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Nicky Newfield and Corinne Ossendryver launched a Jewish educational app, Shabbat Interactive, from Johannesburg four years ago. Its success led to the establishment of Jewish Interactive...
The big three international credit ratings agencies, S&P Global Ratings (formerly Standard and Poor’s Rating Services), Moody’s and Fitch all recently stopped short of downgrading South...
Olympic Games fever is starting to catch on and Israel is planning to send the country’s largest team so far to Brazil for this year’s event.
While Sunday’s massacre of 49 people in a gay nightclub in Florida in the United States - in which the gunman pledged allegiance to Islamic State,...
For the 2014 national and provincial elections, the SAJBD put together South Africa’s first interfaith and multinational election observer team to assist the Independent Electoral Commission...
Many people regularly ask how they can make a positive difference in the lives of animals. Well, Stella Meldau’s Woodrock Animal Rescue shelter on 8,5 hectares...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
The Go-Getters - The SA Get Network - and Women-4-Women (W4W), a project of the Union of Jewish Women (UJW) Cape Town, have warned recalcitrant husbands...
Sometimes the question of whether a certain remark constitutes sexual harassment is a grey area and more often than not we find ourselves questioning the parameters...
The “Memories of Muizenberg” exhibition has been travelling the world and has elicited a lot of interest.
SA JEWISH REPORT STAFF Amnesty International condemns detention of circus clown JERUSALEM – Amnesty International on Monday condemned the IDF for administratively detaining a circus...
The portion of Naso follows Shavuot, the festival in which we received the Torah. Torah is unique among all things. It is the wisdom of G-d....
Chiara Favish is passionate about two things, dogs and children. The enterprising 24-year-old Johannesburg teaching student also runs a dog-walking service, Paw Walker, in the mornings.
The Goodman Gallery in Cape Town and Johannesburg celebrated its 50th anniversary last week. The Jewish-owned gallery, which has only had two owners in this long...
Sarah Goldstein, who together with her brother Gilad Stern was one of the two original applicants in the Equality Court case against the Cape Council of...
Dianne Fine writes that "The Cape Jewish Board of Deputies is planning a community colloquium (for June 20) to discuss the matter of women singing at...
Two eight-year-olds from the King David Linksfield decided they wanted to raise money for the SPCA. Using their own initiative, they arranged a wonderful prize...
The SA Zionist Federation and SA Jewish Board of Deputies have called this morning for “all South Africans to condemn in the strongest possible terms" the...
The community was shocked at the news of the passing of popular baker and restaurateur Yonatan Helper this week as a result of a stroke. Masses...
Over 500 delegates from 5 SADC countries and a host of SA government departments that either use water tech from Israel, or are considering it, lauded...
The Regulatory Board of Brit Mila in South Africa, which was inaugurated in March this year, has made huge strides in creating a governance structure. As...
Jonathan Kaplan, the renowned former rugby referee, who just became a father last week using a surrogate egg and a surrogate mother, held a bris for...
Many people regularly ask how they can make a positive difference in the lives of animals. Well, Stella Meldau’s Woodrock Animal Rescue shelter on 8,5 hectares...
"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."
Nicky Newfield and Corinne Ossendryver launched a Jewish educational app, Shabbat Interactive, from Johannesburg four years ago. Its success led to the establishment of Jewish Interactive...
Last week Friday the French government hosted a three-hour meeting of senior representatives for almost 30 countries and organisations in Paris to try to kick-start peace...
Everyone who runs a business or organisation knows that nothing much can get done without motivated and loyal staff. My background in industrial psychology and a...
On May 7, I lost my brother Stanley, who after the death of our parents, became my mentor, praising me in achievement, encouraging me in adversity.
Shavuot has several names, each highlighting a different aspect of a festival that marks a key occasion in Jewish existence. Strangely, it has been relegated for...
Over 500 guests were transported back 49 years at Vodaworld in Midrand on Sunday night to the liberation and reunification of Jerusalem that returned the Old...
Iconic life president and founder of Pick n Pay 49 years ago, Raymond Ackerman was awarded an honorary doctorate from Rutgers University in the United States...
I’m a cheese and dairy fanatic. So for obvious reasons my favourite holiday is Shavuot. This is when spring has sprung and my family makes a...
A young man returned from visiting his father in hospital. His father was tragically losing his long battle with cancer. The renowned Rabbi Shimon Schwab asked...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
The Torah was given by G‑d to the Jewish people on Mount Sinai more than 3 300 years ago. Every year on the holiday of Shavuot...
On Sunday May 29, SACRED (South African Centre for Religious Equality and Diversity) in collaboration with the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre, Bet David Progressive Synagogue...
Kol Isha - interpreted as the voice of a woman singing solo in public - has become a divisive issue within the Jewish community, culminating in...
This year, to commemorate Mandela Day, the Union of Jewish Women’s branches across the country - in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth, East London and...
Vic Boston joined an elite group of runners when he became a fully-fledged Comrades Marathon Quadruple Green Number member after this year’s race in Durban on...
The Community Security Organisation (CSO) is raising the threat level from three to four, following the US, British and Australian alerts of possible terror attacks targeting...
