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Sunday 29 November represented the 68th anniversary of the 1947 presentation of The United Nations Partition Plan. “This historic day was both a mix of sadness...
The wold’s 435th-wealthiest person, Natie Kirsh, was honoured by ORT UK earlier this month for his philanthropic and charitable work. Interestingly, both ORT and Kirsh received...
A Russian military jet had violated Israeli airspace it was announced on Sunday. The jet breached Israeli airspace by 1,6 km and turned back when Russia...
Chairmen, pictured left, Ben Swartz and Jeff Katz, issued a joint statement on Thursday saying “anti-Israel activists caught in lie” - and not for the first...
Israeli Orthodox Rabbi Eliezer Berland, rosh yeshiva of the Breslov Chassidic movement, who has been on the run from the Dutch and Israeli authorities, turned up...
Conversion to Judaism has become a controversial subject and the process of conversion differs in expectations and accepted norms across communities worldwide. The Jewish Report examined...
Last week Thursday I was most alarmed to see the very bold headline on the front page of the Cape Times: “Israeli military chiefs face SA...
Jews and Africans - groups that have both known persecution for long periods - should stand together. It is important for Jews to make that point...
Isn't it time, finally, that the State of Israel and Jews everywhere, stopped talking about and punting a two-state solution, as a realistic proposition?
The number one question that those present at Sunday’s SAJBD national conference will have wanted President Jacob Zuma to answer would undoubtedly have been why his...
Jewish Voices for a Just Peace (JVJP), prior to last weekend’s SA Jewish Board of Deputies’ conference in Johannesburg, penned a collective letter to President Jacob...
US Secretary of State John Kerry condemns the unspeakable brutality of the ISIS terrorist attack in France.
Sometimes people take car guards - a unique South African phenomenon - for granted. Drop them a coin, or if more generous, a note. Thank them...
It was Gold Reef City, the casino where fortunes are lost on the spin of a wheel and the flip of a card. In the Lyric...
The South African Jewish community is fuming over Hamas sympathiser President Jacob Zuma’s suggestion this week that the bombing attacks in Paris are somewhat connected to...
To Jewish Voices for a Just Peace, I want to point out that the rally in support of Israel (they are going on about) was not...
I would like to respond to the letter in last week’s Jewish Report by Jewish Voices for a Just Peace. I believe that quite often Jews...
Dr Bertie Lubner is 84, although, with his energy and alert mind, it’s hard to believe. He has devoted the greater part of his life to...
Springbok rugby legend Syd Nomis was the guest visitor at the Lions Shul in Doornfontein in Johannesburg recently, where he spoke at the kiddush/breakfast after the...
To all at the SAJBD, congratulations and most sincere thanks in appreciation of an excellent and phenomenally well-organised bi-annual conference on Sunday night at Gold Reef...
I want to respond to the letter by Jewish Voices for a Just Peace in last week’s Jewish Report. They claim that they care about Palestinians...
Rabbi Nissen Goldman writes from Cape-Town in last week’s edition of Jewish Report: "The Jewish people are one nation with one Torah and one G-d. Nothing...
The legacy of the late Chief Rabbi Cyril Harris - a moral and mitzvah imperative - was the theme at the launch of a book on...
On the face of it a great era came to an end on Sunday for the SAJBD, with Mary Kluk and Zev Krengel stepping down respectively...
Time passes quickly, we all know that. But no matter who I have spoken to - from school kids to residents in our aged facilities and...
The audience at the national conference of the SAJBD on Sunday expected President Jacob Zuma’s keynote speech to be the event’s highlight, despite other eminent speakers,...
Veteran trade unionist Leon Levy was involved in some of the most significant initiatives of the Congress Movement during the 1950s, a crucial decade that in...
What is a Zionist? The term is an often contested one, not just by placard-bearing protesters and angry academics, but by Israelis themselves
I have to admit to being a bit of a history buff. Some 13 years ago I met Billie Jean King at a junior tennis event...
A soldier stands inside a U-shaped concrete barrier at a quiet roundabout at the Gush Etzion junction, helmet strapped on and armoured vest tied to his...
The ANC supports efforts aimed at the establishment of a Palestinian State existing side-by-side with Israel, Zuma tells Parliament, The ANC wants to return to borders...
Conversion to Judaism has become a controversial subject and the process of conversion differs in expectations and accepted norms across communities worldwide. The Jewish Report examined...
A new academic programme providing a structured and supervised framework for South African students who would like to pursue tertiary education in Israel - a Telfed...
The sell-out SAJBD Elective conferences was broadcast live by 101,9 ChaiFM. All of the 13 speeches have been uploaded separately by ChaiFM so that members of...
A tit-for-tat spat between pro- and anti-Israel lobby groups over the validity of arrest warrants in SA for four Israeli generals who were instrumental in Israel’s...
Mazeltov to winning family of LIRON MAZOR whose name was drawn by a random number generator from among all the qualifying entrants in the Jewish Report’s...
Jonathan Pollard, the former Navy intelligence analyst convicted of spying for Israel in 1987, was freed from a federal prison in North Carolina. Pollard was released...
US scientist and food activist Michael Jacobson originally coined the today widely-used phrase "junk food" among many others.
A Jewish primary school and house were evacuated after a suspicious package was found there last Friday (pictured at left). Pupils and staff and neighbours were...
“I was very privileged to have been given the opportunity to look after England as well as Bafana Bafana during the 2010 World Cup football tournament...
