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The first part of this week was largely taken up with responding to outrageous comments, as reported in the Sunday Times, by Deputy Minister Obed Bapela...
I am a third generation South African, tracing my roots back some 125 years. My parents instilled in me a love for South Africa and for...
Adam Mendelsohn has been appointed associate professor in the department of Historical Studies and director of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research at the...
Imagine if an Islamist preacher called for death to the Jews in a public speech in your city in South Africa. This occurred in Sydney, Australia,...
The South African Jewish community is seething with anger and is also deeply alarmed after Obed Bapela, head of the ANC’s national executive committee’s subcommittee on...
A weekly summary of briefs on some of the top issues in the Jewish media worldwide brought to you by Jewish Report staff writers. The SAJR...
The debate on whether Jewish athletes should put religion before sport, especially if they make a living out of sport, will never reach an agreed solution,...
I would like to begin with a message from World WIZO President Tova Ben-Dov: I wish you a happy, healthy and joyous New Year
The newly-elected president of the ANC Youth League (ANCYL), Mokone Collen Maine, in his closing address of the elective National Congress at Gallagher Estate on Sunday,...
Now that the enactment of the Iran nuclear deal appears to be a sure thing, the profound and often personal disagreement between President Barack Obama and...
As we gather the myriad articles required to fill our bumper Rosh Hashanah issue, we at the Jewish Report are reflecting on our year of publishing...
“There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” These words of...
Support for Israel can sometimes come from unlikely places. Modimolle - known as Nylstroom until 2002 - is a sleepy farming town of 45 000 inhabitants...
The King David Schools’ Foundation recently hosted a donor thank you dinner to honour and thank its generous donors.
With Rosh Hashanah approaching we asked several leading lights in our community what Rosh Hashanah means to them.
Divorce is a particularly stressful time in anyone’s life as the couple experience the unravelling of their marriage and they prepare to go their separate ways....
African leaders from the church, business and civil society, proudly affirmed their support for Israel at the second African Leadership Summit, held in Jerusalem from August...
The idea of acclaimed Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim conducting a concert with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in Tehran, sounds like fantasy. But that is exactly what...
In Yiddish, they would always say “Nog a yohr in Afrika!” - “Another year in Africa!” It seems pretty inane but we all seem to go...
“Jews are not fighters - let’s face it,” Jackie Mason says. “Have you ever heard of someone afraid to go into a Jewish neighbourhood because he...
When Piet Malan passed away on July 5 at the age of 96, Dr Cecil Moss became the oldest living Springbok rugby player.
A recent incident at Old Eds Virgin Active gym has sparked debate about messages advertised on T-shirts. As the Jewish Report editor points out: “The South...
Slavisa Jokanovic and Tal Ben Haim will be returning to Chelsea this month but not as players; Maccabi Tel Aviv will begin their Champions League group...
Whenever Georges De Canino worries about the future of Italian Jewry, he looks at the bricks in the building across the street from his apartment in...
Close to 80 per cent of the 2 100 married people who responded to a survey by the Chevrah Kadisha during its marriage week earlier this...
Last weekend a packed Pretoria Shul and a communal Shabbat dinner, supported by a vast number of the community and guests, came to celebrate the 14th...
Daniel Levitt, newly-appointed executive director of the Cape SA Jewish Board of Deputies, says his predominant focus is to ignite a confident support for Israel within...
It was recently reported in a number of newspapers on the capture and detention of an Israeli spy by Hamas. That spy turned out to be...
Once or twice a week, Amatzia Dayan from Kibbutz Ein Hashofet, drives in the early morning through the security border crossing near Magen Shaul to pick...
Doyen of the Cape Town legal community, John Simon, who passed away recently in Cape Town, influenced many lives in the legal field, in academia and...
The Jews have forgotten how to tell their story, yet no other nation has a better story than the Jews do, Olesker told a Cape Town...
I have just participated in the dedication of the new premises of the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre (JHGC) in Forest Town. It was an extremely...
Last week Friday night SAUJS together with Sydenham Shul hosted a Shabbat dinner for young adults. The guest of honour was DA leader Mmusi Maimane.
One of the most moving prayers on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is the “U'Netaneh Tokef”. It spells out that on Rosh Hashanah it is decreed...
When a Jew goes to Poland these days it is perceived as a “pilgrimage to Auschwitz”. While a visit to witness where one of the most...
The moment the Iran nuclear deal becomes law, as seems increasingly likely given growing congressional support for the agreement, the focus of the US-Israel conversation will...
The dedication of the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre on Tuesday could not have come at a more appropriate time in South Africa’s history, said Prof...
Sunday night saw the equivalent of our community’s very own Oscar awards when the South African Jewish Report hosted its17th Absa Jewish Achiever Awards gala banquet.
South African Jews are a long way physically from Iran, the United States and Israel, and have generally not felt the need to take clear positions...
The winners of the 2015 Absa Jewish Achiever Awards were unanimous in stating the value of the awards and in expressing their excitement at receiving them.
