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Monday afternoon, November 14, the heavens opened up over Johannesburg and cried - so did all those staunch supporters of the Johannesburg Jewish Male Choir as...
The Soul Workout non-profit's Grand Sports Raffle was drawn at Norwood Mall on December 4 amid festivity, song and dance. The Tshiriletso School from Soweto and...
One of the ugliest racial incidents of 2016 occurred last month when two white farmers near Middelburg sadistically forced a young black man into a coffin,...
PLAY: Sherlock Holmes and the Curse of the Queen's Diamond CAST: Robert Fridjhon; Craig Jackson; Bronwyn Gottwald DIRECTOR: Alan Swerdlow VENUE: The Studio, Pieter Toerien's Montecasino...
It was around 2002 when Philip Todres had staged the first two sold-out Yiddish Song Festival fundraisers for the Cape Jewish seniors that he had a...
Chanukah is a celebration, a joyful holiday with delicious food and family memories. I remember lighting our menorah as a little girl with my bubbe. Now,...
We are on the map and we will stay on the map, not only in sports but in everything.
As has become traditional with the year’s final Above Board column, this space will be devoted to looking back on the year that was and how...
Ask and ye shall receive, or so the old saying goes. We’ve had several requests on our Facebook page for vegan latkes. And we are glad...
It’s the week of frying while we celebrate the miracle of the oil lasting for eight nights, instead of just one. That’s how the story goes,...
Chanukah without latkes... Unthinkable! But then there are latkes and latkes. And for the connoisseur, there’s Alan Bender’s latkes.
I am seven or eight years old. I am an ordinary girl with blonde hair and an unordinary last name. And I have a big secret,...
There are few things that people enjoy eating day after day, but I think no one tires of eating latkes for eight days in a row....
AISH.COM 1 Use candles big enough to burn for at least 30 minutes. Many use olive oil to recall the original miracle in the Temple. They...
In the 2nd century BCE, the brave Maccabees recaptured the Holy Temple in Jerusalem from the Greeks. The first thing they did was light the golden...
Afrika Tikkun and international auto glass giant Belron have partnered to open a state-of-the-art training centre in Braamfontein, Johannesburg.
The Yeshiva College matric class of 2016 was treated to a huge celebration at the end of their final exam, complete with balloons, confetti and graduation...
Every year Torah Academy has a competition to raise funds for bursaries for learners whose parents cannot afford the school fees. Some 20 learners received bursaries...
OWN CORRESPONDENT Congratulations to Adina Tager (Grade 4) and Carmen Smith (Grade 5) who were awarded the most prestigious academic awards at Crawford Preparatory School Sandton...
There was not a dry eye in the room when Rosabelle Klein’s beloved, mature and self-assured grade Rs last week received their graduation caps and gowns...
Sydenham Hebrew Nursery School bade a fond farewell to their grade R graduates of 2016.
Outgoing Secretary of State John Kerry signalled in a speech that the Obama administration was still considering action on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in its final days,...
As wildfires threatened Israel last week, rhetoric linking arson to terrorism heated up.
Chanukah is a festival that celebrates the survival of the Jewish people in the face of total adversity - a theme which is commensurate with many...
Thousands of young Jews from around the country will be attending an assortment of summer camp offerings hosted by five Jewish youth movements during the December...
If you’re “migrating” to Cape Town along with the rest of Johannesburg for the holiday season, rest assured that there are plenty of kosher options, Chanukah...
Come December, virtually every Gautenger has the words of John Masefield’s poem Sea Fever on his lips: “I must go down to the seas again…”
Sun, sea and surf – it’s true, Durban rocks! South Africa’s tropical east coast is the perfect destination for your December holiday.
Families are searching high and low for the world’s most wanted toy for the 2016 holiday gift season. It’s the Hatchimal, a speckled toy egg that...
Chanukah, which starts at sundown on December 24, is among the most widely celebrated Jewish holidays in the United States. But that doesn’t mean there is...
It is with a mixture of sadness and relief that I am stepping down as editor of the SA Jewish Report at the end of this...
Blatant hypocrisy shows anti-Semitic agenda – SEE SHORT VIDEO of the world body’s absurd new resolutions this week.
Ahead of their departure for Israel to attend a Student Leadership Development Programme, the new 2017 SA Union of Jewish Students (SAUJS) national leadership were invited...
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last Sunday announced that Israel will purchase 17 additional F-35 state-of the-art fighter jets from the US. Israel’s diplomatic-security...
Forty years after his reporting exposed one of the worst war criminals in Dutch history, Hans Knoop is still celebrated in his native Netherlands as a...
I share Geoffrey Freeman’s “disgust” and “anger” at the “Anti-Semitic graffiti at Wits”. He says: “Action needs to be taken” in the form of protest marches,...
Last week, the Gauteng Council took a decision that future Yom Hashoah ceremonies in Johannesburg will essentially take the same format as that agreed to in...
STEVEN KRAWITZ Jewish Interest City of Secrets by Stewart O’Nan (Allen and Unwin) is a moral thriller set in the build up to Israel’s independence in...
JERUSALEM - Author Dan Sofer’s debut novel, “A Love and Beyond”, has won the 2016 Best Book Award (for the category Religious Fiction).
Will Jewish and white nerves be calmed and urgent immigration papers for Australia and Canada be withdrawn now that EFF leader Julius Malema has clarified that...
