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Students at the University of Cape Town (UCT) are concealing their Jewish identity and reporting experiences of exclusion and hostility on campus. That was one of the stark realities Professor...
We’ve seen this moment before in Israeli politics. Two former prime ministers, Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, are once again trying to redraw the map, this time...
Anarchy is a form of oppression. It curtails the freedoms of law-abiding citizens who must barricade themselves behind burglar bars and expensive security systems while criminals wield their illicit power. Like all forms of oppression, anarchy will also find resistance, which often erupts in the form of xenophobia, as we are...
Israeli Ambassador Ilan Fluss is in South Africa for two weeks to send a clear message that the Israeli embassy in Pretoria is very much open for business...
A diagnosis changed everything for Greg and Martine Nafte. It also set them on a path that could determine far more than their own son’s future. Levi has an exceptionally rare...
For as long as he could remember, South African expat Eric Lieberman knew the story of how his grandfather Izzy had come to South Africa, fleeing Vilna with his father in 1889. And how the father somehow vanished, leaving the...
Founder and chief executive of Discovery Adrian Gore has authored a book called The Four Principles – Multiply Your Impact in Life and Leadership, which is to...
Albie Sachs, Fathers, Sons and Soft Vengeance is on at Theatre on the Square in Sandton from 7 May. The SA Jewish Report speaks to its playwright, Gail Louw, and Graham Hopkins, who plays the role...
“Desserts are an afterthought for people in South Africa. Overseas, they’re not. They’re front and centre.” For chef Jared Melamed, that contrast is everything. The King David High School Linksfield alumnus noticed the difference after years spent abroad. Now, armed with...
Have you heard the one about the waiter at the kosher restaurant, going around to the tables asking patrons, “Is anything okay here?” It plays into...
This week brought confirmation of something our community has long been anticipating: 4 November will be election day. Following the watershed national elections of last year, these municipal elections...
“They came to kill us because we are Jews. Knowing this, it makes it really hard to feel safe as a Jew in Australia.” These are the words...
I used to be a hypochondriac. Until I discovered that I, in fact, suffer from something far more current, and far more insidious. It’s called cyber-chondria. And, as far as I...
JTA – British police have allocated £25 million (R566 million) in new funding to keep Jewish communities safe. The announcement came a day after a stabbing in the Orthodox neighbourhood...
JTA – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said people who use the phrase “globalise the intifada” should be prosecuted, describing the popular pro-Palestinian chant as a...
JTA – A candidate in the United Kingdom’s Green Party is under fire after posting under the social media handle “thereal.anne.frank” that “every single Zionist” should...
JTA – Counterterrorism officials in Buenos Aires are investigating after a Jewish library and a Chabad centre in a suburb in the Argentinian capital were attacked...
Last week, 32 pupils from King David and Herzlia high schools took part in the first South African scholar tour to Poland since 2019. It was a deeply moving journey into...
JTA – In the early days of the United States-Israel war on Iran, 68% of “connected” American Jews ‒ those with ties to American Jewish institutions ‒ supported the war,...
JTA – In the crowded canon of books about how to change the world, few loom as large as Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. Published in 1971,...
JTA – As Rae Ann Kaylie sat on her mother’s couch in the wake of her death, the Judaica felt overwhelming. More than 50 menorahs adorned the...
JTA – Dory Manor and Moshe Sakal, who run a press for Hebrew literature in Berlin, are often asked if their business is Israeli. The partners...
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