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While the SA Jewish Board of Deputies is a completely transformed and well-oiled machine, says newly inducted national chairman Jeff Katz, he hopes to add a...
Musli cases remanded, provisionally for January 18. The side-by-side bail and extradition cases of Shai Musli, who Israeli police accuse of being the boss of one...
In '94, one of the more gifted entertainers among the chosen, Adam Sandler, came up with one of our most iconic holiday jingles ever, “The Chanukah...
The back-and-forth of public rhetoric between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli lobbyists in SA has, since the 2014 Gaza incursion, never reached the heights that it has since...
Independent Media under fire from SA Jewry. Multiple complaints laid about the lack of impartiality of editorial coverage in recent weeks, falsely reporting that SA had...
The anti-Israel lobby groups in South Africa, assisted by certain media and in particular, the Independent Newspaper Group, disseminated news that warrants for the arrest of...
Many Jews will reject the warning a week ago by the last white South African president, FW de Klerk, that Israel is heading towards apartheid, that...
In the company of his whole family and of Israel’s Ambassador to South Africa Arthur Lenk, Erik Kinstler walked to the podium unaided to deliver a...
Former South African Steve Felder, who has lived in Kenya since 2012, has been all over the world meeting celebrities. But the invitation he received from...
The recent SAJBD national conference, combined with the visit of Ronald Lauder, one of the world’s most important Jewish leaders, provided an ideal opportunity for a...
The problem in Russia today was a lack of manpower to assist Jews who want to reclaim their heritage, said Rabbi Berel Lazar, chief rabbi of...
I was privileged to sit on a panel with some fascinating women at the WIZO South Africa 35th Triennial Conference in Cape Town last Sunday. We...
It seems as if everyone is climbing on to the ‘Chanukah bandwagon’ with more and more events cramming the festive calendar.
Alan Bender, master chef at Feigel’s for the past five years, a fellow of the SA Chef Association, has brought a novel, modern way of cooking...
South African rugby referee icon Jonathan Kaplan, has been elected to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame for 2016.
The Pretoria Shul is not just a shul in a community, but the core from which everything branches out, Rabbi Gidon Fox, spiritual leader of the...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies used the visit of Ambassador Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, to arrange five meetings with senior...
OWN CORRESPONDENT Milton Shain, A Perfect Storm – Anti-Semitism in South Africa 1930 – 1948, Jonathan Ball Publishers, R275 Prof Milton Shain, a leading scholar...
This week's parsha begins Vayeishev Yaakov - And Yaakov settled. To settle connotes peace, rest and tranquility. We all seek peace and a respite from everything...
Because Chanukah usually occurs in December, it is sometimes thought of as the "Jewish Christmas". It isn't, of course. And yet it is fair to say...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, sat kiddy-corner in armchairs at this week's international climate summit near Paris, talking and laughing.
There are many religions in the world, but to the best of my knowledge, the Jewish religion is one of the very few, if not the...
I have been reading with interest the criticisms about the JVJP. I find that a very important point is always omitted. Most people say that Israel...
That the CSO are alleged to have roughed up some members of Jewish Volices for a Just Peace (JVJP) is indeed disturbing, more so, given that...
While Jewish Voices for a Just Peace prides itself on its noble cause in pursuit of peace and justice, the group's ignorance never fails to amaze....
Anti-Israeli lobbyists, mostly holders of a single share, bombarded Woolworths’ directors with questions aimed at getting them to abort trade ties with Israel. A member of...
The South African Friends of Israel (SAFI), a division of the SAZF, hosted a special community report-back session last week at the Great Park auditorium. MPs...
Noted academic Nadav Shragai is our guest blogger this week – he offers some basic truths about the “status quo” on the Temple Mount – cutting...
US Jewry clamouring to host Olga Meshoe… Again! So impressed was US Jewry when Deisi International COO Olga Meshoe, a fervent Christian Zionist, went on a...
SA lobbyists join hands with UK Jewry’s’ highly successful “IsrAction Campaign last year, aimed at buying Israeli or kosher products and giving them to the less...
When financial planner Liron Mazor, pictured, and his family won Jewish Report’s biggest-ever competition last week, the R2 ,000 “Personalised Family Fitness Package” competition in association...
Morrie Ostroff, who passed away in Israel yesterday, was a giant in the world of advocacy. So much so, that fellow expat SA journalist David Kaplan...
