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Some South African shuls are brim-full every weekday and some battle to get a minyan, even on Shabbos. Some have an extremely young and vibrant community...
The Cape SA Jewish Board of Deputies is in the process of voting in new members. The final step of this process will take place at...
When a Jewish person does well, we klibe such naches and love to bask in their glory. Remember when Joel Stransky kicked that winning drop goal...
I have covered wars and had rockets explode behind me during live reports, and yet it wasn’t so long ago that I was uneasy just walking...
As I approach the end of four wonderful years as Israel’s ambassador in South Africa, I have been reflecting on many lessons learned here.
It wasn't the first time that a French president acknowledged his nation's Holocaust-era guilt, but Emmanuel Macron's speech on the weekend was nonetheless groundbreaking in format,...
As Israeli Ambassador Arthur Lenk’s tenure in South Africa comes to an end, he has been hosted at a number of farewells… such is the love...
The decision to employ a fulltime sport director was the catalyst for Maccabi South Africa’s success at this year’s Maccabi Games. That is the opinion of...
Israel is brimming with tourists at the moment. The two-month school holidays kicked off on July 1, and the scorching temperatures see thousands of visitors flocking...
The unexpected bromance between Prime Ministers Narendra Modi of India and Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel which culminated in Modi’s recent historic Israel visit, has brought to...
In delving into their ancestry, many South African Jews have travelled to Lithuania and not just rediscovered their roots, but actually touched their own personal history...
International relationships coach and therapist, Hedy Schleifer, exudes an enigmatic warmth and vitality. As people around the world seek her and her husband Yumi out for...
Hearing the name Multifractal Semiconductor, you might wonder if it is some high-scoring scrabble phrase, rather than an exceptional business that last week won the Embassy...
Even with so many South Africans desperate to rescue this country from President Jacob Zuma’s train of destruction, last week’s report of a R2bn amnesty package...
Last week, the Board together with the SAZF and IUA-UCF, hosted a farewell function for outgoing Israeli Ambassador Arthur Lenk. It was an opportunity to reflect...
I cannot allow your report in the Jewish Report of July 7 relating to Dr Denzil Levy’s 100th birthday, go without comment.
I'd like to express my outrage at Unesco’s travesty of claiming Hebron's Tomb of the Patricarchs as endangered Palestinian heritage.
Jed Kagan is the kind of 10-year-old who can’t just take kindness, he has to give it back in truckloads. He is that kind of kid.
ORT SA has become a leading non-profit organisation, having grown from a mentoring service for stressed businesses to offereing a host of support interventions for Jewish...
David Fink completed his most successful season in handball this year - and that’s saying something.
Bongani Masuku is still refusing to say sorry for his hate speech about Jews, despite being ordered by law to do so twice… over a period...
How did an unknown youngster suddenly rise to prominence? Pinchas, the hero of this week’s parsha, was previously unheard of. Though, as a grandson of Aaron,...
He walked from Ethiopia to Israel and back again, was arrested on his return to that country, rescued and airlifted to Israel as part of Operation...
A well-known South African rabbi’s name appears on a “blacklist” of rabbis who Israel's Chief Rabbinate apparently does not trust to confirm the Jewish identities of...
International Jewish media this week reported on a “blacklist of rabbis” maintained by Israel’s Chief Rabbinate. The list contains the names of rabbis whom the rabbinate...
Even before any of the countries had put a foot into the Teddy Stadium for the opening ceremony of the 20th Maccabiah, Team SA had already...
A young South African, Jacob Berman, held Natan Sharansky in a chess match at the Maccabi Games last week for three and a half hours before...
How hard is it to apologise? I keep asking myself why Cosatu’s Bongani Masuku won’t just say he is sorry for the anti-Semitic vitriol he spewed...
The first time I visited Hebron it was late at night and tempers were flaring. A group of Jewish settlers had barricaded themselves inside Palestinian shops...
One of the nine discussion documents published in advance of the ANC’s 5th Policy Conference last week, deals with international relations. It provides a revealing view...
Do we want to raise free-range kids or fraidy cat kids? Perhaps somewhere in the middle, writes NIA MAGOULIANITI-MCGREGOR
Johannesburg’s Hatzolah Medical Rescue is currently carrying out a campaign of screening pupils at Jewish day schools for the risk of “Sudden Cardiac Death in Adolescents”...
Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein is studying the proposed recommendations dealing with the regulation and registration of religious leaders to see if and how they will impact...
The trial of the so-called ISIS terror twins, Brandon-Lee and Tony-Lee Thulsie, who allegedly planned to attack Jewish installations, was scheduled to begin this week -...
Parenting expert Nikki Bush praised fidget spinners: “This is an object of fascination that intrigues children because they can make it do stuff for them...”
Jameson Maluleke always dreamed of studying further, but when he received his PhD in Hebrew studies a few weeks ago, it was the culmination of overcoming...
On August 1, the Jewish world will observe the fast of Tisha B’Av.
Few historical figures have been as universally revered as Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, South Africa’s greatest son. Among the innumerable tributes paid to him, one of the...
Mandela Day on Tuesday July 18, has a theme of Action Against Poverty. The Nelson Mandela Foundation wants this day to be dedicated to fighting poverty...
Sophia Bennett was a feisty, creative little girl who loved birthdays and baking cupcakes. She was just six years old and finishing grade R, when it...
