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Entering the workshop of Rabbi Azriel Uzvolk, spiritual leader of the Victory Park Hebrew Congregation, was akin to being transported back in time. This rabbi was...
The fire of Lag B’Omer could not be suppressed by the freezing cold, rainy weather over the last weekend in Johannesburg. And although the turnout was...
Those passing by James and Ethel Gray Park in Johannesburg last Sunday, were in for a surprise as the Lag B’Omer Jewish Unity Parade, with participants...
“I might mispronounce a few words,” laughs Rabbi Mendel Rabinowitz of Greenside Shul.
Hundreds of Jewish families around the world found each other and connected for the first time, because of a 22-year-old international creative schools competition.
Two presidents who excel in shamelessness, loom over South African Jews’ minds: the United States’ Donald Trump and South Africa’s Jacob Zuma. Both are unpredictable, of...
OneFamily is launching a new project alongside Johannesburg-born artist, former King Davidian Julian Grabman, selling prints of his famous watercolour “Jerusalem Forever”, half the proceeds will...
When the British rock band Queen performed on stage, it was a staggering display of grit, sweat and energy. Zanzibari-born Freddy Mercury would throw his perspiration-soaked...
Johannesburg actress and playwright Aimeè Goldsmith is determined to stimulate debate on a range of social issues through her work. Only in her 20s, she is...
We are currently experiencing one of those waves of anti-Israel commentary that occur from time to time in our media. One of the topics that have...
Chabad has launched a new course called "Survival of a Nation". I attended the first lecture, run by Rabbi Ari Kievman, which explores the incredible, miraculous...
President Donald Trump isn't an idiot; he just talks like one. One analysis, citing "a cramped simplistic vocabulary, found that Trump talks just below a sixth-grade...
David Nivison is probably one of those rare water polo players who did not come to the sport through swimming. But no matter how he got...
Two grade 10 Yeshiva College learners excelled in the recent International Bible Quiz in Israel.
Sydenham Hebrew Pre-Primary School littlies celebrated Lag B’Omer with a bonfire and a “red-hot” Shabbos table at school last Friday.
AMY JAFFE Sandton Sinai Primary School celebrated Lag B’Omer with a fire dancer and by roasting marshmallows on the braai. Everyone had a marvellous time.
King David Primary School Victory Park, joined the Reach for a Dream Foundation and supported Slipper Day on Friday, May 12.
King David Linksfield participated in Slipper Day on May 12 by wearing slippers to school, to contribute towards fulfilling the dreams of children not capable of...
Over a third of King David Junior Primary Linksfield’s grade three learners, who wrote the 2016 International Benchmark Tests, achieved “Certificates of Distinction”.
Johannesburg Junior Council environmental committee chairperson Jaymee Gobetz – a Crawford College Sandton pupil – won the “Most Dedicated Chairperson” award for her role.
It was a day of human warmth, generosity, kindness and compassion when "67 Blankets for Nelson Mandela Day" visited three Jewish NGOs. On May 8, hand-knitted...
Despite the Western Cape government having made a final decision in late March to sell the Tafelberg site in Sea Point to build a Jewish school,...
So, Justin Bieber was in Tel Aviv last week and attracted some 50 000 fans to his concert. Go a little further north this weekend, to...
Fake Jewish Facebookers are befriending Jewish people on the social media site, enabling them to have free access to these private people’s online lives.
“You make us better,” James Comey told the Anti-Defamation League in his final public speech as FBI director.
Last week Jewish Report dispelled the myth that the kosher meat and chicken prices are substantially more expensive inland than at the coast. This week we...
I would never have imagined I would be celebrating a powerful woman losing an election, but far-right populist National Front candidate in the French election, Marine...
During Israel’s last parliamentary elections in March 2015 there was a popular slogan in the country - “anyone but Bibi” - referring to Benjamin Netanyahu who,...
Richard Wagner. The name ignites animated debate in the Jewish and music worlds - a debate which can evoke anger and angst when those worlds collide.
When a young Orthodox Cape Town batmitzvah celebrated her coming of age recently, she leyned from the Torah.
Rabbis around the world cite Rashi more often than most sages, but Rabbi Jonathan Fox took this to a new height by publishing a book on...
“We are proud to have two thirds of the Jewish community, numbering some 80 000 people in this grey city of Johannesburg,” said Johannesburg’s executive mayor,...
Imagine spending a glorious Cape Town day riding fast cars, followed by sailing on a yacht, concluded by a wonderful dinner and party with warm, generous...
While they don’t always stand in the limelight, there’s no denying that being a rebbetzin is demanding. Just raising (often very large) families is a fulltime...
Jewish mothers are traditionally a breed apart from other mothers, no matter where in the world we live, how rich we are or our political leanings.
The Palestinian flag on Tuesday flew over City Hall in Dublin, a day after the city council capped a month of stormy debate with a decision...
Having grown used to the South African government’s negative attitude towards Israel, it was refreshing to hear Ambassador Themba Rebushe, the acting deputy director general of...
Israel’s exports to South Africa have grown tremendously over the last few years, with more irrigation equipment, more technology and more innovations from the “Startup Nation”,...
Chaim Cohen, Bedfordview I refer to Mark Oppenheimer’s article “Enabling artistic freedom and tolerance” in last week’s Jewish Report. He attributes a quotation to Beatrice Evelyn...
I nearly drove into two people walking home from shul last Friday night. I was driving slowly; they were wearing black, walking on a dark road...
