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Phillip Gordon writes: "I recently had a discussion one Shabbos with a resident of Kibbutz Lubner, which I understand is managed under the auspices of Selwyn...
The death this week of famed Nobel Prize-winning author Günther Grass, coincides with another round of arguments about Iran’s threat to Israel and the world, if...
One of the recent debates in the letters’ pages of the Jewish Report has revolved around the question of miracles in Judaism, particularly those relating to...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
WIZO Johannesburg’s 101st AGM last month marked the “changing of the guard” of the WIZO Johannesburg executive. Lee Joffe and Andrea Wainer were elected new co-chairmen....
An observant Jew was experiencing a crisis of faith. He decided to sneak into a non-kosher restaurant and have a fling. He orders “you know what”,...
The Shalom Masorti Congregation in Johannesburg recently sent executive chairman Adele Gluckman to a tri-annual board meeting of Masorti Europe, which was held in Israel.
Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it, Lord Jonathan Sacks wrote in a piece published in the London...
What started as light hearted banter between Zelda la Grange, Nelson Mandela’s personal assistant and Carolyn Steyn last year, with a challenge to come up with...
We are catching up 4 weeks’ worth of Bev Goldman’s Picks of the Week. There are 31 great reads to pick from and Jewish Report Online...
The national ice hockey team of Israel has touched down in Cape Town for a busy week of intense competition, vying for the IIHF (International Ice...
The 1936 Berlin Olympics are infamous for the ploy with which Hitler sought to con the world that his country treated all Germans fairly and famous...
Tali Nates, director of the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre, and Richard Freedman, director of the Cape Town Holocaust Centre, are among the leaders of the...
“This shows the law really is an ass,” says reigning ABSA Jewish Achiever, billionaire SA weapons maker Ivor Ichikowitz angrily remarked when at the end of...
The South African Zionist Federation, Cape Council, has expressed its sadness at the “brutal slaughter of over 1 000 Palestinian residents of the Yarmouk refugee camp,...
The third-night seder plate at the inaugural Dagga Seder in Portland, Oregon included a marijuana leaf.
SEE THE VIDEO - Pharrell Williams tells Bonang Matheba how he is working to create a better tomorrow in SA.
PHARRYLL PARTIED IN CAPE TOWN LAST WEEKEND. US-based anti-Israel NGO, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), reacted with fury and indignation to an announcement by Woolworth SA...
Yom Hashoah is one of the main events on the Jewish civil calendar, and organising the annual ceremony in the main centres countrywide, is an important...
The Jews of Israel, South Africa and, indeed, worldwide will attend events to celebrate Israel’s 67th Independence Day next Wednesday. And, true to form, the SA...
In SA last year, writes ARIELA CARNO, pictured, over 12 000 South Africans rallied behind the state of Israel during Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut.
Thousands of SA Jews will attend Yom Hazikaron remembrance ceremonies throughout the country next week. Get the details here, read about the history of the Day...
Ceremonies in remembrance of the 70th Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, will take place throughout the country this week, including Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria, PE...
Three Rastafarians walk into a bar. One orders a cappuccino, and the other two regular coffees. It sounds like the beginning of a poor joke complete...
It would be nice to hear the voice of BDS-SA right now, stating their concern for Palestinian human rights. This time concerning another “villain” rather than...
Three Rastas (two of them pictured) & The Star newspaper made what could well be called “a storm in a coffee cup” after claims of "racial...
“We are saddened to witness the brutal slaughter of over one thousand Palestinian residents of the Yarmouk Refugee Camp near Damascus, by an alliance of Islamic...
Accusing Jewish media of intentionally misrepresenting news to suit the politics of their audience, “it is time to call them out”, writes Jewish Report’s online editor,...
Israeli website operators & Jewish sites around the world, beware! Cyber hackers affiliated with the infamous cyber terrorist group "Anonymous”, attacked a number of Israeli websites...
one of the most dastardly acts of media lying by omission that I have experienced in my 30-plus years as a wordsmith. Disgraceful!
A global furore broke out last week over accusations that renowned comedian Trevor Noah (who takes over hosting top-US political satire show “The Daily Show” next...
US Pres pitches for Iran deal in interview with New York Times Saturday. He acknowledged legitimacy of Israel’s concerns about Iran. Noting Iran’s leadership’s Holocaust denial...
The controversy raged for 50 years & almost tore European Jewry asunder. Progress has always been a touchy subject if Jewish law is involved
“The entire world celebrated the deal with North Korea," Bibi told NBC’s Meet the Press. It was deemed to be a great breakthrough. "It would bring...
Hebrew books are the “social glue” for European Sabras says a Dutch Israeli who has lived in Holland since the 1990s. Reading Hebrew, says Serge Lypcyz,...
The PA refused to accept its frozen tax revenues released by Israel on Sunday because Israel r had deducted some of the money to cover the...
“Like most New York Jews, I love “The Daily Show,” and so I was very sad to hear that Jon Stewart would be moving on. This...
"Did Trevor Noah Have a Sexual Relationship With That Woman – and other important questions" is the title of Howard Feldman in his latest, hilarious opinion...
For President Obama, the framework agreement reached last Thursday with Iran is an “historic understanding” that does more to roll back Tehran’s nuclear programme than any...
Ellaine Hirshowitz, a psychoanalytic therapist and artist - and herself a survivor of breast cancer - donated a series of her artworks to DL Link, an...
