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Fifty years ago hundreds of South African Jews dropped everything in a heroic bid to play their part in helping to secure the survival of the...
When the US president comes to town, “it’s sorry for you”, if you happen to have booked a room or two at Jerusalem’s historic landmark King...
Ten Cabinet ministers and deputy ministers took part in a symbolic 24-hour fast in solidarity with the Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli prisons. They did so...
The story is told about someone who, during an audience with Baron Rothschild, asked him how much he was worth. The Rothschild wealth to this day...
It took just a chance meeting in shul that inspired Capetonian Judith Cohen to galvanise the local community to assist the father of young American Jewish...
The City of Johannesburg has launched an emergency measles vaccination campaign with 18 cases of measles having been reported in the province. They’re targeting all children...
“Vaccines, as well as the provision of clean water, have done more for human health than any other intervention,” says Professor Barry Schoub, former executive director...
Entering the workshop of Rabbi Azriel Uzvolk, spiritual leader of the Victory Park Hebrew Congregation, was akin to being transported back in time. This rabbi was...
The fire of Lag B’Omer could not be suppressed by the freezing cold, rainy weather over the last weekend in Johannesburg. And although the turnout was...
Those passing by James and Ethel Gray Park in Johannesburg last Sunday, were in for a surprise as the Lag B’Omer Jewish Unity Parade, with participants...
“I might mispronounce a few words,” laughs Rabbi Mendel Rabinowitz of Greenside Shul.
Hundreds of Jewish families around the world found each other and connected for the first time, because of a 22-year-old international creative schools competition.
Two presidents who excel in shamelessness, loom over South African Jews’ minds: the United States’ Donald Trump and South Africa’s Jacob Zuma. Both are unpredictable, of...
OneFamily is launching a new project alongside Johannesburg-born artist, former King Davidian Julian Grabman, selling prints of his famous watercolour “Jerusalem Forever”, half the proceeds will...
When the British rock band Queen performed on stage, it was a staggering display of grit, sweat and energy. Zanzibari-born Freddy Mercury would throw his perspiration-soaked...
Johannesburg actress and playwright Aimeè Goldsmith is determined to stimulate debate on a range of social issues through her work. Only in her 20s, she is...
We are currently experiencing one of those waves of anti-Israel commentary that occur from time to time in our media. One of the topics that have...
Chabad has launched a new course called "Survival of a Nation". I attended the first lecture, run by Rabbi Ari Kievman, which explores the incredible, miraculous...
President Donald Trump isn't an idiot; he just talks like one. One analysis, citing "a cramped simplistic vocabulary, found that Trump talks just below a sixth-grade...
David Nivison is probably one of those rare water polo players who did not come to the sport through swimming. But no matter how he got...
Two grade 10 Yeshiva College learners excelled in the recent International Bible Quiz in Israel.
Sydenham Hebrew Pre-Primary School littlies celebrated Lag B’Omer with a bonfire and a “red-hot” Shabbos table at school last Friday.
AMY JAFFE Sandton Sinai Primary School celebrated Lag B’Omer with a fire dancer and by roasting marshmallows on the braai. Everyone had a marvellous time.
King David Primary School Victory Park, joined the Reach for a Dream Foundation and supported Slipper Day on Friday, May 12.
King David Linksfield participated in Slipper Day on May 12 by wearing slippers to school, to contribute towards fulfilling the dreams of children not capable of...
Over a third of King David Junior Primary Linksfield’s grade three learners, who wrote the 2016 International Benchmark Tests, achieved “Certificates of Distinction”.
Johannesburg Junior Council environmental committee chairperson Jaymee Gobetz – a Crawford College Sandton pupil – won the “Most Dedicated Chairperson” award for her role.
It was a day of human warmth, generosity, kindness and compassion when "67 Blankets for Nelson Mandela Day" visited three Jewish NGOs. On May 8, hand-knitted...
Despite the Western Cape government having made a final decision in late March to sell the Tafelberg site in Sea Point to build a Jewish school,...
So, Justin Bieber was in Tel Aviv last week and attracted some 50 000 fans to his concert. Go a little further north this weekend, to...
Fake Jewish Facebookers are befriending Jewish people on the social media site, enabling them to have free access to these private people’s online lives.
“You make us better,” James Comey told the Anti-Defamation League in his final public speech as FBI director.
Last week Jewish Report dispelled the myth that the kosher meat and chicken prices are substantially more expensive inland than at the coast. This week we...
I would never have imagined I would be celebrating a powerful woman losing an election, but far-right populist National Front candidate in the French election, Marine...
During Israel’s last parliamentary elections in March 2015 there was a popular slogan in the country - “anyone but Bibi” - referring to Benjamin Netanyahu who,...
Richard Wagner. The name ignites animated debate in the Jewish and music worlds - a debate which can evoke anger and angst when those worlds collide.
When a young Orthodox Cape Town batmitzvah celebrated her coming of age recently, she leyned from the Torah.
Rabbis around the world cite Rashi more often than most sages, but Rabbi Jonathan Fox took this to a new height by publishing a book on...
“We are proud to have two thirds of the Jewish community, numbering some 80 000 people in this grey city of Johannesburg,” said Johannesburg’s executive mayor,...
Imagine spending a glorious Cape Town day riding fast cars, followed by sailing on a yacht, concluded by a wonderful dinner and party with warm, generous...
