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School marks achieved today by learners appear to be much higher than in their parents’ time. And the students seem to be under much more pressure.
Sifrin’s negativity towards Israel has no place in Jewish Report I would like to fully endorse the words of Jack Miller in his letter regarding his...
Sculptor Sir Anish Kapoor was on Monday named this year's winner of the million dollar Genesis Prize, awarded for commitment to Israel and Judaism.
Launching a new - and different - investment company in the US only one week after the beginning of the 2008 worldwide financial crash, might seem...
South African Ashley Sweke, chorister and chairman of Johannesburg’s Lewandowski Chorale, and her husband Desmond came way too close to being mowed down in a terrorist...
Why are Jewish home buyers in Johannesburg prepared to battle it out and bid against each other for the privilege of living in Glenhazel or Fairmount?...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is going to stride in through the White House front door. President Donald Trump is not going to grimace while Netanyahu...
The government-funded NSFAS (National Student Financial Aid Scheme) provides student loans for the lowest income earners (where the family earns a maximum of R120 000 a...
South African universities began opening their doors this week, with the entire nation waiting in anticipation to see what happens. This follows an 18-month-long period of...
The (by now) infamous open letter penned by Edward Zuma, son of President Jacob Zuma - in which he lays into Jewish business leaders - is...
This is the launch edition of the Jewish Report Newsmaker of the Week column. From now on we’ll every week select a newsworthy person to be...
This is the first of a weekly column by former news editor of Eyewitness News, Benita Levin, who we will be following as she settles into...
Suggesting to Jewish children that “…Hitler was right” - even if the person making the statement is Jewish - is bound to be shocking. And so...
Parshat Beshalach details the climax of our Exodus from Egypt. In it we experience the supernatural splitting of the sea where even the lowest Jew received...
OWN CORRESPONDENTIn the run-up to TuB’Shvat our schools dug down deep in celebration. Sydenham: Trimming the trees for TuB’Shvat. Dovy Levy; Ricky Cohen; Samuel Licht; Jaron...
With so much concern among the community about the campus unrest of the past eighteen months, the #FeesMustFall movement and the general stability of the South...
Dean Cohen’s dad was diagnosed with ALS/MND in April 1995. The pair watched Joost & the Boks win the World Cup Final in June. Six months...
When honoured with an invitation to deliver the prestigious annual Hildesheimer Lecture at the Law School of Humboldt University in Berlin last month, Chief Rabbi Warren...
Moneyweb ran a story this morning in which it said five people have sued Ronald and Darren Bobroff, whom they called “disgraced personal injury lawyers”, claiming...
A group of Wits students of all religions were elated on Monday after hearing that their application to form a Hebrew Society had been approved at...
Sydenham Hebrew Pre-Primay School’s “STEM Room” (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) is up and running!
The Torah Academy was last week Friday chosen by the Gauteng Department of Education as the best performing independent school, Eastern District, in the National Senior...
The first day of school is often fraught with tears and uncertainty - some tears from the moms and some uncertainty from the children themselves!
Minnie Bersohn Pre-Primary arranged some summer fun with a "car wash" for the senior and grade R children last week.
As well as focusing on Israel and the current problems it faces, the learners of King David High School, Linksfield, always keep their strong connection to...
Congratulations to Crawford College Sandton’s newly-elected Student Executive Body. They have great responsibilities and a tradition of excellence to maintain.
You have to hand it to the ladies at the Union of Jewish Women, give them lemons and they will make lemonade. Approximately four months ago...
Peter Sternberg, a vice-president of the African Jewish Congress and former president of the Zimbabwe Jewish Board of Deputies, died in England last week and was...
They say “a diamond is forever” - and this has proved a truism in the mining city of Kimberley. Although numbering 25 souls, despite demographics and...
No event since biblical times has impacted on the Jews of the world like the monstrous German extermination policy of Adolf Hitler - the Holocaust.
They came from near and far to pay tribute to the memory of Rabbi Nachman Meir Bernhard - Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein, Rabbi Mendel Lipskar, head...
They came together from all over sub-Saharan Africa - South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Swaziland, Mauritius and Kenya - to discuss the theme “Independence and...
Devotion to the cause of the State of Israel flourishes in the most unlikely places, even in societies where the Jewish presence is small to non-existent....
What? Is the rabbi turning TV quiz show host? Has he become a gambling man?
“Sugihara didn’t only save my grandfather, he also saved me. Because if not for Sugihara I may very well not be standing here today.” These were...
Hayley Pogrund has been elected the first woman chairman of the Constantia Hebrew Congregation in its 34-year history. Though not the first female member to occupy...
The World Economic Forum, held in Davos in Switzerland every January, has had a significant impact on South Africa, according to Stephen Koseff, CEO of Investec,...
The shadow of the Second World War and the Holocaust in particular had not lifted entirely, according to stalwart South African communal leader and currently president...
Tinged with nostalgia and sadness, last Sunday members of the Great Synagogue in Silverton Road in Durban, attended a special valedictory service on the shul’s closing....
International Holocaust Remembrance Day was commemorated in South Africa in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban.
