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The annual tussle between Israel’s antagonists and protagonists during Israel Apartheid Week was very much an online event this week, largely ignored by the mainstream media...
SAUJS’ well-planned and handsomely implemented awareness campaign ensured that they came out on top in this year’s IAW (Israel Awareness Week) vs IAW (Israel Apartheid Week)...
Rosh Beth Din Rabbi Moshe Kurtstag has been part and parcel of the Beth Din for so many years that it is difficult to envision him...
Early in April 1990 I arrived, still wet behind the ears, at the Johannesburg Public Library to begin what would be a seven-year stint as Curator:...
A well-placed foreigner who has lived for the past few years in this community, made a somewhat controversial observation in conversation recently. He said that the...
Hindsight is 20/20 vision, they say but it is often fun looking at what is said prior to a sporting event and then what is said...
Last Thursday, the Helping Hands division of the Chevrah Kadisha, schooled the rest of the Jewish community in how to attract young Jewish professional into the...
In a survey that spanned politics, religion and interfaith relations, one statistic stood out: nearly half of Israel’s Jews support expelling the country’s Arabs.
South African university campuses have literally been burning in recent weeks. Student protests, which began peacefully last year, have regularly turned violent. In the process, the...
Monica Solomon has been elected as the new chairman of the Gauteng region of the South African Union for Progressive Judaism (SAUPJ).
“Israel Apartheid Week”, an annual anti-Israel hate fest masquerading as human rights activism, got underway this week. The Board, as on previous occasions, combined with the...
Gemma Davies, a grade 10 Redhill School learner (pictured), conjuring up images of the Holocaust through her history lessons and the testimony of a survivor on...
The Talmud teaches us that just like no two people look the same, similarly no two people think alike. Today’s society is all too quick to...
Over the decades there have been countless stories of the heroics of ordinary people, many of them non-Jews, who went out on a limb to help...
Born in France and raised in Montreal, Bronya Slavin Shaffer will be coming to South Africa for Pesach and to conduct an all-women seder at the...
Martin Landau is one of Hollywood most revered actors who, at 87, is still doing a remarkable job.
Extremists on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide will not like the ideas of Palestinian peace activist Professor Mohammed Dajani, who has been brought to South...
Last week the Chev arranged a shloshim service at Yeshiva College for the late Brent Sloman, pictured here with me. Brent was always ready with a...
In South Africa this week to recruit for South Africans Studying in Israel (SASI) are Rabbi Dorron Kline, CEO of Telfed (the SA Zionist Federation in...
"Remember" is an engrossing film that while embracing a Holocaust theme, transforms into a tense, detective-type thriller.
Thursday, the 7th of Adar (corresponding to March 17), marks the yahrtzeit of Moshe Rabbeinu, Moses our teacher.
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, former Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, who has spent decades bringing spiritual insight to the public conversation...
As chairman of the United Jewish Campaign (UJC), this community’s fundraising arm, for the past 16 months, Alison Katzeff has noticed a change in patterns of...
In her recently published memoir “My Fat Dad: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Family, with Recipes” (Berkley Books, September 2015), New York Times wellness blogger...
In an astonishing display of generosity, the winners of the gold and silver medals in the scholar classical section of the 5th South African International Ballet...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
SA JEWISH REPORT STAFF Common blood test may diagnose Alzheimer’s HAIFA – The progressive dementia of Alzheimer’s disease affects some 35 million people worldwide and is...
John Brenner On behalf of “The Society for the Reconciliation of Jews in Difficult Times” I am writing this letter. I address it to all Jews,...
Last weekend’s visit to Johannesburg by Shimon Peres, the Israeli elder statesman was a resounding success. More than 1 500 people packed the Convention auditorium to...
The SAJFP’s political views obviously diverge from what seems to be the mainstream Jewish perspective on Israel-Palestine. Nevertheless, we feel strongly about these views and about...
If I were Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan or his predecessor Nhlanhla Nene, then President Jacob Zuma’s statement that Des van Rooyen (who served only four...
I am sorry to read in last week’s edition of Jewish Report that some Jewish political figures in the US Republican Party think about voting for...
Having participated in the Orthodox/Reform debate on the letters pages of Jewish Report, I have realised that there are sincere and well-meaning people on both sides...
“It is a glorious irony that International Women’s Day falls smack bang in the middle of Israel Apartheid Week” writes Rolene Marks (RoRo to her friends...
International Women’s Day falls smack bang in the middle of Israel Apartheid Week
IAW Day #1.5 – Monday morning to Tuesday mid-day has certainly seen fortune favouring the Jewish students – but it has been a hard-fought guerrilla battle,...
BEN SWARTZ (pictured) National Chairman of the South African Zionist Federation, writes a tongue-in-cheek letter thanking BDS for helping Israel and the world to promote the...
Writing in a blog on The Times of Israel today, South African Israel advocate Willie Patterson says: “The annual worldwide BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) campaign...
The annual Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) kicked off with a shock endorsement by the ANC says the SAJBD’s national executive director Wendy Kahn. “Once again, ANC...
I read the article of Steven Gruzd with regards the Palestinian issue being hijacked by foreign policy in last week’s Jewish Report. I sit on the...
