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I never met my paternal grandparents or my maternal grandfather, save for faded sepia photographs of the menfolk sporting head covering of the type religious leaders...
Playwright Renos Spanoudes is a Greek-Cypriot with a Jewish heart. He is head of drama and arts and culture at King David Victory Park, where he...
I am writing as a Sephardi-Ashkenazi woman, a mother, psychologist and member of the Rosh Chodesh group, regarding the question of women singing at Yom Hashoah...
By now you have surely recovered from Pesach so we can break the news to you that there is also a Second Pesach. But don’t worry;...
Star American vocalist Benny Friedman headlined two shows at Emperors Palace on Sunday and Monday nights this week and demonstrated unequivocally why he has climbed to...
Highlands Park Football Club long ago indelibly carved its name in the history of South African soccer. The club then dissolved and for many years seemed...
SA JEWISH REPORT STAFF Anxiety as swastikas found in children’s playground LONDON – Police have increased patrols in Stamford Hill after posters bearing swastikas were...
It is the responsibility of faith leaders to act where hate is religiously motivated, was the community response to the terror attack in the Pulse nightclub...
Our Kibbutz Lubner residents moved across to their new home at Beit Netanya on the Selwyn Segal campus in the week preceding Pesach. That timing was...
A book on the life of the legendary Dr Mary Gordon casts the spotlight on a period in Israel’s early history that is emblematic of its...
SA JEWISH REPORT STAFF Friday (June 24) * UZLC hosts Isaac Reznik on “Cheesecake and Blintzes”. (Reznik was originally scheduled to speak last week.) Venue:...
The thing with cholent is that it’s just so heavy! No matter how it’s made, it always seems to put me straight to sleep. It’s even...
One of the greatest postwar playwrights, Sir Peter Levin Shaffer, died on June 6 at the age of 90 while on a trip to Ireland from...
Warm tribute has justifiably been paid to Martin Behr who recently retired as chairman of the World ORT Audit and Risk Committee, after a four-year term...
Hungary versus Iceland at Euro 2016 in France. No Jews on the field and probably just a few in the stands. What on earth a section...
On Monday, along with our National President Mary Kluk and National Director Wendy Kahn, I attended a Cape Jewish community meeting convened to discuss the question...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies is hosting a pre-election panel discussion in Johannesburg with those in the know next week.
The community colloquium that has been called by the Cape Council of the SA Jewish Board of Deputies on the kol isha issue for Monday and...
The shooting spree at the upscale Sarona Market in central Tel Aviv last week Wednesday night that killed four Israelis and wounded six others, adds to...
John Berks (Berkowitz) followed the pattern of many South Africans - his parents Louis and Hennie (who is soon to turn 103) were from Lithuanian stock,...
"Regina Adema ID I49344, daughter of Martin Adema and Jikke Justina Blom, was born in Bolsward on December 19, 1902, the Netherlands. Regina is deceased."
Bidvest and Blue Label Telecoms jumped in and lent their support to the Springboks after Absa pulled its sponsorship - or there may not have been...
Rodney Mazinter’s CV says he is a member of the South African Zionist Federation Cape Council media team. What it doesn’t say is that the Camps...
The Jewish community in the Czech Republic is small but progressing rapidly, says Zuzana Pavlovska, who heads up the education and culture department of the Jewish...
It was bigger and sweeter. The 5th annual ChaiFM Great BIG Shavuot Cheesecake Competition, held at the community radio station’s studio recently, exceeded all expectations.
Nicky Newfield and Corinne Ossendryver launched a Jewish educational app, Shabbat Interactive, from Johannesburg four years ago. Its success led to the establishment of Jewish Interactive...
The big three international credit ratings agencies, S&P Global Ratings (formerly Standard and Poor’s Rating Services), Moody’s and Fitch all recently stopped short of downgrading South...
Olympic Games fever is starting to catch on and Israel is planning to send the country’s largest team so far to Brazil for this year’s event.
While Sunday’s massacre of 49 people in a gay nightclub in Florida in the United States - in which the gunman pledged allegiance to Islamic State,...
For the 2014 national and provincial elections, the SAJBD put together South Africa’s first interfaith and multinational election observer team to assist the Independent Electoral Commission...
Many people regularly ask how they can make a positive difference in the lives of animals. Well, Stella Meldau’s Woodrock Animal Rescue shelter on 8,5 hectares...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
The Go-Getters - The SA Get Network - and Women-4-Women (W4W), a project of the Union of Jewish Women (UJW) Cape Town, have warned recalcitrant husbands...
Sometimes the question of whether a certain remark constitutes sexual harassment is a grey area and more often than not we find ourselves questioning the parameters...
The “Memories of Muizenberg” exhibition has been travelling the world and has elicited a lot of interest.
SA JEWISH REPORT STAFF Amnesty International condemns detention of circus clown JERUSALEM – Amnesty International on Monday condemned the IDF for administratively detaining a circus...
The portion of Naso follows Shavuot, the festival in which we received the Torah. Torah is unique among all things. It is the wisdom of G-d....
Chiara Favish is passionate about two things, dogs and children. The enterprising 24-year-old Johannesburg teaching student also runs a dog-walking service, Paw Walker, in the mornings.
The Goodman Gallery in Cape Town and Johannesburg celebrated its 50th anniversary last week. The Jewish-owned gallery, which has only had two owners in this long...
Sarah Goldstein, who together with her brother Gilad Stern was one of the two original applicants in the Equality Court case against the Cape Council of...
