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About 80 representatives of the South African Jewish community’s shuls, community organisations and youth groups, all affiliates of the Cape Council of the South African Jewish...
The Shabbos Project has become a grassroots project with a life of its own - driven by the people for the people! Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein...
Temple Israel in Hillbrow, the mother shul of the local Progressive Reform movement, will celebrate its 80th anniversary on Saturday July 9, with a special morning...
In the Queen's 90th Birthday Honours List, some 1149 people have been recognised for their services to the UK and the 16 Commonwealth countries. Each year...
I am outraged that a slow response time by a Johannesburg emergency ambulance has reportedly led to the death of Klipspruit West resident Daniel Hoker (62)....
A fair-sized Great Park Shul audience was recently enthralled by an inspiring address by Olga Meshoe, CEO of DEISI (Defend Embrace Invest Support Israel). Her enthusiasm...
The South African Centre for Religious Equality and Diversity (SACRED) and the other applicants in the (Kol Isha) case against (the Cape Council of the) South...
With reference to the host of letters in Jewish Report expressing various beliefs and opinions about religion, I tender this narration of a cartoon (with apologies...
On Youth Day this year, one of South African Jewry’s most unusual, as well as symbolic and emotionally charged barmitzvah ceremonies took place in Soweto’s Western...
Ant Katz's report on the Tuynhuys talks between President Jacob Zuma and his Palestinian counterpart, Mahmoud Abbas, was thought provoking in the sense that these meetings...
I would like to address the mantra readily accepted in the world today, even by some who defend Israel, that anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism are not to...
Amidst thousands of tweets responding to the mayhem overtaking Tshwane, with buses and municipal vehicles torched‚ businesses ransacked and roads blocked with mobs and burning tyres,...
Daniel Lutrin's article in last week’s Jewish Report about the difficulty in obtaining Lithuanian citizenship for himself and his family is hard to understand. Firstly, I...
I am hoping that one of your readers can explain something to me. People far wiser than me have been able to work out ways to...
Veteran community leader Marlene Bethlehem, who is a past chairman and past president of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, has been nominated to be...
I never met my paternal grandparents or my maternal grandfather, save for faded sepia photographs of the menfolk sporting head covering of the type religious leaders...
Playwright Renos Spanoudes is a Greek-Cypriot with a Jewish heart. He is head of drama and arts and culture at King David Victory Park, where he...
I am writing as a Sephardi-Ashkenazi woman, a mother, psychologist and member of the Rosh Chodesh group, regarding the question of women singing at Yom Hashoah...
By now you have surely recovered from Pesach so we can break the news to you that there is also a Second Pesach. But don’t worry;...
Star American vocalist Benny Friedman headlined two shows at Emperors Palace on Sunday and Monday nights this week and demonstrated unequivocally why he has climbed to...
Highlands Park Football Club long ago indelibly carved its name in the history of South African soccer. The club then dissolved and for many years seemed...
SA JEWISH REPORT STAFF Anxiety as swastikas found in children’s playground LONDON – Police have increased patrols in Stamford Hill after posters bearing swastikas were...
It is the responsibility of faith leaders to act where hate is religiously motivated, was the community response to the terror attack in the Pulse nightclub...
Our Kibbutz Lubner residents moved across to their new home at Beit Netanya on the Selwyn Segal campus in the week preceding Pesach. That timing was...
A book on the life of the legendary Dr Mary Gordon casts the spotlight on a period in Israel’s early history that is emblematic of its...
SA JEWISH REPORT STAFF Friday (June 24) * UZLC hosts Isaac Reznik on “Cheesecake and Blintzes”. (Reznik was originally scheduled to speak last week.) Venue:...
The thing with cholent is that it’s just so heavy! No matter how it’s made, it always seems to put me straight to sleep. It’s even...
One of the greatest postwar playwrights, Sir Peter Levin Shaffer, died on June 6 at the age of 90 while on a trip to Ireland from...
Warm tribute has justifiably been paid to Martin Behr who recently retired as chairman of the World ORT Audit and Risk Committee, after a four-year term...
Hungary versus Iceland at Euro 2016 in France. No Jews on the field and probably just a few in the stands. What on earth a section...
On Monday, along with our National President Mary Kluk and National Director Wendy Kahn, I attended a Cape Jewish community meeting convened to discuss the question...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies is hosting a pre-election panel discussion in Johannesburg with those in the know next week.
The community colloquium that has been called by the Cape Council of the SA Jewish Board of Deputies on the kol isha issue for Monday and...
The shooting spree at the upscale Sarona Market in central Tel Aviv last week Wednesday night that killed four Israelis and wounded six others, adds to...
John Berks (Berkowitz) followed the pattern of many South Africans - his parents Louis and Hennie (who is soon to turn 103) were from Lithuanian stock,...
"Regina Adema ID I49344, daughter of Martin Adema and Jikke Justina Blom, was born in Bolsward on December 19, 1902, the Netherlands. Regina is deceased."
Bidvest and Blue Label Telecoms jumped in and lent their support to the Springboks after Absa pulled its sponsorship - or there may not have been...
Rodney Mazinter’s CV says he is a member of the South African Zionist Federation Cape Council media team. What it doesn’t say is that the Camps...
The Jewish community in the Czech Republic is small but progressing rapidly, says Zuzana Pavlovska, who heads up the education and culture department of the Jewish...
It was bigger and sweeter. The 5th annual ChaiFM Great BIG Shavuot Cheesecake Competition, held at the community radio station’s studio recently, exceeded all expectations.
