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The only rising in terms of food that practising Jews will have to contend with this Pesach is the increased prices over the Passover season.
When the SAJBD was founded shortly after the turn of the last century, it was solely for the purpose of upholding the civil rights and representing...
Captivity is a masterpiece of Jewish historical fiction from one of Hungary’s most prominent and prolific literary figures. It spans most of the first century Common...
The Chevrah Kadisha Pesach Packing Day, which took place at the beautiful new Arcadia grounds on Sunday April 2, was attended by hundreds of excited children...
The heart of Pesach is the seder and the heart of the seder is a collective memory, the Jewish story of freedom.
In 1987 my father sat me down for a serious talk. He had something he needed to get off his chest and I needed to hear...
The Haggadah is a lesson in attaining freedom and dropping the yoke of slavery. It took the Jews 40 years wandering in the desert to rid...
There is a joke that when Shimon Peres was president of Israel, he invited ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to spend Passover with him and his...
Jewish children needing remedial help have had little choice but to leave King David Schools to go to Crossroads and Bellavista - not always returning to...
Enrolling your child in a remedial school may feel like the toughest decision ever, not least of all because of your fear that it means your...
What appeared to be just another Friday evening service at the Great Synagogue in Wolmarans Street in Johannesburg in 1957, became the night that changed the...
On a recent visit to Our Parents Home to visit relatives, one of the residents, whom Dov Fedler had known his entire life, heard his name...
How do elected and appointed servants of the public amass such wealth way beyond their official income? This is a question often asked. The call for...
The ANC Youth League hit out this week at “a certain individual (who) is parading around on a pro-Israel trip in the USA, claiming to be...
Pesach is the time we treasure the gift of freedom, which G-d first gave to our people 3 329 years ago, when He liberated us from...
For the past year, the Board of Directors of the SA Jewish Report has struggled with the dilemma of whether it would be appropriate to call...
The Jewish community has no immediate cause for concern, following the finding of a large arms cache in Randburg on Monday, according to police and the...
This Shabbat we start with the reading of the third book of the Torah. The book has very different names in different traditions. Often we say...
Fourteen minutes. That’s how long Nikki Haley, US Ambassador to the United Nations, spent in conversation with interviewer Dan Senor at AIPAC’s annual policy conference on...
When former Arcadia resident Freda Cheilyk (née Koppel) watched the video the Chevrah Kadisha made about the new Arcadia orphanage, she was taken back to a...
Just as soon as the the Western Cape Cabinet made a decision to sell their Tafelberg Sea Point property to build a Jewish school, the national...
When the then United Nations Ambassador nominee, Nikki Haley, first defended Israel in her opening statement, I sat up and listened. She was so impressive in...
Military checkpoints are never something to joke about. But I won’t quickly forget being stopped at one, years ago, in Algiers, Algeria.
The University of Cape Town campus was the scene of an exploding confrontation on Wednesday between the South African Union of Jewish Students (SAUJS) and the...
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma - one of the top contenders for the next South African president, ostensibly with the backing of her former husband President Jacob Zuma -...
On December 24, 2013, Maxine Nerwich received the call that no mother ever wants to receive: her beloved youngest son, Brett, aged 30, had drowned while...
Acclaimed veteran architect Clive Chipkin launched the archives of his work - a veritable treasure trove of South African architectural history - in the name of...
Harry's Beth Din Why did you agree to talk at Sydenham Shul? I remember reading an interview with Kevin Spacey, in which he said: “If you're...
When Donald Trump became president of the United States of America, South African Jews had a great deal to say either in support of or against...
Many Jewish groups blamed white supremacists, emboldened by Donald Trump’s campaign, for the bomb threats that have plagued Jewish institutions since the beginning of this year....
“They say I must convert. I say: What can I be converted to? I’ve been a rabbi since I was 21 years old.”
Struggle veteran Ahmed Kathrada’s death on Tuesday follows the furore about Western Cape Premier Helen Zille’s controversial tweets on benefits white colonialism brought to Africa. The...
From time to time, caches of illegal weapons are discovered in South Africa. Generally, the authorities have assumed the motives of those responsible to be criminal-related....
Joseph Joffe of Crawford Preparatory Sandton, has been selected by his fellow councillors from 40 schools in the Greater Johannesburg area, as mayor of the Johannesburg...
The Matzah Man visited Sydenham Hebrew Pre-Primary School on Wednesday last week to promote the Chevrah Kadisha’s Pesach collection of non-perishable foodstuffs.
There were track and field events and much more, as every child in Torah Academy Primary School participated in both categories, to be able to assist...
The Jewish Capetonians calling for social housing in Sea Point and other sites in an inclusive Cape Town, must be encouraged to succeed in their demands...
During my recent stay at the Linksfield Clinic I was totally overwhelmed by the compassion and empathy bestowed upon me during my few days there by...
From an experience many years ago, which is, I gather, applicable to this day, the banking system in Israel leaves a lot to be desired and...
Melanie Verwoerd (former ANC parliamentarian and ambassador) is in Cyril Ramaphosa's corner. In a recent article she sees a bright future for South Africa under a...
