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A dinner, as a first step to mobilise people, churches and other organisations to not only pray for Israel, but to take a stand with that...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
Jewish history is replete with tragic ironies, where initiatives that at the time seemed a logical way of addressing the “Jewish problem”, have not only failed,...
Johannesburg remains the hub for this year’s Shabbos Project - which has now also acquired an international flavour - with Great Park Shul planning a massive...
Our babies come into this world with a cell phone in one hand and your wallet in the other, say Nikki Bush and Arthur Goldstuck in...
Surprise, surprise! There’s life after the biggest real-life soapie this country has ever seen. Everybody, from Pete the plumber to Barney the baker, overnight became legal...
PDF OF SPEECH ADDED - One of the best-received addresses at the solidarity rally in Johannesburg on August 5 in support of Israel, was that of...
Israeli hiker Michal Cherkasky is one of those still missing as rescue teams call off search for survivors & begin to hunt for bodies buried under...
Thanks to MDA-SA’s Mark Hyman, SA Jewish Report has a host of exclusive pictures of the seven injured Israelis returning home this morning.
A follower of the controversial Israeli Rabbi-on-the-run, Eliezer Berland, drowned while swimming in the icy lakes in a holiday park in Mol, Belgium last week.
Jewish Report was looking up just this question last week and found an amazing web resource…
Three Israelis confirmed dead, a fourth death suspected, seven injured and MDA reports today that some 50 are still missing after Thursday’s massive avalanche in Nepal....
JUST IN FROM ISRAEL. The three Israelis who died and the seven injured in last week’s massive avalanche in Nepal, arrived in Israel early this morning...
Dear Alon Liel, I too, would sign your letter urging British MP’s to recognise a Palestinian state if… Read what the eloquent expat-South African Maurice Ostroff...
Donors should insist on auditing the organisation; introduce UNHCR standards to UNRWA; cancel jihadist curriculum & dismiss employees affiliated with Hamas says David Bedein. UNRWA teaches...
As regular users are aware, this is not a frum website – but many of its users are. And, in deference to them, no news is...
Story on pending launch of SA affiliate of ZS last week led to a spate of enquiries to both SAJR & organisers who were unsure of...
UCT VC Max Price (pic) says university will not support PSF’s academic boycott, as demanded by the SRC. Price also criticised SAUJS' counter claims and addressed...
DA Student Organisation (DASO) at UCT, won the SRC election in a landslide victory last week, scooping 10 of the 17 seats. Says DA Youth Leader...
The Shabbos Project, now a wordwide event, takes place around the country on October 24 and 25. But activities begin on Wednesday October 22 in Cape...
They used to say that you know you have REALLY made it if you are depicted on a stamp. These days, a higher honour goes to...
The South African Union of Jewish Students (SAUJS) held elections on Sunday October 12 to select their new national executive for 2015. Natan Pollack, pictured, is...
“All Jews are pigs and I think we should kill you SA Jews & kill your kids,” posted Ziyaad Kayat (pic) on Board’s Facebook page in...
Week Ending: 8 October 2014
A Jews under attack by use of political anti-Semitism (a-S) as Alliance exploit wave of tensions. ANC WC head’s ‘nose-picking’ Jews; ‘Shoot the Jew’ at Wits;...
Looking at religion not as a spiritual practice but as a product, something that is bought. How much does it cost and how much is it...
How the FBI tried to bust up the Jewish mob on Yom Kippur back in 1929 - and blew it by smoking a cigarette.
300 Breslovers descend on holiday retreat for Yom Kippur with Rabbi Berland. The only problem was that the Jewish-owned campsite only has a capacity for 30,...
Over 500 people (on Monday night, October 6) attended a tribute at the Oxford Shul to Rabbi Nachman Bernhard, who died in Johannesburg the week before....
Just for the few days of Succot, the mysteries of lulavim and etrogim will replace our worries about ISIS and BDS
Woolworths is considering taking BDS to court because, says the retailing giant, the activists’ threats have put the safety of staff & customers at risk. Says...
“Fiddler on the Roof” celebrated the 50th anniversary of its Broadway debut last week. But, while it has introduced Jewish tradition to millions of people around...
The top-ten inspirational Jews in a year with no shortage of bad news. They include survivor Alice Herz-Sommer (pic), and includes Superman Sam, Facebook’s Zuckerberg, an...
Anti-Woolworths demonstrators led by BDS-SA came out in force over the month-end, forcing several stores around the country to close their doors while they sorted out...
Prof David Bilchitz (pictured) & Candy Ristic of Chicken Rescue & Rehab SA submit a letter saying there is a more humane way to celebrate
The Zionist Spring movement has officially launched in the US & Canada & now needs members in SA to comply with World Zionist Organisation rules &...
Shaw notes PM delivered “bold but dark speech” at UN last week, but was “more conciliatory with his remarks” at the White House. Read his assessment…...
Charles and Vivienne Abelsohn from Kfar Saba in Israel sent out this letter from Israel to friends and family in SA and, as one recipient points...
Rabbi Gavin Michal (pic) shares some anecdotes from when he himself was an “acne faced upstart” & Rabbi Bernhard “made the rabbinate exciting. His mind was...
Some 3 000 people – from all walks of life - and practically every rabbi in Gauteng attended the funeral of Rabbi Norman (Nachman) Meir Bernhard...
