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Five years ago when SAFI held their first Israel Advocacy week they had one hundred people attending. Back then, Jews were under fire, says Fed head...
Guest blogger Dr James Myburgh, publisher of Politicsweb.co.za, examines the common belief that 'privileged' racial minorities can never be victims of this type of evil –...
Two well-attended pro-Israel demonstrations took place last Friday in solidarity with Israel and Jewish students. The Cape Town rally at Parliament (including this lad on his...
EXCLUSIVE: JR accompanied Dr Dore Gold to the Mandela House Museum in Soweto last Friday. Pictured here is tour guide Ilan Ossendtrywer showing Dr Gold, left,...
The brouhaha surrounding Dr Uri Davis - who on a speaking tour of South Africa last week, called upon this country to declare the Jewish National...
Ahead of this week Tuesday’s critical primary contests in five states, three of which - Ohio, Illinois and Florida - have substantial Jewish communities, Israel had...
In a move that shocked the Jewish establishment last week, the Board of the SA Jewish Report newspaper announced the sale of this publication to the...
A dinner-table conversation led to Herzlia pupils telling potential foreign investors in the hallowed “Old Chamber” of Parliament why they should believe in the future of...
Last week was a good one for the pro-Israel camp in South Africa and it could have been bad. After all it was the now ubiquitous...
South African-born Neil Turok is the recipient of the 2016 John Torrence Tate Award for International Leadership in Physics from the American Institute of Physics. The...
Ex-pat South Africans, Barbi Dorfan and Helen Segal, have added to the public art space in San Diego with two outdoor mosaic projects, both of which...
“Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly,” is a quote attributed to Peter Murphey, a Confederate officer during the US Civil...
With some people, the goodness shines out of them. And so it is with Rabbi Michael Katz (co-director of Chabad House) and Shirley Resnick (manager of...
Under the auspices of the CSO, selected members of the Johannesburg Jewish community last week underwent an intensive training course to further prepare the community to...
The Academy of Jewish Thought recently hosted the South African Zionist Youth Council in a symposium which included the Habonim, Betar, Bnei Akiva and Netzer youth...
This year represents the 175th year since the establishment of the first Jewish congregation in South Africa.
There was a double celebration for Maccabi South Africa at the Houghton Golf Club last Sunday morning. The first was to commemorate an organisation that has...
At the 2015 SAJBD National Conference, we were privileged to honour Leon Levy for his lifetime of devoted and courageous service to the struggle for justice...
Purim, a joyous festival, gives credence to the Jewish joke: “They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat.” It is celebrated every year on the...
Like so many other Jewish little girls on Purim, both my big sister and I would dress up for our annual Purim carnival as Queen Esther....
My love of Italian cuisine was honed at a very early age - there was no lack of Italian restaurants, pizzerias and bakeries. If I had...
This coming Shabbat is called Shabbat Zachor - the Shabbat of Remembrance - one of the special Shabbatot leading up to Passover. In addition to the...
It’s that time of year, when bloggers and crazy Jewish women everywhere scramble to come up with unique variations of hamantaschen. And I am nothing if...
A recent SAJFP (Jews for Palestine) letter in the Jewish Report claimed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “acts in your 'name”'.
The March 18 issue of Jewish Report was replete with articles about Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) and BDS.
The letter from Merlynn Edelstein of the SAJFP in last week’s Jewish Report refers.
Perhaps, or perhaps not, a visionary statement to the peoples of France, Germany, Belgium, Norway, Sweden and Denmark and possibly also the UK and the US...
Merlynn Edelstein (SA Jews for Free Palestine) would be more than surprised just how her organisation and “mainstream” Jewry’s views on the Israel/Palestine issue converge. Both...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
SA JEWISH REPORT STAFF Wounded Syrians treated in Israel ‘overwhelmed with gratitude’ NEW YORK – “At first, they were afraid to be treated by Israelis,...
ANTI-ZIONISM breeds ANTI-SEMITISM: A new survey released in the US this week offers data backing up the argument that anti-Israel activity - by entities including student...
Shooting a film with 2 other Yids last week, spotted and bought plumber’s menorah” at NY hardware shop. The film? “Yen Din Ka Kissa.”
On Thursday 10 March the director-general of The Department of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa (DIRCO), Ambassador Jerry Matjile, and his counterpart from the...
FINAL POST 16h27 (LUNCH IS BEING SERVED) - Follow the LIVE BLOG of the SA Friends of Israel (SAFI) taking place from 9am to 4pm on...
An embattled BDS – which had supposedly solicited news website The Daily Vox to ensure daily coverage of their Israel Apartheid Week events around the country,...
On Monday night Israel Apartheid Week organisers hung two mannequins (pic) on Wits campus. "SAUJS was on that one like a rash" and placed signs on...
The BDS strategy is problematic and unprincipled says Jeenah. Read why...
“It takes special skill to turn the fight for Palestinian rights into a marginal movement in a country where the vast majority identify with victims of...
It’s “f***** malicious” to publish criticism of BDS-SA
