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As I sit here late on Tuesday night to write my editorial, I keep receiving news flashes about more and more missile attacks on central Israel....
This Sunday, there is one South African-born mother who won’t be celebrating Mother’s Day. Tanya Hevroni, who is the mother of three little girls, is mourning...
In this country, we have a Constitution that most experts around the world believe to be one of the finest. Apparently, every genuine right that a...
It’s one week before Lag B’Omer, and it seems to me that all we are hearing about right now is fire. Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital...
The South African BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) Coalition, much like the former BDS-SA, which is now Africa4Palestine, claims that it is made up of human-rights activists...
If ever you question the importance of commemorating Yom Hashoah, which we do this week, keep in mind that we’re not talking about statistics, but the...
As I prepared for our tiny seders last Pesach and we were just settling into this strange experience called lockdown, I told my sons it wouldn’t...
Tony Leon has never been one to mince words. Ever since he became involved in politics in the Progressive Federal Party, the former leader of the...
This week is Israel Apartheid Week (IAW), which usually means a week of trouble on university campuses around the country and in many other countries. The...
When our judiciary orders a person to apologise for something they said, which was 100% their opinion and uttered in a personal capacity, what kind of...
The 2020 matric group will go down in history as being the most versatile and resilient year ever. True, these young people had no choice, it...
The excitement is palpable. As more and more doctors and healthcare workers are vaccinated, there is a sense that we are slowly on our way out...
War brings out the best and worst in humanity. And we are certainly living through a world war against a virus. The battlefield is different, the...
At the beginning of the week, the news broke that the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine that we had been waiting for, and which arrived last week, wasn’t going...
Our newspaper last week was described by some as “depressing”, and they had good reason to do so. While we paid tribute to our paramedic heroes,...
We are certainly living in stressful times. It impacts on how we react to situations. So, when we would ordinarily – whatever that means now –...
If you had asked me in September last year whether I would willingly have the vaccine against COVID-19, I would have told you I wasn’t sure....
COVID-19 has done so much damage to our world, and not just to the numbers of people who have contracted or died from it. Nothing can...
In the past few weeks, so many of us let our guard down in terms of COVID-19, myself included. I was a bit more relaxed about...
When legal stalwart Professor Michael Katz begins a sentence with the words “with respect”, those who know him understand that respect is the last thing on...
This was evident in the vast number of people who tuned in to watch the Absa Jewish Achiever Awards (JAA) on Sunday night. A little bit...
As we enter the most significant weekend of the SA Jewish Report’s calendar, that of the Absa Jewish Achiever Awards, there is a great deal of...
Making light of a tough situation is mostly acceptable and, I guess, understandable. Sometimes we need to find the humorous side to uncomfortable or unpleasant situations,...
“The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.” This is one...
Our focus this week has been on the nail-biting United States election and terrorism in Europe – two events totally out of our environment and control...
Can you imagine what this community would be like if we were all tolerant of each other and, instead of thinking the worst, had positive thoughts?...
It’s so ironic that we have had a mini resurgence in the community of COVID-19, and it’s due to private parties that became super spreaders. When...
The Beth Din’s kosher desk is at the heart of a community storm this week, which has taken us all by surprise. I certainly haven’t seen...
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur have come and gone, and we are now winging our way to the December holidays. We are literally in the last...
The last time retired Constitutional Court Judge Albie Sachs saw his dear friend, United States (US) Supreme Court Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg was when he delivered...
As we head toward Yom Kippur – effectively our annual judgement day – how many of us contemplate what this means for us? This weekend, G-d...
As we step into 5781 in the Hebrew calendar, we witness what appears to be genuine change in the Middle East and an about-turn in attitudes...
This is the time of year when we spend a great deal of time thinking about forgiveness. Asking for or giving forgiveness is only as easy...
As the blossoms emerge at the beginning of September and we move into Spring, we’re all feeling a little better about the world. I know the...
“I can’t believe I’m still protesting about this,” reads one of the thousands of different posters carried by women protesters in Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, this...
This week, there’s undoubtedly a slight lifting of spirits in the country. Following President Cyril Ramaphosa’s move to level-two lockdown, we are all feeling a move...
Our community has felt the impact of COVID-19 hugely, what with 106 people having lost their lives to the coronavirus, and so many more becoming very...
Years ago, I was talking to a female editor of an important mainstream newspaper, someone I held in high esteem, a mentor of sorts. She was...
As South Africans, we are pretty famous for saying sorry. We say sorry if we want to get past someone, if we want to ask the...
