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While there is a perception that the South African Jewish community is in a rapid population decline, new data from the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research shows the Cape Town Jewish community may be bucking...
There is a particular kind of loneliness that is hard to explain. It isn’t necessarily the loneliness of having no one in your phone. Many people who feel...
Joseph Homa could not have imagined that the United Hebrew Schools’ Boys’ Minyan that he established in 1926 would still be functioning a hundred years later as the Minyan Yosef of Herzlia High School. Mr Homa had taken...
When the world’s brightest young physicists gathered in Bucaramanga, Colombia, for the 56th International Physics Olympiad this week, two Jews stood proudly in green South African blazers. Gabriella Berger and Matt...
From sudden paralysis to an aggressive breast cancer, overcoming a life-threatening diagnosis is never a given. Yet for two women who confronted their mortality, the road to recovery was marked by resilience and a deepening faith that saw them through their...
Rock stars and rabbis don’t usually share the stage, but in her debut solo exhibition, Rockstar Rabbis, South African-born artist Natalia Rabinowitz brings the two worlds together. Her...
Gauteng Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for the Environment Ewan Botha visited the Jewish National Fund (JNF) Walter Sisulu Environmental Centre in Mamelodi on 2 July to seek...
Aviva Pelham, Capetonian opera doyenne, is performing the role of Madame Armfeldt in A Little Night Music at Theatre on the Bay. The SA Jewish Report spoke to her between performances. ...
I was sitting underground in Jerusalem, watching a film about the origins of this holy city, when my phone buzzed. Can you write the D’var Torah for...
There are moments when silence feels like complicity. This is one of them. We have watched, with growing anger and sadness, as a small but politically connected element of...
I have no recollection of where I was when I first heard the word “peptide”. Nor do I know where I’ll be when I finally understand exactly what one is. What...
Inclusivity is a principle that the SA Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD), as the representative voice of the Jewish community as a whole, has always scrupulously abided by. Its affiliate...
JTA – Two former Israeli hostages have wed, in the first marriage of hostages taken when Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October. Sasha Trufanov and Sapir Cohen were...
JTA – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected US Vice-President JD Vance’s recent claims that the United States is Israel’s “only powerful ally” left in the world. When...
JTA – Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli compared Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to Adolf Hitler and slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in a post...
JTA – A Jewish comedian who played one of cinema’s most notable Israeli characters took centre stage, literally, at Taylor Swift’s wedding at Madison Square Garden on Friday. Adam Sandler...
JTA – London’s Metropolitan Police launched an investigation on Monday into antisemitic abuse at a Pride parade. The police department said in a statement that officers were “aware...
JTA – For the survivors of Operation Entebbe, marking the 50th anniversary was less a celebration of one of Israel’s most mythologised military operations than a...
JTA – The City Without Jews is the title shared by a 1922 satirical novel by Hugo Bettauer and a coming history of Nazi Vienna by Douglas...
JTA – Hundreds of people affiliated with the white supremacist group Patriot Front marched in Washington, DC., on Saturday, in a 4 July show of force by the...
JTA – In the first episode of the second season of The Bear, Hulu’s acclaimed series, the character Richie describes damage at the titular restaurant as “the result of some...
JTA – Just days before the start of the Maccabiah Games, held every four years in Israel, Australia was officially out of the competition. It had cancelled...
JTA – Jewish groups are preparing for the arrival of Israeli far-right Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir in New York City next week. Several progressive Jewish organisations...
JTA – A New York woman was arrested and charged with attempting to provide financial support to Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a US-designated foreign terrorist group, the Justice...
With thanks to the generosity of Brian and Ros Jossel, Jewish food fund Yad Aharon & Michael celebrated the opening of its revamped soup kitchen in Johannesburg’s Rouxville. The space redefines what a community soup...
JTA – Adolf Hitler cropped up in the baby photos section of a New Jersey middle school yearbook, prompting condemnation from school officials and local Jewish...
Dr Trevor Hurwitz, now based in Vancouver, is among the distinguished recipients of this year’s Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest civilian honours. Born...
JTA – A California man who pleaded guilty to the 2023 death of Jewish protester Paul Kessler was sentenced on Tuesday to one year in county jail and...
Controversial Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng has concluded her six-year tenure as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health with praise from allies and blistering condemnation from...
Businesses, commuters, and security officials braced for a day of potential disruption as calls for nationwide protests circulated in the lead-up to 30 June. But as the day...
When the British Medical Association (BMA) voted to review and potentially reject the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, it deepened the fears that South...
“When I look up at the sky, I have to figure out if what I am seeing is a bird or a drone,” says Adrienne Chonowitz, who made...
Recent high-level diplomatic engagements with Iran and China have reignited debate over South Africa’s foreign policy, prompting sharp criticism from the United States and raising fresh questions about the government’s claim...
Nominations for the 2026 Investec Jewish Achiever Awards are officially open. Who will join the ranks of South Africa’s most remarkable Jewish leaders, innovators, philanthropists, entrepreneurs,...
Supporters of Israel have been dismayed by some of the recent actions and statements of the Trump administration with regard to a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iran....
Late in the evening on 24 June, as Venezuelan Jews gathered with family, returned from synagogue, or settled in at home, the ground beneath them began to shake. Within...
Venezuela’s Jewish community was known as one of the most vibrant and cohesive in all of Latin America. Numbering 25 000 at its peak in the 1990s, the community descends mostly from immigrants who...
As Israel marks 50 years since the Entebbe rescue, newly declassified government documents have shed fresh light on one of the most daring hostage rescue missions...
Longevity medicine has rapidly moved from the fringes of healthcare into mainstream medical discussion. Peptides, exosomes, amino acid therapies, and mitochondrial medicine are now dominating conversations in...
To the Spanish dancing world and fans across Spain, he was the beloved and acclaimed dancer Enrique Segovia. To family, friends, and the South African Jewish community, he was simply Geoffrey. Sir Geoffrey Neiman passed...
