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Board lays hate speech complaint with HRC over PE lawyer Maureen Jansen’s Facebook rant. “Such hate-mongering goes beyond defaming and threatening any particular group of people;...
The kashrut division of the Beth Din issued another kashrut alert this week blaming wrongly-marked packaging for the fact that although "Kee Wings" cheeses contain “an...
Cape Town, the beautiful Mother City, is slowly recovering from the weight of the holiday-making crowds as people return home to start the new year. This...
A successful matriculant today is often far more than merely a good learner, and usually excels in a variety of fields and activities. Jewish Report spoke...
I’m not kidding, but then I’m a parent, not a child. Actually, in their most truthful moments our children might admit that the holidays can get...
The racial furore in South African social media over recent weeks, brought hideous comments from across the spectrum. It started with one Penny Sparrow calling black...
One of the main stories in the media in the opening weeks of 2016 has been the public’s outrage over various racist comments that have appeared...
It is more than two years since Anton Marcus last rode the winner of one of South Africa’s three big races - the Durban July, the...
And G-d said to Moses: Come to Pharaoh (Exodus 10:1) Rashi: vehatreh bo. And make a warning [at/through] him. Rashi’s comment is vehatreh bo. Bo can...
2015 was not a good year in South Africa: the falling rand, falling statues, the #FeesMustFall campaign, crises in education, the mining sector, continued crime and...
The mood of general negativity that marked the end of 2015 seems to have carried into the new year. South Africans of all races, persuasions and...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
I recently viewed a video emanating from Australia where purportedly the Muslim communities pressure companies into submitting to Halaal certification for their products under threat of...
I refer to the letters by Choni Davidowitz and Avner Romm in Jewish Report’s November 27, 2015 edition, equating the two-state Mideast solution with flogging a...
I’m disgusted that Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom Ephraim Mirvis has recommended teaching Islam in Jewish schools in Britain. His destructive recommendations are now being...
I read Isaac Reznik’s article in Jewish Report of December 11, “Reflecting on the life and times of Rabbi Bernard Casper”, with interest. I would, however,...
Certain Jews in America have criticised (Republican Party presidential hopeful) Donald Trump for his recent remarks about not allowing Muslims into America if he were elected...
This is a test of placing the Jewish Report Online newsletter on the website. The weekly JR newsletter is sent out to a twenty-thousand-plus database. This...
President Zuma read significant parts of a document entitled: “Statement of the National Executive Committee” (NEC) at the ANC's 104th birthday party last Shabbos. The statements...
A story posted yesterday on Newsmaker of the Year R. Berland’s site claims his deportation by Zim caused El Niño & the worst drought in over...
Bataclan Theatre has ties to Israeli Jews, writes Hebdo editor Gėrard Biard. “We are so used to Jews being killed because they are Jewish. This is...
In what he touted as a “victory over the Israeli legal authorities”, Rabbi Berland’s son, Nachum, announced on Monday that the Shuvu Banim Breslov sect’s spiritual...
SAJBD angry as Gauteng employee ignores HRC’s pleas to South Africans yesterday not to "fight racism with racism". Velaphi ‘Vel-hova’ Khumalo, who works for the provincial...
The most viral story of the year had 1 229 reads within 24 hours of its November 11 publication (and 2 199 in the week) and...
December’s top-read on SAJR was SANTA’S STORY. Today we publish more about this amazing lady from user Jeanette Airey on the iconic Santa Pelham, pictured, who...
Despite the adversity of suffering from attention deficit disorder ADD, Guy Elad, pictured, walked away with seven distinctions from Crawford College! Don’t miss SA Jewish Report’s...
Be careful what TV news you consume and “save yourself being as angry as I was today!” writes Ant Katz in a new blog. “So what...
Careful what you consume on news channels and save yourself being as angry as I was today!
A new Egyptian ambassador has taken up his post in Israel, after three years in which there was no senior diplomat leading the embassy (although it...
The non-profit Shavei Israel reported in a statement today that the homes and property of the Bnei Menashe community there had incurred “extensive damage”. No one...
UPDATED WEDNESDAY: It is not often that a community media platform gets to write 63 stand-alone stories on one individual’s activities over 20 months. Therefore, for...
BDS tries to have its agenda adopted by universities, churches, unions, rights organisations & community groups. It co-opt minority affinity groups, & others, also well-meaning people...
Fugitive Rabbi Eliezer Berland celebrated his 79th birthday last week. The rabbi is living in exile in South Africa after he jumped bail and disappeared from...
Jayden Krok, pictured, of King David Linksfield, could hardly believe his ears when he heard last week that he had achieved a whopping nine distinctions in...
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...
In a new blogpost entitled “Suffer the Children” today, SA ola Rolene Marks, reflects that “in a conflict situation or time of war, it is always...
Suffer the children no more.
If you thought all the Russian Jews were in Israel, you are wrong. Anything but… The Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS (FJC) comprises about...
Not only did Adolph Ochs start the tradition on Times Square – he even got the mayor to change the square’s name after he bought, and...
BREAKING NEWS! At least two dead and seven seriously wounded in a suspected terror shooting in Tel Aviv. The shooter fled on foot after a Friday...
