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A week ago a freak accident involving a young Jewish boy, sent ripples of anguish and unendurable pain throughout pockets of the country, resulting in a...
In the aftermath of a heated anti-Semitic incident at a school play festival in Johannesburg on May 18, the headmaster of the school said to be...
Anti-Semitic vitriol drenched social media channels after the SA Jewish Report broke the story last week of a school play that turned into a real life...
Child sexual abuse is happening in the Jewish community.
Shavuot has been described as a “marriage between G-d and the Jewish people” and it is uncanny how it is specifically around this time that the...
As if Israel doesn’t have enough problems, here’s another one to add to the list. What to do when more than 1 000 Palestinian prisoners inside...
South African emigration to Israel in the first quarter of this year, is double that of last year’s figure for the same period. South Africa now...
Three years since a botched bris left a Johannesburg baby boy seriously injured, brit milah is still not officially regulated in South Africa.
Ivor Chipkin is the director and founder of the Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI) in Johannesburg and is one of the authors of the controversial “Betrayal...
As Av Beth Din - the head of South Africa’s Jewish ecclesiastical court - Rabbi Moshe Kurtstag cuts a fittingly imposing figure. Beanpole tall, furrow-browed and...
For the past 10 years, the South African Beth Din has been preparing a succession plan to ensure it continues to maintain the highest halachic and...
Holocaust survivors are often idolised and put on a pedestal by our community. Often the fact that they are human beings - struggling with circumstances, memories,...
Former South African, Professor Louise Bethlehem and Dr Oren Gutfeld, both senior academics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, passed each other frequently on the Mount...
A while ago, I had a heart-breaking meeting with members of the Jewish community in Johannesburg, people of colour who have converted to Judaism and have...
President Reuven Rivlin of Israel, recently presented former South African Jonathan Scheftz, with the Israeli Worker of the Year award in the trade category at a...
Israeli leadership often puts its political interests before those of Jews living in the Diaspora - including South Africa - but it says that this is...
“I was stuck in a rut, so caught up with homework and lift schemes I had lost sight of everything important,” says Sandton mother of three,...
I have just returned from the most extraordinary, exhilarating, breath-taking, inspirational adventure. To be in Israel, and especially Jerusalem, on the 50th anniversary of the Six...
A huge thumbs-up from the very young, and not-so-young, for Generation Sinai, the highly successful Torah learning project initiated by Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein some years...
Yom Yerushalayim on the King David Linksfield campus started with special Yom Yerushalayim assemblies, which included poems, tributes, songs and Israeli dancing.
King David Sandton was a great alternative to being at the Kotel over Yom Yerushalayim. Learners learnt about the Kotel, Jerusalem, and all the happenings of...
King David Victory Park celebrated Yom Yerushalayim last Wednesday with a special assembly for the 50th anniversary of the liberation and unification of Jerusalem.
Sandton Sinai Primary School kids had a special Yom Yerushalayim assembly where they learnt the meaning of this day and Rabbi Avraham Vigler, who fought as...
JENNY MILLER Sydenham Hebrew Pre-Primary School celebrated Yom Yerushalayim with the chilren painting, baking, davening, singing, dancing and eating.
In this country’s nightmare under President Jacob Zuma and his mafia-like network who run the place, the political power play is mainly in black arenas with...
As reported last week, the Board was working with King David Victory Park in addressing an unfortunate incident of anti-Semitic abuse that took place at an...
It behoves all of us to study Psalm 48 during the tumultuous Jerusalem Jubilee period and beyond. The summary to Psalm 48 in the Stone Edition...
For a time, Europe's political elite were filled with confusion and trepidation about American President Donald Trump and his foreign policy. His rantings appeared to be...
I refer here to your report in last week’s Jewish Report, on the absolutely scandalous behaviour of high school children at Waterstone College in Kibler Park.
Beit Emanuel has been running a project for several months now, of distributing knitted teddy bears to children in hospital. Last week Wednesday the congregation had...
The Union of Jewish Women in Port Elizabeth, though small in numbers, fight above their weight, as was again demonstrated by their recently held most successful...
A Jewish Johannesburg mother of two has been honoured by the South African Rugby Board by being invited to sing the French national anthem, "La Marseillaise"...
He might be 36 years old, but light-middleweight Tony Milch continues to make an impact on the British professional boxing circuit.
Cape Town is brown and dry and running out of water fast. The province has been declared a disaster area. Many Jewish Capetonians were grateful for...
Many years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I still had more hair on my head than on my pillow, I met a Jewish professor...
"They were chanting Heil Hitler, Heil Hitler. I was shocked and disgusted. I couldn't believe what I was hearing."
While the alleged sexual abuse victims of the late business tycoon Sidney Frankel will never see justice done for the crimes against them, they are fighting...
Alleged paedophile Sidney Frankel is dead. But the crusade for justice and true healing continues for the so-called “Frankel Eight”. They speak candidly to the Jewish...
Hearing the words “Heil Hitler” are enough to make any Jew go cold. But when Jewish children participate in a schools’ theatrical festival, it is totally...
He came, he saw, he left. American President Donald Trump’s whirlwind visit to Israel and Bethlehem lasted just 27 hours - but Israelis and Palestinians will...
