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Pesach is relevant to each and every one of us in some way. The SA Jewish Report reached out to our high school readers and asked...
Last week’s issue of SA Jewish Report (SAJR) ran with the story of how the SA Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) Cape Council election, held last...
Pesach celebrates the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and their eventual freedom from slavery.
Like most Capetonians these days, King David often had H20 on his mind. Consider: “The voice of the Lord is upon the waters… He leads me...
Had New York governor Andrew Cuomo been to see King David Victory Park’s production of Grease this week, he would have been forced to retract his...
The frontrunner in the Johannesburg water collection drive for Cape Town was a school called Darchei Noam. When the school put out a water collection challenge...
Operation Entebbe was probably Israel’s most successful and internationally acclaimed counter-terrorist hostage rescue mission.
The kosher restaurants that are open during Pesach are:
When The Sound of Music production opens on March 31 at Johannesburg’s Teatro at Montecasino, there will be five Jewish youngsters playing the Von Trapp children.
She has been critically compared to singers Norah Jones and Katie Melua, and her work lauded for its freshness and quality. Award-winning singer-songwriter Laurie Levine chats...
It will take Australian cricket years to regain the respect of the cricketing world, following the ball-tampering incident at Newlands in Cape Town over the weekend.
This summer, while millions of people worldwide will be watching the FIFA World Cup in Russia, Jews and Arabs will come together in Jerusalem’s Old City...
The Cape Board has a history of tackling difficult issues. We hold robust debate with community members, politicians, activists and the media. When we face constructive...
The headline of an article in the March 16 issue (“SAZF concerned for Jewish students’ safety at UCT”) gives the unfortunate impression that the campus has...
During the past few months, I have been following the situation in South Africa closely and am perturbed. People living in South Africa sometimes do not...
I am gratified to see the coverage in the SA Jewish Report of the Polish controversy regarding the naming of the concentration/death camps in Poland.
The contretemps and recent panic about the expiry dates of products is a storm in a tea cup.
What we miss most about SA It’s been just over a year since our family of four made aliya, and this week we returned for a...
When a flyer with a portrait of Anne Frank wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh was circulated on campus at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) late last...
An independent panel that the most recent election of the Cape SA Jewish Board of Deputies (Cape Board) was flawed”.
While kashrut – or rather, the lack of it – has recently rocked the community, here’s a good news kosher story.
This is supposed to be an article about the portion of the week. It is not. It is an article about a different portion – a...
An independent forensic investigation will be conducted into the Stan & Pete treif chicken scandal.
There is an urgent need for the ANC and government to adopt concrete solutions to tackle the issues preventing the people of Palestine from achieving their...
When an administrative officer of South Africa’s Israeli Embassy gave away a statue by venerated sculptor Edoardo Daniele Villa, which had stood on the embassy property,...
This week, we celebrated Human Rights Day. We generally do very little on a public holiday that even vaguely reminds us of what we are supposedly...
So much attention has been focused in recent months on Israel’s security concerns across its borders, one could be forgiven for not noticing the steady climb...
The Rosh Beth Din, Rabbi Moshe Kurtstag, continues to hold onto the reins of the Jewish ecclesiastical court despite living in Israel and notwithstanding a retirement...
On Passover, I look for desserts that can be enjoyed beyond the eight days of the holiday and do not involve matzah meal.
Try this delicious Matza pizza.
I’m a fan of healthy whole grains, but they can easily become heavy – even the healthy ones. Instead of packing my Passover meals with heavy...
South Africa is fortunate to have a close-knit and caring Jewish community whose members ensure that no Jew need be alone for the Pesach seders.
Poland’s newly passed Holocaust bill refers to an anti-defamation bill that makes it illegal for anyone to accuse Poland of being complicit in Nazi crimes. However,...
Natan Sharansky, the outgoing chairperson of non-profit organisation the Jewish Agency for Israel and a renowned Soviet dissident and human rights activist, was this week awarded...
“In Jewish tradition, we wait one year – a full cycle of chagim – until we say Yizkor. This is because in the first year, it...
Most of us need few excuses to make a batch of chocolate truffles, especially when coffee is involved. This recipe combines a velvety chocolate base with...
For the third consecutive year, the SA Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) marked Human Rights Day by taking a Jewish community delegation to Sharpeville, scene of...
The horrendous death of five-year-old schoolgirl Lumka Mketwa highlights a stark reality of South African society. Lumka fell into a pit latrine at an Eastern Cape...
I just can’t talk about chickens anymore. I really, really can’t. And that’s not only because I am being sued by Jeffery C Shull of Stan...
Days after she was released from Johannesburg Prison at the height of apartheid in 1985, Marion Crawford spoke at the launch of Jews for Social Justice...
