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A whopping 60 per cent of US Jews who have married since 2000, chose non-Jewish spouses. This was just one of many shocking statistics that emerged...
Jewish Report met some of the most senior followers of Rabbi Berland on Tuesday. They confirmed that there are followers, many of them families, staying at...
Israelis have become accustomed to dismal news in the past few weeks - mornings and evenings punctuated by stabbings, car attacks and rock throwing.
“We are proud to again be joining the spiritual tsunami that’s sweeping across the world,” Rabbi Ari Kievman, of the Shul in Sandton Central, told the...
Last Sunday evening at Beyachad in Johannesburg, a capacity crowd joined the ambassadors of the Russian Federation and of Israel in commemorating the crucial role played...
Many of the ancient stories passed on by our rabbis, talk of welcoming a Jew into your home and your synagogue. The essence is that us...
One of the contentious issues in modern Judaism is the question whether or not Jews should proselytise. The majority opinion is that Jews should not proselytise.
Time will tell as to whether Britain’s Labour Party, following its unexpectedly heavy defeat in the May elections, has committed electoral suicide by choosing the dogmatic,...
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...
Reading Geoff Sifrin’s recent column, I found his comment about Israel having the most rightwing rejectionist government in its history and a prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu...
Pop idol Danny K is simply a really nice Jewish boy who is not only a music celebrity, but believes and acts on putting back into...
A fellow once travelled on a journey that took him through tropical islands. Taking a walk, he was hit in the head by a coconut falling...
At an Israeli bus station, several uniformed officers surround an Arab woman before opening fire on her, dropping her to the ground. Standing over her motionless...
“Apartheid in South Africa was a picnic compared to what we have seen in the occupied territories,” said Parliamentary Speaker Baleka Mbete at the ANC’s National...
Jews are widely known as the “People of the Book”; it was therefore fitting that the Jewish community float that participated in this year’s Heritage Day...
Deputy Minister Obed Bapela’s recent comments that dual citizenship might be abolished to prevent South African Jews from serving in the Israeli Defence Forces, have generated...
On October 2, a monument commemorating the history-making friendship between the famed Indian nationalist leader Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi and the Lithuanian-born Jewish architect Herman Kallenbach,...
After the high we experienced over Yomtov, we have been brought abruptly down to earth by the upsurge of deadly violence in Israel. At the time...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
There is a hackneyed saying that life begins at 40 and for Shane Dorfman his “fourth decade” has ushered into his life three major changes. However,...
The South African Union of Jewish Students (SAUJS) has elected a new national committee for the remainder of 2015 and 2016. Dani Hovsha, pictured, who has...
Rabbi Eliezer Berland is back in South Africa and he - and several hundred of his followers - are said to have been living in Midrand...
Is the glass one-third empty or two-thirds full? A poll commissioned by distributors of the Holocaust film “Return to the Hiding Place” asked 1 000 Americans...
In Israel, American stores dot shopping malls and McDonald's branches proliferate. But one chain you won't see is Starbucks.
Many Israelis and Diaspora Jews tend to believe the international media is biased against Israel, subjecting it to unrelenting, critical scrutiny no other country gets. Palestinians...
This morning Magen David Adom Israel told Jewish Report Online that they had been informed of a stabbing attack in the Old City of Jerusalem in...
Do you find that religious observance; family commitments; communal obligations; business activities, etc restrict you and your family’s ability to stay fit and slim? Jewish Report...
US academic flummoxed by how we do politics in SA and J Peter Pham of the Atlantic Council Africa Centre in Washington DC, couldn't resist writing...
When Fabio Rosenfeld asked his paternal grandfather, Miklos, about the latter’s relatives, the response always was the same: “They’d been killed in the Holocaust.”
First it was clashes on the Temple Mount. Then a mother and father were shot before the eyes of their four children. Then two men were...
Obed Bapela has been sacked in his capacity as ANC head of foreign policy. Jewish Report Online has also obtained a PDF document of over 200...
All anyone attending the United Nations General Assembly opening seemed to want to talk about was the threat posed to the world by the Islamic State...
“In relation to the 2008-‘09 Gaza conflict, no army in the history of warfare had taken greater steps than the IDF to minimise harm to civilians...
The French never invented the English word "intellectual". But their 1894-1906 anti-Semitism ensured the word would considered a swear word for years
In the latest of her blogs, “Roro's Rantings: Aliyah, Israel and all that stuff”, Rolene Marks is at her best and, as always, quick-as-a-flash. ”A Game...
Rolene Marks writes that as this blog is posted, 36 civilians have been killed
The amusing photograph published in South African papers this week of SA President Jacob Zuma cheerfully chatting on his cellphone while US president Barack Obama was...
