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At the beginning of November, the Israeli Youth Award Ceremony was hosted by the British Ambassador to Israel. This distinguished international award programme has been in...
From the very outset and to this day, the leadership of the SAJBD has included some of South Africa’s most eminent lawyers, among them many judges....
The magnificently restored Arcadia House gardens was the setting for this year’s WIZO Etgar branch in Johannesburg’s Annual Garden Day last weekend.
After 42 years of community service, Professor Antony Arkin is pursuing his lifelong dream of making aliya.
Once again someone in the community has butchered the beautiful palm tree on top of Sylvia Pass. I am so ashamed that a person can do...
An article on Edwin Cameron in the edition of September 29, in the Jewish Report, Cameron sites Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish justice on the US...
Do you know that the car guards at all major shopping centres have to pay on average R50 per shift so that they may assist you...
Netzer South Africa is the Jewish youth movement, affiliated with the South African Union for Progressive Judaism (SAUPJ) and the South African Zionist Federation (SAZF). We...
Tomer Melnik from Crawford College Sandton recently excelled at the National Science Olympiad.
Some beautiful works of art were on display at the King David Pre-Primary Victory Park exhibition on 31 October. There was much naches-sharing among parents, grandparents...
The children of Sydenham Hebrew Pre-Primary School had a “Nursery Rhyme Shabbos” last week. Their shabbos table was set with Hey Diddle Diddle, the candles were...
Yeshiva College’s grade R children watched an enthralling dramatisation of the historic meeting between Weizmann and Balfour to commemorate the100th year anniversary of the Balfour Declaration....
The Palestinian Football Authority has reacted angrily to world controlling football body Fifa’s decision not to intervene in the impasse between the Israeli and Palestinian football...
Israel’s rugby team has kept its hopes alive of promotion with a dominant 44-8 victory over Bosnia Herzegovina at the Wingate Institute at the weekend.
Israeli Minister for Regional Co-operation, Tzachi Hanegbi, was welcomed by, and held meetings with, top government ministers on his whistle-stop trip to South Africa this week.
The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs along with Magen David Adom in South Africa, have put together an aid package for Madagascar to assist that country...
Controversial Progressive Rabbi Sa’ar Shaked has landed himself in hot water once again with members of the broader Jewish community, after the chairman of BDS South...
Around 2 500 Christian Zionists who planned to stage a peaceful protest countering the Economic Freedom Fighter’s (EFF) march on the Israeli Embassy last Friday, were...
Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein has taken a zero tolerance approach to all forms of abuse within the Jewish community. He has set up a world...
South African book stores this week couldn’t get enough copies of Jacques Pauw’s book “The President’s Keeper”, where this multi-award-winning journalist documents more of President Jacob...
It was deadly quiet at the Tel Nof air force base, southeast of Tel Aviv. A few seconds earlier the media tent had been abuzz with...
“I demand that you do not sleep for at least three days and nights if that is required,” General Heinz Guderian is reported to have told...
Never in the annals of South Africa’s Jewish community has a single person - and a woman at that - made the same global impact as...
Shabbos stands out from the other days, even as man stands out from all living creatures. Man was blessed and so was Shabbos.
Israel’s Minister of Regional Co-operation Tzachi Hanegbi, is the latest high-profile Israeli politician to visit South Africa, undermining the notion that diplomatic ties between the two...
One of my favourite life-coaching life lessons is learning to “trust the process”. For me, it means letting go of one’s fears and “limiting beliefs” and...
Twins Judd and Tyler Sandler recently celebrated their barmitzvah in memory of another set of twins: Abraham and Benjamin Barmherzig who perished in the Holocaust just...
At the foot of Table Mountain, a school in a historic synagogue, allows its teenage pupils to rest on bean bag pillows, study Torah in chevruta,...
South Africa’s many Six Day War IDF volunteers, form an integral part of Israel’s proud military history. And 50 years later, more than 60 of them...
“It started with one coffee and one crazy idea. It culminated in infinite memories in the Land of 1 000 Hills and 1 000 000 smiles.”...
Ask any child - the best way to learn is through fun. Ed Jordan and Alan Glass apparently got this right with their latest children’s book,...
Wearing strimels, black hats, knitted yarmulkes, shorts, sandals or suits, different Jews from around the world came together to discuss their common purpose - saving lives....
In a famous episode of "Seinfeld", Jerry is upset that his dentist, a recent convert to Judaism, is already telling Jewish jokes. He complains to the...
It is a paradox of travel that as we adventure into exotic distant lands, what we really want is to feel at home.
The clumsy attempt by the State Security Agency and SA Revenue Service to block distribution of the book by investigative journalist Jacques Pauw, The President's Keepers,...
There is perhaps no better way to encapsulate the Habonim Machaneh experience than with the popular song our campers sing every December - “Habonim Machaneh makes...
Over the weekend, representatives of the SAJBD attended an event where the renowned human rights lawyer George Bizos was honoured by the Hellenic Federation of South...
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jerusalem in May this year, the whole of King David Victory Park undertook a special project to illustrate their love...
The atmosphere was electric as the children of Sydenham Hebrew Pre-Primary celebrated their theme of Dr Seuss with a “Dr Seuss comes to Sydenhamville” day last...
Setlogane Manchidi came to Torah Academy Boys' High School last week to share his inspirational life story.
