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“Boom times” are over for many upmarket Johannesburg residents. The Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA), via the City of Johannesburg, calling gated communities a security policy infringement,...
Jews are the most educated religious group worldwide but SA Jewry has the lowest education levels, says a new Pew Centre study published this week. The...
Geoff Sifrin asks: "Who better to ask about the direction South Africa is taking and whether it can reverse the corruption tsunami than jurist and Struggle...
“Who is a Zionist?” - Rolene Marks’ latest blog, published today, tackles this multifaceted question head on. “There has been a lot of debate, discussion and...
“This Jew says no to white nationalism,” one sign read. “Silence is akin to consent”, another said, quoting the Talmud. A third displayed a lyric from...
Even in a country where hate speech is the subject of intense political and judicial review, Dutch Deputy Prime Minister Lodewijk Asscher’s Facebook post from February...
There has been a lot of debate, discussion and social media brouhaha lately over who is or what defines a Zionist.
It's been nearly 50 years since Israel captured eastern Jerusalem, including the Old City, from Jordan in the 1967 Six Day War. For the past eight...
Jelly doughnuts are one of the most symbolic dishes of Chanukah, but have you ever wondered how that came to be? Of all the delicious fried...
Doughnuts were never really my thing. That is, until I was pregnant a few years ago and my husband brought me to New York City’s famous...
No fewer than 47 of the wealthiest 250 South Africans, measured by the value of listed shares they hold, are Jewish. This is according to the...
Almost miraculously, Israel turned a near-disaster into a big pay-off! Read how the faltering Israeli tourism market caused the ministry to jump into action - and...
The miracle of Chanukah is much deeper than the food, despite the famous Jewish joke: “They tried to kill us, we survived – let’s eat." Since...
This holiday, why not encourage your girls to join Kerry Bar-Cohn - better known as "Rebbetzen Tap" - and take the opportunity to connect with her...
The SA Zionist Federation’s top national duo of Chairman Ben Swartz and Executive Director Nicci Raz, gave an interview to Jewish Report last Friday. The two,...
The number of South Africans going to Israel to do their high school and university studies there (partly free or heavily subsidised) has risen by leaps...
When Bollywood star and Indian fashion icon Sonam Kapoor appeared on the cover of the June-July issue of Harper's Bazaar Bride, India, she did so wearing...
It’s hard to believe that a whole year has gone by so quickly. And what a tumultuous year it has been for us all! The news...
As Yaakov leaves Be’er Sheva, our Sages comment that a tzadik, a righteous person, is the beauty, splendour and majesty of the city. When we reflect...
Photographer Jenny Schneider’s work helps her reconnect with her South African roots and re-forms her relationship with home after many years of living overseas. This we...
Marking the 40th anniversary of the Entebbe Raid, IDF Commander Sassy Reuven, who was second off the plane at the raid, delivered an inspirational talk to...
JERUSALEM - When Avram Hershko was a post-doctorate fellow at the University of California in San Francisco from 1969 to 1971, he made an unexpected discovery...
Small in number but big in spirit, best describes Bloemfontein’s small Jewish community. “Presently there are just over 50 souls,” says Leah Chabas, organising secretary and...
Belinda Eisenhauer, a freelance librarian of Perth in Australia, wrote to Jewish Report about an article which appeared in the paper’s Community Buzz column on May...
The kol isha singing issue is unbelievably small and petty and the height of hypocrisy and intolerance by the Orthodox; the Orthodox don't own the Holocaust....
I refer to the recent article regarding the Shabbos Project in Port Elizabeth which appeared in Jewish Report.
The picture in last week's report showing thousands of Chabad emissaries and their guests at the annual Lubavitch kinus (conference) was indeed awesome. One can almost...
Monday afternoon, November 14, the heavens opened up over Johannesburg and cried - so did all those staunch supporters of the Johannesburg Jewish Male Choir as...
The Soul Workout non-profit's Grand Sports Raffle was drawn at Norwood Mall on December 4 amid festivity, song and dance. The Tshiriletso School from Soweto and...
One of the ugliest racial incidents of 2016 occurred last month when two white farmers near Middelburg sadistically forced a young black man into a coffin,...
PLAY: Sherlock Holmes and the Curse of the Queen's Diamond CAST: Robert Fridjhon; Craig Jackson; Bronwyn Gottwald DIRECTOR: Alan Swerdlow VENUE: The Studio, Pieter Toerien's Montecasino...
It was around 2002 when Philip Todres had staged the first two sold-out Yiddish Song Festival fundraisers for the Cape Jewish seniors that he had a...
Chanukah is a celebration, a joyful holiday with delicious food and family memories. I remember lighting our menorah as a little girl with my bubbe. Now,...
We are on the map and we will stay on the map, not only in sports but in everything.
As has become traditional with the year’s final Above Board column, this space will be devoted to looking back on the year that was and how...
Ask and ye shall receive, or so the old saying goes. We’ve had several requests on our Facebook page for vegan latkes. And we are glad...
It’s the week of frying while we celebrate the miracle of the oil lasting for eight nights, instead of just one. That’s how the story goes,...
Chanukah without latkes... Unthinkable! But then there are latkes and latkes. And for the connoisseur, there’s Alan Bender’s latkes.
I am seven or eight years old. I am an ordinary girl with blonde hair and an unordinary last name. And I have a big secret,...
There are few things that people enjoy eating day after day, but I think no one tires of eating latkes for eight days in a row....
