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“It is a glorious irony that International Women’s Day falls smack bang in the middle of Israel Apartheid Week” writes Rolene Marks (RoRo to her friends...
International Women’s Day falls smack bang in the middle of Israel Apartheid Week
IAW Day #1.5 – Monday morning to Tuesday mid-day has certainly seen fortune favouring the Jewish students – but it has been a hard-fought guerrilla battle,...
BEN SWARTZ (pictured) National Chairman of the South African Zionist Federation, writes a tongue-in-cheek letter thanking BDS for helping Israel and the world to promote the...
Writing in a blog on The Times of Israel today, South African Israel advocate Willie Patterson says: “The annual worldwide BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) campaign...
The annual Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) kicked off with a shock endorsement by the ANC says the SAJBD’s national executive director Wendy Kahn. “Once again, ANC...
I read the article of Steven Gruzd with regards the Palestinian issue being hijacked by foreign policy in last week’s Jewish Report. I sit on the...
45 rabbis representing all Jewish religious streams in the US have come out in favour of Jewish Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ socialist economic agenda
Read the latest news and views about – and of interest to - South African and world Jewry, The South African Jewish Report sends out a...
Bafana Modise, pictured in Israel, left SA hoping he and his 14 ranking ANCYL and BDS colleagues would come home alive from their SAIF-hosted Mideast educational...
The management of Wits have made a clear statement on the fact that BDS-supporting “student leaders deliberately misled the management of the University” and the campus’...
Prof Zeblon Vilakazi, acting-VC at Wits (pictured), asked Jewish Report on Wednesday to assure Jewish students that the university was doing its utmost to firmly deal...
BDS-SA asks: Please sponsor smartphones. So the biggest sponsors of Israeli tech want us to donate some to them? The Embassy maybe...
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. I recently saw a sign that said: “Your beliefs don’t make...
Donald Trump’s surging candidacy has sent shivers through the ranks of the Republican elite and created deep anxiety among Jewish Republicans, some of whom are so...
In what is thought to be the highest level of diplomatic engagement between Israel and South Africa in many years, Ambassador Jerry Matthews Matjila, director-general of...
Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein and the Johannesburg Beth Din this week announced the establishment of “The Regulatory Board of Brit Mila in SA”, following last year’s...
Jewish Report spoke to Nancy Spielberg, documentary maker, businesswoman and philanthropist and sister of the legendary director Steven Spielberg on her first visit to South Africa...
Spanning continents and oceans, expat South African Nadia Bilchik - now living in Atlanta - and Lori Milner, of Johannesburg, have produced a book, “Own Your...
Political battles between those who would make a kleptocracy of this country - epitomised by President Jacob Zuma’s cronies in powerful positions feeding at the trough...
Sunday’s address by Shimon Peres was undoubtedly one of the most uplifting communal events to have taken place in years, and I warmly congratulate the IUA-UCF...
The Maccabi Table Tennis Club continued its good form by winning last year’s Premier League for the 10th time in the past 11 years. Established in...
It was predictable that the visit by Shimon Peres visit would elicit a flurry of dire warnings from local anti-Israel lobbies and, in light of what...
Ninety-two-year old Shimon Peres is a living legend, and Johannesburg Jewry thronged to hear him speak at the Sandton Convention Centre on Sunday night. Peres was...
Jewish women’s groups working together in South Africa show how successful they can be in unity. Last week many attended the 102nd AGM of WIZO, the...
It’s a frantic hive of activity at the near-completed Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre (JHGC) in Forest Town, in Johannesburg these days.
“Racism in South Africa remains a blight on our country,” said Dr Iqbal Survé, executive chairman of Independent Media and Sekunjalo, at the recent launch of...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
SA JEWISH REPORT STAFF Auschwitz medic’s trial suspended; he’s ‘unfit’ LONDON – The trial of a 95-year-old former Auschwitz medic has been suspended after he...
The renowned South African spirit of philanthropy was highlighted at a recent dinner held in support of non-profit Migdal Ohr and the FW De Klerk Foundation....
The excitement and anticipation in the air were palpable as 1 500 people converged on the Sandton Convention Centre to hear statesman extraordinaire and Nobel laureate...
Former Jerusalem Post photographer Brian Hendler, a South African who made aliyah many years ago, died suddenly in Jerusalem at the age of 63 last week...
Eli Knight’s letter in last week’s Jewish Report refers. On a practical level, Orthodox Judaism is also a religion of convenience. How many times have I...
One wonders what the connection is between South African Jewish Voices for a Just Peace (SAJVJP) and South African Jews for a Free Palestine (SAJFP). Neither...
I would like to respond to the article in last week’s Jewish Report, titled “A belt-tightening budget on the cards for Pravin Gordhan”, by Raymond Goss...
In last week’s Jewish Report, Nathan Cheiman asks in his letter under the headline "Seventy years after [the] Shoah, has Europe really changed?" the following: "One...
As a South African who now lives in Canada, I am always shocked when I hear about the animosity between the Orthodox and Reform/Progressive communities. So,...
It is very sad how many small Jewish communities have ceased to exist in South Africa. On behalf of the 64 members of the East London...
I've been quite taken aback by recent letters in the Jewish Report. Strife between people with differing opinions is not new; strife between Jews is not...
Regular SA Jewish Report readers might feel that South African foreign policy has a preoccupation with Israel and the Palestinians. This newspaper is frequently filled with...
