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I want to respond to the letter by Jewish Voices for a Just Peace in last week’s Jewish Report. They claim that they care about Palestinians...
Rabbi Nissen Goldman writes from Cape-Town in last week’s edition of Jewish Report: "The Jewish people are one nation with one Torah and one G-d. Nothing...
The legacy of the late Chief Rabbi Cyril Harris - a moral and mitzvah imperative - was the theme at the launch of a book on...
On the face of it a great era came to an end on Sunday for the SAJBD, with Mary Kluk and Zev Krengel stepping down respectively...
Time passes quickly, we all know that. But no matter who I have spoken to - from school kids to residents in our aged facilities and...
The audience at the national conference of the SAJBD on Sunday expected President Jacob Zuma’s keynote speech to be the event’s highlight, despite other eminent speakers,...
Veteran trade unionist Leon Levy was involved in some of the most significant initiatives of the Congress Movement during the 1950s, a crucial decade that in...
What is a Zionist? The term is an often contested one, not just by placard-bearing protesters and angry academics, but by Israelis themselves
I have to admit to being a bit of a history buff. Some 13 years ago I met Billie Jean King at a junior tennis event...
A soldier stands inside a U-shaped concrete barrier at a quiet roundabout at the Gush Etzion junction, helmet strapped on and armoured vest tied to his...
The ANC supports efforts aimed at the establishment of a Palestinian State existing side-by-side with Israel, Zuma tells Parliament, The ANC wants to return to borders...
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...
A new academic programme providing a structured and supervised framework for South African students who would like to pursue tertiary education in Israel - a Telfed...
The sell-out SAJBD Elective conferences was broadcast live by 101,9 ChaiFM. All of the 13 speeches have been uploaded separately by ChaiFM so that members of...
A tit-for-tat spat between pro- and anti-Israel lobby groups over the validity of arrest warrants in SA for four Israeli generals who were instrumental in Israel’s...
Mazeltov to winning family of LIRON MAZOR whose name was drawn by a random number generator from among all the qualifying entrants in the Jewish Report’s...
Jonathan Pollard, the former Navy intelligence analyst convicted of spying for Israel in 1987, was freed from a federal prison in North Carolina. Pollard was released...
US scientist and food activist Michael Jacobson originally coined the today widely-used phrase "junk food" among many others.
A Jewish primary school and house were evacuated after a suspicious package was found there last Friday (pictured at left). Pupils and staff and neighbours were...
“I was very privileged to have been given the opportunity to look after England as well as Bafana Bafana during the 2010 World Cup football tournament...
Free give-away at SAJR prize-giving. Now SA athletes can get compression gear from Sigvaris, developed for athletes by the world’s top brand in medical compression products....
Don’t tear your hair out! Call (010) 140-9020. The South African Jewish Report’s switchboard is out of order and being replaced. This means, for the next...
Join us at the prize-giving Wednesday evening in Rosebank - meet the boffins, see the products, enjoy lots of give-aways and kosher refreshments. If you care...
In a statement issued by Ben Swartz, national chairman of the SA Zionist Federation this morning, he challenges the Independent Media Group to publish the letter...
BLOODY THURSDAY: first time 5 Jews die, 7 more injured. Yesterday represented a sad milestone and will be remembered as the first day on which five...
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu met French Ambassador Patrick Maisonnave (PIC: -Marine Crouzet/ French Embassy) yesterday (Wed) ahead of the J-Post Diplomatic Conference at the Waldorf Astoria...
I don’t always agree with Geoff Sifrin. However, he is correct in his Taking Issue column in Jewish Report of November 6: The ad against Hamas...
Jewish Voices for a Just Peace (JVJP), who call themselves “a group of SA Jews who wish to add our voices to the growing number of...
Lionel Slier’s article in the Jewish Report of November 13, “Writing the obituary of the South African diamond industry” is factually incorrect in many instances.
Cape Fed head BEN LEVITAS writes: Within days following the horrific attacks perpetrated by ISIS in Paris, the G-20 leaders met in Turkey, to discuss a...
What is it with us Jews, who, in a democracy, feel obligated to pander to and toady up to the ANC and invite President Jacob Zuma...
I was somewhat alarmed at Geoff Sifrin's Taking Issue column in respect of the “Hamas advert” by Friends of Israel in the Sunday Times.
It is so easy to enter: Read the story, go to linked page, one click and your family could be the winners of this great prize...
Jewish Report spoke to two of just a handful of Jewish commercial farmers remaining in SA: Desmond Hyman and Darrel Kadish. Both farm a typical Highveld...
Through financial considerations, especially the weak rand, Maccabi SA has to reinvent itself and change emphasis, thinking beyond the Maccabi Games.
When President Jacob Zuma addresses the SA Jewish Board of Deputies conference on Sunday, it will be in the shadow of the horrific terror attacks by...
The University of Cape Town will soon see South Africa's first campus centre for Jewish student life open its doors in the city.
A press statement from Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, sent out yesterday that warrants for the arrest of four commanders from the Israel Navy and Defence Forces...
Last week Wednesday, a long-anticipated hate speech case brought by the SAJBD against right-wing conspiracy theorist Snowy Smith finally got underway in Durban’s Equality Court. The...
Shooby Doob Shloimy, a very big Jewish South African music export, with three albums to the show’s credit and another one shortly to be released in...
