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Touchdown in Tel Aviv. The start of a new chapter for my husband, 10-year old son and nine-year old daughter. The El Al flight is mandatory...
“'If you will it, it is no dream; and if you do not will it, a dream it is and a dream it will stay.” Theodor...
In three countries close to South African Jews - Israel, South Africa and the United States - a monumental fight is raging between defenders of the...
Since its establishment in 1903, the SA Jewish Board of Deputies has represented the interests and worked to uphold the civil rights of the South African...
The complex issue of the rights of schools versus the rights of learners, often finds itself being resolved by courts around the world. There are at...
Jewish schoolboys like Jasen Smaller (Pic: Lilly Harmse) stood up for what they believe to be equal gender rights around the country over the past year,...
As the new editor of the SA Jewish Report, I feel like I have come full circle. For many years, I have worked in the mainstream...
JENNY MILLER Sydenham Hebrew Pre-Primary School’s senior garden has undergone an extreme makeover. The jungle gym has been refurbished and the children are testing their climbing...
OWN CORRESPONDENT Yeshiva College Primary School has elected its House Captains for 2017, for Tzion, Judah and Israel. The school is already in full swing, looking...
OWN CORRESPONDENT There was a buzz and a good vibe at King David High, Linksfield last week when hundreds of pupils answered the call of the...
OWN CORRESPONDENT Last week Friday, Rabbi David Shaw and Rabbi Ziggy Suchard from Sandton Shul visited the kids at King David Minnie Bersohn Pre-Primary School. Rabbi...
The good die but live on in the example they provided. That is a quote in the Talmud and in so many ways it applies to...
At the time of writing, the country is looking ahead to the annual State of the Nation address, to be delivered in Parliament on Thursday. It...
It was a historic moment for the Chev last week when the doors to the beautiful new Arcadia campus were opened to donors who were given...
Fallout for South African Jewry from Donald Trump’s controversial presidency in the United States has not been felt directly thus far. It is experienced more as...
Film: Denial Cast: Rachel Weisz, Timothy Spall, Tom Wilkinson, Andrew Scott Director: Mick Jackson Classification: 7-9 PG
American Jews are watching the beginning of Donald Trump's presidency with both fear and hope.
Rose Lerer Cohen is an “accidental genealogist” who was “provoked” into following that career path.
South African Jews have an enduring fascination with their genealogy - their roots - as a “full-house” Great Park Shul hall attested to on Sunday evening,...
Rabbi Yossi Chaikin Principal, Torah Academy Boys’ High School We are very proud of our school’s achievement as best performing independent school which was recognised at...
School marks achieved today by learners appear to be much higher than in their parents’ time. And the students seem to be under much more pressure.
Sifrin’s negativity towards Israel has no place in Jewish Report I would like to fully endorse the words of Jack Miller in his letter regarding his...
Sculptor Sir Anish Kapoor was on Monday named this year's winner of the million dollar Genesis Prize, awarded for commitment to Israel and Judaism.
Launching a new - and different - investment company in the US only one week after the beginning of the 2008 worldwide financial crash, might seem...
South African Ashley Sweke, chorister and chairman of Johannesburg’s Lewandowski Chorale, and her husband Desmond came way too close to being mowed down in a terrorist...
Why are Jewish home buyers in Johannesburg prepared to battle it out and bid against each other for the privilege of living in Glenhazel or Fairmount?...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is going to stride in through the White House front door. President Donald Trump is not going to grimace while Netanyahu...
The government-funded NSFAS (National Student Financial Aid Scheme) provides student loans for the lowest income earners (where the family earns a maximum of R120 000 a...
South African universities began opening their doors this week, with the entire nation waiting in anticipation to see what happens. This follows an 18-month-long period of...
The (by now) infamous open letter penned by Edward Zuma, son of President Jacob Zuma - in which he lays into Jewish business leaders - is...
This is the launch edition of the Jewish Report Newsmaker of the Week column. From now on we’ll every week select a newsworthy person to be...
This is the first of a weekly column by former news editor of Eyewitness News, Benita Levin, who we will be following as she settles into...
Suggesting to Jewish children that “…Hitler was right” - even if the person making the statement is Jewish - is bound to be shocking. And so...
Parshat Beshalach details the climax of our Exodus from Egypt. In it we experience the supernatural splitting of the sea where even the lowest Jew received...
OWN CORRESPONDENTIn the run-up to TuB’Shvat our schools dug down deep in celebration. Sydenham: Trimming the trees for TuB’Shvat. Dovy Levy; Ricky Cohen; Samuel Licht; Jaron...
With so much concern among the community about the campus unrest of the past eighteen months, the #FeesMustFall movement and the general stability of the South...
Dean Cohen’s dad was diagnosed with ALS/MND in April 1995. The pair watched Joost & the Boks win the World Cup Final in June. Six months...
When honoured with an invitation to deliver the prestigious annual Hildesheimer Lecture at the Law School of Humboldt University in Berlin last month, Chief Rabbi Warren...
Moneyweb ran a story this morning in which it said five people have sued Ronald and Darren Bobroff, whom they called “disgraced personal injury lawyers”, claiming...
A group of Wits students of all religions were elated on Monday after hearing that their application to form a Hebrew Society had been approved at...
