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As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
"Rudolph, the Reindeer" by Johnny Marks; "White Christmas" by Irving Berlin & 20th Century’s #1 hit was Jewish too. Guess what that was?...
“Mir klib’n nachas!” would be an appropriate Yiddish expression of South African Jews’ pride at seeing 26-year-old Dean Furman captain the South African national soccer team...
An article in last week’s Jewish Report linked our shul and its rabbi to the BDS movement (BDS support: Two Progressive rabbis cause huge furore).
This year, on November 2, Sydenham Shul’s fifth annual Liberty Working Moms’ Breakfast, titled a “Working Mom’s Guide to Courage”, hosted a capacity crowd as hundreds...
This week's Torah portion, Toldot - "Generations" - chronicles the history of our Patriarch Isaac and the generations that he and his wife Rebecca created through...
Tributes from around the world have been pouring in for Mervyn Smith, a senior South African Jewish communal leader who went on to play an increasingly...
Torah Academy Primary School teacher Lee-Anne Lewis (back, second from left) does voluntary work at Impilo in Glenhazel, a home which cares for and protects orphaned...
Temple Israel in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, is the oldest Progressive synagogue in South Africa, having been established in 1936. The synagogue, which has operated continuously since then,...
Why is it that there is always a small group of people who believe that they’re the only ones who actually understand what is just and...
Exploiting the post-apartheid legacy of anti-white resentment is an overt ploy of BDS-South Africa in its drive to promote boycotts of Israel. Only part of this,...
Last week, SAJBD National Chairman Mary Kluk and National Director Wendy Kahn were among a select group of invitees who attended the African Union Foundation “Women...
The construction of the Rea Vaya bus route along Louis Botha Avenue in Johannesburg, is going to have a very positive effect on residential suburbs such...
Last week Friday, the Lubavitch Foundation together with Chabad House in Johannesburg, launched Mitzvah Kidz, an initiative to educate and inspire young children to feel passionate...
We were saddened to learn over the weekend of the passing of one of the true giants of our community, Mervyn Smith. I was one of...
South African-born and -educated thespian Yaël Farber is up against the international industry’s cream at this year’s London Evening Standard Theatre Awards, for her direction of...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
When last did we have a Jewish captain at the helm of the South African national soccer team? Before last weekend, never!
The #BoycottWoolworths tussle between the retail giant & BDS has a new front line in Cape Town. Shareholders are loving it - the share price has...
Beit Emanuel chairman, Diane Fine, tells congregation, posts on Shul website & on SAJR Online that article "attacked the Shu". The story emanated from a letter...
Who will ever forget the triumphant Shabbat, when Mervyn, together with the late Chief Rabbi Harris, welcomed President-elect Mandela to the Marais Road Shul in Cape...
“If there was a Jewish organisation, I belonged to it - with my heart and soul,” was an oft-quoted utterance of veteran and world-renowned communal leader...
In a move that came as a shock to his congregation, Rabbi Aaron Rose, pictured, told his congregations at Waverley Shul on Shabbos that he had...
It was just after 21:00 SA time last night when Ann Harris, vice-president of the African Jewish Congress, informed friends & colleagues of the passing of...
DIRCO employee, Rudi van Vuuren (pictured), is the latest in a long line of government staffers who have been caught tweeting hate-speech against Israel and Jews.
“Woolworths takes a further step to protect customers & employees” against BDS protests, saying that “While we respect the right to protest peacefully and lawfully, the...
Beware of swine flu – it seems to be a contagious disease!
A woeful tribute to SA expat Dalya Lemkus z'l, who was born in Emmarentia, Johannesburg, survived a stabbing attack in ’06 but not the one she...
Popular UOS exec director Darren Sevitz is leaving after 14 years’ service. This was “in order to maximise efficiencies & improve levels of service delivery to...
Jewish Report & Burning Bush Marketing have created 6 new scholarships & bursaries for the study of media & related studies at Boston City Campus in...
Dodge cars from 1914 to 1927 had this emblem on them. The Dodge Bros weren’t Jewish. Read the speculation
Reader Julie Duek couldn’t resist sharing this hilarious Jewish joke with us to share with her fellow readers.
Roro has a gogo at the Cosas students and their pigs' head fiasco
Bev outdoes herself this week with the best of the world's Zionism writes for the week
"I thank Minister Shalom for noting a very important date in the history of Israel” – Bibi to Cabinet Sunday
Should a synagogue be for Jewish worship alone? Or also for politics? Can one separate them?
A good life. It is something we all want and intrinsically desire. As parents we do everything and anything to ensure that our children lead a...
The palookas have a good cry - boo-bloody-hoo
SAUPJ Gauteng regional Chairman Reeva Forman says she is “deeply concerned about this divisive issue that threatens not only Gauteng Progressive Jewry, but the wider Jewish...
The call of the South African Jewish Voices for a Just Peace is for Israel to end the occupation and enter into genuine negotiation for a...
