straight face and a calm disposition. Deb's father survived four camps.
Six marchers were stabbed at Jerusalem’s annual gay pride parade — allegedly by the man who stabbed three people at the parade in 2005.
In a full-page story in the Saturday Star titled “We were intimidated for going on trip to Israel” and with the strapline: “They say BDS movement...
When the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles came out with a strongly worded statement last week opposing the Iran nuclear deal, it became one of...
On Monday evening the South African Union of Jewish Students (SAUJS) hosted a first-of-its-kind alumni dinner at the HOD in Johannesburg. Over a 100 alumni, dating...
I have been at the helm of the Jewish Report for a mere seven months and have already faced the dilemma that editors of many community...
The recent deal between the P5 +1 (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council - the US, Britain, France, Russia and China plus...
What does Maccabi Germany have that Maccabi South Africa doesn’t? The obvious answer to this question is “money”, and in terms of looking at this issue,...
On Monday evening, the SA Union of Jewish Students held a special SAUJS alumni dinner, attended by present and former SAUJS leaders and members going back...
Yvonne Jawitz, immediate past president of WIZO SA, with Michael Freeman Israel’s deputy ambassador to South Africa.
The outstanding contribution to Jewish education by the late Barney Meyers, principal of King David Victory Park Primary School from 1966 to 1990, was acknowledged at...
With the constant stream of ugly headlines about Israel, threats from the ICC about possible war crimes investigations, and BDS’ worldwide success in fostering boycotts against...
LIMMUDNIK: Annika Hernroth-Rothstein, internationally-known political adviser and writer who is addressing sessions of this year’s Limmud programme, has travelled the journey from secularism to Jewish observance...
Among the beautiful teachings that our parsha contains is a lengthy account of how the Ten Commandments was revealed to each and every one of our...
Visitors to Cape Town’s classy Mount Nelson Hotel may have come across a plaque recording that a little over 160 years ago the first formal Jewish...
Parents should not rely too much on their children’s schools to instil values in them, implored Dr Laibl Wolf at a parenting lecture at Sydenham-Highlands North...
South Africa is still in the “premier league” in terms of the future, scenario planner Clem Sunter told a breakfast hosted by Afrika Tikkun at a...
Although the people of Gauteng have the pleasure of reading the Jewish Report on Friday of each week, we on the coast - Durban, PE and...
Will the SA Jewish Board of Deputies, the SA Zionist Federation and the IUA/UCF please explain to the country’s Jewish community why it was necessary for...
The 16 young ANC-affiliated students and business leaders should be commended for their bravery in going on a recent fact-finding trip to Israel. They are brave,...
The individual replies of MPs Michael Bagraim and Darren Bergman and Jack Bloom, Gauteng MPL, in answer to my letter of July 13 (about a purported...
“SA does not subscribe to BDS ideology,” writes online editor Ant Katz in a new blog today. Finish and Klaar! “It does from Luthuli House,” Katz...
Sixteen of the ANC’s most senior young academics and business leaders from around SA visited Israel and Palestine in their personal capacities on an educational tour...
Within an hour of JR Online posting “What Madiba said & meant” last week, quoting the actual speech of Madiba that anti-Israel proponents worldwide so liberally...
A decade and a half ago, as a board member of a Jewish institution, I found myself embroiled in a spat with a leading rabbinical figure...
Sixteen ANC-affiliated top young academic and business leaders from around SA visited Israel and Palestine in their personal capacities on an educational tour this month. These...
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu met on Sunday with Israel Antiquities Authority’s curator in charge of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Pnina Shor (pictured) who had brought the...
Stern's painting that helped save Madiba's life may become the most valuable SA painting ever after Bonhams' September 9 auction
This year, Tisha B’Av marks the 31st anniversary since the passing of Chief Rabbi Prof Louis Rabinowitz, zt’l.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Diaspora Jewry is increasingly critical of Israel and young Diaspora Jews are growing more alienated from the Jewish state, a new study found.
What's immoral about inviting young people to come and see Israel for themselves? asks the SA Jewish Board of Deputies' David Saks
Klaas Mokgomole, pictured, is one of two of the so-called “Wits-11” censured for forcing the cancellation of an Israeli-born pianist Yosi Reshef’s concert last year. The...
Who makes SA’s Mideast policy? What is it? ALL THE LINKS and the story that catches readers up on the daily going-on in this increasingly hostile...
US Vice President Joe Biden had an intimate phone call this week with about a thousand Jewish leaders, beseeching, teaching and preaching the Iran nuclear deal.
WE GIVE AWAY THE LAST LEGO EXPO TICKETS TODAY. SAJR Online has now given away a total of R8,000 worth of tickets for the biggest and...
Amid the cultural vandalism that confronts the world today, when precious artefacts and buildings have been gleefully destroyed by the likes of the radical Jihadists of...
Jewish National Fund of South Africa plants 67 trees at Mamelodi Hospital as part of their award-winning Walther Sisulu Environmental Centre's “Greening Mamelodi” project.
That’s called positive thinking, but I am going to enter the competition and stand a chance of winning the trip. And so should you. All we...
This year on Tisha B’Av is the 31st anniversary since the passing of Chief Rabbi Prof Louis Rabinowitz, zt’l.
Almost uniquely for a major Diaspora city, Johannesburg has had a Jewish presence from its earliest beginnings. Two present-day Jewish organisations can trace their origins back...
