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Rodger Hart sees vivid colour in nature, and finds myriad possibilities where mere mortals would lumber through jungles of doubt. This is possibly because he is...
This week, we bade farewell to one of our most valued colleagues. Shirley Beagle joined the staff of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD)...
As Jews, we are governed by the strict laws of lashon hara (evil tongue), but are also given clear instructions about when we are not only...
Blank spaces in a newspaper can speak as loudly as words. In 1985, South African anti-apartheid newspaper, the Weekly Mail, was bombarded one day by the...
Howard Feldman’s column “How long can you go without your cell phone?” (SA Jewish Report 17 May 2019) touched a nerve. I applaud him for taking...
The Jewish Board of Deputies did what it was elected to do by opposing Minister Lindiwe Sisulu’s decision to act on the African National Congress’s (ANC’s)...
(JTA) UK Labour probed The United Kingdom’s foremost government watchdog on racism has officially launched an investigation into Labour’s anti-Semitism problem.
The book of Leviticus, which we have just finished reading, reviews a sequence of ordinances and sacred rituals. Toward its end, we are presented with two...
Herzlia High School came third out of 27 schools in the Minquiz Competition at Stellenbosch University on 16 May. Minquiz is recognised as South Africa’s premier...
King David High School Victory Park’s (KDVP’s) 1st rugby team last week won the Pirates Rugby B League Championships, making history for the school. It is...
Lag B’Omer was celebrated Sydenham-style last week with a bonfire, fun-fire facts, and fire themed science experiments.
Yeshiva College Grade 11 pupil Matan Kaplan successfully reached the international finals of the Chidon HaTanach World Bible Quiz Competition. Held at the Jerusalem Theatre on...
Jacob Morris and friends enjoy a massive bonfire lit by Greenside Shul on Lag Ba’Omer – one of the most loved events on the shul’s calendar.
Supporting the poor and homeless is important throughout the year, but never more so than in winter.
The list of world-class Israeli footballers is not a long one. Eyal Berkovic? Probably not. Yossi Benayoun? Likewise. Ronny Rosenthal? Much loved, but hardly Johan Cruyff...
As unemployment soars, there is a desperate need for jobs and the Jewish community is at the forefront of trying to create employment, particularly for the...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) this week came out strongly in defence of its right to express critical views of the country’s political...
The German Parliament (Bundestag) ruled last Friday that the anti-Israel Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement (BDS) is anti-Semitic. It was the first country in the European Union...
The protracted hate-speech row against Bongani Masuku of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) is headed to the Constitutional Court on 27 August this...
“I am motivated to join other religious leaders who speak out against religious violence and lead their congregations to join them in doing so,” said Rabbi...
“Israel’s democratic character is under threat,” says Mickey Gitzin, the national director of the New Israel Fund, which raises money for groups that work to improve...
“Your father saved my father,” said Rabbi Yossy Goldman of Johannesburg as he embraced Nobuki Sugihara at a long-awaited gathering in America last week.
While the reaction to our story on the minister of international relations and cooperation, Lindiwe Sisulu, on last week’s front page might seem like the obvious...
Israel is recovering from Euromania. The theme “Dare to Dream” permeated last week’s festivities. As one of the show’s announcers remarked, “Israel is a country of...
The Unites States is set to impose sanctions on countries importing oil from Iran from 2 May, phased in over 60 days. South Africa does not...
Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein said a prayer on behalf of the Jewish community at the swearing in of South Africa’s president and newly elected members...
As unemployment soars, there is a desperate need for jobs and the Jewish community is at the forefront of trying to create employment, particularly for the...
There is something surprising about Benoni, it keeps on spewing out remarkable South Africans. First came Hollywood actress Charlize Theron, then came Morris Kahn, the Israeli...
The Tattooist of Auschwitz has sold millions of copies, been translated into 43 languages, and is soon to be turned into a miniseries. However, it was...
When Adam Thal, a Joburg-based filmmaker, was growing up, his parents gave him everything he needed. It was only at the age of 39 that he...
Jews around the world sang and danced by the light of crackling bonfires on Wednesday evening. From Great Park in Johannesburg to Gan Sacher in Jerusalem,...
“Flamenco is a flame of light that ignites the body, mind and soul.” There’s something tantalising about the way South African choreographer and dancer Rosana Maya...
The quintessential story that embodies the question “Why do bad things happen to good people?” is the biblical Book of Jobe. This story is brought to...
As Jews, some kind of conflict is our natural way of being, says Dr Amalia Rosenblum, a visiting Israeli author, columnist, filmmaker, and psychologist.
If you think back to the people who had a significant impact on your formative years, chances are that at least one of them will be...
Not for the first time, it became clear to me how much Hollywood creates expectations that will seldom be met. It was around 12:00 on Wednesday,...
Last week, after a lengthy process of testing and piloting, the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research at the University of Cape Town (UCT) launched...
There is so much hatred in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after 70 years, it is impossible to conceive of children not absorbing it. Whatever one’s view is...
In the SA Jewish Report’s front-page article (17 May 2019) headlined “Sisulu is SA Jewry’s threat in government”, it is suggested that Sisulu is engaged in...
Is Zev Krengel, the national vice-president of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD), naïve or living in Lotus Land? (“Sisulu is SA Jewry’s threat...
