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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...
Over the past 18 months, hundreds of South African olim and their family members have been unable to see each other thanks to Israel’s draconian travel...
Mandela Day, celebrated on 18 July each year, is designated as a day of giving to others and building bridges between communities, but one anti-Israel group...
“They threw us into a cage that was three or four steps across. It was completely dark,” says Rudy Rochman. He is one of three filmmakers...
Sports and exercise-medicine expert Professor Wayne Derman has worked with elite athletes for his whole career, so when he was appointed chief medical officer to the...
Families, yeshiva bochurs (students), lone soldiers, and a nonagenarian will be among the 87 new arrivals at Ben Gurion in Israel this week in the largest...
The director of the Israel Centre South Africa, Liat Amar Arran, says the organisation received “100 enquiries” into aliyah over the past three weeks, and that...
“What do you do when the leadership of an organisation you’ve spent your whole working life serving adopts a policy or position that your conscience won’t...
Seventy-eight years ago, a Jewish man gave his 17-year-old daughter a maroon handkerchief as a way to remember him. She never saw him again – he...
All Rudy Rochman wanted to do was to shine a light on unknown, disconnected, and re-emerging Jewish communities around the world, but something went horribly wrong....
“Last week’s events ripped the plaster off of a big wound. They forced me to re-examine my life in South Africa – things I miss and...
As social media in South Africa last week became a minefield of fake news and incitement amidst civil unrest, one WhatsApp user attempted to draw the...
When Madeleine Hicklin recently viewed the dilapidated state of the Old Synagogue on Paul Kruger Street in the Tshwane city centre, she was moved to tears...
The economic devastation that COVID-19 has wrought on the Jewish community has been extensive and potentially devastating, but some have been rescued by the Gesher Fund,...
Giving a vaccine may take a second, but the administration that needs to happen for every jab takes a lot longer. Local doctor Menachem Hockman, who...
Sydenham resident Aidi Posner was spending the last few minutes before Shabbos saying tehillim when she asked her husband, Leon, to turn on their gas heater...
“What are your plants trying to say?” That’s the question that drives SupPlant, a company rooted in three generations of one Israeli family. Through cutting-edge technology,...
The Johannesburg Jewish community is reeling from unprecedented COVID-19 deaths during the third wave of the pandemic. But in spite of these tragic fatalities, the vaccine...
Luke Lange is 12 years old and supports Israel. He’s not Jewish, but believes the Jewish state is “a great country”, and was concerned about the...
