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By the time this column hits the streets there will be only 24 hours until the arrival of Pesach 2016. For the past several weeks we...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
Veering off the matzah path toward plenty of fresh vegetables is an easy way to stay healthy and feel satisfied during the eight days of Passover....
Outreach organisation Afrika Tikkun, in a media release, joins with the Lubner family in mourning the passing of Bertie Lubner, “a remarkable and beloved friend of...
Virulently anti-Semitic Facebook rants were posted last weekend by Derrick Z Venter, managing director of Skinny Pasta SA, the local franchise of an Israeli company which...
The former Minister of Intelligence Services Ronnie Kasrils does not have anything good to say about the current administration. He has joined the revived Phansi Zuma...
One of the most interesting slices of South Africa’s population demanding to throw out President Jacob Zuma is the middle class black “born-frees” who grew up...
A lot of people might never have heard of shatnez, but it is a significant biblical commandment which is gaining attention in South Africa.
Like many Ukrainian mayors, Vlodymir Groysman used to visit his local synagogue on Rosh Hashanah and Chanukah.
SA JEWISH REPORT STAFF The surgery-free operating room of tomorrow is here now HAIFA – Exablate MRI-guided ultrasound platform from Israel can fix conditions from...
I don’t want to appear to be banging on about the same thing from month to month, but the current mini-uproar over emergent anti-Semitism in the...
After reading Uriel Heilman's article on Jared Kushner ("Who is Donald Trump's Jewish son-in-law, Jared Kushner?” in last week’s Jewish Report, I was tempted to discover...
Before the explosion of smartphone mapping apps, Garmin was synonymous with navigation. Now it is fighting its way back to relevance, writes ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK.
Updated: BREAKING NEWS:Rabbi Eliezer Berland, who heads the Shuvu Banim International Breslov Chassidic sect headquartered at his Jerusalem yeshiva, was expected to continue his application for...
The Cape Council of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies this week rejected a compromise offer made by the three claimants who are taking the...
BREAKING NEWS: In a dramatic pre-emptive strike in the Pretoria High Court this morning, Berland is claiming he was wrongfully arrested, Israel plans an illegal rendition...
Everyone at the SA Jewish Report mourns with the community the loss of one of its most illustrious directors – Bertie Lubner. What is expected to...
Having him in custody and keeping him there are two different things as Rabbi Eliezer Berland, the man who has evaded Authorities worldwide seven times over...
Alvin Kushner (pictured), national chairman of the South African Union for Progressive Judaism (SAUPJ), clearly distanced his organisation from the Equality Court action in Cape Town...
Tonight I want to tell you a story. It's a story that began in a narrow, dark land where we knew our names but forgot who...
JR Online users are becoming famous for their online argy-bargies over issues in the comments section of the website. It has grown to the extent that...
we still reserved seats at the seder table for Russian Jews denied Passover, my sister-in-law Shulamit, despite her tiny apartment, complied. *Hebrew names have been used...
The 78-year-old rabbi Eliezer Berland, who was arrested by the Hawks and Interpol in Sunninghill north of Johannesburg last week Thursday, is being held in an...
FOUR GREAT RECIPES: Sharon Glass, labelled SA’s Domestic Goddess by the Sunday Times, has provided JR four simple, fuss-free Pesach recipes. Sharon travels the world for...
One of South Africa’s best-known and accomplished cartoonists, Dov Fedler, has once again done a special cartoon for the community this Pesach. See what our Dov...
Exploring the concepts of freedom and Pesach, are already well travelled roads, so our cover this week tries to examine them with novelty and relevance. We...
A conflict of interest over a case in the Western Cape High Court against the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (Cape) over a ban on...
SA JEWISH REPORT STAFF Syrian girl gets lifesaving treatment after clandestine mission HAIFA – Israel’s Secret Service joined forces with doctors to bring a bone-marrow donor...
If a company has to choose between two or three top candidates for a job, one way of helping the process is to consult a graphologist,...
The SA Jewish Report asked three financial experts for their views on the country’s possible downgrade to “junk status” by the world’s top rating agencies and...
The regional branches of the Board are currently organising the annual Yom Hashoah ceremonies in their respective centres around the country. Perhaps more than any other...
Something wonderful happened at United Herzlia Schools on April 4, an event that epitomises everything that is taught there.
Kevin Bloom and Richard Poplak sat next to each other in class as 14-year-old boys at King David Linksfield. Now in their forties, with wives and...
Pesach is notorious for being a time of overeating and overindulgence. So, it is inevitable that you will probably find that your waistband is a little...
A second new Sefer Torah has been presented to Chabad of Sandton by Paul Weinberg and family - Karen, David and Jonathan Weinberg - amid much...
“How about trying this method of cleaning for Pesach?” asks a user. “I am definitely going to use it!” Don't try this at home, readers, its...
Fifty-two years is a long time in anyone’s life - but that’s how long Harry Pieterkosky, 65, of Milnerton has been doing karate fulltime. Despite some...
At Chabad House’s hugely successful Miracle Drive fundraiser this year, ZEV KRENGEL, past president of the SA Jewish Board of Deputies, delivered the keynote address. Here...
This past Sunday, around 750 people flocked to the Cape Town International Convention Centre – among them, around 150 learners from Herzlia High School – as...
