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Jack’s Wife Freda was a baleboste* of note. She was a larger-than-life character who graciously entertained family, friends and sometimes strangers, whipped up chopped herring and...
Stanley Bergman - who grew up in Port Elizabeth and studied in Israel - was recently chosen as CEO of the Year by the international Chief...
Andrew Human is the chief executive officer of the Loeries, the Oscars for South African creatives, that took place between August 14 and 21. We asked...
There are many aspects of the Charlottesville rally that one can discuss. One thing that struck me was the sight of the Confederate flag side by...
Before 1994 in South Africa, the autonomy of Transkei, Bophuthatswana Venda and Ciskei was not acceptable. These four Bantustans were seen as inferior.
Your editorial in a recent SA Jewish Report asks: "Does a blotch on a great picture, ruin it?"
The article in your newspaper of August 4, “South African Jews call on Israel to urgently secure peace”, refers.
I want to comment on the plans of the ANC regime in South Africa, together with BDS, their Jewish puppets in SA Jews for a Free...
On Sunday, the Board held its 49th biennial national conference, where we took the opportunity of reporting back to our constituency on our work over the...
When asked how many Jews remain in South Africa, Jewish leaders usually fudge the question, though they know the community’s size is falling. No-one wants to...
I have a perennial problem. It’s at this time of year - just a month away from Rosh Hashanah - that my inbox starts to fill...
When the Young Jewish Entrepreneur Award judge, Gil Oved, interviewed eight-year-old Aaron Greenblatt who is the youngest-ever Jewish Achiever nominee, he was blown away by the...
Four teams from King David Linksfield competed in the Discovery Cup Soccer Finals this year.
Alyssa Smullen, a grade 11 learner at Crawford College Sandton, competed in the SA Body of Dance’s Gauteng National Performing Arts Championships 2017 at the Linder...
The first Maccabi Games took place with 390 athletes. This year, 10 000 athletes from 80 countries participated in 47 different sporting events.
For young learners, science is just an extension of their everyday world. We don’t have to teach young children how to wonder, discover, and explore through...
Torah Academy Nursery School recently held a dress-up morning for the pre-prep grade classes. The children were asked to dress up in costumes representing what they...
The women of Greenside Shul paid tribute to Jewish women, both in their lives, their history and in the Bible, to celebrate Women’s Month over a...
The Golden Acres knitting circle - who has a proud history of knitting for worthy causes – last week gave 20 blankets to Yeshiva College pupils...
The Jewish Women’s Benevolent Society has pledged to continue making a meaningful and substantial difference to those in the Jewish community who are unable to help...
Businesswoman Tanya Joselowsky shared her harrowing personal struggle with addiction at a WIZO Forum function earlier this month.
Business icon Adrian Gore, who founded Discovery in 1992, with the goal of “making people healthier”, had cogent advice for ORT JET mentors, when he addressed...
Monday was a special day for the South African Jewish youth movements, SAUJS and Masa alumni. They had the opportunity to interact with the newly-appointed Israeli...
Aly Raisman is ready to talk about “the elephant in the room”. And the six-time Olympic medal-winning gymnast thinks it’s time USA Gymnastics joins in a...
Mark Pamensky this week lashed out at the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) for laying charges against him for corruption and abuse of his position as...
Moshiach is the catalyst that will bring about the emancipation of mankind and of the world. The Messianic arrival ushers a transition from a historically lengthy...
Israelis are luring South African domestic workers through adverts placed in local newspapers, and later “exploited”, the United Nations’ International Organisation for Migration (IOM) told the...
The South African Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) has frozen, and plans to confiscate, over R101 million of Ronald and Darren Bobroff’s funds that were found by...
For the past 19 years, we have gathered here at the Jewish Achiever Awards as proud South Africans believing that our best days are still before...
Looking around me at the Absa Jewish Achiever Awards on Sunday, I could not help thinking that we are a force to be reckoned with -...
When music director extraordinaire Bryan Schimmel, stood up to accept the SA Jewish Art, Sport, Science and Culture award, he ensured there was nary a dry...
Let me start by apologising for being unable to attend the Absa Jewish Achiever Awards banquet. Prior engagements have made it impossible for me to do...
The 2017 Jewish Achiever Awards launched in fine style at a lavish welcoming breakfast last Friday as dozens of nominees gathered to usher in the weekend’s...
“Now you’re a man - mazeltov!”
When asked about South Africa’s apparent efforts to sabotage the planned Israel-Africa Summit in Togo in October, Israeli Member of Knesset Nachman Shai said: “It’s a...
Advocate Anton Katz SC believes the outcome of the vote of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma held in parliament last week was “fabulous!” and “very...
Johnny Copelyn - a former trade union leader - maintained that Habonim influenced his political views.
“Not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. That first act of human consumption gave birth to moral consciousness,” Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz...
It has seemingly again become a trend to stifle arguments with blunt instruments. It might appear to be stretching a point to contrast recent horrific events...
Preparations are being finalised for the Board’s 49th biennial national conference, taking place in the Sandton Shul hall this Sunday at 15:00. To book your place,...
