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The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) vice-chancellor has committed to instituting a formal inquiry into staff and students’ support for and engagement with United States (US)-designated...
Yet another female politician who went on the recent fact-finding mission to Israel was viciously bullied and subjected to verbal abuse in Cape Town on 14...
The lives of South African students studying medicine in Israel will be made much easier because of a lifelong friendship and an 85th birthday gift from...
News of the passing of broadcasting legend Issie Kirsh on Sunday, 18 May, left us devastated. Kirsh played a major role in reshaping South Africa’s media...
It’s impossible to truly contextualise in words the enormity of what Issie Kirsh z”l was as a businessman, a visionary, a leader, and above all, a...
A controversial Durban businessman with alleged ties to terrorism is attempting to enter South Africa’s political arena by registering a new political party under the name...
“War isn’t healthy for children and other living things.” These simple words were first etched in 1965 by Jewish artist Lorraine Schneider in response to the...
Looking for a good book to read on his long-haul flight back to the United Kingdom, a South African expatriate was shocked to find a copy...
Attempts to convey a balanced picture of the unfolding events in Israel’s war with Iran and its proxies, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, seem doomed to...
Israel’s intensified military counterattacks since neutralising about 3 000 Hezbollah terrorists in September 2024 have rendered it the Middle East’s “strong horse”, but it has far...
My grandparents were refugees way before it was cool. They arrived, as many did, from Europe with little in the way of material items but much...
Despite Israel being in the middle of a war, the biggest barrier to South Africans competing in the Maccabi Games this July is the massive cost...
Last Saturday night, as I sat watching the Eurovision Song Contest unfold, I couldn’t help but feel a mix of pride and frustration. Israel’s representative, Yuval...
“I used to think I was the only Jew who did fly fishing, but surprisingly, a lot of Jews do it in South Africa,” says 35-year-old...
When Eden Golan performed her original song, October Rain, at the World Jewish Congress’s (WJC) 17th plenary conference in Jerusalem on Sunday night, 18 May 2025,...
A Doll’s House, Part 2 started on 14 May at Theatre on the Square. The SA Jewish Report caught up with director Barbara Rubin and lead...
Israeli left-wing leader Yair Golan doubles down after suggesting Israel ‘kills babies as a hobby’ JTA – Israeli left-wing leader Yair Golan is standing by his...
Bullying is unacceptable on every level. Ganging up on someone if you don’t agree with them, don’t like them, or don’t approve of what they did,...
Torah teachings seem to be replete with the notion of reward. The concept of reward (sachar) and punishment is one of the pillars of Judaism. We’re...
Last week, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies held two wonderful meetings with two remarkable men who both have important and captivating stories of courage...
JTA – Israel’s Yuval Raphael defied expectations to come in second in the annual Eurovision song contest on Saturday, 17 May, narrowly losing out to Austria...
JTA – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered aid to enter Gaza, days after United States President Donald Trump joined the ranks of...
JTA – Police in Belgium searched three private homes on Wednesday, 14 May, as part of an investigation into illegal ritual circumcisions, according to local news...
JTA – Joe Rogan defended Kanye West’s latest song, Heil Hitler, on his podcast on 12 May, and echoed the song’s antisemitic stereotypes. West, who now...
JTA – Author and podcaster Dan Senor told an enthusiastic crowd last Tuesday night, 13 May, at New York’s 92nd Street Y that despite a rising...
JTA – Robert Shwartzman, a Russian-Israeli driver, will take pole position at annual automobile race Indy 500 next Sunday, 25 May, the first rookie in more...
Two young South African Jewish leaders, Saul Jassinowsky and Ariel Goldberg, recently returned from Costa Rica, where they joined 30 peers from around the world for...
For the second consecutive year, Diamond Implements hosted a heartfelt minyan at its 2025 NAMPO stand, marking a poignant moment during South Africa’s largest annual agricultural...
Lorraine Marcus’s second solo exhibition of 2025, on display by appointment at the Rabbi Cyril Harris Community Centre (RCHCC) in Oaklands, Johannesburg, celebrates the discomfort of...
King David High School Linksfield student and Tanach whizz, Hailey Symons, flew the South African flag high at the recent Chidon HaTanach Ha’Olami International Bible Contest....
Mina Lopato Nursery School officially opened a sensory room on 16 May which aims to benefit not only neurodivergent children, but every child in the school....
King David Linksfield Grade 7s went on a journey of reflection about the Holocaust, starting on Friday, 9 May, with a Shoah (Holocaust) workshop at the...
King David Primary School Linksfield enjoyed a fun-filled Lag B’Omer on Friday, 16 May, with music, dancing, braaied potatoes, and a festive picnic outdoors. The Grade...
King David High School Victory Park (KDVP) is celebrating a double achievement in public speaking. The school came eighth out of 99 Johannesburg schools in the...
The Pretoria community braved the cold to enjoy Lag B’Omer around the bonfire at the Pretoria Hebrew Congregation on Thursday, 15 May, with a delicious braai,...
Member of Parliament and National Spokesperson for International Relations and Cooperation for the Democratic Alliance (DA), Emma Louise Powell, had to be escorted out of an...
The African National Congress (ANC) this week demanded an investigation into a recent fact-finding trip to Israel by a multiparty delegation of South African members of...
Within 24 hours of wannabe comedian Thomas Torr being found guilty of hate speech by the Western Cape High Court in Cape Town, he not only...
Hamas’s exploitation of the civilian population in Gaza as human shields has been uncovered in new research done by the Henry Jackson Society, a think tank...
Had the Democratic Alliance (DA) won its case to restore revoked South African citizenships more than a decade ago, South African-born Raphael Smith wouldn’t have gone...
