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The directors, management and staff of the South African Jewish Report and SAJR Online wish all our readers and users a Chag Pesach Sameach.
Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein has called on the SA Jewish community not to shelter or support Rabbi Eliezer Berland, who fled Israel after accusations of...
The SAZF has spent 65 years upping the ante on their celebrations for Yom Ha’atzmaut & Yom Hazikaron. And this year is no different. They have...
The Beth Din has analysed an extensive range of the most common medications and made recommendations on their use over Pesach
PESACH GUIDE 2014/5774 PESACH ALERTS 2014/5774 PESACH MEDICATIONS 2014/5774How to sell Chametz through the UOS Jews may not own Chametz during Pesach. The Halachah makes provision...
Bev picks the top Zionist writings each week for SAJR users. Print your choice of these Op-Ed pieces from around the world - they make the...
The full 2014/5774 UOS Pesach Guide is available on SAJR ONLINE. This detailed 51-page guide contains almost all the information that a Jewish home needs to...
Hitler may have ‘unwittingly married a Jew’: Documentary says Eva Braun’s DNA had traces of Jewish ancestry
Suzanne Belling’s gripping new book, “Blood Money: The Cyril Karabus Story” will be released in paperback (R195) and various e-book and mobi versions next week. Publishers...
Suzanne Belling’s gripping new book, Blood Money: The Cyril Karabus Story will be released in paperback (R195) and e-book versions next week.
"The Gemara describes a foetus in the womb for the purpose of teaching us important ideas about life," says Rabbi Goldstein.
The UOS has issued their first Pesach Notice. As further kashrut notices and alerts are issued, they will be posted on SAJR Online for the convenience...
We have just started the month of Nissan, a very special time of year. It is the month of Pesach, obviously, but the month of Nissan...
Israel’s Ambassador to SA, Lesotho, Mauritius & Swaziland, Arthur Lenk, published an op-ed this week that is essential reading for all South Africans
2 of the most prolific Facebook chirpers in SA Jewry, Sackstein & Sevitz, go head-to-head in hilarious exchange
Most ghost stories are urban legends, Arthur Goldstuck remarked when he addressed the weekly meeting of the United Zionist Luncheon Club last week. Goldstuck, maybe better...
Johnny Copelyn was head of the politically active SACTWU during apartheid. He was elected to Parliament for the ANC in the post-apartheid elections
Mac Maharaj belonged to the ANC’s armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe, was sent to Robben Island in 1964 after being convicted of sabotage, and was imprisoned...
Pesach is such an interesting Yomtov. While the basic observances are pretty much universal, everybody seems to have their own unique way of celebrating.
Annette Bert’s roots are deeply intertwined with those of the great Ze’ev Jabotinsky. Her late mother used to attend his clandestine meetings in the forest in...
Terms of agreement give government 'industrial peace' for years, improve pay and conditions substantially for diplomatic corps; 1,200 employees return to work. Pretoria embassy thanks public...
It was travel writer Paul Theroux who wrote: “You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the...
$26-bil (R276-bil at today’s exchange rate) – the value of the US Jewish charity industry according to a survey by the Jewish Daily Forward. Who gives?...
Ariella Mann & Kim Kassel were 2 of the Sandton Sinai kids in fancy dress for a delightful Purim party
Bev picks the top Zionist writings each week for SAJR users. Print your choice of these Op-Ed pieces from around the world - they make the...
Last week’s news Chai got 11 prestigious MTN nominations. Now they’ve added ‘Station of the Year’!
On Monday 31 March Jewish Report spoke to a reliable source at Israel’s Embassy in SA who asked not to be named, and asked where things...
A Media Centre for the study of Chinese was opened last month at the presigious College of Management—Academic Studies in Rishon LeZion in Israelt hanks largely...
To pretend that this discussion is about occupation or a lasting peace in the Middle East is a fallacy.
Thirteen prominent Cape legal eagles have formally constituted SA Lawyers for Israel - facilitated by Ben Levitas & David Abel, who are driving the project.
A seemingly-impromptu event featured Rabbi, choir & 3 violinists performing Vehi She’amda in store
Israel is finally ready to combat shoulder-launched missiles and they’re going to do it with lasers. Israel’s Ministry of Defence announced last week that Elbit Systems...
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela admitted exclusively to the Jewish Report last night that she holds evidence that Israeli intelligence agency Mossad had designed the almost R250-mil...
The kashrut department of the Beth Din is piloting a new model in which a portion of manufactured goods in a store, as against the store...
Talking dialogue and staying away from not hate-speech will ‘give peace wings’ writes ARIELA CARNO, national chair of SAUJS. “Every year the so-called ‘Israel Apartheid Week’...
The SA Zionist Fed will be celebrating Israel’s 66th anniversary in style, once again, writes BEV GOLDMAN – with the traditional kids’ day at Gold Reef...
The new concrete palisade fence erected around the Benoni Jewish Cemetery, thanks to the generosity of donors.
March 21 1960 is fixed in the DNA of South Africans. It was the day that 69 people were shot dead by police at a protest...
An exhilarating, informative, and nostalgic day enthralled a full busload of participants on a tour of “Remembering the Jewish Contribution to the Struggle” recently.
Jaffa Old Age Home in Pretoria has joined hands with Sunnyside Primary School, a school in a disadvantaged area in the city
