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Cameroon-born soccer star Samuel Eto’o first experienced racism when he went to buy a watch at a fashionable jeweller in London. He chose the watch he...
Two weeks ago, in a much publicised incident, Jewish teenagers wearing yarmulkes were assaulted by three unidentified men, apparently of Muslim origin, at The Zone in...
Pesach is not only about commemorating our ancestors’ liberation from slavery and emergence as a free nation. It is also about celebrating our freedom to live...
It began as an ugly instance of ant-Semitic assault, but culminated in an inspirational demonstration of Jewish assertiveness and communal solidarity.
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies will once again be holding its annual Day of Remembrance ceremony in memory of the Six Million Jewish Martyrs...
Beth Din warns kosher shelves not all Pesachdik except at KosherWorld, and issued a host of other Pesach advisories today. The kashrut division of the Union...
Jewish Report Online publishes the four official SA Beth Din guides in handy PDF format so users can download them, print them or even forward on...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
Newly-elected national chairman of the SA Zionist Federation, Ben Swartz, told Jewish Report in an interview on Sunday that things were changing fast at the Fed....
In the wake of a devastating cyclone and torrential rain that hit Madagascar in February, Israel, through the auspices of Mashav, the Israeli Agency for International...
There is veil of secrecy regarding domestic abuse in the South African Jewish community. But twenty years ago, Ronit Lev Ari, came from Israel and broke...
There will be lots to discuss at seder tables this Pesach, ranging from colonialist statues of Cecil John Rhodes being torn down in Cape Town, to...
I was pleased to read a report in your newspaper of March 13, headed "To call Israel an apartheid state is patently untrue".
Prior to the dramatic splitting of the Red Sea that took place after the Exodus, the Israelites found themselves between a rock and a hard place....
Bryna Lewis suggests that the answer to healthy eating is to go vegetarian (SA Jewish Report, March 13).
Jews in Cape Town who are not wealthy, are discriminated against in many ways: 1) At least 90 per cent of small, medium, large Jewish-owned enterprises...
Some 3 400 years ago Hashem delivered to our Jewish forefathers the Torah which we are assured by our rabbis is an accurate description of the...
Last Sunday, members of the Johannesburg Jewish Male Choir (JJMC) were the guest artists at a concert held in Ezulwini, Swaziland, on behalf of 17 refugee...
Any video that can crack 200 000 views in two days is hot. A purely Jewish one for Pesach delivering those numbers is smoking!. “Hope your...
The TV dramatisation of the Masada story from the bestselling book, Dovekeepers, is a “four-hour limited event series”. For SAJR Online’s many US users, it premieres...
SA Jewish Report really likes community feedback, whether in the form of letters to the editor or as comments on our website. We try to allow...
Hamas supporting One Direction star left the band just before their SA concert this weekend but Jewish fans would not have lost sleep over his departure.
Who’s got Singapore’s back? For a tiny nation surrounded by Muslim countries, the answer is obviously “another tiny nation surrounded by Muslim countries”, namely Israel.
See what he told BBC. See the Wits poster billing his speech. Dr Husam Zomlot, the keynote speaker at many of the City of Johannesburg’s “Palestinian...
It is an amazing feature of Jewish footballers. Those of South African heritage who live abroad want to play for Bafana Bafana. However, those who live...
The five-person Project-W faction on the Wits SRC making up 40 per cent of the SRC, were never consulted and have, in fact, issued a statement...
Professor Adam Habib responds with his own Open Letter to an open letter by Howard Feldman who wondered if Wits University had lost its way.
Jewish Report Chairman Howard Feldman published an open letter to Wits Vice Chancellor Professor Adam Habib last week, hammering Wits for aligning itself with the City...
The annual Bobba-Zaida of the Year competition is back and in full force. This year the Union of Jewish Women Johannesburg is focused on sending a...
The Matza Man - “a superhero” as termed by Tracy Mindel from the Johannesburg Jewish Helping Hand and Burial Society (Chevrah Kadisha) - visited Torah Academy...
"The safety of our employees and customers is our highest priority and we are reviewing our options,” a spokesman for Woolworths told SA Jewish Report following...
SA Union of Jewish Students (SAUJS) National Chairman Natan Pollack issued a statement about the Johannesburg City's aligning with BDS and Wits' SRC to host a...
Pesach, the Jewish festival that celebrates our delivery from slavery in Egypt, is the theme of this week’s issue. Yet freedom is often only the start...
Gauteng Board Chairman Shaun Zagnoev, pictured, wrote an open letter to Johannesburg Executive Mayor Parks Tau about BDS’ “blatant Jew hatred”. Zagnoev reminds the mayor of...
Major Leonard Berney, one of the British liberators of the infamous Bergen Belsen “displaced persons camp” in northern Germany on April 15, 1945, last week in...
Geoff Rothschild, a former chairman of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), is ending an unbroken 40-year association with the JSE on March 31.
This Pesach it is the 11th year that the African Jewish Congress Zimbabwe Fund under the direction of its president, Rabbi Moshe Silberhaft, has provided the...
International attention regarding the post-Arab Spring turmoil has focused mainly on the deaths that have ensued - over 220 000 in Syria alone. Far less attention...
We Jews who have endured so much racial discrimination in the past, should be wary of the strident calls to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes...
Terry Crawford-Brown of the Palestinian Support Committee, in a Cape newspaper last week gave his take on the geopolitical situation in the Middle East - and...
