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An interesting bit of trivia which I could not help noticing in the photographs in last week’s Jewish Report, was that at the Challah Bake in...
Johannesburg artist Bev Butkow gave up a thriving career as a chartered accountant to pursue her dream of becoming an artist. Five years ago, at age...
The visit of Hamas to a very friendly ANC was a real shame and an affront to the South African Jewish community. But having ties with...
It goes without saying that our wonderful Jewish community is not immune from the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse, sexual abuse and the many negative...
At first glance, this is the premise of the beginning of Chayei Sarah. The Torah spends 20 psukim speaking about Avraham’s negotiations to purchase the cave...
In numerous countries across the world, November 22 will be commemorated as Mitzvah Day, bringing together people of different faiths to celebrate their common humanity and...
The new spiritual leader of the Sephardi Hebrew Congregation in Sea Point in Cape Town, has probably had one of the biggest successes as a result...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
One can understand the anger motivating people in the Jewish community to place a full page advert last weekend in the Sunday Times, denouncing Hamas and...
Online editor blogs about discovering a personal angel at his medical aid when he needed it most and how Jewish Report's new competition was conceived
...and from this a community got a competition!
UPDATED STORY: Last week the Sunday Times refused to publish a full-page advert that had been bought by Jewish communal groups – leading to a communal...
The kashrut division of the Union of Orthodox Synagogues sent out two late advisories on Friday afternoon about products that erroneously carry their world-famous diamond hechsher...
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Israeli President Reuven Rivlin meets Honduran President Alvarado as the countries sign a Declaration of Intent for co-operation in water, education, agriculture, medicine, and security.
The kashrut department of the Johannesburg Beth Din have issued a “Kashrut Alert” regarding the milchik status of two products that are not labelled as such.
A scheduling problem means ChaiFM won't be able to host JR this Friday on our R22 000 “FAMILY FITNESS” competition we're holding with them. The show...
UCT V-C’S SON AMONG ARRESTED PROTESTERS: Two of the 29 among the #FEESMUSTFALL protesters arrested for storming Parliament last week were Jewish. Quite a considerable achievement...
JEWISH REPORT, in conjunction with 101.9 ChaiFM, has created a great competition with one lucky family of readers set to win a “PERSONALISED FAMILY FITNESS PACKAGE”...
Sodom and Gomorrah were prosperous cities - affluent in terms of precious water, pretty as the garden of Hashem, but its people were wicked and sinners....
The “tidal wave” of emigration from South Africa, following the Soweto riots, fear of a bloodbath instead of the new peaceful transition to democracy, the scarcity...
Many South Africans are concerned about the safety of relatives and friends in Israel amid the current wave of terror attacks sweeping many parts of the...
Throughout the world, the Shabbos Project united Jews in shuls, schools, streets, homes and in this, the third massive move towards togetherness and keeping the Sabbath...
Kim Feinberg graduated on a full scholarship from the Lee Strasberg Institute in Los Angeles, having received the same training as acting greats such as Marilyn...
Once again we must take our hats off to Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein and his team for organising such a successful programme for the Challah Bake...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is correct that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, played a role in influencing Hitler and was involved in...
I found the “Shabbat Map” enclosed in your issue of October 23 most interesting - all the things you can’t or shouldn’t do before or on...
The news of the last few weeks has been tumultuous. Domestically, a small revolution within the student movement has emerged amid their increasing dissatisfaction with the...
I am writing from Rome, where I am attending a meeting of the World Jewish Congress’ (WJC) governing board, where I sit as a representative of...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
By now it should be obvious how absurd it is to call President Barack Obama Israel’s “best friend” ever, as Thomas Friedman of The New York...
David Nainkin was one of South Africa’s leading tennis players in the 1990s and was probably better than his highest ranking of 132, reached in January...
Two milestones occurred in the past two weeks: The twentieth anniversary of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination; and the provocative visit of a Hamas delegation...
When Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addressed the United Nations, at the beginning of October, he opened with the PA libel that Israel is planning to...
It was a journey of journeys - by foot, by Tuk-Tuk, by Gautrain, Commuter Rail and Blue Train, it was the most innovative Jewish conference yet...
Students protesting in the “#FeesMustFall” campaign across the country, had the sympathy of both academics and student leaders canvassed by the SA Jewish Report. All, however,...
A high-level delegation from Hamas - the nationalist Islamist party that rules Gaza, fires rockets and unleashes terror attacks on Israelis - visited South Africa from...
Contrary to popular belief, there is no contradiction between the theory of evolution and the bible's account of the evolution of life. These two narratives are...
Not that anyone really needs any proof of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement’s violent agenda that has been on display many times, together with...
The recent trip to South Africa by delegates from the terrorist organisation Hamas has left me and many others from our community, simply without words.
