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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's four-nation Africa visit last week was the first to sub-Saharan Africa by a sitting Israeli prime minister in nearly three decades....
The bochurim of Pretoria’s Yeshiva Le’Rabbonus last week organised a Jewish Heritage Celebration Family Picnic in honour of Sammy Marks whose contribution to Pretoria and South...
His name does not sound particularly Jewish and if you had to pass him in the street you might not think he looks typically Jewish -...
“Anna and the Swallowman” (published by Bodley Head) is a powerful book about survival during the Second World War. It is set in Poland from November...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
SA JEWISH REPORT STAFF Intermarriage at record high – but rate of increase slows LONDON – New research into intermarriage among British Jews has shown...
Maybe the legends of Count Dracula and her birthplace in the Eastern European province of Transylvania fired the imagination of artist Eris Silke and her paintings,...
The first Jewish families - part of the great 1820 Settler migration - arrived in South Africa 190 years ago to make their homes in the...
The kol isha issue has been written and discussed about at levels that will split an already fractured South African Jewish community in ways that this...
The Torah portion of Chukas tells of Miriam’s passing. Immediately afterward, the verse goes on to say that “the people did not have any water”.
Eli Wiesel has passed on and I for one feel it is my moral duty to say that I am not and cannot be sorry about...
Jewish Report Online is today able to reveal a number of new facts about the arrest of, and the plans of, “Terror Twins” Brandon-Lee and Tony-Lee...
“Israel is coming back to Africa; Africa is coming back to Israel.” These were the words of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday as he...
During a holiday to Cape Town last year I visited the Holocaust Centre there and was deeply touched. So, when I read an article about Holocaust...
The directorate for priority crime investigation (Hawks) of the SAPS and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) had four suspects in two courts this morning. At least...
The Jewish communities of Cape Town and Johannesburg are blessed to have valuable heritage libraries of SA Jewry. Cape Town’s pride is the Gitlin Library, while...
Israeli PM Netanyahu, pictured, started his 3-day, 4-state Africa visit at Entebbe where his brother died exactly 40 years ago. Don't miss the gaffe-filled & embarrassing...
SydShul's great short video of the miraculous Rescue at Entebbe, 40 years on. See why it already has around 150,000 views!
The Sydenham Highlands North Shul produced a wonderful short video for the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the miraculous Rescue at Entebbe (a commemoration that...
If a solution is to be found that stops the case of two Cape Town Orthodox Jews and a multi-faith organisation taking the Cape Board of...
Justice Fayeeza Kathree-Setiloane told Rabbi Eliezer Berland late last week in the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg that as he was so "well-connected" he remained...
A relieved 69-year-old bobba Elaine Bobroff, who went into court as a defendant charged with fraud and money-laundering of millions of rand and walked out a...
The Wynberg Progressive Shul in Cape Town came under fire last week after having invited members of the Open Mosque to have Iftar (Breaking of the...
JERUSALEM - The 13-year-old Israeli girl killed in her West Bank bedroom last week Thursday, Hallel Yaffa Ariel of Kiryat Arba, a Jewish settlement near Hebron,...
Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate who became a leading icon of Holocaust remembrance and a global symbol of conscience, died last Saturday at...
The buzz was on everybody’s lips: a Chinese auction. What is a Chinese auction? The answer is, this “auction” was A combination of a “raffle” and...
The next 10 years will see the most rapid advances in the history of technology, but sometimes it will be okay to be left behind, writes...
Beverley Bagg (pictured) became a ballerina by default. At the age of three ballet lessons were recommended by her physician “because my posture was so poor...
In thinking about “Jewish” desserts, certain dishes immediately come to mind such as babka, the sweet yeast cake; Rugelach, the pastry of Ashkenazi origin; and Hamantaschen,...
A big African story these days is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s high-profile visit to four African countries and his declaration that Israel is “…coming back...
If you are familiar with the concept of six degrees of separation, you will know it embraces the theory that everyone is six or fewer steps...
“You feel like you’re working at Google,” says Solomon Serfati, a Jewish student from Miami describing his time at iXperience, a “summer abroad” programme started by...
Art collector and philanthropist Jack Ginsberg, considers Walter Battiss who lived from 1906 - 1982, South Africa’s greatest water colourist, screen printer and draughtsman.
SA JEWISH REPORT STAFF Australian leaders’ final pleas to Jewish voters CANBERRA – Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten made last-minute pitches to the Jewish community...
On Sunday June 26, a glittering affair took place in the Samson Hall of Waverley Shul in Johannesburg: It was the shul’s diamond anniversary - 60...
As I gazed at my grandson on my knees, about to be brought into Abraham’s covenant with G-d, a multitude of thoughts flew in and out...
Under the leadership of Sivea Stein, the Jewish women of Pretoria tangibly helped one of the squatter camps north of Pretoria, with 170 mostly white residents...
Time is running out for South Africa's Jewish establishment to mobilise politically. For too long it has ignored, to its detriment, South Africa's body politic, avoiding...
“Rodney Berman has been a major influence in my life. He’s my boss, mentor, friend and also happens to be my lawyer.” So said Brian Mitchell...
The Book of Ruth opens with: “In the days when the judges governed, there was famine in the land...”
