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SEAN KORB King David Primary Sandton held a Pesach yom iyun (day of study) for its grade 7s, with “asking questions” being the focus in a...
The credibility of Tokyo Sexwale as chairman of the Fifa Monitoring Committee in Palestine is under the spotlight after he presented his long-awaited draft report on...
OWN CORRESPONDENT Learners at Sandton Sinai Primary School are getting into the Pesach spirit. The nursery school children went on their annual outing to the matzah...
JENNY MILLER The grade Rs at Sydenham Hebrew Pre-Primary were treated to an interactive show about Pesach at the Matzah Factory at Chabad House in Johannesburg....
In a dark alley in a poor suburb of Paris, five men with violence on their minds closed in fast on 17-year-old Netanel Azoulay and his...
The inimitable Billy Crystal is back on the road. The six-time Emmy Award-winning comedian, actor, producer, director and writer - most recently of a book of...
There were people living there – alas, very few remain - anchored like the roots of the giant oaks that shade the long, narrow road of...
At first glance, this drab town, 256 km south of Kiev seems nearly identical to the settlements that dot the poverty-stricken district of Vinnitsa.
Ingredients 125g matzah broken into pieces (3.3 pieces or ½ packet crackers) 100g pecans 100g flaked almonds 100g slivered almonds ½ cup honey – more honey...
Ingredients 3 eggs 3 cups water Cinnamon Sugar Salt Matzah meal till runny Method Mix and drop in hot oil and fry.
Breakfast can be hard during Passover - no oatmeal, no toast and certainly no pancakes. (No, the boxed kind do not count.) I like making eggs...
Tiramisu translates to “pick me up”. And this popular Italian dessert sure lifts our mood! In the recipe we altered the classic way of making it,...
Ingredients 115 grams cheese 1 egg 2 tsp sugar ½ tsp cinnamon Method Mix the cream cheese with the egg and the sugar. Beat, then add...
At Pesach, Jews over the world gather to celebrate "zman cheirutenu", the season of our freedom. We will read all about freedom from slavery. We drink...
BREAKING: 17h01 - CLICK FOR LIVE POSTS from Today's historic day of protest - call it a citizen's vote of no-confidence - which JR Online will...
The frustration and anger about President Jacob Zuma’s cynical firing of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and his deputy Mcebisi Jonas and the country’s subsequent downgrading to...
During the American Bush Administrations (both Senior and Junior), a tired old classic in Jewish humour advised the Israeli prime ministers of the period, to ignore...
The French government is doing all that it can to stop anti-Semitism in France, insists Ambassador Jean-Christophe Peaucelle, the religious affairs adviser to the French Minister...
“Largely thanks to Gerald Leissner we live in one of the most vibrant Jewish communities in the world.” So said Avrom Krengel, co-chairman of the IUA-UCF,...
One of the remaining two Rivonia Trialists, Denis Goldberg, described Ahmed Kathrada’s death as a terrible loss at a time when South Africa needed to learn...
A Progressive rabbi, who has been taken to task by some members of the Jewish community for saying prayers at ANC stalwart Ahmed “Kathy” Kathrad’s funeral...
Last Friday morning (in the aftermath of Jacob Zuma’s sacking frenzy), I had a sense of what it might have felt like in Germany in the...
The absence of family always becomes magnified around the High Holy days. When one emigrates, you get used to missing out on spending time with your...
Nothing impressed the South African representatives to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference last week more than an African president taking the podium.
Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg has created a haggadah that will attract not just children, but the Harry Potter fans in all of us. This New York rabbi,...
How do you retain your sanity during 27 years of imprisonment, particularly when much of your time is spent in isolation? While this may not be...
It's been more than two decades since I last attended lectures and even longer since I sat on a school chair with wooden desks in front...
Zev Krengel and Robbie Brozin were men on a mission last year - and now they are men on a mission accomplished.
If your Passover seder is anything like mine, it can resemble the world’s most difficult classroom: different ages, ranging from three to 93, and varying levels...
We are surrounded by a comfort zone into which we like to retreat, especially when feeling insecure. A way to expand this circle is to step...
In 1949 I stayed in Moore Road on the Berea in Durban. I was going to catch a bus to town. Also waiting at the stop...
Jack Miller’s letter “Israel can learn a lot about banking” (in last week’s Jewish Report) left me absolutely dumbfounded. This may have been true, as Jack...
Trying to understand young adults - or Millennials - is no easy task. Countless debates have focused on whether it is better to have young leaders...
At Pesach seders around the world, one item on our seder plates will be a simple hard boiled egg. For me, this little egg tells a...
Many families do their best to race through the Pesach haggadah to get to the food, while others do their best to make it meaningful. Hayley...
It is only three minutes’ walk from the intersection of Oxford and Riviera Roads in Johannesburg’s Killarney neighbourhood, where beggars hold cardboard signs saying “No food,...
The only rising in terms of food that practising Jews will have to contend with this Pesach is the increased prices over the Passover season.
When the SAJBD was founded shortly after the turn of the last century, it was solely for the purpose of upholding the civil rights and representing...
Captivity is a masterpiece of Jewish historical fiction from one of Hungary’s most prominent and prolific literary figures. It spans most of the first century Common...
The Chevrah Kadisha Pesach Packing Day, which took place at the beautiful new Arcadia grounds on Sunday April 2, was attended by hundreds of excited children...
