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After several weeks of uncertainty, it has been confirmed that this year’s municipal elections will be going ahead on the slightly later date of 1 November....
The Jewish festival season commences this coming Monday evening with the ushering in of the New Year. Rosh Hashanah – unlike its secular counterpart, which tends...
On 2 September at 20:00, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD), in partnership with the SA Jewish Report, will be holding a webinar to...
PowerFM broadcast a programme on 12 May in which several callers propagated various antisemitic conspiracy theories without being challenged by the host. The comments made were...
Whatever a post-COVID-19 world will look like, the changes the pandemic has imposed on how society operates are likely to become a permanent part of how...
As Gauteng Council Chairperson Professor Karen Milner put it, it’s not every day that one gets to fight an out-and-out Nazi and beat him. Last week,...
There was a welcome return to shul and school this week, as well as the reopening of restaurants and other facilities. While infection rates remain high,...
In the early days of his presidency, when the United States was all but crippled by the effects of the Great Depression and a pall of...
The chairperson and executive of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) would like to clarify the organisation’s response to the SA Jewish Report’s interview...
Along with continued high levels of COVID-19 infection resulting in an extension of lockdown conditions, South Africans have been confronted over the past week with a...
Although apartheid was designed to entrench white power and privilege in the country, a substantial minority of those who fought the system were themselves white and...
When the so-called Equality Act (the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act, or Pepuda) was passed back in 2000, it was a game-changer...
Gauteng has emerged as the epicentre of the much dreaded third wave of COVID-19 infection in South Africa, and the Western Cape has also been hard...
With the third wave of COVID-19 infections well and truly upon us, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) last week convened a national COVID-19...
One of the aspects of the recent Israel-Hamas conflict that should concern anyone committed to fundamental democratic values in South Africa was the disturbing extent to...
As expected, the Gaza conflict resulted in a sharp upsurge in antisemitic attacks the world over. The focus of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies...
Together with the rest of the Jewish world, we welcomed with relief the cessation last Friday, 21 May, of the latest deadly round of hostilities between...
As we count down the final days to Shavuot, we are also keeping an anxious eye on events in the Middle East, where after a long...
This week, we officially welcomed on board our new South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) Cape Executive Director Daniel Bloch. Bloch comes from a background...
On Freedom Day, Wendy Kahn, the national director of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD), at the invitation of the MEC for sports, arts,...
Last week brought with it the disturbing news that armed robbers in Johannesburg had invaded a shul after a service and tied up and robbed those...
When the country went into lockdown in March last year, it was obvious that the traditional, countrywide Yom Hashoah ceremonies couldn’t be held, and that the...
This Friday at 12:00, our community comes together to observe Yom Hashoah, which once again will take the form of a single, united ceremony for the...
At the beginning of each year, Jewish university students are confronted with the challenge of responding to Israel Apartheid Week (IAW), a malicious and mendacious anti-Israel...
One of the more unfortunate consequences of the online communication revolution is that it has given bigots, cranks, and conspiracy theorists of every stripe easily accessible...
One of the few rays of light in a very bleak year was how in 2020, no fewer than four countries – the United Arab Emirates...
Having just celebrated Purim (duly adapting its laws and customs to COVID-19 conditions), we are now looking ahead to Pesach less than a month away. From...
Tribute to Veronica Phillips, o”h When Holocaust survivor Veronica Phillips, who sadly passed away earlier this week, was the guest speaker at the Johannesburg Yom Hashoah...
Last year’s COVID-19 lockdown rendered impossible the traditional Yom Hashoah commemorative gatherings. Instead, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD), working with the South African...
Biz hundert un tsvantsig (may you live until 120), as Jews like to say when wishing each other a long life. The South African Jewish Board...
On 27 January last week we marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day – the first and hopefully the last to be held in pandemic conditions. The United...
Ever since coping with COVID-19 became part of our daily reality, it has been routine to conclude one’s correspondence by wishing the other person good health...
The advent of COVID-19 has resulted in every one of us having to make sacrifices to keep ourselves, our family, and our community safe. So, it’s...
South African Jewry has long been regarded as a model diaspora community. We are famed for our excellent communal infrastructure, high level of identity and involvement,...
The closing weeks of 2020 brought with them the long-anticipated onset of a second wave of COVID-19 infections in South Africa. Over the December period, the...
At the beginning of 2020, no-one could have predicted the unprecedented set of challenges that South African Jewry would shortly be confronted with, both to the...
The annual Absa Jewish Achiever Awards held last Sunday showed once again how even in the most trying times, Jewish community members from across the age...
On Friday, starting at 12:10, 101.9 Chai FM will be broadcasting the third in a four-part radio series, titled Abraham’s Children that looks at similarities and...
Every so often, hackles are raised when those seeking to discredit their political or ideological opponents resort to making factually incorrect and insensitive analogies with Nazism...
Last Friday, encouraging progress was made in the South African Jewish Board of Deputies’ (SAJBD’s) ongoing fight against online antisemitism when the Randburg Magistrate Court issued...
