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The traditional Rosh Chodesh protest for egalitarian worship at the holiest Jewish site, the Western Wall (Kotel), saw Torah scrolls being taken to the women’s section...
The Law Society of the Northern Provinces (LSNP) has begun the process of liquidating the personal estates of errant father and son personal injury lawyers Ronald...
The Shabbos (Shabbat) Project was first introduced in South Africa in 2013 by Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein, when an estimated two-thirds of the country’s approximately 75...
The end of an era is upon the Johannesburg Jewish community, with the iconic Yiddish Folk Pre-Primary School closing its doors at the end of 2016.
SUE BENJAMIN AND TZIVIA GRAUMAN Five big boxes of Lego Duplo were recently delivered to the Sydenham grade Rs and the children were encouraged to build...
Soccer player David Ribeiro was selected to represent South Africa at the Africa University Sports Games in Zimbabwe in September and together with the balance of...
For those who believe tennis is a sport attended only by ladies and gentlemen who politely go quiet on a call from the umpire, have clearly...
Waking Lions is Israeli author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen’s second novel. Her first, One Night, Markovitch won the Sapir Prize in 2013 for debut novels.
An issue that has particularly gripped our country over the past few weeks concerned the charges brought against Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan by the National...
There have been numerous articles and advertisements in the last year about obtaining Lithuanian citizenship as well as other citizenships.
The last few weeks’ Orwellian rollercoaster in South African politics shows how confused this country is about itself and where it’s going. Set against the smoke...
This Shabbat chicken not your run-of-the-mill offering I have served this chicken on Rosh Hashanah for years, and it’s a go-to for a quick and easy...
Trevor Coleman’s work did not evoke praise during his studies at art school, because his conventional teachers did not understand his mind or his methods. But,...
Film: Indignation Cast: Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, Tracy Letts Director: James Schamus Classification: 13 LS
Four years ago, former South African Caylee Talpert, who made aliyah eight years ago, after living in London and Nepal, was sitting sipping wine on a...
Food inflation driven by drought conditions is keeping consumers under pressure. Kosher meat has gone up to “ridiculous levels”, say several shoppers interviewed by Jewish Report.
The community's Who's Who turned out in their numbers to support the DL Link's 3 Big Cs fundraiser featuring a keynote address by Discovery CEO Adrian...
Due to declining water levels, the Dead Sea is in critical condition and a group of South Africans are joining others to swim across it on...
Over the last two years, activism on university campuses has grown in urgency, volume and size. There may be a perceived calm on campuses such as...
Camden Lewis, a pupil at Rosabelle Klein Nursery School, lost his dad, Wayne, two years ago. His mom, Ruth, and a team of their friends this...
Yeshiva College Pre-Primary hosted a very special parent-child learning morning during the Aseret Yemei Teshuva.
Amy Katz, a grade 10 learner at King David Linksfield High School, successfully collected hundreds of tea lights and donated them to Yad Aharon & Michael.
I refer to the thought-provoking column by Geoff Sifrin describing the challenge of Emeritus Archbishop Desmond Tutu to religion and the law, to allow assisted dying.
I was left with a number of misgivings after listening to new Public Protector Busisiwe’s recent presentation to Parliament. Admittedly she is under pressure, wanting to...
I was prompted to write this letter when I read about the planting of trees by Jewish Voices for a Just Palestine in Weinberg Park in...
I address this to the SAZF board members and affiliates, because I believe that many Zionist Jews who advocate for peace by ending the occupation, are...
The musical “Annie”, boasts a number of Jewish performers in its cast as well as its musical director, Bryan Schimmel.
Clad in a brown, brimmed hat and chequered keffiyeh, a pony-tailed Jewish revolutionary on Wits University campus captured media attention recently as he tore up posters,...
In February this year, representatives of the SAJBD and SAZF met in Cape Town with Iqbal Survé, chairman of the Sekunjalo Group that owns Independent News...
“The greatness of our nation is that our people are great. We are a nation of heroes, of people with good and decent moral fibre who...
The Jewish Agency has set up it’s sixth ‘Project TEN’ enterprise in Durban, The first cohort of 12 Jewish volunteers arrived on Tuesday to join in...
Johannesburg is starting to bloom with billboards which have been sponsored by the many friends of Israel in South Africa, not all Jewish or Israeli.
“Kill a Jew”and “F*** the Jews” and you "Mother-f***ing Jew" are certainly not terms SA Jewry is used to facing - although mostly when they have,...
One would think that any country unleashing millions of predatory bugs on another country would have some negative connotation. Not this time.
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In what one senior opposition MP calls a “pre-planned stealth operation” by the ANC (as a political party) and their anti-Israel lobbyist cohorts, aimed at forcing...
If the latest draft resolution at Unesco on “Occupied Palestine” succeeded in the Palestinians' aims to reclaim the world's attention, then it was a Pyrrhic victory...
The student government of a major German university formally denounces "anti-Semitic BDS" as a threat to academic freedom and accuse the German branch of the US-based...
Which is braver: Riding a motorcycle across the length of Africa, or taking on an adaptation of a Philip Roth novel for your first directing gig?...
Hillary Clinton’s plan to meet the Israeli prime minister in her first month as president is listed high in an internal campaign memo outlining the priorities...
