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On September 5 the SAZF requested the community to send a letter of support to Woolworths and Dis-Chem.
The ANC has denied a visa to the Dalai Lama, a man of peace. Yet, in recent memory the ANC welcomed with a guard of honour...
It is with pride and pleasure that I have become acquainted with a caring young lady, the principal of the Rimon Nursery School in Lyndhurst. (Rimon...
That there are Jews who ascribe to the views embraced with approval by Choni Davidowitz in his letter published in last week’s issue of the SA...
A special thanks, Kol Hakavod to the Bible-believing Christians of South Africa on their full page advertisement in a Sunday paper of August 31.
The Jewish National Fund (JNF), represented by 42 national offices, heeded the call by the Israeli government to provide additional bomb shelters to the people in...
Racism in sport has become a massive issue and recently there have been four events involving Jews - in two cases on the receiving end and...
You don’t frequently come across a theatrical work so developed and elegant in its entirety that it makes you remember why you go to theatre, and...
Theodore Yach from South Africa and Avishug Turek, one of Israel’s top open water swimmers, on September 4 became two of only a handful of swimmers...
SAUJS, Jewish & Christian Zionist students & staff at Rhodes express concern over deteriorating situation at Rhodes where anti-Israeli resolution was rejected by the Senate last...
Nine of the best Zionist reads in the world of the week in Bev Goldman’s Opinion & Analysis piece. Every week Bev, SA’s top Zionist communicator...
Nine of the best Zionist reads in the world of the week in Bev Goldman’s Opinion & Analysis piece. Every week Bev, SA’s top Zionist communicator...
User sends in clever e-mail doing the rounds which is clever, true, and highlights one of the unique Mid-East’s dichotomies.
“When we express our opinions on social media, they are more genuine than in print.”
Hundreds of Shuvu Banim followers of Rabbi Berland have arrived and thousands are expected in Johannesburg to spend the High Holidays with, or near, their leader...
“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...
Hundreds of Shuvu Banim followers of Rabbi Berland have arrived and thousands are expected in Johannesburg to spend the High Holidays with, or near, their leader...
Victor Gordon responds to Prof Steven Friedman’s response to Victor’s original letter last week, and Friedman again replies. This looks like it may go on for...
Speaking in the Dutch Parliament last Friday, fiery right-winger Geert Wilders accused successive European the “ostrich cabinets” of lying to their electorates about the threats of...
SAJR users & contributors have been writing on ISIS for weeks – fearing their encroachment towards the Israeli border. Who are they, what do they do...
Rhodes is again being accused of being anti-Jewish & refuses to respond to its accusers. Jewish students feel threatened. Jewish faculty-members talk of a “toxic” environment...
How does Israel control its armed forces’ behaviour when fighting terrorists within a few kilometres from its towns and cities, to ensure proper legal principles -...
Nine of the best Zionist reads from around the world this week - researched and selected by Bev Goldman. Print them out for a Shabbos read...
9 of the week's best Zionist reads from Bev
A presenter at Limmud last weekend, Gidi Grinstein - president of Israel’s respected leadership think-tank, the Reut Institute - called Jews the “ever-dying people”. Jews possessed,...
Girls in jeans and men in kippot; women rabbis and big frum families: the multicultural mix that characterised this year’s Limmud, demonstrated unequivocally that the project...
The Lubavitcher Rebbe was a marketing genius, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, the author of Rebbe, the Life and Teaching of Menachem M Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi...
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A different take from Rabbi Shmuel Bloch who, with his family, lived through the entire seven weeks of Operation “Protective Edge”
A project that was initiated by Telfed – the association of expat South African Israelis - and Mega stores during Operation Protective Edge saw 1,000 soldiers...
I would like to address Prof Steven Friedman in an open letter.
The ordination of SA's new Progressive rabbi was held on an auspicious day. The 160th anniversary of the Jewish Theological Seminary Breslau, the 140th yahrzeit of...
Rabbi Gavin Michal of Baal Shem Tov Shul in Orange Grove is the sole SA Rabbi who follows the Breslov teachings of Rebbe Nachman. “I recently...
For a change of pace I’m running a three-part series over the next three weeks to share with you some interesting paradoxes we work with at...
The Union of Jewish Women’s Mandela Day Project, “No Child Should Go To School Barefoot”, saw the community open up its collective heart, and 1 500...
Parents, grandparents, staff and friends of Torah Academy, flocked to the primary school last week Friday to attend the annual Grade 1 Siddur Concert, with songs...
Inspired by both their attendance at this year’s Grahamstown Festival and performance experiences, King David Victory Park arts and culture learners returned to their Johannesburg home...
There’s a certain kind of magic that comes of nostalgia onstage; it needs to be caught in the bud before it sinks into maudlin silliness or...
The most valuable gift is to have time, full, long years.Time and timing is important. First, two anecdotes.
Supporters of the BDS movement and those of Israel, are quite entitled to their different views and beliefs, since this is a free, democratic country. However,...
