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Guess who planted this olive tree in celebration of Tu B'Shvat last weekend, and where it was planted?
OWN CORRESPONDENT Two of Yeshiva College learners had singular honours bestowed on them. Joseph Kaplan and Gabi Osrin have been appointed as the school’s Junior City...
OWN CORRESPONDENT Parents, domestic workers and security guards of Minnie Bersohn Pre-Primary School recently took part in a basic first aid and CPR course, arranged by...
On Sunday February 5, eight learners from King David Victory Park and Linksfield set out on a 50km bicycle ride around the Cradle of Humankind near...
King David Linksfield’s Outreach Committee forms a great part of the high school’s activities. The committee provides each learner the opportunity to give back to the...
A white Honours Blazer is the highest award a learner can achieve at Crawford College Sandton. A learner qualifies for such a blazer by achieving full...
South Africa’s favourite online celebrity, SuzelleDIY, has an alter ego - Julia Anastasopoulos. “Suzelle” bubbles all over as she does her YouTube DIY videos, presenting in...
While the violence and protest around President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation address stole most of the show last Thursday in Parliament, the few Jews...
Word spread this week that Israel was allegedly downgrading its diplomatic ties with New Zealand and Senegal over a United Nations resolution they had supported towards...
South African Ambassador to Israel Sisa Ngombane was shocked when he arrived at work on Monday morning to find he was allegedly facing censure by the...
When around 400 Orthodox rabbis gathered for a photograph at the end of Kinnus in New York recently, one rabbi opened his black coat to reveal...
“Why should I care if Donald Trump rules in America? It doesn't affect me.” This sentiment, which was proffered as feedback for our edition last week,...
The first time I met former Israeli President Moshe Katzav was on a staircase - I was entering an apartment to interview a young woman whose...
The age-old question theologians have been debating for centuries: Can religious beliefs be proven? Is religion synonymous with faith? Most religions entail a claim of prophecy...
Businessman Gavin Varejes, who heads the SA Rugby Legend Association, delivered a moving eulogy at the memorial service for South African legend Joost van der Westhuizen,...
Former Herzlia headmaster Solly Kaplinski grew up as a child of Holocaust survivors, Sima and Izak, who escaped with the Bielski partisans in Belarus. Next week...
Struggle veterans galore gathered at the Women’s Section of the Old Fort Prison on Constitution Hill in Johannesburg last Sunday, to bid farewell to struggle veteran...
Defending his executive order directing the construction of a wall along the US border with Mexico, President Donald Trump pointed to Israel as a model, saying...
People travel to China for various reasons - Olympics, sightseeing, to walk the Great Wall - but for Jake Pinchus it is all about martial arts.
Sona 2017 - the State of the Nations - address made me very anxious. And in truth I imagine that South African Jews felt very much...
Touchdown in Tel Aviv. The start of a new chapter for my husband, 10-year old son and nine-year old daughter. The El Al flight is mandatory...
“'If you will it, it is no dream; and if you do not will it, a dream it is and a dream it will stay.” Theodor...
In three countries close to South African Jews - Israel, South Africa and the United States - a monumental fight is raging between defenders of the...
Since its establishment in 1903, the SA Jewish Board of Deputies has represented the interests and worked to uphold the civil rights of the South African...
The complex issue of the rights of schools versus the rights of learners, often finds itself being resolved by courts around the world. There are at...
Jewish schoolboys like Jasen Smaller (Pic: Lilly Harmse) stood up for what they believe to be equal gender rights around the country over the past year,...
As the new editor of the SA Jewish Report, I feel like I have come full circle. For many years, I have worked in the mainstream...
JENNY MILLER Sydenham Hebrew Pre-Primary School’s senior garden has undergone an extreme makeover. The jungle gym has been refurbished and the children are testing their climbing...
OWN CORRESPONDENT Yeshiva College Primary School has elected its House Captains for 2017, for Tzion, Judah and Israel. The school is already in full swing, looking...
OWN CORRESPONDENT There was a buzz and a good vibe at King David High, Linksfield last week when hundreds of pupils answered the call of the...
OWN CORRESPONDENT Last week Friday, Rabbi David Shaw and Rabbi Ziggy Suchard from Sandton Shul visited the kids at King David Minnie Bersohn Pre-Primary School. Rabbi...
The good die but live on in the example they provided. That is a quote in the Talmud and in so many ways it applies to...
At the time of writing, the country is looking ahead to the annual State of the Nation address, to be delivered in Parliament on Thursday. It...
It was a historic moment for the Chev last week when the doors to the beautiful new Arcadia campus were opened to donors who were given...
Fallout for South African Jewry from Donald Trump’s controversial presidency in the United States has not been felt directly thus far. It is experienced more as...
Film: Denial Cast: Rachel Weisz, Timothy Spall, Tom Wilkinson, Andrew Scott Director: Mick Jackson Classification: 7-9 PG
American Jews are watching the beginning of Donald Trump's presidency with both fear and hope.
Rose Lerer Cohen is an “accidental genealogist” who was “provoked” into following that career path.
South African Jews have an enduring fascination with their genealogy - their roots - as a “full-house” Great Park Shul hall attested to on Sunday evening,...
Rabbi Yossi Chaikin Principal, Torah Academy Boys’ High School We are very proud of our school’s achievement as best performing independent school which was recognised at...
