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A billboard hangs over the highway on the way to OR Tambo International Airport loudly proclaiming: “Churches Against Israeli Annexation of Palestinian Land.” It displays the...
As United Herzlia Schools celebrated its 80th anniversary with an online musical extravaganza on 25 October, Barry Lipchin was thousands of kilometres away, sleeping, in Auckland,...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already a part of our world, and as it grows, it will have a profound impact on ethics, religion, and humanity. So...
“I don’t think there will be any kind of civil war if [United States President Donald] Trump loses,” said foreign correspondent, author, and broadcaster John Matisonn...
Herbert Kretzmer, who wrote the lyrics for the English version of Les Misérables, died in London on 14 October, nine days after his 95th birthday. Known...
“This is the existential election,” says Elan Burman, one of numerous South African Jewish immigrants across the United States who describe an atmosphere of fear, anger,...
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement has always insisted that it isn’t antisemitic, but the newly-formed SA BDS Coalition (South African Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Coalition)...
Back in March, COVID-19 was brought into the heart of the South African Jewish community because of a party held thousands of kilometres away. At that...
Israeli Ambassador Lior Keinan and United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ambassador Mahash Saeed Alhameli met for the first time last week to celebrate the Abraham Accords signed...
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa, iconic 91-year-old South African businessman and philanthropist Solly Krok launched an initiative to combat the hunger...
Mrs H.S. Balls Chutney is an iconic South African brand and taste that’s enjoyed around the globe, but its success began in Cape Town thanks to...
While most people understand the dangers of taking risks during the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are throwing caution to the wind in situations where we...
A home in Norwood was engulfed in flames and almost completely destroyed on Monday evening. Though it’s not known how the fire started, the ZAKA fire...
Linda Goodman Givon, the founder of the world-renowned Goodman Gallery and known as “South Africa’s first lady of art” and “the grande dame of the South...
The South African-born doctor who headed the medical team in the Entebbe raid in 1976, Dr Jossy Faktor, passed away at the age of 80 on...
Two Jewish scientists are part of teams that were awarded Nobel prizes in the space of 48 hours, on 5 and 6 October. Harvey Alter along...
Africa4Palestine, formerly Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) South Africa, has called on the international BDS movement office in Ramallah, the Boycott National Committee (BNC), to add video...
It’s not often that a business book can be described as a “riveting read”, but Mike Abel has achieved this and more with his first book,...
While our Lithuanian background forms the very basis of South African Jewish identity, a leading historian of South African Jewry, Gideon Shimoni, says the actual numbers...
As America heads towards a historic presidential election in just under a month’s time, American Jewish expats and dual citizens in South Africa feel strongly about...
If you haven’t yet seen the hit documentary My Octopus Teacher currently streaming on Netflix, you might be living under a rock, much like the subject...
As Gusti Yehoshua-Braverman ends her decade-long term as head of department of diaspora affairs at the World Zionist Organization (WZO) in October, she is more determined...
The Jewish community in Johannesburg has experienced a dramatic drop in COVID-19 deaths since the surge in July. “So far in September, we have only had...
When 19-year-old Johannesburg medical student Adam Seef took his own life on a trip to Israel in June 2019, it rattled the community to its core....
Getting a divorce is tough enough, but having your spouse refuse you a gett (Jewish divorce) can be torturous. This is where Go Getters – the...
A six-year-old boy singing an English and Hebrew version of Avinu Malkeinu with passion and gusto has gone viral around the world. This story, however, begins...
As people were giving heartbreaking accounts of life after tragedy at the SA Jewish Report webinar last Thursday, 10 September, the live stream on YouTube was...
As families are forced into lockdown together, the fault lines in relationships become clearer, which has increased divorce in some countries by as much as 30%....
A video by the South African Rabbinical Association of 40 South African rabbonim and chazzanim singing Avinu Malkeinu is being shared around the world as a...
The Iron Dome missile defence system is a part of Israeli life, especially in the south of the country, where it has shot down thousands of...
Sir Ronald Harwood (formerly Ronald “Ronnie” Horwitz) passed away in London last week at the age of 85, after a lifetime as a leading writer, playwright,...
The Kingdom of Bahrain has joined the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in recognising the state of Israel, an agreement formalised with the historic signing of the...
The East London Chevrah Kadisha (ELCK) is in an ugly dispute with the former rabbi of the coastal city’s community, which has led to the breakdown...
Facing the challenges and choices of the Jewish community and greater South Africa is vital, so we can put them into perspective in a post-COVID-19 world....
The president of Malawi has said that his country would open an embassy in Jerusalem, making it the first African country to take this step, either...
Most of us are viscerally offended at the thought of Holocaust jokes, but the reality is that such jokes, humour, and satire have existed during and...
For many Cape Town Jewish couples, United Herzlia Schools (UHS) was not only where they got their primary education, but the place they met their bashert...
United Herzlia Schools (UHS) is a formidable institution as it celebrates its 80th anniversary this year, but when community leaders came together in 1940 with a...
When tennis champion Angela Buxton died last week at the age of 85, she was lauded as a “pioneer against prejudice” on and off the court....
Shireen Sapiro was water-skiing with her family shortly before representing South Africa in swimming at the junior nationals at the age of 13, when she fell...
