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Of course it isn’t yet Friday as I prepare this column, but it most likely that that is when it will be read in print, says...
Leading running apparel stores "The Sweat Shop", are giving away a voucher as part of our prize-pool in SA Jewish Report’s R20 000 “Personalised Family Fitness...
CycleZone in Rosebank, Johannesburg, is not only giving our users an in-store bike positional and power assessment and Ride Pack as part of our prize-pool in...
TomTom is giving away a GPS Sport Watch as part of our prize-pool in SA Jewish Report’s R20,000 “Personalised Family Fitness Package” which will be won...
Exercise Solutions is contributing a huge chunk of the prize-pool in SA Jewish Report’s R20 000 “Personalised Family Fitness Package” which will be won by one...
Disappointed in the ‘failure’ of stabbings, Hamas asks West Bankers to drop their knives and instead commit car-rammings to ensure higher Jewish casualties.
When it comes to getting YouTube hits, getting almost two-and-a-half million in 24 hours is good in anyone’s terms. Saturday Night Live’s spoof on CNN’s US...
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A master of stretching the truth and a perverter of language – this is what the EIPA called Mahmoud Abbas in supporting Benjamin Netanyahu's call for...
Recently-released letters by officiating rabbi at her conversion before third and last husband, playwright Arthur Miller, say Marilyn was “heart-felt” convert.
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks is in the US promoting his new book. Rabbi Sacks answers some frank questions in an interview with JTA’s Uriel Heilman.
During a special meeting with English-speaking reporters yesterday, Israeli PM insists that the so-called ‘status quo’ instituted by Moshe Dayan on the last day of the...
Jewish Report’s provocative weekly columnist, Geoff Sifrin, gets our readers chirping at each other as well as at Geoff himself. Read what users have to say...
Do you find that religious observance; family commitments; communal obligations; business activities, etc restrict you and your family’s ability to stay fit & slim? Jewish Report...
A whopping 60 per cent of US Jews who have married since 2000, chose non-Jewish spouses. This was just one of many shocking statistics that emerged...
Jewish Report met some of the most senior followers of Rabbi Berland on Tuesday. They confirmed that there are followers, many of them families, staying at...
Israelis have become accustomed to dismal news in the past few weeks - mornings and evenings punctuated by stabbings, car attacks and rock throwing.
“We are proud to again be joining the spiritual tsunami that’s sweeping across the world,” Rabbi Ari Kievman, of the Shul in Sandton Central, told the...
Last Sunday evening at Beyachad in Johannesburg, a capacity crowd joined the ambassadors of the Russian Federation and of Israel in commemorating the crucial role played...
Many of the ancient stories passed on by our rabbis, talk of welcoming a Jew into your home and your synagogue. The essence is that us...
One of the contentious issues in modern Judaism is the question whether or not Jews should proselytise. The majority opinion is that Jews should not proselytise.
Time will tell as to whether Britain’s Labour Party, following its unexpectedly heavy defeat in the May elections, has committed electoral suicide by choosing the dogmatic,...
Former Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils, the “enfant terrible” of South African Jewry, has lambasted his former comrade and fellow Cabinet minister Mosiuoa Lekota, for going on...
Reading Geoff Sifrin’s recent column, I found his comment about Israel having the most rightwing rejectionist government in its history and a prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu...
Pop idol Danny K is simply a really nice Jewish boy who is not only a music celebrity, but believes and acts on putting back into...
A fellow once travelled on a journey that took him through tropical islands. Taking a walk, he was hit in the head by a coconut falling...
At an Israeli bus station, several uniformed officers surround an Arab woman before opening fire on her, dropping her to the ground. Standing over her motionless...
“Apartheid in South Africa was a picnic compared to what we have seen in the occupied territories,” said Parliamentary Speaker Baleka Mbete at the ANC’s National...
Jews are widely known as the “People of the Book”; it was therefore fitting that the Jewish community float that participated in this year’s Heritage Day...
Deputy Minister Obed Bapela’s recent comments that dual citizenship might be abolished to prevent South African Jews from serving in the Israeli Defence Forces, have generated...
On October 2, a monument commemorating the history-making friendship between the famed Indian nationalist leader Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi and the Lithuanian-born Jewish architect Herman Kallenbach,...
After the high we experienced over Yomtov, we have been brought abruptly down to earth by the upsurge of deadly violence in Israel. At the time...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
There is a hackneyed saying that life begins at 40 and for Shane Dorfman his “fourth decade” has ushered into his life three major changes. However,...
The South African Union of Jewish Students (SAUJS) has elected a new national committee for the remainder of 2015 and 2016. Dani Hovsha, pictured, who has...
Rabbi Eliezer Berland is back in South Africa and he - and several hundred of his followers - are said to have been living in Midrand...
Is the glass one-third empty or two-thirds full? A poll commissioned by distributors of the Holocaust film “Return to the Hiding Place” asked 1 000 Americans...
In Israel, American stores dot shopping malls and McDonald's branches proliferate. But one chain you won't see is Starbucks.
Many Israelis and Diaspora Jews tend to believe the international media is biased against Israel, subjecting it to unrelenting, critical scrutiny no other country gets. Palestinians...
This morning Magen David Adom Israel told Jewish Report Online that they had been informed of a stabbing attack in the Old City of Jerusalem in...
