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It seems as if everyone is climbing on to the ‘Chanukah bandwagon’ with more and more events cramming the festive calendar.
Alan Bender, master chef at Feigel’s for the past five years, a fellow of the SA Chef Association, has brought a novel, modern way of cooking...
South African rugby referee icon Jonathan Kaplan, has been elected to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame for 2016.
The Pretoria Shul is not just a shul in a community, but the core from which everything branches out, Rabbi Gidon Fox, spiritual leader of the...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies used the visit of Ambassador Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, to arrange five meetings with senior...
OWN CORRESPONDENT Milton Shain, A Perfect Storm – Anti-Semitism in South Africa 1930 – 1948, Jonathan Ball Publishers, R275 Prof Milton Shain, a leading scholar...
This week's parsha begins Vayeishev Yaakov - And Yaakov settled. To settle connotes peace, rest and tranquility. We all seek peace and a respite from everything...
Because Chanukah usually occurs in December, it is sometimes thought of as the "Jewish Christmas". It isn't, of course. And yet it is fair to say...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, sat kiddy-corner in armchairs at this week's international climate summit near Paris, talking and laughing.
There are many religions in the world, but to the best of my knowledge, the Jewish religion is one of the very few, if not the...
I have been reading with interest the criticisms about the JVJP. I find that a very important point is always omitted. Most people say that Israel...
That the CSO are alleged to have roughed up some members of Jewish Volices for a Just Peace (JVJP) is indeed disturbing, more so, given that...
While Jewish Voices for a Just Peace prides itself on its noble cause in pursuit of peace and justice, the group's ignorance never fails to amaze....
Anti-Israeli lobbyists, mostly holders of a single share, bombarded Woolworths’ directors with questions aimed at getting them to abort trade ties with Israel. A member of...
The South African Friends of Israel (SAFI), a division of the SAZF, hosted a special community report-back session last week at the Great Park auditorium. MPs...
Noted academic Nadav Shragai is our guest blogger this week – he offers some basic truths about the “status quo” on the Temple Mount – cutting...
US Jewry clamouring to host Olga Meshoe… Again! So impressed was US Jewry when Deisi International COO Olga Meshoe, a fervent Christian Zionist, went on a...
SA lobbyists join hands with UK Jewry’s’ highly successful “IsrAction Campaign last year, aimed at buying Israeli or kosher products and giving them to the less...
When financial planner Liron Mazor, pictured, and his family won Jewish Report’s biggest-ever competition last week, the R2 ,000 “Personalised Family Fitness Package” competition in association...
Morrie Ostroff, who passed away in Israel yesterday, was a giant in the world of advocacy. So much so, that fellow expat SA journalist David Kaplan...
Sunday 29 November represented the 68th anniversary of the 1947 presentation of The United Nations Partition Plan. “This historic day was both a mix of sadness...
The wold’s 435th-wealthiest person, Natie Kirsh, was honoured by ORT UK earlier this month for his philanthropic and charitable work. Interestingly, both ORT and Kirsh received...
A Russian military jet had violated Israeli airspace it was announced on Sunday. The jet breached Israeli airspace by 1,6 km and turned back when Russia...
Chairmen, pictured left, Ben Swartz and Jeff Katz, issued a joint statement on Thursday saying “anti-Israel activists caught in lie” - and not for the first...
Israeli Orthodox Rabbi Eliezer Berland, rosh yeshiva of the Breslov Chassidic movement, who has been on the run from the Dutch and Israeli authorities, turned up...
Conversion to Judaism has become a controversial subject and the process of conversion differs in expectations and accepted norms across communities worldwide. The Jewish Report examined...
Last week Thursday I was most alarmed to see the very bold headline on the front page of the Cape Times: “Israeli military chiefs face SA...
Jews and Africans - groups that have both known persecution for long periods - should stand together. It is important for Jews to make that point...
Isn't it time, finally, that the State of Israel and Jews everywhere, stopped talking about and punting a two-state solution, as a realistic proposition?
The number one question that those present at Sunday’s SAJBD national conference will have wanted President Jacob Zuma to answer would undoubtedly have been why his...
Jewish Voices for a Just Peace (JVJP), prior to last weekend’s SA Jewish Board of Deputies’ conference in Johannesburg, penned a collective letter to President Jacob...
US Secretary of State John Kerry condemns the unspeakable brutality of the ISIS terrorist attack in France.
Sometimes people take car guards - a unique South African phenomenon - for granted. Drop them a coin, or if more generous, a note. Thank them...
It was Gold Reef City, the casino where fortunes are lost on the spin of a wheel and the flip of a card. In the Lyric...
The South African Jewish community is fuming over Hamas sympathiser President Jacob Zuma’s suggestion this week that the bombing attacks in Paris are somewhat connected to...
To Jewish Voices for a Just Peace, I want to point out that the rally in support of Israel (they are going on about) was not...
I would like to respond to the letter in last week’s Jewish Report by Jewish Voices for a Just Peace. I believe that quite often Jews...
Dr Bertie Lubner is 84, although, with his energy and alert mind, it’s hard to believe. He has devoted the greater part of his life to...
Springbok rugby legend Syd Nomis was the guest visitor at the Lions Shul in Doornfontein in Johannesburg recently, where he spoke at the kiddush/breakfast after the...
To all at the SAJBD, congratulations and most sincere thanks in appreciation of an excellent and phenomenally well-organised bi-annual conference on Sunday night at Gold Reef...
