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The Cape Council of the SA Jewish Board of Deputies has emphatically denied having reached any compromise with the three claimants who are taking the Cape...
Randburg magistrate denied Rabbi Eliezer Berland (pictured, left, for JR Online by Ilan Ossendryver) bail after his “brazen” escape from Holland while on bail there. His...
Bail for Rabbi Eliezer Berland was denied and he will sit in prison until his extradition is heard Further details will be posted after Shabbat ends.
"I love this time of the year in Israel," writes Rolene Marks in her latest blog post today. "The country is transformed into a blue and...
I love this time of the year in Israel. The country is transformed into a blue and white celebration
Users took our call for Pesach funnies to heart & we've been publishing them regularly. The pictured one is for real & comes from Sarah in...
LIVE broadcast directly from the all-night prayer rally for Rav Berland's release from incarceration in SA.All Wednesday night, the colourful Israeli supporters of Berland held a...
On Wednesday night, the colourful Israeli supporters of Rabbi Eliezer Berland were holding a “Mass Prayer Rally” at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Chevron in...
Rabbi Eliezer Berland’s attorney, Themba Langa, on Tuesday closed his case at the rabbi’s bail hearing in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court with an impassioned plea that...
Appearing in a ‘new’ seat at Thursday’s Cape Town City Council meeting will be councillor Mzwakhe Nqavashe – who has changed colours from the ANC to...
Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema’s threat in an Al Jazeera interview on Sunday to remove President Jacob Zuma’s government through the “barrel of a gun”...
Rabbi Eliezer Berland’s bail hearing is scheduled to continue this morning [Tuesday, April 26] in the Randburg Magistrate’s court, on the northwest side of Johannesburg. But,...
Ezra Furman is a gender-bending, genre-crossing, observant Jewish rocker who is the next big thing - see his amazing “Perpetual Motion People” video…
Choosing what to name your new bundle of joy is a difficult decision that is definitely not to be made lightly. Here are eight really nice...
The SA Jewish Board of Deputies' guest speaker for this year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) commemorations will be Holocaust survivor Veronica Phillips.
With all the mixed messages from our spiritual and lay leaders regarding the importance and applications of Pesach in the Diaspora - writes Choni Davidowitz, pictured...
Johannesburg - Court 13 of the Magistrate's court in Randburg, was yesterday [THURSDAY] the site of a tableau probably never witnessed in a South African court...
After the Cape Council of the SA Jewish Board of Deputies earlier this week rejected a compromise offer made by three claimants who are taking the...
Israel is building the first-ever official memorial to the fallen outside of the country - to be opened at the embassy compound in Pretoria. “We encourage...
In the run up to Pesach, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin carried out the deeply symbolic and religious ritual of selling of leavened goods ahead of Pesach...
Alexander (“Alec”) Meskin was born on the August 30, 1919 in Johannesburg to Rachel and Leib Meskin. When his parents finally got to the registry office...
LATEST: According to the registrar of Mr Justice Andre Louw in the Pretoria High Court, Rabbi Eliezer Berland’s attorney Themba Langa personally went to Pretoria to...
During the five-plus years of Syria’s civil war, Israel has striven to stay neutral - supporting neither the government of President Bashar al-Assad nor the rebels,...
The South African Union for Progressive Judaism, through its national chairman, Alvin Kushner, has made it clear that the participation of Rabbi Julia Margolis in an...
National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) head Shaun Abrahams has expressed concern that personal injury lawyers Ronald and Darren Bobroff have evaded justice and fled to another country...
Dr Bertie Lubner, who passed away this week at the age of 85 after a long illness, was truly a man for all seasons.
Last week, the board of the South African Jewish Report debated whether we should join the rising tidal wave of voices in leadership positions, including the...
When names like Johan Cruyff come up, one also wonders how closely connected they were to their Jewishness.
On April 27, South Africans will celebrate Freedom Day and 22 years of democracy. Today, South Africa is a very different place from 22 years ago....
I read with interest Suzanne Belling's article on dyslexia in a recent edition of Jewish Report.
One of the better known, but on reflection, more unusual statements that we make at the Seder must be the opening paragraph of the Maggid section....
A recent letter in Jewish Report accuses Israel of being involved in Argentina’s “Dirty War” (1974-1983). This is slanderous and unfounded speculation.
It is regrettable that the SA Jewish Report has chosen to sensationalise a very sensitive matter to South African Jewry in its online coverage of the...
ORT SA recently hosted a fundraising cooking demonstration in aid of its ORT JET programmes. It was aimed at aspirant chefs looking for Pesach cooking ideas....
If Bertie Lubner had only exemplified compassion, love for humanity and commitment to alleviate human suffering - dayeinu - it would be reason enough to grieve...
When Philip Krawitz, himself a highly regarded businessman, philanthropist and Jewish communal leader, was asked recently to give a talk on the part played by Jews...
Defending the Constitution is of vital importance to securing the long-term future of democracy. However, shared prosperity and economic inclusion through growth and employment are also...
As a young rabbi, and assistant to the late Chief Rabbi Louis Isaac Rabinowitz, of blessed memory, in the 1950s, I was present when, on numerous...
Freedom Day, by design, provokes a contrast between present realities and the aspirations we declared before an astounded, inspired world two decades ago. A livewire contest...
Since the watershed elections of April 27, 1994, South Africa has by and large been very successful in upholding the fundamental tenets of a liberal, modern,...
