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Over the last few weeks I have had the privilege of meeting, through the course of my work, affluent members of the Jewish community and I...
Learners writing matric this year face some dilemmas about their futures in light of the protests and violence rampant in universities in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pretoria,...
This week the JR Online has published a special Focus on Education which can leave users with an information overload. We have, therefore, created this “INDEX”...
Rising costs of higher education in South Africa and recent violent protests on many of the mainstream university campuses are a new cause for concern for...
Protests at universities and rising costs of education in South Africa are propelling Jewish parents to reconsider their education options - and, in most cases, Israel...
Leonard Cohen, the Canadian singer songwriter whose Jewish-infused work became a soundtrack for melancholy, has died. He was 82. JR Online has also published "Epic Night!...
Graduations are exciting but the festive atmosphere at the graduation ceremony held on November 3 at Golden Acres home for the aged in Johannesburg, was particularly...
The citizens of the town of Cavaillon in Provence can’t lay claim to the oldest synagogue in France. It’s the second oldest. Actually, Cavaillon wasn’t even...
Some of music's biggest Jewish rock stars, such as David Lee Roth of Van Halen, Lou Reed and Leonard Cohen were featured in a show on...
Rosalie Rogow’s first Jewish memory is as a four-year-old, sitting on a wooden step in the kitchen, as her mother received and read a telegram from...
My great-grandmother was a Boer woman held at the Aliwal North concentration camp during the Anglo-Boer war in early 1900.
The Jewish Report printed an exceptionally long letter in last week’s letters page by Matan Rosenstrauch, who presented at Limmud 2016.
Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein was one of the religious leaders who addressed a recent “Save South Africa” media conference.
The propaganda war of the “Burn Israel movement” including BDS, Hamas, Hezbollah Islamic Iran as well as Jewish Voices for a Just Peace and Jews for...
Last year the plundering by ISIS of ancient artefacts dating back thousands of years enraged the world. Unesco heritage sites were ransacked and priceless treasures wantonly...
Some people have decided that dagga is not so bad. Yet in any drug rehab it is usually the dagga smokers who are the most troubled...
Celebrating the season opening of the Glen Bowls Club in Clifton recently had an added cherry on top, with longstanding active bowler Bobby Benatar celebrating his...
On Sunday night October 30, my family and 1 800 other members of our community - including more than 600 children - attended the Chev’s “Annie”...
HAIM, Israel - Desert Rose Productions, an English-language theatre company in Israel, is bringing its acclaimed comedy, “Together, Against the Odds” to South Africa later this...
By the time this column is published the American elections will be over and the next United States president will have been chosen - Donald Trump...
Over the years Jews have been involved in almost every conceivable sporting competition but there is one they have struggled to break into, mainly because they...
If you are looking for a light, healthy appetiser to brighten your table, this sweet potato hummus is bursting with flavour. Because of its high protein...
As a Jewish family originally from the Ivory Coast, Amy and George Camara and their four children felt somewhat immune to the rising anti-Semitic thuggery in...
Are you a deli roll lover? You know deli roll - the beloved Jewish American dish where various deli meats and Russian dressing get all wrapped...
The Social Kitchen is a hot new South African-flavoured recipe book on the market and it is Dani Tucker, the sassy North West Londoner who is...
For well over a year, South Africans have been subject to “state capture” becoming part of their daily discourse. Barely a week has gone by that...
SUZANNE BELLING Tania’s working for a cause pays dividends MELBOURNE – When Tania Burstin introduced the concept of online crowdfunding to the market back in 2007,...
On November 2, the United Nations headquarters in New York was host to an expert round-table discussion, “Holocaust Remembrance and Public Memorials - the Complexities and...
At every life stage, people ask the same questions: What do I want to do for the rest of my life? And how do I get...
The name Lorna Behrman is synonymous with the early history of King David High School Linksfield. Her important role as a vice principal for many, many...
As we went to print on Wednesday, news had broken of Donald Trump’s election as the 45th president of the United States. After the shock, came...
The annual Primary School Inter-Jewish General Knowledge Quiz took place at Yeshiva College on Monday. The competition was tough and the general knowledge questions challenging for...
A group of grade 10 learners from Torah Academy Boys’ High School in Johannesburg, spent two-and-a-half weeks in New York, predominantly in Crown Heights, last month.
Josh Hovsha has been appointed director of the Cape SA Jewish Board of Deputies.
“Lech lecha” - go on a journey. The Jewish adventure started with these two words. Avraham was called upon by G-d to boldly go forward into...
“After my first experience of a township (in South Africa), I knew that Project TEN was something that the Jewish Agency and the South African Jewish...
“Lech lecha” - go on a journey. The Jewish adventure started with these two words. Avraham was called upon by G-d to boldly go forward into...
Challah bakes, Havdalah concerts, special meals, parties, picnics, but most of all, togetherness, are the themes of the Shabbos Project in South Africa.
Donald Trump was voted the next US president, sweeping to victory and jolting a Jewish community made increasingly anxious as his rough-edged nativist rhetoric emboldened the...
Yarden Zornberg has been Project TEN's director since its founding in 2012 by the Jewish Agency for Israel.
