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Held against a backdrop of escalating global terrorism, it was fitting, if sobering, that part of last month’s meeting of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in...
Minister of Police Nathi Nhleko asserted that Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan was not above the law and was obliged to respond to the Hawks’ investigation...
We of Jewish Voices for a Just Peace welcome the debate and questions being raised on the letters page of Jewish Report about Israel’s role and...
I refer to Merlynn Edelstein of Jews for a Free Palestine’s letter in Jewish Report, “No favours are done through the distortion of facts”.
Bobroffs will face justice say determined Hawks. Ronald and Darren hide in Australia but Interpol and Hawks say they’ll be extradited to answer to fraud and...
For all the top news from last week on Jewish Report Online - as highlighted in last week's newsletter that goes out to all subscribers. It...
The Bobroff matter remains by far the top-read story on Jewish Report Online. On Wednesday the Hawks ware expected to complete their investigation into the matter...
Is the end of three years of running in sight for the elusive Rabbi Eliezer Berland? He has ditched three attempts by The Hawks to arrest...
The Bobroff matter was by far and away the top-read story on Jewish Report Online last week. Users flocked to read all the stories we posted...
While South Africans have been preoccupied lately about Guptagate and the future of the country in which a liberation movement leader - President Jacob Zuma -...
A Jewish musical concert to raise funds for OneFamily which supports victims of terror in Israel was held at the Victory Theatre in Orange Grove. The...
The local Jewish sports scene has been very busy with Maccabi trials these past few weeks. Teams are being selected for tennis, swimming, netball, futsal, water...
Over 1 000 young Jews came together in Johannesburg to hear the Megillah on a Johannesburg rooftop as part of a Chabad event celebrating Purim last...
Besides their brilliance and success - what else did Albert Einstein, a world-renowned scientist; Steven Spielberg, a brilliant film maker; and Tony Factor, a business entrepreneur...
Rabbi Yisrael Salanter z’t’l was once in a restaurant in France where he ordered a glass of water. After drinking it, he was presented with an...
With increasing numbers of high net worth South Africans emigrating because of an uncertain future, Jews going to Israel often leave because of the attraction of...
The Jewish acting fraternity has always played a major role in the development of the arts and many have won awards both here and on the...
Some 500 000 light years away from earth is the coldest place in the known universe, the Boomerang Nebula, with a temperature of minus 272,15 degrees...
At the invitation of the ANC, Howard Sackstein, chairman of the SA Jewish Report and chairman of the Jewish Achiever Awards, convened a dinner between 25...
The South African Beth Din has taken a leaf out of its London counterpart’s book by announcing last week that it will be “naming and shaming”...
WIZO abhors the indiscriminate wave of violence in Israel which has inflicted terror and harm on so many innocent Israelis and tourists. Likewise, our thoughts and...
Victory for California Chrome in last Saturday night’s $10 million Dubai World Cup, the world’s richest race, saw the horse become the biggest earner in American...
During the meeting earlier this month of the World Jewish Congress in Buenos Aires, delegates including representatives from the SAJBD, attended a ceremony at the Israeli...
It began as an all-too-common story: A Palestinian assailant in the contested West Bank city of Hebron stabs and wounds an Israeli soldier. Israeli forces shoot...
One of the most impressive Jewish women leaders to have visited South Africa in recent times is Australian Robyn Lenn, who is in the country this...
SA JEWISH REPORT STAFF Microsoft pulls robot after offensive tweets SEATTLE – Microsoft put the brakes on its artificial intelligence tweeting robot after it posted...
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Beverly May writes in her op-ed piece that secular Jews, while identifying as Jewish, have no formal structures and therefore no-one represents their views in this...
Allan Wolman, in response to our letter in Jewish Report, writes: “SAJFP’s claim of ethnic cleansing is an interesting accusation” However, it is neither interesting, nor...
The heading for my letter in the Jewish Report of March 4, read: “Let Jews of different persuasions learn to respect each other”. The heading was...
The pubescent contentment experienced during visits to Belgium, by Cnaan Liphshiz (in his article “When Brussels meant freedom from fear for an Israeli”) is unfortunately now...
Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein again made it on the Third annual ‘Jewish 100′ list of the top people “positively influencing Jewish life” list. The plush event...
Brian Joffe, who graduated from Wits University as a chartered accountant in 1971, received his honorary doctorate degree from Wits University Chancellor Justice Dikgang Moseneke, at...
Reporter, frum Jewish editor, resign after Breitbart’s refusal to stand behind their reporter who claims she was handled roughly
Some of the last remaining Jews in war-torn Yemen have been brought to Israel in a secret mission by the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI), or...
Israel’s Air Force scrambled jets as a precaution after the hijacking of an EgyptAir plane traveling from Alexandria to Cairo this morning. The crisis is over.
Since the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, the Knesset has established five public holidays or days of remembrance/celebration. Three of these are coming...
Israel’s ambassador to South Africa, Arthur Lenk (pictured), told the SA Friends of Israel (SAFI) advocacy conference earlier this month that he had hosted Israel’s immediate...
Upside of ISIS attack on Israelis in Turkey last week is that Erodgan & Davutoglu are talking to Rivlin & Netanyahu for first time since 2010....
Israel's biggest ever civil project to open in 2018 - cutting travel time by 60% and alleviating traffic on the roads too. Travel time between Tel...
