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After the Cape Council of the SA Jewish Board of Deputies earlier this week rejected a compromise offer made by three claimants who are taking the...
Israel is building the first-ever official memorial to the fallen outside of the country - to be opened at the embassy compound in Pretoria. “We encourage...
In the run up to Pesach, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin carried out the deeply symbolic and religious ritual of selling of leavened goods ahead of Pesach...
Alexander (“Alec”) Meskin was born on the August 30, 1919 in Johannesburg to Rachel and Leib Meskin. When his parents finally got to the registry office...
LATEST: According to the registrar of Mr Justice Andre Louw in the Pretoria High Court, Rabbi Eliezer Berland’s attorney Themba Langa personally went to Pretoria to...
During the five-plus years of Syria’s civil war, Israel has striven to stay neutral - supporting neither the government of President Bashar al-Assad nor the rebels,...
The South African Union for Progressive Judaism, through its national chairman, Alvin Kushner, has made it clear that the participation of Rabbi Julia Margolis in an...
National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) head Shaun Abrahams has expressed concern that personal injury lawyers Ronald and Darren Bobroff have evaded justice and fled to another country...
Dr Bertie Lubner, who passed away this week at the age of 85 after a long illness, was truly a man for all seasons.
Last week, the board of the South African Jewish Report debated whether we should join the rising tidal wave of voices in leadership positions, including the...
When names like Johan Cruyff come up, one also wonders how closely connected they were to their Jewishness.
On April 27, South Africans will celebrate Freedom Day and 22 years of democracy. Today, South Africa is a very different place from 22 years ago....
I read with interest Suzanne Belling's article on dyslexia in a recent edition of Jewish Report.
One of the better known, but on reflection, more unusual statements that we make at the Seder must be the opening paragraph of the Maggid section....
A recent letter in Jewish Report accuses Israel of being involved in Argentina’s “Dirty War” (1974-1983). This is slanderous and unfounded speculation.
It is regrettable that the SA Jewish Report has chosen to sensationalise a very sensitive matter to South African Jewry in its online coverage of the...
ORT SA recently hosted a fundraising cooking demonstration in aid of its ORT JET programmes. It was aimed at aspirant chefs looking for Pesach cooking ideas....
If Bertie Lubner had only exemplified compassion, love for humanity and commitment to alleviate human suffering - dayeinu - it would be reason enough to grieve...
When Philip Krawitz, himself a highly regarded businessman, philanthropist and Jewish communal leader, was asked recently to give a talk on the part played by Jews...
Defending the Constitution is of vital importance to securing the long-term future of democracy. However, shared prosperity and economic inclusion through growth and employment are also...
As a young rabbi, and assistant to the late Chief Rabbi Louis Isaac Rabinowitz, of blessed memory, in the 1950s, I was present when, on numerous...
Freedom Day, by design, provokes a contrast between present realities and the aspirations we declared before an astounded, inspired world two decades ago. A livewire contest...
Since the watershed elections of April 27, 1994, South Africa has by and large been very successful in upholding the fundamental tenets of a liberal, modern,...
By the time this column hits the streets there will be only 24 hours until the arrival of Pesach 2016. For the past several weeks we...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
Veering off the matzah path toward plenty of fresh vegetables is an easy way to stay healthy and feel satisfied during the eight days of Passover....
Outreach organisation Afrika Tikkun, in a media release, joins with the Lubner family in mourning the passing of Bertie Lubner, “a remarkable and beloved friend of...
Virulently anti-Semitic Facebook rants were posted last weekend by Derrick Z Venter, managing director of Skinny Pasta SA, the local franchise of an Israeli company which...
The former Minister of Intelligence Services Ronnie Kasrils does not have anything good to say about the current administration. He has joined the revived Phansi Zuma...
One of the most interesting slices of South Africa’s population demanding to throw out President Jacob Zuma is the middle class black “born-frees” who grew up...
A lot of people might never have heard of shatnez, but it is a significant biblical commandment which is gaining attention in South Africa.
Like many Ukrainian mayors, Vlodymir Groysman used to visit his local synagogue on Rosh Hashanah and Chanukah.
SA JEWISH REPORT STAFF The surgery-free operating room of tomorrow is here now HAIFA – Exablate MRI-guided ultrasound platform from Israel can fix conditions from...
I don’t want to appear to be banging on about the same thing from month to month, but the current mini-uproar over emergent anti-Semitism in the...
After reading Uriel Heilman's article on Jared Kushner ("Who is Donald Trump's Jewish son-in-law, Jared Kushner?” in last week’s Jewish Report, I was tempted to discover...
Before the explosion of smartphone mapping apps, Garmin was synonymous with navigation. Now it is fighting its way back to relevance, writes ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK.
Updated: BREAKING NEWS:Rabbi Eliezer Berland, who heads the Shuvu Banim International Breslov Chassidic sect headquartered at his Jerusalem yeshiva, was expected to continue his application for...
The Cape Council of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies this week rejected a compromise offer made by the three claimants who are taking the...
BREAKING NEWS: In a dramatic pre-emptive strike in the Pretoria High Court this morning, Berland is claiming he was wrongfully arrested, Israel plans an illegal rendition...
Everyone at the SA Jewish Report mourns with the community the loss of one of its most illustrious directors – Bertie Lubner. What is expected to...
