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As a rabbi and Jewish educator, Laurie Zimmerman, a US rabbi and education director, expresses concern as to "Why our Jewish institutions encourage critical thinking when...
During the course of the second Republican presidential debate in the US last week, Ann Coulter, the well-known commentator, writer, speaker and provocateur, tweeted :“How many...
Yes, you read right, Trump’s daughter Ivanka, who converted in 2009, announced that she is expecting her third child with Jared Kushner. She is an executive...
Freedom Front Plus leader Dr Pieter Mulder, who recently visited Israel and the Palestinian territories as part of a fact-finding mission - consisting of leaders of...
The mind boggles at the naivety of the BDS crowd who tried – unsuccessfully – to disrupt the Pharrell Williams concert organised by Woolworths at the...
Huddle Park development: Last word not spoken. A controversial development of 450 houses and a small shopping and office centre alongside the Huddle Park golf course...
When Jews were exiled from the Land of Israel, their sheep followed. Now two Canadians are trying to get some of the biblical sheep back to...
Bantu Holomisa, pictured, was one of the senior SA parliamentarians who went to Israel earlier this month as a guest of SAFI and subsequently spoke up...
They were boasting that some 50 000 protesters under the auspices of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions SA would flood the entrance to GrandWest Casino in Cape...
Former Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils, the “enfant terrible” of South African Jewry, has lambasted his former comrade and fellow Cabinet minister Mosiuoa Lekota for going on...
Despite his stance on “dual citizenship” being repudiated by Minister of Home Affairs Malusi Gigaba, the ANC’s international relations subcommittee chairman Obed Bapela does not seem...
A small government agency for preserving European historical sites has been accused of criminal malfeasance, roiling Jewish community officials who say the agency has played a...
Organisers of a concert by American pop star Pharrell Williams have abandoned their legal action against pro-Palestinian demonstrators under the auspices of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions-SA,...
I was traveling deep into the rural communities of Morocco's Atlas Mountains, and so I'd expected to get a little dusty. But no one readied me...
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany and its allies in the Second World War and the liberation of the infamous...
It’s easy to engage in moral posturing about the flood of refugees converging on Europe from the mayhem in Middle Eastern countries like Syria, Iraq and...
When supporters of the anti-immigrant Pegida movement and rightwing extremists in the former East Germany started demonstrating by the tens of thousands this year against foreigners...
The government has moved to assuage concerns and seething anger in the South African Jewish community that it is considering abolishing dual citizenship, widely seen as...
Councillor Steven Kruger, who is the city councillor for Johannesburg’s Ward 72, which includes both Glenhazel and Sandringham, “traditional” Jewish areas, is appealing to the community...
The “tidal wave” of emigration from South Africa, following the Soweto riots, fear of a bloodbath instead of the new peaceful transition to democracy, the scarcity...
As US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton spent plenty of time in daunting foreign territory. No, I’m not talking about Myanmar here. I’m speaking of the...
Not-for-profit organisation Shout, on Wednesday in Johannesburg launched its third track as it continues its fight against crime and violence in South Africa.
Jewish Report apologises to PESACH for stealing a headline that belongs squarely to that particular chag, while reviewing a publication that itself belongs to the Jewish...
Last week Monday, August 31, over a billion people logged onto Facebook in one day - about one seventh of the world’s population. The social media...
It is unlikely that the proposal of Obed Bapela, a senior ANC official on international relations, to forbid dual citizenship for South African Jews who want...
Calls by Deputy Minister Obed Bapela, head of the ANC’s national executive committee on international relations, reported in a weekend newspaper, for South Africa to cut...
Loren Hodes, whose magnificent art work “Welcoming Moshiach” graced the front cover of the Jewish Report Rosh Hashanah issue last week, is a South African artist...
Mark Twain’s astute and eloquent insight into Jewish continuity is as relevant now as it was back then when he expressed it over a century ago.
Congratulations to all involved with the Absa Jewish Achievers Awards. Special praise goes to all those responsible for the top quality magazine We Built this Country...
The first part of this week was largely taken up with responding to outrageous comments, as reported in the Sunday Times, by Deputy Minister Obed Bapela...
I am a third generation South African, tracing my roots back some 125 years. My parents instilled in me a love for South Africa and for...
Adam Mendelsohn has been appointed associate professor in the department of Historical Studies and director of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research at the...
Imagine if an Islamist preacher called for death to the Jews in a public speech in your city in South Africa. This occurred in Sydney, Australia,...
The South African Jewish community is seething with anger and is also deeply alarmed after Obed Bapela, head of the ANC’s national executive committee’s subcommittee on...
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...
The debate on whether Jewish athletes should put religion before sport, especially if they make a living out of sport, will never reach an agreed solution,...
I would like to begin with a message from World WIZO President Tova Ben-Dov: I wish you a happy, healthy and joyous New Year
The newly-elected president of the ANC Youth League (ANCYL), Mokone Collen Maine, in his closing address of the elective National Congress at Gallagher Estate on Sunday,...
Now that the enactment of the Iran nuclear deal appears to be a sure thing, the profound and often personal disagreement between President Barack Obama and...
As we gather the myriad articles required to fill our bumper Rosh Hashanah issue, we at the Jewish Report are reflecting on our year of publishing...
