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Middle East: Most Israelis feel they get so much bad press anyway that another “Israel Apartheid Week” (IAW) aimed at garnering support for the Boycott, Disinvestment...
Apartheid was instituted in South Africa in 1948 in order to make sure that one racial group could feel and act superior to another. The idea...
Former South African President Kgalema Motlanthe spoke out against the two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians, saying it had failed. Motlanthe was the keynote speaker at...
From vociferous conversations arguing against Jewish colonialist associations, to others condemning Palestinian Solidarity Committee (PSC) students as being ignorant of the situation, the energy sparks flew...
When President Yaacov Zuma finally rose to the podium during State of the Nation 2017 and spoke of “radical economic transformation”, a palpable shudder rippled through...
Someone once asked: “What is the difference between ignorance and apathy?" The reply came quickly: “I don’t know and I don’t care!"
Israel’s Knesset last week passed the first reading of the Criminally Offensive Content from the Internet bill - dubbed the “Facebook bill”.
Rabbi Elimelech Goldberg punctuates each remark with a quick, almost imperceptible nod. It’s not a rhetorical device, a means to underline and affirm what he’s just...
While few South African Jews have any desire to emigrate to Germany, those who can, are flocking to claim German citizenship. It is all about having...
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Forget an apple a day; a smile a day is healthier. This Adar, the month when the Talmud instructs us to increase in joy, consider the...
March is a month that Jewish students dread. It is the month that the hate fest known as Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) winds its ugly way...
We live in a society where dog eats dog and everyone is out there for themselves. That is, other than the Jewish community. Let me rephrase...
The freedom to walk in the streets in your suburb is something most people the world over, take for granted. For us, it’s something brand new....
Shaun Duvet is the owner and managing director of Ultra South Africa and a King David School alumnus. He has straddled the world of DJ, producer,...
Two Jewish entrepreneurs, Brett and Mark Levy of Blue Label Telecoms, have pulled off a coup by reaching an agreement with struggling Cell C, beating off...
Sinai Indaba’s launch in Cape Town last weekend drew far more young people - school kids and university students alike - than in previous years because...
“South Africans need to know their history, and the local Jewish community has a very important role to play in this, making others aware of the...
The global economy is headed for turbulence in the Donald Trump era and his plans to bring back manufacturing jobs to the US won’t work, according...
One of the flagship projects of the Jewish Agency for Israel may be forced to shut down after one more round, as their funding expires after...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu concluded a highly successful five-day visit to Australia last week, being feted by his Australian counterpart, Malcolm Turnbull and having an...
Sixty-one years after the founding of the Morris Isaacson High School in Soweto - synonymous with the start of the Soweto Uprising in 1976 – Isaacson’s...
Keith Kleinot was South Africa’s own version of “Mr Chips”, an old-fashioned schoolteacher who devoted over 20 years of his career to teaching at an impoverished...
A four-acre bushveld garden in the heart of the Sandton concrete jungle is hard to imagine. Alongside a road that during the week is bumper to...
"I am the least anti-Semitic person that you've ever seen in your entire life." A disturbing response from President Donald Trump to a question at a...
I’m referring to a story in Jewish Report of January 27, on smiley face emojis that resembled Hitler, on two pairs of shorts in a store...
During times of heightened xenophobic unrest, particularly in 2008 and 2015, the SAJBD was involved in co-ordinating the Jewish community’s humanitarian relief work on behalf of...
If a Muslim campaign in the United States to raise money for repairing more than 100 Jewish graves vandalised by anti-Semites in St Louis can raise...
Jewish geneology expert Eli Rabinowitz regaled King David High School Victory Park staff and learners last Wednesday with the background to the well-known Partisan song, Zog...
JENNY MILLER Preparations for the upcoming chag of Purim are well under way at Sydenham Pre-Primary. King Achashverosh, Queen Vashti, Mordechai, Esther and Haman have all...
OWN CORRESPONDENT Yeshiva College learners were enthralled and star struck thanks to a visit by Black rapper Nissim Black, who found a spiritual home in Orthodoxy....
When acclaimed singers Oshy Tugendhaft and Yael sang together at the launch of his latest CD, it was a dream come true for her. While both...
I have a confession to make. I do not love hamantaschen. Most varieties are dry, crumbly and tasteless. But a few years ago I had a...
Food-related traditions like hamantaschen are some of my favourite parts of being Jewish. I had to work on this hamantaschen recipe for a while, because creating...
Every week, thousands of women across Israel gather to play a sport almost no one outside the country has heard of. For that matter, few Israelis...
The number of South African tourists travelling to Israel in January this year, were up four per cent on the month of January and eight per...
“There is clear evidence of murder” in the case of popular British resident David Ezekiel, but due to the gruesome nature of the killing, police “still...
The South African Students Congress (Sasco) - the biggest student movement in Africa - has “summarily suspended” any Student Representative Council member who went on a...
Several hundred Jewish people streamed through the suburban streets of Savoy on Sunday, singing haunting songs of celebration as they accompanied “Dan’s Torah” to its new...
Every time 80-year-old Holocaust survivor Irene Fainman sees xenophobic attacks on TV, she is chilled to the bone as she relived her own experience 70 years...
