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TOGETHER WITH ISRAEL! "I am writing this from The Shabbos Project global call centre in Tel Aviv, where calls are being fielded in eight languages from...
Last week, we received the sad news that Russell Gaddin, a stalwart leader in the Jewish community over nearly four decades, had passed away in Israel...
In the first-ever official visit by an Indian head of state to Israel, President Pranab Mukherjee arrived in Jerusalem this week to discuss a wide range...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
DAVID LEWIS WRITES: f there was a big difference in strategy between the ANC under Mandela, and Hamas under Khaled Meshaal, head of Hamas’ political bureau,...
There are often queries as to the process of the Cape SA Jewish Board of Deputies elections, which are twofold and tend to be confusing.
Kimberley, famed for its diamonds, has what is probably one of the most aesthetic gems of a synagogue, which houses the remnant of the Griqualand West...
Csanád Szegedi describes the day he found out, at the age of 30, that he was Jewish, “the most traumatic and probably the worst day of...
Acclaimed throughout South Africa and internationally, the fossils of Homo naledi, bade “farewell” to Maropeng’s Cradle of Humankind on Sunday to be sent for further research...
As the Great Park Shul in Johannesburg was nearing completion in 2000, the late Chief Rabbi Cyril Harris commented that the spaces around the shul were...
On October 15, Jessie Rosen, a resident of Golden Acres in Johannesburg, turned 105. Jessie was born in Cape Town in 1910.
With funds decreasing every year, and an enormous amount of charity work still to be done, the Jewish Women’s Benevolent Society (JWBS) decided to hold a...
GEOFF SIFRIN poses this question in his popular and controversial weekly column TAKING ISSUE: What should an Israeli mother tell her young child as he leaves...
Ernest Leibowitz, a founder and chairman of the Rabbi Cyril Harris Community Centre, passed away on Shabbat in Johannesburg at the age of 76.
Russell Gaddin, who passed away in Israel last week after a long illness, at the age of 77, held several of the most senior lay leadership...
In his call for Jews to spread Judaism and actively seek converts, Colin Jantjies has absolutely hit the nail on the head. Allow me, if I...
WIZO is proud to have been associated with the Chief Rabbi’s Shabbos Project from its inception when we shared ideas on keeping a universal Shabbat together....
At the end of September, Russian warplanes began aerial bombing raids in Syria, adding to the already complex dynamics of the Syrian civil war, which has...
In last week’s edition of Jewish Report the question is posed whether the ongoing Arab/Israeli conflict is this the third intifada.
Israel’s enemies had instigated the greatest, longest and most effective slur campaign against it in the history of the world, Colonel Richard Kemp, OBE, told a...
The story is told of an encounter between two famous rabbis of yesteryear – Rabbi Elijah, the famed "Gaon" (prodigious scholar) of Vilna, and Rabbi YaakovKrantz,...
Six home-based personal training sessions with specialist in strength training, flexibility and ante/postnatal training, Gabi Riesnik forms part of our “Personalised Family Fitness Package”. This sought-after...
Physiotherapist Aurelle Medalie is another of the major sponsors of SA Jewish Report’s new and exciting competition which will see one lucky family of readers win...
Proudly Jewish South African-owned company 32Gi is sponsoring a R1 000 hamper as part of our “Personalised Family Fitness Package”. Read more about Managing Director Dean...
The SA Union for Progressive Judaism and the SA Association of Progressive Rabbis in a media statement made clear that they will not meet the Hamas...
During these past few weeks of barbaric violence targeting Israel, Hamas has enthusiastically endorsed the cold-blooded murder of Israeli civilians and instigated dozens of lethal attacks...
Of course it isn’t yet Friday as I prepare this column, but it most likely that that is when it will be read in print, says...
Leading running apparel stores "The Sweat Shop", are giving away a voucher as part of our prize-pool in SA Jewish Report’s R20 000 “Personalised Family Fitness...
CycleZone in Rosebank, Johannesburg, is not only giving our users an in-store bike positional and power assessment and Ride Pack as part of our prize-pool in...
TomTom is giving away a GPS Sport Watch as part of our prize-pool in SA Jewish Report’s R20,000 “Personalised Family Fitness Package” which will be won...
Exercise Solutions is contributing a huge chunk of the prize-pool in SA Jewish Report’s R20 000 “Personalised Family Fitness Package” which will be won by one...
Disappointed in the ‘failure’ of stabbings, Hamas asks West Bankers to drop their knives and instead commit car-rammings to ensure higher Jewish casualties.
When it comes to getting YouTube hits, getting almost two-and-a-half million in 24 hours is good in anyone’s terms. Saturday Night Live’s spoof on CNN’s US...
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A master of stretching the truth and a perverter of language – this is what the EIPA called Mahmoud Abbas in supporting Benjamin Netanyahu's call for...
Recently-released letters by officiating rabbi at her conversion before third and last husband, playwright Arthur Miller, say Marilyn was “heart-felt” convert.
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks is in the US promoting his new book. Rabbi Sacks answers some frank questions in an interview with JTA’s Uriel Heilman.
During a special meeting with English-speaking reporters yesterday, Israeli PM insists that the so-called ‘status quo’ instituted by Moshe Dayan on the last day of the...
Jewish Report’s provocative weekly columnist, Geoff Sifrin, gets our readers chirping at each other as well as at Geoff himself. Read what users have to say...
Do you find that religious observance; family commitments; communal obligations; business activities, etc restrict you and your family’s ability to stay fit & slim? Jewish Report...
