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Jewish day schools have excelled in the matriculation examinations year after year, but academic achievement is only part of what the overall quality of the education...
Another year gone. And just when you think the class of 2016 can’t ever emulate the achievements of the class of 2015, 2014 and before, they...
The 100 per cent matric pass rate of Jewish day schools in the matric exams, have begun to see as the “norm”’, often taking away from...
At the onset of the American presidential term of Donald Trump, I feel it is fitting that a real Jewish perspective be voiced, as opposed to...
The Jerusalem Post recently reported on a Pew Research Centre study concluding that Jews are the world's most educated religious group. According to the study Jews...
OWN CORRESPONDENT Yeshiva College’s first day of school for the first-timers, was filled with an incredible vibrancy, courtesy of all the learners, parents and teachers. A...
Last year, we had the opportunity of looking back on and celebrating 175 years of Jewish communal life in South Africa. In doing so, we paid...
The children and young people of Ohr Somayach Sandton gathered on Sunday, January 8, for a chesed project in memory of the late Avigayil Brocha Goodman,...
Although Gerald had been ill for some time, his recent passing came as a great shock to communal and business leaders. He was much respected and...
King David Victory Park pulled out all stops to welcome the school’s new and returning learners to the 2017 academic year.
Spellbound is a new spelling-BEE-like game show on M-Net where contestants spell words under pressure to win prizes for their school and themselves.
On Tuesday January 10, Herzlia’s new grade 1s arrived for orientation all bright and shiny in their new uniforms, filled with excitement ready to take on...
SUE BENJAMIN The Sydenham children wasted no time in getting into the swing of things. Messy play featuring water, shaving cream and coconut was the order...
Gerald Leissner, “Mr Community”, one of South African Jewry’s top leaders, who spearheaded its move to democracy in the 1990s, passed away on Friday, December 16...
Raymond Hack has secured a major position at world soccer’s governing body, Fifa, having been appointed chairman of Fifa’s Players Status Committee, an august position that...
Relations between Israel and Africa, for so long on the diplomatic back-burner, continue to gain momentum in the wake of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trail-blazing visit...
The overt anti-Israel bias of the ANC and traditional anti-Semitic themes appearing recently in ANC infighting over the potential successor to President Jacob Zuma as party...
This week saw social media ablaze with the “brocha” recited at the ANC’s recent birthday bash. ANC policies on Israel aside, I would like to draw...
“Israel is not for sale!” said an impassioned Colonel (res) Olivier Rafowicz to a cheering crowd which gathered in front of the French embassy in Tel...
Of the three state leaders most relevant to Jewish South Africans for this coming year, not one is particularly likeable or inspires confidence for a better...
Play: Blonde Poison Cast: Fiona Ramsay Director: Janna Ramos-Violante Venue: Auto & General Theatre on the Square, Nelson Mandela Square, Sandton until February 4.
Ignoring President Jacob Zuma’s directive for South Africans not to visit Israel, Leader of the Opposition Democratic Alliance Mmusi Maimane, recently led a delegation of five...
The master of ceremonies at the ANC's 105th birthday bash at Soweto's Orlando Stadium last weekend called on “Dr Ethel Phillips, from Judaism”, pictured, to say...
In Thornhill, Toronto, a shul and a neighbouring mosque share a parking lot. Now, they also share a family. Temple Har Zion and Imam Mahdi Islamic...
Click to read the latest report and see new pictures of Wednesday’s activities of the five-man Democratic Alliance’s (DA) visit to Jerusalem. Pictured at left is...
PM Netanyahu added two new African conquests Wednesday: He met Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma in the morning and welcome a high-powered delegation from SA's...
EXCLUSIVE! One of Israel’s most prestigious news sources, the Jerusalem Post, has confirmed that Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Mmusi Maimane and the party’s deputy shadow minister...
The Durban branch of the Union of Jewish Women again brought cheer to badly ill patients in hospital over the festive season. Tikkun Olam is always...
Ben Cowen (pictured), a Melbourne entrepreneur, community leader and the son of former famous governor-general Sir Zelman Cowen, tragically died on Sunday after suffering fatal injuries...
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu last month hosted his counterpart from the Kingdom of Swaziland Dr. Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini in Jerusalem. The Swazi PM was visiting Israel...
Geoff Sifrin (pictured), compares the Gupta family with Israeli and other politicians in his popular weekly "TAKING ISSUE" opinion piece. The Guptas, he says have "their...
The South African Zionist Federation’s (SAZF) National Chairman Ben Swartz (pictured) condemned yesterday evening’s terrorist truck-ramming attack in Jerusalem early this morning. Read what others had...
This truck crashed into a group of soldiers in eastern Jerusalem yesterday evening, killing four and injuring at least 15, some critically, in what the Prime...
Columnist Ron Jontof-Hutter takes a swipe at German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (pictured) over statements the latter made supporting John Kerry’s roasting of Israel at a...
From science fiction to reality, an Israeli tech firm is optimistic it will finally get its 1,500 kg passenger carrying drone on the market by 2020.
Rabbi Shmuel Bloch says that on December 9 2016, Kirk Douglas celebrated his 100th birthday.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday called for a pardon for Israeli soldier, Elor Azaria, pictured in court this Wednesday. Azaria shot a neutralised terrorist in Hebron...
Reuters reports that sales of Adolf Hitler's ‘Mein Kampf’ have soared since a special edition of the Nazi leader's political treatise went on sale in Germany...
Three Republican Party senators reintroduced legislation that recognises Jerusalem as the undivided capital of the State of Israel and relocates the US embassy from Tel Aviv...
Johannesburg’s Jewish community took last week’s JR Online story: “Leave your wallet at home for Chanukah party” so seriously that the party was inundated by over...
