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Among the astounding revelations in the recent State of the Nation address was the plan of North West provincial premier, Supra Mahumapelo to build a six-metre...
Last week, members of our Cape and professional staff attended the Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office/Hanns Seidel Foundation discussion on the draft Hate Crimes and Hate Speech...
Last week I attended the 11th annual Jewish Entrepreneurs Insight sponsored and hosted every year by Investec Private Securities at their Sandton offices.
Wonderful to have your new column -“Aliyah - the good, the bad and the meshuga” by Benita Levin. (Please remove “the bad”. There cannot possibly be...
US President Donald Trump wants a deal for peace, not one or two-state solution without peace (Tova Lazaroff: “Did Trump just nix the idea of a...
President Jacob Zuma, among his many accomplishments, is also a hypocrite. All government employees are dissuaded from visiting Israel. Presently (?), there are dozens of water...
Our parents, Ronnie and Leigh Levy, last week Friday, celebrated a special milestone in their lives: 60 years of marriage.
The Berts celebrated their Platinum Wedding Anniversary with a tea at their home of 50 years in Linksfield West. A sprinkling of “old” friends, a sister...
Tshwane Mayor Solly Msimanga had his first Shabbos dinner with the Pretoria Hebrew Congregation last Friday. “It is a great honour to attend this service in...
In a strange coincidence in the Jewish Report of February 3 you have a picture of Ella Blumenthal on page 1 and on page 15, Linda...
Students from Israel's College of Law and Business (CLB) in Ramat Gan, have won the International Chamber of Commerce's Mediation Competition, held in Paris last week....
The highly popular Sounds of Celebration concert, a joint venture between Education Africa and Sydenham Shul, will be staged in Johannesburg in two weeks’ time, with...
OWN CORRESPONDENT The Hirsch Lyons Girls’ High School Shabbaton this year took place at Paramount Conference and Adventure Centre in Rustenburg, over the weekend of February...
Last week Thursday night, the first-ever KDL Dance Awards took place, with a host of talented King David learners taking to the stage to showcase their...
SHELLEY POZNIAK The children at Sandton Sinai Primary School have been learning about kavod – respect. In keeping with the theme of respect, they used anti-waste...
SUE BENJAMIN From playschool to grade R, each Sydenham child last week spent time “Building our Neighbourhood”. The topics discussed encompassed houses, hospitals, police stations, schools,...
The playing of a national anthem at a sporting competition can often be a sensitive issue. Those of us who remember the incident at Ellis Park...
The office of the American ambassador to South Africa has been unoccupied since December 16 2016, when former US ambassador Patrick Gaspard vacated it under the...
JR Online users are having their say, as usual. While the website's peak day saw well over 12,000 users, it can also have as many as...
JNF’s unique “Blue Boy Box” now lives at King David Linksfield Pre-Primary so that children of each generation learn the importance of tzedakah (charity or welfare)....
Guess who planted this olive tree in celebration of Tu B'Shvat last weekend, and where it was planted?
OWN CORRESPONDENT Two of Yeshiva College learners had singular honours bestowed on them. Joseph Kaplan and Gabi Osrin have been appointed as the school’s Junior City...
OWN CORRESPONDENT Parents, domestic workers and security guards of Minnie Bersohn Pre-Primary School recently took part in a basic first aid and CPR course, arranged by...
On Sunday February 5, eight learners from King David Victory Park and Linksfield set out on a 50km bicycle ride around the Cradle of Humankind near...
King David Linksfield’s Outreach Committee forms a great part of the high school’s activities. The committee provides each learner the opportunity to give back to the...
A white Honours Blazer is the highest award a learner can achieve at Crawford College Sandton. A learner qualifies for such a blazer by achieving full...
South Africa’s favourite online celebrity, SuzelleDIY, has an alter ego - Julia Anastasopoulos. “Suzelle” bubbles all over as she does her YouTube DIY videos, presenting in...
While the violence and protest around President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation address stole most of the show last Thursday in Parliament, the few Jews...
Word spread this week that Israel was allegedly downgrading its diplomatic ties with New Zealand and Senegal over a United Nations resolution they had supported towards...
South African Ambassador to Israel Sisa Ngombane was shocked when he arrived at work on Monday morning to find he was allegedly facing censure by the...
When around 400 Orthodox rabbis gathered for a photograph at the end of Kinnus in New York recently, one rabbi opened his black coat to reveal...
“Why should I care if Donald Trump rules in America? It doesn't affect me.” This sentiment, which was proffered as feedback for our edition last week,...
The first time I met former Israeli President Moshe Katzav was on a staircase - I was entering an apartment to interview a young woman whose...
The age-old question theologians have been debating for centuries: Can religious beliefs be proven? Is religion synonymous with faith? Most religions entail a claim of prophecy...
Businessman Gavin Varejes, who heads the SA Rugby Legend Association, delivered a moving eulogy at the memorial service for South African legend Joost van der Westhuizen,...
Former Herzlia headmaster Solly Kaplinski grew up as a child of Holocaust survivors, Sima and Izak, who escaped with the Bielski partisans in Belarus. Next week...
Struggle veterans galore gathered at the Women’s Section of the Old Fort Prison on Constitution Hill in Johannesburg last Sunday, to bid farewell to struggle veteran...
Defending his executive order directing the construction of a wall along the US border with Mexico, President Donald Trump pointed to Israel as a model, saying...
People travel to China for various reasons - Olympics, sightseeing, to walk the Great Wall - but for Jake Pinchus it is all about martial arts.
Sona 2017 - the State of the Nations - address made me very anxious. And in truth I imagine that South African Jews felt very much...
