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“Money is the oxygen of terrorism, if you stop the flow of money you can stop the terror,” said Israeli activist lawyer, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner while in...
The story is told of an encounter between two famous rabbis of yesteryear - the Vilna Gaon and the Dubner Magid. The Magid, or Preacher of...
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is planning a march to the Israeli Embassy in Pretoria next Thursday.
The crippling drought in Cape Town will seriously impact this year’s holidaymakers going down for the end of year festive season. Water-saving will be THE priority...
South Africa Night to Honour Israel on Sunday evening was a magnificent display of faith, support, love and friendship to and for South African Jewry and...
Members of the Zion Christian Church (ZCC) are an integral part of the South African landscape.With their distinctive silver stars and green broad hats, it is...
Next Thursday marks the 100th anniversary of the momentous Balfour Declaration. It paved the way to around 30 years later the establishment of the State of...
It was always going to be a gamble. And now, after three years of risking their lives as “the foot soldiers in the war against Islamic...
“It was the best experience of our lives,” says Michelle Collet, describing her son’s barmitzvah at the Kotel. “I have three sons. The older two had...
The Balfour Declaration was a 67-word letter written by British Foreign Secretary, Arthur Balfour, to Lord Walter Rothschild on November 2, 1917, the first official, public...
Two Israeli filmmakers happened to stumble across rare interview footage of David Ben-Gurion while restoring an old feature film. The footage lay undisturbed in boxes in...
Greater co-operation between South Africa’s Jewish community and that of Lithuania, is the dream of Renaldas Vaisbrodas, executive director of the 4 000-strong Lithuanian Jewish community....
France is one of the European countries in which anti-Semitism is rife, but Robert Ejnes, executive director of the Representative Council of French Jewish Organisations, is...
South African Jews take their freedom to practise the age-old traditions of brit milah and shechita (kosher slaughter) very much for granted but in other parts...
Tokyo Sexwale has called on the World Jewish Congress (WJC) to play a more active role in bringing peace to the Middle East, to “lean” on...
As "chaggim fever" subsides for Jewish families around the world, I can't help but smile when I think of our first Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and...
One of the ways Shabbos is celebrated through the world, and has been since the giving of the Torah, is through songs and singing.
Philanthropist, top businessman, proud Jew and family man, Dr Barney Hurwitz, died last week at the age of 95. He was described by friends and family...
Zionism and loyalty to Israel is not a given to the much-maligned millennial generation of Diaspora Jews. Engaging these young people and giving them a platform...
“I strongly disagree with the phrase that the BDS movement pushes the anti-Semitism agenda like the Nazis did,” said a spirited young Habonim Dror member at...
Mandy-Lee Ginsberg has her smile back and like a butterfly has emerged triumphant from a cocoon of tortured silence following a crippling eating disorder that almost...
You may read the name Steven Cohen, and think of an artist who had the courage or the folly to do almost anything dressed in almost...
Can individual Palestinians and Israelis get past their violent history and see each other as people? A documentary screened in the past two weeks in Johannesburg...
The World Jewish Congress National Directors' Forum, which concluded in Cape Town earlier this week, successfully combined focused formal discussions and presentations on core issues facing...
The brand-new Bet David shul in Morningside, was opened on erev Rosh Hashanah with a service led by Rabbi Adrian Michael Schell.
Chabad Illovo is celebrating the Shabbos Project by thinking of others through the innovative “Unbox Shabbos” initiative. This project will ensure that needy Jewish families across...
Crawford Preparatory Sandton embraces the creative arts, using it as a tool for learning and integrating other subjects. The school holds an annual art exhibition off...
At the start of the new term, the children at Sydenham Hebrew Pre-Primary school wasted no time in getting their hands dirty.
Torah Academy Primary School encourages learners in every facet of secular and religious education.
Any Jewish person who didn’t attend last Sunday night’s inspired DEISI’s (Defend, Embrace, Invest, Support Israel) International function to honour Israel, missed the opportunity of being...
There are Jewish halachic laws of “yichud” that prescribe that a man and a woman (who are not closely related) should not be secluded in closed...
Anyone who lived in, or is a descendant of, or knows of people from Shadova/Seduva in Lithuania and who came to South Africa, is asked to...
It is hard to imagine how martial arts can help children with terminal illnesses, but it does. It enables children to transform their pain into purpose...
There haven’t been too many “itzes” in the surnames of SABC board members in the past. Until now. Newly-appointed member, Michael Markovitz along with colleague John...
Just recently an article was featured in the SA Jewish Report about how oftentimes we have plenty of justified criticism for our community institutions. However, we’re...
The leader of the Zion Christian Church - ZCC - Bishop Dr Barnabas Lekganyane, had a meeting with President Reuven Rivlin of Israel, on Wednesday during...
Yeshiva College schoolboy Hugo Paluch was a giant soul who had a master plan and an extraordinary vision to make the world a better place. He...
He’s black, Jewish and Israeli and Adeno Abebe is South Africa’s brand-new Habonim and World Zionist Organisation (WZO) shaliach.
When Hugo Paluch was struck down in a tragic accident at his school in June, the community grew strong in protecting the family and praying for...
This is not what the polls reflect, but I’m willing to go out on a limb and say that if elections were to be held today...
