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History is neither always just nor kind. Among the great Jewish leaders of the 20th century, the name of Dr Nahum Goldmann should loom large alongside...
“If you don’t plan for retirement and have no reason to get up in the morning, you will die,” life and retirement coach Lynda Smith told...
This week's parsha is Devarim. It begins the fifth book of the Torah bearing the same name. In it, Moshe Rabeinu takes the opportunity before his...
Picking up from where I left off last week, I was most encouraged to read the statement put out by the students who participated in the...
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...
Attendances at this year’s Sinai Indaba, if anything, exceeded the already impressive showings of previous years, while the forthcoming instalment of Limmud likewise looks like it...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
Much has been written about the Iranian nuclear deal and the danger to Israel of a nuclear Iran. After reading this week’s parsha, Massei, one wonders...
During the Dark Ages the quest for knowledge was viewed as heresy; to read and write was taboo and only for the clergy. Voyages of discovery...
Community Active Protection (CAP) spread the love this year with its highly successful Mandela Day initiative. CAP’s call to the community to “bring the bread and...
Tisha B’Av is considered the saddest day on the Jewish calendar and is marked by a 25-hour fast. This, unlike Yom Kippur, is not a Yomtov,...
In the United States, an analysis of government data by the Pew Research Centre, has shown that today, about 70 per cent of women who have...
Maccabi South Africa will be sending a small delegation to the European Maccabi Games which will be staged in Berlin for the first time.
Jewish Report’s online editor Ant Katz challenges UKZN academic & PSF activist over an Op-Ed she posted in last Sunday’s Tribune. Katz unpacks the entire Mandela...
I issue a challenge to Ms Nadvi: Tell the truth or go and find it out!
The speech by President Nelson Mandela that is at the centre of so much misquotation and out-of-context usage, that the BDS-driven narrative has become the conventional...
A dozen Palestinian Muslim men gather at an isolated farm house this week to indulge in a new delight, watching a soapie about Jews!
This year, to commemorate Mandela Day, the UJW Johannesburg played fairy godmother to 250 impoverished moms and their newborn babies at a number of clinics around...
Bibi slams “Iranian ruler Khamenei's (pictured) aggressive and contrary” statements during his weekly Cabinet meeting on Sunday, adding that: “If someone thought that the extraordinary concessions...
In a real turn up for the books, 16 high-ranking members of young ANC-affiliated student, political & business bodies which went to Israel on a fact-finding...
Wits decides “I Love Hitler” is free speech, SAJBD “remains convinced” comments not constitutional. Their hate speech cases continue at SAPS & HRC
SEE OUR FIRST HOME-BUILT LEGO ENTRIES. JR Online has already given away R4 000 worth of tickets to the biggest and best LEGO exhibition ever –...
Join CAP in making 67 000 sandwiches for the less-fortunate as your 67 minute contribution to Mandela Day on Friday morning July 17, 2015. It is...
Clinton said as president she would hew to the Iran nuclear deal just completed, but would also build a coalition to stop Iranian bad behaviour in...
Fast-moving mobilisation of anti-BDS forces in ANC and momentum grew on Wednesday. See what's up for Thursday.
There is a generally held perception among South African Jewry that the current South African government is strongly critical of Israel and that many of its...
On Tuesday 14 July the South African Students Congress (Sasco) published a media release saying that it had “noted with great concern the attempts by the...
The Board Fed take an uncharacteristic and harsh tone with Deputy Minister Obed Bapela after 15 influential young ANC supporters went to Israel and Palestine as...
CSO and CAP have finally now separated their activities and call centres resulting in confusion over changes of telephone numbers. CSO retains its number and CAP...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decried an agreement over Iran’s nuclear programme hundreds of times - most notably in a March speech to a joint...
A monument brouhaha has erupted in the wake of last week’s study tour by a group of highly influential young South Africans.The private information-gathering tour of...
Wendy Appelbaum was the driving force behind the application that resulted in the landmark Western Cape High Court ruling last week declaring emoluments attachments orders (also...
As I write, the Durban and Umhlanga area is abuzz with holidaymakers. For the local Jewish community, it is always uplifting to be joined at these...
An official Jewish sporting event will be staged in Germany for the first time since the Second World War with the European Maccabi Games being staged...
Sometimes first gaining experience is more important than winning and that appears to be something cyclist Aaron Fleishman is likely to have learned after a stint...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
In what has become an annual pilgrimage for South African Jewish communal leaders, representatives from the SA Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD), the SA Zionist Federation...
It was not Pam Green of Glenhazel’s day, or actually her week. Someone drove into her car; then there were problems with her insurance and she...
Amidst all the diplomatic noise currently going on about Iran’s nuclear programme, and attempts by world powers to stop it achieving nuclear weapons, it seems strange...
Rabbi Moshe Silberhaft, CEO and spiritual leader of the African Jewish Congress, recently accompanied Israel’s Ambassador to South Africa Arthur Lenk to Lesotho, when the ambassador...
