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US Presidential hopeful Donald Trump explains his statements on being ‘neutral’ on the Middle East Boaz Bismuth of JNS.org, a partner-service of SA Jewish Report. In...
The kashrut department of the Johannesburg Beth Din announced this week that all newly-made batches of “Ina Paarman’s Sundried Tomato Pesto" will no longer carry a...
“Tuning Baghdad” is a great radio show (new episode premiers 29 Feb.) One person, Regine Basha, has single-handedly collected & curates the genre .
Latvia’s parliament this week passed a bill that facilitates the return of some buildings that were owned by Jewish communities before the Holocaust. The group’s statement...
Trump hit on Israel ‘neutrality’, Sanders opens up on Jewish pride. In a stinging debate exchange early this morning SA time, Donald Trump’s professions of neutrality...
Read the latest news and views about – and of interest to - South African and world Jewry, The South African Jewish Report sends out a...
Half the States in US and the Federal Government, France, and the United Kingdom have, or are busy taking measures to ban the Boycott, Divestment and...
Government has been meeting with business leaders in an almost unprecedented way in the last few weeks to discuss ways of building investor confidence and rejuvenating...
150 Jewish diaspora leaders and activists attended a conference on Sunday and Monday in Jerusalem to discuss tactical matters a month before the annual BDS flagship...
JERUSALEM - Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Monday eulogised Samuel Willenberg, believed to be the last remaining survivor of the Treblinka death camp, who died last...
A yacht party on the bobbing waves of Table Bay, last Sunday, brought together close to 150 of Cape Town's young Jewish students for the "Chabad...
The annual Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) on South African university campuses next month, between March 7 and 13, again raises two major dilemmas for Jews: Where...
For the past decade and more, a global campaign has been underway aimed at boycotting the State of Israel at all levels, be it in the...
There is an old joke about the four students who have to write a thesis on the elephant. The English student’s thesis is on hunting and...
I “went to church” on Sunday - not to attend a service, but to mingle with the thousands who were gathered inside and outside the former...
Previously Community Voices focused on the State of the Nation address (SONA) and the shortcomings of President Jacob Zuma and the ruling ANC. This time, however,...
What makes for good sex? It’s an unusual question for the wife of an Orthodox rabbi to talk about publicly,
Unless you have a large family, few people can imagine the logistics behind co-ordinating a household with 15 children aged 7 - 20 years.
Community icon and member of the Board of Directors of the SA Jewish Report, Bertie Lubner (right), was among the audience that packed the Rabbi Cyril...
The Bloemfontein Jewish community, which in its heyday in the 1970s, was one of the largest country communities in South Africa, has in recent years diminished...
Twenty Diller Teen Fellows from King David Linksfield and Victory Park took part in a graduation ceremony at Beyachad, on Monday.
In a world that's seems awash in negativity, the overwhelming message of the Chabad’s 26th Miracle Drive gala dinner held last Wednesday in Johannesburg was about...
Local, multi-award-winning photographer Alon Skuy (35) was recognised last year by the Donald W Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of journalism for his portfolio...
SA JEWISH REPORT STAFF Artificial light at night can make us fat HAIFA – Turning off lights and drawing the shades when you go to...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
Two years ago, my husband and I went on a food tour across Istanbul; our guide was boasting about lahmacun, Turkish-style pizza.
A young Jewish ballerina from Johannesburg, is setting the local dance scene ablaze. Jessica Hurwitz from Oaklands in Johannesburg is competing this week in the 5th...
Apparently I have been labouring under a misapprehension. I vaguely recall that in the not too distant past President Jacob Zuma informed the South African population...
On behalf of the World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ), we are writing to express our shock and condemnation of the South African Jewish Report’s publication...
I want to share a story of how somebody who was missing was located. I was the one who found him. Phyllis Robins, a friend of...
In a letter in last week’s Jewish Report, Monica Solomon falsely referred to an assertion I had supposedly made about Progressive rabbis. This is untrue. I...
It has been a tough past week, as once again we (Progressive Jews) have been at it again with our "Orthodox" counterparts in South Africa. (See...
The oral Torah, as the name implies, was originally transmitted orally and written down in a cryptic form and later elaborated and vigorously debated. It is...
Last week’s issue of the Jewish Report provided a breath of fresh air with two lead articles - Vanessa Valkin’s editorial and Geoff Sifrin’s “Taking Issue”...
Yids and their Harleys are quite a story. We found this out when we covered last weekend's rally in SA where they ha a minyan, and...
Join in the weekly pro-Israel march in Johannesburg. Here’s your chance to show that you care once a month or so, by joining these Christian Zionists...
Despite health and safety scares, one of the world’s most famous men, Israeli elder statesman Shimon Peres (92), will be in South Africa this weekend and...
So many Jews went on this year’s annual Harley “Route 62 Rally” that they even organised a Shabbos dinner in Montagu. A stalwart of the event,...
Rabbi Mel Hecht clutches his black coffee and paces in front of the Dunkin' Donuts just down the road from the Red Rock Casino in Las...
It’s a matter of dispute as to whether “Jew-friendly” Antonin Scalia, who died last Saturday, was the American Supreme Court’s most conservative jurist. Some think Clarence...
