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At one minute to 10am on Monday morning, I was transported back to Israel and from then on the day was one that reminded me of...
The World Jewish Congress in New York resolved last week to urge Internet companies to implement mechanisms to remove illegal and offensive content from their platforms,...
Hostile protesters marred Cape Town’s unusually low-key Yom Ha’atzmaut celebration by preventing the community from entering the Baxter Theatre on Monday evening.
This week's parsha, Acharei-Kedoshim, begin with the words: Acharei mos shnei bnei Aharon.
“Viva the rainbow nation, viva” shouted Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein as he addressed thousands of protesters at the Freedom Movement Rally in Pretoria last week Thursday.
Iran has threatened to wipe Israel off the map. Former US President George W Bush said Iran, with Iraq and North Korea, formed the “Axis of...
As humans, we have three vehicles or channels through which all our experiences are lived: Thought, speech and action.
“This is the beginning of a great resistance, of a series of marches and protests, of legal and political actions, which flow so naturally from the...
New Sports Minister Thulas Nxesi and Deputy Minister in the Presidency Buti Manamela, have both publicly slammed Israel, claiming that “innocent Palestinians” were being killed daily...
Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein has changed the Prayer for the Republic of South Africa - a prayer rabbis say every Saturday morning in shul.
We celebrate Freedom Day this week and I feel I have to pause and consider just how free we are and how far we have come...
When I moved to the Middle East more than a decade ago, I was excited to cover my first round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. There were...
“The doors [of learning] will remain open.” This was said by General Director of the SA Board of Jewish Education (SABJE) Rabbi Craig Kacev after imminent...
The Charge D’Affaires of the German Embassy, Klaus Streicher, brought a strong message to the Yom Hashoah commemoration in Pretoria of ensuring the Holocaust is not...
Nine-year-old Israel Gurwicz was one of many children sardined into the cattle truck of a train bound for death, but somehow managed to squeeze through a...
Rabbi Julia Margolis, chairman of the South African Centre for Religious Equality and Diversity (SACRED) described this year’s Yom Hashoah as “on the one hand, disappointing,...
The Durban Jewish community focused on the youth at their Yom Hashoah commemoration last Sunday evening.
A woman sang solo at Cape Town’s annual Yom Hashoah Holocaust Memorial ceremony last week.
Prominent artists, cartoonist Jonathon Shapiro (Zapiro) and painter Ayanda Mabula, have come under fire for depicting rape in their work. The word carries a double meaning,...
The words “Leshana Haba BeYerushalim” always sparked conversation during our seders in South Africa. Jokes were made about El Al flight specials and banter ensued about...
Jonathan Ancer is a journalist, having worked for a number of publications and held a variety of positions in media, He was journalist for The Star;...
The horror of what happens when one kind of people dehumanise another, was a thread running through the second half of the Yom Hashoah ceremony at...
Jewish leaders inside and outside France have expressed alarm after far-right populist Marine Le Pen’s strong showing in the first round of the French presidential election...
Whoever has the ability to protest against the members of his household, and doesn’t, is caught up with the members of his household. Whoever has the...
When Holocaust survivor Don Krausz talked movingly on Yom Hashoah on Sunday to a packed audience at West Park Cemetery in Johannesburg, about his experiences as...
There were again excellent attendances at the Yom Hashoah gatherings organised by the Board in the various centres around the country.
After love, money is possibly the most talked about subject in the world. Acquiring it, owning it, spending it and sharing it, occupies an enormous amount...
Ernest Waner of Brakpan is talking from a position of ignorance or so it seems (“Squatter camp fires: suggestions for pre-emptive action ignored”, SA Jewish Report,...
Bryan Schimmel is one of South Africa’s most colourful entertainers. You cannot NOT know when he's in the room; he has that kind of presence.
Justin Cohen is a man on a mission to get others to unleash their potential. His own potential is so out there, like a lion in...
Community stalwart Lisa Frank died in Sydney on April 12 at the age of 101, after a life of service. In 2000 Lisa (then 85) emigrated...
There was jubilation at the Jewish Women’s Benevolent Society office in Johannesburg on Tuesday last week when the organisation received a brand new vehicle from Brian...
The South African Zionist Federation Isie Maisels Reference Library has a host of new Jewish interest books available for loan. Here is a synopsis of the...
Last week Friday, King David Linksfield held a Yom Hashoah assembly. The theme was “Identity”. To many people an identity is just their name, but to...
HANNA BEN-MOSHE King David High School Victory Park commemorated Yom Hashoah on Monday in an emotional assembly in which the school boys’ choir gave a moving...
Diego Schwartzman did not win the Monte Carlo Masters tennis tournament last week, but he nevertheless came away with a trophy of which he is extremely...
“Hope for Heroism” is a non-profit organisation helping and supporting wounded Israeli soldiers; all of the money raised by it goes directly to help these soldiers.
Can the media be trusted? The New York Times this week criticised its own editors for sloppy journalism regarding how they dealt with an op-ed last...
The South African Jewish Report and its readers have played their part in the momentous events of the past two weeks – standing up to be...
The Chief Rabbi once again spoke out to Power last week. Rabbi Warren Goldstein was at the forefront of the #ZumaMustFall march in Pretoria, both on...
