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Last Thursday evening, at the Durban Jewish Centre, the Council for KwaZulu-Natal Jewry held its 84th AGM. As always, it was a pleasure for me to...
I’ve just returned from a few days in the scenic city of Cape Town where I met a number of remarkable people and achieved some important...
"I came to the WIZO shelter afraid for my life. But now, I feel like I was born anew. WIZO protected me and my daughters and...
Mixed programmes in Dance Umbrella always hold that frisson of possibility and that lucky packet threat that is about how the works on the programme relate...
Rabbi Berland - who escaped extradition from Holland to Israel last month by disappearing as stealthily as he had from SA last year - has been...
At least four of the 200 outstanding young South Africans selected for the Mail & Guardian’s (M&G) prestigious list published last Friday were Jewish. Not too...
A film of the behind-the-scenes peek at the acclaimed Israeli-SA dance collaboration is in the works after the stunning success of the world premiere of this...
Ahead of what may be the toughest diplomatic battle of his career, a final bid to kill the Iran nuclear deal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
Another highly successful Limmud conference took place over the weekend at the Indaba Hotel and Conference Centre in Fourways, Johannesburg. This was the 10th Limmud South...
This week, the Cape Council welcomed on board its new executive director, Daniel Levitt, while Chaya Singer joined the staff of the National Board. I likewise...
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if sport was left to sportsmen and politics to politicians? Two recent incidents proved that if politics was left out of sports,...
Orthodox women must make a call, writes Geoff Sifrin. Mention the word “feminism” and many people think of militant women in the 1950s burning their bras...
Was Cecil the Lion that different from Cecil John Rhodes? Was Cecil’s status as king of the Hwange National Park attained in a manner all too...
Jewish education in the United Kingdom has been a contentious issue for thousands of parents comprising the Jewish community of approximately 300 000. The question of...
The Internet and newspaper classified sections are chock-a-block with advertisements urging people to adopt pets - especially dogs and cats - but there are also horses,...
In bygone days, it was never considered out of the ordinary when schoolboys were given “six of the best” or girls were rapped over the knuckles...
In just over two weeks, the Jewish Report will celebrate along with the rest of this community, the 2015 Absa Jewish Achiever Awards, which honours all...
Four participants in the recent “Young South African Leaders” visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories, shared their experiences and insights with Gauteng Jewish leaders and...
Congress has until mid- to late September to consider whether to reject the nuclear restrictions for the sanctions rollback deal reached by Iran and six major...
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...
Advocating for Israel, as anyone engaged in that thankless task knows, is being rendered all but impossible in an environment where the thinking on the issue...
Revolutionary new Israeli 3D printing is set to revolutionise barista art. Forget hearts & leaves: Ripples’ newly unveiled system uses technology to print everything from detailed...
Hilarious Jewish humour: Clean, parev, and delivered with a straight face and a calm disposition. Deb's father survived four camps.
Six marchers were stabbed at Jerusalem’s annual gay pride parade — allegedly by the man who stabbed three people at the parade in 2005.
In a full-page story in the Saturday Star titled “We were intimidated for going on trip to Israel” and with the strapline: “They say BDS movement...
When the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles came out with a strongly worded statement last week opposing the Iran nuclear deal, it became one of...
On Monday evening the South African Union of Jewish Students (SAUJS) hosted a first-of-its-kind alumni dinner at the HOD in Johannesburg. Over a 100 alumni, dating...
I have been at the helm of the Jewish Report for a mere seven months and have already faced the dilemma that editors of many community...
The recent deal between the P5 +1 (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council - the US, Britain, France, Russia and China plus...
What does Maccabi Germany have that Maccabi South Africa doesn’t? The obvious answer to this question is “money”, and in terms of looking at this issue,...
On Monday evening, the SA Union of Jewish Students held a special SAUJS alumni dinner, attended by present and former SAUJS leaders and members going back...
Yvonne Jawitz, immediate past president of WIZO SA, with Michael Freeman Israel’s deputy ambassador to South Africa.
The outstanding contribution to Jewish education by the late Barney Meyers, principal of King David Victory Park Primary School from 1966 to 1990, was acknowledged at...
With the constant stream of ugly headlines about Israel, threats from the ICC about possible war crimes investigations, and BDS’ worldwide success in fostering boycotts against...
LIMMUDNIK: Annika Hernroth-Rothstein, internationally-known political adviser and writer who is addressing sessions of this year’s Limmud programme, has travelled the journey from secularism to Jewish observance...
Among the beautiful teachings that our parsha contains is a lengthy account of how the Ten Commandments was revealed to each and every one of our...
Visitors to Cape Town’s classy Mount Nelson Hotel may have come across a plaque recording that a little over 160 years ago the first formal Jewish...
Parents should not rely too much on their children’s schools to instil values in them, implored Dr Laibl Wolf at a parenting lecture at Sydenham-Highlands North...
South Africa is still in the “premier league” in terms of the future, scenario planner Clem Sunter told a breakfast hosted by Afrika Tikkun at a...
Although the people of Gauteng have the pleasure of reading the Jewish Report on Friday of each week, we on the coast - Durban, PE and...
