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Will the SA Jewish Board of Deputies, the SA Zionist Federation and the IUA/UCF please explain to the country’s Jewish community why it was necessary for...
The 16 young ANC-affiliated students and business leaders should be commended for their bravery in going on a recent fact-finding trip to Israel. They are brave,...
The individual replies of MPs Michael Bagraim and Darren Bergman and Jack Bloom, Gauteng MPL, in answer to my letter of July 13 (about a purported...
“SA does not subscribe to BDS ideology,” writes online editor Ant Katz in a new blog today. Finish and Klaar! “It does from Luthuli House,” Katz...
Sixteen of the ANC’s most senior young academics and business leaders from around SA visited Israel and Palestine in their personal capacities on an educational tour...
Within an hour of JR Online posting “What Madiba said & meant” last week, quoting the actual speech of Madiba that anti-Israel proponents worldwide so liberally...
A decade and a half ago, as a board member of a Jewish institution, I found myself embroiled in a spat with a leading rabbinical figure...
Sixteen ANC-affiliated top young academic and business leaders from around SA visited Israel and Palestine in their personal capacities on an educational tour this month. These...
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu met on Sunday with Israel Antiquities Authority’s curator in charge of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Pnina Shor (pictured) who had brought the...
Stern's painting that helped save Madiba's life may become the most valuable SA painting ever after Bonhams' September 9 auction
This year, Tisha B’Av marks the 31st anniversary since the passing of Chief Rabbi Prof Louis Rabinowitz, zt’l.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Diaspora Jewry is increasingly critical of Israel and young Diaspora Jews are growing more alienated from the Jewish state, a new study found.
What's immoral about inviting young people to come and see Israel for themselves? asks the SA Jewish Board of Deputies' David Saks
Klaas Mokgomole, pictured, is one of two of the so-called “Wits-11” censured for forcing the cancellation of an Israeli-born pianist Yosi Reshef’s concert last year. The...
Who makes SA’s Mideast policy? What is it? ALL THE LINKS and the story that catches readers up on the daily going-on in this increasingly hostile...
US Vice President Joe Biden had an intimate phone call this week with about a thousand Jewish leaders, beseeching, teaching and preaching the Iran nuclear deal.
WE GIVE AWAY THE LAST LEGO EXPO TICKETS TODAY. SAJR Online has now given away a total of R8,000 worth of tickets for the biggest and...
Amid the cultural vandalism that confronts the world today, when precious artefacts and buildings have been gleefully destroyed by the likes of the radical Jihadists of...
Jewish National Fund of South Africa plants 67 trees at Mamelodi Hospital as part of their award-winning Walther Sisulu Environmental Centre's “Greening Mamelodi” project.
That’s called positive thinking, but I am going to enter the competition and stand a chance of winning the trip. And so should you. All we...
This year on Tisha B’Av is the 31st anniversary since the passing of Chief Rabbi Prof Louis Rabinowitz, zt’l.
Almost uniquely for a major Diaspora city, Johannesburg has had a Jewish presence from its earliest beginnings. Two present-day Jewish organisations can trace their origins back...
History is neither always just nor kind. Among the great Jewish leaders of the 20th century, the name of Dr Nahum Goldmann should loom large alongside...
“If you don’t plan for retirement and have no reason to get up in the morning, you will die,” life and retirement coach Lynda Smith told...
This week's parsha is Devarim. It begins the fifth book of the Torah bearing the same name. In it, Moshe Rabeinu takes the opportunity before his...
Picking up from where I left off last week, I was most encouraged to read the statement put out by the students who participated in the...
That’s called positive thinking, but I am going to enter the competition and stand a chance of winning the trip. And so should you. All we...
Attendances at this year’s Sinai Indaba, if anything, exceeded the already impressive showings of previous years, while the forthcoming instalment of Limmud likewise looks like it...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
Much has been written about the Iranian nuclear deal and the danger to Israel of a nuclear Iran. After reading this week’s parsha, Massei, one wonders...
During the Dark Ages the quest for knowledge was viewed as heresy; to read and write was taboo and only for the clergy. Voyages of discovery...
Community Active Protection (CAP) spread the love this year with its highly successful Mandela Day initiative. CAP’s call to the community to “bring the bread and...
Tisha B’Av is considered the saddest day on the Jewish calendar and is marked by a 25-hour fast. This, unlike Yom Kippur, is not a Yomtov,...
In the United States, an analysis of government data by the Pew Research Centre, has shown that today, about 70 per cent of women who have...
Maccabi South Africa will be sending a small delegation to the European Maccabi Games which will be staged in Berlin for the first time.
Jewish Report’s online editor Ant Katz challenges UKZN academic & PSF activist over an Op-Ed she posted in last Sunday’s Tribune. Katz unpacks the entire Mandela...
I issue a challenge to Ms Nadvi: Tell the truth or go and find it out!
The speech by President Nelson Mandela that is at the centre of so much misquotation and out-of-context usage, that the BDS-driven narrative has become the conventional...
A dozen Palestinian Muslim men gather at an isolated farm house this week to indulge in a new delight, watching a soapie about Jews!
This year, to commemorate Mandela Day, the UJW Johannesburg played fairy godmother to 250 impoverished moms and their newborn babies at a number of clinics around...
