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Since Rosh Hashanah last year, students from Reuben Wagenheim's Haftorah trop classes have read 64 Haftorot in nine shuls, including five in December on Shabbat Vayeshev,...
An old Swahili proverb reflects South Africa today: Wapiganapo tembo nyasi huumia - “When elephants fight, the grass gets hurt.” It refers to the damaging consequences...
Over the years, Jewish tennis players have always found themselves at home at the US Open. There is, of course, a massive Jewish population in New...
Rabbi took his secret with him to the grave: the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Haifa and President of Israeli rabbinical courts, Rabbi Eliyahu Yosef She'ar Yashuv...
JEWS SEE RED OVER CHEEKY PALESTINIAN FOREST PLANTING - BDS-SA issued a scathing indictment of Joburg City Parks for refusing to allow affiliate SAJFP event at...
“It is over, finish and klaar!” wrote Jewish Report on 27 July after an out-of-court settlement was reached in the six-month long Kol Isha saga between...
Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein (pictured) accompanied by Rabbi Gideon Pogrund formed part of an interfaith meeting called by Minister of Higher Education Blade Nzimande in Johannesburg...
Collapse of Tel Aviv building underground paking construction kills four - injures dozens. The dead were a Ukrainian worker, a Palastinian and two Israelis
The construction of the Louis Botha Avenue Corridor in the north-eastern suburbs of Joburg has been the subject of an ongoing investigation and information campaign by...
A Cape Town woman who was granted a get recently, said she felt “relief but not quite belief” until the document was in her hands. The...
Louis Botha Corridor in full ‘implementation mode’ - What should Johannesburgers expect from the Louis Botha Avenue Corridor? Where and when will it all be happening?...
Law Society looking at whether Bobroffs are practising in SA ‘by proxy’ - Bobba Elaine joins family down-under; Ronald continues to work on new SA cases....
UPDATE: COMPROMISE AGREED - The SA arm of the US-based anti-Israel NGO ‘Boycot, Divest, Sanction (Israel)’ (BDS-SA) issued a scathing indictment of Joburg City Parks Department...
Wondering who were the ten clever people who won the nine Absa Jewish Report Achiever awards on Sunday? Download the 54-page special supplement and see all...
Last night’s 2016 Jewish Achiever Awards gala was a magnificent night of celebration: the opportunity to recognise the astounding achievements of a community so small but...
China opened the world’s longest glass-bottom bridge in the world last weekend – and it was designed and built by Israelis. Tourists who suffer from vertigo,...
Here I am” by Jonathan Safron Foer (Hamish Hamilton) is the eagerly anticipated new novel from the author of Everything is Illuminated.
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
An under-15 and -16 boys’ soccer team from Israel is spreading the message of unity through sport to young people around South Africa. The team from...
“Getting a pleasant shock,” was how Democratic Alliance shadow Deputy Minister of Labour Michael Bagraim reacted to hearing the results of the August 3 municipal elections,...
The recent municipal elections created a shock for the ANC, with smaller parties supporting the DA, leading to DA control over several major metros, with DA...
When 54-year old, controversial performance artist Steven Cohen astonished a sober gathering of arts lovers last week at the Wits Art Museum by bursting into the...
I would like to comment on Yitzhak Rabin's son's immature comments about Donald Trump, as reported in last week’s Jewish Report.
SA JEWISH REPORT STAFF Afghan baby’s heart surgery story captures hearts HOLON – Baby Yehia has enormous chocolate-brown eyes. His family, Afghani refugees living in...
This coming Monday at Beyachad, the Gauteng Council will have the honour of hosting Rabbi David Rosen, one of the foremost Jewish leaders in the field...
“It’s estimated that 85 per cent to 90 per cent of American Jews will vote for (the Democratic Party presidential candidate) Hillary Clinton in November,” said...
Last week Tuesday, guests gathered at the Umhlanga Jewish Centre (UJC) for “Movers and Shakers” - an evening of cocktails and schmoozing. The guests, primarily people...
Cycalive participants were symbolic of bringing people together, veteran ANC politician and businessman Tokyo Sexwale told dignitaries, educators and cyclists at the Nelson Mandela Centre of...
It all began in September, 1841, when 17 men gathered for the Kol Nidrei service at the home of Benjamin Norden, which today forms part of...
Who is more important, the Jew or the Jewish people? Is it Reb Yisroel or Am Yisroel?
A recent e.tv feature called “South African heroes” includes a segment on Marlene Silbert and her Interfaith Cultural Twinning and Exchange Programme, which she founded in...
Rabbi Yossy Goldman of Sydenham Shul got a nice surprise in the post the other day - a personal, signed letter from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
It was a tranquil day in idyllic Sandwich Town, Kent, where the sounds of a cricket match filled the air. Besides the ear-splitting thump of the...
It seems as if a large proportion of my life is going to be spent combating Geoff Sifrin’s hostility to not only Orthodox Judaism, but to...
The comments made at the recent SA Jewish Board of Deputies Conference by UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirivis on the UK, Brexit and immigration, are hugely...
Growing old is a natural part of life. Older people have an incredible amount of experience and could provide the youth with a lot of wisdom...
The Jewish cemetery in Roodepoort on the West Rand is in a sorry state of disrepair, with nearly a third of the tombstones broken or pushed...
The 2016 Rio Olympics have come and gone. There have been some incredible sporting performances over the just more than two weeks, but unfortunately also some...
In this case, the sins of the son are the sins of the father. Israel’s Supreme Rabbinical Court this month jailed haredi Orthodox man for 30...
In this week’s part of the series on the City of Johannesburg’s “Corridors of Freedom” project, Jewish Report looks further afield to the “Transit Oriented Development”...
