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Time is running out for South Africa's Jewish establishment to mobilise politically. For too long it has ignored, to its detriment, South Africa's body politic, avoiding...
“Rodney Berman has been a major influence in my life. He’s my boss, mentor, friend and also happens to be my lawyer.” So said Brian Mitchell...
The Book of Ruth opens with: “In the days when the judges governed, there was famine in the land...”
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' speech to the EU Parliament, in Brussels recently, was so ludicrous as to be amusing. (Abbas vows an end to global...
I don't know what exactly qualifies Geoff Sifrin (in his Jewish Report column of June 29) to proclaim: "Brexit is a victory of demagoguery, not democracy"....
As Jews of the older generation we can only be silent bystanders and observe the rapid increase of Jewish/Israeli hatred in this country. We are literally...
Representatives of four parties contesting the local government elections in Johannesburg on August 3, went head to head at Beyachad last week over whose vision for...
A more cosmopolitan book is hard to imagine, especially a cookbook, but this one dealing with Israeli cuisine, was published in English in South Africa, written...
With just under a month to go until polling day, election fever is building countrywide. Last week, our Gauteng Jewish community had an opportunity to be...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
LONDON - Sir Nicholas Winton, the man who famously organised the Kindertransport that rescued 669 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, has died.
Milton Shain’s “A Perfect Storm: Antisemitism in South Africa 1930-1948”, has been described as “history at its most compulsively readable” by the judges who awarded him...
“Cancel the match, we don’t like your coach!” This seems to be the attitude of Algeria who is due to play a friendly soccer match against...
JR Online interviewed Ann Harris (pictured) and Rabbi Moshe Silberhaft in Kenya today. Together with Geoff Ramoghadi they were at Entebbe Airport yesterday, as guests of...
Justice Fayeeza Kathree-Setiloane tells "well-connected" rabbi that he remains a flight risk as he awaits extradition to Israel over alleged sex crimes. The fugitive rabbi asked...
Neo-Nazi radio show The Daily Shoah (also known as "echoes" among anti-Semites) started some two years ago clandestinely spreading the word as to how neo-Nazi groups...
Welcome to another issue of the SA Jewish Report. Our cities are somewhat quieter as winter school holidays have begun and families are departing for the...
The Israeli Embassy’s competition to find South Africa's best start-up company run by a woman is over. On Tuesday evening this week at an elaborate function...
Religionisation! Religionisation! To read the newspaper headlines in Israel, to view its documentary films and attend its expert panels with academics, a stranger might think that...
Only a week ago, Jeremy Corbyn seemed to have survived his biggest public relations debacle as the leader of Britain’s Labour Party: the proliferation of anti-Semitic...
The winner of the Soul Sport Youth Sports Achiever chosen from the 2016 nominations, is Jonathan Miltz.
A capacity crowd packed the ENS Auditorium for the launch of the WIZO 2016/2017 Biennial campaign last week Wednesday night.
Two men - one in Cape Town and one in Johannesburg – finally succumbed to community pressure and came to the Beth Din to sign their...
Many people are suffering Brexit fatigue under the deluge of commentary following the UK’s vote to leave the European Union.
The Vodacom Durban July has not been a lucky race for owner Larry Nestadt. In 1991 he had a share in Rakeen who was beaten two...
Hatzolah Medical Rescue has been among the Johannesburg Jewish community’s crown jewels for the past 18 years.
Brexit is an abbreviation of "British exit", which refers to the June 23 referendum by British voters to exit the European Union. The referendum roiled global...
South Africa’s high youth unemployment rate is a ticking time bomb which Marc Lubner, CEO of Afrika Tikkun, believes can be averted through the introduction of...
Earlier this year, the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development launched its National Action Plan to Combat Racism, Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (NAP).
"Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis condemns Orlando shooting", in last week’s Jewish Report, in which the Commonwealth Chief Rabbi decries "the scourge of homophobia… even in our...
There is a belief that during the Holocaust the Jews were led like sheep to the slaughter. This is a belief which some survivors find to...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
SA JEWISH REPORT STAFF Swastika found carved in Stamford Hill pavement LONDON – Police have been alerted after a swastika was found carved into a...
South African descendants of Lithuanian Jews who left that country before 1990 now again qualify for dual Lithuanian-South African citizenship following an amendment to the law...
I make chicken so often that my kids once told me we were all going to grow feathers and start clucking. But they never complained that...
One of Israel's most wanted men may prevail in his case to prevent South Africa from extraditing him on procedural grounds, due to what his attorney,...
An urgent application was launched at the Joburg High Court last Thursday in a bid to get bail for sex-pest rabbi, Eliezer Berland, who has been...
Members of Cape Town’s Jewish and Muslim communities, made history last Shabbos as some 30 Muslims performed Maghrib, their sunset prayer, inside a Wynberg Progressive shul...
Watch the video of ambassador Lenk (pic) on SABC’s Question Time with presenter Mpho Tsedu and Limpopo MEC for agriculture and rural development, Joy Matshoge after...
In a surprise development today (Thursday, June 23), Rabbi Eliezer Berland, head of the Shuvu Banim Breslov sect who has been on the run from Israeli...
