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Alliance resolves to step up boycott, calls on transport workers to refuse to handle Israeli goods to SA or SA goods going to Israel. BDS gloats,...
"I'm done with Israel – It is the State of Hamas not of the Jews" said Shuvu Bonim leader R. Berland after being released on Friday....
The Breslovers have left our community and I, for one, am left wondering as to what just happened
Pushing the boundaries from within
STOP PRESS: Full story to be posted Monday – here is the abridged version, from the horse’s mouth so to speak. Rabbi Eliezer Berland was released...
Shuvu *Bonim Breslov leader Rabbi Eliezer Berland appears to have been freed by the Dutch authorities after an 8 hr-long court ordeal that ended in his...
The ANC Youth League (ANCYL) in Gauteng announced this morning that they will “embark on a protest action against the South African Jewish Board of Deputies...
Gauteng Premier, David Makhura, and Dr Zweli Mkhize, ANC Treasurer General, will be among those participating in the SA Jewish Board of Deputies Gauteng Council, to...
The opening video for the 16th Absa Jewish Achiever Awards, which was roundly complimented for being the best ever, really was a crowd stopper. The short...
As the SAJR, we have the responsibility to present all views in line with our broad editorial policy, but these views need to be expressed with...
The SAJR would like to apologise for the publication of an opinion piece that compares Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu to Hitler. The paper apologises to the...
“Comparisons made between Israel’s actions and the crimes of the Nazis during the Gaza conflict was one of the most objectionable recurring themes in the flood...
Rabbi Eliezer Berland is in the hands of the Dutch authorities – who are being supported by the Israeli authorities – at Schipol Airport in Holland...
Writing in the afternoon edition of The Star on Wednesday, Botho Molosankwe’s front page lead story “Sex pest rabbi eludes SA police again” came out several...
The ‘67 blankets for Nelson Mandela Day’ won a Campaign of the Year award and all Jewish Report knitters get to celebrate with them for free,...
SAUJS execs, Natan Pollack (national treasurer, pictured) and Cayla Urdang (vice chairman) went to the small town of Luhačovice in the Czech Republic last month for...
Last Shabbos the SA Friends of Israel (SAFI) together with Christian Zionist group DAISI and SAUJS took thirty DAISI members to Sydenham Shul’s Shabbos service and...
Over 140 young Muslims and Jews from some 30 countries, gathered in Vienna, last month to engage on a platform of interfaith dialogue unlike any other.
BOOK BUY APPEAL – The Fed’s reference library urgently looking for funds to buy important current books.
14-year-old was on death’s door when Rambam surgeon transplanted sister’s kidney. A similar operation in Egypt some years back using his brother’s kidney failed dismally.
In another of his fascinating DELVING DEEPER thoughts, Rabbi Shmuel Bloch gives us a different take on religious and secular events around us. “Take a glance...
In a hard-hitting Op-Ed piece for SAJR Online today, Likud-SA chairman Leon Reich accuses “The latest self-appointed midget of history” Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu of ignoring...
Rhodes University’s Senate last Friday rejected a resolution to cut any ties with academics who hold Israeli citizenship, or official representatives from Israel, unless they "make...
Reporting in mainstream Israeli newspaper ARUTZ SHEVA on Tuesday, Chaim Lev wrote that the fugitive “head of Shuvu Banim (Breslov) sect Rabbi Eliezer Berland, wanted for...
ROTHERHAM – “Men of Pakistani heritage treated white girls like toilet paper. They picked children up from schools and care homes and trafficked them across northern...
For the average Jewish South African, it’s hard visualising the cruelties he is told are being committed around the world these days by people saying they...
Radio station 101.9 ChaiFM’s annual Radiothon winner for 2014 is The DL Link, which provides a nurturing safe space where patients faced with cancer and their...
First prize in the ORT JET Eureka “Launch Your Business” Competition this year went to Gladi8, owned by Ryan Canin, Richard Cohen, Etai Miller and Gian...
The fallout in Israel, or conflict between Israel and Hamas perpetuated by the 500 anti-Israel Jewish signatories in a Sunday newspaper advertisement and the saga of...
Benjamin Valkin (14) a pupil of King David Victory Park High School, is the winner of the National Eisteddfod Academy (NEA) Young Performers Awards, Classical Music,...
In an annual school tradition, Mendy Ash, a grade 7 learner at Torah Academy Boys’ High School, blows the shofar every day during the month of...
It was lovely to once again welcome our outreach school Phutadijaba, to our campus. How important it is for our children to connect with each other...
A highly successful specialised cricket clinic with the Protea under-19 cricket coaches, recently took place at King David Victory Park.The clinic hosted 42 boys made up...
Torah Academy Girls’ High School recently presented a play “The Perfect Pitch”, a production fun-filled with music, dance and laughter, involving the entire school, except for...
I was privileged to have been one of two South Africans selected to attend The United Space School in July this year. This is an educational...
Last week, in the first of our three-part series on paradox, we discussed “Life in a Fishbowl”. This time…
Overheard at a barmitzvah: “A Jewish boy becomes an adult when he realises he has more chance of owning the team than playing on it.”
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
This coming Sunday evening, the SAJBD Gauteng Council will be holding its biennial conference. As related in my previous column, one of the main focuses will...