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The elderly man who last weekend was seen enjoying breakfast at a Wimpy eatery in the Free State wearing a World War II German soldier’s uniform...
Jewish graves in Somerset West and Strand Jewish Cemetery were vandalised last week. Two tombstones were knocked over, and a grave covering was cracked, in the...
Hillel Newman, an Israeli career diplomat born in Johannesburg, has been named Israel’s consul general for the southwestern United States, with headquarters in Los Angeles, and...
(JTA) Days ahead of a workshop where Jared Kushner sought tens of billions of dollars for his Middle East peace plan, the White House unveiled an...
On the eve of the unveiling of the Trump administration’s Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, Independent Media’s Foreign Editor Shannon Ebrahim had her own version of events about...
Statistics can be useful when used properly, or troublesome if misused or abused. In some cases, this misuse can be accidental.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday hosted the first-ever trilateral summit between the national security advisers of Israel, Russia, and the United States – in...
Ripped-off rooftops, sunken roads, and lacerated power cables dot the streets of Beira. The port city on Mozambique's central coast bore the brunt of Cyclone Idai...
The Beth Din’s decision last week to reinforce a policy ensuring local orthodox rabbis cannot attend Limmud has caused consternation, but so far, the affected local...
When Ilana Gerschlowitz’s son was diagnosed with autism, she saw it as game on, not game over. And while fighting to save her son, she brought...
South Africans live with high levels of anxiety, says Professor Danny Brom, a clinical psychologist and the founding director of Metiv, the Israel Psychotrauma Center.
New Orleans heaves with music, and the smell of cocktails rises as drunk tourists fall on the sordid sidewalks of Bourbon Street. In the ramshackle temple...
Rael Codron spent almost a decade working on cruise ships as a doctor, during which time he visited every continent - including Antarctica - multiple times.
When we think of Rome, we are transported back. Not to the Trevi Fountain, the Colosseum, or the Pantheon. But to Ba’Ghetto Milky.
(JTA) In a city where new eateries open and older ones close with the frequency of the waves lapping at the nearby seashore, Tel Aviv’s Levinsky...
(JTA) In 1983, Italian-Israeli professor Sandra Debenedetti Stow stunned the scholarly world with an explosive article that proposed that Jews introduced pizza to the European diet.
(JTA) What would you do to make it into The Guinness Book of World Records? Eat an absurd amount of bagels? Jump rope for days on...
Since we journeyed from Egypt to escape slavery, certain guidelines have always been relevant to Jews when we travel.
History shows that in addition to being called “the people of the book”, we Jews have undoubtedly earned the title of seasoned traveller.
Blackbeard captained the Queen Anne’s Revenge, Jack Sparrow captained the Black Pearl, and Jews captained the Prophet Samuel.
When Menzi Mngoma auditioned for the Cape Town Opera on 12 June, he couldn’t believe the turn his life had taken. After that, he was accepted...
Chazzan Yudi Cohen this week exchanged the bima for the stage, stepping into the spotlight to put his vocal prowess in service of a different purpose.
At the time of writing, I am in Israel with Zev Krengel, the national vice-president of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD). We have...
The collective gasp from the community could be heard the moment the SA Jewish Report rolled off the production line. “Beth Din reinforces prohibition on rabbis...
In this age of vulgarity, with increasing anti-Semitism and racism, the power of the mass media to propagate hatred through the internet has increased a million-fold.
David and Ben are sitting at their breakfast meeting. David turns to Ben, and asks what he wants for breakfast. Ben replies, “Nothing thank you –...
When 20-year old Doreen Benjamin Fait left Lithuania for South Africa in 1934, she arrived with a duvet cover, a set of candlesticks, a tin of...
The Jewish world is strange, holding two conflicting views on the same subject.
We feel the need to voice our dismay and disappointment in the Beth Din at its rigid stance on Limmud South Africa.
The weekend I spend at Limmud is the highlight of my Jewish year. Contrary to the views expressed in last week’s SA Jewish Report (21 June),...
I have just finished reading the SA Jewish Report front-page article (21 June 2019) about Limmud with much dismay. To quote, “the Beth Din’s mandate is...
What a sad day for South African Jewry! This prohibition of rabbis attending Limmud is shameful, divisive, and creates alienation in our community.
I am an elderly orthodox Jew. I have supported Limmud for many years, and applaud it for the work it does.
I have taken umbrage over the past six months or so at some of the opinions in lead articles and letters by some “prominent” members of...
The Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Cape Town is in the process of conducting the Jewish Community Survey of South Africa (www.jcssa2019.co.za).
We at Cape Town’s Open Mosque, South Africa’s most progressive Islamic house of worship, reject the bigoted stance of the Gatesville mosque regarding the volatile situation...
I feel disgusted at the South African Rabbinical Association’s stance on Limmud.
Having read the article in the SA Jewish Report on 21 June 2019 about the Beth Din ruling to reinforce the South African Rabbinical Association’s prohibition...
The Beth Din is fruitlessly fighting last century’s war, and the collateral damage is unaffiliated Jews in our community hungry for Jewish learning. Rather than protecting...
(JTA) Israel halts fuel to Gaza Israel has halted the transfer of fuel into Gaza following a rise in arson attacks from incendiary balloons that have...
