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A brand-new Arcadia Children’s Home is being built from the ground up on the corner of Long and George Avenues in Johannesburg.
Women’s Day this year marked exactly 60 years since one of the iconic events of the anti-apartheid struggle, the march to the Union Buildings by 20...
Michelle Blumenau Alge, a founder of Go Getters, a support group for chained women (agunot) who have not received a get (Jewish divorce) from their recalcitrant...
Final preparations are underway for the Board's Gauteng Council conference taking place on Monday evening at the Sandton Shul hall. While attention will also be paid...
Two radically different responses have been seen recently in South Africa from citizens determined to denounce politicians abusing their power or filling their pockets with taxpayers’...
“Three-year-old political party seeks mature and experienced mate for a long term mutually beneficial “friendship.”
Shane Baker, an Episcopalian and an ardent proponent of Yiddish theatre, language and culture in New York, will be performing in a tribute to mark the...
Babka is having a major moment, and why not? There’s lots to love about the loaves of twisted dough, generously interspersed with a filling that usually...
Israel’s new Deputy Ambassador to South Africa, Ayellet Black, may be a tough career woman in a predominantly male world, but make no mistake, there is...
Ice hockey is not a very well-known sport in this country, but that doesn’t reflect the hub of activity that is coming out of the sport...
In spite of earlier worries that the election process might be disrupted by protestors and potential trouble makers, the election process went off relatively smoothly. Thousands...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
SA JEWISH REPORT STAFF Anger as Corbyn hands Chakrabarti a peerage LONDON – Shami Chakrabarti, who led an investigation into allegations of anti-Semitism in the...
“G-d will do what G-d feels fit to do.” These were the poignant words that Rachelle Fraenkel, mother of slain schoolboy Naftali who was murdered by...
The 2016 municipal elections have come and gone and it was one of the defining moments of South African history. Not since 1994 has there been...
I have been reading with interest the criticisms about the JVJP. I find that a very important point is always omitted. Most people say that Israel...
We are all the result of our earlier conditioning. Beliefs and assumptions accepted as children are hardly ever reconsidered as adults, even if they are incorrect....
The top social event on the annual South African Jewish calendar is without doubt the Absa Jewish Achiever and Jewish Report awards gala banquet - and...
The Jerusalem Magistrates’ Court was last week Friday presented with an indictment against “fugitive” Rabbi Eliezer Berland, who is accused of several counts of sexual misconduct...
Apostle Linda Gobodo, pictured, founded the His Church Kingdom Ministries in 1997 in Sandton and led the church for 10 years. During this time she founded...
The Jewish Agency for Israel’s (JAFI) chairman Natan Sharansky last week played host to a delegation of two senior African Christian leaders accompanied by SA Friends...
The Fed's Isie Maisels Library at Beyachad is a “lending” library again and from this week books mat be taken out. Pictured is senior librarian Maxine...
I'm pleased to advise that “Our South African Jewish Inheritance”, the matching volume to “Our Litvak Inheritance”, is now available. These two books of the history,...
This column was written just before Wednesday’s local elections because of the newspaper’s production deadline, so speculating on the results is pointless. However, it is clear...
The Olympic Games kick off in Rio de Janeiro on Friday and there will be quite a few Jewish - or Israeli - participants to watch...
South Africa’s much cherished culture of inclusivity, equality and non-racialism, launched with such pride and optimism in 1994, has been coming under serious pressure in recent...
If you’ve never tasted watermelon and feta together before, it may sound like a strange combination but give it a taste and you will certainly be...
Jewish tradition is very clear about the harms that can come from speech. Indeed, in Proverbs 18:21 it is stated that “[d]eath and life are in...
Ahead of local government elections, Gauteng Jewry was provided with a perspective from a senior member of the South African government when Minister of Justice and...
Last week, the SAJBD Cape Council reached an agreement with those parties who had instituted legal proceedings against it based on the absence of women solo...
Desré Buirski had a dream of meeting President Nelson Mandela. Through her creative thinking and actions, she translated her dream to reality, transforming herself into the...
Wendy Kahn, the first woman national director of the SA Jewish Board of Deputies since its inception in 1903, celebrated her 10th anniversary in this post...
There is something deeply spiritual about the inheritance that comes down to us from our parents or that we bequeath to our children.
It seems to me that Geoff Sifrin, whose articles I sometimes enjoy is on a mission to ridicule the Orthodox community by referring to its growth...
Jewish Voices for a Just Peace have again had something negative to say about the IDF, the State of Israel, “right-wing Jewish Israelis”, the SAJBD, etc.
I’m a former South African now living in Canada, but I happened to be in Johannesburg when the whole kol isha question arose over women singing...
Last week the Chief Rabbinate of South Africa issued a statement to the Jewish community urging them to vote in the coming elections (which subsequently took...
As a chairman of SACRED’s board I was very happy that a settlement has been reached in the case concerning the exclusion of women from singing...
SA JEWISH REPORT STAFF Broadcast tweet compares Israel to ISIS SYDNEY – A tweet drawing parallels between Israel and ISIS that appeared on-screen during Monday’s edition...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
