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The question on Jewish lips around the Jewish world today, is whether Bernie Sanders just steal Joe Lieberman’s Jewish crown as the pre-eminent US politician? After...
If the Jews do one thing well, it’s to imprint their mark on new lands. And if that imprint describes one pattern, it would be some...
It may be unconstitutional for parents to smack their children, according to a recent Human Rights Commission report. The age old debate about how best to...
The legacy of Nelson Mandela, once universally esteemed, has been brought into question by those who feel transformation is lacking, some 22 years after our transition...
Think for a moment about your early-morning routine. What happens when you wake up and prepare to start your day? You may dash to the shower,...
One person in the world of sport who gets very little attention but is often the man in the machine room is the all-important publicist. He...
It is well known that when it comes to food, people are careful to check that what they are about to purchase or eat is kosher.
SA JEWISH REPORT STAFF Parents can now skip germ-ridden waiting rooms NETANYA – Your preschooler wakes up with an earache and fever. You tell your boss...
The country’s decline under President Jacob Zuma leaves South Africans between a rock and a hard place. On one hand, their intense desire to be rid...
Jewish organisations, particularly large ones, tend to play the person, not the ball, says Dr Ivor Blumenthal, who has started the Labour Relations Gemach (gemilut chesed).
If racism is to be defeated, then all South Africans, and not just the leadership, must become involved in the fight. This is the basis of...
Throughout its history, and particularly since South Africa’s transition to democracy in 1994, the SAJBD has been involved in various public policy initiatives aimed at combating...
Pictured are part of a group of 20 senior clergymen at the Sea of Galilee who have just returned from what was, clearly, a life-altering experience...
Every morning, Bernie Sanders would wake up at 04:10 to pick apples and pears. Leaving the cabin he shared with a few other American college student...
Dafina is an iconic, slow-cooked Moroccan stew served especially on Shabbat. It has a long history and no two are the same.
On the morning of December 1, 1988, a group of about 70 Jewish women entered the sacred space of the Western Wall. They represented all the...
I’m responding to last week’s letter by Rina King of Jewish Voices for a Just Peace, where she laments: “Imagine if never again was for everyone...
It has endured for almost 4 000 years through thick and thin. Never before has a nation been through so much and for so long. Not...
What an exciting two weeks it has been in light of the backlash to my letter asking how Reform priests can be called rabbis, seeing they...
During his childhood in Port Elizabeth, Steven Robins - now a professor in the department of sociology and social anthropology at the University of Stellenbosch -...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
Maybe now that Bernie Sanders has become the first Jewish candidate to win a presidential primary he’ll start getting the Joe Lieberman treatment.
About two-dozen people filed into Dodd 175 at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus on a Thursday night – February 4 - scouting out...
The Department of Home Affairs has reversed an earlier decision to ban the six-year-old Noa Schapiro from re-entering South Africa for five years, splitting her Cape...
Jewish Report has bad tidings for kosher consumers who may have thought new variety had entered their households: Fruitree Grape Juice is NOT KOSHER! But this...
A frum teen from suburban New York failed in her bid to make the US Olympics table tennis team as she couldn’t compete in the third...
Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican senator running in the US Republican nomination process ahead of the 2016 Elections as an anti-establishment maverick, slammed Donald Trump for...
When the Broncos beat the Panthers 24-10 in Sunday’s Super Bowl 50, almost R90 000 found its way into two shuls’ coffers thanks to a fundraiser...
Avi Mayer is an internationally renowned social media and Israel activist who recently visited, with a strong message for the Jo’burg millennials about social media and...
Read the latest news and views about – and of interest to - South African and world Jewry, The South African Jewish Report sends out a...
Rabbi-on-the-run Eliezer Berland dodged an arrest attempt by Interpol and the South African Hawks for the third time last month, despite security forces arriving with a...
The Israeli government’s passage of legislation that authorises egalitarian prayer in a soon-to-be-created section adjacent to the southern part of the Western Wall has been called...
The Jewish world is not short on excitement lately: in the US, a powerful Jewish billionaire has become the latest contender for the White House; Israel...
Sunday January 31, saw the beginning of Maccabi SA’s Junior football preparations for the 2017 Maccabiah.
It is ironic that the provocative play Bad Jews is on in Johannesburg at the same time as the strange saga of fugitive Rabbi Eliezer Berland...
Sunday Times’ assistant editor, Jeremy Gordin, who broke the story that was the top-trending news story in Israel on Monday, has received letters from attorneys representing...
The Commonwealth Jewish Council, which includes southern Africa, has elected a new president, Jon, Lord Mendelsohn, who succeeds the late Lord Janner.
The 2016 US presidential race has been high on twists, with billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump and socialist Bernie Sanders leading in many polls. But...
Last week's edition of Jewish Report features an article by a leading (Chabad) rabbi in which he strongly emphasises the need for faith in Hashem and...
Ve’ahavta lerei’acha kamocha - love our neighbour as yourself - is the motto of the Hebrew Order of David (HOD) International, borne out by the camaraderie...
