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Over the past month Gautengers have been sweltering in daily temperatures ranging from 30 to 39 degrees. To boot, the air remains dry with no sign...
Annika Hernroth-Rothstein of Sweden, who came to South Africa this year to address the annual Limmud gathering, told the SA Jewish Report in an interview from...
The series of terrorist attacks that killed at least 129 in Paris pose a couple of major challenges for the United States, Jewish officials and security...
The echoes of the mayhem and terror in Paris are still loud and raw; indeed, none of us knows if they will be given time to...
At the beginning of this year, the world was shocked by two horrific terror attacks carried out in Paris against Charlie Hebdo magazine and a kosher...
Last Sunday, November 15, team Ride4AfricaIsrael, rode the 94.7 cycle challenge. Over 40 riders from both Jewish and Christian communities joined our team and embarked on...
Babette and Sasha Bergman lead what many would consider a charmed life. Both Jewish hi-tech professionals in their 30s - they met while working at Google’s...
This month the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) building turns 100 years. Its founders, Lady Florence and Sir Lionel Phillips, decided to give the gritty mining town...
Four years ago, at age 13, Dean Walt died tragically in a car accident. Ten months ago, his only sibling, Dylan, took his life at age...
November 10 marked the 40th anniversary of the lowest point reached by the United Nations when, instead of combating racism, it became overtly racist, adopting and...
By the end of last week, a fresh sense of doom about South Africa’s future had set in like a dark, suffocating cloud.
Described by some as “the best-kept secret in the Jewish community” but recognised and lauded by late President Nelson Mandela, the Union of Jewish Women, with...
“Gertie was a larger than life person, who lived life to the fullest,” said Rabbi David Masinter, who conducted the funeral of the late Gertie Awerbuch...
Statements today about arrest warrants for 4 Israeli generals are nonsense, says Hawks spokesman Brig Hangwani Mulaudzi, it is all “malicious gossip!”
A lot of co-operation over water is currently taking place between SA and Israel says Israel's Ambassador Arthur Lenk, pictured. Last month many SA officials and...
After police were tipped off about plans by foreigners to help him escape. accused Israeli mob boss‚ Shai Musli‚ appeared under heavy police guard at his...
Nobody knows how many, if any, Jewish residents of, and/or visitors to Paris, were among the over 500 killed or seriously wounded in the tragic events...
"Ordinary French people, other Europeans and people worldwide are beginning to understand how Jews live and the reality in Israel," said Samual Sandler.
Lucky to not have been with her family, this grief-stricken girl lost her father and brother in a terror shooting last Friday afternoon on their family...
Thousands of Israelis rallied in Tel Aviv, showing solidarity with France following a series of terror attacks in Paris on Friday night. French Ambassador to Israel...
Last week the community was all abuzz regarding the refusal of a full page advertisement booked in the Sunday Times by the SA Friends of Israel...
The 37th World Zionist Congress took place in Jerusalem recently. Since Theodore Herzl convened the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland in 1897, it has been...
The Europe Israel Public Affairs Committee (EIPA) which lobbies on behalf of the Holy Land in Brussels, says: “The question that has to be asked is:...
Israeli opposition Labour Party leader, Isaac Herzog (pictured) tells his party convention In Tel Aviv this week that in his mind the array of threats in...
To resolve poverty and inequality issues in South Africa, there has to be an honest admission that current levels of unemployment and inequality are unsustainable and...
Last week’s parsha, Chayei Sarah (the life of Sara), relates, among other things, that Isaac married Rebecca at the age of 40 after his mother Sarah,...
Underlying the furore over the ad against Hamas placed by SA Friends of Israel in the Sunday Times - it is not yet clear how it...
The last issue of this newspaper included a forum where various community members gave their views on what they would like President Jacob Zuma to speak...
It took agreeing to set aside differences on Iran and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process for President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to get...
Local Islamists are understandably jubilant right now in the wake of the ruling party having now officially kashered their favourite Jihadi movement. It was not something...
Mushkie Barber, daughter of Rabbi Mendel and Mashi Lipskar (who is head of the Lubavitch Foundation in Southern Africa), was born and brought up in Johannesburg....
The parsha this week begins with a heartrending period for Yitzchok and Sarah, 10 years of childlessness. Imagine the endless flow of tears and prayer that...
The first question Johannesburg’s Carmit Nadel had put to her as she arrived in Meknes, Morocco with her husband and fellow powerlifter, Nic Ingel, for the...
SA JEWISH REPORT STAFF Four years after the tsunami – a look at IsraAID’s work TOKYO – When ISRAEL21c president Amy Friedkin was touring Japan...
We secular Jews often feel strongly about religious tolerance, yet when it comes to our ancient traditions we sometimes lose that tolerance.
Geoff Sifrin writing in his Taking Issue column last week, disagreed with placing THAT advert in the Sunday Times. He makes much sense, as do the...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
There was a time when South Africa was at the forefront of diamond cutting and processing, but over the years the country has managed to lose...
Stories poured in from around the world in the aftermath of last month’s second international Shabbos Project, in which more than a million Jews in 918...
“I have a dead cat outside my home - please can you come and collect it!” “Will you please come and take my garden refuse to...
