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The 2016 US presidential race has been high on twists, with billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump and socialist Bernie Sanders leading in many polls. But...
Last week's edition of Jewish Report features an article by a leading (Chabad) rabbi in which he strongly emphasises the need for faith in Hashem and...
Ve’ahavta lerei’acha kamocha - love our neighbour as yourself - is the motto of the Hebrew Order of David (HOD) International, borne out by the camaraderie...
With the school year having recently begun, there is again a cry from parents of school-going children across the country about the high cost of uniforms.
The six-year-old daughter of South African citizen Yaron Schapiro has been banned from re-entering South Africa for five years, resulting in her family being split between...
Recently-ordained Rabbi Lila Kagedan has stirred up international controversy after adopting the title of rabbi. Kagedan, the first Yeshivat Maharat graduate to go by the title...
A strong vote of confidence in the future of Cape Town’s Jewish community has been cast with the acquisition of a large property, formerly occupied by...
The Pan American Maccabi Games, says 41-year-old Santiago lawyer Alvaro Rosenblut and chairman of the organising committee, will be the biggest Jewish-Zionist event outside Israe
There is no typhoid outbreak in Johannesburg, according to Professor Lucille Blumberg, deputy director of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD).
The World Conference Against Racism, held in Durban in 2001, left a psychological scar on anyone who witnessed the blatant anti-Semitism that accompanied it. But what...
The award of the Freedom of the City of London is extremely rare and is usually bestowed upon royalty, heads of state or figures of genuine...
"And these are the judgments you should place before them" is how we open up this week's entry in to Torah's laws of marriage, fair labour...
For Diaspora Jewry, identifying with Israel has today largely become a matter of showing solidarity in times of trouble and defending it against its multiple detractors....
No doubt JK Rowling is still enjoying the ill-gotten proceeds of her phenomenally successful Harry Potter series. Hardly anyone knows, or cares, that her prosperity came...
As South African Jewish citizens, we have an obligation to combine our own specific concerns as a community with active participation in addressing problems facing our...
I would just like to point out the exceptional kindness of a member of our community. Last week Friday morning I had to take my husband...
Good heavens, Eli Knight, isn’t Jewish history interesting? We are still debating the same topic which ended in the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE. Clearly...
If a department is underperforming it is common practice to replace members of that organisation. In light of this, it made sense to replace the minister...
SA JEWISH REPORT STAFF ‘Mother of all protests’ pledged by Galloway LONDON – George Galloway, the notoriously anti-Israel British politician, said he has promised “the mother...
Imagine if Kahn had explained the history and dangers of comparing human beings to monkeys. Imagine if she showed Sparrow pictures of Jews crowded into ghettos...
Suspected Israeli mob boss, Shai Musli, wanted for complicity in murder and numerous other charges by the Israeli government, appeared in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court on...
After a week of silence from Rav Berland, whom Interpol and the Hawks attempted to detain and extradite to Israel on a warrant for solicitation, his...
The kashrut department of the Johannesburg Beth Din has issued three announcements over the past week. Two are alerts that involve Woolworths and one is a...
Followers say it was divine intervention; police say Rabbi Berland was tipped off. One way or another, as reported extensively by Jewish Report, and other major...
After five months and much searching, Jewish report was able to identify where the followers of Rabbi Berland were staying. Around 200 people in family units...
After the Shabbos raid by Interpol and the SA Police Service (SAPS) and the subsequent branding of Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein as a “din rodef” by...
These words, purportedly uttered by Rabbi Yitzchak Chakak last week, have such connotations that JR set out to find out more about the little-known rabbinic concept...
It was all a mistake, says spokesman for the Shuvu Banim Breslov sect at their yeshiva which is a stone’s throw from the Kotel in Jerusalem....
Followers say it was Divine intervention, police say he was tipped off. One way or another, as reported extensively by the Sunday Times & Ha’aretz today,...
THIS STORY HAS BEEN UPDATED: This week report that suspected Israeli mob boss Shai Musli, who appeared in court on January 18 and released on bail...
What’s the news this week? We are attempting to post the newsletter content on the website to add value for readers who do not get our...
It all started with a remark posted on Facebook by white Durban real estate agent Penny Sparrow who compared the behaviour of black people on a...
Never again means never, ever again. Am Yisrael Chai. "Whole communities, brilliant scientists, educators, artists, musicians and potential future finders of cures to disease and contributors...
Today is International Holocaust Memorial day. On this solemn day, we mark the tragedy of all human tragedies, the Holocaust.
Sandringham Gardens residents were treated to a fabulous afternoon of song and nostalgia when well-known performers, Emmanuel Castis and Lorraine Gaylard entertained them last week Thursday....
Match fixing in tennis has been put under the spotlight again with the BBC making claims of massive corruption in the sport. The ATP Tour was...
This year the Goodman Gallery celebrates its 50th anniversary - five decades of shaping contemporary art and working with artists who challenge unequal power structures and...
According to world-renowned Jewish historian and anti-Semitism scholar Professor Dina Porat, immigration, particularly from Muslim countries, rather than the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, is the main engine behind...
The words “white privilege” have become the ultimate slur in the ugly racial mudslinging of recent months. Just for a change, it’s worth looking at what...
SA JEWISH REPORT STAFF Young girl invents system to produce oxygen in space TEL AVIV – A 13-year-old Israeli girl has invented a system for...
