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The SA Board of Jewish Education has announced the appointment of Andrew Baker as the new headmaster of the King David High School Victory Park campus....
One wonders if international sporting bodies are ever going to put their foot down over countries not allowing Israel to participate in world team competitions.
The serious approach and professionalism with which the Jewish youth movements looked after the children attending their camps was heart warming, Ben Swartz, chairman of the...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
JERUSALEM -Last week, a Belz yeshiva student found a small bag containing 130 000 shekels (over R520 000) in cash at a bus station in Haifa.
When Pope Francis crosses the Tiber River to visit to Rome’s Great Synagogue on Sunday, he became the third pontiff in history to do so. But...
Rabbi Jay Karzen, coined the “Jerusalem barmitzvah king” by The Jerusalem Post in 1997, has stories to make you laugh out loud or cry tears of...
Popular chazzan, Rev Rodney Richard, has been appointed spiritual leader of the Emmarentia Hebrew Congregation from February 1.
There is a fable generated by the media which is biased in many ways about Israel. There was never a Palestine in history; it is an...
The article in last week’s Jewish Report, under the headline "Zuma discourages ANC to travel to Israel" by Ant Katz, was informative, particularly in the light...
Regarding Monica Solomons’ letter that Reform ministers should also be called rabbi, thanks for the appetite suppressant.
It would provide an interesting exercise to investigate the health of some staff members of the Jewish youth camps, with specific reference to their back problems,...
It’s no secret that the cost of food, especially kosher food, in South Africa, is becoming more and more prohibitive and with the latest expected “junk...
“JEWS PER SE ARE PEACE-LOVING PEOPLE” said PE lawyer Maureen Jansen, pictured, this week, vowing to sue the SAJBD which had laid a hate speech complaint...
Naughty son made Shlomo Rechnitz famous. Until he admitted that his mom's R9-b Lotto win wasn't real.
Nominations for this year's Jerusalem Unity Prize will be accepted until February 4.
Is medical pot kosher? A storm has erupted as applications are submitted for hechsherim. Yes says the US's OU. No says Canada’s KCC, but that country’s...
Books to look forward to from Jan – July 2016: This is so much published that to find the right book can often be intimidating....
Forget the bumph that was spread like a virtual virus on Jewish social media today. Woolworths have come out loudly and proudly apolitical, as always, and...
One of our most regular users sent this bit of hilarity to share with fellow-users. It makes a great start to the work-week, or. for some,...
Beth Din just announced that popular ‘Tanqueray Gin’ will no longer be kosher. Check with them about existing stock and lay in your supplies if you...
Bev Goldman writes on Israeli innovation with South African applications and marketability – read about an amazing new hands free system.
Mary Kluk, president of the SA Jewish Board of Deputies and a court witness, was delighted at the turn of events during mid-December when on the...
In what he touted as a “victory over the Israeli legal authorities”, the son of fugitive Rabbi Eliezer Berland (pictured) announced last Monday that his father...
The Rhodes fiasco, what it cost them and who left after our exposé. The rise of toxic anti-Zionism, followed by the fall of a once-revered university,...
Board lays hate speech complaint with HRC over PE lawyer Maureen Jansen’s Facebook rant. “Such hate-mongering goes beyond defaming and threatening any particular group of people;...
The kashrut division of the Beth Din issued another kashrut alert this week blaming wrongly-marked packaging for the fact that although "Kee Wings" cheeses contain “an...
Cape Town, the beautiful Mother City, is slowly recovering from the weight of the holiday-making crowds as people return home to start the new year. This...
A successful matriculant today is often far more than merely a good learner, and usually excels in a variety of fields and activities. Jewish Report spoke...
I’m not kidding, but then I’m a parent, not a child. Actually, in their most truthful moments our children might admit that the holidays can get...
The racial furore in South African social media over recent weeks, brought hideous comments from across the spectrum. It started with one Penny Sparrow calling black...
One of the main stories in the media in the opening weeks of 2016 has been the public’s outrage over various racist comments that have appeared...
It is more than two years since Anton Marcus last rode the winner of one of South Africa’s three big races - the Durban July, the...
And G-d said to Moses: Come to Pharaoh (Exodus 10:1) Rashi: vehatreh bo. And make a warning [at/through] him. Rashi’s comment is vehatreh bo. Bo can...
2015 was not a good year in South Africa: the falling rand, falling statues, the #FeesMustFall campaign, crises in education, the mining sector, continued crime and...
The mood of general negativity that marked the end of 2015 seems to have carried into the new year. South Africans of all races, persuasions and...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
I recently viewed a video emanating from Australia where purportedly the Muslim communities pressure companies into submitting to Halaal certification for their products under threat of...
I refer to the letters by Choni Davidowitz and Avner Romm in Jewish Report’s November 27, 2015 edition, equating the two-state Mideast solution with flogging a...
I’m disgusted that Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom Ephraim Mirvis has recommended teaching Islam in Jewish schools in Britain. His destructive recommendations are now being...
