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SABC-2’s regular Sunday morning 30-minute Jewish programme “Simcha” ran a feature on the SAJR some months back. SABC has uploaded the episode, which starts with an...
As promised in an article which appeared last month, Maccabi South Africa has launched its new corporate identity and online home.
The Jewish gene pool, despite being a source of great talent, has given rise to some genetically linked complications, particularly in the Ashkenazi community.
For four years, llana Lerner Kalmanovich rode a hot and crowded bus three hours each day to reach the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where...
The world’s top Jewish philanthropic duo Sheldon and Miriam Adelson, the biggest donors to the 2012 US Republican presidential election campaign and a famously media-shy couple,...
Boruch Hashem, what a special Shabbos we are celebrating this week! We do the unusual and take out three holy Torahs. In the first we read...
This being the final Above Board column for 2015, it is a good time to reflect on the last year. Naturally, there were low points, most...
Raw nerves for Jewish South Africans will be touched by two new books published in France and South Africa, highlighting the authors' uneasy identities as both...
Having a year-end break on the coast with the children, takes away the holiday problem: what to do with the children. But for those remaining in...
It’s easy to fall into old habits when visiting Cape Town, but don’t be fooled by its sleepy reputation - there’s much to do in the...
A day before University of Missouri graduate student Jonathan Butler made headlines with a hunger strike protesting racism on campus, a coalition of 36 Jewish and...
Our tropical sun-kissed eastern shores have always been known as South Africa’s playground and there’s nowhere better to spend the December holidays than in Durban.
December is the month when some of the most entertaining and thought-provoking films are released and there are a number of excellent productions to see during...
Yossi Sarid was one of Israel’s most enigmatic citizens. Last Friday his regular column was published in Haáretz. His columns typified the contradictions of the man....
Veteran communal leader Marlene Bethlehem recently notched up another post on her already formidable CV. She has been appointed chairman of the Rabbi Cyril Harris Community...
This year marks the 27th yarzheit of Rabbi Bernard Moses Casper z.tl on the 10th of Tevet (Fast of Tevet) 5776, which corresponds to December 22.
As a bibliophile and sometime reviewer of books on ChaiFM radio, I have to make many choices about what to read. There is so much top...
The Pretoria Jewish community celebrated Chanukah with a car parade from the Pretoria Hebrew Congregation in Groenkloof.
The discovery last week of a seal impression bearing the name of King Hezekiah (Chizkiah), during excavations near the Temple Mount makes one marvel yet again...
The holiday spirit has truly taken hold of most South Africans - and the Jewish community is no exception. School has closed and sweltering December heat...
At a glittering event in Sandton last week, the winners of the Primestars Step Up 2 A Start-Up Trailblazer competition were awarded with prizes including bursaries...
The Union of Jewish Women, Johannesburg, joined over 40 000 volunteers worldwide on Mitzvah Day 2015, with their special project "Bringing light to the people"
During the Second World War, Germany murdered six million Jews while the Europeans stood by and in some instances gleefully assisted. Now they are being replaced...
I would like to ask Geoff Sifrin and all those in favour of a two-state solution, the following questions: Are you in favour of the expulsion...
I seldom read the Jewish Report in full, and much less write letters, but when my husband asked me to read Geoff Sifrin's Taking Issue column...
Geoff Sifrin, in his Taking Issue column, is correct in asserting that many Jews will reject former President De Klerk’s warning, that Israel is heading towards...
A news item headed "Mel Gibson's daughter marries a Jew" appeared in the November 6 issue of the SA Jewish Report. You correctly cite The Daily...
No fewer than 47 of the wealthiest 225 South Africans, measured by the value of listed shares they hold, are Jewish. This is according to the...
While the SA Jewish Board of Deputies is a completely transformed and well-oiled machine, says newly inducted national chairman Jeff Katz, he hopes to add a...
Musli cases remanded, provisionally for January 18. The side-by-side bail and extradition cases of Shai Musli, who Israeli police accuse of being the boss of one...
In '94, one of the more gifted entertainers among the chosen, Adam Sandler, came up with one of our most iconic holiday jingles ever, “The Chanukah...
The back-and-forth of public rhetoric between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli lobbyists in SA has, since the 2014 Gaza incursion, never reached the heights that it has since...
Independent Media under fire from SA Jewry. Multiple complaints laid about the lack of impartiality of editorial coverage in recent weeks, falsely reporting that SA had...
The anti-Israel lobby groups in South Africa, assisted by certain media and in particular, the Independent Newspaper Group, disseminated news that warrants for the arrest of...
Many Jews will reject the warning a week ago by the last white South African president, FW de Klerk, that Israel is heading towards apartheid, that...
In the company of his whole family and of Israel’s Ambassador to South Africa Arthur Lenk, Erik Kinstler walked to the podium unaided to deliver a...
Former South African Steve Felder, who has lived in Kenya since 2012, has been all over the world meeting celebrities. But the invitation he received from...
The recent SAJBD national conference, combined with the visit of Ronald Lauder, one of the world’s most important Jewish leaders, provided an ideal opportunity for a...
The problem in Russia today was a lack of manpower to assist Jews who want to reclaim their heritage, said Rabbi Berel Lazar, chief rabbi of...
I was privileged to sit on a panel with some fascinating women at the WIZO South Africa 35th Triennial Conference in Cape Town last Sunday. We...
