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Last week the community was all abuzz regarding the refusal of a full page advertisement booked in the Sunday Times by the SA Friends of Israel...
The 37th World Zionist Congress took place in Jerusalem recently. Since Theodore Herzl convened the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland in 1897, it has been...
The Europe Israel Public Affairs Committee (EIPA) which lobbies on behalf of the Holy Land in Brussels, says: “The question that has to be asked is:...
Israeli opposition Labour Party leader, Isaac Herzog (pictured) tells his party convention In Tel Aviv this week that in his mind the array of threats in...
To resolve poverty and inequality issues in South Africa, there has to be an honest admission that current levels of unemployment and inequality are unsustainable and...
Last week’s parsha, Chayei Sarah (the life of Sara), relates, among other things, that Isaac married Rebecca at the age of 40 after his mother Sarah,...
Underlying the furore over the ad against Hamas placed by SA Friends of Israel in the Sunday Times - it is not yet clear how it...
The last issue of this newspaper included a forum where various community members gave their views on what they would like President Jacob Zuma to speak...
It took agreeing to set aside differences on Iran and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process for President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to get...
Local Islamists are understandably jubilant right now in the wake of the ruling party having now officially kashered their favourite Jihadi movement. It was not something...
Mushkie Barber, daughter of Rabbi Mendel and Mashi Lipskar (who is head of the Lubavitch Foundation in Southern Africa), was born and brought up in Johannesburg....
The parsha this week begins with a heartrending period for Yitzchok and Sarah, 10 years of childlessness. Imagine the endless flow of tears and prayer that...
The first question Johannesburg’s Carmit Nadel had put to her as she arrived in Meknes, Morocco with her husband and fellow powerlifter, Nic Ingel, for the...
SA JEWISH REPORT STAFF Four years after the tsunami – a look at IsraAID’s work TOKYO – When ISRAEL21c president Amy Friedkin was touring Japan...
We secular Jews often feel strongly about religious tolerance, yet when it comes to our ancient traditions we sometimes lose that tolerance.
Geoff Sifrin writing in his Taking Issue column last week, disagreed with placing THAT advert in the Sunday Times. He makes much sense, as do the...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
There was a time when South Africa was at the forefront of diamond cutting and processing, but over the years the country has managed to lose...
Stories poured in from around the world in the aftermath of last month’s second international Shabbos Project, in which more than a million Jews in 918...
“I have a dead cat outside my home - please can you come and collect it!” “Will you please come and take my garden refuse to...
Cosmetics magnate Ronald S Lauder is expected in South Africa later this month as guest at the SA Jewish Board of Deputies conference - and he...
"The media in South Africa is not biased,” David Oleska said at an Israel advocacy lecture I recently attended. He went on to say that in...
Sexwale’s bid to head FIFA could be scuppered by a questionable business relationship with an Israeli worth R17-bil. In June FIFA appointed Sexwale to lead a...
The attached piece ran in the printed edition of SA Jewish Report as a sidebar to GRUZD's main article: "ANC still supports two states… for now"
The visit of Hamas to South Africa in October to meet the ANC top brass, continues to have repercussions. The latest episode played out on the...
When suspected Israeli crime boss Shai Musli walks into the Randburg Magistrate's Court on Monday for his bail hearing, he may be surprised to find that...
The board and editor of the Sunday Times actually did the SAZF a great favour by pulling the Hamas/Jihad full page ad. The SAZF could have...
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SEE FULL PICTURE INSIDE: As a beaming Rabbi Osher Feldman ascended the pulpit last Shabbat to deliver his sermon, he welcomed worshippers with a hearty “Good...
The commission of inquiry following the serious injury to a local baby at his brith milah in Sandton in June last year has recommended the mohel...
The extermination of over 95 per cent of Lithuanian Jewry (one of the highest death rates in Europe) in three short years between 1941 and 1944,...
Statistics in terms of number of attacks are hard to come by, as Israel only reports attacks which result in injury or death of its citizens,...
Online editor Ant Katz asks in a new blog: Surely the ANC government cannot be so naïve as to think that these matters are not discussed...
US foreign policy driven by "enemy of my enemy" policy for 120 years
Parliamentary commission launches urgent investigation into “Commercialisation of Religion” in SA to establish the regulation of religions, writes Dr Ivor Blumenthal. The commission’s chairman, he says,...
Israel is in mourning after the passing of its fifth president, Yitzhak Navon (pictured) last Shabbat and a book of condolences has been opened at the...
Acclaimed Israeli speaker and determined BDS-fighter Dr Einat Wilf is one of the few Israeli’s who “gets how important South Africa is” in the anti-Israeli lobby...
Last week readers had a lot to say about the four kashrut alerts issued by the kashrut division of the Union of Orthodox Synagogues. (An “alert”...
This article was translated from French by Steven B Kennedy and appeared in Algemeiner on October 21. Dr Lévy is one of France’s most famous philosophers....
The Johannesburg Jewish Male Choir celebrated its 30th year with a special anniversary concert at the Sandton Shul last week, with guest Cantor Steven Leas from...
