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Neo-Nazi radio show The Daily Shoah (also known as "echoes" among anti-Semites) started some two years ago clandestinely spreading the word as to how neo-Nazi groups...
Welcome to another issue of the SA Jewish Report. Our cities are somewhat quieter as winter school holidays have begun and families are departing for the...
The Israeli Embassy’s competition to find South Africa's best start-up company run by a woman is over. On Tuesday evening this week at an elaborate function...
Religionisation! Religionisation! To read the newspaper headlines in Israel, to view its documentary films and attend its expert panels with academics, a stranger might think that...
Only a week ago, Jeremy Corbyn seemed to have survived his biggest public relations debacle as the leader of Britain’s Labour Party: the proliferation of anti-Semitic...
The winner of the Soul Sport Youth Sports Achiever chosen from the 2016 nominations, is Jonathan Miltz.
A capacity crowd packed the ENS Auditorium for the launch of the WIZO 2016/2017 Biennial campaign last week Wednesday night.
Two men - one in Cape Town and one in Johannesburg – finally succumbed to community pressure and came to the Beth Din to sign their...
Many people are suffering Brexit fatigue under the deluge of commentary following the UK’s vote to leave the European Union.
The Vodacom Durban July has not been a lucky race for owner Larry Nestadt. In 1991 he had a share in Rakeen who was beaten two...
Hatzolah Medical Rescue has been among the Johannesburg Jewish community’s crown jewels for the past 18 years.
Brexit is an abbreviation of "British exit", which refers to the June 23 referendum by British voters to exit the European Union. The referendum roiled global...
South Africa’s high youth unemployment rate is a ticking time bomb which Marc Lubner, CEO of Afrika Tikkun, believes can be averted through the introduction of...
Earlier this year, the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development launched its National Action Plan to Combat Racism, Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (NAP).
"Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis condemns Orlando shooting", in last week’s Jewish Report, in which the Commonwealth Chief Rabbi decries "the scourge of homophobia… even in our...
There is a belief that during the Holocaust the Jews were led like sheep to the slaughter. This is a belief which some survivors find to...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
SA JEWISH REPORT STAFF Swastika found carved in Stamford Hill pavement LONDON – Police have been alerted after a swastika was found carved into a...
South African descendants of Lithuanian Jews who left that country before 1990 now again qualify for dual Lithuanian-South African citizenship following an amendment to the law...
I make chicken so often that my kids once told me we were all going to grow feathers and start clucking. But they never complained that...
One of Israel's most wanted men may prevail in his case to prevent South Africa from extraditing him on procedural grounds, due to what his attorney,...
An urgent application was launched at the Joburg High Court last Thursday in a bid to get bail for sex-pest rabbi, Eliezer Berland, who has been...
Members of Cape Town’s Jewish and Muslim communities, made history last Shabbos as some 30 Muslims performed Maghrib, their sunset prayer, inside a Wynberg Progressive shul...
Watch the video of ambassador Lenk (pic) on SABC’s Question Time with presenter Mpho Tsedu and Limpopo MEC for agriculture and rural development, Joy Matshoge after...
In a surprise development today (Thursday, June 23), Rabbi Eliezer Berland, head of the Shuvu Banim Breslov sect who has been on the run from Israeli...
About 80 representatives of the South African Jewish community’s shuls, community organisations and youth groups, all affiliates of the Cape Council of the South African Jewish...
The Shabbos Project has become a grassroots project with a life of its own - driven by the people for the people! Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein...
Temple Israel in Hillbrow, the mother shul of the local Progressive Reform movement, will celebrate its 80th anniversary on Saturday July 9, with a special morning...
In the Queen's 90th Birthday Honours List, some 1149 people have been recognised for their services to the UK and the 16 Commonwealth countries. Each year...
I am outraged that a slow response time by a Johannesburg emergency ambulance has reportedly led to the death of Klipspruit West resident Daniel Hoker (62)....
A fair-sized Great Park Shul audience was recently enthralled by an inspiring address by Olga Meshoe, CEO of DEISI (Defend Embrace Invest Support Israel). Her enthusiasm...
The South African Centre for Religious Equality and Diversity (SACRED) and the other applicants in the (Kol Isha) case against (the Cape Council of the) South...
With reference to the host of letters in Jewish Report expressing various beliefs and opinions about religion, I tender this narration of a cartoon (with apologies...
On Youth Day this year, one of South African Jewry’s most unusual, as well as symbolic and emotionally charged barmitzvah ceremonies took place in Soweto’s Western...
Ant Katz's report on the Tuynhuys talks between President Jacob Zuma and his Palestinian counterpart, Mahmoud Abbas, was thought provoking in the sense that these meetings...
I would like to address the mantra readily accepted in the world today, even by some who defend Israel, that anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism are not to...
Amidst thousands of tweets responding to the mayhem overtaking Tshwane, with buses and municipal vehicles torched‚ businesses ransacked and roads blocked with mobs and burning tyres,...
Daniel Lutrin's article in last week’s Jewish Report about the difficulty in obtaining Lithuanian citizenship for himself and his family is hard to understand. Firstly, I...
I am hoping that one of your readers can explain something to me. People far wiser than me have been able to work out ways to...
Veteran community leader Marlene Bethlehem, who is a past chairman and past president of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, has been nominated to be...
