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Spending a night in a bus stuck in the snow in a remote area of Moldova is not the place you would normally find a South...
Most of Ukraine is fighting back against the Russian invasion, but some towns have fallen and have been occupied by Russian forces. One such city is...
As bewildered and distressed Ukrainian refugees land at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel, olim – some of who are from South Africa – are there to...
Like many Italian youngsters, 19-year-old Viola Turone looked forward to travelling as a high school exchange student. But unlike many of her peers, she chose to...
A local Jewish-led production company will join Israel’s Keshet International (KI) to produce a murder mystery series based in South Africa. The show, titled Paradys, explores...
As an endless column of humanity streams across Ukraine’s border with Poland, there are countless aid agencies and Polish citizens waiting to meet them. Among them,...
Instead of taking her four kids to the park or the beach on Sunday, 6 March 2022, Alana Baranov and her husband, Gary, took them to...
As bombs fell around the orphanage, the girls screamed and cried. They had always felt safe in Tikva Children’s Home, but Putin’s invasion stole that from...
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world, Johannesburg interior architect Kim Kur decided to form a circle of support to get South Africans home. But in...
A man gets his wife and baby into their car at the crack of dawn while bombs fall around him. In a state of shock, he...
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement in South Africa’s latest attempt to stifle freedom of expression has failed. The movement tried to stop Israeli artists from...
School uniforms are something our institutions inherited from this country’s British colonial past, but are they helping or hindering students and their parents? The SA Jewish...
The rate of suicide, divorce, addiction, and depression has accelerated in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, and community members are in dire need of support....
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,...
