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Contender for top Chanukah song is a real howler. Watch this video (and read lyrics) by Jewish rapper who offers eating deep-fried carbs without guilt
Keeping up annual tradition, JNF distributes trees to Israel’s churches, monasteries, convents, embassies, journalists and general public
FBI says the rabbi boasted about using a cattle prod, other tools to pressure recalcitrant husbands to grant gets to agunot, without which they can't remarry
Violinist Itzhak Perlman, named 2016 winner on Monday, joins previous recipients: former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and actor-director Michael Douglas
The Union of Orthodox Synagogues of South Africa (UOS) today issued a special prayer for rain which can be inserted into the Shema Koleinu section of...
“The e-mails impinge adversely on the dignity of the Jewish people and constitute hate speech against people of the Jewish faith or belief and ethnic origin!”...
Three Jews suspected of involvement in an arson attack that killed three members of a West Bank Palestinian family, can be prevented from meeting with their...
Local Rabbi Gavin Michal has become an international hit as a blogger and on Twitter with his Kotzk Blogs and, now, with #shortkotzkvorts, he reaches an...
In an op-ed piece, ANT KATZ ponders over the historical move by Israel to open its first official, visible mission in Abu Dhabi, the capital of...
Dutch daily NRC published an exclusive interview with Rabbi Berland’s lawyer, Louis de Leon, today. Read how the ailing Rav hopes a newfound diplomatic status could...
Netanyahu “rejects” Trump’s foot-in-mouth remark this week about (temporarily) banning all Muslims from entering the US. Okay, says Trump, cancelling his planned visit to Israel: “I...
For the first time in the history of Israel, the Israel Land Authority and the Tourism Ministry are publishing a tender to establish a national chain...
SABC-2’s regular Sunday morning 30-minute Jewish programme “Simcha” ran a feature on the SAJR some months back. SABC has uploaded the episode, which starts with an...
As promised in an article which appeared last month, Maccabi South Africa has launched its new corporate identity and online home.
The Jewish gene pool, despite being a source of great talent, has given rise to some genetically linked complications, particularly in the Ashkenazi community.
For four years, llana Lerner Kalmanovich rode a hot and crowded bus three hours each day to reach the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where...
The world’s top Jewish philanthropic duo Sheldon and Miriam Adelson, the biggest donors to the 2012 US Republican presidential election campaign and a famously media-shy couple,...
Boruch Hashem, what a special Shabbos we are celebrating this week! We do the unusual and take out three holy Torahs. In the first we read...
This being the final Above Board column for 2015, it is a good time to reflect on the last year. Naturally, there were low points, most...
Raw nerves for Jewish South Africans will be touched by two new books published in France and South Africa, highlighting the authors' uneasy identities as both...
Having a year-end break on the coast with the children, takes away the holiday problem: what to do with the children. But for those remaining in...
It’s easy to fall into old habits when visiting Cape Town, but don’t be fooled by its sleepy reputation - there’s much to do in the...
A day before University of Missouri graduate student Jonathan Butler made headlines with a hunger strike protesting racism on campus, a coalition of 36 Jewish and...
Our tropical sun-kissed eastern shores have always been known as South Africa’s playground and there’s nowhere better to spend the December holidays than in Durban.
December is the month when some of the most entertaining and thought-provoking films are released and there are a number of excellent productions to see during...
Yossi Sarid was one of Israel’s most enigmatic citizens. Last Friday his regular column was published in Haáretz. His columns typified the contradictions of the man....
Veteran communal leader Marlene Bethlehem recently notched up another post on her already formidable CV. She has been appointed chairman of the Rabbi Cyril Harris Community...
This year marks the 27th yarzheit of Rabbi Bernard Moses Casper z.tl on the 10th of Tevet (Fast of Tevet) 5776, which corresponds to December 22.
As a bibliophile and sometime reviewer of books on ChaiFM radio, I have to make many choices about what to read. There is so much top...
The Pretoria Jewish community celebrated Chanukah with a car parade from the Pretoria Hebrew Congregation in Groenkloof.
The discovery last week of a seal impression bearing the name of King Hezekiah (Chizkiah), during excavations near the Temple Mount makes one marvel yet again...
The holiday spirit has truly taken hold of most South Africans - and the Jewish community is no exception. School has closed and sweltering December heat...
At a glittering event in Sandton last week, the winners of the Primestars Step Up 2 A Start-Up Trailblazer competition were awarded with prizes including bursaries...
The Union of Jewish Women, Johannesburg, joined over 40 000 volunteers worldwide on Mitzvah Day 2015, with their special project "Bringing light to the people"
During the Second World War, Germany murdered six million Jews while the Europeans stood by and in some instances gleefully assisted. Now they are being replaced...
I would like to ask Geoff Sifrin and all those in favour of a two-state solution, the following questions: Are you in favour of the expulsion...
I seldom read the Jewish Report in full, and much less write letters, but when my husband asked me to read Geoff Sifrin's Taking Issue column...
Geoff Sifrin, in his Taking Issue column, is correct in asserting that many Jews will reject former President De Klerk’s warning, that Israel is heading towards...
A news item headed "Mel Gibson's daughter marries a Jew" appeared in the November 6 issue of the SA Jewish Report. You correctly cite The Daily...
No fewer than 47 of the wealthiest 225 South Africans, measured by the value of listed shares they hold, are Jewish. This is according to the...
