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The question of whether Israel should be banished from the world soccer body Fifa or not, became a side show last week when the organisation was...
In early May, Mizrachi South Africa once again took more than 40 participants on its life-changing tour - entitled “Journey to Life” - to Poland.
Dr Ruth Westheimer, the octogenarian therapist and TV host, is famous for her frank and open talk about sex. But she's being called out for her...
Thousands of people commemorated the first anniversary this Wednesday, of the kidnapping and murder of Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Sher and Naftali Frenkel by Palestinian terrorists near...
I would like to comment on the Jewish Report editorial of last week, titled "Buses, bloodshed and apartheid".
The outlook for Jews in France is gloomy, according to Professor Henry Green, of the University of Miami, Florida, speaking at the Rabbi Cyril Harris Community...
Lawyer by day, cantor on Shabbos and Jewish festivals, Elton Krawitz has put a new slant on Jewish liturgical music. It is still chazzanut - but...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies met with Johannesburg Mayor Parks Tau this week to express their distress at some of the recent decisions he...
After last week’s contemptuous behaviour of President Jacob Zuma in Parliament, it is sobering to remember that this man was a key figure in the Moral...
This year is a national conference year for the SAJBD. Our 48th biennial national congress will take place on November 22, and preparations are already well...
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...
Three women athletes from Rocky Road Runners Club in Johannesburg, were among the 16 584 starters in Sunday's Comrades Marathon. This year it was an "up"...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
Today, SAJR publishes the introduction to an 8-part series of articles on the 1,8-mil Jews who fought in Allied armies during WWII. Shabbos marks the 71st...
Bev Goldman serves up her Top-11 reads from Zionist writers and titles around the world. Whatever your views of Zionism, Bev always makes sure she has...
AJC is hopping mad as Rabbi Riskin inadvertently creates a humanitarian crisis in Africa. This as well as the major brouhaha building up in international Jewish...
Jewish names top picks this year. Boys: Noah, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Caleb and Matthew. Girls,: Anna is #1, followed by Abigail, Hannah, Ava, Charlotte and Ella....
Israel’s Rabbinate appears to have targeted a leader whose critique of Israel’s religious status quo is subtle. Shlomo Riskin, pictured left, the chief rabbi of the...
The recently-released exposé of Hillary Clinton (pictured) when she was US Secretary of State, reported by Eliezer Sherman in the New York Times last month, indicated,...
Over-regulation has resulted in “shocking data,” Israel's PM told his Cabinet yesterday. It slipped in international rankings for its business friendliness from 23rd in 2006 to...
DEBUNKING SOME 'BOBBA MEISERS' OF ‘FLU VACS: Online editor Ant Katz warns readers in a new blog that the 2015 ‘flu strains include some nasty varieties....
Earlier this month I looked after my grandson, a joy beyond all joys, especially as he slept over for the night.
Two months after questions about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s commitment to a two-state solution threatened to upend the US-Israel relationship, tensions have abated, but not...
Last Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cancelled a proposed plan from his new defence ministry that would have forced Palestinian day labourers returning home from...
Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein initiated the Generation Sinai project in South Africa in 2011. Today more than 100 Jewish day schools across six continents - children...
It took many years for me to shed, more or else, my dislike for the English. Part of my antipathy was due to jealousy - having...
The Israeli bureaucrat at Israel’s interior ministry who committed suicide over the weekend after being called a racist on a Facebook post which was shared 6...
The Union of Jewish Women was being called on increasingly for the provision of basic needs, Diane Levine said in her chairman’s report at the 83rd...
The joint programme of Zambia’s Copperbelt University (CU) was “more than a vision - it is a reality”, said the university’s vice-chancellor, Prof Naison Ngoma, at...
The mightiest man in the Bible was, of course, Samson. He took on the most savage of beasts and levelled a stadium with his bare hands....
On the first night of Shavuot, shuls throughout the country were again packed for Tikkun Leil - the traditional programme of learning through which Jews celebrate...
The atmosphere at some South African universities had become “confrontational, ugly and intolerant”, Professor Jonathan Jansen, rector of the University of the Free State, told a...
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...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
One of the qualities we are most proud of at the Chev is the organisation’s global uniqueness. There is no other Chevrah Kadisha anywhere else in...
I am deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Barney Meyers. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family, particularly his daughters and grandchildren.
The US has the biggest Jewish population by far, outside of Israel. They, as well as Latin America, experience a clear trend of massive unprecedented assimilation.
As the time ticks away towards this weekend’s Fifa congress it looks as if it could come down to the wire as to whether Israel is...
If I were one who updated his Facebook status, I would write, “Howard Feldman is feeling proud”. Proud because South Africa, from June, will be on...
Anti-Semitic rant condemns Wits for “succumbing to the demands of the Jewish funders.” Higher Education Transformation Network particularly singles out Habib for removing SRC president Dlamini...
