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HEBREW IS AN EXTRAORDINARY LANGUAGE: In another of his fascinating DELVING DEEPER thoughts, Rabbi Shmuel Bloch gives us a different take on religious and secular events...
Demonstrations against Israel are so commonplace now as to generate little interest, even within the Jewish community. The protest gathering that took place last Sunday outside...
It was lovely to once again welcome King David Linksfield Pre-Primary School’s outreach schoo,l Phutadijaba.
We at Sydenham Pre-Primary School are all very busy preparing ourselves during the month of Elul for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The children listen to...
The children at Minnie Bersohn Nursery School in Johannesburg celebrated Spring Day by donating teddy bears to the Teddy Bear Clinic. The Teddy Bear Clinic helps...
Howard Feldman, pictured left, is the non-executive chairman of the SA Jewish Report and Zev Krengel, right, president of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies...
POSTED 13:57 from Sunday's Cape SAJBD - CLICK FOR LIVE POSTS from Sunday's annual conference of the Cape Council of the SA Jewish Board of Deputies....
Pres. Jacob Zuma, 3 Ministers & DG in Presidency met delegation of Jewish leaders from Board & Fed Thurs evening on sharp rise in anti-Semitic activity...
Whoever you are, wherever you are, you can attend Sunday's Cape “Citizen Cohen” Conference Live - in person or on this site. Follow proceedings from anywhere...
After a long time in the planning and formative stages, the first-ever all Jewish Scout Group in Gauteng was formally launched last Sunday, with the investiture...
Comparing Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu to a Nazi was just plain stupid and disgusting; not every anti-Zionist is an anti-Semite, though most probably are.
Moshe Wolberg, a grade 10 learner at Hirsch Lyons Boys High School, won the 2014 Israel Quiz - and a trip to Israel - in an...
Ten - or even five - years ago, it wasn’t an odd thing to hear of an elderly person referring to her overseas grandchildren - or...
“If I am only for myself, who will be for me?” Chevrah Kadisha-endentured social worker Darrin Wolberg, quoted the words of Hillel in a recent talk...
A movie that came out in 1980, in South Africa called Flying High, but Airplane everywhere else, has a scene in which a nervous passenger asks...
Jewish Report will live blog from Sunday's Cape “Citizen Cohen” conference. Can’t attend? Follow proceedings from anywhere on the planet...
After former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination in November 1995, Talia Sasson, a lawyer in Israel’s state attorney’s office, headed up a government team to...
*Yossi from the Shuvu **Bonim Yeshiva of Rabbi Eliezer Berland had a 12-minute long talk with the rabbi’s Israeli lawyer, Sharon Nahari in English after the...
The top read on SAJR this week has been the blog: “How will we be judged?” by Howard Feldman in the wake of the (likely) end...
The Doyen of Zionist communication in SA, Bev Goldman, has eleven great reads from a variety of sources and authors worldwide over the past week. Every...
Eleven great reads from the doyen of SA Zionist communications
It was a decision that changed everything, yet had to be made on the spur of the moment and its consequences are still felt being almost...
The clock's counting down to Sunday's annual conference of the Cape Council of the SAJBD. As always, the Cape guys have outdone themselves and both the...
In a new blog posted today, David Hersch, pictured, writes”I have often wondered about our people walking or being herded to their deaths. Read more..
I am proud to be a Jew and stand up and fight for my people and our beloved land of Israel.
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What would the state of the Palestinians be if the aim of a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria and Gaza were to become reality? Less...
“We have received information which… relates specifically to South Africa,” reads a notice joint statement to be issued this morning regarding a heightened security level for...
The world of Torah should be open to women, is the philosophy of Rebbetzen Dr Yael Ziegler, described by Rabbi Ramon Widmonte, dean of The Academy...
A red carpet evening at the Durban Jewish Centre last week, saw the Jewish community congregating for a single cause: to raise awareness of the financial...
Last week, in the second of our 3-part series on paradox, we discussed: Cutting our coats according to our cloth. This time…
ORT SA’s Classic Golf Day is turning 41 this year and is still going strong. Places are still open and the prize-pool is great. Sign up...
Pictured: Zev Krengel and Charisse Ziefert. Despite a strong focus on the upsurge of anti-Semitism as a result of the Gaza conflict and the presence of...
At the time of writing, I am participating in the Governing Board meeting of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Berlin. The intention of hosting the...
Professor Steven Friedman (Professor of Distortions?) claims Hamas is a “rational actor which believes its interests are served by a compromise”.
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
This past week Pretoria's Yeshiva Mahon L'Hora'a celebrated its 13th Tekes (smicha ordination ceremony) where the current group of bochurim received smicha from Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi...
In one section of his letter (replying to Victor Gordon), Professor Steven Friedman states that “a severe obstacle to a peace settlement [is] the view that......
The Kotzker Rebbe warned about the danger of unwittingly creating a culture of dependence within the mindset of the recipient of kindness....Above all else he valued...
