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Israel is cracking down on a phenomenon known as “passport aliya”, in which people make aliya just to gain the benefits of a passport. But while...
Aura Herzog, who died recently at the age of 97, was the wife of late Israeli President Chaim Herzog, and the mother of the current president,...
Cape South African Jewish Board of Deputies member and local finance director David King is lucky to be alive after a freak accident while running that...
In a shocking turn of events, antisemitic posts written on a fake Facebook profile are believed to have been written by a member of the Cape...
When the Small Jewish Communities Association of South Africa’s Rabbi Moshe Silberhaft found a glass time capsule hidden behind the foundation stone of the Rustenburg Shul,...
What’s simple and complicated, addictive and once-off, free, and also owned by the New York Times, and something you can do alone or with others? It’s...
Child sexual abuse is a nightmare and it’s easy to think it will never happen to our kids and that it’s not something we need to...
South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Dr Naledi Pandor, this week vowed to ensure that Israel was excluded from the African Union (AU) in...
If the United Nations (UN) is going to hold an inquiry into the clashes between Israel and Hamas last May, surely the person heading the inquiry...
A time capsule hidden behind the foundation stone of the Rustenburg Shul and discovered two weeks ago has unearthed documents written by people who founded that...
Just days before President Cyril Ramaphosa devoted a section of his State of the Nation Address (SONA) to the opening up of the cannabis industry in...
President Cyril Ramaphosa, top politicians, and civil society leaders joined the Coleman family on Wednesday at a memorial to honour the life and legacy of the...
The debate about Israel remaining an observer at the African Union (AU) has been suspended, with the organisation instead forming a committee to re-examine the issue....
On the night of 22 January 2022, tropical storm Ana hit Madagascar, Mozambique, and Malawi, bringing torrential rains and causing major flooding. Due to its poor...
Community members were appalled when Jewish students at Stellenbosch University (SU) told the SA Jewish Report about their anguish at having to write tests on high...
When Blake Andrew embarked on a journey to discover his forgotten Jewish roots, he never imagined that his quest would touch the lives of others across...
How do you explore an entire community that was obliterated? How do you capture the individual victims of genocide? How does a landscape absorb history? These...
An Amnesty International (AI) report calling Israel an apartheid state has been criticised by leading Jewish organisations and Israeli leaders. Though the report acknowledges Jews’ right...
Blake Andrew grew up in Zimbabwe, was raised Christian, and felt strong ties to the Scottish roots of his grandfather. But his grandmother’s story never came...
Many entrepreneurs dream of ringing the bell of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), but not everyone makes it there. Yet this vision became a reality...
The world is holding its breath as it watches Russian troops amassing on Ukraine’s border, threatening invasion or war. Warnings of the possibility that world powers...
Thirty-six years ago in South Africa, Karen* gave birth to premature quadruplets, one of whom was stillborn. The baby’s body was buried by the Chevrah Kadisha,...
After two years of no machanot and very few in-person events, local Jewish youth movements have reached a precarious turning point. Left battered and bruised by...
The dispute between Rabbi Chanoch Galperin and the East London Hebrew Congregation (ELHC) that has kept this coastal community in limbo since 2018 continues to have...
Teaching our children Hebrew is one of the things that truly sets Jewish education apart, and it’s a driving factor in the decision to send children...
A trailblazing judge has emerged as a lone voice defending former Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng’s support of Israel. As one of three judges who reviewed his...
One of the most deeply-felt reverberations of the pandemic has been on education. While students, teachers, and parents spent those long months of lockdown at home,...
Matriculants have had to adapt to an ever-changing learning environment in a pandemic, and for many students, it hasn’t been easy. United Herzlia School graduate Dylan...
It’s one thing to score in the highest possible percentile on international college entrance (SAT) exams and do advanced college-level AP maths and science courses. It’s...
Matric is known to be a hard slog. You have one year to do your best and not a minute more. But can you imagine finishing...
When Ella Maughan stepped out of Herzlia High School’s gates at the end of matric in 2021, she had achieved something that few had ever done...
It was the middle of the night when Cape Town Progressive Jewish Congregation’s (Temple Israel’s) Rabbi Greg Alexander (Rabbi Greg) heard that a fellow faith leader...
South Africa’s anti-Israel stance is one thing we don’t seem to be leaving behind in 2021, as Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) Minister Dr...
The Thulsie twins have now spent almost six years behind bars awaiting trial for allegedly planning terrorist attacks on Jewish and other institutions and individuals. One...
In 2021, there were record aliyah numbers from South Africa – the highest since 1994. Israeli media reported a 50% to 70% increase on 2020. Olim...
It’s been almost two months since 26-year-old South African oleh Eli Kay was murdered in the streets of Jerusalem. As the days pass and the reality...
Israel has finally dropped South Africa from its red list as COVID-19 numbers surge in the Jewish state while the Omicron wave in South Africa begins...
The South African Jewish community received a special Shabbat “gift” on the first Friday of 2022, when David Scott (better known as The Kiffness) released his...
At the beginning of 2021, Doreen Lewis’ brother, David Lewis, died from COVID-19 at age 68. The siblings lived together and were deeply involved in the...
For some Jews, kosher prawns and mussels would be a dream come true. So, when it emerged in December 2021 that two local treif seafood products...