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Johannesburg and Cape Town's times and venues have been announced - and all services will have condolence books. "The Jewish community will be holding a tribute...
Rimon Nursery School celebrate Heritage Day at the school with the children they care for so lovingly.
Grandparents and other special people were hosted by Yeshiva College Pre-Primary School recently.
Yeshiva College Primary School learners celebrated Heritage Day
Find links to all Peres-related content here - as well as those to come and later posts. JR Online will keep users informed of all community-related...
There are many Jews who leave their reservations of shul seats until the last minute. Or there are guests from other centres in South Africa, who...
Erev Rosh Hashanah this Sunday evening is the start of the Jewish festival season. It is a time of spiritual and moral stock-taking.
The 2016 incantation of the Israel Quiz for Jewish learners was nothing like it has ever been before . Overall winner Joshua Arenson of King David...
A lot of people are feeling the high prices of chicken making an ever larger dent in the wallet as prices go up from year to...
Hundreds of Christian Israel supporters poured into a large East Rand auditorium for DEISI’s “South African Night to Honor Israel” event.
UPDATED: "Dirco will issue a statement." on the passing of Shimon Perez on Wednesay: So said SA's Ambassador to Israel. Read the interview with JR Online...
Shimon Peres, the former defence hawk turned Nobel Peace Prize winner and the last of Israel’s founders, died before dawn on Wednesday, at the age of...
A number of Jewish party-goers who attended the Heritage Day music festival, Sounds Like Summer, in the James and Ethel Grey Park in Melrose last Saturday,...
When President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met for what was likely to be the last time as leaders of their countries, the most...
Furman explained to the Yeshiva College learners that what motivated him while playing for Chelsea was watching Lampard continue training long after the official practice had...
Feigels, Alan Bender We are approaching the High Holy Days – the Yamim Noraim – a time of introspection and self-examination. But, while spiritually engaging in...
When eight-year-old Georgia Ross arrived at the building site of the new Arcadia Children’s Home with her mother, grandfather and twin sister, Amber, she presented the...
Last week Sunday saw United Herzlia Schools host the fourth year of the Interfaith Football Tournament. The tournament was started in 2012 by Liam Shirley who...
With the High Holy Days fast approaching, King David Primary School Sandton has embarked on a Mishnah programme which will last the month of Elul and...
The children of Sandton Sinai Pre-Primary spend a few minutes each morning developing their EQ (emotional intelligence) skills.
Sydenham Shul’s second batmitzvah ceremony of 2016 took place on Sunday September 11 and was a most beautiful and meaningful occasion. This time, Tenielle Israelsohn, Netanya...
A modest commemoration of the 75th anniversary of a Nazi massacre in the small Lithuanian village of Malat at the end of August turned into a...
During the month of Elul and the days of Tishrei, preceding and including Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, we are supposed to engage in introspection and...
Grade 11 boys from Torah Academy, who recently participated in CycAlive, visited Soweto to hand out stationery and footballs to schools in the areas of Pace...
Two essential parts of preparing for Rosh Hashanah, our clean slate for the year, is asking forgiveness from anyone we wronged and making a list (mental...
Rosh Hashana Recipes - Stuffed Monkeys and Chinese chicken with peaches
A few years ago, I had an idea to research the old synagogues around Cape Town and the Western Cape. I travelled through most of the...
In reaction to Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande’s announcements that the universities will have to determine their own fee increases for 2017 (but any increase should...
Heritage Day, which celebrates South African cultural diversity, falls this year on Saturday, September 24. Unfortunately - for observant Jews – it precludes the traditional braais...
We live in a world of flux, here in South Africa, in Israel and around the world. Our response should be to strengthen and nurture our...
A piece of ground was granted by the Germiston City Council for use as a Jewish cemetery in Primrose (consecrated on August 11, 1907)...
I’m always a little sceptical when someone extolls the virtues of something from Australia on such a grandiose scale. But this idea of taking an assortment...
COVILHA Portugal - A small city in northeast Portugal recently unveiled a 400-year-old Torah scroll that a local contractor had found 10 years ago at a...
“How will you ever know where you are going to if you don’t know where you’re coming from?” tennis star Billie Jean King asked them.
What does it mean for South Africa’s Jews that the Democratic Alliance’s Herman Mashaba, a well-known black businessman, is now Johannesburg’s mayor?
Radio presenter Damon Kalvari, who was fired by ChaiFM from its Afternoon Drive Show after only seven appearances, gave his side of the story at a...
Speaking out against racism and prejudice wherever and whenever it occurs is part of the SAJBD’s mandate. Rather than being separate from our core mission which...
South African teenagers are increasingly joining over 10 000 alumni of the Jewish Agency's Na'ele Elite Academy where they enjoy up to three years of free...
Pictured are City Parks employees digging holes ahead of the Arbour Day mass planting of some two thousand trees across the City of Joburg. The following...
It is the season for matric dances, which many feel are out of hand, with the hiring of helicopters and limousines (sometimes with personalised number plates...
