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Now Jew-hating PE lawyer denies allegations, set to sue SAJBD Shalom reader, Welcome to our second issue of 2016! In the news … Kosher authorities in...
“WOOLIES RUBBISHES RUMOURS OF GOING GAZA ON ISRAEL” - first published in July 2014 comes a close second in the Top Reads of all time on...
The Johannesburg Beth Din answers comments like: “Excuse me, but what good will it do to send an alert? What about a person who doesn't have...
In the last few weeks the media has been filled with stories of South Africa’s educational crises. Universities have been plagued with protests and the 2015...
Kosher consumers are again upset after the Beth Din issued a Kosher Alert about cheese products that are packed and marketed by ‘Kee Ingredients’ (and displaying...
Four months into the “knife intifada” in Israel, Sunday’s attack on an Israeli woman in her home in the West Bank settlement, Otniel, where she was...
Confronting the problem of online racism continues to be a dominating subject in the media, with many public figures and commentators adding their voices to the...
Why is the cost of kosher food escalating beyond the ability of young and even older families to afford it - and what are the solutions?
At the age of 83, Max Baise, South Africa’s first Jewish international rugby referee, has published a book on his life, “Mister Ref: Test Referee Max...
How should we feel when we pray? If you’re like me, one of the major challenges of formal prayer is to actively and consciously be emotionally...
This year the South African Jewish community will be caught up in the spirit of celebrating its 175th anniversary, the years since Jews made their presence...
This year the South African Jewish community celebrates its 175th anniversary. As the history of the community began in Cape Town, a festive programme from the...
Professor Reuben Musiker, a prominent figure in academia and one of the leading lights of the Jewish community, passed away recently shortly before his 85th birthday
Sir Jack Zunz received an honorary doctorate of science in engineering, from his alma mater, the University of the Witwatersrand, last December.
Imagine being able to slide into school, climb on the snake-rope jungle gym, chat to your friends through an underground tunnel, enjoy a quick round of...
The SA Board of Jewish Education has announced the appointment of Andrew Baker as the new headmaster of the King David High School Victory Park campus....
One wonders if international sporting bodies are ever going to put their foot down over countries not allowing Israel to participate in world team competitions.
The serious approach and professionalism with which the Jewish youth movements looked after the children attending their camps was heart warming, Ben Swartz, chairman of the...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
JERUSALEM -Last week, a Belz yeshiva student found a small bag containing 130 000 shekels (over R520 000) in cash at a bus station in Haifa.
When Pope Francis crosses the Tiber River to visit to Rome’s Great Synagogue on Sunday, he became the third pontiff in history to do so. But...
Rabbi Jay Karzen, coined the “Jerusalem barmitzvah king” by The Jerusalem Post in 1997, has stories to make you laugh out loud or cry tears of...
Popular chazzan, Rev Rodney Richard, has been appointed spiritual leader of the Emmarentia Hebrew Congregation from February 1.
There is a fable generated by the media which is biased in many ways about Israel. There was never a Palestine in history; it is an...
The article in last week’s Jewish Report, under the headline "Zuma discourages ANC to travel to Israel" by Ant Katz, was informative, particularly in the light...
Regarding Monica Solomons’ letter that Reform ministers should also be called rabbi, thanks for the appetite suppressant.
It would provide an interesting exercise to investigate the health of some staff members of the Jewish youth camps, with specific reference to their back problems,...
It’s no secret that the cost of food, especially kosher food, in South Africa, is becoming more and more prohibitive and with the latest expected “junk...
“JEWS PER SE ARE PEACE-LOVING PEOPLE” said PE lawyer Maureen Jansen, pictured, this week, vowing to sue the SAJBD which had laid a hate speech complaint...
Naughty son made Shlomo Rechnitz famous. Until he admitted that his mom's R9-b Lotto win wasn't real.
Nominations for this year's Jerusalem Unity Prize will be accepted until February 4.
Is medical pot kosher? A storm has erupted as applications are submitted for hechsherim. Yes says the US's OU. No says Canada’s KCC, but that country’s...
Books to look forward to from Jan – July 2016: This is so much published that to find the right book can often be intimidating....
Forget the bumph that was spread like a virtual virus on Jewish social media today. Woolworths have come out loudly and proudly apolitical, as always, and...
One of our most regular users sent this bit of hilarity to share with fellow-users. It makes a great start to the work-week, or. for some,...
Beth Din just announced that popular ‘Tanqueray Gin’ will no longer be kosher. Check with them about existing stock and lay in your supplies if you...
Bev Goldman writes on Israeli innovation with South African applications and marketability – read about an amazing new hands free system.
Mary Kluk, president of the SA Jewish Board of Deputies and a court witness, was delighted at the turn of events during mid-December when on the...
In what he touted as a “victory over the Israeli legal authorities”, the son of fugitive Rabbi Eliezer Berland (pictured) announced last Monday that his father...
The Rhodes fiasco, what it cost them and who left after our exposé. The rise of toxic anti-Zionism, followed by the fall of a once-revered university,...
