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The Habonim Dror slogan “Don’t call us thy children, call us thy builders”, rang true this week, when the Jewish Zionist youth movement announced that it...
On an ordinary Monday afternoon, a criminal incident in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg meant that a nearby Jewish pre and primary school had to go...
Travelling to Israel may get easier soon, but with some rules that could hold South Africans back. According to former member of the Knesset (MK) Dov...
Johannesburg advocate Mark Oppenheimer is so passionate about the law and the Constitutional Court, he has created a podcast that allows listeners to go behind the...
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Dr Naledi Pandor, warmly welcomed the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the State of Palestine Dr Riad Malki...
Although Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng’s decade-long tenure was filled with ups and downs, his comments in support of Israel last year may be the thing that...
When Shelley Harari read that a Yiddish machzor originally printed in Vilna had been uncovered in Cape Town, she couldn’t hold back the tears, realising that...
Exactly 30 years ago, emissaries from the Jewish Agency came to Ethiopia to tell Batya Shmueli’s family that “the way to Jerusalem is open”. Soon after,...
A Cape Town boy with a Joburger’s drive, Allan Greenblo was a pioneering journalist, editor, and publisher who always landed on his feet. Filled with optimism...
Just before Pesach this year, the SA Jewish Report detailed how leading global “watertech” company, BlueGreen Water Technologies, was assisting local government authorities to transform toxic...
Jewish students at Stellenbosch University were deeply distressed by having to choose between observing high holy days or writing tests, including on erev Yom Kippur. They...
When the Thulsie twins, Tony-Lee and Brandon-Lee, were arrested in 2016 for allegedly planning terrorist attacks on Jewish and other institutions and individuals, it was hoped...
Muizenberg holds a special place in the hearts and memories of many South African Jews, and its Jewish community has now been recognised for its historic...
It’s not often that one finds a Jewish freedom-fighting 96-year-old in Zambia, but Simon Zukas was one such man. Born in Lithuania and profoundly influenced by...
If you ever wanted to sit at the feet of the late, great Johnny Clegg, hearing tales of his early years in his own unique voice,...
An Israeli project that combines augmented reality (AR) with art has made its way to South Africa in an exhibition that is being displayed for a...
Expert in mass gathering medicine, Professor Efraim Kramer, told the SA Jewish Report this week that “Rage is nothing short of teenage Russian Roulette that may...
September 11 2001 was 20 years ago and seemingly a million miles away, but for some South African Jews who were eye witness to the events,...
Telfed, the South African Zionist Federation in Israel, has resorted to a fundraiser as its resources come under strain because of the volume of people making...
The South African Jewish community’s response to the pandemic has been singled out as unique, efficient, and robust in an academic paper that tracks how the...
Cape Town Jewish community elder Professor Paul Sulcas, who passed away on Friday, 10 September 2021, has been likened to Moshe Rabeinu and called “a giant...
We’ve all heard that COVID-19 doesn’t generally affect young people. So when Capetonian Ryan Lipman tested positive in late July, he thought his age was in...
Local Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) group Africa4Palestine has taken its hatred for Israel to a new low, comparing the Jewish state to the Nazis. In a...
Israel made the surprise announcement on Monday, 30 August, that from 3 September, Israelis who are a week after their third dose of COVID-19 vaccine won’t...
In the chaos before the hard lockdown in March 2020, people scrambled to get groceries, stock up on alcohol, or buy cigarettes. But some used those...
Much has been written and explored about the lives of Haredi Jewish women, from Netflix shows to academic theses. But what about women who aren’t Haredi...
A proposition for a new, independent anti-corruption body landed on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s desk on Tuesday, 24 August, and those who have spent years toiling to...
In what local political analysts describe as a “fairly routine phone call”, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas made a telephone call to South African president Cyril Ramaphosa...
Recent events in Afghanistan may seem like a million miles away, but the story of the late Private Gregory “Greg” Sher brings them a lot closer...
We know what it means to be resilient, but what if there was a way to prevent crises in the first place? This is the question...
Just a few months ago, it was unfathomable that Israel would ever have a prime minister that wasn’t Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, the wily politician who always...
The Goldman family have experienced many incredible moments, but few have come close to the time they took a spontaneous stroll with then-president Nelson Mandela. Every...
With COVID-19 on our minds, it’s easy to forget that tuberculosis (TB) is an epidemic that takes South African lives every day. Now, a tiny patch...
Working from home has become a way of life, but before March 2020, it was unthinkable in many sectors of the South African workforce. All that...
South African olim and their families last week welcomed the news that Israel had downgraded South Africa to its “orange list” of countries. Though it eases...
Most of us picture archaeology as digging in the dust, but Ruby-Anne Birin is using cutting edge technology to blaze a trail in the field. An...
A week ago, South African olim and their families told the SA Jewish Report about their despair in dealing with Israel’s extreme COVID-19 travel restrictions. But...
“If my father could live his life again, he would live it another ten times. He had a good life, and helped so many people. He...
In a string of beautiful coincidences, a machzor that was printed in Yiddish in Vilna in 1876 has resurfaced in Cape Town just before the high...
For the #MeToo generation, intimacy co-ordination has become a vital role on film and television sets – one that didn’t exist until recently. “One of the...