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The SPCA went to Torah Academy on Wednesday and, according to a TA email, put a stop to a millennia-old rite that thousands were to perform...
South Africa’s beloved and popular rabbi, speaker, educationist, raconteur, anti-apartheid activist and counsellor, Rabbi Norman (Nachman) Meir Bernhard (zt”l), passed away on Wednesday evening, October 1...
We just received the very sad news that Rabbi NM Bernhard has passed away. Not everyone knows or remembers the history of this man. I believe...
Some Israel supporters tend to downplay the impact of BDS as a small group who make a lot of noise, but with little major impact. This...
A great pillar of SA Jewry, Rabbi Norman Bernhard zt”l passed away on Wednesday. The funeral is at 15:30, Thursday at West Park Cemetery.
Bev’s Goldman’s (pictured) Top-10 this week offers a great selection of reads on Zionism from around the world. Bev heads up South Africa’s renowned “Media Team...
Bev Goldman selects the top Zionism reads from around the world for Jewish Report Online readers
“On Rosh Hashanah we planned and mapped out our future. On Yom Kippur we take practical steps to make sure that we get there,” explains Rabbi...
French soccer star Anelka performs the “QUENELLE” – an anti-Semitic gesture, last December (pictured). ISIS is another completely new term too. Others, like SODASTREAM, became widely...
Johannesburg Councillor Steven Kruger, together with Glenhazel resident, Julio Woznica, Denny Rademeyer, Justin Glickman and other involved residents, have been interacting with City Parks to try...
The international Shabbos Project will take place in over 200 cities around the world on the Shabbos of October 24/25 this year. The concept is simple:...
Many years ago, when downtown Johannesburg was still home to Jewish shopkeepers and office dwellers, in my capacity as director of Chabad House, I would always...
There are certain defining moments in sport, those that change the opinion of thousands of people and are remembered forever.
In the week preceding Rosh Hashanah, the senior leadership of the Board and representatives of the SAZF met with President Jacob Zuma and members of his...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
Johannesburg businessman Steven Blend is passionate about Israel; he also loves cycling. What better way to celebrate both passions than through the 15th annual Wheels of...
Rosh Hashanah at King David Linksfield Preprimary School, created a lot of excitement.
We at Sydenham Pre-Primary School are very excited about the launch of our new project, SKE, Spreading Kindness in Elul (and always).
President Jacob Zuma has reaffirmed that South Africa’s long-standing policy on the Israeli-Palestinian question remains unchanged, despite the increasingly hostile stance being adopted by his party...
Under the title ”Citizen Cohen”, the Jewish Board of Deputies’ Cape Conference on September 21, aimed to encourage discussion on the role of the Jewish community...
It was the late Auberon Waugh who, in the early 1980s, coined the verb “to pilger”. Tongue-in-cheek, he claimed that its origin was “lost in the...
Recently, Killarney residents Solly and Sylvia Jossel celebrated 70 years of marriage and Solly turned 100. “I believe Hashem joined our souls,” says Sylvia (89), as...
Jossi Bogacz (in his letter of September 19, titled “Religion makes people believe the unbelievable”), draws an illogical conclusion.
Joel Alswang, who passed away recently at the age of 94, was a man that not too many people could emulate. As a teacher, author and...
THE TOP-10: Scarlett Johansson (pictured), Gwyneth Paltrow and the power couple Beyonce and Jay-Z (seriously) were among those who made news on the Jewish entertainment scene...
“When Black and White Became Dangerously Grey” is the title of the 1st of a series of monthly “Town Hall" meets from Likud-SA. The speaker (&...
Security Update #2 - What is a “Level 4” threat? What does it mean to the community, to you & your family? Read a status report...
92-year-old recently retired statesman stars in vid trying for pump attendant & other jobs. Hilarious & gone totally viral
Eight great selected reads on Zionism from around the world from Bev Goldman – who heads up South Africa’s Media Team Israel. The topics are varied,...
“There is no plot to deliberately hide information,” Government spokesperson Sabine Hadad told Haaretz, which had last Sunday suggested there was, after the Israeli government backtracked...
The schizophrenic relationship between SA & Israel was again highlighted last week after President Zuma & a senior government delegation met the Board & Fed &...
Clearly not one to miss an opportunity, Jack Silberstein is selling Boerewors-flavoured sausages to (supposedly) SA expats in the US.
The Israeli military shot down a Syrian aircraft that had strayed into Israeli territory over the Golan Heights on Tuesday morning. The Israeli army intercepted the...
Moves come amid frenzy of fundraising in Israeli entrepreneurs (up 81% year-on-year) lured by a drumbeat of stock market listings and acquisitions among Israeli tech start-ups....
Top Zionist reads from around the globe for the week ending 24 September 2014
Cape Board chair Eric Marx (pic) delivered a comprehensive report to the “Citizen Cohen” conference last Sunday. SA Jewish Report Online publishes his speech of the...
Israel’s ministries of economy & finance on Monday approved $6 bil investment project & $300 mil grant for Intel to upgrade Kiryat Gat plant with world’s...
24 800 new immigrants arrived in Israel in the Jewish year 5774 - The final 140 of whom arrived today (Monday, September 22) from Russia and...
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin tells foreign diplomats ahead of Rosh Hashanah that wars used to take place between countries, but today a new form of warfare,...
We found this Yiddish word on a website among a batch of unusual and hard to pronounce foreign language words.
